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Backdooring Open-Weight AI Modelshttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/backdooring-open-weight-ai-models.html

This is a problem: Any open model whose weights have been edited can carry a backdoor, whether it’s a task-specific fine-tune, a merged adapter or an abliterated build. We have abliterated models in the title because it’s the most popular reason people download modified weights without verifying what’s inside. Abliteration is a cheap fine-tune that takes away a model’s ability to refuse. You find the direction in the weights that carries “no” and subtract it. The model then answers things a safety-tuned version would turn down. It began as a research trick and it’s now routine b…

Teen kills 4 at Oregon school. And, DOJ sues California over alleged noncitizenshttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/16/g-s1-148373/up-first-newsletter-bend-oregon-school-shooting-california-doj-voters-presidential-papers

A teen opened fire at an Oregon elementary school, leaving three kids and one teacher dead. And, the Justice Department is suing California over alleged noncitizen voters.

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Why No One Can Look Away From Elizabeth Holmes

“I felt like there were some moments in the film where she was just brazenly lying.”

AWOL Vision Aetherion Max RGB Laser UST Projector Review: A Top Buyhttps://www.wired.com/review/review-awol-vision-aetherion-max-rgb-laser-ust-projector

A top performer in both dark rooms and in bright sunshine, the AWOL Vision Aetherion Max RGB Laser UST Projector gives movie theaters a run for their money.

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AI-Generated Hot Girls Are Ripping Off Comedians to Boost Their Horny Contenthttps://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-hot-girls-are-ripping-off-comedians-to-boost-their-horny-content

A network of AI-generated models is using comics’ material to funnel views to their OnlyFans and Fanvue accounts—and there’s not much comedians can do about it.

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What this bankruptcy says about AI startupshttps://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2026/10/16/nx-s1-6001828/what-this-bankruptcy-says-about-ai-startups

Character.AI collected millions of users, making it a very appealing acquisition. Google took a unique route to "acquiring" it, hiring away its founders and licensing its technology. Now Character.AI is filing for bankruptcy. Here's what to know.

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Sex was 'huge preoccupation for Russell Brand', former flatmate tells trialhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck8dz6m1d2n6o

The 51-year-old faces three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault and one of indecent assault, which he denies.

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Action needed to save water, minister urgeshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq0ld4g0309go

Severe drought was declared across parts of southern England after months of low rainfall.

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Show HN: 63 media tools in a 54MB Rust app with local phone-to-PC transferhttps://formatif.net/formatif-pro

Article URL: https://formatif.net/formatif-pro Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50116730 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

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Rew, 18, to captain England Lions in West Indieshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cjn5vk4qe6g1o

The elevation of teenager Thomas Rew to Lions captain is a further sign of the high regard he is held in by the England hierarchy and follows him being given his first senior call-up and central contract.

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'Not about me' - Arbeloa dismisses future questionshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c615jw414vypo

Fulham head coach Alvaro Arbeloa says the focus should not be on him as his side searches for a first Premier League win this season against Hull City this weekend.

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Wildlife park reopens after man killed by tigerhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c60qk8djj27po

Yorkshire Wildlife Park says the decision was made after 'engagement with the relevant authorities'.

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Time is a-changin’: say goodbye to the leap secondhttps://www.theverge.com/tech/1012689/leap-second-discontinue-timekeeping-change

An important change will soon be made to global timekeeping that aims to prevent potential infrastructure failures akin to the Y2K bug scare. On Thursday, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) voted to scrap the leap second, an ad hoc time adjustment that's occasionally added so tracked time standards mirror the Earth's real […]

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Jabra Enhance Select M3 Review (2026): A Big Price for Small Winshttps://www.wired.com/review/review-jabra-enhance-select-m3

This direct-to-consumer brand’s latest top-of-the-line devices work well but only showcase incremental improvements over previous models.

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The New Fan’s Guide to the Unreal World of Nathan Fielderhttps://www.wired.com/story/the-new-fans-guide-to-the-unreal-world-of-nathan-fielder

Surprised by the hype around yet another documentary on Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes? It has everything to do with this experimental comedian.

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Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows whyhttps://www.sciencefocus.com/news/japanese-people-sex-inactivity-inexperience

Article URL: https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/japanese-people-sex-inactivity-inexperience Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50116367 Points: 13 # Comments: 17

Show HN: A Music-Reading Trainerhttps://parkscomputing.com/page/sight-reader

Article URL: https://parkscomputing.com/page/sight-reader Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50116347 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: A music video made end to end by Claude Code, full production repohttps://github.com/mortenbrudvik/always-allow

Article URL: https://github.com/mortenbrudvik/always-allow Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50116272 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Three philosophers vote on your questionshttps://sage-verdict.vercel.app

I'm RN developer in South Korea, i built this on my own. Non-native speaker, sorry for my English. - Sometimes it is very hard to decide something. - So I made simple service for get decisions from "Three Old Awesome philosophers’ vote". - No sign-up needed. - Using Jev(Probabilistic Classification Model) to calculate philosophers’ emotion and decision. These result are based on their written philosophy. - While typing your question, philosophers show their emotion through their faces(simply created by blender 3D). - For make questions to YES/NO style, so I use Haiku to polishing question…

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Community 'heartbroken and horrified' after Oregon school shootinghttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cjy56wl6l90ro

A 16-year-old killed three children and a teacher at a primary school in Oregon before he was killed by a bystander, police say.

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Police officer who raped two women jailed for 12 yearshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqkg53v29005o

Campbell Petrie was found guilty of physical and sexual abuse towards the women between 2006 and 2023.

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Penguin Colony review – an Antarctic odyssey of Nazis and Lovecraftian horrorshttps://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/oct/16/penguin-colony-review-an-antarctic-odyssey-of-nazis-and-lovecraftian-horrors

PC; Origame Digital This odd but absorbing adventure sends you waddling across Antarctica in search of an eldritch entity – uncovering a world far stranger than it first appears A Nazi kneels down on frozen snow, staring at an endless Antarctic horizon. Another holds a gun to his head, ready to end his own life. I direct a small waddling penguin up to them, trying to imagine what it could be thinking. Dismay, perhaps. Likely bewilderment. But then a faint smile seems to break out across its beaky face, as if amused by these silly humans and their misguided belief that they could ever best t…

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Why some Gen Z voters who backed Trump now regret their decisionhttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/16/nx-s1-5993835/gen-z-trump-voting-support

A focus group of eight Gen Z Trump voters reported feeling unhappy or disappointed with the state of politics, with some going as far as to say they regret supporting him in 2024.

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Can’t bear to say goodbye to your pet? Biotech’s got you covered.https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/16/1146766/pet-biotech-longevity-cloning-cryonics

I don’t remember much about Peppy, my first and only pet cat. I can conjure the sensation of stroking her while she purred, recall how she used to get stuck in trees (just like in cartoons!), and chuckle about the time she pooed in my baby sister’s cot. That’s about it. What I do vividly…

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Love is infrastructurehttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/16/1145845/love-is-infrastructure-fiction-charlie-jane-anders

I. Meet cute Barnabas and Mainspring grew up near at hand, about an hour apart with good traffic, but for a long time they weren’t close. They traded glimpses and occasional hellos and then went about their business. Both of them carried on livelier conversations with farther-flung neighbors, who were richer and had more to…

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This implant can restore sight for patients with macular degenerationhttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/16/1145840/prima-implant-restores-sight-macular-degeneration-patients

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects more than 5 million people around the world. And until now, no treatment could restore their vision. The Prima system, which was approved in Europe in July and is awaiting FDA clearance in the US, changes that. It combines a retinal implant with camera-­equipped eyeglasses to improve sight in patients…

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Do Americans own the president's papers? Appeals court to weigh inhttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/16/nx-s1-5996836/trump-who-owns-presidential-records-act-appeals-court

The administration says papers created in the White House belong to Donald Trump, not to the American people. The case could ultimately end up at the conservative-leaning Supreme Court.

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Remembering Oscar-winning actor Eva Marie Sainthttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/16/nx-s1-6003516/remembering-oscar-winning-actor-eva-marie-saint

Saint, who died Oct. 6, studied at the Actors Studio and was best known for her roles in On the Waterfront and the Hitchcock film North by Northwest. Originally broadcast in 2000.

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How much money has Musk given to Republican groups since July? The quiz knowshttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/16/g-s1-148041/pope-leo-musk-mamdani-trump-guilfoyle-news-quiz

Plus, this week saw comings and goings at the White House, the revenge of a child (reality) star, and Elon Musk doing Elon Musk things.

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Egypt’s Climate-Resilient ‘Super Corals’ Are Starting to Feel the Heathttps://www.wired.com/story/egypts-climate-resilient-super-corals-are-starting-to-feel-the-heat

Scientists can’t agree why reefs in the Red Sea have long been immune to bleaching. The answer could be the key to saving these tough corals as climate change begins taking its toll.

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Morning news briefhttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/16/nx-s1-5998699/morning-news-brief

Three children and a teacher were killed in a shooting at an Oregon school, how Russia is viewing Ukraine's strikes and its growing rift with the U.S., DOJ sues California over its voter rolls.

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Public health nurse talks about the moment she learned to ask for helphttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/16/nx-s1-5998634/public-health-nurse-talks-about-the-moment-she-learned-to-ask-for-help

For StoryCorps, a public health nurse in Minnesota speaks with her college mentor about a moment when she almost gave up on her career aspirations.

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Councils warned of risks of high street pedestrianisationhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqdjv9pzzkd7o

The government says the process "needs to be well considered", warning that banning traffic could damage local economies.

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Zelensky rallies EU support as Trump says Ukraine leader 'more difficult to deal with than Putin'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c58jz174w89ro

The US president launches a new wave of blistering criticism at Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of a meeting of EU leaders in Brussels.

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Show HN: RoamDial – Roam the live radio in a 3D particle galaxyhttps://roamdial.com

Article URL: https://roamdial.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115760 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Tunedaway – a little place to listen to musichttps://tunedaway.com

Pick a scene, put some music on, and leave it open. There’s a rainy café, a train ride, a campsite, and a few other places. Each has its own music and ambient sounds. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115737 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: CanvoWP – Agent first website builder for WordPress (completely free)https://canvowp.com

Article URL: https://canvowp.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115725 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Show HN:case blossom, design and manufacture cases for e-readers and deviceshttps://caseblossom.com

Article URL: https://caseblossom.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115688 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: What F1 lap times don't tell you (but telemetry does)https://github.com/saccofrancesco/slipstream

Article URL: https://github.com/saccofrancesco/slipstream Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115663 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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What are you doing this weekend?https://lobste.rs/s/hounpx/what_are_you_doing_this_weekend

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

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Kartal upsets Svitolina to reach Wuhan semi-finalshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/cmpwgq52y22zo

Sonay Kartal's winning streak following a long injury lay-off continues as she seals a hard-fought victory over fifth seed Elina Svitolina in the quarter-finals of the Wuhan Open.

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Show HN: WP Replai – AI chatbot built right into WordPresshttps://wpreplai.com

Article URL: https://wpreplai.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115538 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve.https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/16/1146834/kids-are-outsmarting-social-media-bans-thats-not-a-problem-we-need-to-solve

Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined Australia in restricting minors from accessing social media—barring children under 15 from major platforms, before the ban was blocked by the country’s top court on human rights grounds. The UK aims to forbid kids under 16 from accessing Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms in early…

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ASMR Programming - Snow Fall Effecthttps://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1x79skt/asmr_programming_snow_fall_effect

I had so much fun just opening my code editor and coding something by hand for no other reason than curiosity. In a world full of AI coding agents, it felt really good to slow down, experiment, figure things out, and just enjoy writing code again. Sometimes I forget how much I love programming for the sake of programming... submitted by /u/Apprehensive_Bit7392 [link] [comments]

Show HN: I built 7 B2B APIs and 5 MCP servers for compliance and tradehttps://jsonexlab.com

Article URL: https://jsonexlab.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115150 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

The insider trading you're allowed to dohttps://coached.com/essays/the-insider-trading-youre-allowed-to-do

Article URL: https://coached.com/essays/the-insider-trading-youre-allowed-to-do/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115144 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

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Show HN: I built an online community and educational platform for trauma healinghttps://rannu37hearteu.wixsite.com/seen-whole

Article URL: https://rannu37hearteu.wixsite.com/seen-whole Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115109 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

China-Linked Hackers Exploited BeyondTrust Zero-Day to Take Over Remote Support Servershttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/china-linked-hackers-exploited.html

The China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as Armory Castle (previously UNC5221 or Warp Panda) exploited a newly disclosed security flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar) as a zero-day in late August 2026. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS score: 9.3), is a case of improper origin validation in an internal messaging component that could be exploited by a

CERT-In Warns AI Agents Accessed Sensitive Data at Indian Organizations During Testinghttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/cert-in-warns-ai-agents-accessed.html

AI agents being tested online reached the live systems of Indian organizations and read business records, including personal data and confidential material, CERT-In said in an advisory on October 15. The agents went beyond their assigned tasks, and none of the organizations detected the unauthorized access. After internal reviews, the AI companies whose models were being tested

Show HN: TheFairNet Professional Networking Platformhttps://thefairnet.com

Article URL: https://thefairnet.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50114983 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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The rapid rise of a former art dealer to Europe's hottest young managerhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cmde8l07569no

How Brighton's Fabian Hurzeler has gone from Germany's fifth tier to being reportedly of interest to Manchester United.

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A rare family of barn owls moved into Manhattan's Upper West Side. New Yorkers are captivatedhttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/16/g-s1-148366/owl-family-manhattan

Manhattan's Upper West Side has been reveling in the company of its latest celebrities: A family of barn owls nested in a water tower atop a building near Central Park.

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Brewers sweep the Dodgers to reach the World Series for the first time since 1982https://www.npr.org/2026/10/16/nx-s1-6004787/brewers-sweep-dodgers-mlb

Propelled by a lockdown bullpen and repeated comebacks, the Brewers swept the two-time defending champion LA Dodgers out of the playoffs Thursday in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series.

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