If the proposal is enacted, it could cost $240 a year to watch YouTube in the UK.
Discovery data from Plex users will help studios, advertisers.
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men’s tendency to lie about how much they know about AI.
Three people have died and several are reported missing after torrential rain triggered severe flooding across Istanbul
President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House - but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White House column to a "restored" one, has several discrepancies and was flagged by Google's AI detector as "made or […]
An Israeli spyware disguised as a digital advertisement firm has targeted journalists’ devices at Al Jazeera.
Polls have found that Trump's hardline immigration enforcement effort has divided voters before the 2026 midterm race.
Powerful AI models continue to cause chaos, but their targets aren’t widely seeking justice. Instead, they’re being encouraged to adopt those same tools.
Humanoid robots were seen performing the “Macarena” at the annual CEATEC technology exhibition in Chiba, Japan.
In this first episode of Your Turn with Allison Aubrey , we explore the science of the flow state with violinist Diane Allen, who lost her flow and then tried to find it again, and also from Dr. Richard Huskey, who studies the flow state and how each of us can find it.
Don't buy the hype! AI has been dumbing down cyberattacks, and serious threat actors are barely touching it.
Panay said that it's possible to recover and learn from all sorts of failures, even catastrophic ones, when building products.
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Hi YC, With AI, we’ve started building entire web apps just by chatting. But once the app is built, there’s still a lot to do: push the code to GitHub, set up a database, configure user management and access control, and deploy everything. Brod makes this simple. Connect an MCP, deploy your app, and everything you need to get it running is taken care of. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109773 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Emergency teams are searching for 7 missing crew after two chemical tankers were attacked in the Black Sea.
Aaron Ardiri opened his old development archive after discovering enthusiasts were still improving apps for the platform
A newly disclosed critical flaw in the Linux kernel allows code inside a virtual machine to read memory on the host computer it runs on. A researcher demonstrated the leak against Vercel's live cloud sandboxes, and Vercel confirmed it. The flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-99999 and nicknamed PwnEscape, is in the Linux kernel's networking code, not in any one cloud's setup, so it reaches the shared
The Duchess of Sussex has not done anything like the day of events in Nottingham for several years on British soil.
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No more leap seconds . Sorry, about the title, but I couldn‘t resist. Comments
Representative Ritchie Torres wants the FTC to establish regulations ensuring you can play the games you've purchased.
Al Jazeera’s Al Anoud Al Aqeedi explains why migrants are risking their lives to make the journey to Yemen.
Judge says Jeffrey Donaldson never apologised to victims as politician seeks to appeal his convictions.
Poll shows right-wing candidate with two percent advantage over Lula going into second round of voting on October 25.
Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
Critics say unilateral decision to call polls is a recipe for more conflict.
Most attempts were pranks, but some could fool unwary AI agents
Lion Green Road in Coulsdon was recognised for the way it responds to its surroundings.
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Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said […]
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Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.
The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are looking into the mailings, some of which included an unidentified powdery white substance.
If you're a new user of Withings' fitness-tracking smartwatches or smart scales and want to sync and access your health data through third party apps like Apple Health or Google Health it's now going to cost you. According to a discussion on Withings' support forums spotted by MacRumors, new Withings accounts created from October 13th, […]
Our reporters share a compendium of debuts, discoveries and (sometimes overdue) appearances in the paper.
Hi HN, I created this game with Codex Astra and Astra subagents. It went remarkably well. SLOP CITY is an autobiographical first-person lounge that embeds my TikTok posts. I use it to market my Digilore podcast app which is in the Apple App store. However this submission is not a shameless plug, only partially, because it's free and open source so I encourage everyone to download the code and ask Codex or another LLM to sync social media posts from any source. Or... try doing that by hand :) Just note that all trademarks would need to be replaced as called out in the license (which is AGPL-v3…
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The official openai/math repo is closed to issues, PRs, and discussion. I made this app to share some explanatory videos that help us all make sense of the release, catalogue follow-ons and improvements that build on the openai research, and more broadly provide a set of community tools for distributed research. I am not a trained mathematician and most of the math exceeds my understanding. As such, the videos _are_ AI-generated, but IMHO, go a long ways towards helping folks like me understand the problems, proofs, and related ideas. Suggestions are welcome. Comments URL: https://news.ycombi…
Netanyahu is reported to have received warnings before October 7, 2023, but failed to act on time.
Kiran Kaur was found guilty of assisting an offender and was jailed for three years in July.
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The executives argued that advertising isn’t the only path to monetization, and that there are alternative models that are feasible when it comes to monetization.
The FTC is investigating possible consumer harms at two major AI companies.
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They tried to sound the alarm in August
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METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
A number of states have confirmed they were targeted by the mailings, including Oklahoma, Ohio and Louisiana.
Researchers hunted for clues in modal analysis of 20th-century replica bell at Penn State Behrend.
Researchers hunted for clues in modal analysis of 20th-century replica bell at Penn State Behrend.
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You don’t need the fanciest model to make your heating routine smarter. A refurbished Ecobee we love is just $120 through October 21.
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Ismael Ayala-Uribe was one of 53 people to die in ICE custody during Trump’s first 500 days back in office.
Bluesky is bringing “social vibe coding” to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network's audience.
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Microsoft's Go rewrite gets some competition, with a developer claiming his port runs twice as fast
Someone built a tool to steal data, then decided it should scare the victim for fun. Yes, that’s an actual feature. And somehow, it fits right in with this week's security stories. The rest gets interesting in different ways. A small permission can lead to a big theft. A trusted login can hide the wrong person. Old bugs are finding new victims, familiar tools are being put to strange uses, and
Suspected Russian drones attack chemical tanker within Romanian waters.
Suspected Russian drones attack chemical tanker within Romanian waters.
TL;DR: 12 years ago I built a service that forwards simple HTML forms to an email address. I've been procrastinating on finishing it ever since, until today. You point your form at it and every submission lands in your inbox. It runs on credits, 1 credit = 1 message, no subscription. Perfect for static websites. — Hey folks, back around 2014, alongside my job as a software engineer, I was building a lot of static websites for my own clients, mostly small businesses that just wanted a simple site. To avoid headaches, I went fully static, often hosted on GitHub Pages and similar. But most cli…
E Ink's new display tech offers improved color reproduction and refresh rates.
Article URL: https://github.com/Niche-Knack-Apps/stenographer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108285 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Eritrea denies troop movement inside northern Ethiopia as US calls for de-escalation.
Its effect on people remains an ongoing question.
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Congress and a federal agency are threatening to weaken the country's historic preservation law, fueling a backlash that critics say is as fiery as the one that led to the law's creation 60 years ago.
There's a no login demo if you want to try it. There's also an MCP server if you'd rather use your favorite or local AI. Landing Page: https://lifesprites.com Demo Page: https://lifesprites.com/demo MCP Setup Page: https://lifesprites.com/connect Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108154 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
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The throwback League of Legends Classic mode may reappear as a limited-time event in the future.
This tablet is a great value, even if Android apps still aren't great on a big screen.
I always hated desktop widgets because I never see them. They sit behind every window I have open. Same problem with Notification Center, it's hidden away so I never use it. The dock, however, is always there, it's already taking the real estate from the bottom of my screen, so why not add a second dock on the exact same real estate, that shows up as soon as the dock hides and vice versa, but not for apps - for widgets! CoolDock is that solution with 20+ widget categories - music, weather, AI usage, 3rd party integrations, mail, todo, habit tracker, posture reminder, water reminder and over 1…
Nasdaq resolves network disruption that caused data gaps, source says Reuters
Widespread voter disillusionment and pocketbook anxieties set a volatile stage for the GOP weeks before election night.
8 in 10 Americans opposed the Pentagon's plans, a Thursday poll showed.
Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today, claiming that it's the "most capable US open-weight model to date." But the company also says that it's the "the first model in its class" that can "run on your desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework." Meta and Apple, […]
We noticed during the course of many many years of DBA related work that fixes to database issues and queries are always reactive. An entire database can fall over extremely quickly when an unbounded query grows without warning. Traditionally, DBAs hear complaints of slowness and follow a methodical process: - manually browse pg_stats or other database related performance internal tables - see which queries are slowest - figure out what indexes are missing - figure out which indexes are actually bad and slowing down writes - painstakingly implement a fix In the age of cheap intelligence, we d…
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Manchester United defender Lisandro Martinez issues an apology following his controversial remarks criticising the club's hierarchy.
I build websites for a living. Lately, it's more about prompting than actually writing the code (the art part is still there). So I decided to leave that part to Claude too and see what it would come up with. So far, I have given it - A baseline website - Full access to Google, X, LinkedIn and Reddit Ads, with a budget - Apify access - Openrouter access I also wanted it to personalize the website completely based on the user. No 2 users see the same website, most of the content is rendered on the client side using Deepseek. It uses - Device (GPU model, battery percentage, fonts installed, res…
Savings of up to $200 end October 16 for TechCrunch Founder Summit end on October 16. These savings for Founder and Investor Passes vanish after Friday. Join 1,000 founders and investors on November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station. Bring your toughest questions and make the day count for your business.
As a current student at UC Berkeley, I mostly have been leveraging AI as a tutor to get me through my classes. As a result, I have a collection of artifacts and tools that primarily help interact with and visualize complex concepts. I've turned this into a side project in the hopes some other people would find this helpful as well. As a broke college student I understand the need behind free educational resources, so this is completely free and will stay free. Looking for feedback, let me know what you think! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107564 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Official data shows tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers have been sent to countries they have no ties to.
Sony has announced a trio of new Walkman portable media players that start at an already absurd $1,899.99 for the NW-ZX900 and climb all the way up to $5,899 for the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3. Sandwiched in between is the $2,999.99 Walkman NW-WM1AM3, which is nearly identical to the WM1ZM3, just minus the gaudy gold shell. All […]
Not that anyone's terribly surprised.
At Nasser Hospital, a kangaroo mother care pilot programme helps vulnerable newborns.
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Kieran Hayler says claims were fabricated amid the breakdown of his marriage.
