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Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/meta-launches-an-open-weight-model-that-runs-on-macs

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.

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London housing project wins top architecture awardhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8jzgl7zz9po

Lion Green Road in Coulsdon was recognised for the way it responds to its surroundings.

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Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on socialhttps://www.theverge.com/tech/1012374/bluesky-ai-attie-small-social-games-apps

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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Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use appshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/amazon-devices-chief-panos-panay-sees-a-future-where-ai-devices-replace-the-need-to-use-apps

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.

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Withings now charges $100 per year to sync your data to other appshttps://www.theverge.com/tech/1012350/withings-plus-subscription-new-users-october-13-2026

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, […]

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Ms., Martians and Guacamole: Their First Time in The Times

Our reporters share a compendium of debuts, discoveries and (sometimes overdue) appearances in the paper.

Show HN: Slop City, a FOSS game that embeds social media postshttps://github.com/hollingsworthd/SLOP_CITY

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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"I'm a Lawyer." Said the White House Press Secretary. Florida Would Like a Wordhttps://chazstevens.substack.com/p/im-a-lawyer

Article URL: https://chazstevens.substack.com/p/im-a-lawyer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109272 Points: 20 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Explanations and follow-ons for OpenAI/mathhttps://thecompanygardener.yaks.app/openai-math

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…

Mother of Henry Nowak killer could be deportedhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqze4l9l2eywo

Kiran Kaur was found guilty of assisting an offender and was jailed for three years in July.

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Show HN: Where waves come from – an interactive explainer of ocean swellhttps://ripple-58s.pages.dev/learn/where-waves-come-from

Article URL: https://ripple-58s.pages.dev/learn/where-waves-come-from/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109181 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Bluesky wants to make it easier to buy, sell, and fundraise on the networkhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/bluesky-wants-to-make-it-easier-to-buy-sell-and-fundraise-on-the-network

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.

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Show HN: ReliaMesh – Open-source reliability monitoring for AI agentshttps://github.com/PrefilerLabs/reliamesh

Article URL: https://github.com/PrefilerLabs/reliamesh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108933 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarrhttps://thereallo.dev/blog/someone-on-torrent-sites-kept-fucking-with-my-sonarr-setup

Article URL: https://thereallo.dev/blog/someone-on-torrent-sites-kept-fucking-with-my-sonarr-setup Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108872 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

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Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level accesshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/anthropic-is-letting-metr-researchers-look-under-the-hood-with-employee-level-access

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.

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Letters with 'suspicious substances' sent to US election officeshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmq8n513x523o

A number of states have confirmed they were targeted by the mailings, including Oklahoma, Ohio and Louisiana.

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Show HN: HireReady, interview prep with spaced repetition and AI voice mockshttps://imhireready.com

Article URL: https://imhireready.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108667 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Upgrade Your Thermostat for Winter With This Ecobee Deal for $120https://www.wired.com/story/ecobee-fall-sale-2026

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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Show HN: Diablo 2 Survivorshttps://d2survivors.lol

Article URL: https://d2survivors.lol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108550 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Bluesky expands its AI-powered Attie app to let anyone build websites, games, and morehttps://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/bluesky-expands-its-ai-powered-attie-app-to-let-anyone-build-websites-games-and-more

Bluesky is bringing β€œsocial 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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We are entering a period of overlapping criseshttps://hamishcampbell.com/we-are-entering-a-period-of-overlapping-crises

Article URL: https://hamishcampbell.com/we-are-entering-a-period-of-overlapping-crises/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108491 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

Show HN: VoltCost – EV charging cost vs. gas savings calculator with TOU rateshttps://voltcost.vercel.app

Article URL: https://voltcost.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108467 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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ThreatsDay: Adobe RCE, DNS Wallet Theft, NVIDIA Container Escape, Self-Healing Backdoor + 23 Morehttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/threatsday-adobe-rce-dns-wallet-theft.html

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

Show HN: Forwarder.cc – Static-site forms sent to your inbox, pay per messagehttps://forwarder.cc

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. β€” 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…

Show HN: Stenographer – Shell History Searchhttps://github.com/Niche-Knack-Apps/stenographer

Article URL: https://github.com/Niche-Knack-Apps/stenographer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108285 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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E Ink Launches Latest Version of Color EPaper Platform, E Ink Kaleido 4https://www.eink.com/news/detail/EInk-Launches-Latest-Version-of-Color-ePaper-Platform-E-Ink-Kaleido-4

Article URL: https://www.eink.com/news/detail/EInk-Launches-Latest-Version-of-Color-ePaper-Platform-E-Ink-Kaleido-4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108229 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

America's historic preservation law is in peril, advocates say. Here's what's at stakehttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/15/nx-s1-6001504/section-106-historic-preservation-act-threats-anniversary

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.

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Show HN: Life Sprites – custom trackers, briefings and guideshttps://lifesprites.com/demo

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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Why We're Banning AIhttps://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-were-banning-ai

Article URL: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-were-banning-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108131 Points: 26 # Comments: 6

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Show HN: CoolDock – a second Dock for macOS with live widgets and an MCP serverhttps://cooldock.app

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…

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Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macshttps://www.theverge.com/news/1012293/meta-apple-muse-spark-open-ai-model-mlx

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, […]

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Show HN: RDST – A local agent that watches Postgres/MySQL for query regressionshttps://github.com/readysettech/rdst

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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Show HN: Map each letter and number to a Unicode character and convert your texthttps://fontgen.cool/fancy-text-creator

Article URL: https://fontgen.cool/fancy-text-creator Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107654 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Martinez apologises for outburst and fined by Man Utdhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cw77p152jz64o

Manchester United defender Lisandro Martinez issues an apology following his controversial remarks criticising the club's hierarchy.

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Show HN: Just gave Claude Code the website and ad budget to see what it would dohttps://snitch.alphaventure.com/gate.php

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…

Last chance to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Founder Summit pass: Early booking ends Oct. 16https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/last-chance-to-save-up-to-200-on-techcrunch-founder-summit-early-booking-ends-oct-16

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.

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Show HN: Receptive Field – Learn Convolutional Neural Networks Interactivelyhttps://receptive-field-flame.vercel.app/appendix

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

Sony made a $5,900 gold-plated Walkman MP3 playerhttps://www.theverge.com/tech/1012200/sony-made-a-5900-gold-plated-walkman-mp3-player

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 […]

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Show HN: Voice Standard Bench – Open benchmark of LLMs on speech transcriptshttps://github.com/AssemblyAI/voice-standard-bench

Article URL: https://github.com/AssemblyAI/voice-standard-bench Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107279 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Blurt – Open-source macOS dictation app (Swift, MIT)https://github.com/AssemblyAI/blurt

Article URL: https://github.com/AssemblyAI/blurt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107262 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Katie Price 'coached' alleged victim, court toldhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmwyq6l04gzyo

Kieran Hayler says claims were fabricated amid the breakdown of his marriage.

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Show HN: Passport photos taken on your phone, checked in browser, never editedhttps://picpassed.com

Article URL: https://picpassed.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107199 Points: 1 # Comments: 2

Volvo makes a bigger bet on Nvidiahttps://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/volvo-makes-a-bigger-bet-on-nvidia

Volvo is leveling up its automated driving system through an expansion of its nearly decade-long partnership with Nvidia that will extend beyond its battery electric vehicles.

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Watch: What does Starlink have to do with the Ukraine-Russia war?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cqr7yzpxm083o

Ukraine's president has told Elon Musk that any restriction on the Starlink's system cost lives.

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Show HN: Keyword clustering that runs in the browserhttps://keywordclusters.app

Article URL: https://keywordclusters.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107119 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Anthropic Update on Independent Evaluatorshttps://www.anthropic.com/news/an-update-on-independent-evaluators

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/an-update-on-independent-evaluators Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107114 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

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Alienware’s latest 34-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor is $50 offhttps://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1012134/alienware-34-ultrawide-qd-oled-belkin-screen-skinz-deal-sale

The Alienware AW3426DW is discounted to $742.22 at Amazon, just over $50 off its usual price of $799.99. It’s not quite the lowest price we’ve seen on this well-equipped gaming monitor, but still a decent discount. The 34-inch screen just came out a couple months ago, and is equipped with Penta Tandem quantum dots for […]

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Volvo will use Nvidia’s tech for hands-free, point-to-point drivinghttps://www.theverge.com/transportation/1011653/volvo-nvidia-autonomous-driving-level-2-hands-free-urban

Volvo plans to launch hands-free, point-to-point driving by 2030, powered by Nvidia's latest AI technology. The Chinese-owned, Swedish-designed automaker said Thursday it would use Nvidia's autonomous driving stack to power a new partially automated driving system similar to Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised). Volvo says the new point-to-point system will be Level 2++, meaning it can […]

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Show HN: A curated directory of AI Toolshttps://github.com/QAInsights/awesome-ai-tools

A curated directory of AI-powered coding tools, autonomous agents, and developer utilities. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107075 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Google is making inline links more prominent in AI responseshttps://www.theverge.com/tech/1012206/google-ai-mode-overview-inline-links

Google is updating its AI search results to make inline links appear "higher up in responses more frequently," according to a blog post. The company's search results from AI Overviews and AI Mode give you answers in a customized view instead of the traditional list of links, but there are concerns that the format reduces […]

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Banks expect to be hit in Budget tax raidhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c32l4k2xdvrzo

Senior banking executives have told the BBC they expect to be "on the menu" in a Budget tax raid later this month.

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Show HN: An animated explainer on how TCP handles packet losshttps://eyad.com/handshake

Article URL: https://eyad.com/handshake/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106850 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Hooked – Swipe through the first lines of classic books Tinder-stylehttps://hooked.boondoggle.studio

Article URL: https://hooked.boondoggle.studio Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106849 Points: 3 # Comments: 3

Sony’s WH-1000XM6 headphones are $130 off today onlyhttps://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1012173/sony-wh-1000xm6-headphones-deal-sale

If you missed out on Prime Day’s headphones deals, you’re in luck. Sony’s latest flagship headphones are selling for even less than they did during Amazon’s big fall sale. As part of B&H Photo’s Deals of the Day, you can currently pick up Sony’s WH-1000XM6 noise-canceling headphones in silver for just $328 at checkout ($130 […]

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Show HN: VX – I got tired of Turbo and Nx, so I built vxhttps://vznjs.github.io/vx

Article URL: https://vznjs.github.io/vx/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106776 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Was an Affiliate Marketer for a Fitness MLMhttps://www.wired.com/story/white-house-press-secretary-katie-zacharia-was-an-affiliate-marketer-for-a-fitness-mlm

Trump's newly installed press secretary tells WIRED that in the early 2010s, she promoted a product for a company then called Beachbody, which she described as β€œsort of a pyramid scheme.”

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More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononokehttps://sunshowers.io/posts/anthropic-mononoke-2

Article URL: https://sunshowers.io/posts/anthropic-mononoke-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106738 Points: 7 # Comments: 1

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An Israeli firm is sending zero-click spyware through online adshttps://www.theverge.com/tech/1011956/discover-tech-zero-click-ads-spyware

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1011956/discover-tech-zero-click-ads-spyware Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106676 Points: 24 # Comments: 1

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Australia clinch thrilling World Cup opener against New Zealandhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/videos/cmn4eqpvw1ppo

Australia beat New Zealand 24-22 in a dramatic Rugby League World Cup opener in Sydney, with debutant Jack Bostock scoring a hat-trick to see the hosts snatch victory late on.

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Dying in Detentionhttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/fault-lines/2026/10/15/dying-in-detention

Fault Lines investigates the soaring death rates in immigration detention centres following President Trump’s crackdown.

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Muse Spark Open, the Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Datehttps://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-spark-open

Article URL: https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-spark-open Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106620 Points: 38 # Comments: 1

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Maduro pleads not guilty to new torture-related charges in New Yorkhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqwyrn1l74zro

"I reject this document entirely," Maduro said in court, responding to newly added torture-related charges.

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Inside the race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos for control of outer spacehttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/15/nx-s1-6002922/inside-the-race-between-elon-musk-and-jeff-bezos-for-control-of-outer-space

The Atlantic writer Josh Tyrangiel says Musk and Bezos each want to colonize the moon, mine its resources and launch thousands more satellites. He says their only real competition is each other.

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