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Google’s Universal Cart shopping tool launches in the US
The new shopping tool is available in the U.S. across Google Search and the Gemini app.
techcrunch.com
Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind
Have you ever thought about what makes you you? Science assures us it has everything to do with the three-pound organ between our ears, with its billions of neurons and trillions of delicate connections. But it’s a lot trickier to explain why we have a sense of self-awareness or …
MIT Technology Review
IEEE Continues Preparations for the Realignment of Its Regions
Progress continues in restructuring IEEE’s geographic regions, as outlined in The Institute’s February 2023 article “IEEE Is Realigning Its Geographic Regions.” The “Region 1” designation will no longer be used. The new Region 2 will merge what is currently Region 1 (Northeaste…
spectrum.ieee.org
FTC Subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic Over AI Safety Concerns
The agency is seeking records related to AI safety incidents as it investigates potential consumer protection violations.
gizmodo.com
The FBI Arrested a Saudi National OpenAI Employee for Planting a Recording Device in the Company’s Executive Conference Room
The Department of Justice, yesterday: An employee of OpenAI has been arrested for and charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a national of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was arre…
justice.gov
Cybersecurity Investors Put $6.8B To Work In The Third Quarter, Mostly In Larger Rounds
For the third quarter of 2026, global cybersecurity- and privacy-focused startups pulled in a total of $6.8 billion, per Crunchbase data. That’s up about 50% from the prior quarter and tied for the highest quarterly tally in years.
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International tech
Alibaba sets sights on record-breaking Singles’ Day with 1 million brands joining festival
Alibaba Group Holding is gearing up for its annual Singles’ Day shopping festival on major online marketplaces Taobao and Tmall, with the company expecting a record one million global brands to take part this year. Pre-sales for the event open on Thursday, followed by the formal …
scmp.com
DeepSeek offers user refunds after suffering another major outage
Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek apologised and promised compensation to users after its services suffered a nearly five-hour outage on Thursday. DeepSeek will issue users a full refund for any consumption between October 8 and October 14 in the form of credits, acco…
scmp.com
StepFun Releases Open Weights for Step 5 Preview, Publishes Technical Blog on Its Architecture
Open weights for StepFun's Step 5 Preview are live: 600B total, 27B active, 1M context. A new technical blog explains its 92-layer design, Sparse GQA and long-horizon agent training.
pandaily.com
Start-up unveils prototype ‘heart’ of EUV lithography amid China chipmaking push
A Chinese start-up has unveiled a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light-source machine – a component often described as the “heart” of advanced lithography systems – marking an early but critical step in Beijing’s drive for self-reliance in chipmaking equipment. At the China …
scmp.com
Kunlun Tech releases open-source AI game system that runs on a single RTX 5090
Kunlun Tech released Matrix-Game 4.0 on October 15, an open-source system that combines a game engine with real-time AI video rendering on a single consumer graphics card. The company says it delivers 480p gameplay at 60 frames per second on an Nvidia RTX 5090, with input-to-resp…
technode.com
Inovance Debuts InoBot W1, a Liquid-Cooled Wheeled Humanoid Built for Factory Shifts
Industrial automation maker Inovance showed its first humanoid, the wheeled InoBot W1, with liquid-cooled 2,070 TOPS compute, a 10-hour hot-swappable battery and a footprint under 0.6m square.
pandaily.com

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How to Design for Failures
In this article, we’ll look at the various strategies that can help developers deal with failures in their systems.
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Tiny Little Office
Article URL: https://tinylittleoffice.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50096142 Points: 609 # Comments: 163
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Building An M7 Pan Tilt Head Controller
The Soonpho M7 Pan Tilt Head is a useful photography tool for remotely aiming a decently-sized camera. Only, [Kyle Housley] wanted a little more control than was available out of …read more
hackaday.com
I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep
Article URL: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/i-know-why-the-mathematicians-weep Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50103630 Points: 206 # Comments: 294
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Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero-click' spyware
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/15/israeli-firm-digital-ads-enabling-installation-of-zero-click-spyware-researchers-say Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50103000 Points: 395 # Comments: 223
The Guardian
The Terminator Problem: How Teaching an LLM One Bad Habit Can Change Its Behavior
To understand why this happens, we need to connect three ideas: how models learn, how they generalize beyond their examples, and how they exhibit different kinds of behavior.
bytebytego.com
How the Math Used in 19th-Century Heat Physics Helps LLMs Understand Sentences
In this article, we are going to understand how this connection works and why a model needs help understanding the order of the words even when the words already arrive in an ordered list.
bytebytego.com
So You Want To Make Your SDR Work On Other Frequencies
Perhaps the most exciting news of the past few weeks in the world of hardware hacking has been the unlocking of hidden SDR functionality in the Wi-Fi radios found on …read more
hackaday.com
Hand-Machined Stake Sharpener Just in Time for Dracula Season
Vampires aren’t as common as they once were, but in most places they aren’t fully protected and it’s still possible to get a tag for legal hunting come October — …read more
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