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The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs have continued into 2026. See the latest companies to cut roles.
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This implant can restore sight for patients with macular degeneration
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 …
MIT Technology Review
Ultron Is Still Dangerous in ‘VisionQuest,’ Says James Spader
Sure, he's significantly more mature, but that doesn't mean he's trustworthy.
gizmodo.com
Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s 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…
MIT Technology Review
And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2026 is: Intero Biosystems
Intero Biosystems beat out 199 other Startup Battlefield companies to take home the $100,000 grand prize at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
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★ Initial Thoughts on This Week’s New Apple TV 4K (4th Generation) and HomePod Mini 2
Apple Newsroom, Tuesday morning: The new Apple TV 4K features three far-field microphones, letting users control what they’re watching and discover new shows completely hands-free. Advanced echo cancellation intelligently isolates a user’s voice from background sound to deliver c…
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Ethnic Wear Brand Libas Adds 9 New Stores In Offline Expansion Push
Ethnic wear brand Libas is opening nine exclusive brand outlets (EBOs) across five Indian cities during Navratri, expanding its retail…
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Kling 4.0 Goes Fully Live on klingai.com With Audio, MCP and CLI Hooks
Kuaishou's Kling AI opened Kling 4.0 to all users, adding dual-channel audio, multi-language lip sync and MCP/CLI access, with 4K HDR and an enterprise API due soon.
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Tesla’s new SpaceX-powered Roadster flies and lands, but won’t ship until 2028
Tesla's second-generation Roadster flew at its Texas unveiling using SpaceX-developed thrusters, capping a nine-year wait that still isn't over — production is targeted for 2028. Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and brea…
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Tencent Toast App Adds External APK and H5 Import for Pro Users
Toast Pro users can upload outside APKs or H5 source, keep editing in Toast, and run the same copyright, filing and MyApp listing flow as in-app builds.
pandaily.com
4Paradigm and RiseUnion Open-Source ModelSphere for Heterogeneous LLM Serving
ModelSphere unifies cluster serving, KV caching and AutoTune under Apache 2.0, with claimed support for Ascend, Iluvatar, Moore Threads and Hygon DCU.
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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…
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‘The Batman Part II’ Production Is Back on, With Steven Soderbergh’s Help
The veteran filmmaker is stepping in to complete principal photography while director Matt Reeves tends to a family matter.
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Even Benchmark thinks AI is eroding the venture pact against backing rivals
Benchmark says the Valley’s rule against backing rivals is getting harder to keep.
techcrunch.com
Can’t bear to say goodbye to your pet? Biotech’s got you covered.
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…
MIT Technology Review

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Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts
Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111852 Points: 363 # Comments: 122
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What I self-host
Article URL: https://viceconsole.fyi/blog/2026/10/10/what-i-self-host/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109715 Points: 545 # Comments: 344
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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.
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New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing
Article URL: https://support.withings.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/51887047154577-Unacceptable-Apple-Health-Sync-is-now-behind-a-99-year-paywall-for-new-accounts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109375 Points: 344 # Comments: 223
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Running DOOM (Sort Of) on a Sonoff Smart Switch
It’s often said in this community that DOOM can be made to run on anything, and as time goes on, that’s becoming more and more accurate. We’re at the point …read more
hackaday.com
45 Years Later, The Sinclair ULA Design Documents Surface
In the 8-bit home computer boom of the early 1980s, Sir Clive Sinclair’s machines were always among the cheapest on the market, often packing a surprising level of sophistication in …read more
hackaday.com
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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Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
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: 373 # Comments: 171
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Disposing of PLA and Why Composting is Not an Option
The ‘biofriendly’ nature of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) filament often gets touted as one of its main advantages over alternatives like PETG, but even a modicum of research ought to inform …read more
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