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Scientists Find Worrying Link Between Common Ulcer Germ and Colorectal Cancer
Helicobacter pylori is already known to be a leading cause of stomach cancer.
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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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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
Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir, Says AI Researchers Have Started Smoking Because They’re Convinced AI (Claude, Probably) Is Going to Cure Cancer
From the transcript of Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS: Shyam Sankar: You know, I take — I think there’s a profound truth to Pascal’s saying that every human has a god-shaped hole in their heart, and it’s important to understand that many of these folks in Silicon Valley who are …
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In ‘You Can See Everything,’ Elizabeth Holmes meets her equal in comedian Nathan Fielder
Nathan Fielder's documentary about disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has created a constellation of colliding personas that interrogate the very nature of authenticity.
techcrunch.com
The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve.   —Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd Social media bans…
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[Update] Zetwerk IPO Subscribed 31% On Day 2, QIB Portion At 37%
Update | October 16, 2026 18:30 IST B2B manufacturing company Zetwerk’s ₹5,012.3 Cr IPO was subscribed 31% at the end…
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Robot AI developer Ruoyu secures Pre-A funding led by Sunway Communication
Shenzhen-based robot AI developer Ruoyu Technology has completed a nine-figure RMB Pre-A funding round led by Sunway Communication, 36Kr reported on October 15. Other investors include Jinmu Capital, Qindao Capital, Huanghai Capital and Zhongchuang Capital. Founded in 2023 and in…
technode.com
[Update] Tonbo Imaging IPO Oversubscribed Nearly 8X On Day 2
Update | October 16, 18:24 IST Defence tech company Tonbo Imaging’s ₹852 Cr IPO was oversubscribed 7.78X at the end…
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Rising AI’s Costs Put SaaS Companies Between A Rock And A Hard Place
Recently, Zoho cofounder Sridhar Vembu raised concerns over the economics of building software in an AI-driven market. In a post…
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Kling AI 4.0 suggests a shift in AI video competition from visual quality to directorial control
AI video generation is no longer just about producing a visually impressive clip. For creators looking to use AI to make short films, advertisements or even feature films, the harder questions are whether characters can remain consistent, whether shots can unfold as intended, and…
technode.com
While Software Ate the World, This Company Ate Its Own Software Business
Editor’s note: This article is republished from Jumpstart, a TechNode Group publication. In 2023, AI software was DataCanvas’s business. By the first half of 2026, it was almost absent from its sales. The change is unusually stark. AI foundational software services generated 76.5…
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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: 430 # Comments: 157
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Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad
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This Week in Security: Critical DNS Keys Rotated, Hacking Freezers Isn’t Cool, OpenAI Spies On Itself, and Advanced Hardware Wallet Hacks
Critical Internet keys changed this week. Did you notice?  The keys behind DNSSEC, the system for cryptographically validating DNS responses, rolled over on October 11 2026. This is the second …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.
bytebytego.com
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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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
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: 617 # Comments: 400
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Braino! Takes the Cheap Yellow Display to School
These days, it’s common to give even very young children a mobile device loaded up with educational software that aims to improve everything from basic motor skills to reading and …read more
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