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$137 Million Has Been Spent on AI-Generated Ads Ahead of Midterms. Only 27% Included a Disclaimer
Republicans are leading the spending on AI-generated political ads, while Democrats are more wary of potential backlash.
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E-Readers Are About to Get Way More Colorful
Or maybe more productive, if you're into that.
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iPhone Duo Pre-Orders Launched, and Three Hours Later It’s Sold Out Through the End of January
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: If you were hoping to surprise someone with an iPhone Duo for Christmas, you might be out of luck, as Apple’s online store in the U.S. is already showing an estimated shipping date of January 25 for all configurations following the start of pre-orders to…
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Microplastics Are Chemically Alive and Probably Up to No Good
New research points to a "possibly overlooked mechanism" for how microplastics can harm people's health.
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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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Simulation App Speeds Up Electric Truck Battery Design
This article is brought to you by COMSOL. These days, no one blinks an eye at two-day, one-day, and even same-day package deliveries. Despite the plethora of localized fulfillment and distribution centers that have cropped up to meet the demand, delivery trucks still need to make…
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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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AgiBot Puts YuanSheng on Campus With 20+ Universities and Over 1,000 Robots
AgiBot's YuanSheng program will place Genie, Lingxi, Expedition and quadruped robots plus AIMA software seats at more than 20 Chinese universities.
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FirstCry’s Core Revenue Engine Is Fighting Too Many Battles
Sixteen years since FirstCry began its journey, what began as a kidswear marketplace has spawned a massive multi-channel ecommerce and…
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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…
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio
Article URL: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/mlx-distributed-inference Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50118320 Points: 215 # Comments: 101
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90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
Article URL: https://www.mercor.com/research/labor-index/benchmark-map/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121179 Points: 262 # Comments: 228
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Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad
Article URL: https://github.com/Saffsanity/sill Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112739 Points: 240 # Comments: 74
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The 10€ Gamepad
We aren’t sure what [Lazy_Duck] is doing with video games, but it must require a lot of controllers. Dismayed at the cost and complexity of commercial gamepads, they started soldering …read more
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 391: Tuned in to ESP32 SDR, New Old Pagers, and Bugs on Mars
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start this episode off with a discussion about Philadelphia’s budding hacker conference and the imminent retirement of the EZ80. After considering the parallels …read more
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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
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