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Judge orders OpenAI to turn over hiring records in Apple trade secrets case
A federal judge ruled that Apple can access OpenAI's interview materials involving former Apple employees, as well as private messages and testimony from key figures in the case.
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The Download: open model trade-offs and geothermal power’s promise
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. Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? Anthropic recently released a report arguing that a powerful new model released by…
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Helix Carbon says it can make iron cheaper by recycling blast furnace pollution
The steel industry is a big polluter, but Helix Carbon can upcycle pollution from blast furnaces to drive down emissions and improve margins.
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Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace On Why The Best Proptech Bets May Not Look Like Proptech
In a recent interview with Crunchbase News, Brendan Wallace, founder, CEO and chief investment officer of Fifth Wall, discussed the AI shift, why proptech funding totals may overlook some of the sector’s biggest investments, what it all means for founders, and the housing problem…
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Where The Next Generation Of Super Apps Will Be Built
The next generation of super apps will likely emerge in markets where widespread mobile access, weak competition, poor financial services and crises that erode trust in banks create demand for a single trusted platform, writes guest author Nnamdi Okike, co-founder and managing pa…
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Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Late last month, Anthropic released a report arguing that the model GLM-5.3 poses a major…
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Open-Source WeChatBridge Arrives on Windows in Beta, Sending WeChat Chats to Codex and Other Agents
WeChatBridge, a third-party open-source tool, now has a Windows beta that forwards selected WeChat chat records to AI agents such as Codex and Claude Code, or saves them to Obsidian.
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Alibaba Opens Sign-Ups for Qwen Go!, a Personal Agent That Files Flight-Delay Claims and Refunds
Alibaba's Qwen app is preparing Qwen Go!, a personal agent that files flight-delay claims, requests price-protection refunds and books services. Access is opening in phases.
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Huawei Shows Full Kirin 9050 Pro Architecture, Says Kirin Devices Have Shipped Over 100 Million
At its first Kirin technical briefing in six years, Huawei showed the full Kirin 9050 Pro block diagram, said Kirin devices passed 100 million shipments and called Kirin 2027 ready.
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China’s five-ton-payload robot debuts at Shanghai’s CIIF, but real-world performance is what counts
Industrial robots have traditionally competed on precision, speed and repeatability. But as the rated payload of a single robot exceeds five tons, a new set of technical challenges emerges: how to handle and process large industrial components reliably and consistently. The 26th …
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1688 Opens Alibaba's Accio AI Workbench to All Buyers and Factories, Adding a Seller Assistant
Alibaba's 1688 now lets its buyers and source factories use the Accio AI workbench, with a sourcing assistant spanning 128 countries and regions and a new 1688 assistant for sellers.
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ByteDance’s Seed AI lab creates dedicated model safety and alignment department
ByteDance’s Seed AI lab is establishing a dedicated Model-Alignment & Preparedness department, according to an internal email reported by The Paper on October 13. Yan Lin will lead the unit and report to Seed head Wu Yonghui. Members of the existing Responsible AI team and some e…
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ESP-SDR Can Now Transmit
Well, that was fast! Last week, we reported on two apparently simultaneous hacks using the 2.4 GHz radio inside many ESP32 variants that enabled raw access to the radio samples, …read more
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A Modern Browser for the PlayStation Portable
The Sony PlayStation Portable, better known as the PSP, is now over two decades old. In its day it was an impressive handheld gaming machine, not least because of the …read more
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Counting the PET Bottles Needed to Make 1 Kg of Printer Filament
In countries where PET bottles do not get slapped with an additional fee that induces you to return it for recycling and said fee back, the resulting piles of discarded …read more
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The FPGA Chronicles: Ready to Probe
In the last few installments, we looked at using the Tang Nano 20K with both the GOWIN tools and some open-source tools. The open-source tools certainly had the advantage of …read more
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Thunderbird for iOS
Article URL: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/10/thunderbird-for-ios-a-first-look-at-the-native-iphone-email-app-in-development/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072913 Points: 263 # Comments: 103
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How to Build Models Without Language, with Logical Intelligence
Something unusual happened in a public Sudoku experiment early this year.
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Using a Waffle to Check the Health of your Wii U’s NAND Flash
Game consoles tend to have a weak spot or two that will take certain units out sooner than they would due to normal parts aging. In the case of the …read more
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Apple HomeView
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/apple-homeview/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50071017 Points: 594 # Comments: 732
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"You didn't do it right"
Four sincere attempts at OKRs, four failures, and every time: "you didn't do it right." Maybe the framework doesn't fit you -- so how do you find one that does?
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