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OpenAI Bugging Suspect Booked One-Way Flight to Saudi Arabia, Prosecutors Say
Prosecutors asked a judge to keep details of the case under seal, fearing that suspected eavesdropper Abdulrahman Alfozan would flee the country.
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The US military’s race to make fake blood
Its call sign was Morphine 1-2.   In February 2007, the hulking dual-­rotor casualty evacuation helicopter had just flown three wounded soldiers to a field hospital in Balad, north of Baghdad, when another call came: an emergency mission to fly through an insurgent-controlled are…
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…
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Intero Biosystems wants drugmakers to test on mini human intestines, not animals
Intero Biosystems is selling lab-grown human intestines to drugmakers as regulators push for alternatives to animal testing, while the startup looks to scale production and expand its organoid technology.
techcrunch.com
Cyberleek Returns, Posts More ‘GTA VI’ Footage, Promises Not to Return Again
We can but hope.
gizmodo.com
This Bird Has Seen Some Things—and the Photo Just Won an Award
Some days you just want to lie on a rhino and tell the world to leave you alone. It’s just one of the standout images from the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards.
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MagicLab's EchoPolicy-0 Tops AI2's MolmoSpaces Combined Board With a 75.4% Manipulation Success Rate
MagicLab says its VLM agent framework EchoPolicy-0 averaged 75.4% across four MolmoSpaces tasks, and AI2's published leaderboard data lists it first. Its MagicBrain hit 94.4% on pick.
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PHANES AI Launches SeePhys Hub, a Wearable Kit That Records Vision, Touch and Full-Body Motion
PHANES AI's SeePhys Hub pairs a four-camera headband with wrist, waist and leg trackers and tactile gloves, capturing human motion and touch data for training robots.
pandaily.com
Scimplify Bags $25 Mn To Scale Its Semiconductor Chemicals Business
Speciality chemical manufacturing startup Scimplify has raised $25 Mn (around ₹238 Cr) in a fresh funding round led by Hitachi…
inc42.com
Ambani’s Jio set to open India’s biggest IPO from Oct 21, valued at nearly $108Bn
Jio Platforms opens bidding October 21 for India's biggest-ever IPO, valuing the company around the $107-$108Bn mark, putting it just behind Airtel's $128Bn market-cap. Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech …
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Alibaba launches Qwen N1 AI glasses with swappable batteries, starting at RMB 2,899
Alibaba launched its Qwen N1 and N1 Pro AI glasses in China on October 13, with standard packages priced from RMB 2,899 and RMB 3,399, respectively. Both models feature replaceable batteries in the temples, allowing users to swap batteries during use. The glasses combine a 50-meg…
technode.com
China approves Alibaba AI models for use in iPhone Duo and other Apple handsets
China has granted approval for Alibaba Group Holding’s artificial intelligence models to be integrated into several Apple handsets, including the new iPhone Duo, in the Chinese market, clearing a key regulatory hurdle for the long-delayed launch of Apple Intelligence in the count…
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Single Button, Handheld Gaming Console
Those of us who grew up in the 70s and 80s might be familiar with the Atari 2600 console and its now relatively unrecognizable (by modern standards) controller with only …read more
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Tiny e-Paper Display Delivers 30 FPS of Game Boy Fun
Slow refresh, ghosting and low-contrast — wait, are we talking about passive matrix LCDs, or e-paper displays? That might be why e-paper Game Boy emulators are a thing: the limitations …read more
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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.
bytebytego.com
Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/yandex-outage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094673 Points: 204 # Comments: 66
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DIY Force Sensing Joysticks are a Cheap Way To Go
Traditional joysticks typically use potentiometers or hall effect sensors to determine the displacement of the stick itself when moved by the operator. Force-sensing joysticks are considered more desirable for certain …read more
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Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/13/suicide-rates-highest-ever-among-middle-aged-men/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093180 Points: 244 # Comments: 321
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OpenCode 2.0
Article URL: https://anoma.ly/notes/opencode-2-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094994 Points: 269 # Comments: 110
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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
2026 Hackaday Supercon: Workshops are Open!
Supercon is Hackaday’s annual gathering, and you absolutely need to be there. Today, we’re pleased to announce our lineup of workshops, and it’s more than we’ve ever offered, thanks to …read more
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