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Meta’s Smart Glasses May Have Been Recording People Without Their Knowledge

A Reddit thread suggests Meta's smart glasses have been capturing conversations that don't contain the "Hey Meta" wake phrase.

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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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.

Exclusive: Stella & Dot Founder Raises $5M For Her Next Act, AI Marketing Startup Marklo

In this Crunchbase News exclusive, we spoke to Marklo AI founder Jessica Herrin about her solution to the marketing problems she encountered when building earlier startups, and how a group of investors, led by Forerunner, are backing that early experience with a $5 million seed f…

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Flock CEO says its microphones detect ‘just gunshots’ — its website says different

Langley’s comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concerned about the misuse of its technology.

The FBI Arrested a Saudi National OpenAI Employee for Planting a Recording Device in the Company’s Executive Conference Room

The Department of Justice, yesterday: An employee of OpenAI has been arrested for and charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a national of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was arre…

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Hong Kong regulator suspends ChaPanda shares over suspected IPO manipulation

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission ordered trading in Chinese tea chain ChaPanda’s shares suspended from 9 a.m. on October 13, citing serious concerns that its initial public offering may have been artificially manipulated. The suspension forms part of an investigation…

Chinese memory giant YMTC to grow revenue 6 times faster than peers as IPO nears: report

Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation (YMTC), China’s leading flash-memory maker, is set to grow revenue six times faster than its industry peers this year as it expands into server-related business ahead of a planned initial public offering (IPO), according to Counterpoint Res…

ASML’s chip equipment sales to China soar 109% despite US export curb push

Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML expects China to account for about 20 per cent of its total sales this year, after seeing shipments to the market more than double during the previous quarter despite mounting US pressure for tighter export restrictions on less advanced ch…

MemSilicon Tapes Out MountTai 2026, a 28nm 1Gb RRAM Chip With One Transistor per Four Cells

MemSilicon says MountTai 2026 is the first high-density 1T4R RRAM chip at gigabit scale: 1Gb on 28nm CMOS, 30Mb/mm2 density, under 20ns access and on-chip ECC. Validation is underway.

Nvidia’s China AI-chip share falls to 34% as Huawei reaches 28%

Nvidia’s share of China’s data-center AI accelerator market fell to 34% in the first half of 2026, while Huawei reached 28%, according to an IDC report seen by Reuters. US export restrictions constrained Nvidia’s supplies as Chinese chipmakers expanded shipments. Nvidia shipped 6…

Jio Platforms Sets Stage For India’s Largest IPO At ₹10.3 Lakh Cr Valuation

Telecom giant Jio Platforms has set a price band of ₹1,065-₹1,119 per share for its IPO, which is set to…

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…

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Colossal Biosciences announces new AI platform to help accelerate de-extinction efforts

Colossal announced a new AI platform to help accelerate its de-extinction efforts and Peter Diamandis has launched a new fund to back startups who use it.

CedarDB wants one database to handle both transactions and analytics, as AI agents raise the stakes

Databases have traditionally been designed either for analytical data or for operational data. But database engine CedarDB supports both, and its approach has gained relevance with the rise of agentic AI.

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Things to know when you get cancer – 2026 Edition

Article URL: https://jjmaxwell4.com/writing/things-to-know-when-you-get-cancer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093568 Points: 522 # Comments: 143

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

Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts

Article URL: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-auto-phone-number-verification-android-3723117/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090349 Points: 326 # Comments: 83

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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.

How to Build Models Without Language, with Logical Intelligence

Something unusual happened in a public Sudoku experiment early this year.

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

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

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.

Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote

Article URL: https://startupfortune.com/banks-are-now-trying-to-offload-the-ai-data-center-debt-they-just-underwrote/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092664 Points: 230 # Comments: 180

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