00:22 <Murphy> GitHub | andrewfader/blokkily 1h ago · 24 min read Contribute to andrewfader/blokkily development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

00:22 <Murphy> Hacker News | Codespaces Access Port 1h ago · 1 min read Comments Read full story

00:22 <Murphy> GitHub | prabanta-dev/janas: 37 tok/s from Qwen3-Next-80B (48 GB) on a 32 GB laptop, 24 without drafts vs 2.8 for llama.cpp; reading 62 vs 16 tok/s. Faster than llama.cpp on all 13 model... 2h ago · 15 min read 37 tok/s from Qwen3-Next-80B (48 GB) on a 32 GB laptop, 24 without drafts vs 2.8 for llama.cpp; reading 62 vs 16 tok/s. Faster than llama.cpp on all 13 models compared in Q4_K_M. LLMs bigger than y... Read full story

00:22 <Murphy> Hacker News | E. coli chemotaxis: the baffling intelligence of a single cell 1d ago · 32 min read Comments Read full story

00:22 <Murphy> Niraj Rajgor | GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle Niraj Rajgor · 16d ago · 5 min read I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with an AI agent. Read full story

00:46 <Byte> Engadget | Don't buy a cheap Android phone without these non-negotiable features Christine Persaud · 16m ago · 3 min read Don't buy a cheap Android phone without non-negotiable features like a good camera, great battery life, a big screen, a decent processor, and large storage. Read full story

00:48 <Byte> Ars Technica | 39-year-old unvaccinated woman becomes 6th measles death in Pennsylvania Beth Mole · 2h ago · 2 min read As of Friday, state health officials reported 1,136 cases across 41 counties. Read full story

01:20 <Murphy> Hacker News | Auto Research 1d ago · 5 min read How community pull requests are improving the key numbers in OpenAI's 2026 math preprints. Read full story

02:19 <Murphy> Hacker News | Neuroscience can make decluttering easier 1d ago Comments Read full story

02:49 <Murphy> Hacker News | JavaScript is disabled 24m ago Comments Read full story

02:49 <Murphy> Hacker News | Strengthening our defenses against distillation attacks 17h ago · 10 min read Illicit distillation allows model developers to copy frontier AI capabilities without creating proportionally robust safeguards. Here, we describe how we’ve reduced the rate of distillation by more than 90%. Read full story

02:49 <Murphy> Ryan Bigg | Leaving Tech 9m ago · 1 min read Leaving Tech Read full story

03:47 <Murphy> the Guardian | NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film’s interviewees Lorenzo Tondo · 14h ago · 4 min read Israeli PM calls for criminal investigation into soldiers and officers interviewed in Guardian-produced documentary Read full story

03:47 <Murphy> arXiv.org | AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities 1h ago · 3 min read Capability evaluations aim to surface dangerous model behaviors before deployment, but their reliability depends on the assumption that hidden capabilities can be elicited. We show this assumption does not hold under adversarial conditions by constructing backdoor attacks that embed encrypted neural networks within host model weights, decrypting and execu... Read full story

03:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | Faster Fourier Transforms Ben Recht · 13h ago · 8 min read The OpenAI algorithm for the FFT is less a breakthrough and more a malicious exploit. Read full story

04:18 <Murphy> Hacker News | The Dock on Mac, From OS 10 to macOS 27 Jim Nielsen · 9h ago · 1 min read I wrote the chapter on app icon history for The iOS App Icon Book . The other day I found an old note stashed away where I had started researching the macOS… Read full story

04:47 <Murphy> GitHub | bherbruck/solidcraft: SolidCraft: an open-source parametric 3D CAD application built in pure Rust. Desktop, web, and automation through MCP. 4h ago · 9 min read SolidCraft: an open-source parametric 3D CAD application built in pure Rust. Desktop, web, and automation through MCP. - bherbruck/solidcraft Read full story

05:17 <Byte> WIRED | Top Lego Promo Codes in October 2026 Nena Farrell · 17m ago · 5 min read Get the best deals on your favorite building sets, from free shipping over $35 to exclusive gifts with purchase using a Lego coupon code. Read full story

05:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post 24m ago Comments Read full story

05:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI 58m ago · 5 min read Many software engineers are righteously angry about AI. It’s understandable to be upset that the skills you built your professional identity around are getting… Read full story

06:16 <Murphy> the Guardian | Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF Heather Stewart in Bangkok · 3h ago · 2 min read High valuations and debt put sector in danger, while fund also warns on government borrowing and cyber-attacks Read full story

07:16 <Murphy> Hacker News | Client Challenge 49m ago Comments Read full story

08:48 <Byte> Engadget | X bundles Premium, Grok and Cursor under a single monthly subscription Mariella Moon · 4m ago · 1 min read SpaceXSI has announced a new subscription scheme that gives you access to Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium. Read full story

09:16 <Byte> WIRED | What Flock Actually Costs Cities Across the Country Caroline Haskins · 16m ago · 9 min read WIRED examined contracts from over two dozen cities and towns that shed light on how Flock’s pricing and business model functions, and how it stacks up against its peers. Read full story

09:16 <Byte> WIRED | We Used Particle Analysis (and Lots of Sipping) to Find the Best Coffee Grinders Matthew Korfhage · 07 May 2020 · 42 min read We used particle size analysis and real-world testing to find the best conical burr, flat burr, and blade grinders for every budget and style of coffee drinker. Read full story

09:17 <Murphy> GitHub | composo-ai/DishwasherBench: A dishwasher-loading game on a physical simulation of one real machine, built to benchmark language models and playable in a browser. The game inside... 53m ago · 25 min read A dishwasher-loading game on a physical simulation of one real machine, built to benchmark language models and playable in a browser. The game inside is called Spotless. - composo-ai/DishwasherBench Read full story

09:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | Document Review With Unsiloed and TypeSafe Jev Unsiloed AI · 12d ago · 6 min read Combine Unsiloed extraction and source citations with TypeSafe Jev typed decisions. See the request, routing code, costs, and an interactive prescription example. Read full story

10:13 <Byte> WIRED | The Biggest Pro-AI Super PAC Network Has Poured Millions Into Nevada Shell Companies Tess Owen · 13m ago · 5 min read Backed by Silicon Valley titans, Leading the Future has raised huge sums to promote pro-AI candidates on both side of the aisle. Read full story

10:13 <Murphy> heise online | Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM Daniel AJ Sokolov · 2h ago · 3 min read Around 100 million US dollars in cryptocurrency have been stolen from users of certain hardware wallets. Because whoever can read the screen wins. Read full story

10:13 <Murphy> Hacker News | Hittite royal archive found in Turkey – The History Blog 4d ago · 3 min read Comments Read full story

10:13 <Murphy> Peter Bryant | Were we blue-collar workers all along? 48m ago · 2 min read There’s a common idea among economists that you can broadly split employees into two categories. “White-collar” workers are typically people who work in offices doing service-based, knowledge-based, managerial, or administrative... Read full story

10:15 <Byte> Engadget | Abu Dhabi will use Ultrahuman's smart ring know-how to boost its public health app Daniel Cooper · 53m ago · 1 min read The Abu Dhabi government wants to incorporate wearables data into its public health app. Read full story

10:42 <Murphy> Hacker News | AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers 34m ago Comments Read full story

10:42 <Murphy> Hacker News | CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades 34m ago Comments Read full story

10:42 <Murphy> PDF TO MP3 | Use the AI you already pay for 34m ago · 1 min read Connect Codex or Claude, add a speech key, and send your first document to PDF TO MP3. Read full story

10:42 <Byte> WIRED | Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ Has a Unique Perspective on Daddy Issues Zoë Schiffer · 12m ago · 27 min read Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, agreed to be interviewed immediately. Read full story

11:13 <Murphy> Amazon Web Services | Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions 12h ago · 5 min read AWS Lambda Web Functions is a serverless compute primitive that runs your HTTP framework natively, delivering fast, consistent responses through multi-concurrent execution and automated global distribution. Read full story

11:13 <Murphy> GitHub | struct's lifetime requirements can be bypassed via covariant field assignment · Issue #164250 · rust-lang/rust 46m ago · 10 min read In the following code: use std::sync::Mutex; static KEPT: Mutex>> = Mutex::new(Vec::new()); struct Q(Option); impl Drop fo... Read full story

11:14 <Byte> WIRED | Wikipedians Believed AI Would Come and Go. They Were Wrong Richard Cooke · 14m ago · 14 min read In a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic. Read full story

11:14 <Byte> WIRED | 25 Great Tech Books to Gift (or Keep for Yourself) Simon Hill · 11 Dec 2021 · 14 min read Give the techie in your life access to the inner workings of the companies and characters shaping Big Tech. Read full story

11:43 <Murphy> Hacker News | Embedding Gemma Transcribe 16m ago · 1 min read An embedding model, turned into a speech-to-text model. An hour of audio in about 13 seconds on a base MacBook Air, on device. Read full story

11:44 <Byte> WIRED | These 40 Tempting Tech Gifts All Cost Less Than $100 Simon Hill · 14 Dec 2023 · 10 min read Score a great gift for everyone on your list without breaking the bank. Every one of these gifts comes WIRED-recommended. Read full story

12:48 <Byte> Engadget | Scientists find evidence of a second-generation planet born from a dying star Mariella Moon · 1h ago · 2 min read A team of scientists found evidence of a planet born from a white dwarf in decades-old Hubble data. Read full story

12:48 <Byte> Engadget | NASA's Perseverance rover breaks record for off-world driving distance Steve Dent · 46m ago · 2 min read NASA's Perseverance Mars rover just broke the record for the farthest distance traveled by any vehicle on another world. Read full story

12:48 <Byte> ZDNET | Dutch tax authorities cancel Microsoft 365 cloud rollout - and turn toward open source Steven Vaughan-Nichols · 57m ago · 5 min read Another European move toward digital sovereignty has curtailed adopting the US workplace suite. Read full story

12:48 <Byte> WIRED | The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business Condé Nast · 1m ago · 4 min read We bring you the future as it happens. From the latest in science and technology to the big stories in business and culture, we've got you covered. Read full story

12:50 <Murphy> character.ai blog | An Update on Character.ai The Character.AI Team · 8h ago · 2 min read Today, we’re sharing that Character.ai has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to facilitate a court-supervised sale of the company. Over the past year, we’ve taken meaningful steps to sustain and improve our business amid significant legal, regulatory, and operational headwinds. After a comprehensive review Read full story

12:50 <Murphy> The Verge | Character.AI files for bankruptcy Robert Hart · 2h ago · 4 min read The chatbot startup is looking to sell its assets to Disney after years of legal challenges and safety concerns. Read full story

12:50 <Murphy> Firefox | Firefox Enterprise 49m ago · 2 min read Comments Read full story

13:18 <Byte> Engadget | What is the difference between a rearview and a backup camera? Kari Paul · 1h ago · 3 min read Rearview cameras and backup cameras are extremely helpful and can make driving much safer, though they're not always used for the same thing. Read full story

13:18 <Byte> Engadget | What happens to an EV battery after it's removed from your car? Thomas Godwin · 33m ago · 3 min read Though sometimes EV batteries can be repaired, they eventually have to be replaced. But that doesn't mean the old one is going right in the trash. Read full story

13:18 <Byte> WIRED | Apple Reboots Its Smart-Home Strategy With New Hardware and a ‘Home Collection’ Julian Chokkattu · 18m ago · 7 min read I got an early glimpse of Apple’s biggest push into the smart home in years. Read full story

13:18 <Byte> Engadget | Apple unveils HomeView, the company's smart display built for Siri AI Billy Steele · 18m ago · 4 min read Two versions will be available in November for $299. Read full story

13:18 <Byte> Engadget | Apple refreshes the Apple TV 4K for Siri AI Billy Steele · 18m ago · 1 min read New microphones, a new remote and the new Siri AI are on the company’s streaming box. Read full story

13:18 <Byte> Engadget | Apple updates the HomePod mini with more audio features and new colors Billy Steele · 18m ago · 2 min read The new model arrives on October 30, but its Siri AI features are coming later. Read full story

13:18 <Byte> Engadget | Apple debuts the Apple Home Collection of smart devices, including cameras, thermostats and door locks Cherlynn Low · 18m ago · 3 min read Apple collaborated with LG and Schneider Electric on products that work with its HomeView display. Read full story

13:18 <Byte> Engadget | Everything announced at Apple's 'Welcome Home' event Kris Holt · 13m ago · 3 min read All about the HomeView, Homepod mini, Apple Home Collection and more. Read full story

13:19 <Murphy> Apple Machine Learning Research | Minions: A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices 53m ago · 1 min read The increasing demand for GPU-accelerated machine learning inference has exposed limitations in centralized GPU infrastructures, including… Read full story

13:19 <Murphy> GitHub | SAUMS-1391/sqlthon: A simple package for SQLite3 operations 16m ago · 1 min read A simple package for SQLite3 operations. Contribute to SAUMS-1391/sqlthon development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

13:19 <Murphy> Apple | Apple HomeView 17m ago · 12 min read Apple HomeView is a smart display with Siri AI, Liquid Retina display, high-fidelity audio, FaceTime, smart home controls, built-in privacy, and more. Read full story

13:47 <Byte> WIRED | The ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Filmmakers Terrified Bystanders With Their Monster Sounds Max Evry · 17m ago · 5 min read The team behind director Takashi Yamazaki’s new film created their kaiju roars by setting up speakers on top of an outdoor dam. The people walking by weren’t prepared for what they heard. Read full story

13:47 <Byte> Engadget | Why is your phone overheating while using CarPlay or Android Auto? Roger Fingas · 32m ago · 4 min read CarPlay and Android Auto can reduce distractions and ensure you're safer on the road, but they can put stresses on your phone that can make it overheat. Read full story

14:17 <Byte> Engadget | How to use a ChatGPT Dot when it rolls out to you Igor Bonifacic · 32m ago · 3 min read OpenAI wants you to put its new Dots agents to work by automating tasks and letting them handle tedious online processes. Here's what you need to set them up. Read full story

14:17 <Byte> Engadget | Character.AI just filed for bankruptcy, and former foe Disney may buy it for parts Steve Dent · 32m ago · 1 min read Character.AI, a controversial generative AI startup that lets users create their own chatbot characters, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Read full story

14:17 <Byte> Engadget | Apple HomeView hands-on: Siri AI is your new roommate Billy Steele · 30m ago · 3 min read It's more than just an enlarged Apple Watch. Read full story

14:19 <Murphy> Hacker News | A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers Nick M · 12d ago · 19 min read A visual and intuitive intro to complex number system providing a historical overview of how it was developed and why it is useful. Read full story

14:49 <Murphy> For Better Science | A Book That Will Never Be Read 21d ago · 23 min read “I cannot shake the feeling that we find ourselves in a publisher-papermill complex, powered largely by public funding. ” – Michal Wojcik Read full story

14:49 <Murphy> Apple Newsroom | Apple unveils the new Apple TV 4K, supercharged by Siri AI 1h ago · 21 min read Apple today announced the next generation of Apple TV 4K, delivering its most immersive home theater experience yet. Read full story

15:16 <Byte> Engadget | Is the Apple Watch Series 10 still worth your money in 2026? Adnan Ahmed · 31m ago · 4 min read If you don't mind larger bezels, buying refurbished and shorter battery life Apple Watch Series 10 might be the smarter pick over the newer Series 11. Read full story

15:16 <Byte> Engadget | Framework Laptop 12 (2026 upgrade) review: Intel's Core Series 3 fixes a key flaw Daniel Cooper · 16m ago · 9 min read Framework’s Laptop 12 was conceived as a Chromebook killer, but now it has a flagship chip inside. Does it work as a grown-up machine? Read full story

15:18 <Byte> Ars Technica | High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers pump venom Jennifer Ouellette · 2h ago · 3 min read Co-author: “The unique geometry of the valves is the key; they act as collapsible pistons" to deliver venom. Read full story

15:19 <Byte> ZDNET | Apple’s $299 HomeView smart hub is here: 8 highlights, including the wall model Maria Diaz · 48m ago · 5 min read As an Apple Home user, here’s what stands out about Apple's new smart home hub - and what I want to test firsthand. Read full story

15:20 <Murphy> 9to5Mac | Apple’s new ‘Switch to Safari’ campaign details why you should ditch Chrome Chance Miller · 17h ago · 2 min read Apple is kicking off a new campaign today to promote Safari’s benefits over Chrome. With a new “Switch to Safari”... Read full story

15:20 <Murphy> GitHub | busy-beaver/BB10/1RB0RA_1LC1LF_1RD0LB_1RA1LE_1LI0LC_0RG1LD_1RH1LG_1LC0RG_0LJ0LI_1RZ0LC.md at main · jeff87654/busy-beaver 2h ago · 22 min read Busy beaver work: an 8-state machine running the BB(7) champion's program with 36 digits (sigma = 12*(2^^37 3)+59, machine-checked in busycoq), analysis in Ligocki's notation - jeff87654/bu... Read full story

15:20 <Murphy> AuraVision | Your car is selling where you drive. AuraVision · 15h ago · 1 min read A Northeastern/Consumer Reports study found nearly all 19 car brands share driver data — GPS per trip, braking, in-cabin camera. The FTC found GM sold geolocation from millions of cars. The thing you drive is a data broker on wheels. Read full story

15:46 <Byte> Engadget | When is the best time to charge your Samsung Galaxy Watch? Jack Peachey · 31m ago · 3 min read Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 and Ultra both have battery protection, but when you choose to charge will impact the type and amount of health data you can track. Read full story

15:46 <Byte> Engadget | Apple's iPhone market share rose despite a downturn in smartphone shipments Igor Bonifacic · 31m ago · 2 min read Samsung and Apple had decent quarters, while Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo had a terrible Q3. Read full story

15:46 <Byte> Engadget | Some older Apple TV models are also getting Siri AI Lawrence Bonk · 25m ago · 1 min read Siri AI functionality goes all the way back to back to the second-gen Apple TV 4K box from 2021. Read full story

15:49 <Byte> ZDNET | 4 upgrades HomePod Mini 2 has over its 6-year-old predecessor Jada Jones · 21m ago · 6 min read HomePod mini 2 is here, and there are four major upgrades that separate it from the first generation. Read full story

15:50 <Murphy> The Thunderbird Blog | Thunderbird for iOS: A First Look at the Native iPhone Email App in Development Aly Blenkin · 11d ago · 8 min read The team has been working hard behind the scenes laying a strong foundation for the Thunderbird iOS app, building natively from scratch. Read full story

15:50 <Murphy> Common Edge | Now That Information Is Free, What’s a College Campus For? Noumeer Mohammad, Sanjay Gulati · 10m ago · 6 min read The internet and AI haven't killed the classroom. Instead, they’ve changed what university buildings can and should be used for. Read full story

15:50 <Murphy> Hacker News | Sammy's Blog sam · 24m ago · 88 min read Comments Read full story

16:15 <Byte> Engadget | iPhone Duo vs Xiaomi 18 Fold: How these foldables stack up Filipe Espósito · 30m ago · 3 min read We compare the two on their design, displays, durability and more. Read full story

16:15 <Byte> Engadget | Google's Gemini 4 Argon is now available in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search Mariella Moon · 15m ago · 1 min read Google has rolled out Gemini 4 Argon to more users. Read full story

16:15 <Byte> Engadget | Discovery+ gets a price bump just a week after the Skydance merger Kris Holt · 7m ago · 1 min read Who could have possibly seen this coming. Read full story

16:19 <Byte> ZDNET | Apple’s smart home event: All 7 devices, prices, and release dates Maria Diaz · 42m ago · 5 min read Apple's "Welcome Home" event featured all the new smart home hardware coming to the Apple lineup. Read full story

16:19 <Murphy> Our World in Data | Electricity generation per person in the United Kingdom has fallen by a third from its early-2000s peak Hannah Ritchie · 10d ago · 7 min read Globally, electricity generation per person has grown by more than 50% this century. Read full story

16:19 <Murphy> Hacker News | How to engineer an AI harness for game development 2h ago Comments Read full story

16:19 <Murphy> Hacker News | Worlds More Habitable Than Earth? They're Out There 3h ago Comments Read full story

16:20 <Murphy> Hacker News | Launch HN: Consus (YC F24) – LLM gateway for companies handling sensitive data 38m ago · 3 min read Comments Read full story

16:20 <Murphy> Google DeepMind | Gemini 16m ago · 18 min read Our next era of frontier intelligence Read full story

16:45 <Byte> Engadget | Is AppleCare actually worth it for the Apple Watch SE? Thomas Godwin · 30m ago · 3 min read The Apple Watch SE 3 has AppleCare available at a low cost, but is it worth protecting a relatively inexpensive device? Read full story

16:45 <Byte> Engadget | Apple HomePod mini 2 vs. Apple HomePod mini: What do you get for the $50 increase? Filipe Espósito · 18m ago · 3 min read Are Siri AI, a new chip and Sound Glow worth the higher price? Read full story

16:51 <Murphy> MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors Zach Winn | MIT News · 21h ago · 6 min read Encora Therapeutics, which developed a wrist-based device that reduces essential tremor, started as a project in MIT’s famous product-design class, 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). Read full story

17:16 <Byte> Engadget | Here's why your phone's proximity sensors are so important Roger Fingas · 31m ago · 4 min read iPhones and Androids alike rely heavily on proximity sensors for common features and functions like NFC payments and turning the screen off during a call. Read full story

17:16 <Byte> Engadget | Netflix will broadcast the 2030 FIFA World Cup in Spain and Andorra Lawrence Bonk · 30m ago · 1 min read Get those VPNs ready. Read full story

17:16 <Byte> Engadget | Google will let you distribute vibe-coded Android apps with just a Google account Ian Carlos Campbell · 16m ago · 3 min read The company is revamping the Play Store for the AI era with changes to publishing, recommendations and more. Read full story

17:20 <Murphy> Gallup.com | Trust in Federal Government Sinks to New Depths Jeffrey M. Jones · 17h ago · 7 min read Americans' levels of trust in the government to handle domestic and international problems are at record lows, as is their trust in each of its three branches. Read full story

17:20 <Murphy> Hacker News | Redesigning source control at Anthropic 17h ago · 18 min read As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in five months. Read full story

17:20 <Murphy> Y Combinator | Backend Engineer (AI-Native) — Risk Infrastructure & Integrations at Coris 19m ago · 6 min read 🧠 About Coris Coris is the AI platform for risk and financial operations. Platforms, marketplaces, payment providers, and banks - GoFundMe, Clio, Cherry, and a growing list - use Coris to onboard merchants faster, monitor them continuously, and act on fraud without adding headcount. One customer described us as "Cursor + Lovable for risk teams." We're bac... Read full story

17:20 <Murphy> UA.NEWS | Cyberattack halts Denmark-Germany tunnel construction — RMF24 UA.NEWS · 56m ago · 1 min read A cyberattack halted construction of the Fehmarn Belt road-and-rail tunnel between Denmark and Germany, affecting the FLC consortium’s equipment and workers’ access. Read full story

17:21 <Byte> ZDNET | Google lets you make personal Android apps for free now - with just prompts Artie Beaty · 21m ago · 4 min read It just got a whole lot easier to vibe code the exact Android app you need - no developer experience required. Read full story

17:47 <Byte> Engadget | GTA 6 is reportedly coming to PC in early 2027 Kris Holt · 20m ago · 1 min read That would be a much smaller port time than GTA 5. Read full story

17:49 <Murphy> Specr Lab | How random are you? Shaun Pedicini · 51m ago Say numbers out loud as randomly as you can. Before each one, a predictor in your browser seals its guess, and a split-flap board shows how far ahead of chance it gets. Read full story

17:49 <Murphy> Hacker News | Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics- Google Developers Blog Kanishka Rao · 17h ago · 18 min read Gemini 4 Argon is a general-purpose physical reasoning model designed to enhance workflows across the robotics stack with advanced capabilities in physical understanding, code generation, and visual-semantic reasoning. Developers can access and integrate Argon across Google's developer platforms—including Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, and Google Antig... Read full story

17:52 <Byte> ZDNET | Linus Torvalds is using AI to develop Linux kernel code now Steven Vaughan-Nichols · 21m ago · 6 min read The move is a turning point in the developer's relationship with AI and Linux. Read full story

18:17 <Byte> Ars Technica | They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went even worse than you think. WIRED · 2h ago · 11 min read Solar geoengineering simulation shows what happens when geopolitics takes over. Read full story

18:17 <Byte> Ars Technica | Apple’s first smart display is the 7-inch HomeView for $299 Scharon Harding · 2h ago · 3 min read It can recognize up to six users with its camera. Read full story

18:17 <Byte> Engadget | Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses review: No camera, no problem Karissa Bell · 17m ago · 7 min read Normal-looking glasses with solid audio and way better battery life is a win for everyone. Read full story

18:17 <Byte> Ars Technica | Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay Ryan Whitwam · 2h ago · 3 min read Developers will get 50 percent discounted API rates through November. Read full story

18:17 <Byte> Engadget | How the iPhone Duo's camera is different from the iPhone 18 Pro's Will Shanklin · 17m ago · 5 min read Going beyond the number of cameras and megapixels. Read full story

18:17 <Byte> Ars Technica | Google wants to host your personal vibe-coded apps in the Play Store Ryan Whitwam · 1h ago · 3 min read Google plans to help turn those personal AI-generated apps into wide releases. Read full story

18:17 <Byte> Engadget | Don't like your Facebook feed? Meta wants to know what you want to see instead Karissa Bell · 10m ago · 1 min read Within reason, of course. Read full story

18:17 <Byte> Ars Technica | The Paris Auto Show is full of interesting cars Americans can’t have Jonathan M. Gitlin · 44m ago · 7 min read Small EVs and efficient people carriers update familiar names for the modern age. Read full story

18:17 <Byte> Engadget | Ryan Coogler's X-Files reboot gets a full series order from Hulu Lawrence Bonk · 7m ago · 1 min read It stars two new FBI agents that aren't named Mulder and Scully. Read full story

18:20 <Murphy> Scientific American | Scientists worry AI is stealing their ideas Peter Hall · 6h ago · 5 min read Researchers are using AI as a sounding board throughout their work. But concerns are growing that companies may present users’ ideas as those of their models Read full story

18:48 <Byte> Engadget | Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2 hands-on: A look at the audio updates and Siri AI Billy Steele · 29m ago · 4 min read Listening to Apple's new audio features with Siri as our binge-watching companion. Read full story

18:48 <Byte> Engadget | What is NVIDIA DLSS and how does it work? Igor Bonifacic · 18m ago · 6 min read NVIDIA's upscaling software is truly powerful when used in the right situations. Read full story

19:17 <Murphy> GitHub | maharshi365/deslop 1h ago · 3 min read Contribute to maharshi365/deslop development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

19:17 <Murphy> XBOW Labs | Zero to Calc in Six Days: Inside XBOW’s Chrome Full Chain 4h ago · 19 min read Google awarded this chain the first $250,000 Chrome full-chain reward under the VRP rules introduced in April 2026. This post is about the exploit. Read full story

19:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | XY Music 1h ago Comments Read full story

19:17 <Murphy> Michał Górny | A plea not to use uv-build 1d ago · 2 min read After seeing yet another dozen packages lose keywords on Gentoo because of a single key dependency switching to uv-build, I would like to plea on behalf of Gentoo users: please don’t use uv-b… Read full story

19:46 <Murphy> GitHub | LargeModGames/spotatui: A fast, standalone terminal music player in Rust: native Spotify streaming plus local, Subsonic, radio, Qobuz and Youtube sources 8h ago · 25 min read A fast, standalone terminal music player in Rust: native Spotify streaming plus local, Subsonic, radio, Qobuz and Youtube sources - LargeModGames/spotatui Read full story

19:46 <Murphy> Guitoro | Virtual Guitar: Play Guitar Online Free 35m ago · 17 min read The most realistic and most complete virtual guitar online. Play it with your keyboard or by touch, slow songs down and see which strings each strum hits. Read full story

19:46 <Murphy> BleepingComputer | Ledger confirms hardware wallet spy implant behind crypto thefts Bill Toulas · 1d ago · 4 min read Ledger has confirmed that some of its devices distributed through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis were compromised with a hardware implant that drained users' cryptocurrency wallets. Read full story

19:47 <Byte> WIRED | OpenAI and Anthropic Tell British Lawmakers: Regulate Us Ben Gartside · 12m ago · 4 min read AI leaders joined whistleblowers and security leaders at a sweeping parliamentary session, while a few hundred meters away Britain’s spy chief warned AI could be used to create new bioweapons. Read full story

20:18 <Murphy> Hacker News | Getting Started | Hypermass Docs 7h ago · 3 min read The Hypermass CLI delivers live data from streams to a folder on your machine, in real time as Read full story

20:18 <Murphy> Hacker News | The 1st Time Machines Mogged Mathematicians Louis Anslow · 1d ago · 6 min read In 1976 a computer upended the concept of a mathematical proofs, causing fierce debate among mathematicians. Remind you of anything? Read full story

20:18 <Murphy> BBC | The man hiking the world in search of rare cheeses Madison Chapman · 1d ago · 7 min read Trevor Warmedahl has spent years documenting rare and traditional cheesemaking methods, and believes that "cheese is an edible manifestation of a place". Read full story

20:48 <Murphy> X (formerly Twitter) | OpenAI Newsroom (@OpenAINewsroom) on X 59m ago · 1 min read We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agen… Read full story

21:17 <Murphy> Parsimony | which AI coding agent changes the least code? 1h ago · 2 min read An open-source benchmark of how much code AI models add. Read full story

21:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | PostEra - Machine Learning Researcher - Agentic Science 15m ago · 4 min read Role Overview In this role, you will develop the agentic research vertical at PostEra, using agentic systems to automate the development of mechanistic models for biochemical and physiological processes, and analyse biological data for target validation. You will interact closely with chemists and biologists to use these models to drive drug discovery dec... Read full story

21:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | IDRs as records of intent Will Lachance · 1d ago · 3 min read In Writing the Docs: 2026 Edition , I talked a little bit about IDRs (Implementation Decision Records, a pun on Read full story

21:47 <Murphy> The Universe of Discourse : Maybe a better wa... | Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo 14h ago · 11 min read From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus Read full story

21:47 <Murphy> The San Francisco Standard | OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room 1h ago · 4 min read Federal prosecutors say an employee from Saudi Arabia planted an audio recorder and left another unattended in his bag. Read full story

21:49 <Byte> Engadget | OpenAI says it found a 'sophisticated recording device' hidden in its offices Igor Bonifacic · 15m ago · 2 min read The company asked its AI models to figure out what the device was. Read full story

22:15 <Byte> Ars Technica | Skydance’s Discovery+ prices increase by up to 20 percent Scharon Harding · 4h ago · 2 min read The higher prices are said to be unrelated to the Skydance merger. Read full story

22:15 <Byte> Ars Technica | Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech Ashley Belanger · 3h ago · 5 min read Disney may acquire tech from one of the first chatbot makers linked to child suicide. Read full story

22:15 <Byte> Ars Technica | Trump commercial railing against his enemies kept airing after court blocked it Jon Brodkin · 2h ago · 6 min read US attorney apologized to court, said government has stopped running Trump ads. Read full story

22:15 <Byte> Ars Technica | Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware Scharon Harding · 42m ago · 5 min read Topgolf and VMware "ran deep" before the migration. Read full story

22:15 <Byte> Ars Technica | ESA targets Anbernic emulation handhelds as "superfake" piracy enablers Kyle Orland · 19m ago · 3 min read But third-party sellers, not Anbernic, are the ones routinely selling ROM-filled SD cards. Read full story

22:19 <Byte> Engadget | 5 clever ways Gemini can automate everyday tasks Filipe Espósito · 19m ago · 4 min read Google's Gemini and Spark can monitor your calendar and inbox, schedule digests of industry news, keep you informed about topics that interest you and more. Read full story

22:20 <Byte> WIRED | Everyone Hates ‘Digger.’ It’s the Perfect Climate Movie Molly Taft · 11m ago · 5 min read The deeply uncomfortable film forces audiences to confront what types of stories we tell ourselves about who has economic and political power. Read full story

22:47 <Murphy> NEXUS-Q | Post-quantum cryptographic security engine lecodev-26 · 53m ago · 9 min read Open source Rust engine for protecting data, keys and identities. ML-KEM-768 + X25519, ML-DSA-65, vaults, audit log, SDKs. No independent audit implied. Read full story

22:48 <Murphy> Hacker News | Frontier Models for Every Robot: Announcing our API beta 22h ago · 4 min read Our latest robotics models are now available through the Pi API beta. Upload data, fine-tune models, and deploy cloud-hosted inference on your own robots. Read full story

22:48 <Murphy> Hacker News | AlphaNIST 50m ago · 3 min read Learning dexterity and coordination for robotic assembly in simulation, with binary task rewards and no prescribed manipulation stages. Read full story

22:50 <Byte> Engadget | Are Chromebooks still worth buying after the Googlebooks release? Filipe Espósito · 20m ago · 3 min read A Googlebook will be more powerful and capable than a Chromebook, but the cheaper, web-based ChromeOS still has its own value. Read full story

23:20 <Byte> Engadget | Apple TV 4K 2022 vs. 2026: What's new and is it worth the $100 jump? Luke James · 20m ago · 4 min read The 2026 model is faster and can hear you from afar, but the 2022 box gets Siri AI as well. Read full story

23:20 <Byte> Engadget | How to improve your online privacy and security in Google Chrome Jack Peachey · 20m ago · 3 min read Google is constantly collecting data through its ultra-popular browser, Chrome. It also allows you to opt out of certain data-collection points. Read full story

23:46 <Murphy> Hacker News | Christopher Phiri 1h ago · 4 min read Learn more about Christopher Phiri work experience, education, connections & more. Software developer, UX/UI, Illustrator Read full story

23:46 <Murphy> Pulse Local | budgeting that never leaves your machine 32m ago · 7 min read Other apps keep your data local and still send your question to someone else’s model. We run the models on your machine too. Read full story

23:47 <Byte> WIRED | An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office Paresh Dave,Maddy Varner,Caroline Haskins · 29m ago · 3 min read Chatbot prompts reveal the engineer’s alleged efforts to set up a covert listening device days before one was found in a meeting room used by high-level executives. Read full story

23:51 <Byte> Engadget | Is Mini DisplayPort becoming obsolete? Filipe Espósito · 21m ago · 3 min read You might see Mini DisplayPort on older hardware, but in most cases, newer ports like USB-C can do the same job in a more convenient package. Read full story

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