00:04 <Byte> Ars Technica | “Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones Kyle Orland · 2h ago · 3 min read Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished. Read full story

00:12 <Murphy> Hacker News | In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick 6h ago Comments Read full story

00:12 <Murphy> Hacker News | How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't 2d ago Comments Read full story

00:12 <Murphy> 404 Media | ‘Jonathan’ Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth. He Could Hold the Secrets to Defying Death Becky Ferreira · 6h ago · 3 min read Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise, was born before the Civil War. Scientists have now sequenced his genome to reveal what’s behind his extreme longevity, so we can live longer too. Read full story

00:41 <Murphy> A journey into a wild pointer | A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU 9d ago · 10 min read Update (28th of September 2026) Max Desiatov told me that the @c swift attribute should work, instead of declaring the functions using @_cdecl. The @c attribute marks a global function as a C function implemented in Swift, which formalizes the @_cdecl attribute. A link to the proposal is available here. I did update the blog post and the code accordingly ... Read full story

01:11 <Murphy> GitHub | pingdotgg/ts-rust: An experimental Rust port of the TypeScript 7 compiler (tsc) 25m ago · 8 min read An experimental Rust port of the TypeScript 7 compiler (tsc) - pingdotgg/ts-rust Read full story

01:42 <Murphy> Hacker News | Cleo (mathematician) - Wikipedia 1d ago · 8 min read Comments Read full story

02:35 <Byte> Ars Technica | Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes Nick Indge · 2h ago · 5 min read Get ready for more AI in your Windows and more AI on the desktop. Read full story

02:42 <Murphy> Hacker News | 100R — home 2d ago · 16 min read Comments Read full story

05:15 <Murphy> GitHub | zerobrewhq/zerobrew: An up to 100x* faster Homebrew alternative 1h ago · 8 min read An up to 100x* faster Homebrew alternative. Contribute to zerobrewhq/zerobrew development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

05:46 <Murphy> Hacker News | Self-Modeling Interventions Modulate Emergent Misalignment 2d ago · 22 min read Comments Read full story

05:46 <Murphy> Shahid Hussain | The Search for Salvage Shahid Hussain · 9d ago · 12 min read 15 years ago, a band called Salvage dropped an epic song, and then vanished without a trace. Until now. Read full story

05:46 <Murphy> Mathstodon | Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz) Terence Tao · 1d ago · 1 min read "Math 1.0" placed a premium on being the first to solve an open problem, even if the solution was not initially well understood. Now that this goal has been optimized to the point of unsustainability, "Math 2.0" will need to decenter the role of raw problem solving and value mathematical progress more holistically - for instance by elevating the role of e... Read full story

06:48 <Murphy> Hacker News | THAT device workbench simulator 2d ago · 1 min read Comments Read full story

07:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | The people holding up the internet 36m ago · 13 min read Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest. Read full story

07:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it 39m ago Comments Read full story

07:47 <Murphy> The GitHub Blog | New repository settings for configuring pull request access - GitHub Changelog Allison · 13 Feb 2026 · 2 min read Maintainers now have more control over how repositories accept contributions. Two new settings let you manage pull requests to better match your project’s needs. Disable pull requests entirely You can… Read full story

07:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | dat-ecosystem - explore p2p projects 1h ago dat-ecosystem is a post-web p2p community of projects - Most projects are self funded. Some of the projects contribute maintainance and development to core pieces of the Dat ecosystem while others create high level applications built on top of p2p protocols. Read full story

08:16 <Murphy> Hacker News | demoscene-recomp 1h ago · 1 min read Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser. Read full story

08:46 <Murphy> London Review of Books | Edmund Gordon · Bloody Cavemen: Golding’s Island Edmund Gordon · 8h ago · 17 min read William Golding didn’t push back on any of the suggested revisions: you get the impression that he would have done... Read full story

08:46 <Murphy> X (formerly Twitter) | Dan Roberts (@danintheory) on X 3h ago · 1 min read We've updated our GitHub math repo with 6 new Lean formalizations, 19 modifications, and 3 withdrawals. The repo now has ~42% top-line results formalized. We will continue to update the repo with new formalizations and with any errata we notice. https://t\.co/HI6otY2NTO Read full story

08:59 <Byte> Engadget | GPT-6 is coming to all tiers of ChatGPT Mariella Moon · 13m ago · 1 min read OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 to ChatGPT, and it will come with the capability to build more visual responses. Read full story

08:59 <Byte> Engadget | The new BMW iX4 is the X4 reborn as an EV Steve Dent · 13m ago · 2 min read BMW has brought the X4 design to its third Neue Klasse EV with an electric version called the iX4. Read full story

09:05 <Byte> WIRED | I’ve Been Testing Budget Phones for a Decade. These Are the Best Cheap Phones Right Now Julian Chokkattu,Simon Hill · 26 Feb 2018 · 22 min read There’s little reason to pay top dollar for a smartphone. These iPhones and Android devices—ranging from $100 to $800—stood up to WIRED’s testing. Read full story

09:05 <Byte> WIRED | The Man Behind a West Bank Telegram Channel Trying to Keep Palestinian Drivers Safe Lama Rabah · 5m ago · 7 min read With no accurate Big Tech mapping app to help him, Anas Hattab launched a Telegram group to get himself home at night. Now nearly 350,000 Palestinians rely on it to navigate the occupied West Bank. Read full story

09:33 <Byte> WIRED | A Scientist Working on the ‘IceCube’ Neutrino Detector Explains the Nobel Prize–Winning Technology Javier Carbajal · 18m ago · 4 min read “Detecting a neutrino is like looking for a needle in a haystack,” says Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, who breaks down why researchers are looking for the cosmic particles under the Antarctic ice. Read full story

09:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | As We Become Cameras (2016) 14h ago Comments Read full story

10:03 <Byte> WIRED | Tristan Harris’ Tech Nonprofit Is Laying Off Most Staff and Going ‘Founder-Led’ Paresh Dave · 33m ago · 6 min read The Center for Humane Technology helped spark a movement against excessive screen time, but internal tensions over its direction and strategy have simmered for years, sources tell WIRED. Read full story

10:33 <Byte> WIRED | WIRED’s Midterms Races to Watch David Gilbert,Vittoria Elliott,Hugo Lowell,Leah Feiger · 33m ago · 12 min read From data centers to Elon Musk funding to the AI lobby, the 2026 midterms are the most WIRED elections yet. These are the candidates we're following closely. Read full story

10:33 <Byte> WIRED | We’re Picky About Water Bottles. You Should Be Too Boutayna Chokrane ,Alexis Berger · 28m ago · 16 min read We dropped them, tossed them in bags, and cleaned their fiddly lids. Here are the ones we recommend. Read full story

11:01 <Byte> Engadget | Teenage Engineering will stop making synths to focus on... whatever it feels like Steve Dent · 11m ago · 1 min read Teenage Engineering, the company famous for its synths, is going to stop making... synths. Read full story

11:02 <Byte> WIRED | Life Is Asymmetric. The Scientists Who Figured Out Why Won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Fernanda González · 32m ago · 4 min read Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai designed chemical reactions producing only one of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule—an important finding for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biological substances. Read full story

11:17 <Murphy> ArtCraft | Controllable AI for Artists 22m ago · 2 min read ArtCraft is the open-source desktop app for generating AI video and images — built for artists who want real control. Read full story

11:33 <Byte> WIRED | How Massive Is Elon Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Fortune? Spend It Yourself Brian Barrett · 33m ago · 8 min read WIRED has partnered with Neal Agarwal of Neal.fun to create a visualization of Elon Musk’s massive wealth. Here’s how it came together. Read full story

11:33 <Byte> WIRED | Spend Elon Musk’s Money Neal Agarwal · 33m ago What’s it like to be the richest man in the world? Find out for yourself. Read full story

11:48 <Murphy> GitHub | math/history.md at main · openai/math 3h ago · 1 min read Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

11:48 <Murphy> Humane Ingenuity | The Slow Formation of Durable Software Dan Cohen · 1d ago · 18 min read How a group of historians took years to imagine Zotero, the research application that would eventually be used by millions Read full story

12:01 <Byte> Ars Technica | A senator tried to ban gambling on prediction markets—now she's a Kalshi lobbyist Jon Brodkin · 1h ago · 38 min read Sen. Blanche Lincoln wrote law that let US ban sports-event contracts. She lobbies for the other side now. Read full story

12:01 <Byte> Ars Technica | Nvidia's big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots Jeremy Hsu · 45m ago · 5 min read Full-stack safety solution for physical AI is being used by robotics companies. Read full story

12:17 <Murphy> virev blog | Will AI kill us all? What experts said from 2012 to 2026 Virev research · 12h ago · 44 min read Probably not, but nobody can rule it out. In the newest survey of 1,580 AI researchers, the median chance of AI causing human extinction or a similar permanent loss of power was 10%. Surveys, forecasts, p(doom) numbers, what Anthropic and OpenAI did, and how views changed since 2012. Read full story

12:17 <Murphy> the Guardian | Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026 Emma Loffhagen · 33m ago · 2 min read World’s most prestigious prize for literature goes to Canadian poet known for genre-crossing works including Autobiography of Red Read full story

12:26 <Byte> ZDNET | Yelp, who? 4 ways Google Maps can help you find your next meal - and order it Jada Jones · 26m ago · 4 min read There’s more to Google Maps’ dining tools than reviews and directions - and a few are worth a look before your next night out. Read full story

12:26 <Byte> ZDNET | Microsoft's new Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a starting price (you should sit down) Kyle Kucharski · 13m ago · 4 min read The Surface Laptop Ultra is an AI powerhouse, with Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip and up to 128GB of unified memory - and it's priced for power users. Read full story

12:46 <Murphy> AHM | Statements 3h ago · 1 min read Comments Read full story

12:46 <Murphy> Hacker News | Time travel in Braid 3d ago · 25 min read I bought Braid on the promise of lavish visuals and neat puzzles with temporal mechanics, and on this basis I was rewarded. I found some frustration with the controls, which I eventually traced to dodgy keyboard drivers - the game wouldn't register the up or down arrows while I ... Read full story

12:46 <Murphy> Hacker News | Telnet BBS Guide 18m ago Comments Read full story

12:47 <Murphy> Quesma | I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities - Quesma Blog Piotr Migdał · 1d ago · 4 min read Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra one-shot Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino in Three.js: AI design, UX, data visualization and explorable explanations. Read full story

13:26 <Byte> Engadget | Amazon is releasing kids' versions of its new Alexa Tablets Ian Carlos Campbell · 26m ago · 1 min read The new Amazon Kids Tablets come in two sizes and can be bundled with one of two styles of case. Read full story

13:26 <Byte> Engadget | Amazon's new Alexa tablets include a 12-inch model with anti-glare screen Mariella Moon · 26m ago · 3 min read Amazon has launched three new tablets that come with Alexa+. Read full story

13:26 <Byte> Engadget | Amazon's new Alexa tablets will have full access to Google Play Mariella Moon · 26m ago · 1 min read You’ll be able to access Google Play and its apps on the new Amazon Alexa tablets. Read full story

13:26 <Byte> Engadget | Amazon's Panos Panay teases more Alexa-branded devices and a new design language Cherlynn Low · 26m ago · 4 min read More will be revealed later this month. Read full story

13:26 <Byte> Engadget | Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro hands-on: Taking aim at the iPad Pro for less than half the price Cherlynn Low · 26m ago · 9 min read It's a promising tablet that starts at about $500. Read full story

13:26 <Byte> Engadget | Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro vs Amazon Fire HD 10: What's changed, and is the upgrade worth it? Max Miller · 26m ago · 4 min read Amazon's best tablet ever didn't have to work hard for the title, but a new nanomatte screen and Kindle mode sweeten the deal. Read full story

13:34 <Byte> WIRED | The New Alexa Tablets Feel Like a Blueprint for an Amazon Phone Julian Chokkattu · 34m ago · 4 min read Amazon is rumored to be making a smartphone, and the Alexa-powered experiences on its new tablets give us a taste of what might come if that happens. Read full story

13:34 <Byte> WIRED | Amazon Snuffs Out the Fire and Rebrands Its Slates as Alexa Tablets Julian Chokkattu · 34m ago · 6 min read The three new aluminum Alexa Tablets now run Android with full access to the Google Play Store. There are versions for kids too. Read full story

13:46 <Murphy> Hacker News | Float and integer arithmetic follow two different paradigms 2d ago · 5 min read Comments Read full story

14:16 <Murphy> Vale.Rocks | Beauty in DVD Menus Declan Chidlow · 2d ago · 10 min read The best part of digital video disc isn't the video. Read full story

14:27 <Byte> Engadget | The new Stylophone Mini packs in iconic sounds and comes in three nifty colors Lawrence Bonk · 27m ago · 1 min read It's little because it's small, and it's small because it's little. Read full story

14:31 <Byte> Ars Technica | ExxonMobil's own scientists doubted climate fixes the company hyped Inside Climate News · 26m ago · 11 min read Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations. Read full story

14:46 <Murphy> Hacker News | Why the AI future will be awesome 30m ago Comments Read full story

14:46 <Murphy> the Guardian | ‘The eels were climbing out of the water to die’: why did every fish in this idyllic lake perish overnight? 14d ago · 28 min read Furnace Brook in East Sussex was home to carp, tench, bream, roach and trout – and 15 trailer-loads had to be buried. The mystery led to a neighbouring farm, and a story of waste, pollution and dirty rivers that reveals a lot about Britain today Read full story

14:58 <Byte> Engadget | Xbox's new division will focus on TV and movie adaptations of its biggest franchises Matt Tate · 24m ago · 2 min read No really, how are you going to adapt Candy Crush. Read full story

15:18 <Murphy> Hacker News | 2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking 1h ago Rank the Interop 2027 features you care most about Read full story

15:18 <Murphy> Hacker News | Home — Tanzania Education Project 38m ago · 1 min read Comments Read full story

15:25 <Byte> ZDNET | Can AI fix legacy IT? The 'economics don't hold up,' says former IBM strategist Joe McKendrick · 49m ago · 5 min read Vendors are pitching AI as a cure-all for legacy IT systems, but is it? Read full story

15:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | US suspends Microsoft, major IT firms from key green card program 22m ago Comments Read full story

15:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft 32m ago Comments Read full story

15:59 <Byte> Engadget | Careful out there: latest GTA 6 leak has major story spoilers Lawrence Bonk · 27m ago · 1 min read If you can't help yourself, maybe don't watch it at work... Read full story

16:16 <Murphy> orkut.com | You deserve better from social media. 2h ago You deserve better from social media. You deserve a more human internet. Help Orkut to bring back what really matters: people, communities, and genuine connection. Read full story

16:16 <Murphy> GitHub | SamsungLabs/LittleBit: Official implementation of LittleBit (NeurIPS 2025) and its follow-up LittleBit-2 (ICML 2026) 2h ago · 3 min read Official implementation of LittleBit (NeurIPS 2025) and its follow-up LittleBit-2 (ICML 2026) - SamsungLabs/LittleBit Read full story

16:16 <Murphy> Smithsonian Magazine | Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age, From Rope to Thread and Twine REPRINT AUTHOR PLACEHOLDER · 16d ago · 9 min read Largely missing from the archaeological record, fiber innovations played a huge role in the lives of early humans. Researchers are weaving together new insights from the traces they left behind Read full story

16:16 <Murphy> Hacker News | Application Details 24m ago · 1 min read New gTLD Program: 2026 Round public application information, including application status. Read full story

16:28 <Byte> Engadget | Apple is set to show off new smart home devices at an October 13 event Kris Holt · 11m ago · 1 min read The event is set for 9AM ET. Read full story

16:47 <Murphy> Mexico Solidarity Media | CIA Conspired with the Right on the Eve of Mexico's '68 Massacre Jim Cason, David Brooks · 6d ago · 4 min read Declassified records show the agency bankrolled a far-right student shock group for decades and trained future spy chief Nazar Haro, while key 1968 files stay censored. Read full story

16:47 <Murphy> Priceonomics | The Outing of Tinky Winky Priceonomics · 06 Oct 2014 · 16 min read The purple Teletubbies star just wanted to frolic with his magical bag. Instead, he stirred a decade-long controversy that nearly destroyed the children's program. Read full story

16:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | Step 5 Preview - API Pricing & Providers 27m ago · 4 min read Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters). $1 per million input tokens, $2.70 per million output tokens. 1,000,000 token context window, maximum output of 64,000 tokens. Read full story

16:47 <Murphy> Solar Power World | 4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe Kelly Pickerel · 3h ago · 6 min read Wood Mackenzie’s latest global report on levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) shows that advancing technologies and market dynamics continue to drive Read full story

16:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years 2h ago · 22 min read Comments Read full story

17:09 <Murphy> The GitHub Blog | How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate Shilpa Kumari · 6m ago · 5 min read As we kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @vaib25vicky, exploring their methodology and techniques. Read full story

17:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB Jakub Mroz · 6d ago · 6 min read An open speech recognition model that runs on the same CPU engine as Needle. It transcribes seven languages, reaches the first token in 11 ms, and loads beside Needle so one binary turns a clip straight into tool calls. Read full story

17:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program 2h ago Comments Read full story

17:28 <Byte> Engadget | American Airlines is bringing Starlink Wi-Fi to its entire mainline fleet in 2027 Matt Tate · 31m ago · 1 min read It’s more than double the number of aircraft the company quoted earlier this year. Read full story

17:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled 1h ago Comments Read full story

17:47 <Murphy> Pentlander Blog | The Deeply Impersonal Personalized Recruiter Mail 31m ago · 2 min read Lately I’ve encountered a new species of software engineer recruiter mail. It goes something like this: Your work on infrastructure at Railway, along with y... Read full story

17:54 <Byte> ZDNET | Regulators are trying to protect you from being fired by AI - here's how Radhika Rajkumar · 48m ago · 4 min read Regulating AI at work is happening slowly, but it's still stuck at the state level. Read full story

17:58 <Byte> Engadget | Everything Amazon has announced so far in October 2026 Kris Holt · 28m ago · 7 min read Every week, the company has been introducing new devices and products. So here's a nifty roundup. Read full story

17:58 <Byte> Engadget | Razer’s Basilisk V4 Pro gaming mouse features a new tilt wheel and up to 275 hours of battery life Lawrence Bonk · 18m ago · 1 min read The company also released the V4 Hyperspeed and a charging dock. Read full story

18:01 <Byte> Ars Technica | Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch space internet service by end of year Eric Berger · 2h ago · 14 min read If this was easy, everybody else would be doing it." Read full story

18:01 <Byte> Ars Technica | Amazon's new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever Ryan Whitwam · 1h ago · 3 min read Amazon killed its app store, so Google Play it is. Read full story

18:26 <Byte> Engadget | US suspends permanent residency program for Microsoft, Adobe and other tech companies Anna Washenko · 3m ago · 2 min read Seven companies have been accused of fraud regarding the H-1B worker visas. Read full story

18:48 <Murphy> GitHub | edgedelta/project-arena: A vendor-neutral Kubernetes incident benchmark for testing AI investigation tools across detection, diagnosis, and mitigation. Deploy faults, capture in... 1h ago · 11 min read A vendor-neutral Kubernetes incident benchmark for testing AI investigation tools across detection, diagnosis, and mitigation. Deploy faults, capture investigations, and compare results with a conf... Read full story

18:48 <Murphy> GitHub | p10node/k10s: Kubernetes TUI you can click. Instant search, logs/exec/port-forward, 7 themes, context-aware AI. Single Go binary. 19m ago · 12 min read Kubernetes TUI you can click. Instant search, logs/exec/port-forward, 7 themes, context-aware AI. Single Go binary. - p10node/k10s Read full story

18:58 <Byte> Engadget | The Atari 800XL hybrid gaming console is back after decades in obscurity Lawrence Bonk · 6m ago · 1 min read This updated version connects via HDMI and comes with 25 built-in games. Read full story

19:18 <Murphy> Hacker News | Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties in France * TorrentFreak Ernesto Van der Sar · 2h ago · 4 min read Cloudflare doesn't block pirate sports streaming sites through its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver in France, only through its CDN. The Paris Judicial Court has now accepted that stance, rejecting Canal+'s request for penalties of €50,000 per site, per day. Interestingly, the court's conclusion relies on statistics provided by Canal+ itself. Read full story

19:18 <Murphy> Hacker News | ServerlessHorrors | $10,811.41 1h ago · 1 min read Stories you never want to feel on your own skin Read full story

19:18 <Murphy> Artvinto | Artvinto Home | Vintage Posters and Wall Art Artvinto · 1h ago · 4 min read Discover vintage art poster reproductions, historic prints, and classic wall decor carefully restored for modern spaces. Read full story

19:18 <Murphy> Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet. | What ArtCraft’s Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe 34m ago · 6 min read A new AI-first project rebuilds Adobe's Creative Cloud apps. Is it ethical? And what does it say about Adobe’s relationship with its users? Read full story

19:26 <Byte> ZDNET | Got a Microsoft 365 subscription? Your storage is about to shrink Ed Bott · 29m ago · 5 min read Today, shared Microsoft 365 plans include 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage for every family member. Microsoft is about to shrink that allotment dramatically. Read full story

19:28 <Byte> Engadget | Google is doing away with Safety Signal on Pixel Watch Anna Washenko · 12m ago · 1 min read Access to the emergency feature for LTE-connected wearables will end by December. Read full story

19:37 <Byte> WIRED | Trump Administration Cuts Off Access to a Major Immigration Program for Workers at Microsoft and Adobe Kate Taylor · 25m ago · 3 min read “There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft,” Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday. Read full story

19:37 <Byte> WIRED | She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate Zoë Schiffer · 7m ago · 9 min read Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people. But she didn’t anticipate just how angry they would get. Read full story

20:11 <Byte> Engadget | Forza Horizon 6 is coming to PS5 on January 26 Kris Holt · 2m ago · 1 min read The racing game's first expansion will also be available early next year. Read full story

20:11 <Murphy> GitHub | ymcrcat/rgpu: Keep Python on your laptop. Run PyTorch operations and hold tensors on a remote GPU, including from a Mac with no CUDA installation. 1d ago · 3 min read Keep Python on your laptop. Run PyTorch operations and hold tensors on a remote GPU, including from a Mac with no CUDA installation. - ymcrcat/rgpu Read full story

20:11 <Murphy> GitHub | anupray95/AI-Agent-on-a-NOKIA: Reverse-engineered an old Nokia's firmware and added a custom AI Agent. Native functions like calls, alarms, or alarms can now be easily handled j... 5h ago · 2 min read Reverse-engineered an old Nokia's firmware and added a custom AI Agent. Native functions like calls, alarms, or alarms can now be easily handled just by chatting. - anupray95/AI-Agent-on-a-NOKIA Read full story

20:11 <Murphy> Tom's Hardware | New Linux tech compresses memory in RAM, as RAM, for 452x speedup — new CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads 1d ago · 5 min read The new method allows access using standard memory semantics instead of as a block device, drastically improving performance. Read full story

20:11 <Murphy> Hacker News | joe-gibbs/terrainsr · Hugging Face 1d ago · 3 min read We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. Read full story

20:12 <Murphy> News | Vanillin provides a sweet solution for chronic wound healing News Desk · 2d ago · 5 min read Simple food components may provide the key to new cost-effective materials that will benefit chronic wound healing. A team from Flinders University’s Biomedical Nanoengineering Laboratory has […] Read full story

20:12 <Murphy> Cointelegraph | Ethereum Researchers Warn AI Could Crack Crypto Before Q-Day 20h ago · 3 min read Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has backed a warning from Ethereum researcher Justin Drake that advances in artificial intelligence could threaten the cryptographic algorithms used to secure crypto wallets. Read full story

20:12 <Murphy> The Conversation | The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton Ildar Farkhatdinov · 1d ago · 5 min read Powered robotic devices designed to enhance the wearer’s physical capabilities are being developed for an increasing range of uses. Read full story

20:12 <Murphy> Hacker News | eth68 1d ago · 10 min read Comments Read full story

20:12 <Murphy> Dexerto | Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days 1d ago · 1 min read The man said they discovered that their parents’ coffee maker had generated far more traffic than they expected. Read full story

20:12 <Murphy> GitHub | duckdb/ducklake: DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format 1d ago · 3 min read DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format - duckdb/ducklake Read full story

20:13 <Murphy> Nature | A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone Peng, Xiaotong · 10 Jun 2026 · 44 min read Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insight into deep-ocean biodiversity and whale evolutionary history. Read full story

20:13 <Murphy> TechSpot | The OLED Burn-In Test: 30-Month Update Tim Schiesser · 10h ago · 14 min read After 30 months and 8,000 hours of deliberate abuse, our 4K QD-OLED monitor has measurable burn-in, lower peak brightness, and visible wear. Here's how bad it looks... Read full story

20:13 <Murphy> Hacker News | I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard. Anton Frolov · 2d ago · 11 min read A flickering fireplace, a softly lit garden, and a smart home the whole family finally enjoys. Read full story

20:13 <Murphy> CNBC | Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave and other AI stocks sink on OpenAI revenue report 1h ago · 3 min read OpenAI has told investors that it hit roughly $50 billion in annualized revenue at the end of September, CNBC confirmed. Read full story

20:13 <Murphy> Mitchell Hashimoto | A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501) 2d ago · 6 min read Comments Read full story

20:13 <Murphy> The Quietus | US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams Christian Eede · 1d ago · 1 min read A North Carolina man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for collecting millions in royalties from bot-farming streams of AI-generated songs. The US Justice Department announced the sentencing of 54-year-old Michael Smith (pictured above) in a press release yesterday (6 October). He was sentenced for one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud […] Read full story

20:13 <Murphy> David Revoy | License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, and comics. David REVOY · 20h ago · 4 min read Comments Read full story

20:13 <Murphy> Hacker News | Making a flexible “neon” t-shirt with LED filaments 12h ago · 7 min read Earlier this year I had the perfect excuse to experiment with some flexible LED filaments that had been sitting in my “interesting parts” bi... Read full story

20:13 <Murphy> Theranos World | Theranos World 2h ago · 1 min read An interactive simulation of Elizabeth Holmes' desk. Open her MacBook, scroll her iPhone, run the Edison machine. Every text and email is real, from the court trial, parsed by Extend. Read full story

20:13 <Murphy> Hacker News | Ken Arneson : The Value of Not Getting to the Point 1h ago · 5 min read Comments Read full story

20:14 <Murphy> Hacker News | Why Isn't The Industry Freaking Out About DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? 1d ago · 3 min read thoughts, talks, docs and unpopular opinions Read full story

20:41 <Byte> Ars Technica | An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light Chris Lee · 1h ago · 6 min read Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light. Read full story

20:41 <Byte> Ars Technica | RFK Jr. unveils sweeping federal initiative to find evidence of vaccine injuries Beth Mole · 1h ago · 3 min read [T]he Trump-RFK Jr anti-vax agenda keeps getting more corrupt and dangerous." Read full story

20:41 <Byte> Ars Technica | Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches Ars Staff · 58m ago · 3 min read Mass surveillance gets stupider. Read full story

20:41 <Byte> Ars Technica | Let's Encrypt cuts certificate lifetimes to 64 days starting February 2027 Nick Indge · 44m ago · 4 min read Free SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes reduce to 64 days in February. Read full story

20:41 <Byte> Ars Technica | R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing Jennifer Ouellette · 25m ago · 7 min read Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering" and founded two successful software companies. Read full story

20:41 <Byte> Engadget | Cyberpunk 2077 is the latest video game to get the movie treatment Anna Washenko · 11m ago · 1 min read Paramount Pictures will develop the film and CD Projekt Red will produce. Read full story

20:41 <Byte> Engadget | Child safety group calls ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk Igor Bonifacic · 5m ago · 6 min read After extensive testing, Common Sense Media found the chatbot failed in five key areas. Read full story

20:44 <Murphy> Hacker News | htmx ~ Yes, and... 10h ago · 11 min read In this essay, Carson Gross discusses his advice to young people interested in computer science worried about the future given the advancements in AI. Read full story

21:15 <Murphy> GitHub | thesnarkitecht/rembrandt: A free photo editor. No account, no subscription, no tracking. RAW, masks and on-device AI for macOS, Windows and Linux. Self-hostable. 14m ago · 4 min read A free photo editor. No account, no subscription, no tracking. RAW, masks and on-device AI for macOS, Windows and Linux. Self-hostable. - thesnarkitecht/rembrandt Read full story

21:15 <Murphy> Biohub | Open data for predictive AI models of biology: $1.8 billion committed 1d ago · 7 min read Biohub, DOE, NIH, and partners will generate open, standardized data to train AI models that predict how cells respond to interventions. Read full story

22:08 <Byte> Engadget | Anthropic bans 'sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior' toward its AI models Will Shanklin · 51m ago · 2 min read The company is also tightening its election policy ahead of the midterms. Read full story

22:08 <Byte> Engadget | Alexa Tablet vs iPad Pro: How Amazon is keeping up with Apple Ian Carlos Campbell · 27m ago · 5 min read Amazon's latest and greatest tablet shares some key similarities to Apple's high-end iPads, but the devil is in the details. Read full story

22:08 <Byte> Engadget | IDC: Worldwide PC shipments in Q3 fell 20 percent from last year Anna Washenko · 18m ago · 1 min read "With macro conditions worsening, the risk is that the outlook for the next few quarters gets worse before it gets better." Read full story

22:09 <Byte> WIRED | Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree Zoë Schiffer,Leah Feiger · 55m ago · 24 min read This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo. Read full story

22:10 <Murphy> Frontiers | ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy Brandon Luu · 10 Dec 2025 · 18 min read Accumulating evidence indicates that circadian rhythm dysfunction is a clinically significant and highly prevalent phenotype in a substantial subgroup of ind... Read full story

22:41 <Murphy> Hacker News | Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? 1d ago · 17 min read Comments Read full story

23:08 <Byte> WIRED | ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud David Gilbert · 28m ago · 4 min read Documents obtained by Democracy Forward show that ICE looked into feeding voter roll data into the ELITE tool, normally used to identify targets for deportation. Read full story

23:37 <Byte> Engadget | Apple reportedly plans touchscreen MacBook and iPad Mini launch for this month Anna Washenko · 10m ago · 1 min read The wait to (literally) get your hands on the tech may almost be over. Read full story

23:40 <Murphy> Amendary | We have LLMs now. Why are the docs still wrong? · Amendary 5d ago · 7 min read Keeping documentation in sync with code takes more than generating text. My take on LLMs, stale docs, and what I am building with Amendary. Read full story

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