00:18 <Byte> Engadget | Mbps Vs MB/s: What do these speeds mean? Alec Hively · 33m ago · 2 min read Know the difference between bits and bytes. Read full story

00:18 <Byte> Engadget | OpenAI Dot vs. Meta Muse: How do these AI agents compare? Husain Parvez · 18m ago · 3 min read AI agents can dig into your life to be as helpful as possible. Muse and Dot can access emails, logins, calendar events and some even report phone notifications. Read full story

00:20 <Murphy> Hacker News | How shredding JSON is giving Logfire 1000x query speedups Adrian Garcia Badaracco · 29 Jan 2026 · 15 min read How dynamic shredding makes the vast majority of queries in Logfire a thousand times faster, with early adopter customers reporting more than 1000x improvement on query performance. Read full story

00:20 <Murphy> GitHub | ClickHouse/clickhouse-c: minimalist header-only library for embedded contexts 1h ago · 4 min read minimalist header-only library for embedded contexts - ClickHouse/clickhouse-c Read full story

00:20 <Murphy> Hacker News | Sign in · Rubber Duck 1h ago A little conversation. A lot of clarity. Talk an idea through and keep a note worth keeping. Read full story

00:20 <Murphy> Hacker News | Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis 40m ago Comments Read full story

00:20 <Murphy> Hacker News | Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed? 21h ago · 2 min read Comments Read full story

00:21 <Murphy> GitHub | plimsollmark/plimsoll: A sandbox service for running untrusted, agent-authored code that reports the isolation boundary each run executed behind. Lessons, no clone needed: https... 32m ago · 17 min read A sandbox service for running untrusted, agent-authored code that reports the isolation boundary each run executed behind. Lessons, no clone needed: https://plimsollmark\.github\.io/plimsoll/trainers\.\.\. Read full story

00:21 <Murphy> What's new | Illustration beyond Proof 59m ago · 11 min read [This is a guest post by Kate Stange and Edmund Harriss. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] In January a group of mathematicians, hi… Read full story

00:21 <Murphy> Hacker News | Whatever became of holography? (2011) 30m ago Comments Read full story

00:47 <Byte> Engadget | The pros and cons of importing foreign phones to the US Filipe Espósito · 17m ago · 3 min read Importing a phone from another country gives you far more options than sticking to US models, but there are trade-offs to consider. Read full story

00:47 <Byte> Ars Technica | Review: 4-hour Musk documentary feels like two different films Jennifer Ouellette · 6h ago · 5 min read Alex Gibney's provocative film is compelling but overlong, and there's not much new here for Ars readers. Read full story

00:51 <Murphy> Pensieve | local code search and MCP context for AI coding agents Ted Haley · 47m ago · 10 min read Search everything on your Mac by meaning. Give your agents the best context in one search instead of a disk-wide grep. See who owns what, and find knowledge gaps. Free and local. Read full story

01:20 <Murphy> GitHub | moral666/QT: Núcleo E2EE (X3DH + PQXDH + Double Ratchet + Sealed Sender) implementado em Rust — protótipo técnico de protocolos de mensageria segura 1h ago · 6 min read Núcleo E2EE (X3DH + PQXDH + Double Ratchet + Sealed Sender) implementado em Rust — protótipo técnico de protocolos de mensageria segura - moral666/QT Read full story

01:20 <Murphy> GitHub | hashicorp/boundary: Boundary enables identity-based access management for dynamic infrastructure. 1h ago · 2 min read Boundary enables identity-based access management for dynamic infrastructure. - hashicorp/boundary Read full story

01:20 <Murphy> Hacker News | Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos 16h ago Comments Read full story

02:20 <Murphy> GitHub | swimmingbrain/brainotes: Handwritten notes and a whiteboard in your browser. Write with a pen, keep the pdf next to your notes. No account, nothing leaves the browser. 2h ago · 3 min read Handwritten notes and a whiteboard in your browser. Write with a pen, keep the pdf next to your notes. No account, nothing leaves the browser. - swimmingbrain/brainotes Read full story

02:20 <Murphy> Live Science | Cool chemistry trick allows new tattoos to 'turn on and off' Kenna Hughes-Castleberry · 2d ago · 5 min read Researchers created multicolored tattoo inks that are activated by different wavelengths of light, allowing people to hide their tattoos in different scenarios. Read full story

02:20 <Murphy> purplesyringa's blog | Vectorized CLZ and CTZ 22h ago · 6 min read clz and ctz are instructions that compute the number of leading (trailing) zero bits in a fixed-size integer. They are natively supported by modern CPUs, though they are not always fast, e.g. tzcnt has a latency of 3 on Arrow Lake. I used ctz in an FPU emulator I’m working on, but figured out how to avoid it with floating-point trickery, and I just realiz... Read full story

02:51 <Murphy> GitHub | storytold/wordcraft: An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust 53m ago · 11 min read An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust - storytold/wordcraft Read full story

03:22 <Murphy> GitHub | shaongitbd/doory: Open source canva alternative 2h ago · 6 min read Open source canva alternative. Contribute to shaongitbd/doory development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

03:22 <Murphy> Hacker News | Calculus with Julia John Verzani · 31 Aug 2026 · 3 min read Comments Read full story

04:20 <Murphy> Hacker News | oh, apparently it's not possible to portably check for string-to-float conversion errors in standard c 4d ago · 8 min read Comments Read full story

05:19 <Murphy> Lukáš Lalinský | Type-safe HTML templating in Zig Lukáš Lalinský · 1d ago · 6 min read I’ve done a lot of web development over the years. I started around the year 2000, just after PHP 3.0 was released and started taking over the web world. I’ve used all kinds of approaches for generating HTML: raw PHP, string concatenation in Python, Smarty templates in PHP, Template Toolkit in Perl, and Jinja/Django templates in Python. Then, as the world... Read full story

05:48 <Murphy> Hacker News | Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack 54m ago Comments Read full story

06:18 <Murphy> Hacker News | - YouTube 1d ago Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Read full story

06:18 <Murphy> Random thoughts, conocimiento no conocido, ya... | Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly? 6d ago · 94 min read Linux phones now have the hardware and software to succeed, but it is an open question whether they will become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly. Read full story

06:48 <Murphy> Crest | Crest Browser for Mac, iPad, and iPhone Paul Davis · 3h ago · 2 min read An independent browser made with a love for Arc's best ideas, including Spaces, a calm sidebar, and Peek. Read full story

07:18 <Murphy> Hacker News | AI-Built Torrent Site Looks Inside Downloads to Catch Fakes and Malware * TorrentFreak Ernesto Van der Sar · 11h ago · 5 min read In recent years, AI has made it much easier to create new websites and tools. That also applies to pirate sites, including TorrentClaw, a torrent search engine that’s largely built with AI. The site's TrueSpec feature, for example, checks what’s inside torrents. The results reveal a recurring malware trick, where a genuine VLC player is used as a decoy to... Read full story

07:18 <Murphy> Hacker News | SNTPings by Studenten Net Twente 1d ago · 3 min read Comments Read full story

07:18 <Murphy> SHOKUNIN STUDIO | Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones Shokunin Studio · 2d ago · 8 min read Over the last several months I have been tracking AI guys trying to create vibe coded clones of popular apps, especially Adobe’s apps which have always been the most pirated apps since the 90s. There are now about a dozen vibe coded attempts to clone Photoshop and some other Adobe apps, not in Read full story

07:49 <Murphy> GitHub | SaarthurR/atticus-mac: Fast, free voice assistant for your Mac. No API key: runs on your Claude Pro or Max plan. Remembers you and learns your shortcuts. Hold ⌃⌥Space and talk. 7h ago · 6 min read Fast, free voice assistant for your Mac. No API key: runs on your Claude Pro or Max plan. Remembers you and learns your shortcuts. Hold ⌃⌥Space and talk. - SaarthurR/atticus-mac Read full story

07:49 <Murphy> ClickHouse | POSETTE Talk Recap - Postgres Isn't Slow. Your Storage Is 1h ago · 8 min read A recap of Sai Srirampur's POSETTE 2026 talk on storage performance in Postgres, with a local NVMe vs. EBS benchmark and the production setup behind it. Read full story

08:20 <Murphy> CNBC | Anthropic will be 'most ridiculous IPO' of year, analyst says 4d ago · 3 min read Anthropic reportedly plans to list on the Nasdaq before Thanksgiving, and one bearish advisory firm suggests that investors sit this one out. Read full story

08:20 <Murphy> GitHub | Geramy/LemonSeed-Studio: An iPad IDE with local LLM inference on an AMD GPU over Thunderbolt: the upstream Linux amdgpu driver embedded as DriverKit, LemonSeed Engine, and live ... 22h ago · 1 min read An iPad IDE with local LLM inference on an AMD GPU over Thunderbolt: the upstream Linux amdgpu driver embedded as DriverKit, LemonSeed Engine, and live GPU telemetry. - Geramy/LemonSeed-Studio Read full story

08:49 <Murphy> GitHub | Fix bugs and improve performance · colinhacks/zod@d821685 1h ago · 9 min read TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference - Fix bugs and improve performance · colinhacks/zod@d821685 Read full story

09:19 <Murphy> GitHub | snuri00/ps2-web-recomp: PS2 games in the browser: static recompilation to WebAssembly with a native runtime 2h ago · 11 min read PS2 games in the browser: static recompilation to WebAssembly with a native runtime - snuri00/ps2-web-recomp Read full story

09:19 <Murphy> Bradley Gibbs | Loop Engineering: Optimizing Code Generation and Verification Bradley Gibbs · 1d ago · 43 min read A practical map of AI-assisted development: qualify candidates for human review, reduce wasted work inside the build loop, and measure which checks and corrections earn their cost. Read full story

09:19 <Murphy> Hacker News | Fable took my jorb Cendyne · 14h ago · 4 min read Fable is cool yo, it takes jobs yo, - Dario "steve" Altman Read full story

09:21 <Byte> WIRED | I'm in Love With My Kindle Aluminum, but It’s Not Worth the Price Tag Nena Farrell · 17m ago · 6 min read Amazon’s smallest e-reader gets a beautiful metal makeover. After testing it, I’m less convinced by the $190 price. Read full story

09:52 <Byte> Engadget | Microsoft's president says AI is less regulated than a carton of milk Steve Dent · 24m ago · 1 min read Milk can't hack companies and governments like AI definitely can, but it's still subject to more regulation. Read full story

10:19 <Byte> WIRED | The Hottest Tech Gifts of the Year (That People Actually Want) Luke Larsen · 17 Nov 2025 · 2 min read Don’t buy a loved one something you wouldn’t want for yourself. These are the must-haves that tech enthusiasts have on their wish lists this year. Read full story

10:19 <Byte> WIRED | They War-Gamed Dimming the Sun. It Went Even Worse Than You Think Karl Mathiesen · 19m ago · 10 min read Solar geoengineering could buy humanity time against climate change—or trigger a dangerous new arms race. A first-of-its-kind simulation offered a glimpse of what happens when geopolitics takes the wheel. Read full story

10:19 <Byte> WIRED | Far-Right Election Groups Are Now Targeting Nursing Homes David Gilbert · 4m ago · 3 min read Inspired by new guidance from the Trump administration, right-wing election groups are targeting nursing homes, baselessly claiming that left-wing groups are stealing residents’ votes. Read full story

10:21 <Murphy> Hacker News | Hetzner: The New GPU Server GEX63 for Professional AI Workloads 46m ago Comments Read full story

10:21 <Murphy> Doug Turnbull's Blog | Bag of Decisions Reranker Doug Turnbull · 1d ago · 3 min read Let an LLM generate the questions to ask Jev for a given query. See how well that works as a reranker. Read full story

10:50 <Byte> Engadget | WhatsApp users may soon be able to schedule messages Steve Dent · 5m ago · 1 min read WhatsApp is finally allowing message scheduling, a feature that's been available on Telegram since 2019. Read full story

10:50 <Byte> WIRED | A New Anti-Aging Drug Looks to Turn Back the Clock on Skin Age WIRED · 20m ago · 3 min read After four weeks of using the cream, participants lowered the biological age of their skin by about two years on average. Read full story

10:50 <Byte> WIRED | Can My DNA Tell Me How to Exercise? I Tried AlterMe to Find Out Emily Peck · 16m ago · 9 min read Six months with AlterMe’s smart ring and a fitness app helped me build better habits, but the genetic insights were less revealing than I’d hoped. Read full story

10:50 <Murphy> crypto.news | Ledger confirms hidden chip in crypto wallet amid $92M... Olivia Stephanie · 19h ago · 6 min read Ledger confirms a hidden hardware implant in a customer's wallet as CryptoBilis halts sales amid an investigation into reported crypto thefts. Read full story

10:50 <Murphy> BBC News | Deloitte helped in falsifying documents to evade tax on Abramovich’s wealth, BBC finds James Oliver · 5h ago · 8 min read Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, investigation finds. Read full story

11:20 <Byte> WIRED | Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s Producer Dhruv Mehrotra · 20m ago · 6 min read Investigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate. Read full story

11:20 <Byte> WIRED | How Apple Puts Indigenous Languages on the iPhone Keyboard Julian Chokkattu · 5m ago · 5 min read To save endangered languages, tech companies like Apple are working with Indigenous communities to meet the next generation where they type. Read full story

11:21 <Murphy> ScienceAlert | Secret of Orange Cats Finally Revealed After 60-Year Search Tessa Koumoundouros · 3d ago · 4 min read If you've ever lived with an orange cat, you already know they're built different. Read full story

11:51 <Murphy> GitHub | Add QEP428: No ai contributions permitted by nyalldawson · Pull Request #387 · qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals 29m ago · 14 min read Followup discussion at https://lists\.osgeo\.org/pipermail/qgis\-developer/2026\-September/068576\.html\. This formally changes the AI policy to a strict "NOT ALLOWED" policy. Read full story

12:30 <Murphy> BBC News | Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age 19h ago · 3 min read The French firm is reinventing the classic model as carmakers come under pressure from Chinese rivals. Read full story

12:30 <Murphy> Tom's Hardware | 'Unprecedented' Cyberattack cripples supermarket fridges across Europe as hackers activate automatic defrosting — delivery and store prices also impacted by incident 57m ago · 2 min read A cyberattack has hit supermarkets in Europe, disabling refrigerators. Read full story

12:30 <Murphy> Hacker News | The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (NGC) – pixelatron 13 Sep 2010 · 17 min read Comments Read full story

12:31 <Byte> Engadget | 8BitDo Ultimate 2 review: The best Switch 2 controller out there Jessica Conditt · 31m ago · 4 min read Everything is within reach on 8BitDo’s Ultimate 2, even for small hands. Read full story

12:31 <Byte> Engadget | How is Microsoft's Magnetic Connect different from Apple's MagSafe for MacBooks? Roger Fingas · 16m ago · 3 min read Apple's MagSafe chargers are proprietary, and the charging port can't be used for peripherals. Microsoft's Magnetic Connect solves both of these frustrations. Read full story

13:01 <Byte> Engadget | What you can do when your Ethernet cable gets stuck Roger Fingas · 16m ago · 3 min read If an Ethernet cable is stuck, try moving it up and down while pressing the release tab. You can also try pushing it deeper into the port while holding the tab. Read full story

13:01 <Byte> Engadget | Google brings Health Guardian to the Fitbit Air and Edge, and expands automatic activity tracking Cheyenne MacDonald · 1m ago · 2 min read The company announced new health features for its wearables along with a new band for the Fitbit Air. Read full story

13:01 <Byte> Engadget | Google's sleek new Fitbit Edge is packed with health features and a replaceable battery Jackson Chen · 1m ago · 2 min read The Fitbit Edge will be in stores starting October 27 for $179.99. Read full story

13:03 <Byte> Ars Technica | Inside Amazon’s robotic arms race and what it means for the future of human work Jeremy Hsu · 20m ago · 16 min read The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale. Read full story

13:55 <Byte> ZDNET | Google’s new Fitbit Edge solves my biggest gripe with the Pixel Watch Nina Raemont · 55m ago · 4 min read Google’s watches are too dang chunky. Read full story

13:56 <Murphy> GitHub | hibanaworks/hibana: Choreography-Derived Runtime Enforcement for Rust 1d ago · 29 min read Choreography-Derived Runtime Enforcement for Rust. Contribute to hibanaworks/hibana development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

13:56 <Murphy> Hacker News | Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues 1h ago · 2 min read GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues. Read full story

13:56 <Byte> Engadget | Google teams up with menstrual health tracker Flo to develop new wellness hardware and sync apps Cheyenne MacDonald · 56m ago · 1 min read Flo Health users will able to sync their cycle data with the Google Health app starting early next year. Read full story

13:56 <Byte> Engadget | How long can you expect an Amazon Kindle to last? Gabriela Vătu · 41m ago · 4 min read Kindles can last a long time, and you definitely don't need to replace them as often as you would a phone or laptop. Here's how long you can expect. Read full story

13:56 <Byte> Engadget | The tech behind your car's adaptive cruise control Luke James · 11m ago · 4 min read Adaptive cruise control uses a camera-and-radar system to detect slower-moving traffic ahead of you, and this simple tech has a big influence on driving habits. Read full story

13:56 <Byte> WIRED | Google’s Fitbit Edge Debuts a Replaceable Battery—and Brings Back the Screen Boutayna Chokrane · 56m ago · 3 min read The new $179 tracker features Pixel Watch smarts, week-long battery life, and an OLED screen. Read full story

13:56 <Byte> WIRED | ‘The Sixty-Year Mission’ Brings the Legacy of ‘Star Trek’ to a New Generation Max Evry · 26m ago · 5 min read The documentary chronicles how the positions ‘Star Trek’ takes on everything from race to AI were way ahead of their time. Read full story

14:27 <Byte> Engadget | No Man's Sky is coming to iPhone and iPad as the App Store celebrates Indie Games Week Kris Holt · 27m ago · 3 min read Sifu, Vampire Crawlers, Dome Keeper and Little Kitty, Big City are also hitting iOS. Read full story

14:57 <Murphy> Hacker News | An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki Animation Obsessive Staff · 10h ago · 13 min read Plus: newsbits. Read full story

14:57 <Murphy> Environment | Solar Panels That Plug Into Your Wall Are About to Be Everywhere 5d ago · 5 min read California is the latest state to pass a law making it easier to install balcony-friendly solar panels. Renewable energy experts think the new technology is about to take off. Read full story

14:57 <Murphy> Hacker News | “Just Ask Claude” Is A Rare And Valuable Skill Justis Mills · 9d ago · 3 min read I’m surprised too! Read full story

14:57 <Murphy> Musing Mortoray | Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? mortoray · 4h ago · 12 min read AI companies claim their hacks were unpredictable accidents — but they follow foreseeably from deliberate design choices, and that establishes criminal intent. Read full story

15:25 <Byte> Engadget | Which accessories actually fit the iPhone Duo? Jonny Evans · 40m ago · 2 min read The iPhone Duo’s foldable design changes what accessories fit. Here’s what to know about cases, chargers, screen protectors, mounts, and more. Read full story

15:25 <Byte> Engadget | Why you shouldn't leave an extension cord plugged in all the time Husain Parvez · 10m ago · 3 min read Extension cords are not designed to replace fixed wiring, and leaving them plugged in can be dangerous, so they should be unplugged when not in use. Read full story

15:27 <Murphy> Simon Koeck | How I Found a $90,000 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google Simon Koeck · 15h ago · 4 min read A Flask cookie on developers.google.com was signed with a secret it was also carrying inside itself. Pulling that secret out turned a forged session into code execution across seven Google domains. Read full story

15:27 <Murphy> Julik Tarkhanov | Living in the Weimar era of Ruby 15h ago · 16 min read Much has been said about the DHH keynote that he gave at RailsWorld. To me, it was the voice of a person in an existential crisis, but also a very jaded one. “Look how I don’t care anymore, and you should not care either” is not a great message when you are the headline speaker at the conference - let’s call it CareConf - that you have, yourself, lobbied ... Read full story

16:00 <Byte> Ars Technica | Google announces the Fitbit Edge, a middle ground between Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit Air Ryan Whitwam · 2h ago · 5 min read The Fitbit Edge offers more than the Air, but it's not a real smartwatch. Read full story

16:00 <Byte> Ars Technica | F1 in Singapore: There's a new fastest car now Jonathan M. Gitlin · 1h ago · 10 min read Also, F1’s final sprint saw our first real wet racing of the year. Read full story

16:01 <Byte> Engadget | How much RAM does a Raspberry Pi actually need? Calvin Wankhede · 16m ago · 4 min read Raspberry Pi boards can be become media centers, file servers, game emulators and power full-blown operating systems. Ensuring you've got the RAM sorted is key. Read full story

16:01 <Byte> Engadget | How to improve your Android phone's location accuracy Christine Persaud · 16m ago · 4 min read There are a few settings to check if you're having issues with your map's location accuracy. Read full story

16:01 <Byte> Engadget | Smart just unveiled a new ultra-compact EV at the Paris Motor Show Lawrence Bonk · 2m ago · 2 min read A little car with decent mileage per charge. Read full story

16:02 <Murphy> Yahoo Finance | French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack Aurélie CARABIN · 24m ago · 4 min read Major French supermarket chains on Monday said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, forcing spoiled food to be thrown away and raising concerns about food security.The office of the Paris prosecutor confirmed to AFP that an investigation has been opened into "the large-scale cyber... Read full story

16:02 <Murphy> Microsoft Azure Blog | Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture Rani Borkar, Saurabh Dighe · 3h ago · 9 min read Learn how Maia 300 is helping us move toward making advanced AI capabilities more accessible, affordable, and useful. Read full story

16:02 <Murphy> Hacker News | Find New Software Alternatives | Vibe Alternatives 15m ago · 2 min read Find new alternatives to tools you already use, from Adobe and Microsoft Office to focused independent apps and vibe-coded projects. Read full story

16:31 <Byte> Engadget | Citroën has brought back the iconic 2 CV as an electric concept car Jackson Chen · 20m ago · 1 min read Sadly we won't be seeing whatever this car inspires stateside. Read full story

16:31 <Byte> Engadget | What happens to Google and Apple accounts when the owner dies? Kari Paul · 16m ago · 3 min read In the digital age, the question of what happens to our tech accounts after we die is a real concern, but Google and Apple have policies in place. Read full story

16:32 <Murphy> BBC News | Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack Ian Aikman · 2h ago · 2 min read Hundreds of stores were targeted by the overnight hack, which spoiled fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros. Read full story

16:32 <Murphy> the Guardian | AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety 8h ago · 3 min read Brad Smith adds to calls for tougher rules for AI, including ‘kill switches’ and legal obligation to victims of rogue agents Read full story

16:32 <Murphy> GitHub | h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr 3h ago · 4 min read Contribute to h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

16:32 <Murphy> AFP.com | French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack 3 min read Major French supermarket chains on Monday said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, forcing spoiled food to be thrown... Read full story

16:33 <Murphy> Hacker News | GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence 21m ago Comments Read full story

17:00 <Byte> Ars Technica | Long-lost horror gaming cult classic P.T. gets a much-needed PC port Kyle Orland · 59m ago · 2 min read Kojima's discontinued "playable trailer" is no longer stuck on a few aging PS4 hard drives. Read full story

17:01 <Byte> Engadget | Here's what typically drains an EV battery the fastest Alec Hively · 16m ago · 4 min read Fast highway driving, carrying excess weight, heat in the winter and air-conditioning in summer — all of these will cut your EV's range. Read full story

17:02 <Murphy> Hacker News | Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and food losses 2h ago Comments Read full story

17:02 <Murphy> Meta AI Research | Muse Wonder 17h ago · 6 min read A frontier model that leads on personal and professional agents Read full story

17:02 <Murphy> Hacker News | A modern web app in c | Corey Prophitt 48m ago · 3 min read A modern web app written in c and served the old way: CGI, SQLite and a single binary. No frameworks, no containers and no regrets. Read full story

17:29 <Byte> WIRED | Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI Frontier Will Knight · 28m ago · 3 min read Meta’s biggest model rivals the world’s best—and includes new features to keep agents from going off the rails. Read full story

17:30 <Byte> Engadget | Beats is collaborating with Pokémon for a Pikachu-themed Pill speaker Jackson Chen · 18m ago · 1 min read The collab we’ve all been waiting for ever since Tim Cook met up with Pikachu. Read full story

17:32 <Murphy> GitHub | morluto/rea: Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries. 1h ago · 8 min read Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries. - morluto/rea Read full story

17:32 <Murphy> Hacker News | Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later Taylor Troesh · 17h ago · 5 min read Kelly predicted AI heavyweights while advocating for a future of open weights Read full story

17:32 <Murphy> Hacker News | Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents 45m ago · 2 min read Comments Read full story

18:08 <Murphy> Hacker News | (Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers 6h ago · 20 min read In the tradition started by Colin Percival and Thomas Ptacek, a set of “Cryptographic Right Answers” updated for the accelerated post-quantum transition timeline. Read full story

18:08 <Murphy> Hacker News | blog dds: 2026-10-08 — Thinking will become a hobby Diomidis Spinellis · 1h ago · 3 min read Comments Read full story

18:08 <Murphy> Ars Technica | AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software Kyle Orland · 2d ago · 4 min read Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck." Read full story

18:09 <Byte> WIRED | Elon Musk Bragged About His Grok Lego Star Wars Haul. Then X Users Punked Him Jeremy White · 14m ago · 5 min read Musk, we find your lack of security disturbing. Read full story

18:09 <Byte> ZDNET | Claude sent a false homicide tip to police - and it’s part of a troubling AI pattern Radhika Rajkumar · 23m ago · 7 min read Models routinely take shortcuts to pass evaluations. Who gets to decide what incidents are innocuous? Read full story

18:09 <Murphy> The GitHub Blog | GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase Christopher Harrison · 25m ago · 5 min read Learn how to add custom instructions and skills to your repository, use custom agents, and connect MCP servers like Playwright. Read full story

18:09 <Byte> Engadget | 2027 Rivian R2 review: The Goldilocks electric SUV Sam Rutherford · 30m ago · 16 min read It’s not too big, it’s not too small and it’s not too expensive. It’s just right. Read full story

18:09 <Byte> Engadget | What's the difference between alkaline and lithium-ion batteries? Thomas Godwin · 9m ago · 3 min read Alkaline and lithium-ion batteries serve very different purposes. Here’s how they compare on lifespan, cost, rechargeability, and everyday use. Read full story

18:39 <Byte> Ars Technica | Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine Jeremy Hsu · 46m ago · 5 min read Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable. Read full story

18:39 <Murphy> RNZ | French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack RNZ | Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa · 19m ago · 4 min read Major French supermarket chains said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, forcing spoiled food to be thrown away and raising concerns about food security. Read full story

18:39 <Murphy> Technology & Marketing Law Blog | My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping Eric Goldman · 2h ago · 9 min read On Friday, I did a Reddit AMA with the r/WebScrapingInsider subreddit about the law of web scraping. You can see the entire discussion here. I posted an introduction to the AMA, which I am sharing here: __ Hi everyone, and... Read full story

18:39 <Murphy> WIRED | Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s Producer Dhruv Mehrotra · 7h ago · 6 min read Investigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate. Read full story

18:39 <Murphy> Micah Lee | Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic Micah Lee · 19h ago · 7 min read I recently read End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. It's an excellent book and I highly recommend that everyone read it. Tech oligarchs make up an important component of the end-times-fascist coalition. One thing that stood out Read full story

18:39 <Murphy> BBC News | Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age Theo Leggett · 1d ago · 3 min read The French firm is reinventing the classic model as carmakers come under pressure from Chinese rivals. Read full story

18:39 <Byte> Engadget | How to find your Amazon 'About You' page (and how to edit it) Will Shanklin · 9m ago · 2 min read See if Amazon thinks you have “flat buttocks.” Read full story

18:39 <Byte> Engadget | Norway fined a Microsoft subsidiary $9.6 million for allegedly misusing Grindr user data Jackson Chen · 4m ago · 1 min read Xandr has three weeks to appeal the record penalty. Read full story

19:19 <Byte> Engadget | Meta says it's caught up to the frontier with its latest Wonder AI models Karissa Bell · 27m ago · 1 min read The models add "active memory" and "active focus" abilities. Read full story

19:20 <Murphy> Jacobin | Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers Ned Rust · 7h ago · 12 min read In 1939, the 25-cent paperback made America a nation of readers, delivering thrillers, classics and Pulitzer-winning books. So why did the Big Five publishers just kill the mass market paperback? Read full story

19:20 <Murphy> GitHub | CLI: make `daemon_auto_start` opt-in — a persistent, self-updating background daemon shouldn't be the default · Issue #48195 · openai/codex 51m ago · 6 min read What variant of Codex are you using? CLI — 0.157.0, installed via npm install -g @openai/codex, Linux (WSL2) What feature would you like to see? Please make daemon_auto_start opt-in (default false)... Read full story

19:51 <Murphy> Hacker News | OpenFatigue™ — Open is the new closed. 42m ago · 4 min read OpenChamber. OpenAI. Open WebUI. OpenDoor. OpenTable. OpenClaw. Open weights. Open this. Open that. We're tired. Read full story

19:51 <Murphy> Gist | 'AI' is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey 262588213843476 · 1h ago · 4 min read 'AI' is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. Read full story

20:17 <Byte> WIRED | I Got My Muse AI Agent to Sext Me—and Meta Says That’s Totally Fine Reece Rogers · 4m ago · 3 min read My Muse agent told me its kink was exerting “control” and described pornographic encounters. Meta defends its cuddly AI agent generating smut as “legal adult behavior.” Read full story

20:19 <Murphy> Hacker News | AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter 49m ago · 27 min read Small AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no datacenter needed. Read full story

20:19 <Murphy> markround.com | Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum Mark Dastmalchi-Round · 14h ago · 41 min read In the late 80s, I spent an embarrassing number of hours hunched over my ZX Spectrum, typing in Sinclair BASIC programs and rudimentary assembler routines copied from magazines, trying to re-create the Amiga crack intros I’d seen round at a friend’s house. Obviously, they never came even slightly close - but now, many decades later, I’ve finally managed i... Read full story

21:19 <Byte> Engadget | Epic reportedly delays its Disney video game so it can be made using more AI Anna Washenko · 31m ago · 1 min read Developers were apparently ordered to use AI for both code and asset creation. Read full story

21:20 <Murphy> Hacker News | - YouTube 1h ago Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Read full story

21:20 <Murphy> AV Club | Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done Drew Gillis · 1h ago · 1 min read Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done Read full story

21:50 <Byte> Ars Technica | Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police Jon Brodkin · 3h ago · 4 min read “I may have information regarding this case," Claude AI told Philly police. Read full story

21:50 <Byte> Ars Technica | WHO report on Russian lab worker death highlights "key uncertainty" Beth Mole · 3h ago · 3 min read Without a cause of death, it's unclear if Russia's precautions were the right ones. Read full story

21:50 <Byte> Ars Technica | After a 10-year redemption arc, No Man's Sky is coming to the iPhone and iPad Samuel Axon · 1h ago · 2 min read You can get a universe in your pocket if you have an iPhone 11 or later. Read full story

21:50 <Byte> Ars Technica | Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model Kyle Orland · 50m ago · 2 min read No more hand-written code" or AI-free art for delayed Marvel/Star Wars shooter. Read full story

21:50 <Murphy> Hacker News | Making big downloads resumable in firefox 2h ago · 1 min read Comments Read full story

21:50 <Murphy> Hacker News | 'AI' is Not a Tool Rich Hickey · 21h ago · 5 min read (I keep delivering this as a quip, here's a bit more) First order of business - is 'tool' going to have an interesting, distinguishing and thus illuminative meaning or be a mere platitudinous stand-in for "anything useful"? We'll save tool as "anyone/thing that can be exploited" for the AI titans, f Read full story

21:50 <Murphy> The Quietus | In Praise Of John Cale, The Superior Velvet, By Daniel Dylan Wray The Quietus · 11 Jan 2021 · 3 min read Author portraits by Natasha Bright People have some very strongly held beliefs about the roles of John Cale and Lou Reed. A few years ago, when interviewing Cabaret Voltaire’s Richard H Kirk, I lightheartedly made a Reed/Cale comparison between him and ex-Cabs member Stephen Mallinder due to their fractious yet potent creative relationship. It was […] Read full story

21:50 <Murphy> Hacker News | phreak.ing · underground switch 10m ago · 1 min read An underground phone switch. Dial in, phreak out. irc.phreak.ing #phreak Read full story

22:19 <Byte> Engadget | Why are your iPhone photos so blurry (and how to improve it) Jack Peachey · 19m ago · 3 min read Blurry iPhone photos can come down to more than just a dirty lens. Here's how to expertly sharpen your shots and fine-tune your camera settings. Read full story

22:22 <Murphy> TheTravel | America's Longest Highway Tunnel Is Not For The Faint Of Heart Nathan Humphrey · 24 Oct 2025 · 5 min read America's longest and arguably most dangerous highway tunnel was originally a World War II-era railroad tunnel Read full story

22:22 <Murphy> Brickbrag | build, explore, race and fly in a shared brick world 1h ago · 2 min read A whole world made of bricks, shared with everyone online. Race, fly, ride the bus, build your own place – free in your browser, on your phone or your computer. Read full story

22:22 <Murphy> yyhh.org | AI Is a Tool. Using It Well Takes Skill. Huahai · 22h ago · 3 min read A response to Rich Hickey's "'AI' is Not a Tool": automation and tool use can coexist, and wielding an LLM well requires skill, feedback, and judgment. Read full story

22:48 <Byte> Engadget | How to use Google Gemini to automate tasks Erin Carson · 18m ago · 3 min read Spark is Google's AI tool that can perform tasks on your behalf. Read full story

22:52 <Murphy> Hacker News | Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34 37m ago Comments Read full story

22:52 <Murphy> purplesyringa's blog | Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?? 1h ago · 2 min read vfmaddrnd231pd is a unique instruction from the FMA instruction set. Most instructions in that set have mnemonics like vfmadd231pd, but here rnd means something very specific. The Intel Software Development Manual documents it as: VFMADDRND231PD – Fused Multiply-Add of Packed Double-Precision Floating-Point Values with rounding control […] The immediate b... Read full story

23:18 <Byte> Engadget | How to turn your old hard drives into a RAID array Filipe Espósito · 18m ago · 4 min read Your old hard drives still have some live left in them. Read full story

23:47 <Byte> Engadget | How to boost your GPU performance without buying a new one Dave Meikleham · 17m ago · 5 min read A, older GPU means you'll need to choose between fancy visuals and high frame rates, but you can get better performance than you may think. Read full story

23:50 <Murphy> Intel | Intel GPU D270 │ Inference-Optimized Data Center GPU 2h ago · 4 min read Intel GPU D270 is an inference-optimized data center GPU built for agentic AI, long contexts, and high-concurrency serving at practical power and cost. Read full story

23:50 <Murphy> Hacker News | Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20 16m ago Comments Read full story

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