00:22 <Murphy> Hacker News | Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support? 1d ago · 1 min read Comments Read full story

00:22 <Murphy> Liquid AI | LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for Fast On-Device Agents | Blog 2d ago · 6 min read LFM2.5-24B-A2B: an open-weight 24B reasoning model with 2B active parameters, built for fast, private on-device agents. Beats Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on LiveClaw. Read full story

00:52 <Murphy> Geoffrey Huntley | a new model for open source: closed to pull requests, open to remix. Geoffrey Huntley · 1h ago · 5 min read All right, I'm going to open up a history lesson because it's been a couple of generations of software engineers since this essay, and I have to assume not everyone knows what a cathedral is. Everyone knows what a bazaar is because they're using it day to Read full story

01:21 <Murphy> Hacker News | your c is not standard c 3d ago · 4 min read Comments Read full story

01:51 <Murphy> Hacker News | Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive offset_plug · 11d ago · 4 min read I sell fentanyl six days a week under the El at Kensington and Somerset, and every bag I sell is net life-positive. Each bag carries a small but real chance of killing whoever buys it. Each bag also sends $1.80 to the Against Malaria Foundation, which GiveWell estimates saves a child’s life for about $5,500. My customers die at a rate of roughly one per 4... Read full story

02:21 <Murphy> Hacker News | Capsem -- The fastest way to ship with AI securely. 1h ago · 3 min read The fastest way to ship with AI securely. Read full story

02:21 <Murphy> Catch a Bird | Catch a Bird 2d ago A bird is waiting for you. Catch it and read what made a stranger happy today. Read full story

02:21 <Murphy> The blog at the bottom of the sea | The Double Headed Stack Allocator 11d ago · 9 min read When programming high performance applications, such as video games, you learn neat tricks for writing fast code that makes the most of limited resources. Memory allocation is a huge topic for perf… Read full story

03:21 <Murphy> WowHaus | Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA David Walker · 2d ago · 5 min read Not just any Futuro, the Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA, is probably the best out there, as well as a listed property. Read full story

03:51 <Murphy> Sijbrandij Foundation LLC | Future of Cancer Care Today 32m ago · 16 min read Future of Cancer Care Today is a pilot initiative of the Sijbrandij Foundation, led by Poornima Parameswaran. Informed by lessons from Sid Sijbrandij’s cancer journey and from the experiences of other patients and families, we are piloting approaches to help patients organize information, understand Read full story

04:20 <Murphy> Hacker News | Show HN: My Terminal Themes Web App 1h ago · 1 min read Comments Read full story

04:20 <Murphy> Hacker News | It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360 1d ago · 6 min read Comments Read full story

04:20 <Murphy> Hacker News | One in ten people are older than 65. Three in four live under a leader who is. Hannah Ritchie · 22h ago · 6 min read How old are leaders across the world, and how long have they been in power? Read full story

05:15 <Byte> WIRED | Best Ancestry Coupons, Promo Codes, and DNA Kit Deals for October 2026 Molly Higgins · 15m ago · 5 min read Save on family history memberships and DNA kits with the latest Ancestry coupon codes, special offers, and seasonal discounts. Read full story

05:20 <Murphy> Hacker News | The Toftwood Male Voice Choir: A Mystery Pressed in Vinyl. – EI3LH 3d ago · 11 min read Comments Read full story

05:20 <Murphy> Elevation Lab | An apology 56m ago · 1 min read We launched an AirTag silencing tool recently. We have always made products we want for ourselves, and this was no different - we wanted it for AirTags on our bikes. (Some of us here have bikes more valuable than our cars.) In retrospect though, this also has the side effect of aiding someone with bad intentions to tra Read full story

06:18 <Murphy> Hacker News | David Rudnick on the “borderline impossible” process of designing a bespoke blackletter typeface for Arsenal 2d ago · 20 min read For the past four years, the designer has been building a hand-drawn, three-weight type family that pays homage to one of the most beloved players in Arsenal’s history: David Rocastle. Here, It’s Nice That sits down with David and Arsenal Creative Studio lead Johnnie Campbell to get behind the scenes of the mammoth project. Read full story

06:18 <Murphy> GitHub | andunieee/flipflop: filesharing for the meatspace era 1h ago · 1 min read filesharing for the meatspace era. Contribute to andunieee/flipflop development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

07:19 <Murphy> Hacker News | Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction 2d ago Comments Read full story

07:50 <Murphy> Hacker News | ito playground · uji 9h ago · 5 min read Create and try terminal interfaces with Lua. Read full story

07:50 <Murphy> Hacker News | Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit 5d ago · 15 min read My TP-Link EAP770 v1 corrupts downloads over Wi-Fi and TP-Link EOL'd it before I unboxed it. The fix is two zeros in sysfs. TP-Link's shell won't let me write them, so I wrote a kernel exploit for my own fucking access point. Read full story

08:20 <Murphy> Indigene | Indigene · native plants for where you stand 2d ago Stand in a spot, and find native plants that will actually thrive there, ranked by what they do for the local ecosystem. Read full story

08:20 <Murphy> GitHub | awslabs/aidlc-workflows: AI-Driven Life Cycle (AI-DLC) adaptive workflow steering rules for AI coding agents 1h ago · 5 min read AI-Driven Life Cycle (AI-DLC) adaptive workflow steering rules for AI coding agents - awslabs/aidlc-workflows Read full story

08:20 <Murphy> Hacker News | Jack Antico 1d ago Web site created using create-react-app Read full story

08:51 <Murphy> Hacker News | AI was great until it was not. Nia Robles · 9d ago · 17 min read A cautionary tale. Read full story

09:14 <Byte> WIRED | Over $600 Million in Polymarket Election Trades Took Place After Races Ended Kate Knibbs · 14m ago · 5 min read Contracts tied to elections in Ethiopia and Romania saw massive trading volumes after the outcomes were decided. “It’s obviously some form of volume manipulation,” one expert says. Read full story

09:20 <Murphy> The New Yorker | The First Social Network Jordan Salama · 2d ago · 24 min read In rural Argentina, isolated residents exchange messages over AM radio. Read full story

09:44 <Byte> WIRED | Artemis III Scientist Shares What to Expect From NASA’s Next Lunar Mission Jorge Garay · 29m ago · 6 min read Though scaled back from initial plans of landing, the voyage will serve as a dress rehearsal for when humans return to the moon’s surface. Read full story

09:44 <Byte> WIRED | These Are the Permanent Outdoor Lights Worth Installing This Summer Nena Farrell · 11 Nov 2025 · 12 min read Permanent eave lights that attach to the exterior of your home are becoming more popular. But are they worth the effort and cost? Read full story

09:50 <Murphy> Weli's blog | The Cost of Getting a Job Today content · 9h ago · 4 min read We expect candidates to use AI in our challenges. AI isn't free, and they're paying for it at the worst possible moment. Read full story

10:12 <Byte> WIRED | ‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads Matt Burgess,Lily Hay Newman · 12m ago · 5 min read Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising. Read full story

10:17 <Byte> Engadget | YouTube is reportedly gearing up to offer audiobooks Mariella Moon · 9m ago · 1 min read YouTube is already talking to publishers about offering audiobooks on its platform, The Wall Street Journal says. Read full story

10:21 <Murphy> Hacker News | bookofjoe's Favorite Thing: World's Best Pill Splitter 1d ago · 1 min read Not only the best but also the most durable: I bought mine in 2016 (above) and ten years later it still works as flawlessly as the day it arrived. Back then it only came with a blue anti-scatter top but since then they've added grey and pink options. Heavy metal that stabilizes your pill between precisely aligned hard sharp blades. Bonus: safe because the... Read full story

10:41 <Byte> WIRED | Democrats Are Gearing Up to Investigate the Trump Administration. It Won’t Be Easy Vittoria Elliott · 11m ago · 7 min read As a recent government report on DOGE shows, even getting basic information out of the Trump administration will put a new Congress to the test. Read full story

10:47 <Byte> Engadget | Apple I 'Hatfield' computer signed by Woz fetches a record $1.15 million at auction Steve Dent · 12m ago · 2 min read The famous Apple I "Hatfield" computer signed by Steve Wozniak just sold to an unknown buyer for a record $1,148,200. Read full story

11:10 <Byte> WIRED | Kids’ Content Is Deeply Broken. A New Platform Wants to Fix It Jason Parham · 10m ago · 6 min read Low-quality AI-generated content currently dominates children’s media. Maka, a streaming platform run by child development experts, is offering an alternative. Read full story

11:20 <Murphy> Hacker News | - YouTube 2d 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

12:02 <Byte> Engadget | Mexico's president signs decree ordering tech platforms to protect minors from adult content Steve Dent · 26m ago · 1 min read Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum has signed a decree ordering digital platforms to protect children from accessing harmful content. Read full story

12:02 <Byte> Engadget | United will now let you check if your flight has Starlink Wi-Fi Mariella Moon · 2m ago · 1 min read United has launched a tracker that you can use to check if your flight has Starlink Wi-Fi. Read full story

12:02 <Byte> Engadget | Bee unveils two AI note-taking devices, its first new products since being acquired by Amazon Cherlynn Low · 2m ago · 7 min read The Eclipse and Frontier are cheap and colorful, but you'll need a Pro subscription to make the most of them. Read full story

12:31 <Byte> Engadget | Adobe rebuilt Photoshop and Premiere for NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform Mariella Moon · 31m ago · 1 min read Adobe has ‘rearchitected’ Photoshop, Premiere and Substance 3D to work faster on computers powered by NVIDIA’s RTX Spark AI superchip. Read full story

13:00 <Byte> Engadget | CitizenLab details new spyware triggered by online advertising Steve Dent · 9m ago · 2 min read A new type of spyware dubbed "AdFection" is infecting phones and computers via global online advertising networks. Read full story

13:01 <Murphy> Hacker News | Tracing Mystery Network Traffic with eBPF Across HRT's Global Compute Cluster 1d ago Comments Read full story

13:01 <Murphy> Hacker News | Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released 1h ago · 2 min read Comments Read full story

13:01 <Murphy> theregister | X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms Connor Jones · 16m ago · 5 min read Platform points to Iran, Russia, and China but provides no public evidence for attribution Read full story

13:01 <Murphy> Unfenced | land for sale that borders public land 1h ago 13,626 properties measured against USGS PAD-US, from 695,439 active listings across 49 regions. Every claim is measured from parcel boundaries. Read full story

13:01 <Murphy> Libreboot – Libreboot 26.10 “Ominous Olive” r... | Libreboot – Libreboot 26.10 “Ominous Olive” released! With full UEFI support. Leah Rowe · 13h ago · 48 min read Libreboot – Libreboot 26.10 “Ominous Olive” released! With full UEFI support. Read full story

13:51 <Byte> WIRED | Junji Ito’s Manga Horrors Hit Harder as Live-Action TV Max Evry · 21m ago · 3 min read The artist’s macabre short works have been adapted into eerily freaky 30-minute bites for television. We got a sneak preview of the next episode airing on HBO Max. Read full story

13:52 <Byte> Engadget | Xreal's new flagship One Pro+ AR glasses offer better brightness and increased comfort Lawrence Bonk · 52m ago · 1 min read There's still no camera here, so they won't be confused for pervert specs. Read full story

13:52 <Byte> Engadget | NVIDIA's RTX Spark is good for Windows, even if you don't need local AI Devindra Hardawar · 52m ago · 6 min read NVIDIA's RTX Spark is meant for AI fiends, but it could end up helping Windows PCs in general Read full story

13:52 <Murphy> C++ Stories | C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions 4d ago · 11 min read In the article about Standard Library hardening, we looked at checks for invalid Standard Library container access and other broken preconditions. I mentioned that those requirements are expressed in terms of “contracts”. But what about our code? In this post, we’ll explore contracts from C++26. We’ll start with a simple cassert, move the requirement into... Read full story

13:52 <Murphy> Hacker News | The Haunted Toys R Us Retroist · 10d ago · 6 min read The story behind the Sunnyvale store and the television episode that made it famous Read full story

13:52 <Murphy> the Guardian | Online ads weaponised to deliver ‘zero-click’ spyware, researchers say 1h ago · 4 min read Discover-Tech’s Controlium software lets clients mass-profile internet users then covertly hack targets, say researchers at University of Toronto Read full story

13:52 <Byte> ZDNET | Google’s new Universal Cart tracks prices on items you want now - plus 3 other tricks Kayla Solino · 52m ago · 4 min read Google unveiled two new shopping tools ahead of the holiday buying season. Here's what to know. Read full story

14:21 <Byte> Engadget | LinkedIn is adding new tools to help people with their side hustles Karissa Bell · 21m ago · 2 min read The company says more of its users are holding down multiple roles. Read full story

14:21 <Byte> Engadget | Tesla Roadster reveal live: Updates from the launch of the next-gen sportscar Cherlynn Low · 19m ago · 1 min read Elon Musk has been saying the demo might be a literal "banger." Read full story

14:21 <Byte> Engadget | Opera's lightweight Air browser is back, unbothered, moisturized, in its lane Matt Tate · 4m ago · 1 min read Namaste. Read full story

14:23 <Murphy> The Citizen Lab | Exposing AdFection: How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware 4h ago · 122 min read This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. We call the technique AdFection, and show how it was used to infect devices at Al Jazeera with Candiru’s spyware. We also uncover Discover-Tech, and show how the company helps mercenary surveillance vendors track and hack devices around the world. Read full story

14:23 <Murphy> npad configurator | npad configurator 1d ago Remap keys, build macros and tune the lighting on your npad, right in the browser. Read full story

14:23 <Murphy> GitHub | konieczkow/gridsnap: An open source alternative to Divvy for macOS 1h ago · 2 min read An open source alternative to Divvy for macOS. Contribute to konieczkow/gridsnap development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

14:23 <Murphy> Hacker News | I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep Derek Thompson · 4h ago · 9 min read On technological grief Read full story

15:24 <Murphy> Hacker News | Siri is so bad at everything 36m ago Comments Read full story

15:24 <Murphy> Hacker News | The world's largest eagle hunted unlike any other bird of prey | Natural History Museum 1d ago · 6 min read Haast's eagle used its huge talons to topple one of the heaviest birds that ever lived before delivering the killing blow with its beak. Read full story

15:24 <Murphy> Christian F.K. Schaller | Using Artificial Intelligence to reverse engineer hardware Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller · 1h ago · 8 min read After my mother passed away I ended up with a big box full of old film negatives containing photos from childhood family trips and similar. So I decided to buy a negative photo scanner and found that the Plustek 8200i was supported under Linux so I bought that. Only to discover that the chipset in... Read full story

15:24 <Murphy> Hacker News | Celebrating 70 years of Fortran — Fortran Programming Language 20m ago · 1 min read Fortran : High-performance parallel programming language Read full story

15:24 <Murphy> Signals Corps | Prompt injection in HTTP headers Sarah Andrews · 9d ago · 34 min read Our Common Crawl scan found 7,959 sites sending HTTP headers aimed at AI agents, including 30 injection attempts. See what they say and how to defend agents. Read full story

15:24 <Murphy> Simons Foundation | Simons Foundation Launches $15M Effort To Help Mathematicians Navigate AI Era Thomas Sumner · 1h ago · 1 min read The Simons Foundation today announced a new set of initiatives that will help the mathematics community navigate the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in the field. Under a partnership… Read full story

15:24 <Murphy> GitHub | fyzugx/DEsk 2h ago · 22 min read Contribute to fyzugx/DEsk development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

15:53 <Murphy> Hacker News | I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one | SnoutCover 8m ago · 11 min read How a nose guard I made for my pitbull Billie became SnoutCover, one year and 500 dogs later. Read full story

15:54 <Byte> ZDNET | Nvidia's new Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is another step forward for US open-weight AI Radhika Rajkumar · 54m ago · 4 min read Nvidia's new models join a wave of open-weight releases from US labs on the heels of the Hugging Face hack. Read full story

16:36 <Murphy> Proa | The next era of web interfaces. Built in Rust. 44m ago · 6 min read A batteries-included Rust web framework built around a new programming model for composable, multi-target rendering. Read full story

16:36 <Murphy> Krea | Krea 3: an image model built for editing at scale 32m ago · 9 min read Krea 3 is a new image editing model built for production. It keeps your product intact and is priced for volume. Read full story

16:36 <Murphy> Goodfire | Neural Networks Are Already Clean Nick Cammarata, Goodfire · 32m ago · 167 min read A working hypothesis about neurons, generalization, and the ecology of circuits. Read full story

16:36 <Murphy> BIPM | Resolution 5 (2026) 24m ago · 4 min read Comments Read full story

16:36 <Murphy> Hacker News | Biscoff Cookies Were Supposed to Be Temporary. Then Passengers Fell in Love 1d ago Comments Read full story

16:36 <Murphy> RespawnFirst | 24 Hours After Epic's Vibe-Coded Client Bragged About Speed, Steam Launched A New Update To Beat It Sikandar Mahmood · 6h ago · 1 min read Epic Games "vibe coded" Launcher V2 to beat Steam with a 5.47s boot time. Valve quietly responded with a client update that dropped Steam startup speeds to 5.23s. Read full story

16:36 <Byte> Engadget | Microsoft says it made Windows 11 zippier, especially on PCs with less RAM Kris Holt · 35m ago · 1 min read The whole RAM price thing is partly Microsoft's fault so it's the least it can do. Read full story

16:36 <Byte> Engadget | GuliKit TT Max review: The granddaddy of Switch 2 controllers Jessica Conditt · 6m ago · 5 min read This is the Switch 2 gamepad for big hands. Read full story

17:18 <Byte> Ars Technica | Seabirds, forests, and coral could help save sinking islands Inside Climate News · 2h ago · 5 min read Seabirds, native plants, and healthy reefs can help atolls build as seas rise. Read full story

17:18 <Murphy> Sygal | Sygal · Document to Markdown Converter, 100% Local Cyrill Semah · 52m ago · 7 min read Sygal converts PDF, Word, Excel, images and web pages into clean Markdown and JSON, locally on your Mac or PC. One-time purchase, no subscription. Read full story

17:18 <Byte> Ars Technica | Singer or clanker? YouTube Music will tell you with new gen AI labeling. Ryan Whitwam · 2h ago · 2 min read The AI music labels are rolling out now in YouTube Music and will come to YouTube soon. Read full story

17:18 <Murphy> Hacker News | Market selloff, rising rates test AI data centre deal boom 1h ago Comments Read full story

17:18 <Byte> Ars Technica | Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax” Ashley Belanger · 1h ago · 4 min read FTC may fine AI firms on par with companies that delay data breach reports. Read full story

17:18 <Murphy> Hacker News | Life — Stario 1d ago One shared Game of Life board, computed once per tick and broadcast to everyone watching. Read full story

17:18 <Byte> Ars Technica | Neutron's first launch slips again amid trouble with carbon composites Stephen Clark · 21m ago · 6 min read Rocket Lab announced the Neutron rocket in 2021, aiming for a first flight in 2024. Read full story

17:19 <Byte> ZDNET | Apple’s first touchscreen MacBook is days away - with another OLED surprise Kyle Kucharski · 1h ago · 4 min read Apple reportedly set a date to unveil its new touchscreen MacBooks. Here's what else we expect. Read full story

17:20 <Byte> ZDNET | Renting? These 2 new Apple smart home devices are worth your money (and these 5 are not) Maria Diaz · 59m ago · 6 min read Eyeing Apple's new Home Collection products? Renters should check their lease agreement before installing. Read full story

17:20 <Byte> Engadget | Meta built a huge open-weight AI model for Macs, but you'll need 1TB of RAM to run it Karissa Bell · 17m ago · 1 min read Muse Spark Open is "the most capable US open-weight model to date," the company says. Read full story

17:20 <Byte> WIRED | White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Was an Affiliate Marketer for a Fitness MLM Tess Owen,Tim Marchman · 15m ago · 4 min read Trump's newly installed press secretary tells WIRED that in the early 2010s, she promoted a product for a company then called Beachbody, which she described as “sort of a pyramid scheme.” Read full story

17:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | Anthropic update on independent evaluators 27m ago · 5 min read Anthropic announces updates to embedding independent evaluators Read full story

17:47 <Murphy> The Verge | An Israeli firm is sending spyware through online ads, researchers say Emma Roth · 3h ago · 3 min read Researchers recommend using an ad blocker. Read full story

17:47 <Murphy> Meta AI Research | Introducing Muse Spark Open, The Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date Meta Superintelligence Labs · 17h ago · 3 min read Muse Spark Open is the most capable US open-weight model to date, and brings leading agentic capabilities to your desktop on Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios. Read full story

17:47 <Murphy> More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke | More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke · sunshowers 42m ago · 5 min read Answering questions and concerns. Read full story

18:17 <Murphy> Zach Landes | Jev Meets the Trolley Problem · Zach Landes Zach Landes · 1d ago · 18 min read I asked Jev and 13 other decision models the Trolley Problem. Read full story

18:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | Jack-o: turn an old phone into a talking jack-o'-lantern 1d ago · 5 min read It hears trick-or-treaters, talks back in character, and flickers its flashlight as it speaks. Free, runs in the browser. Read full story

18:20 <Byte> Engadget | Trump ballroom's biggest donors were overwelmingly tech and telecom companies Lawrence Bonk · 32m ago · 2 min read Not that anyone's terribly surprised. Read full story

18:52 <Byte> Engadget | Alexa Tablet 12 Pro review: Amazon's premium tablet gets almost everything right Nathan Ingraham · 22m ago · 15 min read This tablet is a great value, even if Android apps still aren't great on a big screen. Read full story

18:52 <Byte> Engadget | Riot will sunset League of Legends Classic in January 2027 Anna Washenko · 22m ago · 1 min read The throwback League of Legends Classic mode may reappear as a limited-time event in the future. Read full story

18:52 <Byte> Engadget | E Ink's new Kaleido 4 could inch us closer to the perfect color e-reader Ian Carlos Campbell · 10m ago · 2 min read E Ink's new display tech offers improved color reproduction and refresh rates. Read full story

19:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | E Ink Launches Latest Version of Color EPaper Platform, E Ink Kaleido 4 39m ago Comments Read full story

19:17 <Murphy> The Autopian | You Won't Believe The Incredible Engineering That Allows Articulated Buses To Bend Mercedes Streeter · 1d ago · 16 min read The humble articulated bus gets countless people to work every single day. Under the friendly looks is incredible engineering in plain sight. Read full story

19:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | Philip Zimmermann 1d ago · 9 min read Comments Read full story

19:18 <Murphy> Current Affairs | Why We’re Banning AI Nathan J. Robinson · 3h ago · 7 min read We urgently need to protect human thought and creativity. Our magazine is committing itself to remaining handmade. Ensure every publication you support does the same. Read full story

19:21 <Byte> WIRED | Upgrade Your Thermostat Before Winter for Only $120 Kat Merck · 20m ago · 1 min read This refurbished Ecobee covers the smart essentials without piling on features you don’t need. It’s on sale through October 21. Read full story

19:49 <Murphy> Hacker News | We are entering a period of overlapping crises – #OMN (Open Media Network) 9d ago · 6 min read Comments Read full story

19:49 <Murphy> Thereallo | Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking With My Sonarr Thereallo · 27m ago · 6 min read PLEASE stop putting skid malware on torrent sites as South Park episodes Read full story

19:52 <Byte> Engadget | FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic following safety failures Anna Washenko · 23m ago · 1 min read The FTC is investigating possible consumer harms at two major AI companies. Read full story

20:18 <Byte> Ars Technica | Trump cancels Pentagon plans to livestream firing squad execution Ashley Belanger · 2h ago · 3 min read 8 in 10 Americans opposed the Pentagon's plans, a Thursday poll showed. Read full story

20:18 <Byte> Ars Technica | Microplastics in water aren’t inert and make damaging chemicals on their own Jacek Krywko · 1h ago · 6 min read Its effect on people remains an ongoing question. Read full story

20:18 <Byte> Ars Technica | Black Sea drone attacks enter NATO country's territorial waters for first time Jeremy Hsu · 1h ago · 5 min read Suspected Russian drones attack chemical tanker within Romanian waters. Read full story

20:18 <Byte> Ars Technica | What did the Liberty Bell sound like? Science is on the case. Jennifer Ouellette · 1h ago · 4 min read Researchers hunted for clues in modal analysis of 20th-century replica bell at Penn State Behrend. Read full story

20:19 <Murphy> A COLLECTED MAN | Rediscovering the romance of travel clocks Kwan Ann Tan · 27 Sep 2023 · 12 min read When we think of vintage travel clocks, they conjure up images of long-distance, relaxed travel by train or ocean liner. An underappreciated timepiece with rich history, these travel clocks have begun to take on new significance to modern collectors... Read full story

20:20 <Murphy> Eos | 2026 State of the Climate Report Shows a Planet Reaching Its Limits Grace van Deelen · 1d ago · 4 min read The seventh edition of an annual report analyzing Earth’s "planetary vital signs” indicates that Earth systems are rapidly destabilizing, some at an accelerating rate. The report, published today in BioScience, analyzed 16 of these signs, including greenhouse gas emissions levels, ocean heat content and acidity, the mass of major ice sheets, the number of... Read full story

20:22 <Byte> Engadget | NY congressman to introduce bill protecting video game ownership Ian Carlos Campbell · 7m ago · 2 min read Representative Ritchie Torres wants the FTC to establish regulations ensuring you can play the games you've purchased. Read full story

20:48 <Murphy> What's new | Why are we even doing all this? 26m ago · 6 min read [This is a guest post by Rikab Gambhir. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] First, they came for the artists, and I did not speak out… Read full story

20:48 <Murphy> Hacker News | New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing 52m ago Comments Read full story

21:18 <Murphy> Reactor | MiniMax FastH3 Omni API — by MiniMax + Hao AI Lab, hosted on Reactor 1d ago · 1 min read Faster-than-realtime video generation with text, audio and image input. Run MiniMax FastH3 Omni, a MiniMax + Hao AI Lab model, through Reactor's real-time inference API — live playground, pricing, and JavaScript & Python code examples. No GPUs to manage. Read full story

21:18 <Murphy> Hacker News | What I Self-Host | Clever Blog Title 55m ago · 16 min read Comments Read full story

21:20 <Byte> WIRED | AI Hacks Leave a Mess That AI Companies Aren’t Paying For Paresh Dave · 20m ago · 3 min read Powerful AI models continue to cause chaos, but their targets aren’t widely seeking justice. Instead, they’re being encouraged to adopt those same tools. Read full story

21:51 <Byte> WIRED | We Got Hot and Heavy With Meta’s Muse—and Baffled by Apple’s HomeView Brian Barrett,Leah Feiger,Reece Rogers · 32m ago · 28 min read This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men’s tendency to lie about how much they know about AI. Read full story

21:51 <Byte> Ars Technica | Above the 911? Porsche previews a new mid-engined supercar. Jonathan M. Gitlin · 1h ago · 4 min read Porsche’s turnaround plan for 2035 involves less volume but more expensive cars. Read full story

21:51 <Byte> Ars Technica | Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware Dan Goodin · 1h ago · 4 min read The incident is likely 1st confirmation of mercenary spyware delivered by targeted ads. Read full story

21:51 <Byte> Ars Technica | Hegseth’s dubious low-T screening may flag up to 25 percent of the Army Beth Mole · 41m ago · 4 min read Medical experts explicitly recommend against blanket screenings. Read full story

21:51 <Byte> Ars Technica | Plex now helps sell movie theater tickets Scharon Harding · 28m ago · 3 min read Discovery data from Plex users will help studios, advertisers. Read full story

21:54 <Byte> Engadget | The UK may expand the BBC license fee, charging residents to watch streaming services Anna Washenko · 19m ago · 1 min read If the proposal is enacted, it could cost $240 a year to watch YouTube in the UK. Read full story

22:15 <Murphy> The GitHub Blog | GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets with less noise Batu Ozturkler, Shengyu Fu · 2d ago · 10 min read GitHub’s context-aware secret classifier improves detection quality, raises weighted acceptance by 11.5%, and reduces median scan execution time by 86%. Read full story

22:15 <Murphy> The GitHub Blog | From 2,500 requests to 24: Rebuilding star history without the stargazers Taylor Cuilty, Sarita Iyer · 1d ago · 8 min read Our new repo star history API now provides trends without returning individual identities or requiring unbounded database work. Read full story

22:15 <Murphy> The GitHub Blog | GitHub availability report: September 2026 Jakub Oleksy · 1d ago · 6 min read In September, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. Read full story

22:15 <Murphy> The GitHub Blog | Staying Evergreen: How we automated secure access and repo hygiene in a shared org Greg Mohler · 4h ago · 8 min read Automate outside collaborator access reviews and stale-repository archival in your shared GitHub organization with native platform features. Read full story

22:15 <Murphy> The GitHub Blog | The next developer interface is ambient intelligence Martin Woodward · 2h ago · 5 min read AI, agents, voice, and physical controls are shifting software development from operating tools to expressing intent. Read full story

22:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | Client Challenge 1d ago Comments Read full story

22:17 <Murphy> Bold Agent Kit | Call Center Jobs Are Declining, but 14,000 Calls Show Humans Still Outperform AI Bold Agent Kit · 18m ago · 8 min read New research from Bold Agent Kit finds that human receptionists delivered approximately four times stronger inbound intake conversion performance, despite AI answering more calls. Read full story

23:16 <Murphy> Hacker News | OpenNET security: [rootshell] Security Bulletin #22 2d ago · 2 min read Comments Read full story

23:26 <Byte> Engadget | Withings wants new users to pay $100 a year to sync with Apple Health Anna Washenko · 24m ago · 1 min read The smart health company is gating third-party app syncing to its own subscription plan for new users. Read full story

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