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The Hubble Space Telescope still shines in the eyes of astronomers after 36 years in orbit, but it is not as nimble as it once was. Left alone, the observatory will plunge back into the atmosphere in the…

Hacker News Community · 2h

Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game

33 points · 11 comments

Product Hunt Launches · 2h

ilse

Point at your app and your AI agent changes the code

TechCrunch Startup · 2h

Salesforce’s M&A spree continues with a reported $375M deal for defense tech startup Rune

The AI logistics startup will bolster the CRM giant's Missionforce defense platform.

TechCrunch Startup · 3h

Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down

As an increasing number of AI assistants flood the market, the founder of Ollie, an assistant that respected its users' privacy, says it will be shutting down in a week.

Ars Technica Tech · 3h

Flesh-eating screwworms spread to third state and are attacking pets

For a genuine fright this Halloween, you can turn your gaze to the southern border, where ravenous, flesh-eating maggots are festering and have taken to eating people's pets. This week, the country's New World Screwworm…

Product Hunt Launches · 3h

sitesolide

Deploy your vibe-coded apps on your own server

Product Hunt Launches · 3h

StereoLift Live

your desktop in real 3D, live on your Quest

The Verge Tech · 3h

Apple Intelligence is finally coming to China with iOS 27.3

Apple will launch Apple Intelligence in China with iOS 27.3, the company announced on its Chinese newsroom website , as reported by MacRumors . The Apple Intelligence features will be available first in an iOS 27.3 beta…

Ars Technica Tech · 3h

Oh captain, our captain: Ars staff remembers Patrick Stewart

Along with the rest of the world, we at Ars are mourning Sir Patrick Stewart —the beloved award-winning actor best known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in the…

The Verge Tech · 4h

The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI, as reported earlier by Search Engine Roundtable . With this control, publishers can…

Simon Willison AI · 4h

dbreunig/nesformer

dbreunig/nesformer Inspired by qwenputer by Divyansh Agrawal, Drew Breunig baked a working emulator for a Nintendo Entertainment System 6502 CPU into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B. You can now play NES ROMs such as Super…

Hacker News Community · 4h

Linode Security Incident

140 points · 73 comments

TechCrunch Startup · 4h

Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake

Intel is being hurt by PC sales as the AI industry gobbles memory and other components causing PC prices to rise.

TechCrunch Startup · 4h

Anthropic expected to receive high ‘junk’ rating from credit agencies following IPO, FT report says

Blackstone's forecast is just a prediction, but naturally, a high junk rating would make it more difficult and costlier for Anthropic to raise the money to keep funding its massive spending that has undergirded its…

Product Hunt Launches · 4h

Kestrix

Repo-agnostic CI control plane with DAG-based triggers.

TechCrunch Startup · 4h

Applebee’s exposed customers’ personal data after leaving database password in app

EXCLUSIVE: A security researcher discovered the hardcoded credential in Applebee's app, allowing unrestricted access to customers' personal data.

Ars Technica Tech · 4h

Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl recently declared “it’s time for a renaissance in energy and in supersonic flight” as the supersonic airliner company unveiled a Colorado factory dedicated to making gas turbines for AI…

Ars Technica Tech 🔥 · 8h

Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

In an announcement released Thursday, Fujifilm said it will invest roughly 10 billion yen (about $63 million) to increase its production capacity fivefold for an unlikely beneficiary of the AI era: magnetic tape.…

Hacker News Community · 4h

sanstun: A sans-IO, parallel-friendly WireGuard implementation in Rust

55 points · 9 comments

The Verge Tech · 4h

Exclusive details about Akai’s MPC Sample Key

Akai teased its new MPC Sample Key on Instagram earlier this week, and said it plans to open-source its software so the modding community can hack it to their hearts' delight. While there's no word yet on when the…

TechCrunch Startup · 4h

Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds

No Halloween costume? Just be a deceptively cute AI agent icon, a PHP vulnerability, or sleepy time Bryan Johnson.

TechCrunch Startup · 4h

Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom

Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are raising questions about the sustainability of the AI spending boom.

Hacker News Community · 4h

AO3 Down for Maintenance

89 points · 20 comments

Ars Technica Tech · 5h

Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours

An official extension for Anthropic’s Claude model was backdoored and threatened as many as 5,000 developers' machines, multiple sources reported Friday. Anthropic so far has yet to warn customers of the incident. The…

The Verge Tech · 5h

Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk

Asked about supply chain shortages, like the ongoing RAM shortage , OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that it's "terrible" to have RAM in personal PCs instead of data centers. During his appearance on the…

Ars Technica Tech · 5h

Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job

On August 9, 2026, Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell wrote a Washington Post op-ed called "Universities are fighting AI cheating. But there’s a deeper problem." This week, Schnell discovered the depths of the…

Hacker News Community · 5h

Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man

198 points · 114 comments

Ars Technica Tech · 5h

Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren't even good

A significant number of patients in the US lie to their doctors to get antibiotics they likely don't need, according to two new studies. While that may not be a startling revelation, the studies drills down on the…

TechCrunch Startup · 6h

AI law firm Crosby bids on disintegrating, famed firm Weil Gotshal

Like a real-life episode of "Suits," the demise of famed white-shoe Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been the talk of the legal industry. And now an AI firm has entered the picture.

Hacker News Community · 6h

Jules Verne's Lost Novel

78 points · 14 comments

Hacker News Community · 6h

The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it

87 points · 30 comments

Ars Technica Tech · 6h

Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders

As AI tools and agents have continued their march across all aspects of digital life, many companies are trying to use LLMs to improve the experience of purchasing goods and services on the Internet. Thus far, though, a…

Hacker News Community · 6h

Infinite Mac: BeOS

102 points · 32 comments

Hacker News Community · 6h

A Pickpocket's Guide to New York

51 points · 7 comments

Hacker News Community · 7h

Bunny CDN Security Incident

197 points · 40 comments

The Verge Tech · 7h

Google’s satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth

Google's AI chip-equipped satellite has generated its first response from space. In a blog post on Friday, Google says it successfully booted up the satellite's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), allowing the on-board…

Ars Technica Tech · 8h

Rare meteorite from Mars gives us a view into its ancient crust

Crater counts tell us that most of the Martian surface is more than 3 billion years old, but pieces of Mars we have on Earth tell a different story. The three main classes of Martian meteorites—shergottites, nakhlites,…

TechCrunch Startup · 8h

Satlyt takes another step toward turning satellites into space data centers

Satlyt ran a successful test this month bringing it closer to turning spacecraft, starting with satellites, into virtual data centers.

The Verge Tech · 8h

Rivian’s autonomy gamble faces its first real test

Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe (left) watches Rivian R2s being built after an event at the Rivian assembly plant on May 19th, 2026, in Normal, Illinois. Photo: Scott Olson / Getty Images During an hourlong earnings…

The Verge Tech · 8h

Starbucks wants to use AI to show you a ‘personalized digital menu’ at the drive-thru

Starbucks could eventually show you a personalized digital menu when you pull up to the drive-thru. During an earnings call on Thursday , Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said the company is going to explore "experiences that…

The Verge Tech · 8h

The delightfully messy state of Apple gadgets

The iPhone has more screens ! The MacBook has a touchscreen ! The HomeView does CarPlay apps ! For the first time in a long time, Apple is in a period of unabashed gadget experimentation, and while the final results…

The Verge Tech · 9h

Vizio’s discounted Mini LED TV lets you skip the sign-ups and smarts

Walmart’s inexpensive Vizio produces a nice, bright image, though its black levels aren’t that deep. Photo: John Higgins / The Verge Modern smart TVs let you skip the streaming device, which is convenient, but they also…

Stratechery Strategy · 9h

2026.44: At Long Last…

(Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; highlighted links are free…

The Pragmatic Engineer Engineering · 9h

The Pulse: Anthropic kills the coding interview

The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Today, we cover: Anthropic kills its coding interview. A team at the leading frontier AI company gets zero signal from DSA…

a16z VC · 10h

New Founder Archetypes in the AI Age

From Andrew Chen: These days at a16z I’m mostly working on Speedrun , where we write the first check into brand new startups (up to $1M), and a lot of what we focus on is founder backgrounds/profiles. What are the right…

The Verge Tech · 10h

Google’s latest Nest Learning Thermostat is $60 off just in time for sweater weather

As the weather cools, it may be worth investing in a smart thermostat to help lower your energy bills. Right now, Google’s fourth-gen Nest Learning Thermostat is on sale in all three colors for $219.99 ($60 off) at…

a16z VC · 12h

Charts of the Week: Job FUD Fades

Job FUD Fades Microsoft made some headlines last week when it announced an employee buyout offer to 60,000 of its employees—roughly a quarter of its workforce—that would be worth something like ~$10B, if everyone said…

MIT Technology Review Research · 14h

The Download: GLP-1s and eating disorders, self-aware cities, and forever chemicals

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse. GLP-1…

The Rundown AI AI · 16h

Inside the spy plot around Nvidia’s CEO

Nvidia’s chips are at the center of the U.S.-China AI race, and Washington has spent years trying to keep the best ones out of Beijing’s hands. Now, a New York Times report says U.S. intelligence found that an alleged…

Stratechery Strategy · 16h

Sharp Tech on Video: Anthropic’s S-1 and What It Means for Meta and Muse, You Can See Everything, and Brewers!

Sharp Tech is, for the first time, available on video. You have three ways to consume it: YouTube, Spotify, and here on Stratechery.

MIT Technology Review Research · 17h

Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse.

GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade. But to some clinical psychologists, they can represent something more sinister—a potential trigger for eating disorders. A new…

MIT Technology Review Research 🔥 · 1d

We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time

This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about how they’d be…

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