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DNA Puts Humans in the Americas at the Height of the Last Ice Age, but the Debate Isn’t Over
The analysis points to a timestamp of no earlier than 21,000 years ago, but the data leaves a lot more to be desired.
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Record-breaking El Niño Conditions May Linger for 6 Straight Months
Climate models suggest this event and its wide-reaching weather impacts could persist much later into 2027 than usual.
gizmodo.com
ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises
ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealthy relationships with the AI itself.
techcrunch.com
Microsoft releases new Nvidia-chip AI PCs with revamped Windows 11
Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.
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X expands its ‘Gametime’ sports hub beyond the NFL, starting with MLB
X is turning its NFL-focused Gametime feature into a year-round sports destination, starting with MLB and with other professional leagues to follow.
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North America’s Startup Funding Falls In Q3 As AI Giants Eye The Public Markets
In total, investors poured $92 billion into seed- through growth-stage rounds for U.S. and Canadian startups in the third quarter, per Crunchbase data. That’s a 35% decline from the prior quarter but up 50% from year-ago levels.
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International tech
China’s open-weight AI models are winning global users. Who is capturing the value?
China’s open-weight artificial intelligence models are taking off globally, but much of the money they generate is flowing to third-party providers rather than the companies that create them, according to a new study. Developers including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI make their model…
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Ola Electric’s ₹1,000 Cr Rights Issue To Open On October 22, Issue Price Set At ₹27
Ola Electric’s ₹1,000 Cr rights issue is set to open for subscription onOctober 22 and close on October 30, its…
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Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic’s most capable small model yet, and its far cheaper than predecessor
Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 is 90% cheaper than Haiku 4.5 for most requests, scores 72.4% on OSWorld 2.1 against GPT-6 Luna's 48.9%, and is designed as a subagent for high-volume agentic pipelines. Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest …
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Selling Intelligence Was the Warm-Up For AI. Owning Vertical Markets May Be The Play
The most profitable move in artificial intelligence may no longer be selling intelligence. It is selling a model to a…
inc42.com
BAQIS and CAS Physics Ship 2000 uW Modular Dilution Fridge Below 10 mK for Quantum Chips
BAQIS and the CAS Institute of Physics report a modular cryogen-free dilution refrigerator prototype that holds dual modules below 10 mK with roughly doubled cooling power.
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Mukesh Bansal, Ankit Nagori Seek ESOP Buyback From Flipkart Amid IPO Uncertainty
Former senior Flipkart executives, including Flipkart’s former CEO Mukesh Bansal, former CFO Sanjay Baweja and former chief business officer Ankit…
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Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation over 'Anticompetitive' Fees
Article URL: https://www.classaction.org/news/visa-mastercard-major-banks-facing-new-litigation-over-anticompetitive-merchant-credit-card-transaction-fees Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49993914 Points: 390 # Comments: 242
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ESP32 As Your Raspberry Pi’s Linux Wireless Co-processor
A laptop with no wireless connectivity feels like a rarity – but when you shop for powerful Linux single-board computers (SBCs), it is pretty common to see one skimp on …read more
hackaday.com
Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions – Resolved
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/djlmxz2zd0j7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49994027 Points: 222 # Comments: 176
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Repairing a Couple of Very Expensive Registered DDR5 RAM Sticks
It’s definitely a sign of the times when repair shops get handed sticks of registered ECC DDR5 RAM by businesses to try and fix, rather than just tossing the defective …read more
hackaday.com
Handheld Atari 2600 Packs a CRT
We covered [Nick Bild]’s mini Atari console using original devices not so long ago, and today he’s back with the same console wrapped up with a CRT as a handheld. …read more
hackaday.com
Why LLMs Agree With You Even When You’re Wrong
When LLMs sometimes agree with incorrect claims, it is mostly because their training rewards such behaviour. This reward system is built on several things at once, such as accuracy, helpfulness, politeness, and responses that people like.
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How Netflix Taught an LLM to Recommend Movies So That You Keep Watching
In this article, we will look at how GenRec was built.
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2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Dungeons of Daggorath, But Without Quite So Much Typing
People mod games all the time, but it’s not every day someone mods Dungeons of Daggorath for the TRS-80. [Nick Bild] did exactly that, adding joystick support and a couple …read more
hackaday.com
GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996425 Points: 310 # Comments: 150
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