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TP-Link Tapo Doorbell Pro D260 Review: Everything You Need at No Extra Cost

TP-Link’s smart home video doorbell has everything you need—no subscription necessary.

OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’

By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.

Now ‘RuneScape’ Is Getting a Series, Too

YouTuber MoistCr1TiKaL will help Jagex bring its 25-year-old MMO RuneScape to animated life.

Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs

The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.

Apple Confirms iPhone 18 Pro Max AT&T Cellular Issues, Affected Devices Require Hardware Replacement

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple said: We have identified an issue affecting a small number of iPhone 18 Pro Max users on the AT&T network that may cause a device to lose service and be unable to make calls. We released iOS 27.0.1 earlier this week and str…

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring this last week, once again, at DF. SSO is table stakes for enterprise deals, but building it into your app yourself means writing SAML controllers, parsing XML assertions, and handling IdP-specific quirks for each provider. Learn how SAML flows …

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Tianjin University Lab Unveils 3-Gram Non-Invasive Brain-Computer Interface That Hides in Hair

Tianjin University's Haihe BCI lab unveiled a 3-gram, 2-cubic-centimeter non-invasive brain-computer interface that packs electrodes, battery and wireless link into one unit.

DeepSeek Harness v0.2.1-alpha.1 Adds Experimental Claude Code Mods Compatibility Layer

DeepSeek Harness v0.2.1-alpha.1 adds an experimental bridge that runs Claude Code Mods as Harness plugins, plus a new entry for agent-built plugins and a developer toolkit.

Gotion Unveils 330Wh/kg Hybrid Solid-Liquid Cylindrical Battery for eVTOLs and Low-Altitude Flight

Gotion's new 46-series cylindrical cell for low-altitude aircraft reaches 330Wh/kg, sustains 6C discharge below 25% charge and supports fast charging or swapping in under five minutes.

Manycore's Aholo Lux3D Turns Three Photos Into an Editable 3D Asset via Agent and Blender

A Leiphone test shows Manycore's Aholo Lux3D generating an editable bronze sculpture from three photos, with an AI agent orchestrating the job and Blender finishing it.

Is Apple Pay’s India Entry Too Late?

The past fortnight has brought several developments around Apple in India. The iPhone 18 Pro and Apple’s foldable iPhone Duo…

Xi'an Jiaotong University Simulates 33-Nozzle Rocket Plumes on 6.774 Trillion Cells With Sugon 8000

A Xi'an Jiaotong University team ran a 6.774-trillion-cell simulation of 33 interacting rocket plumes on tens of thousands of domestic GPUs, reaching 99.01% weak-scaling efficiency.

Disney Hands ‘Ice Age,’ ‘Percy Jackson,’ and More to Netflix

A new licensing deal means the 'Percy Jackson' show Pixar and Disney movies will spend some time in Netflix's house.

Spider-Man Needs a TV Show. But Does He Need *This*?

If Spider-Man does whatever a spider can, what could his clones do for his TV life?

Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’

A federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock to search for her license plate without a warrant.

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AI on Your Gaming PC

If you want to experiment with LLMs, you typically have a choice of sending your requests to someone else’s computer or fielding a very large GPU and CPU setup to …read more

Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/federal-judge-calls-flock-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948254 Points: 450 # Comments: 248

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949235 Points: 516 # Comments: 264

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Motion Control via Belt

[Tolko] wanted to encourage kids to have some physical activity, but noted that they only wanted to play games. That led to BlobJump, a Raspberry Pi-based game sort of like …read more

Why State is the Hardest Thing in Software Design

In this article, we will look at why state is the hardest thing in software development and the multiple strategies that developers can use to manage it.

Play PlayStation 2 and XBox 1 Games on Your Jailbroken PS5

Whereas PlayStation 3 and earlier were rather specialized consoles, today’s consoles like the PlayStation 5 are essentially x86-based gaming PCs in a fancy case, with custom firmware to lock it …read more

OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/03/openai-safety-leader-quits-warning-ai-companys-culture-is-broken Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948332 Points: 265 # Comments: 3

EP228: How SSH Works

Secure shell is a method to access a remote machine securely over an unsecured network. It starts with a TCP connection from the SSH client to the remote machine (SSH server).

Debloat The Internet With a Self-Hosted Compressing Proxy

It’s no secret that the size of webpages has been slowly — or not so slowly — creeping up over the years. Does a simple website need to span multiple …read more