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Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat disappears from app stores in India after government order

Bitchat has become largely unavailable in India as a result of the restrictions.

These ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Figures Bring Doom and Steve Upon You

For the collectible crowd, Hot Toys said the 'Avengers: Doomsday' love doesn't have to end once you leave the theater.

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.

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 …

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?

‘Barbie 2’ May Happen After All

Skydance is barely even a company yet, and it's already got its sights on spinning up a 'Barbie' sequel.

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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.

Huawei's openJiuwen Open-Sources X-Router to Pick the Right Model for Each Agent Request

openJiuwen's X-Router sends easy agent requests to light models and hard ones to stronger models, learning from feedback. Tests show near-baseline scores at roughly half the cost.

Indian Listed New-Age Tech Company Tracker: Market Cap, Revenue & More

For years, we at Inc42 have tracked the Indian tech startup ecosystem and seen it grow from a kid to…

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.

Xiaomi Vision Gran Turismo Joins Gran Turismo 7 in October as First Chinese-Brand VGT

Xiaomi's Vision Gran Turismo concept arrives in GT7 with the October Spec IV update, the first Chinese-brand VGT, alongside the series' first driving lessons built around EVs.

IPO-Bound Kuku Technologies Turns Profitable In FY26, Revenue Surges 6X To ₹1,484 Cr

Kuku Technologies Limited, parent company of audio OTT platform Kuku FM and microdrama app Kuku TV, swung into the black…

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.

Vessev built an electric ferry that almost flies

Vessev hopes its electric hydrofoil ferry will change the way people and cities think about boats.

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…

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Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works

https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-soverei... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943034 Points: 410 # Comments: 11

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

A Good DIY Solder Stencil Begins With a Cleanly-Sliced Soda Can

Solder stencils are a fantastic way to accurately apply solder paste to a PCB. Professionally-made stencils are cut from steel, but for the home hacker, soda cans continue to be …read more

Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

tech report: https://aleph-alpha.com/downloads/tech-report.pdf additional paper: https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942706 Points: 518 # Comments: 302

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Fixing a Power Grid That Loses Over Half Its Power to Inefficiency and Theft

[Mini Shaji Thomas] has a deeply interesting article on IEEE Spectrum detailing how the power distribution system for a city of over twenty million people went from failing to first-class. …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: 313 # Comments: 203

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).

ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/30CC4826561366615BFAEC807CDE28A7/S0007125026108046a.pdf/adhd-autism-or-complex-trauma-the-complicated-nature-of-the-question.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946403 Points…

The ESP32, An SDR In Itself

Perhaps the most famous of all the software-defined radio (SDR) receivers is the RTL-SDR, a digital TV receiver on which an undocumented feature was found. Perhaps other radio-enabled chips also …read more