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OpenAI Has Sent Notices of Sketchy AI Behavior to Over 100 Organizations So Far
None of the instances of what OpenAI calls “misaligned agent activity" have been as severe as the Hugging Face attack so far, the company said in a blog post.
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Electricity Theft Is Rampant, but Delhi Found a Fix
It’s disheartening how much power gets generated and then promptly lost as it travels through grid networks. This leaking of electricity happens when it vanishes as heat as well as when it is pilfered by thieves and nonpaying customers. More than half of the countries that trac…
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An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at from a brain scan
A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and re-create that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way, too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what they’re looking at.  In the image above, for example, the left-h…
MIT Technology Review
The IPO Window Is Opening Selectively; Readiness Will Decide Who Gets Through
The 2026 IPO market is reopening selectively, favoring large companies that spent the slowdown strengthening their financial reporting, governance and operations, writes guest author Mark Williams, chief revenue officer, enterprise, at Datasite, who explains why that readiness gi…
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Scientists Invent Underwater Umbrellas to Protect Coral Reefs—and It Appears to Be Working
The world's coral reefs are in crisis, but a crafty solution could help.
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The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries
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. An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by …
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Seeds Fincap Raises ₹100 Cr To Scale Lending Tech Capabilities
Delhi NCR-based NBFC Seeds Fincap raised more than ₹100 Cr ($10.4 Mn) in a Series B funding round led by…
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Researchers Make AI Their Confidant, But Can’t Afford To Let Their Guard Down
Imagine spending a decade trying to solve one of mathematics’ hardest problems. You finally make progress only to see an…
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AIsphere Launches PixVerse R2, a Real-Time World Model That Remembers What Happens in a Session
AIsphere's PixVerse R2 generates explorable audiovisual worlds in real time, taking text, image, audio and keyboard input mid-stream and keeping state across a session.
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Fresh Bus’ FY26 Revenue More Than Doubles To ₹63.5; Net Loss Widens 33%
ixigo backed e-intercity bus operator Fresh Bus reported a 2.4X jump in its FY26 operating revenue to ₹63.5 Cr from…
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Bilibili Open-Sources Index-Translate, a Qwen3.5-Based Translation Model Family for 150 Languages
Bilibili's Index LLM team released Index-Translate under Apache-2.0: 2B, 9B and 35B-A3B preview text models for 150 languages, plus dubbing, syllable-control and long-document variants.
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Huawei launches Mate 90 series with new Kirin chips across the lineup
Huawei today held its autumn product launch event in Shanghai, unveiling the Mate 90 series. The series includes five models: the Mate 90, Mate 90 Pro, Mate 90 Pro Max, Mate 90 Pro Max Collector’s Edition, and Mate 90 RS Ultimate Design. Prices range from RMB 5,999 ($895) to RMB …
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Why Do LLMs Lie?
In this article, we will look at why this problem of hallucinations happens with LLMs and the techniques that can help make LLMs more dependable for answering.
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SvelteKit 3
Article URL: https://svelte.dev/blog/sveltekit-3-is-here Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926536 Points: 205 # Comments: 68
svelte.dev
How DoorDash Built a Toolbox for AI Agents
In this article, we will look at how the DoorDash engineering team built this gateway and the decisions they made.
bytebytego.com
A Mechanical Radio, Sort Of
[The Mike Stuff] has an interesting proposition. He asserts that ancient people like the Greeks could have built a form of radio that was purely mechanical. We aren’t sure we …read more
hackaday.com
Gardening With…OpenSCAD?
Unless it’s automated or using some other form of high-tech trickery, a vegetable garden isn’t exactly the sort of thing you’d expect to see on Hackaday. Be that as it …read more
hackaday.com
Power It With Sodium (But Please Don’t)
[Applied Science] has a new demo of an old 1970s patent for a portable generator that is both interesting and terrifying. The generator uses sodium and water, which, if you …read more
hackaday.com
Drum Machina Go! as a New Music Tool for the Game Boy
The Nintendo Game Boy is quite possibly the most popular console in the international chiptune community. You might have seen musicians cranking out tunes with LSDJ or Nanoloop, but now …read more
hackaday.com
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1097401/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928121 Points: 224 # Comments: 146
lwn.net
Pi Durable
Related: Pi 1.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926069 - Oct 2026 (184 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925969 Points: 314 # Comments: 38
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