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Your car and its mobile app are probably handing over all kinds of data to tech companies
Researchers at Northeastern University found vehicles and their companion apps regularly shared detailed data with some of the largest tech companies.
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Scientists Dated the Catastrophic Pompeii Eruption Using Only Rocks. Here’s How Close They Got
According to Pliny the Younger, Mount Vesuvius erupted on August 24th, 79 CE. That date is now helping geochronologists modify a common mineral dating technique.
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Follow-Up on my Spitballed Predictions for Apple’s October
Regarding my post yesterday speculating on how Apple’s October — seemingly set to be a big one — might play out, a friend asked if any or all of the new stuff might be released through Apple Newsroom announcements only. Good question. Let’s run through the rumored new hardware pr…
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Tiny Health Raises $33M To Explore What Gut Data Can Reveal About Future Health
Austin-based Tiny Health has raised $33 million in a Series B funding round led by B Capital to help it meet growing demand for its at-home microbiome tests.
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Oura Hits Pause On IPO While Anthropic’s Prospectus Reveals The Cost Of Its AI Ambitions
Although Oura has postponed its planned offering that could have raised as much as $2.2 billion, Anthropic is still making a move toward the public markets along with AI cloud provider Nscale and other companies lining up potential fourth-quarter listings.
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Unveiling IC-STAR: Full-Flow Autonomy from Digital to Analog
Learn how engineers can shift from manually managing tools and handoffs to defining objectives and supervising AI-driven execution across the silicon development lifecycle. Key Takeaways Explore four critical technologies enabling silicon design autonomy Understand how autonomou…
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International tech
StockGro Confidentially Files IPO Papers, Eyes Up To ₹2,500 Cr Issue
Investment advisory startup StockGro pre-filed its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India for…
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Nvidia and AMD chiefs join Tsinghua advisory board as US-China chip tensions persist
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang and AMD chief Lisa Su have joined an influential advisory board at a prestigious Chinese university, placing the two key American AI tech leaders in a high-level forum known for connecting global executives with senior Chinese officials. Huang …
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[Update] AceVector IPO Closes With 4.93X Oversubscription
Update | September 29, 2026 19:55 IST Snapdeal parent AceVector’s ₹420 Cr IPO was oversubscribed 4.93X at the end of…
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Xiaomi HyperOS 4 Stable Rollout Starts October 15 With Xiaomi 17 and REDMI K100 Pro
Xiaomi will start pushing stable Xiaomi HyperOS 4 in China on October 15, beginning with the Xiaomi 17 series, REDMI K100 Pro and K90 models and Xiaomi Pad 8 tablets, before expanding in waves through January 2027.
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Xiaomi promotes MiMo team lead Luo Fuli to its top job level
LatePost reported that Xiaomi’s September promotion list elevated Luo Fuli, who leads the company’s MiMo large-model team, to level 22. A person familiar with Xiaomi told the outlet that level 22 is the company’s highest rank. The promotion was announced internally on September 2…
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Alibaba deepens sports tech push with new Brooklyn Nets partnership
Alibaba Group Holding has become an official technology and cloud partner of NBA team Brooklyn Nets, as the tech giant pushes for a deeper presence in the sports industry. The collaboration was announced on Monday under a multi-year strategic partnership between Alibaba and Brook…
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Tcl/Tk 9.1
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Geothermal Cooling For New York’s Subways
You might think that if you dug some tunnels down into the ground where you could be out of the sunshine, that you might find them to be relatively cool …read more
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Designing a Fully 3D-Printed Mechanical Calculator
Even if almost tragically impractical in a world where digital calculators are cheap as chips, mechanical calculators and their big mechanical computer brethren remain an absolute marvel of engineering. Using …read more
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PS5 Relapse Exploit
Article URL: https://github.com/ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895304 Points: 205 # Comments: 108
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DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/draftkings-using-ai-supercharge-harms-online-behavioral-advertising Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896050 Points: 517 # Comments: 364
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Dots: Always-on agents
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896604 Points: 428 # Comments: 332
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Electromechanical TV Goes 3D with This Light-field Display
A mechanical TV — the kind that makes an image with a Nipkow disk and a single lamp with some help from persistence of vision — is easy enough to …read more
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GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896586 Points: 729 # Comments: 662
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Improved Double-Sided Toner Transfer Method
In the era before PCB shops would make almost any PCB imaginable, as well making many other manufacturing processes for prototypes available to hobbyists, there were several ways of making …read more
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