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ElevenLabs’ new v4 speech model supports more expression control and 90 languages
ElevenLabs v4 can clone voices with a 10 second clip
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Google DeepMind’s Hurricane Forecast Model Provides a Whole Extra Day of Warning
WeatherNext Cyclones is pushing the boundaries of what forecasting can achieve.
gizmodo.com
This Weekend, the World Had ‘Avengers Endgame: Encore’ Fever
Nostalgia and the promise of a window to Doomsday made 'Avengers Endgame: Encore' too good for audiences to pass up.
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Mux: Turn Your Video Into Context
My thanks to Mux for sponsoring last week at DF. Video isn’t just something to stream; it’s structured data you build with. Mux Robots — hosted AI workflows — turns video into context. Generate chapters, find key moments, translate audio, and more, through one API call, with no m…
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You Have Every Reason to Distrust Googlebooks—And to Be Optimistic, Too
Googlebooks will get more serialized feature updates that could make its nascent OS a truly unique ecosystem.
gizmodo.com
Scientists Thought Venus Was Too Acidic for Complex Chemistry. It May Actually Be Weirdly Hospitable
MIT researchers recreated a Venus-like stew of 98% sulfuric acid to test complex signaling molecules, like peptides, in the lab. Looks like they passed.
gizmodo.com
International tech
DeepSeek Harness Desktop Preview: Electron Packages on Win and Mac
DeepSeek Harness desktop preview Electron packages for Windows and macOS appeared on download.deepseek.com around September 25, 2026, framed as RC/nightly builds rather than a GA launch.
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[Update] AceVector IPO: Issue Subscribed 1.15X On Day 2
Update | September 28, 17:44 IST AceVector’s ₹420 Cr IPO ended the second day of bidding with full subscription. TIll…
inc42.com
ByteDance grabs one-fifth of China’s data centre capacity as AI drives infrastructure boom
ByteDance accounts for roughly one-fifth of China’s delivered data centre capacity, making the TikTok owner the country’s largest tenant and a main driver of its artificial intelligence buildout, according to new estimates by research firm SemiAnalysis. The estimate comes from th…
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Montage Technology mass-produces fifth-generation DDR5 RCD chip at 8,000 MT/s
Montage Technology has begun mass production of its fifth-generation DDR5 Registering Clock Driver chip, or RCD05, for high-performance RDIMM memory modules used in data centers and AI servers. The chip complies with the JEDEC DDR5 RCD05 specification and supports data transfer r…
technode.com
Huawei Open-Sources openPangu-2.0 Pretrain, SFT and RL Training Code on Ascend
On September 28, 2026 Huawei open-sourced openPangu-2.0 pretrain, SFT and post-training RL code for its Ascend-native MoE stack, complementing earlier Pro (505B) and Flash (92B) weight releases.
pandaily.com
China accounted for 59% of global industrial-robot installations in 2025
China installed 354,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 20% year on year and accounting for 59% of global installations, according to the International Federation of Robotics. China remained the world’s largest industrial-robot market for a second consecutive year. The global opera…
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Hackaday Links: September 27, 2026
It isn’t quite hailing frequencies open, but researchers from Harvard claim they’ve picked up a radio signal directly from a nearby exoplanet. Before you get too excited, planets in our …read more
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An IR Blaster Project, in a Nutshell
The speed that computers have gotten smaller is a bit mind-bending. Most of us now walk around with computers in our pockets that would have rivaled the supercomputers from a …read more
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LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Rebuild YouTube with AI
Rebuild YouTube with AI, taught by a former YouTube engineer, kicks off on Saturday, September 26. Enrollment closes in 24 hours.
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SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today
Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-starship-megarocket-launching-to-orbit-for-1st-time-ever-on-sept-28-watch-it-live Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875411 Points: 250 # Comments: 220
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EP227: Top 9 Places to Use Jev
Jev is TypeSafe AI’s first System One Model. It is 100x faster and cheaper than frontier LLMs.
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Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
Article URL: https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872723 Points: 895 # Comments: 383
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Center-Pivot System Modified to Mow Lawn
When flying over the United States, Australia, and a few other vast and relatively empty parts of the world, strange circular formations can be spotted. These are typically center-pivot irrigation …read more
hackaday.com
The FPGA Chronicles: Exploring the Tang Nano 20K
FPGAs used to be mysterious, expensive devices, but these days you can buy surprisingly capable boards for very little money. Some years ago, I did an FPGA Bootcamp over on …read more
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Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
Article URL: https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870295 Points: 283 # Comments: 98
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