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★ Apple Is Going to Further Tighten the Screws on Full Disk Access on MacOS, in Response to Agentic AI Apps Running Amok
Apple Developer News, in a post titled “Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS”: We give developers powerful APIs to build incredible capabilities into their apps for Apple products, backed by a set of controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Access largely sides…
daringfireball.net
Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music
Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.
techcrunch.com
Nautical And Marine Startups See Stepped-Up Funding
Over the past year, venture backers have poured close to $3 billion into good-sized rounds for marine-related startups in sectors ranging from defense tech to clean energy, per Crunchbase data. Top areas for investment include autonomous sea vessels, water robots, electric waterc…
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Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI
Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight. Model capabilities are advancing faster than most organizations can absorb, while the cost of performance continues to fall. Globally, AI investment is set to reach $2.5 trillion in 2026, up 44% from …
MIT Technology Review
Contest-Winning Microscope Video Is Full of AI Confabulations, Scientists Say
The winner of Nikon's 2026 Small World In Motion contest said he used AI to post-process real video.
gizmodo.com
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Almost All About AI
This week’s list of the largest U.S. startup funding rounds was pretty much all about AI. That includes the biggest financing — a $1 billion round for Instinct, a developer of AI assistants for everyday tasks — as well as most of the rest of the Top 10.
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International tech
AceVector IPO: SoftBank Pockets ₹88 Cr, Most Selling Shareholders Book Losses
Snapdeal parent AceVector’s initial public offering (IPO) provided an exit opportunity to several of its early investors and promoters, with…
inc42.com
IPO-Bound JSW One’s FY26 Loss Narrows 51% YoY To ₹107 Cr, Revenue Jumps 45%
JSW Group’s B2B ecommerce marketplace JSW One Platforms narrowed its consolidated net loss by 50.9% to ₹106.5 Cr in FY26…
inc42.com
How BorderPlus Is Turning India’s Talent Surplus Into A Global Workforce
A decade ago, the biggest demographic concern gripping the globe was population overgrowth. Cut to 2026, and the demographic worry…
inc42.com
FY26 Financial Tracker: Tracking The Financial Performance Of Indian Startups
The Indian startup ecosystem continued to mature in FY26, with 22 new-age tech companies making their public market debut as…
inc42.com
Who gets to decide if AI is safe? Africa wants a say
African companies race to adopt American and Chinese AI, with little attention paid to safety.
restofworld.org
From Simple Energy To Arivihan — Indian Startups Raised Over $233 Mn This Week
Funding momentum in the Indian startup ecosystem continued through the final week of September. Homegrown new-age tech ventures raised…
inc42.com
Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused
Meta wants Muse in your TV and your toaster, so it's giving the code away for free.
techcrunch.com
Engineering Multipole Resonances in Dielectric Metasurfaces for Transmission, Reflection, and Absorption Control
Dielectric metasurfaces have moved to the forefront of nanophotonics, offering flat, low-loss alternatives to conventional bulk optical elements for controlling the amplitude, phase, and polarization of light. These structures are of growing interest to researchers and engineers …
event.on24.com
European Commission Staff Really Dislike Their ‘Sovereign’ Alternative to Microsoft Teams: Report
The EU executive branch implemented a non-US-made backup to Teams. One staffer called it "absolute sh*t".
gizmodo.com

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From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4
Article URL: https://dwarfstar.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49936575 Points: 212 # Comments: 56
dwarfstar.sh
Zig v0.17.0
Article URL: https://ziglang.org/download/0.17.0/release-notes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938521 Points: 238 # Comments: 160
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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.
bytebytego.com
2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Lunar Lander on the PDP-1
A lot of the retrocomputing world is focused on the 1980s, and for good reason– the home computer revolution was in full swing in that decade, and there is a …read more
hackaday.com
Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours
Article URL: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/10/02/big-tech-ruined-the-cloud-so-were-renaming-ours/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934228 Points: 206 # Comments: 102
home-assistant.io
Hackaday Podcast Episode 389: Spinning Lightfield Displays, and Jenny Visits a Blast Furnace
Another all-European podcast for you this week, as Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for an evening looking at the past week in Hackaday. And this week there is …read more
hackaday.com
Is This The Smallest Internet Radio?
Internet radios have been a thing in some form for the last quarter century, and the advent of cheap networked microcontrollers has made them easier than ever to build. But …read more
hackaday.com
Apple Pass Designer
Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/pass-designer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937276 Points: 396 # Comments: 242
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Electronic Busy Board is Fun for Kids and Hackers
While you may not be familiar with the term “busy board”, you’ve almost certainly seen one. It’s the sort of toy with a bunch of buttons, switches, and of course …read more
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