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Gurman Strikes Again: ‘Apple’s Smart Home Push Includes Doorbell, Lock, Thermostat Codeveloped With LG’

The incomparable Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: Apple Inc.’s upcoming push into smart home devices will include a doorbell, thermostat and other accessories developed through an unusual partnership with LG Electronics Inc. The products will be part of an ecosystem of devic…

Changing Your Career Isn’t Easy

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free! When I changed careers at 30 to…

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There Was Never An Easy AI Era, And Investors Are Raising The Bar

As AI IPOs bring greater scrutiny, argues guest author Maor Farid, founder and CEO of Leo AI, investors will increasingly prioritize customer spending growth, sustainable margins and deployment efficiency over rapid revenue growth alone.

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North America’s Startup Funding Falls In Q3 As AI Giants Eye The Public Markets

In total, investors poured $92 billion into seed- through growth-stage rounds for U.S. and Canadian startups in the third quarter, per Crunchbase data. That’s a 35% decline from the prior quarter but up 50% from year-ago levels.

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The Download: weight-loss drugs slowing aging and carbon dioxide 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. Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers Popular weight-loss drugs may do more than help people shed pounds. T…

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IEEE Report Predicts Tech That Will Transform Lives

By 2028, genetic engineering and gene therapy will be used frequently to treat a variety of diseases, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, according to the recently released 2030 Technology Megatrends Report from IEEE. “We are seeing a fundamental shift in how technolog…

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Tencent Rolls Out a Wave of Vertical AI Agents, From CraftBuddy to MusicBuddy, Inside Its Own Apps

Between July and September Tencent launched around eight vertical AI agents, each built into an existing business, from game creation and music to meetings and freelance matching.

China’s open-weight AI models are winning global users. Who is capturing the value?

China’s open-weight artificial intelligence models are taking off globally, but much of the money they generate is flowing to third-party providers rather than the companies that create them, according to a new study. Developers including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI make their model…

Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic’s most capable small model yet, and its far cheaper than predecessor

Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 is 90% cheaper than Haiku 4.5 for most requests, scores 72.4% on OSWorld 2.1 against GPT-6 Luna's 48.9%, and is designed as a subagent for high-volume agentic pipelines. Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest …

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BAQIS and CAS Physics Ship 2000 uW Modular Dilution Fridge Below 10 mK for Quantum Chips

BAQIS and the CAS Institute of Physics report a modular cryogen-free dilution refrigerator prototype that holds dual modules below 10 mK with roughly doubled cooling power.

Ola Electric’s ₹1,000 Cr Rights Issue To Open On October 22, Issue Price Set At ₹27

Ola Electric’s ₹1,000 Cr rights issue is set to open for subscription onOctober 22 and close on October 30, its…

Conflict in the Red Sea is forcing cloud giants to find a new route for the internet

Google, Meta, and Microsoft are said to be securing expensive land routes as fighting around Yemen threatens the submarine cables connecting Europe and Asia.

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Man Who Spent Millions on Rare Pokémon and Magic Cards Found Guilty of Stealing Over $50 Million in Crypto

He now faces up to 20 years in prison on a money-laundering charge.

Someone Vibe Coded a Free Knockoff of Adobe Creative Suite

It's janky for now, but it sort of works.

Microsoft releases new Nvidia-chip AI PCs with revamped Windows 11

Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.

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Why LLMs Agree With You Even When You’re Wrong

When LLMs sometimes agree with incorrect claims, it is mostly because their training rewards such behaviour. This reward system is built on several things at once, such as accuracy, helpfulness, politeness, and responses that people like.

Streaming Games Means the Nintendo DSi Will Never Be Obsolete

There comes a point where you have to acknowledge that your beloved console is out of date and– barring the odd homebrew title– won’t be playing new games ever again. …read more

Margaret Hamilton has died

Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998895 Points: 528 # Comments: 60

Handheld Atari 2600 Packs a CRT

We covered [Nick Bild]’s mini Atari console using original devices not so long ago, and today he’s back with the same console wrapped up with a CRT as a handheld. …read more

How Netflix Taught an LLM to Recommend Movies So That You Keep Watching

In this article, we will look at how GenRec was built.

Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app

Article URL: https://bigwords.page/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49994443 Points: 335 # Comments: 106

Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI

Article URL: https://www.rswebsols.com/news/meta-and-microsoft-take-steps-to-reduce-employee-usage-of-claude-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997161 Points: 256 # Comments: 254

The LLM Blindspot: Why Models Forget What’s in the Middle of Your Prompt

In this article, we’ll look at why LLMs have this bias against middle information.

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Dungeons of Daggorath, But Without Quite So Much Typing

People mod games all the time, but it’s not every day someone mods Dungeons of Daggorath for the TRS-80. [Nick Bild] did exactly that, adding joystick support and a couple …read more