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Hacker News
- Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization
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- Show HN: Tinder, but to Decide What to Eat
- pg_flo – Stream, transform, and re-route PostgreSQL data in real-time
- gptel: a simple LLM client for Emacs
- Programming Languages That Blew My Mind (2023)
- ToolGit: A collection of scripts that extend Git with various sub-commands
- Bill Atkinson doxxed Douglas Adams in 1987
- The Submerged Nabataean Temple in Puteoli at Pozzuoli, Italy
- Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linux
- PacCam: Pac-Man controlled with your face
- Create block devices on your computer backed by Redstone Memory
- Missing open-source contributor presents a dilemma when accepting their PR
- Show HN: Replacicon – Create and customize app icons on macOS
- Unix core utilities implemented in Haskell
- Moving Off Heroku, Slowly
- GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) Is Hiring Back End and Full-Stack Engineers
- A Hamiltonian Circuit for Rubik's Cube
- Mirrord Mirrord on the wall, who's most processed of them all
- Redox OS gets RISC-V support
- A React Renderer for Gnome JavaScript
- Top discoveries about ancient people from DNA in 2023
- Do you need Redis? PostgreSQL does queuing, locking, and pub/sub
- Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacenter networking evolution
- Programming NetBIOS on OS/2
- Future Music magazine is closing after 32 years
- The motor turns too much
- The performance of hashing for similar function detection
Tech blogs
Techcrunch
- Affirm launches in the UK, as ‘buy now, pay later’ market faces regulatory overhaul
- From Lime to Uber to Hertz: Free and discounted Election Day rides
- OpenAI has hired the co-founder of Twitter challenger Pebble
- Founders should seek sector alignment when looking for a family office investor
- ‘If you actually are solving a problem, you don’t talk about any of the hype,’ investor says
- Wesley Chan on what he looks for as he’s shopping for potential unicorns
- Women in AI: Sophia Velastegui believes AI is moving too fast
- GenAI suffers from data overload, so companies should focus on smaller, specific goals
- Why Wiz really turned down Google’s $23B offer
- Quantum Machines and Nvidia use machine learning to get closer to an error-corrected quantum computer
Engadget
- Cartoon Network just released an Over the Garden Wall stop-motion short
- FBI warns voters about inauthentic videos relating to election security
- Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 drop to $179 in this early Black Friday deal
- Okta vulnerability allowed accounts with long usernames to log in without a password
- Engadget review recap: Amazon's colorful Kindle, DJI's latest action cam and more
- New Apple repair program will fix iPhone 14 Plus' rear camera issue for free
- Amazon reportedly bumped back its AI-powered Alexa to next year
- Disney forms dedicated AI and XR group to coordinate company-wide use and adoption
- Greg Hildebrandt, iconic Star Wars and Lord of the Rings artist, has died at 85
- Instagram reorganizes message requests for creators
ZDNet
- Your Windows 10 PC can't be upgraded? You have 5 options before support ends in 2025
- 4 ways to turn generative AI experiments into real business value
- One of the best cheap Android phones I've tested is not made by Motorola or Samsung
- Upgrade to Microsoft Office Pro and Windows 11 Pro with this bundle for 87% off
- Get 3 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for 28% off
- Buy a Microsoft Project Pro or Microsoft Visio Pro license for just $18 with this deal
- How I optimized the cheapest 98-inch TV available to look and sound incredible (and it's $1,000 off)
- One of the most immersive soundbars I've tested is refreshingly compact (and $100 off right now)
- Join Costco and get a $20 gift card - here's how
- The best blood pressure watches of 2024
Wired Magazine
- The 17 Best Barefoot Shoes for Running or Walking (2024)
- Canvassers for Elon Musk’s America PAC Were Fired and Stranded in Michigan After Speaking Out
- 7 Best Beauty Box Subscriptions, Tested and Reviewed (2024)
- Best Mattresses of 2024: Tested for Every Sleep Style
- Rocky Talkie Mountain Radio Review: Expensive, but Worth It
- Unbound Flick Review: A Ring Vibrator
- Automakers Are Hot for Extended-Range EVs. They Hope Buyers Like Them Too
- The Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time
- The Toymaker Who Wants to Be the Next Willy Wonka of Sex Tech
- The Best Ever Game Controller May Be Set for a Comeback
VentureBeat
- Enter the ‘Whisperverse’: How AI voice agents will guide us through our days
- Fortnite Battle Royale gets Chapter 2 Remix with Snoop Dogg and more
- Why multi-agent AI tackles complexities LLMs can’t
- Meta unveils AI tools to give robots a human touch in physical world
- AI on your smartphone? Hugging Face’s SmolLM2 brings powerful models to the palm of your hand
- The show’s not over: 2024 sees big boost to AI investment
- Sequoia investing into DecaartAI for engineless game creation
- DevRev raises $100.8 million in Series A funding and becomes an AI unicorn at a $1.15 billion valuation
- Rec Room coming to Nintendo Switch on November 6
- How gaming can get back to balanced growth | The DeanBeat
Gizmodo
- X Says It Has Begun Rolling Out Controversial Change to Block Function
- Just Before Black Friday, Amazon is Slashing Prices on The New MacBook Air With The XL 15-Inch Display
- At 40% Off on Amazon, This Roomba Robot Vacuum is Cheaper Than AirPods And Will Last a Lifetime
- This 15-Inch Portable Monitor is Ideal For Gaming or Work, Now Just $59 on Amazon For Early Black…
- Matthew Lillard Reflects on His Journey to Be a Great Actor
- Sasheer Zamata Talks Becoming Agatha All Along’s Final Girl
- Your Guide to the Leonids: How to See November’s Fiery Meteor Display
- San Francisco Startup Sees Big Demand for Sleeping Pods That Cost $700 a Month
- Roar in Delight With These New Godzilla Toys
- Add Ninjago To the List of Live-Action Lego Movies We’re Getting
Techmeme
- Sources: iOS 18.2 may arrive during the week of December 2; thoughts on the Mac mini as a gaming …
- A single $123M grant has been finalized from the $33B+ announced so far under the US CHIPS Act, w…
- Geekbench 6: Apple's M4 Max chip scores 4,060 in single-core tests, making it the first productio…
- Why Bluesky not adding the federation systems that would let users leave the Bluesky server and t…
- An interview with Steve Ballmer on trying to turn USAFacts, his not-for-profit civic initiative, …
- Experts say Tesla's imitation learning-based approach to building fully autonomous driving system…
- Q&A with Kay Koplovitz about her transition to VC with Springboard after the sale of USA Netw…
- Amazon's plan to rearchitect Alexa around LLMs could finally help Alexa understand what users are…
- Google Cloud's Q3 revenue grew 35% YoY to $11.35B and had a 17% operating margin, outpacing AWS' …
- Interviews with Amazon Health Services SVP Neil Lindsay and others on the company's health care b…
The Verge
- Can Nintendo’s Alarmo run Doom? You bet it can
- Your favorite musician’s favorite TikTok show
- US immigration policy has a huge blind spot: climate change
- Rolls-Royce’s first electric vehicle sounds like no other
- The AI search engines are here — and getting better
- Here are the best AirPods deals you can get right now
- Trailers of the week: Squid Game, Presence, and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
- Kindle Colorsoft owners complain of a yellow bar on the e-reader’s screen
- The best wireless earbuds to buy right now
- Apple’s AirTags have dropped to one of their best prices to date
TNW
- Can OpenAI’s Strawberry program deceive humans?
- TNW Podcast: Endless possibilities of a digital stethoscope with Diana van Stijn, Lapsi Health
- These are 3 of the hardest and 3 of the easiest programming languages to learn
- How AI can help you make a computer game without knowing anything about coding
- Robot developers keep making it seem like housebots are imminent when they’re decades away
- AI probably isn’t the big smartphone selling point that Apple and other tech giants think it is
- How your online world could change if big tech companies like Google are forced to break up
- Space rover tests ‘natural intelligence’ based on insect brains
- Tech bosses think nuclear fusion is the solution to AI’s energy demands – here’s what they’re missing
- TNW Podcast: Phill Robinson, Boardwave on Europe’s pathway to success
Slashdot
- How a Slice of Cheese Almost Derailed Europe's Most Important Rocket Test
- Leaked Training Shows Doctors In New York's Biggest Hospital System Using AI
- New Study Suggests Oceans Absorb More CO2 Than Previously Thought
- After Silence, NASA's Voyager Finally Phones Home - With a Device Unused Since 1981
- Millions of U.S. Cellphones Could Be Vulnerable to Chinese Government Surveillance
- New 'Open Source AI Definition' Criticized for Not Opening Training Data
- Invisible, Super Stretchy Nanofibers Discovered In Natural Spider Silk
- Can Heat Pumps Still Save the Planet from Climate Change?
- AI Bug Bounty Program Finds 34 Flaws in Open-Source Tools
- What's Worse Than Setting Clocks Back an Hour? Permanent Daylight Savings Time
ArsTechnica
- Here are 3 science-backed strategies to rein in election anxiety
- Dystopika is a beautiful cyberpunk city builder without the ugly details
- US Space Force warns of “mind-boggling” build-up of Chinese capabilities
- Fungi may not think, but they can communicate
- iPod fans evade Apple’s DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games
- As North Korean troops march toward Ukraine, does a Russian quid pro quo reach space?
- Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks
- As hospitals struggle with IV fluid shortage, NC plant restarts production
- Starlink enters National Radio Quiet Zone—but reportedly cut off access for some
- Beware pirates and booby traps in new Skeleton Crew trailer
The Register
- Singapore to increase road capacity by tracking all vehicles with GPS
- 6 IT contractors arrested for defrauding Uncle Sam out of millions
- That position you just applied for might be a 'ghost job' that'll never be filled
- Oregon Trail 'action comedy' film in the works from Apple
- The hunt is on for the scum who stole Britain's largest inflatable planetarium
- Financial institutions told to get their house in order before the next CrowdStrike strikes
- Fujitsu, AMD lay groundwork to pair Monaka CPUs with Instinct GPUs
- Microsoft tries out wooden bit barns to cut construction emissions
- GCC 15 to keep Itanium support for now, after all
- If Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done asap
Medium: Technology
- I built a platform that automate any investing idea you can think of. Here’s how.
- Dive into Lum Network: Airdrop Claim Guide Unveiled
- An AI Can Now Operate Your Computer (And It’s Being Built Open Source!)
- Why 0177.0.0.1 Is Still Your Localhost
- Meet StackSpot AI
- The Real Reason Python Is Slow (And Can It Ever Truly Be “Fixed”?)
- Your Ticket to Free Voltz: Airdrop Claim Guide
- Claim Your Tokens: marginfi Airdrop Guide Now Live
- Your Aboard Airdrop Playbook: Claim Now!
- Introducing the Ultimate AI-Powered Co-Pilot for Engineers and Creators
Vox - Technology
- Were Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin really shadow banned by Instagram and X?
- Elon Musk assures voters that Trump’s victory would deliver “temporary hardship”
- Should you feel guilty about using AI?
- Elon Musk says he’s giving away $1 million a day to voters. Is that legal?
- Inside OpenAI’s multibillion-dollar gambit to become a for-profit company
- The surprising source of kids’ stress lurking on parents’ phones
- How progress creates its own obstacles
- Toxic lies are surging in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton
- Are humans the only ones that can be creative?
- The shady origins of the climate haven myth
Quartz
- The 5 best tires for your car right now, according to Consumer Reports
- Election Day, a Fed rate cut, and more AI earnings: What to watch in the markets this week
- Boeing's crisis, Stellantis struggles, and a McDonald's fix: Business news roundup
- Election betting, tech stocks sink, and Bitcoin under Trump: Markets news roundup
- When Facebook became Meta, Big Tech's AI spending spree, and Elon Musk's robots: Tech news roundup
- A 'biohacker' tries cheating death, private train cars, and Trump's mansion: Lifestyle news roundup
- Jeff Bezos explains, Elon Musk's Trump job, Amazon and Starbucks return-to-office: Leadership new…
- 6 popular cars you actually shouldn't buy, according to Consumer Reports — and the 6 to buy instead
- The 'world's thinnest' wafers, AI agents, and Apple's surprise: This week in new AI launches
- Apple's new AI, a simpler Starbucks, Stellantis struggles, a McDonald's fix: The week's most popu…
MIT Technology Review
- How a breakthrough gene-editing tool will help the world cope with climate change
- The Download: OpenAI launches search, and AI-generated video games
- How exosomes could become more than just an “anti-aging” fad
- This AI-generated version of Minecraft may represent the future of real-time video generation
- AI search could break the web
- OpenAI brings a new web search tool to ChatGPT
- Chasing AI’s value in life sciences
- The Download: US house-building barriers, and a fusion energy facility tour
- Inside a fusion energy facility
- The surprising barrier that keeps us from building the housing we need
BleepingComputer
- Meet Interlock — The new ransomware targeting FreeBSD servers
- ChatGPT-4o can be used for autonomous voice-based scams
- Microsoft SharePoint RCE bug exploited to breach corporate network
- Microsoft Outlook workaround fixes freezes when copying text
- Microsoft warns Azure Virtual Desktop users of black screen issues
- LA housing authority confirms breach claimed by Cactus ransomware
- OpenAI's new ChatGPT Search Chrome extension feels like a search hijacker
- LastPass warns of fake support centers trying to steal customer data
- Synology hurries out patches for zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own
- DDoS site Dstat.cc seized and two suspects arrested in Germany
BGR
- Tired of the barrage of political text messages? Here’s what you can do
- Archaeologists uncovered a 2,000-year-old temple submerged underwater
- Hisense U7N review: Incredible value
- How the Apple Watch Series 10’s new Wrist Temperature feature helped me when I got sick
- Scientists found a new way to make cancer cells self-destruct
- Pluto TV: 16 free movies you should stream in November 2024
- Researchers found an incredible way to stop nightmares
- The top-ranked series this week on Hulu, Max, Apple TV+, Prime, Netflix, and more
- 5 useful Apple CarPlay features you might have missed
- Scientists found a clear link between red meat and cancer
Flipboard: Tech
- Swiss unicorn Climeworks seeks Hong Kong investors for carbon capture projects
- Google user highlights ridiculous search result produced by plugin: 'It's gotten to where I can't…
- In just 3 days, the state of Nintendo Alarmo hacking went from 'it loads a cat jpg' to 'it runs D…
- Here’s How Analysts Reacted to Apple’s Q4 Results
- Being a Tesla Self-Driving Tester Sounds Like the Most Stressful Job Ever
- Amazon has a ton of tech gadgets on sale ahead of Black Friday – shop the 15 best
- The Ultimate Tech Go-Bag: 10 Things I Never Travel Without (And Neither Should You)
- San Francisco Startup Sees Big Demand for Sleeping Pods That Cost $700 a Month
- 10 Things Nearing Obsolescence ... For Better or Worse [Say Goodbye 👋]
- Groundbreaking rotator cuff treatment regenerates and protects shoulder from reinjury
Mainstream media
NYTimes: Tech
- How Elon Musk’s X Account Dominates the Platform Ahead of the Election
- Generative A.I. Made All My Decisions for a Week. Here's What Happened.
- No, Vote Spikes on Election Night Do Not Indicate Voter Fraud
- Nvidia Will Replace Intel in the Dow Jones Stock Index
- How a Georgia Security Conference Became a Target of Election Deniers
- This Group Refuses to Stop Tracking Disinformation
- Election Falsehoods Take Off on YouTube as It Looks the Other Way
- Billionaire Game Theory + We Are Not Ready for A.G.I. + Election Betting Markets Get Weird
- What if A.I. Is Actually Good for Hollywood?
- Apple’s Quarterly Profit Down Because of Tax Payment in Europe
WSJ: Tech
- I'm a New Mom. The Latest Wearable Breast Pumps Gave Me Freedom.
- People Are Hooked on Costco Hearing Aids, and This Is Why
- Why Elon Musk's Robotaxi Dreams Are Premature
- The Budget Hawk Atop a Tech Giant's $64 Billion Spending Spree
- Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk
- OpenAI Adds Search Engine to ChatGPT, Challenging Google
- Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk
- I Replied Stop to a Political Text Message. I Got 100 More.
- Meta Reports Record Revenue, Slower Ad Growth
- Samsung Sees Progress in Memory Chips for AI After Delays
Guardian: Tech UK
- ‘We have no choice’: Gazan workers find a lifeline in freelancing amid war
- The chatbot optimisation game: can we trust AI web searches?
- Addicted to love: how dating apps ‘exploit’ their users
- Microsoft workers fired over Gaza vigil say company ‘crumbled under pressure’
- ‘What a privilege … ’ trend catches on as gratitude makes social media comeback
- From Northern trains to Dolly Parton, the institutions that can’t quit the fax
- Elon Musk’s ‘election integrity community’ on X is full of baseless claims
- ‘Cloud-milking’: the zero-energy technique keeping young trees alive
- Life Is Strange: Double Exposure review – supernatural drama gets caught up in its tangled timelines
- Conspiracy of silence? Why business leaders are so quiet on Trump
BBC: Tech UK
- The environmental campaigners fighting against data centres
- DNA-testing site 23andMe fights for survival
- Hunt for Bitcoin's elusive creator Satoshi Nakamoto hits another dead-end
- Law firm finds grooming claims against MrBeast co-host baseless
- Snapchat most-used app for grooming, says NSPCC
- The house paints that promise much more than colour
- Russia fines Google more money than there is in entire world
- China's BYD overtakes Tesla revenue for first time
- 'Sickening' Molly Russell chatbots found on Character.ai
- How X users can earn thousands from US election misinformation and AI images
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