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- Weekend heat for parts of UK before more rain next week
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Engadget
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Smashing Magazine
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- New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first
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- Show HN: Reactor Atlas
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- Unusual Suspects
- How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?
- Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended
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- A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it
- OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3
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Ars Technica
- Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
- Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming
- 150 research primates got diarrhea, flooding lab with priceless vaccine data
- Confused about which VPN is right, US senator asks the NSA for guidance
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- Just like a fruit fly, a new algorithm never forgets old scents
- Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime
- Trump’s 100% tariff on drones will be disaster for the US, critics warn
- Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners
- Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion
- Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grants
- I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale
- FCC plans robocall scorecard to grade phone companies on spam call blocking
- Wary of Artemis IV timeline, NASA is changing lunar spacesuit design
- Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks
- Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing
- US court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust case
- Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen and journalist in space, dies at 84
- The Army just used a 20-kilowatt laser to take out three drones
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Slashdot
- Bernie Sanders Proposes Artificial Superintelligence Ban Amid Rogue AI Hackings
- Four Major AI Models Suffer Rare Overlapping Downtime
- Apple Sued For $2.7 Billion Over App Tracking Transparency Rules
- Xbox Cloud Gaming Switches to Monthly Hour Limits
- 'Welcome to the AGI Era,' OpenAI Says As GPT-6 Astra Debuts
- Nvidia Launches Free Tool That Links Idle Computers Into a Personal AI Data Center
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- Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling
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- Global Heating Will Hit At Least 1.8C, UN Warns, and There Are 'No Good Outcomes'
- FCC Plans Robocall Scorecard to Grade Phone Companies On Spam Call Blocking
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BoingBoing
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- Can you draw the unusual suspects?
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- Nvidia will officially bring DLSS 5 to older GPUs — but won’t give gamers full control
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- Gimlet Labs, which helps customers divide AI tasks across multiple chip types, raised $300M led by a16z at a $3B valuation, six months after an $80M Series A (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
- Resect AI, which is developing open-source tech to catch AI hallucinations before they happen, emerges from stealth with $25M from private equity investors (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
- Wikimedia Foundation staffers vote 158-14 to join the CWA, which will represent 200+ US employees across engineering, finance, and communications (Paresh Dave/Wired)
- Vals analysis: open-weight models performing multi-stage tasks, like building a web app, can have an environmental impact 10K times greater than simple queries (Bloomberg)
- Tesla says Cybercab rides are available in limited areas of Austin; the two-seater has no steering wheel or pedals, and 45 Cybercabs are registered in Texas (Reuters)
- AI scientist and Google researcher Ray Kurzweil joins BCI startup Subsense, which develops non-surgical BCI tech involving inhaled nanoparticles, as an advisor (Alexei Oreskovic/Fortune)
- Sources: Index Ventures dropped plans to invest in AI assistant Town after Instinct, which Index is backing, complained about a potential conflict of interest (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
- Sources: Crusoe raised $3B+ at a ~$30B post-money valuation; Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-led the round, with Mubadala Capital participating (Bloomberg)
- Sources: PayPal has paused plans to sell its VC portfolio for $900M-$1B after bids came in lower than hoped, months after deciding to wind down PayPal Ventures (Axios)
- Oura files for a US IPO, reporting a $924.3M net loss on $1.21B in revenue for the nine months ended June 30, vs. a $182.8M net loss on $697.6M a year earlier (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)
- Adobe names Customer Experience Orchestration president Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, effective December 1, replacing Shantanu Narayen, who becomes executive chair (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
- OpenAI commits $1B in subsidized model access, training, support, and partnerships to a new initiative aimed at protecting essential services around the world (Sam Sabin/Axios)
- Sources: Crusoe signed a ~$13B, five-year deal with Jane Street to provide GPUs and other infrastructure for AI training and inference via its cloud platform (Bloomberg)
- GPT-6 Astra scores 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 with the standard harness and 99.9% with a new provider adapter harness; Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2%, and GPT-5.6 Sol 7.8% (Greg Kamradt/ARC Prize)
- DOD's Emil Michael says Anthropic is still a designated supply chain risk, a day after Howard Lutnick said it resolved its issues with the Trump administration (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)