BBC
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- King's Australia visit ends on positive note
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- Infertility made me feel guilty, says TV newsreader
- Man dies and 15 injured after two trains collide
- UK borrowing rises ahead of Budget
- Woman, 91, who killed toddler should not have been driving, inquiry rules
- HSBC splits bank between East and West in major overhaul
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- Australian teen: Oh my God, I just talked to the Queen
- BBC News app
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- 14 days until the election... Who's winning?
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Engadget
- The Ring Stick Up Cam is back on sale for a record-low price
- One of our favorite budget robot vacuums is 33 percent off right now
- The Xbox Wireless Headset receives microphone and battery life upgrades
- Meta bans private jet tracking accounts on Instagram and Threads
- Epic Games launches a new unified game development assets marketplace, Fab
- WhatsApp will soon let users add contacts from any device
- iPad mini 7 review: Safe, boring and everything I want in a small tablet
- Spotify debuts an in-app cover art maker for playlists
- You can no longer sign up for Hulu or Disney+ in Apple's App Store
- Netflix has closed its AAA gaming studio
- Blade Runner 2049 producer sues Elon Musk for image used in Cybercab launch
- The Morning After: Ford tells EV owners to stop using its Tesla adapter
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- Wall Street Journal and New York Post are suing Perplexity AI for copyright infringement
- Meta is bringing back facial recognition with new safety features for Facebook and Instagram
- 8BitDo's $40 Analogue 3D controller arrives on March 19
- Nintendo Alarmo review: Charming, yet frustrating
- Foursquare is killing its city guide app to focus on the check-in app Swarm
- Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite is its next premium mobile chip
- Star Citizen spinoff Squadron 42 has been delayed again until 2026
- Alan Wake 2's upcoming PS5 Pro update will add a 4K ray-tracing mode
- The critically acclaimed Neva will get a physical release next year
- Vampire Survivors is getting a Castlevania expansion, but still no vampires
- The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition will only be sold in Korea and China
- iOS 18.1 launches next week with Apple Intelligence and AirPods Pro hearing tests and aids
- Disney's Daredevil series lands March 4, 2025
- Star Trek: Section 31 will premiere on January 25
- Ford tells EV owners to stop using its free Tesla Supercharger adapters
- The Morning After: We test Canon’s new EOS R5 II
- Alien: Romulus is coming to VHS
- The best foldable phones for 2024
- Engadget review recap: Budget-friendly gadgets that are good
- Spilled Mushrooms is my new Playdate card game addiction
- Star Trek: Lower Decks bows out on business as usual
- DJI challenges its 'Chinese military company' Pentagon designation in court
- Spider-Man 2 will crawl onto PCs in January
- Google wants to put the consequences of its Epic antitrust ruling on pause during appeal
- Penguin Random House amends its copyright rules to protect authors from AI
- Turns out Redbox's derelict kiosks are a big red security risk
- Nightdive Studios revives a cult classic 3DO game from 1996
- Google NotebookLM adds improved audio overviews and background listening feature
- Samsung and LG OLED TVs are close to all-time lows, plus the rest of the week's best tech deals
- Canon EOS R5 II review: Canon’s most powerful camera yet puts Sony on notice
- Qualcomm axes its Windows on ARM PC dev kit
- Tesla's FSD is under federal investigation after four reduced-visibility crashes
- The US Treasury is using AI (a vehicle for fraud) to detect fraud
- You can now add songs to Spotify straight from Instagram posts
- Engadget Podcast: Why we're intrigued by the Kindle Colorsoft
- The Morning After: YouTube is testing a new subscription option that could remove most ads
- Amazon's new basic streamer is the $35 Fire TV Stick HD
Pinboard
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- Data Science Version Control System
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- Graphite | Redefining state-of-the-art graphics editing. — raphite is an in-development raster and vector 2D graphics editor that is free and open source. It is powered by a node graph compositing engine that supercharges your layer stack, providing a completely non-destructive editing experience.
- sirikon.me - 0009 PID 1 Bash script for Docker containers explained line by line
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- Busy Status Bar — Universal LED pixel display indicating any status
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- Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought | Hacker News — "Since we all have language and opinions about it, the risk of genericness is high with a title like this." - dang
- Getting Older? It Might Be Time to Hire a Trainer. - The New York Times
- GitHub - whitequark/superlinker
- Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
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- The Nobel for Econsplaining
- OpenTelemetry Tracing in 200 lines of code | Jeremy Morrell
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- mistral.rs
- The New Artificial Intelligentsia
- GitHub - google/wireit: Wireit upgrades your npm scripts to make them smarter and more efficient.
- The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs — . Drew Breunig introduces an interesting new framework for categorizing use cases of modern AI: Gods refers to the autonomous, AGI stuff that's still effectively science fiction. Interns are supervised copilots. via Pocket
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- UserDefaults and tricky bugs
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- SWEBOK - Software Engineering Body Of Knowledge - The Guide
- GitHub - drasi-project/drasi-platform — Contribute to drasi-project/drasi-platform development by creating an account on GitHub.
- Take The Near Impossible Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote (1964) | Open Culture
- 1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies — amazing
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- Microsoft Drasi — Easy and efficient to detect and react to changes in databases
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- Slingcode
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- Doctor Fukushi Masaichi And The Art Of Preserving Tattooed Skin
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- How to do distributed locking — Martin Kleppmann’s blog
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- Forever ✱ Notes - A Framework for Apple Notes
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- The Great American Novels - The Atlantic
- Humanity is on the verge of 'shattering Earth's natural limits', say experts in biodiversity warning
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- IBM debuts open source Granite 3.0 LLMs for enterprise AI | VentureBeat
- Marissa Mayer: I Am Not a Feminist. I Am Not Neurodivergent. I Am a Software Girl | WIRED
- 2004 was the first year of the future | The Verge — Lots of late-90s/early-00s chaotic design energy
- Blockquotes in Screen Readers — Adrian Roselli
- B.C. Green Leader Sonia Furstenau loses seat in 2024 election | CBC News
- GitHub - dani-garcia/vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs — endorsed by crustaceans on lobsters: "server implementation is super light-weight and enables some nice premium features (group vaults, TOTP) for free!"
- Kubernetes networking: service, kube-proxy, load balancing
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The Next Web
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- Dutch carbon capture startup Skytree opens offices in US, Canada
- TNW Conference 2025 theme spotlight: Sustainable Societies
- Vay secures €34M to bring remote-controlled cars to the streets of Europe
- Has wave energy finally found its golden buoy?
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- TNW Podcast: Generative AI, academic publishing, and European funding with Anita Schjøll Abildgaard, Iris.ai
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- What is the new safe C++ proposal and what do programmers need to know?
- German startup OroraTech raises €25M to scale wildfire early warning system
Smashing Magazine
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- Using Multimodal AI Models For Your Applications (Part 3)
- Build A Static RSS Reader To Fight Your Inner FOMO
- How A Bottom-Up Design Approach Enhances Site Accessibility
- Interview With Björn Ottosson, Creator Of The Oklab Color Space
- Crows, Ghosts, And Autumn Bliss (October 2024 Wallpapers Edition)
- How To Manage Dangerous Actions In User Interfaces
- The Timeless Power Of Spreadsheets
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- How To Build Custom Data Visualizations Using Luzmo Flex
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- Human scientists are still better than AI ones – for now
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Slashdot
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Core77
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CNET
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The Verge
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Wired
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TechMeme
- Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, an 8B-parameter model that makes 1MP images, and 3.5 Large Turbo, and plans to launch 3.5 Medium on October 29 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- Anthropic claims that its new Sonnet 3.5 model scores 49% on SWE-bench Verified, up from 33.4% and "higher than all" public models, and debuts Claude 3.5 Haiku (Anthropic)
- Anthropic releases a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet model that can interact with desktop apps by imitating mouse and keyboard input via a "computer use" API, now in beta (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- A UK court says prominent Saudi dissident Yahya Assiri can sue Saudi Arabia in London court over claims of targeting him with NSO Group's Pegasus (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
- TSMC says it alerted the US to a potential attempt to have it manufacture AI chips for Huawei, circumventing export controls; sources: the chips resembled 910Bs (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)
- WhatsApp plans to let users save contacts in the app soon, after previously relying on the local contact book, and developed a new IPLS encrypted storage system (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
- iPad mini (2024) review: fast A17 Pro chip, delightful size, and Pencil Pro support, but less powerful than other iPads, outdated Touch ID and camera placement (David Pierce/The Verge)
- Epic launches its Fab marketplace, a unified place to get digital assets like environments and animations, offering an 88% revenue share to creators (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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- Netflix shut down AAA game studio "Team Blue", which hired industry veterans and seemed set to pursue a big-budget multi-device strategy, amid a gaming shake-up (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
- Accel: Klarna alumni have founded 62 new startups, more than any $1B+ European fintech startup; Revolut alumni founded 49, and Wise and N26 alumni had 33 each (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
- Document: Chinese startup Horizon Robotics, which makes autonomous driving software and hardware, raised $696M in a Hong Kong IPO, before its October 24 listing (Bloomberg)
- Jack Sweeney says Meta suspended Instagram and Threads accounts tracking celebrities' private jets, including Zuckerberg's; Meta cites a "risk of physical harm" (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
- Paytm reports Q2 net profit of ~$111M, its first-ever profit, helped by the sale of its ticketing business in August 2024, and revenue down 34% YoY to ~$197.4M (Dimpal Gulwani/Reuters)
- A look at some use cases of Anthropic's Claude Artifacts, which lets users create interactive single-page apps via prompts (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)