Developer runs GPT-2 in a webpage using CSS and variable fonts
An experimental implementation turns browser styling features and font machinery into an inference engine for the 124-million-parameter language model.
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AI-led market retreat leaves chip stocks far below their record
The S&P 500's decline remained a correction by historical standards on November 7, while technology and semiconductor benchmarks had fallen much further.
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Anthropic study maps how researchers use Claude across scientific work
An analysis of 207,049 consumer-plan sessions found heavier use in formal sciences and for data analysis and writing than for physical or idea-generation tasks.
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ASN Bank says iDEAL Wero does not yet support some alternative Android systems
The Dutch bank told customers using GrapheneOS that device-integrity requirements currently prevent iDEAL Wero payments and offered no timetable for broader support.
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Google launches Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash with 15-second video generation
The updated model adds longer native clips, conversational editing and stronger reference consistency while cutting the listed price by 30 percent.
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Tesla plans to wind down Cybertruck production as Cybercab takes priority
Elon Musk said output at Gigafactory Texas would wind down around mid-2027 to make room for increased production of Tesla's autonomous two-seater.
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App Store study finds AI language in nearly one in ten charting apps
An analysis of 178,637 apps across 173 markets also found that one fifth had gone at least a year without an update.
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Global technology shares slide as investors reassess AI spending after US midterms
A sharp Wall Street retreat spread through Asian markets as traders weighed tougher data-centre policy and signs that the pace of AI investment could slow.
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Hugging Face chief argues open AI can counter risks concentrated in closed labs
Clément Delangue told the WIRED World Fair that he sees existential AI risk as close to zero while urging clearer responsibility for agent-driven cyberattacks.
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Kugelblitz launches a Mac-native globe built around open geodata
The Apple-silicon application combines terrain, imagery, OpenStreetMap and public map services in a navigable 3D globe and projected atlas.
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Village analysis finds closed AI models leading most hosted price-performance tiers
The company's LLM Atlas study says open-weight models lead at 3% of tested budget points, though self-hosting costs and methodology limit broader conclusions.
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MoofTCP offers a memory-conscious MacTCP replacement for System 6 Macs
The open-source networking stack is designed to run existing MacTCP software unchanged on 68000-based machines with as little as 4 MB of RAM.
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Servo 0.7.0 expands web-platform support across accessibility, media and WebGL2
The experimental browser engine's latest release packages 527 September commits, adding platform features while improving performance, memory use and embedding APIs.
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OpenSSH 10.6p2 Ships Emergency Mitigation for Musl Password Bypass
OpenSSH maintainers urged operators of Linux systems using musl without PAM to disable password authentication or SSH while installing an emergency release.
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Discord Plans to Replace Electron Desktop Client With Rust-Based App
Discord says a Rust rewrite will share core code across desktop and mobile while keeping native mobile interfaces, with user testing expected soon.
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OpenAI Finds GPT-6 Astra Performs Worse When Coding Tasks Are Framed as Safety Research
An OpenAI evaluation found a six-point completion gap between safety and capabilities framings, with ethical doubt associated with much of the difference.
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Baidu releases 280-billion-parameter ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base model
The open pretraining checkpoint activates 14 billion parameters per token and is designed for efficient long-context adaptation.
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Macronix ROM exit puts pressure on Nintendo cartridge supply
The chipmaker is winding down ROM production as higher-value memory products compete for limited factory capacity.
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Study finds repeated forced smiles can reduce happiness
A University of Florida experiment found that a single posed smile offered a small mood lift, while repetition and pressure could reverse the effect.
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Researchers report residential proxy traffic from White House network
Security analysts said public proxy services repeatedly offered exit addresses assigned to the Executive Office of the President.
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NASA's Swift observatory ends nearly 22-year mission with atmospheric re-entry
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory re-entered over northern Sumatra after a mission that transformed rapid follow-up of gamma-ray bursts and other transient events.
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AMD forecasts quarterly revenue above Intel as data-center sales surge
AMD guided to about $17 billion in fourth-quarter revenue after record results, a level that would place its quarterly sales ahead of Intel for the first time.
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Local ballot measures put new limits on US data-center expansion
Voters in more than 30 communities across nine states backed restrictions on data centers, turning local opposition into a material risk for the AI infrastructure boom.
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RTX Spark laptop tests expose severe native Linux GPU slowdown on mains power
A hands-on test found an Nvidia RTX Spark laptop ran large-model inference far more slowly under native Linux when plugged in, while Windows and WSL retained full performance.
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AI-assisted PHP research highlights widening gap between finding and fixing security flaws
Researchers used AI tools to turn a known PHP crash bug into a critical code-execution exploit, intensifying concern over the burden on open-source defenders.
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Geoffrey Hinton warns major AI incident could force governments to confront systemic risk
The Nobel-winning computer scientist said an AI-enabled disruption to power or finance could occur within two years, while maintaining that beneficial outcomes remain possible.
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Binance says fake job interview enabled multi-stage attack behind $6.3 billion theft
The exchange attributed its October breach to a sophisticated campaign involving malware, compromised employee devices and stolen deployment credentials.
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AI science debate shifts from correct answers to accountability and understanding
A new essay argues that verified outputs alone do not constitute scientific knowledge when researchers cannot explain, challenge or take responsibility for the claims.
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Democrats projected to win US House and take committee control
NBC News projected a Democratic House majority of roughly 255 seats, shifting legislative and oversight authority when the new Congress convenes in January.
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Recovered Unix code traces early alternatives to modern malloc
A new examination of historic Unix sources shows how early allocators used explicit resource maps and program-lifetime regions before today's familiar C memory interface became standard.
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Residential proxy buyers urged to test supply-chain overlap
An industry interview argues that proxy brands may share underlying device pools, making sourcing evidence and correlated-failure testing more important than the number of vendors used.
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Activist group says it will publish dossiers linking billionaires to home addresses
The self-described Capytistas told WIRED that a planned campaign will begin with Elon Musk and Tesla-linked figures, raising fresh safety and privacy concerns around political doxing.
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Kalshi and co-founders charged under Utah gambling laws
Utah filed 13 felony counts and one misdemeanor against the prediction-market company and each founder as a parallel federal-state jurisdiction fight intensifies.
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Namespace puts MacBook Pros into custom racks for cloud macOS workloads
The infrastructure company says supply constraints pushed it toward laptop-based racks while its virtualization system delivers macOS environments for iOS development and testing.
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Office Engine brings progressive browser editing to large Office files
The open-source React component handles DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files locally in the browser, with progressive loading intended to keep very large documents responsive.
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Critique challenges claims about Astra directly understanding and editing model weights
A technical analysis argues that the headline Qwen result relied on Python tools, test runs and practice problems rather than inspection of raw weights alone.
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Forecasts placed the 1.5-tonne telescope's return on November 4, but its precise time and location remained uncertain as atmospheric drag pulled it lower.
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Nvidia releases Auto Ontology framework for more explainable enterprise AI
The Apache-licensed Python project builds graph-based context layers over enterprise metadata and exposes them to agent tools through MCP, a command line and an API.
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Browser-based hjkl trainer turns Vim commands into short editing challenges
The free desktop-browser tool teaches motions, text objects, search, marks, counts and repeats through exercises completed inside a real Vim editor.
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Rustable launches cross-platform open-source database client with browser demo
The early v0.4.8 release supports major SQL databases and standalone Redis, while a Rust-to-WASM demonstration lets users try local SQLite and Redis workflows in a browser.
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Google researchers warn LLM hijacking can drive cloud bills toward $1 million
Mandiant investigations found attackers stealing cloud identities and model access, then routing unauthorized AI usage through a growing resale ecosystem.
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DiscImageStudio turns optical-disc data into visible artwork
The open-source project generates CD, DVD and single-layer Blu-ray images whose physical data patterns form pictures visible on the recorded surface.
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Study compares open-source 5G radio platforms across real workloads
Researchers evaluated OpenAirInterface and srsRAN using multiple radio configurations and applications including video on demand, live streaming and cloud gaming.
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Hacker Times gives Hacker News an hourly newspaper-style front page
The independent web project reorganises links discussed by Hacker News readers into a saved edition with summaries and pointers to original sources.
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US midterms put every House seat and 35 Senate contests before voters
The vote will decide whether Republicans keep control of Congress and how much room President Donald Trump has to pursue his domestic agenda.
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