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World · Deutsche Welle

US: Department of Homeland Security data leak exposes details of more than 40,000 employees

The leaked information reportedly includes names, phone numbers and email addresses of personnel across several US security agencies. This follows recent data breaches involving the FBI and the Defense Department.

World · Deutsche Welle

EU countries block Canada's 'associate membership' plan

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wanted to give Canada a special status within the EU. But Germany and other member states have raised objections ahead of a summit in Montreal.

World · Al Jazeera

Strikes on Darfur market in Sudan killed more than 100, rights group says

Women and children killed as witnesses say attack struck civilian shopkeepers, RSF fighters.

World · Al Jazeera

Israeli settlers savagely attack journalists in occupied West Bank

Videos circulating on social media show Israeli settlers assaulting three foreign journalists in the West Bank

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Anduril now says its BlueChip laptop will meet Buy American standards at launch

On Tuesday, defense contractor Anduril and chipmaker Qualcomm announced a partnership to build laptops entirely in the United States, starting with a single model in 2027. They also announced a "long-term goal" of pushing the computer industry to create "a fully domestic supply chain." Even a single Made-in-USA laptop would be a surprise, because no […]

Society · NPR Top Stories

Forecasters are predicting a warmer and wetter winter. Here's how El Niño will affect your region.

El Niño years typically lead to more precipitation and higher-than-average temperatures. The latest data shows the different potential impacts by region.

Business · CNBC Technology

Samsung Electronics shares slid despite record profit in the third-quarter

Samsung Electronics reported third-quarter earnings on Thursday.

World · Al Jazeera

Serbians storm TV studio as pro-Vucic media faces reckoning

Serbians stormed a TV studio and confronted its editor-in-chief after a student-led protest movement swept into power.

World · Al Jazeera

Bolsonaro in Miami: I am the ‘true president-elect’

Flavio Bolsonaro claimed to be the ‘true president-elect’ of Brazil in his first statement since fleeing to the US.

World · The Guardian Ukraine

Ukraine war briefing: Oleshky truce holding and demining under way to enable humanitarian corridor, Kyiv says

No reported incidents in 30 hours in the occupied Ukrainian city. What we know on day 1,709 A local ceasefire in southern Ukraine was holding for a second day , both sides said on Wednesday, as hopes grew that vital aid would be able to reach stranded residents. An estimated 2,000 people remain in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky in the Kherson region amid food and medical shortages and reports many people are now starving and eating weeds . The human rights ombudsmen of both Russia and Ukraine said on Wednesday the US-brokered truce – which came into effect early on Tuesday morning – was still holding . “30 hours of the ceasefire in Oleshky have passed without a single incident,” Ukraine’s Dmytro Lubinets said. “No incidents have been recorded in the 30 hours of the ceasefire in Oleshky,” Russia’s Yana Lantratova said in a similarly worded statement. The ceasefire would be guaranteed by “the physical presence of both ombudsmen: Ukrainian and Russian” on the ground, Lubinets’s office said. Route demining was “currently under way”, Lubinets said on social media, describing it as “crucial step toward ensuring the safe delivery of humanitarian aid and enabling civilians who wish to leave the city”. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that since the ceasefire came into force, there had been “no massive attacks” on the regional capital of Kherson , where about 280,000 people lived before Russia’s invasion. “We’re happy even when we have two, three days for these people. You know, some ceasefire is great, you can see them in the streets,” the Ukrainian president told reporters in The Hague. The truce would be a “huge success” if the evacuation of Oleshky’s citizens went ahead as planned, he said. The timing of the next round of three-way ⁠talks on a settlement of the Ukraine conflict is linked to the conflict in the Middle East, a Kremlin foreign policy aide has said , casting doubt on whether the talks will take place next month as initially proposed. Yuri Ushakov, quoted by Russian news ⁠agencies, said Moscow had not yet proposed a specific date for the talks. “It will ​also depend on the situation ‌on the battlefield and the ‌situation in general. You can see the situation now in the Middle East. It ‌just doesn’t allow us to hold it in the near future. That’s my assumption,” he told journalists on Wednesday. Zelenskyy said on Wednesday he hoped a meeting would take place in Abu Dhabi between 6 and 10 November. Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk’s “genius” and said he was in touch with Starlink’s controlling shareholder as Russia develops its own satellite communications for its military to use against Ukraine, reports Dan Sabbagh . The Russian president, speaking at a summit with African leaders in Moscow, was comparing the Earth-orbiting network built by Musk’s SpaceX with Russia’s gradual efforts to build its own Rassvet constellation. “Elon Musk is a genius, a true genius,” the Tass news agency quoted the Russian leader as saying. The Netherlands will supply Ukraine with €500m ($557m/£$418m) ⁠in military support ⁠this ​winter , the Dutch prime minister said. The support ⁠would be used to supply drones and other material to ⁠strengthen Ukraine’s defence, Rob Jetten said ​after meeting Zelenskyy in The Hague. Earlier on ‌Wednesday, the Dutch government announced it would give Kyiv €1.2bn in non-military support in the next three years. Part of the money would be used for funds that supported ⁠Dutch companies willing to invest in the ​rebuilding ​of Ukraine. Russian authorities have issued permits for ⁠vessels carrying grain for export to leave the Sea of Azov for the first time since 10 July , ⁠when they closed maritime ⁠traffic ​in the area due to Ukrainian drone attacks, Reuters quoted seven industry sources as saying. They said permits to pass ⁠through the Kerch Strait, which links the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, would be issued for the period ⁠to 15 November. Continue reading...

Society · BBC Technology

Microsoft profits soar days after announcing thousands of layoffs

The week, the Windows developer said it would offer buyouts to 60,000 workers as it looks to curb costs.

Business · CNBC Technology

Our next steps for Alphabet stock after earnings disappoint at nearly every turn

Alphabet whiffed.

Society · NPR Top Stories

Judge denies the Justice Department's bid to stop processing California ballots

While the judge rejected the Department of Justice's unprecedented demand in California, the case isn't over yet. The federal government immediately filed notice that it will appeal.

Business · CNBC Technology

As Waymo expands overseas, it remains a niche cash-burning business

Alphabet's Other Bets segment, which includes Waymo, accounted for 0.3% of total revenue in the quarter.

World · Deutsche Welle

Flavio Bolsonaro lands in US, declares himself 'leader' of Brazil

Flavio Bolsonaro declared himself the rightful leader of his country despite losing the presidential election runoff on Sunday. He and his family have fled to the US.

Notable Blogs · Simon Willison

Quoting Ted Sanders

In general, LLM performance is incredibly multidimensional. There's no guarantee of a fixed ordering where the model that is best at math is also the model that's best at jokes. Despite that complexity, much of the variation in performance is explained by just a single variable: model size. In general, models that are bigger will (a) be more performant / reliable, (b) cost more per token, and (c) have better recall of esoteric facts. As you note, our models are ordered: Luna < Terra < Sol < Astra [ ... ] These days, version number signifies a few things at once: the order of release, the relationship to other releases, and the magnitude of improvement. So something like 6.1 would indicate it was launched after 5.6, may share some similarities to other 6.1 models in terms of training data / personality (which is why it's not 5.7), and isn't a giant enough leap to merit the headlines and expectations that would come with a 7. — Ted Sanders , explaining OpenAI's model naming conventions Tags: generative-ai , gpt , openai , ai , llms , ted-sanders

Developers & Open Source · vercel/next.js Releases

v16.5.0-canary.30

Core Changes Ignore expected upgrade nudges in Agent Feedback: #100840 Add model metadata to Agent Feedback: #100806 Use fast-jwt instead of jsonwebtoken: #100818 Update font data: #100813 Turbopack: wait for trace file changes after format errors: #99847 Add a CLI for reviewing agent feedback: #100739 Misc Changes Add criteria for Vercel Agent code review: #100846 Add experimental.hydrationChangeEvent flag: #99610 Turbopack: Move reference to bincode's virtue dependency into a vercel-labs owned fork repository: #100847 bench: fix nested-deps-app-router-many-pages build harness: #100820 Fix export const foo = function bar(){} in server reference transform: #100830 turbo-persistence: use partition_point for batch lookup bounds: #100821 ci: don't run non-adapter + cache components deploy tests in PRs: #100824 Enforce strict rustdoc (incl. private items) across the Rust workspace: #100768 Drain the maintainer auto-close queue in one run: #100733 test: fix native addon compilation on Node.js 26: #100819 turbo-persistence: parallelize large batch_get reads: #100620 Turbopack: ignore fully dynamic alternatives when tracing file paths: #100651 docs: scope whole-route dynamic rendering claim for cookies to the previous model: #100811 docs: note Suspense requirement for connection() with Cache Components: #100810 docs: forward allow-listed headers and catch fetch errors in BFF proxy example: #100808 Credits Huge thanks to @acdlite , @bgw , @aurorascharff , @sokra , @mischnic , @devjiwonchoi , @lukesandberg , and @icyJoseph for helping!

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

Upwind raises $400M after walking away from Datadog acquisition offer

The cloud security startup raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation, instead of selling itself for the same price.

Society · BBC Technology

Details of thousands of US immigration agents leaked in major hack

A group called the Department of Peace released information on more than 41,000 DHS staff.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Adam Mosseri says negativity around AI is ‘going to get worse’

Asked about AI and the trend of college students booing tech CEOs at graduation ceremonies, Instagram head Adam Mosseri acknowledged in an interview that a lot of people really don't like AI, and it's not just young people and creatives. Appearing on the Colin and Samir podcast to talk about the launch of widescreen and […]

Business · CNBC Technology

Jim Cramer sees major implications from SK Hynix's home-run quarter

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said SK Hynix’s blockbuster earnings showed that AI stocks can still rally.

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

ULA's Vulcan rocket is set to return to flight on Friday the 13th

This Vulcan launch will be the first to utilize a full complement of six solid rocket boosters.

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

As US ties fray, Europe plans first undersea cable link to Greenland

Europe's Pan-Arctic Cable will bypass US to link Canada, Japan, and South Korea.

World · Al Jazeera

UN experts sound alarm at excessive use of force in French student protests

UN experts have condemned police crackdowns, warning they deter demonstrators from exercising their rights.