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Business · CNBC Technology

Anthropic taps nonprofits METR and SecureBio to help assess risks and safety practices

The company is also engaged in early-stage discussions with other organizations, including Hugging Face.

Developers & Open Source · Hugging Face Blog

Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint

Hugging Face Blog published: Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint

World · Deutsche Welle

Self-replicating AI: Is your fridge a cybersecurity risk?

Anthropic researchers warn that AI worms could soon target connected household devices and spread from one device to another. Cyberattacks on French supermarkets illustrate just how vulnerable such systems can be.

World · Deutsche Welle

Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro pleads not guilty to torture charges

Maduro and his wife were charged with leading a state-sponsored repression campaign that tortured scores of victims during his presidency from 2013 to 2026.

World · Al Jazeera

At least 7 crew members missing after drone attacks on ships in Black Sea

Emergency teams are searching for 7 missing crew after two chemical tankers were attacked in the Black Sea.

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Critical PwnEscape Linux Kernel Vulnerability Lets Guest VMs Read Host Memory

A newly disclosed critical flaw in the Linux kernel allows code inside a virtual machine to read memory on the host computer it runs on. A researcher demonstrated the leak against Vercel's live cloud sandboxes, and Vercel confirmed it. The flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-99999 and nicknamed PwnEscape, is in the Linux kernel's networking code, not in any one cloud's setup, so it reaches the shared

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

What I self-host

Article URL: https://viceconsole.fyi/blog/2026/10/10/what-i-self-host/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109715 Points: 468 # Comments: 295

World · Al Jazeera

Why are migrants risking their lives at sea to reach Yemen?

Al Jazeera’s Al Anoud Al Aqeedi explains why migrants are risking their lives to make the journey to Yemen.

Developers & Open Source · GitHub Changelog

Download GitHub Code Quality license usage as a CSV

You can now download a CSV report of your GitHub Code Quality license usage to reconcile your license count with your own records. The report includes: Each active committer who… The post Download GitHub Code Quality license usage as a CSV appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

AI · TechCrunch AI

Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs

Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social

Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said […]

AI · TechCrunch AI

Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps

Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.

Society · NPR Top Stories

Suspicious mailings to election officials, congressional offices under investigation

The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are looking into the mailings, some of which included an unidentified powdery white substance.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Withings now charges $100 per year to sync your data to other apps

If you're a new user of Withings' fitness-tracking smartwatches or smart scales and want to sync and access your health data through third party apps like Apple Health or Google Health it's now going to cost you. According to a discussion on Withings' support forums spotted by MacRumors, new Withings accounts created from October 13th, […]

Notable Blogs · Simon Willison

Chirp Pong

Tool: Chirp Pong Another game experiment - I wanted to see if it was feasible to have a two player game on two separate phones running in static HTML where the networking code uses chirps sent via the microphone. It seems to work! Build a two player competitive pong like game where two players use their phones close to each other and the game state is sent via audio noises which the web microphone API can interpret - but add graphical and gameplay twists to make it a lot more fun and intertwine than pong Claude Opus 5.5 Extra in Claude Code . Tags: game-design , ai , generative-ai , llms , claude-code

World · Al Jazeera

Will Israeli voters punish Benjamin Netanyahu?

Netanyahu is reported to have received warnings before October 7, 2023, but failed to act on time.

Business · CNBC Technology

Nvidia and Cisco confirm multimillion-dollar donations to Trump's White House ballroom

Big Tech gave millions to Trump's White House ballroom, documents show

Developers & Open Source · GitHub Changelog

Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in mid-November

We will deprecate the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) on November 16th, 2026: Model Deprecation date… The post Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in mid-November appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

Business · CNBC Technology

Tesla plans next-generation Roadster reveal after almost a decade of delays

Elon Musk first debuted the Roadster refresh concept in 2017 but Tesla has since missed every targeted delivery date.

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Parallax

Every coding agent you run, in one place. Discussion | Link

Developers & Open Source · ollama/ollama Releases

v0.40.5

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super is a vision-language model for coding, reasoning, tool use, and document understanding. It pairs a 120B-parameter hybrid Mamba-2/Transformer mixture-of-experts backbone (12B active per token) with a C-RADIO vision encoder, and supports tool calling, an on/off thinking mode, and context up to 1M tokens. ollama run nemotron-3.5-super A compact sibling, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt , distills Super down to 74B parameters (9B active) tuned to fit a 24 GB NVIDIA GPU for everyday agentic tasks, with speculative decoding via its included drafter. What's Changed Decision models are now available on cloud — use clef:cloud and clef-flash:cloud to run decision models through ollama.com cloud without pulling them locally Continuing an OpenAI-compatible Responses conversation that includes custom tool calls no longer fails with an error Clearer error messages when cloud access fails: sign-in problems, payment issues in the desktop app, and upstream access errors from the ChatGPT gateway now explain what went wrong Updated llama.cpp (adding Nemotron 3.5 support) and MLX New Contributors @willietran made their first contribution in #18986 Full Changelog : v0.40.4...v0.40.5

AI · TechCrunch AI

Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access

METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

What did the Liberty Bell sound like? Science is on the case.

Researchers hunted for clues in modal analysis of 20th-century replica bell at Penn State Behrend.

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

MeetPaw

Instant meetings from your mac menu bar Discussion | Link