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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

AI · OpenAI News

Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs

Introducing the Rosalind Academic Plan, offering eligible academic labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind and tools to advance life sciences research.

World · Al Jazeera

Dying in ICE custody: Inside one family’s story of heartbreak

Ismael Ayala-Uribe was one of 53 people to die in ICE custody during Trump’s first 500 days back in office.

AI · TechCrunch AI

Bluesky expands its AI-powered Attie app to let anyone build websites, games, and more

Bluesky is bringing “social vibe coding” to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network's audience.

Society · The Guardian Society

Sudarshan Abrol obituary

My friend Sudarshan Abrol, who has died aged 88, set up the UK Asian Women’s Centre in Handsworth, Birmingham, and ran it for more than three decades. Under her leadership the centre was a sanctuary, supporting women in crisis, helping them into employment and providing a space where, often with their children, they could learn English and other skills. Continue reading...

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

ThreatsDay: Adobe RCE, DNS Wallet Theft, NVIDIA Container Escape, Self-Healing Backdoor + 23 More

Someone built a tool to steal data, then decided it should scare the victim for fun. Yes, that’s an actual feature. And somehow, it fits right in with this week's security stories. The rest gets interesting in different ways. A small permission can lead to a big theft. A trusted login can hide the wrong person. Old bugs are finding new victims, familiar tools are being put to strange uses, and

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Black Sea drone attacks enter NATO country's territorial waters for first time

Suspected Russian drones attack chemical tanker within Romanian waters.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Vercel adds always-on workers to run more of your backend

Vercel is giving developers more options for running their backends on its platform. At its Ship conference in San Francisco The post Vercel adds always-on workers to run more of your backend appeared first on The New Stack .

Society · NPR Top Stories

U.S. historic preservation law faces the most serious threat in its 60-year history

Congress and a federal agency are threatening to weaken the country's historic preservation law, fueling a backlash that critics say is as fiery as the one that led to the law's creation 60 years ago.

AI · The Decoder

Muse Spark Open is Meta's answer to Qwen, GLM, and Kimi in the open-weight race

Meta's Muse Spark Open is a new open-weight model with 816 billion parameters that processes text, images, video, and audio with up to one million tokens of context. It performs roughly on par with the most capable open-weight Chinese AI models on benchmarks and is optimized to run locally on Apple's M5 Ultra. The article Muse Spark Open is Meta's answer to Qwen, GLM, and Kimi in the open-weight race appeared first on The Decoder .

Developers & Open Source · langchain-ai/langchain Releases

langchain-core==1.6.11

Changes since langchain-core==1.6.10 release(core): 1.6.11 ( #41260 ) feat(core): accept address inside LangChainTracer ( #41006 )

World · The Guardian Ukraine

Wes Streeting urges US to back Ukraine on Washington visit after Starlink row

UK defence secretary says he has been ‘reassured directly’ counterpart Pete Hegseth that Starlink system has been restored as he seeks to cool tensions Wes Streeting urged the US to stand by Ukraine on his visit to the American capital and sought to cool tensions between the two countries in the wake of the Starlink row that is threatening to set back Kyiv’s war effort. The British defence secretary, giving a speech before a meeting with his US counterpart, Pete Hegseth, argued that supporting Ukraine was in the long-term interests of Washington, and a business opportunity. Continue reading...

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

BotGauge

The trust layer for your agents Discussion | Link

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

Last chance to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Founder Summit pass: Early booking ends October 16

Savings of up to $200 end October 16 for TechCrunch Founder Summit. These savings for Founder and Investor Passes vanish after Friday. Join 1,000 founders and investors on November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station. Bring your toughest questions and make the day count for your business.