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Developers & Open Source · ollama/ollama Releases

v0.40.5

What's Changed mlx: port the Metal custom kernels to CUDA by @dhiltgen in #18657 docs: model recs and language standardization by @anra8571 in #18981 openai: accept custom tool calls in Responses history by @hoyyeva in #18911 app: clarify cloud payment errors by @willietran in #18986 MLX: version bump by @dhiltgen in #18993 New Contributors @willietran made their first contribution in #18986 Full Changelog : v0.40.4...v0.40.5-rc0

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Neural networks are clean

https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/2110757819427574056 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105647 Points: 360 # Comments: 118

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Citizen Lab Traces Zero-Click Candiru Spyware Infections at Al Jazeera to Targeted Online Ads

Candiru, an Israeli maker of spyware sold to governments, infected devices at the news network Al Jazeera through ordinary online ads, in attacks that needed no click or other action from the user, researchers at the Citizen Lab said Thursday. The hidden attack code ran the moment an ad loaded on the screen, and in some cases the ad loaded out of sight, in the background. The Citizen

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Silent Lynx Exploits WinRAR Flaw to Deploy Reverse Shell in CIS Government Attacks

The threat actor known as Silent Lynx has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The activity, observed from June 2025 through August 2026, involves four different infection chains that make use of macro-enabled documents, PS2EXE downloaders, GitHub-hosted PowerShell, and crafted WinRAR archives

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

E Ink upgraded the screen found in most color e-readers

E Ink announced the next generation of its Kaleido color e-paper screen technology today, delivering several welcome improvements. The company's existing Kaleido 3 displays can be found in e-readers and tablets from companies like Kobo, PocketBook, and Boox, while Amazon's Kindle Colorsoft uses a customized version to improve performance. The new Kaleido 4 technology addresses […]

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Nvidia squeezed a 74B agent model into 24GB so it can run on your laptop

Nvidia on Thursday announced a few new additions to its Nemotron family: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B vision-language model for The post Nvidia squeezed a 74B agent model into 24GB so it can run on your laptop appeared first on The New Stack .

Cloud & Infrastructure · Azure Blog

Evolving the cloud-native foundation for the next generation of AI

Discover how Azure is advancing cloud-native infrastructure to help organizations build, run, and optimize applications and agents at scale. The post Evolving the cloud-native foundation for the next generation of AI appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

Society · The Guardian Society

Two 1960s London housing estates saved from demolition after decade-long battle

Change of council leadership hands reprieve to residents of architecturally celebrated developments in Lambeth Two architecturally celebrated council estates in south London that have been under threat of demolition for more than a decade have been saved. Residents of Cressingham Gardens and the Central Hill estate have campaigned tirelessly for their homes to be saved, saying the low-density 1960s developments are significant in design and popular with those living there. Continue reading...

World · BBC Middle East

Houthi missile attack on Yemeni presidential palace kills five, minister says

Yemen's information minister says the prime minister and other ministers were unhurt when ballistic missiles hit al-Maashiq Palace.

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax”

FTC may fine AI firms on par with companies that delay data breach reports.

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL

NVIDIA’s open multimodal model for specialized agents Discussion | Link

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

zCAD AI

AI 3D that creates real parts, not just shapes Discussion | Link

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse

Amazon's personal AI memory, now on your wrist or phone Discussion | Link

Developers & Open Source · GitHub Changelog

AI Scan for pull requests generally available

Code scanning AI Scan for pull requests is now generally available. It complements CodeQL by finding vulnerabilities in pull request changes for languages and frameworks that CodeQL does not currently… The post AI Scan for pull requests generally available appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

Developers & Open Source · JetBrains Blog

Google Summer of Code 2026 With the Kotlin Foundation: Recap

Google Summer of Code 2026 has wrapped up! This was the Kotlin Foundation’s fourth year participating in GSoC, bringing new contributors into the Kotlin open-source ecosystem through hands-on projects and mentorship. This year, two projects successfully reached completion, tackling two areas of the ecosystem: improving recursion support in the Kotlin/Wasm backend and building a global […]

Notable Blogs · Seth Godin

Purple Space problem solving

On the 19th of October, I’m doing an open Zoom call for members of purple.space and those that might be curious about how cohorts and mutual support open the door to possibility. You can reserve a spot here. It’s free, but there are limited spots.

AI · TechCrunch AI

AI agents are coming to Rivian’s cars

We'll likely learn more about how this will work at the company's upcoming "AI & Autonomy Day" event in December.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

What it takes to become an AI company: Four lessons from the top

Every company is under pressure to become “an AI company.” Over the past several months, we’ve been undertaking that transformation The post What it takes to become an AI company: Four lessons from the top appeared first on The New Stack .

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

Ramp reaches $60B valuation as it pushes deeper into AI

The funding comes as Ramp's annualized revenue crosses $2B, and its customer count reaches 85,000.

AI · TechCrunch AI

Google’s Universal Cart shopping tool launches in the US

The new shopping tool is available in the U.S. across Google Search and the Gemini app.

Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

UK Legal Aid Agency Hack Scope Widens After Forensic Review

Most of the data is related to applications, claims, and payments submitted between 2007 and 2025. The post UK Legal Aid Agency Hack Scope Widens After Forensic Review appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Help TDS Linked to Hotejka as 20,000+ Cloudflare Pages Domains Host Tech Support Scams

A long-running Traffic Distribution System (TDS) known as Help TDS to a Russian-language affiliate program called Hotejka, which appears to be a rebrand of a traffic monetization operation dubbed ROI777. Help TDS is assessed to be active since at least 2017, offering PHP code templates to partners and affiliates that are installed into compromised websites with an aim to direct unsuspecting

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Nobody is safe from celebrity AI deepfakes

In hindsight, the post on Instagram should have raised more red flags. The image purported to show actress Mia Goth, just days after filing for divorce from actor and filmmaker Shia LaBeouf, posing in a T-shirt with a pointed message: MY EX IS MY BIGGEST FAN. To really drive home the point, the song "Single […]

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Benn Jordan on Flock, privacy, and the new surveillance backlash

Today, I’m talking with Benn Jordan, musician, YouTuber, researcher, and investigative journalist. You might know Benn from those first two titles — he’s got a prolific discography of experimental music dating back decades. But in the last couple of years, he’s become a high-profile face in the creator and media spaces for his work investigating […]