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Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

It looks like Apple Music is getting a new icon

Apple Music's iconic red app icon has reportedly been replaced with a black-and-white version in the latest iOS 27.2 beta, 9to5Mac reports. The eighth note on the icon also appears to have a slightly sharper angle than the original. A new Apple Music logo was also spotted last month on the Apple Music Hall website, […]

Society · NPR Top Stories

What an economics Nobel Prize winner knows about pricing

NPR's Ailsa Chang chats with Michael Woodford of Columbia University, who was one of two Americans awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.

World · BBC Middle East

Houthi missile hits Aramco building after Saudi-led coalition strike on Yemen fuel depot

The Saudi energy ministry says the Houthi attack caused a "limited fire" at Aramco's headquarters complex in Dhahran.

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

Licube wants to be the fuel provider to the fusion power industry — see how at TechCrunch Disrupt

Fusion power plants will need a lot of lithium, and Licube is preparing to be a key supplier.

Developers & Open Source · JetBrains Blog

What We Heard at AGNTCon Europe

The night before AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe, we hosted the Agentic AI Foundation community at the JetBrains office in Amsterdam. The event filled up fast and went to a waitlist, which is not what I expected for a Wednesday evening discussion about how open foundations work. Ibrahim Malik opening the evening. The panel asked what […]

Society · NPR Top Stories

Bipartisan group of senators call on Trump to rescind Russian diesel deal

Six Democratic and six Republican senators wrote a letter calling on President Trump to withdraw from his recent deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

SuperLocalMemory

Agent memory with Laya, Jev + Google Gemma Discussion | Link

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Shopify opens its catalog up to more AI agents

More AI agents will soon be able to browse and purchase from Shopify listings, marking an expansion of the company's agentic commerce ambitions. Shopify announced Tuesday it will let shoppers configure their AI agents to purchase products on their behalf, giving more agents access to over a billion listings in Shopify's catalog. (The catalog consists […]

Society · NPR Top Stories

A judge blocks the government's tree-clearing spree at a municipal D.C. golf course

Locals and preservationists have long opposed Trump's plan to redevelop a municipal D.C. golf course. That legal fight escalated after the government cleared hundreds of trees on short notice.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard

Guitoro is a free browser guitar using recordings of real instruments. You can strum with your keyboard, mouse, or touchscreen, choose acoustic, classical, electric guitar or bass, and see chord fingering and each stroke. Song practice can be slowed to 20%, and there are free chord tools and tuners. No signup or download. 1 minute video demo: https://youtu.be/DtcluMLdSgs I would love feedback on how the strumming feels and sounds. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077020 Points: 447 # Comments: 115

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

Niobia takes the guesswork out of some of tech’s most expensive mistakes

The San Francisco startup aims to help battery and chip manufacturers identify defects on production lines, reducing downtime and costly mistakes.

AI · The Decoder

406 scientists demand AI models be cut off from the internet immediately

406 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell, are demanding that companies immediately disconnect AI models from the internet. Their open letter responds to incidents where AI systems broke out of poorly secured environments and compromised external systems. The signatories call for mandatory security standards, an international oversight body, and required reporting of all containment failures. The article 406 scientists demand AI models be cut off from the internet immediately appeared first on The Decoder .

Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

Ivanti Zero-Day Chain Gave Attackers Root Access to Fully Patched VPN

CVE-2026-104935 affects Ivanti Connect Secure and it can be exploited for unauthenticated remote code execution with elevated privileges. The post Ivanti Zero-Day Chain Gave Attackers Root Access to Fully Patched VPN appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Society · The Guardian Society

‘There was a chance to stop him’: Parents react with fury to paedophile nursery worker revelations

More than 50 families call for investigation into how Vincent Chan was allowed to return to job after inquiry by nursery The parents of the victims of paedophile nursery worker Vincent Chan have reacted with fury to the news that he was cleared to return to work after “significant concerns” were raised by the parent of a young girl. As first revealed in the Guardian , Chan was reported to his employer, the nursery chain Bright Horizons, by a concerned parent in 2021. Continue reading...

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Nostaliga

Rediscover the days behind your favorite songs Discussion | Link

Developers & Open Source · GitHub Changelog

Gemini 4 Argon in GitHub Copilot

Gemini 4 Argon, Google’s newest frontier model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for complex coding, agentic, and reasoning tasks. In early testing, Gemini 4 Argon… The post Gemini 4 Argon in GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

AI · TechCrunch AI

Flox Intelligence is building AI to keep wildlife away from trains, airports, and roads

Flox's edge devices can identify animals and use species-specific sounds to drive them away from critical infrastructure.

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Soon Form Self-Propagating IoT Botnets

Small artificial intelligence (AI) models may be months away from developing capabilities to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes, according to a warning from Anthropic. The frontier AI lab said small AI models could form autonomous, self-propagating worm botnets that are "challenging to shut down," since "there's no centralized point to shut off."

AI · TechCrunch AI

Facebook is giving users more control over their algorithm

Facebook is the latest social media platform to give users greater control over the algorithm that determines what appears in their feeds. Meta announced the launch of its new AI-powered feature, “Your Algorithm,” on Tuesday, a feature it first launched on Instagram. The new tool allows Facebook users to influence the content they see in […]

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Docker Fixes Critical Two-Year-Old Hub Flaw That Let One User Push Images as Another

A flaw in Docker Hub, the registry where container images are published and downloaded, let one user push, pull, or delete images as another user. Docker fixed the flaw on September 30 and says it found no evidence that anyone exploited it. The flaw was in the feature that converts a personal account into an organization, Docker said in a security advisory on October 12.

AI · The Decoder

Gemini 4 Argon is now available worldwide as Google's most capable frontier model

Google is making Gemini 4 Argon available worldwide through its API, the Gemini app, and Google Antigravity. The frontier model is aggressively priced but trails Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Meta's Muse Wonder Full in independent benchmarks. Internally, Google says Argon already cut coding tasks from months to weeks. The article Gemini 4 Argon is now available worldwide as Google's most capable frontier model appeared first on The Decoder .

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

I don’t miss the camera on the Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses

The other day I whizzed past several people while running in the park, my playlist blasting at full volume. The next morning, I smiled at a barista while ordering a caramel apple-flavored matcha latte. Afterward, I sat on a park bench reading a book, called up a pal to chat about her recent trip to […]

Developers & Open Source · GitHub Changelog

Audit GitHub Code Quality finding dismissals and reopenings

You can now review manual dismissals and reopenings of GitHub Code Quality findings in your organization or enterprise audit log. Findings may appear in either your repository’s default-branch backlog or… The post Audit GitHub Code Quality finding dismissals and reopenings appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Gemini 4 Argon

Google's frontier model for long, complex agentic work Discussion | Link