Rare unrest flares in Tunisian capital as police clash with protesters
Protests in several cities coincide with a deepening economic, social and political crisis in Tunisia.
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SpaceX records $561 million investment gain from stake in Elon Musk's Boring Co.
SpaceX's stake in Boring Co. helped boost its net income in the third quarter.
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
Tibet rocked by 7.0-magnitude earthquake
Tibet rocked by 7.0-magnitude earthquake
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — September update
September 2026 brought deeper visibility into your work: explore pull requests without leaving chat, bring the AI model your team trusts, and fix vulnerable packages the moment Visual Studio flags… The post GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — September update appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Etsy is cracking down on AI slop listings
Etsy is announcing stricter rules about how AI can be used in listings to reduce the volume of AI slop on the platform. In a post, the company says that "many active buyers say they can't tell which items involve AI-generated content" and that sellers are "concerned about your work appearing alongside items that use […]
OpenAI and Poland’s NASK partner to advance AI safety and security
OpenAI and Poland’s NASK are partnering on AI safety, security, and technical research to strengthen safeguards and support a more resilient digital ecosystem.
Does Your Model Run on AWS Trainium? Look It Up
Hugging Face Blog published: Does Your Model Run on AWS Trainium? Look It Up
Iran war live: Trump hints new strikes, says US knocked ‘hell out’ of Iran
Trump indicates new strikes on Iran, saying the US has knocked the 'hell out' of the country.
v16.5.0-canary.24
Core Changes Cap bot user-agent matching at 1KB: #100604 Pass lazy response lifecycle capabilities into App rendering: #100395 Upgrade testmode interceptors to 0.45.9: #100585 Defer React loading until fetch dedupe construction: #100401 Avoid loading standalone React by separating render validation: #100467 Misc Changes fix(turbopack): evaluate pure constructor callees: #100588 Add webpack utils: #99826 Stop requiring build-all when bootstrapping a fresh clone or worktree: #100600 Fix webpack build dependency cell creation order: #100597 More parity for webpack loader build dependencies: #99549 Extend lazy server imports to route handlers and Pages: #99541 test: enable log-file and worker-react-refresh in deploy mode: #100480 ci: only declare a Vercel deploy target for webpack runs without a custom script: #100479 Turbopack: Honor PURE annotations for callback arguments: #100577 test: add non-adapter deploy snapshots to otel-middleware-trace: #100583 Update Rspack development test manifest: #100557 Update Rspack production test manifest: #100558 ci: Fix ast-grep CI step: #100569 Credits Huge thanks to @mischnic , @jimmyhmiller , @eps1lon , @kassens , @jamiboym , and @sokra for helping!
Docker is weird
Article URL: https://codeandcake.dev/posts/2026-10-22-docker-is-weird Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202681 Points: 613 # Comments: 258
'I'm 96 and have 15 million followers': The grannies taking over TikTok
Grandma Droniak, Nonna Gracie, Viv Truran and Barbara Costello have all found fame on social media in their later years.
Surveillance and 'constant paranoia': Western diplomats tell BBC of life in war-time Moscow
Officials compare working in Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine to the Cold War era.
Hospitals deliberately targeted by Sudan's RSF fighters, BBC finds
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk says the multiple attacks may amount to war crimes.
Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear
Warhound, the brainchild of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.
Lights will stay on this winter, grid operator says after concerns
The assurance from the National Energy System Operator comes amid concern from its engineers about their ability to ensure adequate supply.
Spotify says yes, it is busting people for using Family Plan sharing too widely
Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström confirmed on this week's earnings call that the company is trying to catch Spotify Family plan users who don't actually live together with a new QR code verification method that requires scanning the plan manager's phone. TechCrunch reports that in response to a question about the "crackdown," he called it a […]
Child health in England at risk from sharp rise in NHS waiting times, report says
CQC research finds long delays are making conditions harder to treat and highlights regional disparities in care Thousands of children in England are experiencing some of the sharpest rises in waiting times for healthcare in the history of the NHS, a report has revealed. While some adult waiting times have improved, children and young people are being “hit hardest” amid soaring demand and falling numbers of staff, according to the annual state of care report by the Care Quality Commission. Continue reading...
Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
Article URL: https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202285 Points: 654 # Comments: 137
LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/formal-verification Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202217 Points: 341 # Comments: 199
v0.40.9
Speech Ollama can now generate speech with Phonon on Apple Silicon. ollama run plays text or a chat model's reply aloud as the audio is generated, and apps can stream audio through the OpenAI-compatible /v1/audio/speech endpoint. ollama run phonon " Hello from Ollama. " d3 decision models d3 brings vLLM Semantic Router's decision models to Ollama. Give a model text, structured state, or an image, and ask it to classify, answer yes or no, or score options with probabilities. The family includes 2B, 4B, 9B, and 27B sizes. ollama run d3 " A customer says their card was charged twice. " --ask " Is this a billing issue? " Flint on Linux and Windows Flint now runs on Linux and Windows as well as macOS. Other improvements Streaming OpenAI Responses and Anthropic Messages requests now report generation failures instead of ending silently after partial output. ollama launch now passes cloud models' context lengths and capabilities to coding tools, fixing incorrect context and compaction settings. Anthropic-compatible web search now uses the model's supported thinking setting in follow-up requests, preventing avoidable failures. Full Changelog : v0.40.8...v0.40.9
Switch 2 security takes a hit as hackers unlock homebrew access
"Userland" exploit relies on integer overflow found in "SmileBasic" interpreter.
Turning Database Grading into RL Rewards: Post-Training Agents with ThinkingBox
Hugging Face Blog published: Turning Database Grading into RL Rewards: Post-Training Agents with ThinkingBox
Custom skills, agents, and MCP servers in usage metrics API
Copilot usage metrics now show the names of the skills, custom agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, slash commands, and plugins that your organization creates, instead of grouping them under… The post Custom skills, agents, and MCP servers in usage metrics API appeared first on The GitHub Blog .