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Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

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 […]

AI · OpenAI News

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.

Developers & Open Source · Hugging Face Blog

Does Your Model Run on AWS Trainium? Look It Up

Hugging Face Blog published: Does Your Model Run on AWS Trainium? Look It Up

World · Al Jazeera

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.

Developers & Open Source · vercel/next.js Releases

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!

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

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

Business · BBC Business

'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.

World · BBC Europe

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.

World · BBC World

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.

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

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.

Business · BBC Business

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.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

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 […]

Society · The Guardian Society

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...

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

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

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

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

Developers & Open Source · ollama/ollama Releases

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

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Switch 2 security takes a hit as hackers unlock homebrew access

"Userland" exploit relies on integer overflow found in "SmileBasic" interpreter.

Developers & Open Source · Hugging Face Blog

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

Developers & Open Source · GitHub Changelog

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 .

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%

Markers released top-line results today after previously reporting the trial succeeded.

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO

Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.

World · The Guardian World

Lewis Hamilton aims to extend career till early 2030s so he can race in African Grand Prix

41-year-old set on ‘dream to be able to race in Africa’ Rwanda to host despite criticism of human rights record Lewis Hamilton has said he hopes to remain racing in Formula One until he can take part in the African Grand Prix which is set to take place in Rwanda in the 2030s . The seven-time world champion believes it is right that F1 is to hold a race there despite criticism of the country’s human rights record. Last week F1 confirmed Rwanda was to host the African Grand Prix having concluded a 10-year agreement for the meeting on a purpose-built circuit, with the first race set for the early 2030s. It is lined up to be held on a circuit in Bugesera, 25 miles south of the capital, Kigali, which has yet to be constructed and marks a return to the African continent for the first time since it last held a race at Kyalami, South Africa in 1993. Continue reading...

World · BBC World

Ukraine says Starlink still restricted after Trump says limits lifted

Issues remain with the network used by the Ukrainian military, sources say, after repeated denials of a deliberate slowdown.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions

Article URL: https://www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-kushner-hacked-phone-secret-negotiations Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50201259 Points: 403 # Comments: 172