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Developers & Open Source · JetBrains Blog

JetBrains Plugin Developer Conf 2026: AI, New APIs, and More

What does the rise of AI agents mean for plugin development? And what new tools and APIs can help you build better plugins for JetBrains IDEs? These are some of the topics we’ll explore at JetBrains Plugin Developer Conf 2026, taking place online on November 10 at 1:00 pm UTC. Join us for a free […]

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Cops raid office of RFK Jr. allies planning “unethical” vaccine trial on babies

Guinea-Bissau police said hepatitis B vaccine doses were taken as part of an investigation.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

“We are not forking TypeScript”: Cloudflare spearheads Rust port written by agents, for agents

Cloudflare is going all-out to ensure that AI coding agents can check their work without exhausting available computing resources, leading The post “We are not forking TypeScript”: Cloudflare spearheads Rust port written by agents, for agents appeared first on The New Stack .

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Tesla and SpaceX are discussing a possible merger, Musk says

Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees to discuss a possible merger, Elon Musk said during the latter's third quarter earnings call Tuesday. Musk, who serves as CEO of both companies, said the special committees were formed at the request of shareholders and consist of independent directors (though he did not name them). He also […]

World · Al Jazeera

Trump commits more than $400m ahead of high-stakes midterm elections

The president's Republican Party seeks to maintain its hold over both chambers of Congress, despite declining polls.

AI · TechCrunch AI

Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy

Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.

World · Al Jazeera

PSG score late to sink Barcelona 4-2 in Champions League blockbuster

Late strikes by Vitinha and Fabian Ruiz grab victory for PSG as they aim to win the UCL for third season running.

Developers & Open Source · ollama/ollama Releases

v0.40.7

What's Changed pplx-decider is a 27B decision model from Perplexity, fine-tuned from Qwen3.8-27B Continuing an OpenAI-compatible Responses conversation no longer fails when switching between models with and without thinking, or when the history contains another provider's compaction items Fixed streaming Responses requests where client tool calls (e.g. Codex with web search) could emit before open reasoning items, producing misordered/duplicate tool call events Requests routed to remote models are now cancelled on ollama.com when the client disconnects, instead of continuing to run ollama show now reports which renderer and parser a model uses and where its chat template comes from; the API exposes the same values in new renderer , parser , and template_source fields More draft models now work with speculative decoding: llama-server infers the draft type automatically instead of requiring Ollama to identify it ollama launch claude now clamps CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_COMPACT_WINDOW to Claude Code's supported range, avoiding a "window too large" warning Updated llama.cpp and MLX Full Changelog : v0.40.6...v0.40.7

Developers & Open Source · ollama/ollama Releases

v0.40.7

What's Changed openai: allow Responses effort on non-thinking models by @hoyyeva in #19010 llama-server: let llama-server infer the draft speculative type by @dhiltgen in #19064 mlx: add PPLX Decider v1.2 support by @dhiltgen in #19072 Full Changelog : v0.40.6...v0.40.7-rc0

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

SpaceX will try catching Starship and its booster for first time, Musk says

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company would attempt to catch Starship and its booster next month, with the goal of recovering the entire orbital launch system for the first time. If successful, Musk said, the attempt would mark the first time in history an orbital launch vehicle has been fully recovered. "This is a […]

World · Al Jazeera

Why do the US midterms matter for Trump and Congress?

Republicans and Democrats jockey for control of Congress, which will set course for Trump's final two years in office.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Netflix is telling investors not to worry, even though you’re watching less and less

Netflix is making monetization a top priority amid reports of falling viewing time. As part of its third-quarter earnings report on Tuesday, Netflix lists improvements to monetization as one of its main focuses going forward, alongside efforts to boost entertainment value and leverage new technology. The streaming giant doesn't say exactly how it plans to […]

World · Al Jazeera

PSG and Barcelona fans divided over politics in football amid Paris riots

As PSG face Barcelona in a Champions League clash, fans weigh in on whether football should be a political platform.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Assess the entire inference stack — not just open model benchmarks

Impressive benchmark results should make it easy for engineers to select the right open model for the outcome they are The post Assess the entire inference stack — not just open model benchmarks appeared first on The New Stack .

AI · TechCrunch AI

SpaceX’s AI business is beating expectations

SpaceX hit profitably in the third-quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine.

AI · TechCrunch AI

OpenAI acquires startup Orchestra Bio⁠ to beef up its biotech business

OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results.

World · Al Jazeera

Trump: Ilhan Omar could be deported, slams Somalia as a ‘s—house’

Donald Trump called Congresswoman Ilhan Omar “sick” and “dishonest” a week after federal agents raided her home.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Snap is paying Robert Downey Jr. to do the Iron Man thing

Snap has a new brand ambassador for its Specs AR glasses: Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr. The company has brought on Downey as Specs' "Chief Customer Experience Officer" and has published several videos featuring Downey showcasing the capabilities of the new glasses, including as a tool to get help with a putt, practice art, […]

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

SpaceX says big AI growth fueled revenue jump

SpaceX announced revenues of $14.6 billion in its Q3 earnings on Tuesday, which it says was a growth of 161 percent year-over-year "fueled by our Super Intelligence (SI) segment and accelerated growth in Connectivity." While its Space division posted a $7 million loss in income from operations, its Connectivity group posted income from operations $2.4 […]

World · Al Jazeera

Why the war on Iran could backfire on US regime-change goals

Mortazavi: The war on Iran could strengthen Iranian nationalism rather than trigger regime change.

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

JustWatch, which tackles streaming fragmentation, launches own streaming service

A lifetime ad-free subscription is available.

Society · NPR Top Stories

Nigeria confirms an Ebola case in Abuja as a woman arriving from Uganda tests positive

Nigeria is the latest country to report an Ebola case as the outbreak spreads across the region. Kenya confirmed its first case earlier this month and has since recorded nine infections.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

TikTok has started censoring searches for popular peptides

Trying to pull up information for certain peptides on TikTok is now returning a "no results found" page when searching for terms like semaglutide, BPC-157, retratutide, and others. That hasn't entirely erased visibility on TikTok for peptides, which are combinations of amino acids that include substances like insulin and GLP-1. The problem is peptides also […]

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)

https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2026... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167754 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172041 Points: 1022 # Comments: 411