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AI landlord screening tool will stop scoring low-income tenants after discrimination suit

NASA wants SpaceX and Blue Origin to deliver cargo to the moon

Reddit is having some issues

Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen prompts

Messenger video calls will look and sound better — and add AI backgrounds

Sonos’ smart TV plans might have found an OS

T-Mobile actually stopped some hackers from stealing customer data

The New York Times is trying to shut down a popular Connections puzzle creator

LimeWire’s new merch will help you impress your peer(-to-peer)s

Final Fantasy XIV Mobile will bring Eorzea to your phone

Threads’ custom feeds are already rolling out

Google’s Drive app is now available for Windows on Arm

Xbox cloud streaming expands beyond Game Pass to games you own

Ford retracts in Europe with layoffs and lower EV production

Garmin’s Venu Sq 2, our favorite Fitbit alternative, hits its lowest price ever

Anker’s excellent 6.6K MagGo Power Bank is down to an absolute steal at $19.99

Amazon’s new Echo Show 21 has a huge screen and built-in smart home hub

Google fixes Chrome issue that broke text highlighting on some sites

This keyboard is a touchscreen that doubles as a second monitor

Stellantis’ electric STLA Frame gives vehicles 690 miles of range with an extender

Vision Pro’s viral Lapz app put on hold after F1 complaint

FromSoftware parent company confirms Sony’s acquisition interest

NFL, celebrity boxing, and hot dogs: Netflix’s push into live TV

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is a glorious and beautiful pain in the ass

Comcast is spinning off its cable TV business

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 wasn’t prepared for takeoff

Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: a bogus bargain

Google Meet’s automatic framing is now available to everyone

UberXXL will let you catch an even bigger ride to the airport

Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps

Niantic is building a ‘geospatial’ AI model based on Pokémon Go player data

Dell settles with Uncle Sam over Army bid-rigging claims

We'll answer any questions DoJ has, HPE CEO tells us as Feds probe $14B Juniper buy

Job seekers call BS on the workplace AI revolution

Mega US healthcare payments network restores system 9 months after ransomware attack

Google's AI bug hunters sniff out two dozen-plus code gremlins that humans missed

Microsoft unveils beefy custom AMD chip to crunch HPC workloads on Azure

SpaceX claims another Starship success, but fumbles the catch

D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify

Kyndryl insiders say there's little new business

HPE lets loose VM Essentials to run on third-party platforms

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 struggles to take off

BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96

Steam cuts the cord for legacy Windows and macOS

Study suggests X turned right just in time for election season

Data is the new uranium – incredibly powerful and amazingly dangerous

European Cloud Competition Observatory created to keep an eye on software licensing

China wants mobile devices to limit usage time for minors, ensure they only see nice content

Google changes Android release cycle so new versions arrive in Q2

Japan looks to nuclear energy to power AI-powered datacenter boom

Healthcare org Equinox notifies 21K patients and staff of data theft

Solar power magnate Gautam Adani and others indicted over alleged $250M bribery scheme

‘PDF to Brainrot’ study tools are a strange iteration on a TikTok trend

Fusion startup Tokamak Energy attracts $125M for its egg-like reactor design

Another VC-backed fintech, Earnin, faces crackdown over allegedly ‘predatory’ loans

It’s not just you, Reddit is down

FTX CTO Gary Wang avoids prison time

US charges five accused of multi-year hacking spree targeting tech and crypto giants

May Mobility to test driverless shuttles in Ann Arbor

Benchmark invests $19M in New Lantern, a smarter way for radiologists to use AI

Led by Anduril, defense tech funding sets a new record this year

Messenger gets HD video calls, AI backgrounds, and more

DuckDuckGo calls for EU to widen its Digital Markets Act probe of Google

This Week in AI: Congressional commission warns of Chinese AGI

H, the AI startup that raised $220M, launches its first product: Runner H for ‘agentic’ applications

As Bluesky soars, Threads rolls out custom feeds globally

Federal prosecutors have charged another Forbes 30 Under 30 alum with fraud

A Chinese lab has released a ‘reasoning’ AI model to rival OpenAI’s o1

TV Time points to Apple’s ‘significant power’ over developers after being removed from App Store

TV Time points to Apple’s ‘significant power’ over devolpers after being removed from App Store

Comcast spins off its cable channels into separate company as it looks for growth

Chinese AV startup Pony AI boosts its IPO goal to $260M

Amazon debuts its largest Echo Show yet

Riding high on open source ERP, Odoo raises $527M via secondaries, lifting its valuation to $5.26B

YC-backed Four Growers builds robots to help solve greenhouse labor shortages

Raven Space Systems opens up a whole new category of industrial 3D printing

Federato fixes insurance risk analysis with AI, raises $40M

Converge Bio’s ‘everything store’ for biotech LLMs brings in $5.5M seed

LogicMonitor’s massive $800M raise shows AI is driving the demand for data center monitoring

Data center monitoring firm LogicMonitor raises $800M at a $2.4B valuation

Current AI scaling laws are showing diminishing returns, forcing AI labs to change course

Fintech giant Finastra confirms it’s investigating a data breach

Portugal’s Tekever raises $74M for dual-use drone platform deployed to Ukraine

UK crashes out of global top 50 supercomputer ranking

UK open to social media ban for kids as gov’t kicks off feasibility study

OpenAI releases a teacher’s guide to ChatGPT, but some educators are skeptical

You have a few hours left to bid on this burned-out husk in San Francisco

Ben Ling’s Bling Capital has already nabbed another $270M for fourth fund

SpaceX launches Starship for the sixth time — with Trump on site to watch

Introducing Amazon CloudFront VPC origins: Enhanced security and streamlined operations for your applications

Amazon CloudFront now accepts your applications’ gRPC calls

Europe's Internet resilience mitigates impact of submarine cable cuts

Like 'old Twitter': The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky

Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies"

Distro (YC S24) Is Hiring a Head of Marketing (B2B)

With Core One, Prusa's Open Source Hardware Dream Dies

New Calculation Finds we are close to the Kessler Syndrome [video]

Google turns Android into a desktop OS in 5 steps

DOJ wants to force Google Chrome sale, Android de-bundling

Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers

Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

Show HN: Weave - actually measure engineering productivity

Show HN: Rebuild of Blossom, an open-source social robot

Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM

SQL, Homomorphisms and Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Ghost Tap: New cash-out tactic with NFC Relay

Converge (YC S23) is hiring senior product engineers (NYC, in-person)

Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT

Exploring the Cost and Feasibility of Battery-Electric Ships

AI's Slowdown Is Everyone Else's Opportunity

Show HN: I'm 17 and made a tool to help students study smarter

The Northeast is becoming fire country

AMD crafts custom EPYC CPU with HBM3 for Azure: 88 Zen 4 cores and 450GB of HBM3

Google workers to DOJ: we need protections to make your breakup effective

Singularity Missed

3 years ago, VCs in Bay Area tech were thriving. Now, they're 'bleeding cash.'

My Resignation from Emacs Development

Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes

Automatic braking systems save lives. Now they'll need to work at 62 MPH

Musi fans refuse to update iPhones until Apple unblocks controversial app

La Basilica Di San Pietro

Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About

The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest princess

How good are American roads?

GNU Artanis 1.0.0 Released

Show HN: A People Search Engine with Face Recognition

Britain is building one of the world’s most expensive railways

Ensō: design constraints of a focussed writing tool

Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication – F. Werner's Research Page

Show HN: Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints

What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021)

U of T computational imaging researchers harness AI to fly with light in motion

Don't Call It a Substack

Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media

Show HN: Cardo ‒ Open Source desktop podcast client

Judge Rules Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Not So Decentralized in Law

Clearest Health (YC S23) is hiring a full-stack engineer in NY

China Could Re-Dollarize the World

How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment

Danish Navy Stopped a Chinese Ship Suspected of Damaging Undersea Cables

Underrated Ways to Change the World

Banned from Bluesky Within 30s

Discarded delights: The joy of ex-library books (2021)

Danish Navy boarded Chinese cargo ship: who broke cables at bottom of Baltic Sea

Why don't you move abroad?

Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset

AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing

Yhangry (YC W22) Is Hiring 2 Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineers

Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke

Lush: My favorite small programming language

Trivial REST server in various languages to compare

Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now

Firefox nightly is running an experiment featuring a Fakespot feed on newtab

Jaguar Cars rebranding without any cars

Blender 4.3

Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm

Apple TV+ Will License Its Movies to Other Services to Reduce Billions in Losses

Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

Nominal for Storing, Structural for Manipulating

Webvm: Virtual Machine for the Web

Call for Developer Projects

Nickel Plating Handbook [pdf]

Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month

Meta Uses LLMs to Improve Incident Response

Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts

GroMo (YC W21) Is Hiring

I designed my website to look like a chat log

Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems

Snowflake reports Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $942.09M, vs. $898.46M est., unveils a deal with Anthropic to bring Claude to Cortex AI; SNOW jumps 18%+ after hours (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to $35.1B, vs. $33.2B est., Data Center revenue up 112% to $30.8B, vs. $29B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (Daniel Howley/Yahoo Finance)

Sources: xAI has told investors it raised $5B in a funding round valuing it at $50B and that its revenue has reached $100M on an annualized basis (Wall Street Journal)

Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $13.8B in 2024, up from $2.3B in 2023; OpenAI's marketshare in enterprise AI declined from 50% to 34% (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Chinese AI company DeepSeek unveils DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview, a "reasoning" AI model that it claims is competitive with OpenAI's o1, and plans to open source it (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Threads begins rolling out the ability to create custom feeds globally, giving users options beyond "For You" and "Following" feeds (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sources: Trump's team is talking with the crypto industry over whether to create a White House post dedicated to cryptocurrency policy and is vetting candidates (Bloomberg)

US prosecutors charge five alleged members of the Scattered Spider hacking group for their role in the hacks of 29+ individuals and theft of $11M+ in crypto (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)

DCG founder Barry Silbert announces a subsidiary called Yuma to help build decentralized AI services called "subnets" on the Bittensor blockchain network (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

French AI startup H, which raised a $220M seed in May 2024, announces its first product, Runner H, an "agentic" AI model, available in private beta (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Meta unveils new Messenger features, including audio and video voicemail, AI backgrounds for video calls, and hands-free calling and messaging via Siri (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming to existing Xbox game libraries, letting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers stream 50 supported games they already own (Tom Warren/The Verge)

The Biden admin finalizes $1.5B CHIPS Act incentives for GlobalFoundries, meaning it can start receiving federal funding for facilities in Vermont and New York (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Amazon unveils the $400 Echo Show 21, an upgrade to the Echo Show 15 from 2022, with a 21" 1080p display and auto-framing camera, and updates the Echo Show 15 (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

A US judge sentences FTX co-founder Gary Wang to "time served", meaning no jail time; Wang pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud charges after FTX collapsed (Sarah Wynn/The Block)

GSMA: 4.6B people are now connected to mobile internet, or 57% of the world; mobile subscriber growth fell to 160M in 2023, from 200M per year from 2015 to 2021 (Rest of World)

Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure monitoring startup LogicMonitor to investors in a deal valuing it at ~$2.4B; LogicMonitor also raised $800M (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)

Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source enterprise resource planning software, hit a €5B valuation in a secondary share round led by CapitalG and Sequoia (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: looks like the Watch 7 and has similar health features, but has the guts of 2021's Watch 4, poor battery life, and one size only (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Israeli enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $300M Series D led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures at a $3B+ valuation, up from $1.4B in April 2024 (Meytal Vaizberg/Globes Online)

How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits (David Streitfeld/New York Times)

As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see diminishing generative AI training returns, a market hype break may be useful, just as with previous innovations (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

Google tightens its rules against "parasite SEO" content, or articles that have little to do with the website's focus, after cracking down on "reputation abuse" (Mia Sato/The Verge)

SMIC's Shanghai-listed shares are up 120% from a September 2024 low, outperforming Nvidia and TSMC, on an expected boost from China's chip self-reliance push (Bloomberg)

Klarna's US IPO listing is another deep blow to Europe, where the lack of a complete single market is pushing EU startups to choose US exchanges for their IPOs (Richard Milne/Financial Times)

ProRata, which plans to debut an AI search engine in December, inks licensing deals with DMG and others; sources: DMG bought a stake valuing ProRata at ~$130M (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

An investigation reveals how phone coordinates collected by US data broker Datastream expose the movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany (Wired)

How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, visual language models, and liquid neural networks are transforming the way robots learn to move and pick up skills (Financial Times)

How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI's o1 could accelerate research on AI itself and calls for more urgent AI model regulation to protect the public (Yoshua Bengio/Financial Times)

TechInsights: China's chip self-sufficiency rate rose from ~14% in 2014 to 23% in 2023 and is expected to hit 27% in 2027, as China rushes to boost chip supply (Nikkei Asia)

Lisbon-based Tekever, which builds aerial surveillance drones that can serve as the communication and navigation hub for swarms of smaller drones, raised €70M (Bloomberg)

Mark Parsons, who led the axed £800M UK supercomputer project, warns that the UK, which no longer has a machine ranked in the top 50, risks falling behind (Anna Gross/Financial Times)

The US-led crypto rally is leaving its mark in Asia: Bhutan's bitcoin holdings reached $1.1B, 36% of its GDP, South Korea's increased trading activity, and more (Bloomberg)

A US Government Accountability Office report says four of six cybersecurity recommendations the agency made to the TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed (Jonathan Greig/The Record)

Trump Media now has a ~$7B market cap despite struggling to build a profitable revenue stream; Similarweb says site visits fell 20% MoM to 10M in October 2024 (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

SuperAnnotate, which provides tools for fine-tuning, iterating, and evaluating AI training datasets, raised a $36M Series B led by Socium Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third-party apps from showing a user's Strava data to other users or using the data in AI models or similar apps (Ray Maker/DC Rainmaker)

Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, retrieves "partial" data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1 (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Shanghai-based satellite company SpaceSail plans to provide internet in Brazil in 2026; SpaceSail launched its first 36 satellites in August and September (Daniel Carvalho/Bloomberg)

Roboflow, which provides open-source tools for developers to build computer vision models, raised a $40M Series B led by GV (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Spectro Cloud, which offers a Kubernetes management service for enterprises, raised a $75M Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview, far ahead of schedule vs. the past decade, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving manufacturers more time (Mishaal Rahman/Android Police)

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Custom RAG Evaluations w/ Vespa.ai

Cold reading an ADHD affliction

The AI emperor has no DAUs why most devs still don't use code AI: Quinn Slack

The plan to break apart Google... RIP Chrome

Why AI Literacy Is the Key to Unlocking ROI in the AI Era

Microsoft Announces 5 New AI Agents to Help with HR, Collaboration, and Project Management

What is AI for Good?

What will you learn in the AI for Good Specialization?

Learn LLM app development by designing an AI game in this new course

Apple Is Selling Apple News Ads Directly for the First Time

Bob Iger Inadvertently Reveals Percentage of Disney+ Subscribers on Ad-Supported Tier

‘Can You Take a Photo of Us?’

‘Inside the Rather Bizarre Relaunch of Jaguar’

★ Dr. Oz

Echoes of Grace · Kaku Drop with Sora

A View from the Frontier | AI for Science Forum

Collaborating for Impact | AI for Science Forum

Building the Infrastructure for Success | AI for Science Forum

The Polycene Exploring the Opportunity of the Moment with Thomas Friedman | AI for Science Forum

Science in the Age of AI | AI for Science Forum

Lessons from CRISPR with Jennifer Doudna | AI for Science Forum

A New Era of Discovery with James Manyika | AI for Science Forum

A New Age of Opportunity | AI for Science Forum

Build, deploy, and promote AI agents through Google Cloud’s AI agent ecosystem

Announcing new updates to Cloud Translation AI, now covering 189 languages

"Death of a Salesforce”: Why AI Will Transform the Next Generation of Sales Tech

His GPT Wrapper Has Half a Million Users—And Keeps Growing - Ep. 39 with Vicente Silveira

Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228

Do Founders underestimate their own power? 💪

Why wouldn’t a parent want their child to be successful? 🤯

Airbnb adopts Google’s Bezel for all builds - as the project's open-sourcer recalls early "monorepo" baggage

EU "GDPR-level" Cyber Resilience Act comes into force

Walmart sees "tangible results" from GenAI deployment

The Download: Clear’s identity ambitions, and the climate blame game

Who’s to blame for climate change? It’s surprisingly complicated.

Inside Clear’s ambitions to manage your identity beyond the airport

How OpenArt scaled their Gen AI art platform on hundreds of GPUs

New data shows the number of new mobile internet users is stalling

Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community

Bluesky WebSocket Firehose

Mac Pet - A menu bar pet that wakes and sleeps as you work | Product Hunt

The government has a breakup plan for Google

Tokamak Energy secures $125M to commercialise fusion power

From Files to Chunks: Improving Hugging Face Storage Efficiency

Introduction to the Open Leaderboard for Japanese LLMs

Faster Text Generation with Self-Speculative Decoding