Clock's ticking on PostgreSQL 12, but not everyone is ready to say goodbye
The Register
Want to feel old? Excel just entered its 40th year
Telcos find cloud migrations, security, are a pain in the IaaS
Major publishers sue Perplexity AI for scraping without paying
Lab-grown human brain cells drive virtual butterfly in simulation
Pixel perfect Ghostpulse malware loader hides inside PNG image files
India, Nvidia, discuss jointly developed AI chip
China Telecom's next 150,000 servers will mostly use local processors
Intern allegedly messed with ByteDance's LLM training cluster
US leans on Japan to curb sales of chipmaking equipment to China
Drone maker DJI sues Pentagon over ‘Chinese military company’ label
Techmeme
Netflix shut down AAA game studio "Team Blue", which hired industry veterans and seemed set to pursue a big-budget multi-device strategy, amid a gaming shake-up (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
Accel: Klarna alumni have founded 62 new startups, more than any $1B+ European fintech startup; Revolut alumni founded 49, and Wise and N26 alumni had 33 each (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
Document: Chinese startup Horizon Robotics, which makes autonomous driving software and hardware, raised $696M in a Hong Kong IPO, before its October 24 listing (Bloomberg)
Jack Sweeney says Meta suspended Instagram and Threads accounts tracking celebrities' private jets, including Zuckerberg's; Meta cites a "risk of physical harm" (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
Paytm reports Q2 net profit of ~$111M, its first-ever profit, helped by the sale of its ticketing business in August 2024, and revenue down 34% YoY to ~$197.4M (Dimpal Gulwani/Reuters)
A look at some use cases of Anthropic's Claude Artifacts, which lets users create interactive single-page apps via prompts (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
Austin-based SchooLinks, whose SaaS offers college and career readiness resources for K-12 students, raised a $80M Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity (Zoya Hasan/Forbes)
Mumbai-based Neysa, a provider of AI infrastructure to enterprise customers, raised a $30M Series A co-led by NTTVC, Z47, and Nexus Venture Partners (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
The US DOD plans an initiative to recruit CTOs and other senior tech professionals as uniformed, paid reservists to help in security, data analytics, and more (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)
TechCrunch
India’s Zomato to raise $1B ahead of rival Swiggy IPO
Tim Cook’s other job
Passionfroot is a marketplace for business-focused content creators looking for brand partnerships — and vice versa
Meta suspends accounts tracking private jets of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and other celebrities
India’s Neysa bags $30M to compete with global AI hyperscalers
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 Side Events schedule: Mercury, Jetro, Enterprise Ireland, and more to host
Hacker News
MQTT turns 25 (and has taken over the world)
Undecided Hobbit Torn Between Dark Lord of Chaos and Elf Queen He Barely Knows
RISC-V Announces Ratification of the RVA23 Profile
Don't Publish with IEEE
A Lisp compiler to ARM written in Lisp
Understanding Gaussians
Singapore OKs 4,300km subsea cable for importing electricity from Australia
Cosine (YC W23) Hiring JavaScript/TS Dev to Build AI SWE
Tesla delays Cybertruck's range extender, reduces its range
Guide to Fine-Tuning LLMs
Brazil Arrests 'USDoD' Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach
Firefox-Passwords-Decryptor: Extracts and decrypts passwords saved in Firefox
A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending
Good money, no team tactics and cute dogs: the rise of pro cycling freelancers
World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission
How to secure your new VPS: a step-by-step guide
Study offers clues into when and why mosquitoes bite
LTESniffer: An Open-Source LTE Downlink/Uplink Eavesdropper
Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features
Wired's Attack on Privacy
Transformers Utilization in Chart Understanding: A Review of Advances and Future
Learning to Learn
AI Supremacy
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