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Disney no longer lets new and returning customers sign up for and buy subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple's App Store, avoiding Apple's cut (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Lawsuit: a civil rights organization says a Virginia town installing Flock cameras violated the Fourth Amendment, making citizens moving untracked "impossible" (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

A civil rights org claims in a lawsuit that a VA town violated 4A protections by installing Flock cameras, making it "impossible" for citizens to move untracked (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Meta is testing facial recognition to combat celebrity scam ads and to help enable faster recovery of compromised Facebook and Instagram accounts (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Meta is testing the use of facial recognition to combat celebrity scam ads and to enable faster recovery of compromised accounts on Facebook and Instagram (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Ireland adopts an Online Safety Code for video-sharing platforms headquartered in the country, including TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, effective next month (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

The Biden admin unveils proposed rules for restricting the transfer of US citizens' sensitive data, including biometric and genomic info, to adversarial nations (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)

EssilorLuxottica CFO says Ray-Ban Meta glasses are a "success" in the US and the bestseller "in 60%" of Ray-Ban stores in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (David Heaney/UploadVR)

Qualcomm unveils the 3nm Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile SoC, with two prime and six performance CPU cores, claiming 45% faster CPU and NPU over the 8 Gen 3, and more (Robert Triggs/Android Authority)

Blade Runner 2049's producer sues Musk, Tesla, and WBD for allegedly using AI to create imagery close to the film to promote Cybercab, despite a denied request (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)

Blade Runner 2049's producer sues Musk, Tesla, and WBD for allegedly using AI to create imagery close to the film, despite a denied request, to promote Cybercab (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)

Stripe announces a finalized deal to buy stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge; Michael Arrington says the deal was worth $1.1B; Bridge has raised $54M (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)

Stripe announces it has finalized a deal to acquire stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge; Michael Arrington says the deal was worth $1.1B (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)

Dow Jones and New York Post sue AI startup Perplexity for alleged copyright infringement and say it hasn't replied to a July 2024 letter about copyright issues (Todd Spangler/Variety)

xAI launches an API for "grok-beta" priced at $5 per million input tokens or $15 per million output tokens; it is unclear which AI model "grok-beta" might be (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

UK-based Sophos plans to acquire Atlanta-based cybersecurity company Secureworks for ~$859M, expected to close in early 2025; Dell owns ~79% of Secureworks (Joe Warminsky/The Record)

Sources: Tim Cook helped Nike secure Elliott Hill as CEO in September, and has carved out a role as one of Nike's closest outside advisers during a turnaround (Bloomberg)

AMD unveils Zen 5-based X3D desktop CPUs, arriving November 7, but offers few details and no price, ahead of Intel's Core Ultra 200-series launch on October 24 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Zip, which uses AI to help businesses manage buying goods and services, raised $190M led by BOND at a $2.2B valuation, up from $1.5B in May 2023 (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

Q&A with Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi on AI, tax, and more; in a follow-up, an exec said "at the very least the end portion of your interview should be deleted" (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Seattle-based Carbon Robotics, which offers an AI-powered deweeding robot for farmers, raised a $70M Series D led by BOND, taking its total funding to $157M (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Q&A with Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on his Nobel Prize being "a watershed moment for AI", biology, AlphaFold 3, Isomorphic Labs, drug programs, and more (Financial Times)

A profile of and interview with Tim Cook on being "perfectly fine with not being first", running Apple, Vision Pro, AI, the Design Studio, group chats, and more (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

Hands-on with Apple's hearing health features for AirPods Pro 2, set for iOS 18.1: hearing aids work well, hearing protection in all modes, and a hearing test (Chris Welch/The Verge)

ByteDance says it fired an intern in its ad tech team for "maliciously interfering" with AI training, and says operations were unaffected by their actions (João da Silva/BBC)

Investigation: a Russian espionage and hacking campaign targeted Georgia for years and breached its Foreign Ministry, Finance Ministry, central bank, and more (Bloomberg)

Microsoft unveils 10 new AI agents for its enterprise-focused Dynamics 365 apps covering sales, finance, and more, ahead of Salesforce's Agentforce availability (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

IBM launches its open source Granite 3.0 models, including 2B and 8B general purpose versions and Mixture-of-Experts models, aimed at enterprise customers (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)

ABI expects there to be 8,400 global data centers by 2030, as investors capitalize on the AI boom; Statista projects the industry will be worth $624B by 2029 (Nicholas Fearn/Financial Times)

Tracxn: Indian health tech-related startups raised $3.7B since 2022, about half of the $7.4B raised in the sector across the Asia Pacific region (Bloomberg)

How OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are using different approaches to improve "model behavior", an emerging field shaping systems' responses and characteristics (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

A look at the Harris campaign's outreach to the tech sector, as it tries to convince companies that she'll chart her own course while avoiding policy specifics (Washington Post)

EU Considers Calculating X Corp Fines by Including Revenue From Elon Musk’s Other Firms

[Sponsor] WorkOS

Yours Truly on the ‘Rad History’ Podcast to Talk About GoldenEye 007 for Nintendo 64

Yankees and Dodgers Resume the Best World Series Rivalry, Finally

US moves ahead with crackdown on data brokers selling to six 'countries of concern'

China’s Spamouflage cranks up trolling of US Senator Rubio as election day looms

Sophos to snatch Secureworks in $859M buyout: Why fight when you can just buy?

Microsoft says its Copilot AI agents set to tackle employee tasks in November

The billionaire behind Trump's 'unhackable' phone is on a mission to fight Tesla's FSD

China ramps up semiconductor patents amid US export restrictions

Musk's $1M election lottery raises serious legal concerns, says Pennsylvania governor

SiFive launches early access for Premier P550 RISC-V developer board

Gary Marcus proposes generative AI boycott to push for regulation, tame Silicon Valley

ASML faces turbulence amid stock drop, customer delays

macOS HM Surf vuln might already be under exploit by major malware family

Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise

Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free

SCC, one of Europe's largest resellers, orders staff back to their desks for three days a week

UK authority struggles to RISE with SAP, throws another £9M at project

The Astronaut wore Prada – and a blast from Michael Bloomberg

Linux admin asked savvy scientist for IT help and the boffin blew it

Microsoft's Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU now live and powering Azure VMs

Tesla, Intel, deny they're the foreign company China just accused of making maps that threaten national security

Chinese chipmaker Loongson now just three to five years off the pace on the desktop

Internet Archive exposed again – this time through Zendesk

Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan

Baidu CEO: AI 'bubble' will burst 99 percent of players

Disney Plus and Hulu won't let you sign up through Apple anymore

Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths

C++: Uncompromised Performance, Undefined Behavior, & Move Semantics [video]

Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

__init__.py files are optional. Here's why you should still use them

Philip Zimbardo, psychologist behind the 'Stanford Prison Experiment' dies at 91

Rope ROM of the Wang 720C desktop computer

A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote

Thought experiments that fray the fabric of space-time

Scalene: A high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, memory profiler for Python

Sam's Club CTO to Exit Due to Walmart Relocation Policy

Meta's Israel Policy Chief Tried to Suppress Pro-Palestine Instagram Posts

The Internet Archive is back, in read-only mode

T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users

Breaking Bad is a co-founder story disguised as a drug-dealing story

First images from Euclid are in

Show HN: Data Formulator – AI-powered data visualization from Microsoft Research

Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 is out [pdf]

Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab

New discovery reveals how diatoms capture CO2 so effectively

Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?

U.S. retailers list AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs – prices range from $484 to $525

Please do not write below the line

ByteDance intern fired for planting malicious code in AI models

Perplexity AI's new tool for researching the stock market

Machine Learning to Computational Plasma Physics Reduced-Order Plasma Modeling

Gary Marcus proposes gen AI boycott to push for regulation, tame Silicon Valley

Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back

Red Hat Reveals Major Enhancements to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI

Harassment campaign targets open source developer, Wikipedia page deleted

Robot vacuum cleaners hacked to spy on, insult owners

Ask HN: Alternatives to Bitwarden?

Solar power from space? it might happen in a couple of years

xAI Grok API Beta

U.S. border surveillance towers have always been broken

India's airline industry in chaos after 90 hoax bomb threats in a week

YouTube: The SiFive HiFive Premier P550 [video]

Welcome to the Era of the $20k Family Car Insurance Bill

A Media Player Without Peers – The Unreasonable Effectiveness of VLC

Wild animals are spiraling to extinction. Can a bunch of bureaucrats save them?

Extinction of the Influenza B Yamagata line during the Covid pandemic (2022)

An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker

Brain endurance training improves older adults' cognitive, physical performance

Can SpaceX land a rocket with 1/2 cm accuracy?

Ask HN: How to learn UI/UX as a data/BE engineer?

Waking up science's sleeping beauties (2023)

VPTQ: Extreme low-bit Quantization for real LLMs

Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit

Dear CTO: it's not 2015 anymore

Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode

Toyota's Betting Big on Electric Air Taxis

Show HN: Epublifier – scrape pages (books, manuals) for offline reading

Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort

Is it better to fail spectacularly?

“The Secret History of the Mongols”: A digital history approach

IOCCC Flight Simulator (2010)

Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer (React/Mongo/Node)

Rip2 – A safer, rust-based rm

One of the Last Navajo Code Talkers from World War II Dies at 107

A simple C unit test framework

Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos

My free book "Rust Projects – Write a Redis Clone" is out

AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner

Show HN: Dynamic IPv4/6 records for Cloudflare

Show HN: Nextread.ai – Find you next book to read much easier

OOP is not that bad, actually

C++23: ISO/IEC 14882:2024

Cat without cat on the commandline

Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

IBM Granite 3.0: open enterprise models

AWS CEO tells workers to quit if they don't want to come back to the office

Six top Alzheimer's researchers accused of fraud

Making Castro’s Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way

How Much Science Is Fake?

Mondegreen

Software engineer titles have almost lost all their meaning

Scientists working to decode birdsong

ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project

Android "Password Store" client for pass discontinued

Concerns Raised over Bitwarden Moving Further Away from Open-Source

Werckmeister Temperment

Show HN: Doom Inside an SVG

A step toward fully 3D-printed active electronics

Memory safety without lifetime parameters

Google's AI prophet fast tracks singularity prediction

Learn Rust the Dangerous Way

David Lynch Interview Project

東大発AIスタートアップのWanderlust、Skyland Venturesから資金調達──DX支援に向けたAI技術開発

ビジネス情報収集SaaSのストックマーク、45億円をシリーズD調達——PEポラリスが出資

FoxconnやTSMCが支援するアクセラ「Garage+」、2024年の採択チーム31社を発表——日本からは6社

メガネ無しでスマホを手軽に3D化、韓国MOPICの新技術「HoloGlass」が日本市場に上陸

韓国発インフルエンサーマーケティングソリューション「Featuring」、日本市場に進出

OpenAI、ChatGPTの「Canvas」に待望の変更追跡機能を実装

【AEA卒業生の声】低コストで高性能、NZ発Tectonusが世界を進化させる建築耐震技術——9月に日本のゼネコンから初受注も

歯科DX推進のDeltan、5億円を調達——〝仮想API〟＆技工所起点の営業戦略で業界の壁に挑む

元メルカリ石川氏のAIロボ開発「Jizai」企業・研究機関向けに提供開始ーー四足歩行と人型の2モデルでスタート

Sherpas.dev - Agile Practices Automated for Distributed Teams | Product Hunt

Otakufy - Animedoro timer for studying and focusing | Product Hunt

Der Das Die. Learn German articles fast - Master German articles faster with a flashcard-based method | Product Hunt

Social Trends Tracker - Trending stories/hashtags/etc across 9 top social networks | Product Hunt

GitHub Contributions on Stream Deck - Stream Deck plugin displays your GitHub contributions graph | Product Hunt

Hiya Deepfake Voice Detector - Know if what you hear or see is a deepfake | Product Hunt

Bananotate - Make every screen like Canva and annotate your whole screen | Product Hunt

Notifi - Daily summaries of the fav creators, right in your inbox ! | Product Hunt

SocialPilot Reviews - Beat negative reviews by automating review management | Product Hunt

Blunderwall - You have four attempts... can you beat the Blunderwall? | Product Hunt

Aqt Psoriasis Coach - The first app for comprehensive psoriasis care | Product Hunt

Somno - Smart sleep tracker & sleep data analyzer | Product Hunt

PatchCue - Effortless release notes tailored for your customers | Product Hunt

Disney Plus and Hulu won’t let you sign up through Apple anymore

The best fitness trackers to buy right now

Google’s taking the extra search box out of your search results

Elon Musk sued for using AI-generated Blade Runner imagery at robotaxi event

The best instant cameras you can buy right now

iRobot’s budget-friendly Roombas add a self-emptying option

Amazon says it ditched plastic air pillows

One-third of DHS’s border surveillance cameras don’t even work

Streamer’s apology for racist rant exposes the rot in streaming culture

Qualcomm’s new mobile chip is the 8 Elite

Tesla’s Cybertruck range extender just became an even worse deal

The best Android phones for everyone

News Corp sues Perplexity for ripping off WSJ and New York Post

‘I woke up and had the whole idea in my head’: returning to Area X with Jeff VanderMeer

Tiger Woods’ new tech golf league brings big screens to the green in January

Anker’s Solix C300 DC power station has hit a new low price for Verge readers

The GameCube’s retro styling lives on in this customized PS5 DualSense controller

The 2025 Ford Mustang Mach-E gets sportier and more affordable

Vampire Survivors comes full-circle with Castlevania DLC expansion

AMD’s highly anticipated 9000-series X3D desktop CPUs arrive on November 7th

Tropical Storm Oscar is making Cuba’s nationwide power outage even worse

Disney’s still looking for a new CEO — but not this year or next year

Kwikset takes a smart approach with its new smart lock

Apple’s AirPods Pro hearing health features are as good as they sound

Nintendo’s mysterious Playtest begins to leak

Samsung’s Z Fold Special Edition flagship is here

Meta tests facial recognition for spotting ‘celeb-bait’ ads scams and easier account recovery

TechCrunch Space: Inverted

Meta’s smart glasses outsell traditional Ray-Bans in some stores, even before AI features roll out

One Zero, the AI fintech started by the founder of Mobileye, is raising $100M, say sources

‘Blade Runner 2049’ producer accuses Musk and Tesla of circumventing copyright with AI imagery

What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor.

Nevoya wants to break the EV truck adoption logjam

Benchmark is raising $170M for its latest partners-only fund

X rolls out its real-time search tool, Radar, to Premium+ subscribers

‘Content kleptocracy’: News Corp outlets sue Perplexity over scraped stories

Poshmark reverses decision to lower selling fees after sellers experience a drop in sales

xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, launches an API

Daze, a creative, AI-powered messaging app for Gen Z, is blowing up prelaunch

ShoBizzy, a networking app for the TV industry, aims to open new doors for freelancers

TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 Side Events schedule: Mercury, Jetro, Enterprise Ireland, and more to host

Ireland adopts Online Safety Code for video-sharing platforms including TikTok

Final countdown: 7 days until TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 kicks off

Uprise wants to help small businesses make better financial decisions

A closer look at the AirPods Pro’s new hearing aid features

Groww pays $160M tax as it returns to India amid a startup relocation wave

DataCrunch wants to be Europe’s first AI cloud hyperscaler — powered by renewable energy

The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained

sudoku-in-python-packaging

Quoting Arvind Narayanan

Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week

Dashboard: Tools

AWS Weekly Roundup: Agentic workflows, Amazon Transcribe, AWS Lambda insights, and more (October 21, 2024)

Tesla's Master Plan: How It Revolutionized Startups

A First Look at Creating Autonomous AI Agents With Microsoft's Copilot Studio

IBM Releases Granite 3.0, Generative AI Purpose-Built for the Modern Enterprise

Appwrite in 100 Seconds

We tested Intel’s AMX CPU accelerator for AI. Here’s what we learned

New Professional ChromeOS Administrator certified perks

Bridge and Stripe: A Bridge to the Future

TopShelf Featuring Yacine (X Engineer / crazy man)

Ladybird On Swift vs Rust

New 5 Note-Taking Apps You Need to Try

How to unearth the next $BN business 💰

Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217

Investing in AI to build next-generation infrastructure

These companies are creating food out of thin air

The Download: food from thin air, and finding new materials

Aspire brings .NET the enterprise tooling it always needed

Oracle, IBM, Deloitte win £700m Synergy Programme for HMG

Home Office to spend £25 million on SIAM provider for "Crossing the Border" project

Workday wins fresh £10m council ERP deal

A local ride-hailing service can’t beat Uber and Bolt, so its drivers are beating up their rivals

NotebookLM Custom Instructions

Llama 3.2 in Keras