Elephants Found to Be Increasingly Isolated Leading to Fractured Social Networks

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Researchers at UC San Diego studied the social dynamics of Asian elephants in Sri Lanka, finding a decline in population led to fractured and isolated communities. The study warns that surpassing a social tipping point can be detrimental to the future of these highly social animals.

FAA lifted National Ground Stop at 0119Z

EVENT TIME: 14/0116 - 14/0130 DESTINATION AIRPORT:ALL FACILITIES INCLUDED: ALL EXPECT UPDATE:0400Z REASON: REMARKS: THE FAA COMMAND CENTER NATIONWIDE GROUND STOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

FAA issues national ground stop

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The FAA issued a nationwide ground stop for all departing US flights due to an extraordinary circumstance and safety reasons, with 4,042 flights airborne at the time. The cause of the shutdown is currently unknown but officials say it's not believed to be malicious activity.

Terminal borders that don't cost a cell

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The author is proposing a terminal protocol for drawing cell borders, which would allow for more flexible and customizable border styles. The protocol uses a 16-bit border ID to store distinct border sets in a shared table, reducing the need for extra space on the screen.

Ggml v1.0.0

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GGML 1.0.0 has been released with various improvements, including pruning of deprecated APIs and adding support for configurable YaRN truncation and FP8 operations across multiple backends.

Live airband on all frequencies from KORS. Victoria, CA also ground stopped

Every aviation radio transmission heard from Orcas Island, WA: live, transcribed, and archived. Listen to all channels at once, pick your own, or rewind to any moment.

What Happened to 3Com?

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3Com was a leading network equipment manufacturer that declined due to poor business decisions, including exiting its enterprise networking business and expanding into non-core areas. The company ultimately sold its assets to Hewlett-Packard in 2009 for $2.7 billion, marking the end of an era for the once-iconic brand.

Reverse engineering my Coway air purifier to ditch the cloud

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A user reverse-engineered a Coway air purifier to control it without the cloud service, using techniques like man-in-the-middle (MitM) and artificial intelligence. The device can now be controlled through Home Assistant, eliminating the need for the cloud service.

Amtrak booking system experiencing major issues amid nationwide FAA ground stop

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Amtrak's ticket booking system is down due to a nationwide FAA ground stop, causing frustration among thousands of travelers. The issue was attributed to a system-wide update by Amtrak officials.

Ukraine knocks out 36% of Russia's oil refining capacity in under two weeks

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Ukrainian forces have targeted Russian oil refineries, reducing capacity by 30% and causing fuel shortages in six oblasts. The New Voice of Ukraine seeks support to continue defending democracy against Russian narratives.

Anthropic Upgrades Claude Code Projects to Run Parallel AI Workers Hands-Free

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Anthropic has updated Claude Code Projects with new features, including proactive coordinator messages and read-only thread sharing. The changes simplify project management and reduce monitoring required for parallel cloud sessions.

Show HN: Live map of U.S. flights during tonight's FAA nationwide ground stop

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This page displays flight positions and delays for 30 major US airports, using data from adsb.fi and the FAA. It shows departures in the last 30 minutes, estimated missed flights since 3:30 pm ET, and aircraft in the air at a selected time.

Found: A protein that drives ageing without unleashing inflammation

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Researchers have found an enzyme that drives ageing in the body’s tissues1. Drugs that reduce the levels of this protein might one day combat the effects of ageing without impairing the body’s immune defences.

Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B Quantizations – Dynamic v3.1 Update

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Qwen3.8-27B is a 256K context window model with vision and reasoning capabilities, running on 17GB RAM/VRAM setups, excelling at agentic coding, vision and chat tasks. New dynamic quants improve average accuracy by 5-10% compared to previous versions.

After 600 experiments, here's what I discovered about JEPA world models

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A world model, like LeWM, uses a JEPA architecture to predict the future by generating it. It has been shown that its planning horizon is limited to 25 steps and can be improved through hierarchical planning and using memory graphs of past demonstrations.

Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960)

J Neyman discussed a mathematical theory of populations as clusters in 1957. eLetters is a forum for scholarly commentary on the article, with specific submission guidelines.

FM-1 Workbench

The FM1 device has various features such as MIDI routing, clock sources, and sample banks that can be configured using the web editor or device panel. The device also supports exporting files to backup on a computer and importing projects from other devices, with specific instructions provided for transferring data between devices.

Perplexity Decider v1.3: Training, eval, and use cases

Decider v1.3 and Decider Flash v1.3 are released, successors to earlier decision models, offering improved performance and robustness across various text and vision tasks through bidirectional attention, better-curated training data, and refined training recipes.

Autonomous (YC F25) is hiring MTS to build AI agents that manage your wealth

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Create systems that think, reason, and act. We're looking for curious minds from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds.

Live-migration support in FreeBSD and bhyve coming

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This project presents a working state for live migration of bhyve guests on FreeBSD 15.1, enabling host maintenance and hardware replacement with minimal disruption to workloads. The goal is to test and improve the real implementation of live migration, which is crucial for enterprise virtualization and platforms like Sylve and BoxyBSD.

How Not to Build a Music Player

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The author created a music player called AMP after realizing online music players weren't suitable for their country's internet restrictions, and they used LLMs to speed up development but later regretted relying on them. They now prefer manual coding and have rewritten nearly half of the codebase, finding it more robust with the same features.

Show HN: Isometric SF – A pixel-art map of the SF Bay Area

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The provided images are licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0, allowing non-commercial reuse with credit and a link to isometricsf.com. Commercial use requires permission from the user or X.

A technical vision for the Haskell ecosystem

The Haskell Foundation's technical leadership committee has been successfully bootstrapped and is now fully operational. The foundation seeks companies, contractors, and volunteers to support its initiatives and proposals.

Ctrl+C, Ctrl+v, Ctrl+cve: Bypassing Android's Clipboard Read Security Measures

A Slack notification can steal sensitive data by copying a superuser password, and Android's clipboard security measures are insufficient. The author proposes obfuscating the clipboard read toast notification to prevent malicious app developers from accessing this information.

Minnesota guitarist's "palmfrets" invention strikes a new chord

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Ben Ranson, a musician from Minnesota, invented "palmfrets" which allows guitarists to play bass lines or melodies using their palm. The invention uses a special set of frets and technique called palmfretting, adding a new way for guitarists to play the instrument.

Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startups to Buy Its GPUs

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NVIDIA allegedly artificially inflated GPU shortage by investing in AI startups to maintain demand and move excess semiconductors. The company's former CEO, Jensen Huang, was reportedly at odds with CFO Colette Kress over scaling back investments.

$11.4M in Nvidia hardware vanishes during shipment from CA to TX

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NVIDIA computer hardware worth $11.4 million disappeared during a shipment from California to Texas, with investigators tracking the truck before losing its trail in Southern California. The Oakland Police Department is investigating a grand theft and asking for information on the incident.

Lying to Zed to get its remote server running on FreeBSD

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The author has switched from VS Code to Zed due to its improved performance and ability to disable AI features, which they prefer. They use Zed for coding tasks that require harnesses like OpenCode, but still write most of their code manually to maintain control over the output.

All US airports are currently ground stopped

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Issued by the FAA just moments ago, ALL US airports are currently ground stopped. This means NO flights may depart for US airports. Flights already in the air will be allowed to land. This is related to an FAA equipment outage.

Weight Space Misfolding

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Researchers explore the security risks of weight space editing in neural networks, where direct modification of weights can lead to unauthorized behavior. They develop a threat model and propose defensive approaches to control editing, acceptance, and recovery.