Apple HomeView

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The Apple HomeView features a 7-inch Liquid Retina display and 12MP camera for video calls, with options for wall mounting in Space Gray or Silver. Get personalized support and installation assistance through the Apple Store app or online.

11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

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The bug is a 11-year-old issue in Rust's type system that can cause memory unsafety when using a specific Drop implementation. It was downgraded to P-high due to its age, but it still poses a risk of unknown soundnesses.

A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices

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Minions is a dynamic and distributed virtual GPU cloud that aggregates idle Apple Silicon GPUs to execute large-scale machine learning inference workloads. It enables teams to leverage existing hardware without additional GPU procurement, providing flexible task execution and efficient resource utilization.

We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model

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Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 is a multimodal embedding model that converts spoken words into text in real-time, with a word error rate of around 5%. It runs entirely on device and uses the Mac's Neural Engine without sending audio data to Google.

New Apple TV 4K

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Apple has announced the next generation of Apple TV 4K, featuring Siri AI and improved performance. The new device offers a full-screen conversational experience with hands-free control and immersive surround sound when paired with HomePod mini 2 or HomePod (2nd generation) speakers.

A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers

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The article discusses complex numbers, which were initially seen as impossible square roots but turned out to be a natural extension of the real number system. Complex numbers are pairs of real numbers that can be represented geometrically in a 2D plane and have unique properties like rotation and scaling.

Hittite royal archive found in Turkey

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Archaeologists have discovered a 3,400-year-old royal archive in Samuha, Turkey, containing over 180 cuneiform tablets that record daily life, military logistics and religious practices of the Hittite Empire. The archive provides new insights into the health of royalty and officials, military strategies and Hittite language development.

BB(10) > Graham's Number

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n1 advances BB(10) to level ω+1 by surpassing the previous champion's score with a machine-checked proof. Its score exceeds f_(ω+1)(x) bounds, demonstrating significant growth in the fast-growing hierarchy.

Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks

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Use your subscription to process the documents. The speech generation is billed by Google or OpenAI.

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

The author disagrees with Rich Hickey's view that LLMs are automation, not tools, arguing that they can be wielded by humans and require skill to use effectively. The distinction between tools and automation is false, as automation can be a feature of a tool.

Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy

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Character.ai has initiated a Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to sell the company, aiming to maximize value for stakeholders. The platform remains operational and users' subscriptions remain active until the sale is complete by end of November or early December 2026.

Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprise

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Firefox Enterprise is a critical enterprise browser layer that converges work, data, identity, and AI for governance and compliance. It provides secure access to internal applications while reducing shared failure risk and vendor lock-in with its independent engine.

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

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The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)

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E. coli uses chemotaxis to navigate its environment by sensing chemicals and adjusting its movement accordingly, a process that involves complex signaling pathways and molecular interactions. This phenomenon is considered a fundamental example of biological intelligence, as it allows the cell to adapt and respond to changing conditions without a centralized nervous system or brain.
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Large language models are shifting towards professional collaboration, requiring models to digest fragmented source files and structure specialized knowledge into cohesive analysis. GLM-Legal achieved a 19.2% all-pass rate on Harvey LAB while matching frontier closed-source models in complex execution, legal reasoning, and real-world drafting.

Nearly all 19 car brands send driver data to third parties (Northeastern/CR)

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A study found nearly all modern cars send driver data to third parties, including ad companies. Many car owners are unknowingly sharing their location and driving habits with banks, insurers, and lenders without consent.

Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

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Several European supermarkets have been hit by a cyberattack disrupting refrigeration control systems and electronic shelf labels, causing losses of up to several million euros. The attack has affected major retailers including Intermarché, Leclerc, Coopérative U, Albert Heijn and Delhaize in France and the Netherlands.

Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X

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A Modern Web App in C

CGI is a simple, language-agnostic interface to web development that doesn't require learning a framework or API. It's a straightforward way to run business logic directly from a single web server, making debugging and maintenance easier.

Document Review with Unsiloed and TypeSafe Jev

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An extraction pipeline can read a value correctly but still pass bad data downstream, and using Jev with Unsiloed helps check for OCR failures and general mistakes. The code combines extracted values with context to decide which fields need review after sending a request to the TypeSafe API.

A Book That Will Never Be Read

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Michał Wójcik, a former neuroscientist, exposes AI-generated or stolen content in peer-reviewed papers published by major publishers like Springer Nature and Elsevier. He shares his findings on LinkedIn and Bluesky, highlighting cases of "AI-slop" in publications such as "Nanocomposites for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment".

Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome

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Apple launches new campaign promoting Safari's benefits over Chrome, highlighting its power, privacy and performance advantages. The campaign aims to encourage users to switch from Chrome to Safari on their Macs.

Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD

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Janas-LLM outperformed llama.cpp on various models, with the exception of Qwen3-30B-A3B which reads prompts slower due to GPU limitations. Janas measures model performance in a chat-like environment with drafts and prediction blocks.

Making big downloads resumable in Firefox

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Firefox 28 and newer versions have a network timeout issue that interferes with resumable downloads, but setting the timeout to 0 resolves this. This workaround assumes server support for resumable downloads and may not be applicable in all cases.

Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?

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The vfmaddrnd231pd instruction is a proposed FMA instruction that allows controllable rounding, but it does not exist in the Intel Software Development Manual or on supported CPUs. The instruction was likely removed due to an issue with its implementation.

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

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A custom firmware turns a Gemtek W1700K Wi-Fi 7 router into a wideband software-defined receiver, capturing raw IQ data at up to 320 Msps. The setup requires a W1700K, USB serial adapter, Ethernet cable, and a host with specific network configuration for streaming the received data.

Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

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Citroen revives its 2CV brand to boost sales of electric cars, unveiling a retro-styled city runabout. The new model is expected to go on sale by 2028 and will be priced around £13,000.

Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support)

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SolidCraft is a parametric CAD software that allows users to sketch, constrain, and build solids with a timeline feature. It supports various features like extrude, revolve, sweep, loft, fillet/chamfer and shell.

Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum

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The author, a retro computing enthusiast, has finally created a hand-rolled demoscene intro for the ZX Spectrum using Sinclair BASIC and Z80 assembly. The 10287-byte code features smooth scrolltext, bouncing VU meters, and a parallax starfield.

Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents

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