Xbox Turns Down Netflix $500M Offer
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Why Gopher in 2026?
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Blue Planet III is keeping the rough edges in the age of AI
BBC’s Blue Planet III is looking to prove its authenticity by leaving in the less-than-perfect shots. Previous incarnations of the nature series were defined by their gorgeous, crystal-clear footage that seemed almost too good to be real. But one dead giveaway of AI is when things look too polished and seamless. To counter that, Blue … Read more
Starlink seems to be working normally again in Ukraine
Elon Musk reportedly ordered SpaceX to throttle Ukraine’s Starlink access.
Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
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Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?
The moment you realize the internet is “held together by glue and dreams.”
500 Blog Posts To Learn About Hackernoon
Let’s learn about Hackernoon via these 500 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. How hackers start their afternoons. Where 15k+ technologists publish stories & expertise for 3M+ monthly readers. 1. Introducing The HackerNoon Blogging … Read more
The Goose Programming Language
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Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads
On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. The law requires any ad – whether it’s a still image, video, audio, or text – that “has been significantly modified or generated by artificial intelligence” to include a label in the same format as … Read more
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Google Quietly Updates Privacy Policy to Let Gmail and Photos Data Feed Ads
A policy change effective Oct. 16 carves out an exception to Google’s long-standing pledge—letting connected Gmail, Drive, and Photos data personalize ads through its Personal Intelligence AI features.
Why Modern Data Lakehouses Fail at Scale: The Metadata Problem Nobody Talks About
Open table formats have transformed analytical storage, but the performance of a lakehouse increasingly depends on metadata architecture, maintenance, and workload-aware data organization. The Lakehouse Solved One Problem and Exposed Another The modern data lakehouse emerged from a compelling idea: combine the flexibility and economics of object storage with the reliability and management capabilities traditionally … Read more
Instacart reportedly discussed selling itself with DoorDash and Uber
Instacart might sell itself to a larger competitor.
Sweden’s Government Offices Block ChatGPT and Claude, Keep Microsoft Copilot
Sweden’s Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers from Monday, steering civil servants to Microsoft Copilot as the only AI that passed its security review.
Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human
Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max
Strategy, Strive face balancing act between bitcoin buying and preferred stock dividends
The securities have financed purchases of nearly 136,000 bitcoin, opening a funding channel that analysts expect to complement the larger ETF market.
PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet
Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it’s unlikely to be the last major software scare.
Block’s new voice AI sounds eerily human, sparking awe and scam fears
Reactions split between amazement at how human it sounds and fears it could fuel scams and deception, with CZ eyeing uses in children’s education.
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Crypto under weekend pressure, bitcoin slides below $80,000 on U.S. Middle East evacuations
Bitcoin has sunk to its weakest level in more than one month.