The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here
OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will too.
Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
EDG C++ front-end goes public
https://github.com/edgcpp/compiler Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913192 Points: 226 # Comments: 107
The Disney protests were a wake-up call about the risks of streaming mergers
Boycotting Disney is hard.
DoorDash’s drone strategy started on the ground
DoorDash unveiled the six-propeller aircraft that will be used in its new drone delivery business at its annual Dash Forward 2026 event.
BMW built the same car for gas and electric. The EV is $4,400 cheaper.
The new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing.
Furry Airline Pilots Are Just Minding Their Own Business
“We’re furries at home, and we’re airline pilots at work, and these are two separate things,” says one member of the community in response to senator Tommy Tuberville's recent rant.
iOS 27.2 adds new Messages feature that’s already a favorite
iOS 27.2 is coming soon with several new features for iPhone users, including a Messages addition that was previously in the iOS 27 beta but later got pulled: Suggestions. more…
Peter Norvig says all aboard for AI coding
Software engineering practices need to catch up with increasingly capable agents
Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/surprisingly-complex-waves-reveal-the-brains-inner-workings-20260930/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912955 Points: 201 # Comments: 76
OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents
OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.
There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI
In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events.
Apple Invites for iPhone updated with three new features
Apple is rolling out a new version of its Apple Invites app for iPhone today. The update taps into new iOS 27 features, including improved photo sharing and Image Playground capabilities. more…
Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/before-pixels-modular-industrial-dashboards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912792 Points: 182 # Comments: 36
Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves
Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests.
Breville's new $600 coffee machine makes pour-overs from scratch
You do still have to buy the beans though.
16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows
It's 2 am. Do you know what your teen is doing?
"An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack
OpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says.
AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B
The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.
5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs
Article URL: https://www.netlify.com/blog/edge-functions-firecracker-microvms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912444 Points: 185 # Comments: 84