2026-10-13 刊号

Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient ↗

Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine ↗

Cerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home ↗

Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeks ↗

Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings ↗

Recreational Programming ↗

Apple’s HomeView ad is confusing to everyone except parents

Apple's ad introducing its new HomeView smart display is a little unusual. It's fast-paced and unruly, depicting a family of five as they rush through the morning routine. There's yelling and mess, misplaced keys and discarded eggshells. Apple's typical vibe is clean, simple, orderly; this commercial is chaos. But the spot has parents - those […]

AlphaNIST ↗

Physical Intelligence API Beta: Frontier Models for Every Robot ↗

Nexus-Q: un motor open source de Rust para PQC ↗

Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware

Topgolf and VMware "ran deep" before the migration.

Helix Carbon says it can make iron cheaper by recycling blast furnace pollution ↗

Dutch tax authorities cancel Microsoft 365 cloud rollout and turn to open source ↗

OpenAI employee arrested by FBI over hidden listening device, company says ↗

FBI arrests OpenAI employee accused of planting hidden recording device in conference room ↗

OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room

An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee was identified as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national. Alfozan is charged with using or endeavoring to use a device to intercept oral communications, according to a press release from the Department […]

Judge orders OpenAI to turn over hiring records in Apple trade secrets case ↗

OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room ↗

Cambridge Heavy Industries has been quietly building a desktop fusion device ↗

It looks like Apple Music is getting a new icon

Apple Music's iconic red app icon has reportedly been replaced with a black-and-white version in the latest iOS 27.2 beta, 9to5Mac reports. The eighth note on the icon also appears to have a slightly sharper angle than the original. A new Apple Music logo was also spotted last month on the Apple Music Hall website, […]

Licube wants to be the fuel provider to the fusion power industry — see how at TechCrunch Disrupt ↗

Huawei, once hobbled by US sanctions, passes 100M Kirin chip milestone ↗

OpenAI finds recording device in one of their offices ↗

Mathematician Who Waited 50 Years for Proper Credit for Her Work Has Died ↗

Show HN: Parsimony – an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add ↗

Shopify opens its catalog up to more AI agents

More AI agents will soon be able to browse and purchase from Shopify listings, marking an expansion of the company's agentic commerce ambitions. Shopify announced Tuesday it will let shoppers configure their AI agents to purchase products on their behalf, giving more agents access to over a billion listings in Shopify's catalog. (The catalog consists […]

The Tao of Tao ↗

Chabuduo World ↗

Indra OCR: a 1M-parameter OCR model that reads 49 pages per second on CPU ↗

The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians ↗

Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard ↗

Xbox is officially embracing the chaos of AI-powered game ports

Retro gaming is going through a wild time at the moment, thanks to decompilations and recompilations that are letting gamers port classic titles to new devices, or merge code from two different games into a single new experience. Microsoft has witnessed skateboarding being modded into Call of Duty and Halo being played in a web […]

Niobia takes the guesswork out of some of tech’s most expensive mistakes ↗

Windows NT 3.1 MIPS on QEMU ↗

Zero to Calc in Six Days: Inside XBOW's Chrome Full Chain ↗

The Nothing Headphone A are half off for the first time

One of the best deals we’ve seen today bundles together a great pair of headphones with a solid album. When you add the Nothing Headphone A in black or white and the CD version of the Charli XCX album Music, Fashion, Film to your Amazon cart, you’ll save 33 percent on your order, bringing the […]

Russian bot farms are still trolling, even after Ukraine’s drone strikes on Yandex

Days after Ukrainian military drones took down several Russian data centers, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that the campaign had hurt Russia's disinformation efforts. "It suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social platforms," Zelenskyy said Monday. "There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations." Zelenskyy isn't the first to assert that the […]

Rivian’s startup Mind Robotics hires former Ford EV chief Doug Field ↗

Rivian partner Mind Robotics hires Doug Field as president

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's startup Mind Robotics announced the appointment of Doug Field as president in a major coup for the CEO's secretive robotics project. Field was a VP of special projects at Apple, where he was the de facto head of the company's ultimately unsuccessful Project Titan effort to make an autonomous electric car. […]

Flox Intelligence is building AI to keep wildlife away from trains, airports, and roads ↗

战战兢兢，非程序员的第一个开源项目，以国标为基础的公文生成与机检工具 ↗

A plea not to use uv-build ↗

Facebook is giving users more control over their algorithm ↗

Forget rockets — Longshot wants to fire cargo into space from a gun. See it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ↗

I don’t miss the camera on the Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses

The other day I whizzed past several people while running in the park, my playlist blasting at full volume. The next morning, I smiled at a barista while ordering a caramel apple-flavored matcha latte. Afterward, I sat on a park bench reading a book, called up a pal to chat about her recent trip to […]

Show HN: Deslop – Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript ↗

Show HN: XY Music Notation ↗

The feds are looking into reports of Tesla’s robotaxis speeding through school zones

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it's evaluating allegations that Tesla's 1,000 or so robotaxis using its automated driving system are exceeding "posted speed limits in active school zones." Waymo's robotaxis have also faced similar inquiries, including for illegally passing school buses and hitting a child near a California elementary school. NHTSA: The Office […]

Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before they hit the real world ↗

Major security regression merged into OpenCode V2 ↗

The Xteink X4 Pro is a great, tiny e-reader, and it’s cheaper than ever

If you’re looking for an e-reader that can easily fit in your pocket (or snap onto your magnet-equipped phone), the tiny Xteink X4 Pro might be worth a look. It features a 4.26-inch, 800 x 480 E Ink display, making it significantly smaller and thinner than Amazon’s smallest six-inch Kindle. It’s also quite a bit […]

Pluto Security raises $42M as AI gives enterprise security teams a new headache ↗

Run fast, private agents on-device with LFM2.5-24B-A2B ↗

Facebook will let you customize your feed algorithm using AI

Facebook's new "Your Algorithm" feature will let you directly add and manage topics you want to see in your feed and Facebook Reels. Meta says your recommendations "respond right away" after you make updates using the new feature by hitting "interested" or "not interested" for different topics. Your Algorithm previously launched on Instagram earlier this […]

A redesigned Play Store is coming to cars with Google built-in

The Google Play Store is getting a big update for cars with Google built-in. On Tuesday, the company announced that the Play Store's layout will now automatically adapt to the size and layout of your car's screen while making it easier to find and download new apps. The update, which is rolling out in the […]

Google makes it easier to launch your vibe-coded apps

The next time you vibe-code a custom app with Google's AI Studio, you won't have to connect your phone to a computer to install it. On Tuesday, Google announced a new feature in the US that will allow you to launch personal apps directly through the Play Store. Google first launched the ability to vibe-code […]

Google Play now lets anyone build private, vibe-coded apps that run on Android ↗

MIT startup says it can turn diesel trucks into cheaper hydrogen haulers — see it at Disrupt ↗

Show HN: How Random Are You? ↗

Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics ↗