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Apple Potentially Behind 'HomeView' Trademark Filed Alongside 'homeOS' Last Year

Apple potentially used a shell company named Home Services LLC to secretly file for a "HomeView" trademark in the U.S. and various other countries last year, around the same time that another shell company named Home Op…

macrumors.com/2026/10/09/homev

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    Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb?

    Article URL: mtlynch.io/why-are-coding-agen Comments URL: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5 Points: 26 # Comments: 5

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      AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials

      Tokens transmitted in metadata, weak VM isolation, and expansive permissions make hacking a lot easier

      theregister.com/security/2026/

      [The Register]

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        Did Claude Help an Amateur Astronomer Discover a New Planet?

        Billions of exoplanets are believed to be out there awaiting discovery. AI—with its ability to sift through mountains of data—could speed that process along.

        gizmodo.com/did-claude-help-an

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          Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial

          CDC allocated $1.6M for study on alleged harms of hepatitis B vaccine.

          arstechnica.com/health/2026/10

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            AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

            Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."

            arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-

            [Ars Technica]

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              Here’s how to unlock your Googlebook’s secret light show

              The hidden Glowbar Disco app is surprisingly easy to find once you know where to look.

              androidauthority.com/how-to-fi

              [Android Authority]

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                Star Wars: Galactic Racer is free to play on Amazon Luna

                The long-awaited Star Wars: Galactic Racer launched earlier this week on consoles and PC, and is also free to play on Amazon Luna. more…

                9to5google.com/2026/10/09/star

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                  Next-gen Google TV Streamer in the works with microphones, presence sensing, & new remote

                  9to5Google can report that development on a next-generation Google TV Streamer is underway. more…

                  9to5google.com/2026/10/09/next

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                    Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read

                    Article URL: readrare.com/ Comments URL: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5 Points: 7 # Comments: 2

                    readrare.com/

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                      open-slopware – Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use LLMs/AI

                      Article URL: codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open Comments URL: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

                      codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open

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                        Contest-Winning Microscope Video Thrown Out for Using Generative AI

                        Ning Xu's winning entry to Nikon Instruments' Small World in Motion competition was ineligible due to AI, a spokesperson for the contest told Gizmodo.

                        gizmodo.com/contest-winning-mi

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                          Blogger Found Guilty of Harassment for Sending Shrek Penis Meme to Ohio State Senator

                          Some memes are too hot to handle.

                          gizmodo.com/blogger-found-guil

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                            Microsoft 365 is making a big cut to your OneDrive storage perk

                            Microsoft 365's 6TB OneDrive storage perk is shrinking to just 2TB.

                            androidauthority.com/microsoft

                            [Android Authority]

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                              No Man Is an Island

                              Article URL: borretti.me/article/no-man-is- Comments URL: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

                              borretti.me/article/no-man-is-

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                                Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Becomes ‘Assisted Driving’ in Europe

                                The automaker has been criticized for misleading drivers with the feature’s name. Now it’s renaming it for European regulators.

                                wired.com/story/tesla-full-sel

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                                  Google officially teases Fitbit Edge tracker, confirms October 12 launch

                                  Google has dropped an official teaser for its Fitbit Edge tracker and confirmed an October 12 launch, just a few days away. more…

                                  9to5google.com/2026/10/09/goog

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                                    Amazon’s ‘Stargate’ Series Is Back in Development, This Time With ‘WandaVision’ Creator

                                    An earlier incarnation of the new show from 'Stargate' veteran Martin Gero was tabled back in June.

                                    gizmodo.com/amazons-stargate-s

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                                      Ledger’s Crypto Wallets Reportedly Backdoored, $71 Million in Crypto Already Moved

                                      An authorized Southeast Asian reseller is tied to reports of drained wallets.

                                      gizmodo.com/ledgers-crypto-wal

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                                        An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police

                                        Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.

                                        techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/an-a

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                                          Want an iPhone Duo? These AT&T deals will knock the price down

                                          With pre-orders starting in the coming days, AT&T has revealed its iPhone Duo deals.

                                          androidauthority.com/apple-iph

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                                            We Have Entered a Cybersecurity Hellscape, Japan Warns

                                            Worse than Godzilla.

                                            gizmodo.com/we-have-entered-a-

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                                              ‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop

                                              "Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense o…

                                              theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

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                                                4 ways Amazon’s new Alexa tablets eclipse the Fire line – starting with Google Play

                                                Amazon just upped its game with new Android tablets for entertainment and work.

                                                zdnet.com/tech/amazon-new-alex

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                                                  ‘HomePad’ is coming next week, with three features I’ve long wanted

                                                  Apple’s long-rumored ‘HomePad’ product is finally set to be unveiled next Tuesday at the ‘Welcome home’ event. Here are three HomePad features I’ve been waiting a long time for. more…

                                                  9to5mac.com/2026/10/09/homepad

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                                                    In Memory of Deno

                                                    Article URL: orgsoft.org/blog/in-memory-of- Comments URL: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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                                                      Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making

                                                      Article URL: commandline.microsoft.com/micr Comments URL: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

                                                      commandline.microsoft.com/micr

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                                                        YouTuber Says Cops Paid Him a Visit After He Built Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops

                                                        It turns out that the gander is not actually super keen on what's good for the goose.

                                                        gizmodo.com/youtuber-says-cops

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                                                          Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon

                                                          Nationwide 800 MHz spectrum to help Starlink provide mobile coverage indoors.

                                                          arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

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                                                            Your artwork could be featured in the next Debian release

                                                            Debian Linux has put a call out for artist submissions for its next release: Forky.

                                                            arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/1

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                                                              AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner

                                                              New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.

                                                              arstechnica.com/science/2026/1

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                                                                PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023

                                                                "The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."

                                                                arstechnica.com/information-te

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                                                                  Googlebook’s app situation is a mess, and not just because things are missing

                                                                  Having been using a Googlebook for the better part of a week, there are any number of headaches I could talk about, but easily the biggest problem I’m running into thus far is the app situation. Frankly, it’s a mess. mo…

                                                                  9to5google.com/2026/10/09/goog

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                                                                    Show HN: See *almost* any carriers phone settings

                                                                    Showing off carrier-explode, one of my side projects that continuously archives carrier settings for all major phone brands. carrier-explode also contains decoders and explanations for all the common baseband configurat…

                                                                    carrierexplode.com/

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                                                                      Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad

                                                                      Article URL: techdirt.com/2026/10/09/hey-pl Comments URL: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5 Points: 11 # Comment…

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                                                                        You Might Want to Try Being Less Creative

                                                                        Article URL: blog.bawolf.com/p/you-might-wa Comments URL: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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                                                                          Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines used at many data centers

                                                                          Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines as the data center boom pushes prices up.

                                                                          techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/batt

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                                                                            [?]Pete Orrall [Pete/Pete] » 🌐
                                                                            @peteorrall@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                            I have some questions for the folks in the room:

                                                                            1.) What are the best practices for Poudriere and Packages. I understand one shouldn't mix Ports and packages, but I want to have some custom builds for my machines, like vim, zsh, wget, mutt, nano, while not relying on compiling everything. Is there a safe way to do this? Presumably one tracks the same quarterly ports tree as packages. But is there more to it?

                                                                            2.) When managing software using Poudriere and Ports, how does one manage emergency OOB patches? I would imagine switching Poudriere to use LATEST is an operational death wish.

                                                                              [?]Ravachol » 🌐
                                                                              @ravachol@social.vivaldi.net

                                                                              @jordangloor wrote an article that mentions kew, titled '3 great Linux apps for listening to music, that you can find here:
                                                                              newinlinux.com/3-great-linux-a

                                                                              Thank you Jordan Gloor for writing about us!

                                                                              I just want to say on kew natural language commands, that you don't have to write 'kew vampire weekend' to play their music, you can probably get away with just 'kew vamp' if there are no duplicates and that's the only vampire music you have..

                                                                              Just a tip.

                                                                              kew logo

                                                                              Alt...kew logo

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                                                                                Whoa. @libreoffice unleashes “no AI as a feature” and breaks download records.

                                                                                “In one week, the installer was downloaded more than 1 million times — not counting updates via Linux distribution repositories.”

                                                                                Great work, LibreOffice team! 👏🏻

                                                                                manualdousuario.net/en/libreof

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                                                                                  LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

                                                                                  manualdousuario.net/en/libreof

                                                                                  Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

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                                                                                    Show HN: Openleetcode – local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo

                                                                                    You write a standard solution, just like on LeetCode, and run it through the CLI. It identifies the problem by ID or title, executes your code against local test cases, and shows the result. It currently supports around…

                                                                                    github.com/therepanic/openleet

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                                                                                      This fr…

                                                                                      With Google set to retire Assistant, and Gemini not exactly the replacement many of us want, Dicio is a solid option. There's one catch.

                                                                                      zdnet.com/article/dicio-free-a

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                                                                                        [?]Dendrobatus Azureus » 🌐
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                                                                                        Quake Dawn of the Machine

                                                                                        Quake has a free 30 year anniversary update, regardless of the platform you own it on originally.

                                                                                        All FPS players should download this one and enjoy 30 years of Quake in Dawn of the Machine

                                                                                        I will even check the game out too, since I even know Wolfenstein 3D!

                                                                                        https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en-US/news/quake-30th-anniversary-update

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                                                                                          [?]Ravachol » 🌐
                                                                                          @ravachol@social.vivaldi.net

                                                                                          I'm practically done with kew for a while I think, it has a ton of features, and now I will just fix smaller bugs I hope for awhile.

                                                                                          Which means I'm going to be able to draw more. I'm working on the second cover for Jenova 7.

                                                                                          This cup turned out pretty well (not my home), I give one to all my friends who visit. You can buy it on redbubble (it's not really my fault it's a bit pricey).

                                                                                          a coffe cup with the forest riders artwork print by Ravachol.

                                                                                          Alt...a coffe cup with the forest riders artwork print by Ravachol.

                                                                                            [?]Ravachol » 🌐
                                                                                            @ravachol@social.vivaldi.net

                                                                                            There's a new version of kew that fixes a lot of problems, it also adds mini-controls so you can now use kew, a terminal app, a full session without ever using the keyboard.

                                                                                            There is, also a two-color gradient mode for the visualizer that I've wanted for years, but other stuff was always more important. I think it looks dope.

                                                                                            kewplayer.com/download.html

                                                                                            Screenshot:

                                                                                            screenshot of the music player kew.

                                                                                            Alt...screenshot of the music player kew.

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                                                                                              [?]Ravachol » 🌐
                                                                                              @ravachol@social.vivaldi.net

                                                                                              kew 4.2.0 is out.

                                                                                              - better mouse support with a scrollbar and ability to click songs or albums to play / enqueue them. (middle mouse for immediate play).

                                                                                              - windows: images are no longer small

                                                                                              - windows: fixed a bug where it would quit if you maximized the window.

                                                                                              - much faster seek on very long mp3s

                                                                                              kewplayer.com/download.html

                                                                                              Alt...kew music player logo with animated visualizer.

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                                                                                                [?]Ravachol » 🌐
                                                                                                @ravachol@social.vivaldi.net

                                                                                                Hear me out...

                                                                                                Checkbox (checked): disagree to all cookies forever.

                                                                                                Alt...Checkbox (checked): disagree to all cookies forever.

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                                                                                                  Google Photos Adds Video Remix That AI-Generates ‘Shareable Clips’ petapixel.com/2026/07/08/googl

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