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Why Andrew Ng believes AI won't destroy humanity

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/insider/inside-tech/why-one-of-the-worlds-most-influential-computer-scientists-believes-ai-wont-destroy-humanity Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098422 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Asia chip stocks fall, AI funding worries

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/15/sk-hynix-samsung-softbank-stocks-asia-tech-rout-ai-funding-worries.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098423 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
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Will big software companies (like Adobe) come together to curb AI?

Recently heard about the fact that someone vibe-coded Adobe Cloud apps and having read people's reactions, one thing is clear: people say that this is "karma" hitting Adobe back. Now if these developments really threaten the monopoly of some of the largest software companies in the world, it makes me wonder whether their business losses would stimulate them to come together and do something about this out-of-control tool we all call AI. What are your thoughts? Comments URL: https://news.yco...
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The Double Headed Stack Allocator

Article URL: https://blog.demofox.org/2026/10/03/the-double-headed-stack-allocator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098274 Points: 24 # Comments: 2
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Future of Cancer Care Today (FCCT)

Article URL: https://sijbrandijfoundation.org/fcct Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098702 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Trump Aides Admit the House Is a Lost Cause
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Trump Aides Admit the House Is a Lost Cause

With the midterm elections just a few weeks away, the White House knows it has to go all in on Senate races—while virtually forfeiting the House.
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Microsoft and Japan took down a cybercrime network behind over a billion scam messages

We've all gotten a scam text about a nonexistent parking ticket or a fake package delivery, but hopefully you'll start seeing fewer of them. Microsoft says it helped dismantle a marketplace for scammers sending phishing messages like those around the world. Through an investigation with Japan's National Police Agency, it tracked scam activity back to […]
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Eight states sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT isn’t safe for kids

OpenAI is facing a new wave of lawsuits from eight US states that accuse the company of harming children and misleading customers about the safety of ChatGPT, as reported earlier by Reuters. The lawsuits, filed separately by Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, and Montana, allege OpenAI unlawfully put profits over safety when […]
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The best feature of Apple’s HomeView might be its simplicity

I'm just going to come right out and say it. I love the approach Apple has taken with the HomeView. I think it's the shared, always-available household interface that my family might finally use. Is Apple's first smart display my dream smart home dashboard? No. But is it the right product for Apple Home at […]
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McKinsey is making job applicants spar with a fake AI client

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company is going to ask some entry-level candidates to have a 10-minute conversation with an AI simulation of a client as part of the interview process, according to The Wall Street Journal. The AI simulation "aims to reflect 80% of the scenarios McKinsey consultants might encounter in their day-to-day work," the […]
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Gudea leverages AI to help organizations prevent social media crises before they erupt

Every day, conversations unfold across social media and websites around the world. A seemingly insignificant post—whether it involves AI-generated misinformation, hate speech, or a damaging rumor—can quickly snowball into a much larger public controversy. Gudea, a company that tracks how stories and rumors spread online that describes itself as the “storm tracker for the internet,” […]
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The 3am alarm nobody logged: building incident accountability for shops

The alarm goes off at 3am. By the morning, three people can tell you three different things about what happened, and none of them can show you. That is the problem I built for this week. The three facts that never live in the same place I spent twenty years in supermarket operations, most of it as a COO. Here is how an incident actually gets handled in a shop that has cameras: The chiller alarm fires. Nobody hears it at 3am. At 7am someone notices the temperature log. T...
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The Sandbox That Was Not One: CVE-2026-53710 in IBM mcp-context-forge

The Sandbox That Was Not One: CVE-2026-53710 in IBM mcp-context-forge An MCP gateway exists to sit between an AI client and a set of tools, and IBM's mcp-context-forge includes a python_sandbox_server component meant to execute untrusted code safely. A flaw tracked as CVE-2026-53710, published as GHSA-xm98-3vcf-fph7 with a CVSS base score of 10.0, defeats that component entirely. Versions before 1.0.2 are affected. The escape in one paragraph The sandbox exposes a dictionary ...
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Your Post Exists Before Anyone Can See It: Field Notes From Running Third-Party PDS Accounts on ATProto

Data points below are annotated with the log files they came from ( evidence/... = our local operations evidence tree for 2026-10-14). Every call was made with free, public APIs — nothing in this article required a paid tier. At 22:55:40 UTC on October 14th, a post left one of our test accounts. We could read it back, character for character, from the server that stores it. Anonymous, unauthenticated, plain HTTPS GET. And yet for the next forty minutes, as far as the main Bluesky app's sear...
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The Model Writes the Review Reply. The Owner Keeps the Promises.

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle . What I Built “The coffee was excellent, but I was charged twice. The waiter ignored my question about the bill.” That fictional review has three things worth answering. Thanking the customer for the coffee is easy. Acknowledging the double charge and unanswered question takes more care. Promising a refund introduces a different decision: does the person writing the reply have permission...