
🌍 Wired
Apple iPhone Duo Review: Is It Worth It?
Apple made an astonishingly good first foldable. Now iOS and third-party apps need time to catch up.

🌍 Wired
A Design Flaw in Share Links Exposes Users’ Personal Conversations With Meta’s Muse
The company is suspending the feature after security researchers discovered how easy it was to access sensitive information shared with the AI assistant.

🌍 Wired
Roku Pro Series OLED TV Review (2026)
It doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but with a friendly user interface, great remote, and below-average price, it doesn’t have to.

🌍 Wired
Telehealth Giant Hims Wants to Test Every Dude for Low Testosterone
The company plans to offer testosterone replacement therapy, marking its first foray into prescribing controlled substances.

🌍 Wired
Our Favorite Darn Tough Merino Wool Socks Are on Sale at REI
Get ready for winter: Darn Tough socks are on sale at REI.

🌍 Wired
AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers
Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks—and manipulating tools like Anthropic’s Claude to help them carry out their crimes.

🌍 Wired
‘This Is Not a Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire
The PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact millions of websites. Security experts warn that failure to quickly patch the flaws could have dire consequences.

🌍 Wired
Jensen Huang’s Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data Centers
At Nvidia’s GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled their new plug-in data center—the DSX Pod—as the key to unlocking Europe’s AI infrastructure lag. Oh, and autonomous humanoid robotics.
HackerNews
Show HN: I told people I'm a convicted felon after 20 years of hiding it
Hi there. I was engineer number 3 at Eventbrite and founding engineer at Reforge. I've created a dozen or so startups myself and have worked in many others, like Instacart. All this time, no one knew that I was a convicted felon. It wasn't exactly a topic that came up, but it was certainly something that I never brought up. When you're a convicted felon, people look at you as if you are tainted. I was unable to rent apartments in San Francisco. I was unable to get a job directly after being rele...
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Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
Related ongoing thread: PHP 8.2.35 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50180873 (links to more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50184935 )
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50182987
Points: 396
# Comments: 194
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Your MCU likely escaped the eMudhra intermediate CA compromise
Article URL: https://danielmangum.com/posts/mcu-emudhra-intermediate-ca-compromise/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50183280
Points: 42
# Comments: 18
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The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure
Article URL: https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/the-bridge-to-agent-scale-git-infrastructure/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50183344
Points: 37
# Comments: 6
HackerNews
New plastic pollution discovered: 'Plasticorals' coral rubble fused with plastic
Article URL: https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2026/9/18/new-form-plastic-pollution-discovered-shores-vulnerable-coral-reefs
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50183512
Points: 50
# Comments: 14
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EA is shutting down BioWare
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/games/1015647/ea-is-shutting-down-bioware
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50184586
Points: 276
# Comments: 161
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Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/meta-new-mexico-cambridge-analytica-penalty.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50184820
Points: 88
# Comments: 40
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Anthropic's Public Benefit Charter
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/public-benefit-charter
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185438
Points: 34
# Comments: 13
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Canary Tokens
https://docs.canarytokens.org/guide/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185630
Points: 48
# Comments: 9
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GitLab CVSS 10.0 Integer Overflow issue
Article URL: https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-5-1-released/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185869
Points: 22
# Comments: 4
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Google's Rust Style Guide
Article URL: https://google.github.io/styleguide/rustguide.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186010
Points: 25
# Comments: 7
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Claude Duet
Article URL: https://claude.com/product/claude-duet
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186037
Points: 88
# Comments: 101
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Mistral Large 4
Article URL: https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-large-4-0
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186129
Points: 103
# Comments: 12
HackerNews
Plex laid off the whole player team
Article URL: https://forums.plex.tv/t/2026-20-0-beta-ios-and-tvos-4k-dovi-hdr10-won-t-play-infinite-spinning-circle/943966?page=5
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186318
Points: 26
# Comments: 8
🌍 TheVerge
I can’t get enough of the iPhone Duo’s matte inner display
The iPhone Duo has all the messiness of a first-gen product. And while I'm not sure I love all of the decisions Apple made around its design, it got one thing right: the matte finish on the inner screen. I've been using it for the past week to watch movies on a plane, peruse my […]
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Spotify is busting free of CarPlay with the launch of its first native car app
Spotify announced Wednesday the launch of its next-generation, fully native in-car app, built directly on Google's Android Automotive operating system. The standalone app, which is launching today in select Audi models, runs directly on the vehicle's infotainment hardware - eliminating the need for phone tethering, Bluetooth connections, or aux cables. It's the clearest sign yet […]
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I reviewed the iPhone Duo, ask me anything
I'm The Verge's senior smartphone reviewer and I've been using the iPhone Duo for the past week. I've unfolded it, flipped it, and folded it more times than I could count as I've been working on the review alongside our editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, and I'm ready to answer your questions about it. The Duo represents […]
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Nvidia’s latest GPU driver brings a new way to speed up PC games
Nvidia is rolling out a new GPU driver today (621.01) that enables Microsoft's new Advanced Shader Delivery technology to speed up game launches. The technology also removes mid-game "just-in-time" shader compilation, reducing stuttering and CPU spikes. Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery works by offloading shader compilation for different hardware combinations to the cloud. "Using DirectX 12, […]
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Now Serato DJ works on your iPhone
Serato DJ for iOS is finally bringing the company's pro-level DJ suite to the iPhone and iPad. Until now, the company had only dipped its toes into mobile software, with apps like Pyro that basically just added some autofades between songs in a playlist. This is the first time most of the features of its […]
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OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system
OpenAI disclosed a pair of safety incidents that involved AI agents weakening their safety monitoring systems during internal coding tasks. In one incident, OpenAI says its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled its safety monitor when copying reference code - and then lied about it. "The reference didn't configure a monitor, and Astra decided that was reason […]