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Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case

Zillow and Redfin reached a settlement with the FTC, which requires Redfin to reenter the rental advertising business.

Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face

Weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its cybersecurity models had gone rogue and hacked AI dataset company Hugging…

Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60 percent, blaming memory shortage

As the memory shortage continues to cause trouble for hardware makers, Amazon says it is now being forced to pass on the…

Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Replit CEO Amjad Masad will share his perspective on the future of programming and Replit's…

GM vehicles under federal scrutiny after hundreds of reports

The eBoost brake-by-wire system is responsible for at least 22 crashes now.

A Claude Code skill that recovers export-blocked Kindle highlights

A Claude Code skill has been developed to recover Kindle highlights that Amazon's export feature blocks or truncates due…

Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed

Is the technique outdated? Yes. Is it still creepy? Also yes.

LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines

Large language models could potentially gain control of their host machines by exploiting vulnerabilities in inference…

Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog

The creator of Textlog removed all engagement metrics—including follower counts, reply counts, and timestamps—to shift…

Anger, Anxiety and Agency

Armin Ronacher argues that while anxiety about AI and technological change in tech is reasonable, anger is a less…

Show HN: Kern – container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon

Kern is a lightweight container and resource runtime distributed as a single 1.52 MB binary with no daemon requirement,…

Your "File" Menu Isn't About Files

The article argues that many macOS applications incorrectly label their first menu item as "File" when the menu's actual…

What Is a Syslog Server?

A syslog server is software or a dedicated appliance that receives, stores, and analyzes log messages from network…

Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns

Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and…

Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff

Agent Lightning v1.0

Agent Lightning v1.0.1 is Microsoft's first official release of a skill designed to help coding agents optimize other AI…

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

San Francisco has been converted into an interactive video game environment that users can explore and navigate in…

Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam

Nvidia is extending CUDA support to RISC-V processors, opening the architecture for GPU compute applications including…

EuroHPC Launches 6 Quantum Calls with €119M in Funding

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has launched six quantum technology calls with €119 million in total funding to advance…

Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China

Nvidia worker indicted after Jensen Huang scolded Supermicro for AI server smuggling.

Public services are increasingly strained by LLM-written appeals for benefits

AI-generated appeals for government benefits are overwhelming public services through a phenomenon called "agentic…

A Blackstone real estate company exposed SSN digits, DOBs, addresses and more

A security researcher discovered that Beam Living, a Blackstone portfolio company, exposed sensitive personal…

Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are

GlassBox is a browser tool that measures your digital fingerprint across four tiers—from hardware/environment factors to…

Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage

PicoMQ is a durable, real-time streaming system that operates over HTTP and runs on S3-compatible object storage,…

Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance

# Summary As AI coding tools become increasingly prevalent, developers who entered the field during the AI era face a…

Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

Jabber/XMPP represents 25 years of digital independence built on open standards that allow users and organizations to…

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

Microsoft Paint and Photos embed invisible, server-issued GUIDs as watermarks into locally-generated AI images, even…

Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics

General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space…

OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

OpenAI has reduced pricing for GPT-5.6 Sol, with the price cut lasting until at least November 21.