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The AI-Centric Private School Chain Reportedly Isn’t Meeting Its Own Academic Goals
A New York Times report suggests Alpha School needs to rethink its core promise.
Families should stockpile 3 days' worth of essentials in today's world of disaster and war, the UK warns
The government campaign aims to raise the UK's national resilience as top leaders increasingly warn of the threat of war, disaster, and emergencies.
Apollo says AI has delivered 'zero financial payoff' outside the tech industry
Only tech companies are seeing growth from the AI boom, Apollo Global Management said.
Trump says he's weighing deal with Iran against action to 'finish them off'
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said it’s “getting to be decision time” on whether he will make a deal with Tehran or resume attacks as Iranian and Houthi threats against Americans in the Middle East continue to grow.Most Read from Bloomberg
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Trump escalates rhetoric against Abdul El-Sayed as Michigan Senate race heats up
PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) — President Donald Trump escalated his attacks against Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday with rhetoric that questioned the Muslim candidate’s loyalties to the U.S. and repeatedly tried to tie him to extremism, claims th…
Ukraine says Starlink is back to normal after disruptions
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that normal Starlink operating speeds were restored after more than a week of disruptions.
Fake Social Security statement email hides a scam
A fake Social Security statement phishing email uses the SSA logo and a convincing layout, but the sender's domain instantly exposes the scam.
Peter Thiel says Apple has done 'nothing new' after Steve Jobs
The billionaire venture capitalist said eccentric CEOs like Elon Musk "are way better for society" than Apple Chairman Tim Cook.
Inside the cyber flaw scramble that brought the AI threat to life
The man who set off the chain reaction that put 70% of the web at risk explains why he did it.
Reddit’s Largest Open Source Community Dumbfounded By AI Ban: ‘I Guess Linux Is No Longer Allowed Here?’
Moderators of r/opensource have banned projects under a year old, anything 'made by AI,' and, bizarrely, all non-English speakers
Ukraine is using drones like hovering WiFi repeaters to help attack drones reach farther
Ukraine's drone pilots can only fly them so far before signal is lost. But other drones act as hovering signal relays to extend their range.
'My concern is that AI makes a lot of things very easy': 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' author on raising kids to read and think
Jeff Kinney, author of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," encourages feeding kids' interests, listening without judgement, and facilitating social interactions.
Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism
AI panic weirdly resembles the anxiety that accompanied early capitalism
Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained
Microsoft launched Decision-1, a 9B Qwen3.5-based model for AI decision scoring. See pricing, benchmarks, and how it compares to rivals.
OpenAI Built a Giant Fake Internet for Its Agents to Use and Abuse Safely
It's like the Truman Show for AI.
Man Destroys $2,000 iPhone Duo With Dirt, Fire, Knives and Medieval Chainmail
YouTuber JerryRigEverything tests the iPhone Duo’s durability for scratch and dust resistance. And it is wild to watch.
‘Tokens Are Cheap’: Open Source Subreddit Bans AI
“AI, as it exists today, is incongruent to this Open Source community.”
AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework
Richard Borcherds, a UC Berkeley professor and Fields medalist, no longer grades his students’ homework. After seeing how many of his students used AI to consistently receive top scores, he
The AI data center boom has a ghost problem
Speculative AI data centers and duplicate electricity requests may make the industry's very real building challenges look bigger.
The internet has a human slop problem, and AI is exposing it
AI is exposing flaws in decades of human-written software. Vercel's Tom Occhino sees a chance to fix the internet's neglected foundations.
The rapid Ukraine war arms race means weapons makers can never truly consider a product finished
Ukrainian weapons makers race to stay ahead of Russian countermeasures, constantly updating their products with feedback from front-line soldiers.
Republican billionaire Rick Jackson walks a Trump tightrope in Georgia governor bid
ATLANTA (AP) — He's hardly the first billionaire to promise working-class voters he'll fight for them in public office. Rick Jackson, the Republican candidate for Georgia governor, has even compared himself to the real estate mogul who reached the Oval Office…
Anthropic’s AI Hid a Secret Message in the Stars. OpenAI’s Bot Found It.
Morse code is back, baby.
Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?
There is a widespread sense that AI-generated text has recently become harder to understand. In this study, we investigate a set of psycholinguistic features that are known to correlate with human processing difficulty (e.g., object relative clauses, long syn…
Show HN: Argus- open source security platform to protect against agentic attacks
Open-source agentic security operations platform: evidence graph, swarm-aware detections, governed AI agents and an approval-gated action broker - thomasunise/argus
Healey's Budget needs to sustain the stronger economy through gathering clouds
The economic is positive now but come January things could become trickier for the Labour government
Elon Musk says neoclouds are cooked, and SpaceX won't be buying them
The SpaceX CEO said many neoclouds will face "guppy-level death" because they lack alternative streams of revenue.
Google’s Finnish Data Centers Were Already In Trouble Over Deforestation, Then The Wolves Came
Wildlife have slowly relocated into towns and cities due to environmental collapse, but a controversial data center in Finland suggests this phenomenon can now occur overnight with help from AI
The midterm races that could matter most to the U.S. economy aren't in Washington
Data centers have emerged as a national issue during this midterm election cycle, and candidates for the House and Senate have seized on it in their campaigns. But state and local officials actually have more sway over data center construction and energy …
Trump critic Lula wins 4th term in Brazil, but Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to concede
By Lisandra Paraguassu, Brendan O'Boyle and Luciana Magalhaes SAO PAULO, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a historic fourth term on Sunday, the country's electoral court said, in a shock result that defied polls, precedent …
Are Silicon Valley software engineers really as rich as they seem? Check out this ranking.
Bay Area software engineers retain a 53% pay premium after adjusting for local prices, Levels.fyi found. Taxes aren't included.
I filed for bankruptcy after my wife died from cancer. I underestimated what grief would do to my business.
After his wife died from cancer, Brian Rooney struggled to sustain his business while grieving. He filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2024.
Trump announces $4 billion Audi factory in Georgia ahead of midterms
By Bo Erickson, David Shepardson and Rachel More PERRY, Georgia/BERLIN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The head of German automaker Audi defended on Sunday the company's planned $4 billion investment in a new US plant, announced by President Donald Trump as he campaigns …
What's at stake as Israel holds its most important election in years
Election campaign posters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu beside a billboard featuring opposition rival Gadi Eisenkot ahead of Israel's general election in Dimona, Israel, on Wednesday. - Ohad Zwigenberg/AP When Israelis go the polls on October…
A check on Trump or a fresh mandate? Midterm outcomes and what they mean.
By Tim Reid WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Americans vote on November 3 in midterm elections that will determine who controls Congress for the final two years of President Donald Trump's term. Democrats need a net gain of four seats in the US House of Represe…
These Trump voters have soured on his presidency — and could be key to the midterms
The midterm campaign is being fought in areas President Donald Trump carried in the last election, and largely among voters who have supported him in the past but have soured on his presidency.Rick Sebring, a resident of rural Black Creek, Georgia, is one of …
PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP
Your local AI copilot for documents. Contribute to KrushnaVardhanReddy/PaperPilot development by creating an account on GitHub.
What Security Teams Need to Know About Agents Using Abliterated Models
How to detect usage in Shadow AI, use dynamic policies, and prevent future connections
Check Out the Many Uncanny, Human-ish Voices From Block’s New AI Model
The model goes by Dessa. Presumably because, once you hear it talk, you'll say "'Dessa' pretty convincing human voice."
Plan for Northern Olympics to get £7m in Healey's Budget
The full feasibility study will look in detail at how hosting the Games in northern England could work.
Perspective: The next James Bond
A new James Bond is nigh, to replace the last actor in the 64 year-old movie franchise. What evil forces will the new 007 face? Killer Drones? Killer AI? Killer lettuce?
America, You Can’t Get This Powerhouse Phone. It’s a Shame
Oppo’s ambitious plans for the Find X10 Pro and its future high-end phones are America’s loss but Europe’s gain.
The Year AI Ate Math
My field is as much an expression of the human spirit as music and literature. Is it for the machines now?
The Republicans’ Remarkably Bad Midterm Campaigns
Benjamin Wallace-Wells on the Iran war, the economy, Donald Trump’s dealings with Vladimir Putin, and Vivek Ramaswamy’s extremely offensive ad.
Claude’s Reverse Engineering Capabilities Used To Recompile Games May Have Been Quietly Nerfed
Claude Opus 5.5 users are reporting that Anthropic’s AI suddenly seems to be a lot worse at stealing people's intellectual property
Palantir cofounder says his wife calls their AI agent 'Tradbot' after tradwives
Joe Lonsdale asked the "tradbot" to help his two-year-old break up with his binky: "It's telling me when to and when not to give it to him."
Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
Sleeping Giants and CTRL-Z sent evidence to Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court today showing Meta AI continues to spontaneously link Lula to negative content
The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Timeless Tenets of Critical Thinking
Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.
Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Learn how Cerebras maps trillion-parameter frontier models across WSE-3T wafers to deliver scalable inference at 1,000–2,000+ tokens per second.
No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector
Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.
20 Favorite Books from 20 Years of The Marginalian
It is a beautiful dream, that there is something out there to instruct you how to live — a secret handed down by your parents or your teachers, a system like liberal arts education or cognitive behavioral therapy, a slogan held up by your heroes declaring the…
I’ve competed in 21 Hyrox races around the world. These are my 3 favorite host cities.
Lau Wen Loong has been competing in Hyrox races for two years and feels super fit. "I never imagined I could be faster than my younger self."
Zen Browser is the Arc replacement I was looking for
I know many of you are mourning the loss of the Arc browser, and I get it. It felt like the first app in a long time to really offer a new approach to browser design. Atlassian bought the company last year and shifted its focus to developing Dia, its even mor…
Microsoft, McDonald’s, Verizon, and Others Tell Crypto Platform Not to Tokenize Their Stocks
Crypto companies using “permissionless” tech still need permission when interacting with the real world.
The MacBook Pro Max Just Dropped to Its Lowest Price Ever
Apple will reportedly launch an innovative new MacBook next week, which means existing options have their largest discount yet.
Transforming a Tungsten Ditelluride Monolayer into a Transistor
In the world of silicon semiconductors, the process of creating transistors and similar structures involves various rounds of modifications and additions in order to create the requisite functional layers. A …read more
Trump on high gas prices: 'We're making a freaking fortune'
Americans, meanwhile, are paying record prices at the pump, according to AAA.
Hackaday Links: October 25, 2026
Some disappointing, but perhaps not entirely unsurprising news this week out of Denmark — after announcing last year that they would transition away from Microsoft’s proprietary software, the realities of …read more
Their surging student-loan payments are pushing them to slash their budgets and delay life milestones
From cutting back on groceries to delaying starting a family, student-loan borrowers describe the changes they're making to afford higher payments.
I'm 62, covered in tattoos, and refuse to dress my age. Getting older doesn't mean getting boring.
Lonni Pike got sober at 51 and reinvented her life. Now 62, she's a fashion influencer, gamer, and advocate for aging on her own terms.
This sold-out plushie emits the grating hum of a real-life data center when you squeeze it
Bezzy is a plushie that looks like a data center that plays the mind-numbing hum of a data center when you squeeze it.
Venezuelan opposition leader returns after 10 months in exile
Images by the Press Team of Maria Corina Machado team on Sunday shows the opposition leader arriving at Santa Rosa church in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. After more than 10 months in exile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate returned home to a politi…
Economic pressures put new Midwestern states in play for the midterms
Supporters listen as Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed speaks at a rally at Wayne State University in Detroit on October 22. - Jeff Kowalsky/AFP/Getty Images Democrats could be poised for a revival in the heartland, as furor over high costs and …
Robins Says DKeX Is Now the Clear No. 3 US Prediction Exchange
DraftKings CEO Jason Robins says DKeX is now the third-largest US prediction exchange, with a 3.57% share of notional volume in mid-October. The post Robins Says DKeX Is Now the Clear No. 3 US Prediction Exchange appeared first on ReadWrite.
20 Favorite Children’s Books from 20 Years of The Marginalian
“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time,” E.B. White insisted. “You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.”…
Inside the Walmart of ghost tours
Lance Zaal is building an empire of America's undead. He's also making a host of enemies among the living.
The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds: Margaret Wise Brown’s Lost Masterpiece about Mortality and the Meaning of Life, Newly Illustrated
In early September 1948, a year after she rewilded the landscape of literature with Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown watched the love of her life fade to black. Michael Strange, born Blanche Oelrichs, had cast an instant spell on Margaret — outspoken, soph…
The Talk Show: ‘Lubricate the Inside of the Hinge’
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An Analog TV Station For Anyone
If you’re a collector of older TVs, you’re probably facing the problem in some form of having no transmissions to tune in to. With many sets you can use a SCART or other A/V input, but …
The Best Deals Today: Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Persona 3 Reload, Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, and More
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Inflation under Trump is only about half the rate under Biden. Voters are still just as mad.
So far in President Trump's second term, prices in the US have risen only about half as quickly compared to his predecessor's four years in office. Yet Trump has a 72% disapproval rating on the issue and risks paying a steep political price — just as former…
Knicks’ ‘Tone Deaf’ Championship Ring Phishing Test Sparks Backlash
Even a Knicks fan called it "nasty work."
What goes into making an animated film?
From sequence to shot to frame, explore our studio pipeline.
APC says let there be light, with standards to speed up photonics manufacturing
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Vocal Trump critic Lula wins reelection in Brazil to secure a 4th presidential term
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, was reelected Sunday in a result that provides relief to critics of widening U.S. influence in Latin America. With 100% of the vote counted, Brazil’…
Heatbit Says Your Water Heater Should Be Mining Bitcoin, and Now It Can
Some Bitcoin users say devices like Bitwater can help decentralize the crypto network.
Top Stories: Apple 'Pro and Tell' Debut, iPhone Duo Launch, and More
Yet another busy week for Apple saw a teaser for even more product announcements coming next week, plus we got the highly anticipated launch of Apple's first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo. Other news this week included Verizon announcing a hefty mo…
Trump announces $4 billion Audi factory in Georgia ahead of midterms
By Bo Erickson and David Shepardson PERRY, Georgia, Oct 24 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that Audi plans to build a $4 billion assembly plant in Georgia that will produce 200,000 SUVs annually, as he seeks to convince Americans …
Jackery HomePower 1000 Plus v2 Review: Pint-Sized Power Pack
The HomePower 1000 Plus v2 has almost everything I want in a portable power station.
Souvankham Thammavongsa on the Gears That Turn Underneath a Story
Cressida Leyshon interviews the writer Souvankham Thammavongsa about “Wall Cano,” her story from the November 2, 2026, issue of The New Yorker.
Fish lamps and Windows XP: Inside Frutiger Aero, the nostalgic tech aesthetic captivating Gen Zers
For its Gen Z fans, the Frutiger Aero aesthetic represents a future that was promised but never arrived, a utopia where tech and nature coexist.
The talk show trying to help solve the entry-level job crisis
It's hard out there for job seekers. A Twitch call-in show hopes to address everything labor market and job hunting.
Amy Acton says Trump, Vance should 'look at the facts' after Ramaswamy attack ad
Ohio Democratic Amy Acton spoke to ABC News after a rally in Cleveland with former President Barack Obama.
I work in cybersecurity, but my mom lost 3,000 to online scams. Now, I do 3 things to keep her safe.
Jen Eaves became her mother's digital caregiver after repeated online scams. She shares how she monitors accounts and teaches scam awareness.
I held senior roles at Bank of America and EY. At 56, I can't find a job, and it led to a bit of a midlife crisis.
A 56-year-old cybersecurity executive shared the challenges in her years-long job search and how it led to her launching her own venture.
The Best Deals Today: Persona 3 Reload, Pikmin 4, The Adventures of Elliot, and More
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Elon Musk wants to take on Verizon and AT&T. The price tag could be staggering.
Elon Musk wants SpaceX (SPCX) to take on America's largest cell service providers, but matching the telecom giants' vast wireless networks could take years and billions of dollars, executives and analysts warned this week.SpaceX, which already operates the wo…
Stocks make up more of Americans' assets than ever
Your parents' nest egg was mostly bonds and savings accounts. Yours is mostly stocks.Stocks made up 48.2% of Americans' financial assets in the second quarter, counting everything from brokerage accounts to 401(k)s, according to the Federal Reserve's latest F…
Crear tu propia nube privada en casa con Umbrel: gratis, en tu viejo PC y con tienda de apps
Cuando subes un archivo a la nube o compartes tus fotografías y vídeos, lo que estás haciendo es enviar ese contenido de tu ordenador o teléfono móvil a un servidor a kilómetros de distancia. Y un servidor no es más que una máquina conectada las 24 horas. Es …
A Walkie Talkie Interface For Claude
[Bookmari] had a problem — working as a delivery driver, they wanted to work on various projects with Claude Code while out and about. Unfortunately, it simply wasn’t practical to …read more
GOP and Democrats fight for swing voters in a crucial Pennsylvania district
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick speaks during a news conference at the US Capitol in March 2024. - Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg/Getty Images GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick was weaving through the crowd of a fall street festival when he was confronted by a man enraged by t…
Your credit can look normal while someone steals your identity
A clean credit report doesn't mean your identity is safe. Six ways criminals can steal from you without triggering a credit monitoring alert.
Las cartas de Pokémon han conseguido un hito inesperado equiparándose a Nvidia como el activo con mejor rendimiento del mundo
El oro, las obras de arte de artistas consagrados e incluso los bolsos más exclusivos son las alternativas de inversión a los valores de los índices bursátiles como el S&P500 más conocidas. Sin embargo, uno de los activos más rentables en la actualidad no cot…
The Temporary Pleasure of Conversation
Talking is a fleeting act, but that transience gives it meaning.
The Era of Universal Celebrity
A new book by the hosts of Who? Weekly scrutinizes how social media democratized fame.
Vanessa Trump says she is cancer-free six months after revealing diagnosis
The ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr, with whom she shares five children, announced in May that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
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