Home Office asylum AI flunks one in five accuracy checks
The Home Office's latest attempt to speed up asylum decisions with AI has hit an awkward snag: a new report says more than one in five interview summaries checked by experts failed accuracy tests. A 20-page investigation by the Open Rights Group (ORG) claims the...
Denmark set to allow return of ‘physical force’ in school
Article URL: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/10/10/denmark-set-to-allow-the-return-of-physical-force-to-maintain-order-in-schools_6758443_4.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50067570 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Low-Cost Android Phones Ship With Preinstalled Malware That Turns Them Into Residential Proxies
Low-cost Android smartphones have been shipped with malicious software baked into the device firmware, allowing bad actors to covertly install apps, conduct ad fraud, and turn devices into residential proxies. The activity, which targets Android devices built on...
VMware is pushing so many patches, it thinks users need new tools to manage the flood
VMware has discovered so many flaws in its products using AI that it felt the need to create a new product to help users manage them. Prashanth Shenoy, vice president of product marketing in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) division of Broadcom, told The Register...
Vi Hart’s Big Navier-Stokes Post
Article URL: https://www.patreon.com/vihart/posts/vi-harts-big-171939430 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50067098 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/13/ai-share-crash-risk-global-imf-debt-corrowing-cyber-attacks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50067356 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Will the chief AI officer role survive?
Chief AI officer may be one of the most important executive hires companies make in this decade. It may also be one of the shortest-lived. Just a few years ago, most boards probably would’ve questioned whether they needed a dedicated leader for artificial...
Emulating a Floppy Drive By Emulating The Drive Itself
The Commodore 1541 is famously the floppy drive for the Commodore 64 series of 8-bit computers, and can be found with relative ease. Not so well known is its 1551 sibling — the drive made for the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 machines. They’re particularly rare in 2026, so...
A look at OpenAI’s math that’s claimed computes faster Fourier transforms
Article URL: https://www.argmin.net/p/faster-fourier-transforms Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065932 Points: 43 # Comments: 17
NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film’s interviewees
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/12/naza-netanyahu-orders-identification-prosecution-interviewees-documentary-film Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065972 Points: 20 # Comments: 1
OpenAI algorithm for the FFT is less a breakthrough and more a malicious exploit
Article URL: https://www.argmin.net/p/faster-fourier-transforms Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065932 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024
Article URL: https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/science/20260908-347742/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065805 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Strengthening our defenses against distillation attacks
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/distillation-defenses Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065553 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
Leaving Tech
Article URL: https://ryanbigg.com/2026/10/leaving-tech Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065892 Points: 18 # Comments: 1
Using Kirigami Techniques to Make Functional Designs
The variant of origami called kirigami (‘cut paper’ in Japanese) also starts off with a sheet of paper, but it allows for cutting the paper to increase the number of shapes that you can create. It is this technique that [Matthew Lim] used to create a number of...
Sharecare – 318,185 breached accounts
In August 2026, the digital health company Sharecare was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group subsequently published data it claimed was taken from Sharecare's systems, containing 318k unique email addresses. Most of the data...
Instant Software Factories
Article URL: https://github.com/mikolalysenko/instant-factory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064827 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
Don’t buy a cheap Android phone without these non-negotiable features
Android phones can be had at many different price points, but the most important features aren't always found in the cheapest available devices.
Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20
Article URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.70751 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064536 Points: 17 # Comments: 0
GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle
Article URL: https://nirajrajgor.com/blog/kindle-photo-frame-with-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064318 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP
Article URL: https://github.com/andrewfader/blokkily Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064438 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
How to boost your GPU performance without buying a new one
With an older GPU, you'll need to go without some of the fancy features, but you can still enjoy high frame rates with the right changes.
WiFi Router Does Software-Defined Radio
Perhaps the most famous of software-defined radios is the RTL-SDR, which is very cheap because it’s a digital TV receiver that’s been pressed into service delivering raw I and Q data streams. But the RTL-SDR is certainly not the only chipset that can do this, and...
How to turn your old hard drives into a RAID array
Your old hard drives still have some live left in them.
How to use Google Gemini to automate tasks
Spark is Google's AI tool that can perform tasks on your behalf.
Cisco Announces Webex AI Agents for Meetings and Customer Service
Cisco announces Webex AI agents for meetings and customer service. Learn what IT teams should check about availability, integrations and access controls. The post Cisco Announces Webex AI Agents for Meetings and Customer Service appeared first on TechRepublic.
Apple HomeView Expected in November: What Buyers Should Know
Apple HomeView is reportedly due in November. Explore its expected designs, colors and Siri features, plus the compatibility questions buyers should ask. The post Apple HomeView Expected in November: What Buyers Should Know appeared first on TechRepublic.
Googlebook Adds Samsung Galaxy Support: Here’s What Changes for Users
Googlebook adds Samsung Galaxy support with app casting, file sharing, and notification syncing. Here's what Galaxy owners need to know about compatibility. The post Googlebook Adds Samsung Galaxy Support: Here’s What Changes for Users appeared first on TechRepublic.
Anthropic Draws a Line on Claude Abuse: What Counts as Going Too Far?
Anthropic’s new Claude policy prohibits extreme, repeated abuse. Learn what remains allowed, how enforcement works, and what changes for workplace users. The post Anthropic Draws a Line on Claude Abuse: What Counts as Going Too Far? appeared first on TechRepublic.
PC Prices Could Stay High Through 2027: What Buyers Should Know
PC prices could stay high through 2027 as IDC forecasts an 18.3% increase in average selling prices. Here's what PC buyers and IT teams should know. The post PC Prices Could Stay High Through 2027: What Buyers Should Know appeared first on TechRepublic.