Martian Dawn
NASA’s Curiosity captures the dawn on Mars – as well as elongated ridges formed by wind erosion, or yardangs – in this close-up from a panorama...
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GenRecs Tokenization: Transforming Ads Recommendation at Meta with Stable Model Vocabulary
Generative Recommenders (GenRecs) represent a paradigm shift from scoring every ad to reasoning about ad content and user preferences together in order to predict the best...
Read moreEFF Launches Privacy Badger for Safari on macOS
Free Tracker Blocker Used by Millions Will Protect Even More Users' PrivacySAN FRANCISCO—Privacy Badger, the award-winning tracker blocker made by the member-supported digital rights nonprofit Electronic...
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WhatsApp Help Pages Leaked Hidden Instructions for a Meta Chatbot
Around 80 pages on WhatsApp’s website exposed instructions that were designed for its chatbot, including “WHAT NOT TO SAY.” Meta says a bug caused the issue.
Read moreLinux In 2026 Continues Improving Support For Benefiting Old Atari & Amiga Hardware
The Motorola 68000 "m68k" CPU support continues being maintained in the mainline Linux kernel and continuing to see new hardware support for these vintage systems from...
Read moreUSN-8927-2: curl vulnerabilities
USN-8927-1 fixed vulnerabilities in curl. This update provides the corresponding fixes for Ubuntu 26.10. Original advisory details: It was discovered that curl, when built with GnuTLS...
Read more[$] Development statistics for the 7.3 kernel
Linus Torvalds released the 7.3 kernel, at the end of the usual nine-week development cycle, on October 18. This cycle, abundantly fueled by LLM-assisted contributions, broke just...
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Japanese MMX mission launches to study Martian moons
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is flying a planetary probe to Mars’s moon Phobos,… The post Japanese MMX mission launches to study Martian moons appeared...
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Amazon is funding a new nuclear plant in Indiana
Amazon has signed an agreement with X-energy and American Electric Power (AEP) to fund the building of a new nuclear energy facility in Indiana. The proposed...
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AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?
Unlike other recent AI proofs, this one has been unpacked by human experts. The implications, one mathematician said, are “staggering.” The post AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann...
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A Chinese hacker used AI agents to break into more than 100 company websites
A Chinese hacker reportedly used a fleet of AI agents to break into more than 100 company websites, including farm equipment maker Deers and appliance outfit...
Read moreAWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda Web Functions, Amazon S3 on the Vercel Marketplace, and more (October 19, 2026)
Nothing last week added a new kind of compute. What it did instead was shorten the distance between the code you already have and that code...
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