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Apple's AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI model that can generate a 2.25-megapixel depth map in 0.3 seconds on a standard GPU, using a single image (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

As Mark Zuckerberg aims to be politically "neutral", some argue he's placating critics like Trump; source: Nick Clegg now makes most election policy decisions (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

Cloudflare says it stopped a month long DDoS campaign targeting orgs in financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, that peaked at 3.8Tbps (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)

Coinbase says it will delist all unauthorized stablecoins, like Tether's USDT, from its exchange in the EEA by 2024's end, to comply with the EU's MiCA rules (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Meta launches a Gen Z-focused redesign of Facebook, including a Local tab in 10 US cities, an Explore tab, and a full-screen video player in the Video tab (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Researchers say Linux malware "perfctl" has been targeting millions of Linux servers to mine the hard-to-trace Monero cryptocurrency for at least three years (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Sources: Ubisoft's founding Guillemot family and Tencent consider options, including a buyout of Ubisoft after it lost 50%+ of its value in 2024; UBI jumps 25%+ (Bloomberg)

Meta Movie Gen can create up to 16-second videos based on a text prompt, available to some staff and external partners; Meta plans to add it to its apps in 2025 (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta announces Movie Gen, a suite of AI models for generating realistic video and audio clips; Movie Gen Video has 30B parameters and Movie Gen Audio has 13B (Reece Rogers/Wired)

The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Robinhood plans to debut margin trading in the UK in the coming weeks; it's exploring offering retirement products and letting British users invest in UK stocks (Bloomberg)

Google confirms it is "running a small experiment" showing blue verified checkmarks beside official site links for companies like Microsoft, Meta, and Apple (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, or ~8.4% of staff, took "generous" severance after disagreeing with WordPress' direction and handling of WP Engine (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

EU top court sides with activist Schrems in privacy dispute with Meta (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

A postmortem of HyperWrite's Reflection 70B model blames "a bug in the initial code for benchmarking", after evaluators couldn't reproduce some claimed results (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Google says it'll stop linking to news and drop its deals with outlets in New Zealand if the country passes a law forcing digital platforms to pay for content (Lucy Craymer/Reuters)

CCData: Binance's trading volume in the $2T digital asset market fell from 42.7% at the start of 2024 to 36.6% in September, the lowest share since January 2021 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

The latest on the WordPress fight over trademarks and open source

The best Garmin watches for training and everyday life

MKBHD’s wallpaper app updated with fewer ads

From AOL Time Warner to DirecTV and Dish: 20 years of media mergers

The best budget robot vacuums

Matt Mullenweg: ‘WordPress.org just belongs to me’

Arc’s ‘better mobile browser’ is now available on Android

The smartphone-sized Boox Palma e-reader’s on sale exclusively for Verge readers

The Oura Ring Gen 3, our favorite smart ring, is nearly matching its best price to date

Financial newsletter accuses Roblox of enabling child abuse

A buggy Samsung smart home update broke old Galaxy S10 phones, but there’s a fix

Facebook is going to show you even more content from accounts you don’t follow

Meta announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered video generator

Hasbro is bringing classic board games to Fortnite, starting with Clue

Get ready to meet your AI best friend

Joker: Folie à Deux can barely hold a tune

Snoop Dogg, Martha Stewart, and Bic are somehow all involved in this weird iPhone case

WordPress cofounder is paying employees to leave if they disagree with him

The Pentax 17 is low-stakes analog photography fun that doesn’t feel like a toy

Gmail for iOS gets an AI assistant to help manage your inbox

Epic and Disney want to make ‘what every Disney fan has ever wanted’

Rivian will make fewer EVs this year than it did in 2023

ChatGPT’s ‘canvas’ interface makes it easier to write and code

Waymo is adding the Hyundai Ioniq 5 to its robotaxi fleet

Google is testing verified checkmarks in search

The new Ford Expedition adds Android Automotive and half of the Lincoln’s panoramic screen

Carma (YC W24) Is Hiring Software Engineers to Get Fleets Same-Day Auto Repair

Wikipedia and Wikidata as sources for analyzing Americanization

Microsoft Lisp

Activist wins privacy case against Meta over personal data on sexual orientation

How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer?

Civilization VII recommends 16 cores and 32GB RAM for 4K gameplay

Why Do Older People Waste Their Time Playing Dumb Phone Games?

Show HN: The Gmail unsubscribe tool with bulk deletion and personal data removal

Ask HN: What do embedded engineers do?

Oura Ring 4

Show HN: FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers

No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems

Manna – Two Views of Humanity's Future (2003)

Money Buys Happiness, Even If You're Already Rich

Show HN: open source framework OpenAI uses for Advanced Voice

Gym Class (YC W22) – Hiring First Mobile Game Engineer

Vaccines, past and present

Mozilla becoming active in online advertising

Scrum's "Product Owner" Problem

12 Months of Mandarin

Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first

Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer

Port strikes end with deal on wages

NumPy QuadDType: Quadruple Precision for Everyone

The Nobel-, Emmy-winning genius who became Google's star antitrust witness

Self-locking and stiffening deployable tubular structures

SQLite triggers to track table changes

Can we cut the AI Agent for X thing already

ESP32: leaving love notes and entering demoscene territory (2022)

Computer scientists combine two 'beautiful' proof methods

Why Is Light So Fast?

Knowledge Growth and Specialization: Evidence from Oncologists

Waymo and Hyundai enter multi-year, strategic partnership

ESP8266 Analog Broadcast Television Interface

Meta Movie Gen

Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux

Show HN: A pretty decent PDF to CSV converter

Show HN: Chebyshev approximation calculator

Nowadays (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer

Show HN: A tool for creating chord charts on the go

OpenFLUX.1

France's 31-year treasure hunt for a buried owl statue ends

Migrating Seabirds Are Bringing Forever Chemicals into the Arctic

Jerry Seinfeld, Social Anxiety, and Meditation

EU top court sides with activist Schrems in privacy dispute with Meta

C64 OS Programmer's Guide

"When evacuating, shoot at the server room"

Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer

Pilot flying Helene rescue missions in NC threatened with arrest

X Corp loses court challenge over fine for child abuse material notice

Reverse engineering and dismantling Kekz headphones

Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

New research says "blue zones" can be explained by flawed data

I got everything off the cloud: I'm now paying 10x LESS money

When Dark Mode for YN?

Depth Pro: Sharp monocular metric depth in less than a second

Show HN: I built a list of Product Hunt alternatives for indie founders

IRS Direct File adds 12 additional states, covers more tax situations in 2025

Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI

Magic Isn't Real

What's new with io_uring in 6.11 and 6.12

Contributing to Haskell GHC (2023) [pdf]

Please Don't Make Me Download Another App

Sequencing wastewater may be key to getting a grip on the H5N1 bird flu outbreak

Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)

Go Concurrency vs. RxJS

SiteOne Crawler – big tool with no users

Perfctl: Stealthy malware targeting Linux servers

Database Remote-Copy Tool For SQLite (draft)

Hybrid full-text search and vector search with SQLite

More than a quarter of a million Comcast subscribers had data stolen from debt collector

About a quarter million Comcast subscribers had their data stolen from debt collector

Tesla Cybertruck recalled again. This time, a software fix for backup camera glitch

If you're excited by that $1.5B Michigan nuke plant revival, bear in mind it's definitely a fixer-upper

SpaceX accuses 'meme-stock' rival of 'misinformation' over Starlink signals waiver

TSMC and Amkor link up to bring advanced packaging stateside

Apple fixes bug that let VoiceOver shout your passwords

ULA nears second launch of Vulcan Centaur in pursuit of US Space Force approval

Office 2024 unveiled for Microsoft 365 refuseniks

Busybox 1.37 is tiny but capable, the way we like Linux tools to be

Revenge for being fired is best served profitably

Harvard duo hacks Meta Ray-Bans to dox strangers on sight in seconds

Google Cloud to help India export its Digital Public Infrastructure

Elon Musk's X mashed by Australian court for evading child protection reporting

Big brands among thousands infected by payment-card-stealing CosmicSting crooks

Not just AI datacenters needing own power: Taiwanese server-maker Quanta has bought microgrids

AI’s energy appetite too big for Texas grid, regulators warn

YouTube apologizes for falsely banning channels for spam, canceling subscriptions

OpenAI secured more billions, but there’s still capital left for other startups

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

GM is working on an eyes-off, hands-off driving system

GM is working on a eyes-off, hands-off driving system

Fisker faces SEC investigation as bankruptcy case drags on

Announcing the final agenda for the SaaS Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Amazon closes more of its cashierless convenience stores

Why EnergyX raised $75M from small investors, even after taking VC money from GM and others

TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 Side Events schedule: Women in Tech, SignalFire, Llama Lounge, and more to host

Announcing the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Waymo picks its next robotaxi, Joby lands more Toyota bucks, and Cybertruck notches its fifth recall

Detroit startup Grounded has a Lego-like way of designing EV vans for small businesses

Mark Zuckerberg is leg pressing chicken nuggets

Impulse Space lands Space Force contract for “tactically responsive” orbital operations

Swiggy escalates India quick-commerce battle with 10-minute meals

Facebook launches a Gen Z-focused redesign

Kenya fines Baltic fintech Eleving’s local arm for misleading customers

Check, Remote, and Gusto discuss the future of work at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Gmail users on iOS can now ask Gemini questions about their emails

The Browser Company launches Arc Search on Android

Meta’s Movie Gen model puts out realistic video with sound, so we can finally have infinite Moo Deng

Many companies won’t say if they’ll comply with California’s AI training transparency law

Rivian deliveries fall as component shortage slows production

Meta faces data retention limits on its EU ad business after top court ruling

Waymo’s next robotaxi will be the Hyundai IONIQ 5

The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained

Even the ‘godmother of AI’ has no idea what AGI is

Apple plans four new retail stores in India

Simon Willison Live Stream

Why Is Jack Smith’s Unsealed Motion, Outlining Trump’s Criminal Actions to Overturn the 2020 Election, Not the Top Story?

MLB Sold Ads on Players’ Batting Helmets for the Postseason

Hodinkee Sold to Watches of Switzerland

US vs EU work ethic 🇺🇸🇪🇺

Are you ready for a promotion? 💼

Maria Angelidou:Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue |E1210

Three steps in mapping out your modern platform strategy

Parallelstore is now GA, fueling the next generation of AI and HPC workloads

When to use supervised fine-tuning for Gemini

You can now sign Microsoft Windows artifacts with keys protected by Cloud HSM

An advanced LlamaIndex RAG implementation on Google Cloud

FAQ about the book and our writing process

VCs Bet on Translation & Voice Startups...OpenAI Closes Largest VC Round Ever...Q3 Deal Count Decline

Meta Unveils Movie Gen: AI-Powered Video Creation and Editing Suite

Why Vertical LLM Agents Are The New $1 Billion SaaS Opportunities

WAC - Wet Ass Coding

WTF Winamp

A tale of two transformations: Lloyds and Chase UK on driving change in the banking sector

Databricks opens 7-story new London HQ, eyes deeper partnerships for help scaling

Home Office to spend £25 million on UK border transformation

Levi's blames earnings miss on mystery customer "cybersecurity breach"

The transition to quantum-safe cryptography cannot be postponed

The Download: Google’s AI podcasts, and protecting your brain data

A new law in California protects consumers’ brain data. Some think it doesn’t go far enough.

Dozens of police influencers are running for office in Brazil

Quiz: Can you guess where these tiny cars, EVs, and mopeds were made?

AI in organizations: Some tactics

SUN METALON、シリーズAで31億円調達——金属リサイクル技術で業界の脱炭素化を加速

Introducing the Open FinLLM Leaderboard