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At Connect 2026 on September 23, Meta announced the Ray-Ban Meta Audio, its first camera-free AI glasses, built with EssilorLuxottica and starting at $349. The audio-only frames do music, podcasts, calls, speech translation, and voice access to Meta's AI assistant Muse, weighing 43 grams with up to 12 hours of battery (48 hours with the case). Meta frames the removal of the camera as a response to backlash over people recording others without consent, with Mark Zuckerberg describing audio glasses as a "whole new category."

Vogue World's fifth edition closed its Milan run this week with an act called "The Age of Intelligence," in which humanoid robots from Chinese firm Unitree walked into the Galleria to Gigi D'Agostino's "L'Amour Toujours," waved, and one performed a lasso — all unclothed. The show was marketed as a tribute to Italian craftsmanship and "the human touch," but coverage focused on the robots rather than the fashion, and the pained on-camera reaction of Valentino creative director Alessandro Michele went viral. Vogue World's next edition is set for San Francisco in 2027, which the article links to Anna Wintour's growing alignment with tech figures.

My comment on We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary — Hacker News.I've been wanting this from Cloudflare for years. The classic problem here is if you do that thing where user agents that send "accept: text/html" get HTML, while user agents that don't get JSON or some other format. This used to be impossible to deploy behind Cloudflare caching, because they ignored the Vary header on anything other than images - so you risked caching the JSON version and then serving it up to someone who was expecting HTML. (Independent of the Cloudflare feature I ended up deciding never to use that pattern, because I prefer having URL that predictably returns HTML or JSON - I add a .json suffix to my apps to serve JSON instead.) Tags: http, cloudflare

Bastardica is a browser-based font foundry that mixes, stretches and squishes multiple typefaces into 'cursed' hybrid fonts, inspired by Times New Bastard and Easy Pete. It runs entirely client-side via Pyodide and fontTools, exports normal TTF, OTF and WOFF2 files, and implements the swap as an OpenType liga contextual substitution registered for every script, so browsers enable it by default. The FAQ notes that mixing two fonts produces a derivative work, so both source licenses must be checked for commercial use, and suggests prime-number strides so mix-in fonts collide less often (three or more fonts intersect on common multiples, first font wins).

CNBC reports that Trump begins a two-day summit with Xi Jinping on Wednesday, facing a China that has become harder to isolate as U.S. allies seek room to maneuver between Washington and Beijing. The piece cites Pew polling showing the share of Canadians calling the U.S. a reliable partner fell from 83% in 2022 to 35% in 2026, and notes China's rare-earths supply as a pressure point. Taiwan, trade, and Iran are named as the issues testing how each side converts relationships into leverage.

arXiv announced $17.2 million in multiyear philanthropic commitments — spanning three to five years — from Simons Foundation International, XTX Markets, and Siegel Family Endowment, to fund its transition into an independent nonprofit. The money covers three named areas: ongoing operations, continued platform technical development, and building governance/org capacity as a standalone entity. Notably, the technical work explicitly includes managing AI-generated content and "other emerging challenges in scholarly communication." The HN thread drew 295 points and 38 comments.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit 2026 blog post (written by Peter Burns, Sep 23, 2026) says the Snapdragon X2 Series is adding Linux support alongside Windows and "Googlebook," framing the chips around on-device "agentic AI" experiences that run complex tasks locally. Qualcomm names Microsoft Surface, Lenovo, HUMAIN and unnamed ISV partners as part of the device ecosystem. The excerpt is largely a keynote recap and is cut off mid-section, so it contains no kernel details, driver scope, distro list, release dates, or pricing.

Toyota is preparing an electric version of the Corolla, its best-selling car of all time with over 57 million units sold since 1966 and 12 model generations. The next-gen car, previewed in concept form at the Japan Mobility Show roughly a year ago, is expected to ride a heavily modified TNGA-C platform supporting gas, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery-electric powertrains; engineers told Car and Driver the hybrid uses a new 1.5-litre four-cylinder with an electric motor making about 134 hp combined, roughly 10-20% more efficient than today's setup, with AWD possible. Chairman and former CEO Akio Toyoda told NHK in July the company is being forced to adapt or 'it cannot survive' amid Chinese competition, while CEO Koji Sato framed the redesign around making good-looking cars regardless of power source.

Anthropic announced that its Bay Area wet biology lab, confirmed last week and opened this spring, has produced what it calls a previously unknown enzyme system found in bacteriophage DNA that can cut, copy and paste DNA in ways 'reminiscent of CRISPR.' Anthropic says the work was done 'mostly, though not entirely, by Claude,' which searched data using about 950 agents, burned 210 million tokens, and took 21 hours of concerted effort. CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged the finding builds on others' work, including a Stanford team that previously discovered a system 'in some ways similar,' and said the broader research community must validate how big or new the discovery actually is.

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At an Axios event on September 22, Amazon chief sustainability officer Kara Hurst said the company "doesn't know" how it will hit its net zero by 2040 target, telling TechCrunch afterward that decarbonization "takes both" companies and governments. Amazon reported $717 billion in revenue last year (up 12%) and holds 42 gigawatts of clean energy capacity, but its carbon intensity rose in the most recent year compared with 2024, though it stayed below 2022 levels.

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Article URL: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/openai-breaches-medicare-albanese-reveals-20260924-p6100u.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822556

Fly.io's Thomas Ptacek writes that VSCode's SSH remote editing is not a lightweight Tramp-like client: it runs a Bash snippet stager that downloads an agent including a binary Node install, runs over port-forwarded SSH, and opens a WebSocket back to the VSCode front-end. That protocol can wander the filesystem, edit arbitrary files, launch shell PTY processes, and persist itself, and the post ties this to LLM/agentic coding loops that ideally run on clean-slate Linux instances. The HN thread drew 299 points and 196 comments.

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Bessemer Venture Partners raised $5.75B across two new funds—$1.75B for seed/early-stage and $4B for growth—earmarked for AI stack investments. The firm has backed Anthropic, Cognition, Perplexity, and others, and says it has put $3B into 260+ AI-native companies since 2022.

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DoorDash agreed to a $131.5 million settlement with New York City for underpaying 264,000 delivery workers — the largest worker settlement in the city's history, announced Tuesday, with Mayor Zohran Mamdani overseeing it. During the 2025 mayoral race, DoorDash spent roughly $1.4 million opposing Mamdani and supporting Andrew Cuomo, including a $1 million gift to the anti-Mamdani super PAC Fix the City, which was the largest single donation in the race at the time. DoorDash's statement said 'we screwed up' and that some Dashers were underpaid or paid late, though it called the mistakes unintentional.

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Enveda, a biotech startup using AI to discover drugs derived from plants and microbes, raised a $311M Series E at a $2B valuation led by Catalio Capital Management, with participation from Iconiq. The valuation doubles what Enveda achieved 12 months ago; the company is currently testing several AI-discovered drug candidates in human clinical trials, including one for severe skin conditions and another for maintaining weight loss after stopping GLP-1s.

Modal Motors, founded by Michael Van Steenburg, is developing electric motors in the U.S. that eliminate rare earth magnets entirely, aiming to break dependence on China's supply chain. The startup has two products in development: a small motor for drones, fans, blowers, and actuators, and a flat 'Hybrid Enigma Drive' planar motor for low-profile spaces. Modal Motors is part of Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt.