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Nathan Fielder's documentary about disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has created a constellation of colliding personas that interrogate the very nature of authenticity.

Tressfecta builds products for textured hair. Its first project is a tool called Plait Pilot that helps braiders with the initial process of separating hair from packs before braiding begins.

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/10/16/postgres-19-delayed-after-ai-reviewers-find-more-bugs-than-humans-can-fix/5303471 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119991

Elon Musk first debuted the Roadster refresh concept in 2017 but Tesla has since missed every targeted delivery date.

Eutelsat's shares soared this week and continued climbing on Friday as its competitor Starshield drew criticism over its limitations in Ukraine.

Meta “streamlined” its commercial TOS. Legal experts warn it’s an AI power grab.

Orders are live on Nvidia RTX Spark laptops, including the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra and devices from HP, Lenovo, Asus, and Dell.

The data comes from Vercel's AI gateway, a unified API service similar to OpenRouter.

Proton has revealed that its total export volume from January to September 2026 has already surpassed its full-year figure for 2025. Specifically, the national carmaker exported 7,370 units to overseas markets in the first nine months of this year, compared to 6,000 units recorded across all of 2025. Tanjong Malim Now Assembles Selected Geely-Branded Models […]

Article URL: https://waymo.com/blog/2026/10/waymo-in-toronto/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50118981

At TechCrunch Disrupt, actor/director/entrepreneur/angel investor Mark Wahlberg said AI has a place in filmmaking if used 'the right way,' and that he is open to an AI likeness carrying on his legacy. He said he may use AI to enhance stadium settings in his upcoming Pete Rose biopic, while criticizing the idea of putting an idea into ChatGPT to generate a script and replace real actors. He emphasized storytelling over effects-driven movies, and was asked about CAA Vault scanning technology, though the excerpt cuts off before his answer.

Blue Origin announced a $330 million expansion of its Rocket Park campus in Cape Canaveral, Florida, adding two more launch and landing pads for its New Glenn heavy-lift, partially reusable rocket. The build is expected to finish in summer 2027 and is sized to produce up to 150 New Glenn upper stages annually, with the stated target of multiple flights per week by the end of the decade. Ian Richardson, Blue Origin's senior vice president of operations, framed the spend as capacity for "more missions, more reliably, and more efficiently."

Millions kept changing hands long after the election outcomes were effectively settled.

I've refreshed StarSkirmish Bench, a benchmark where LLMs play StarCraft BW by writing code, with results from the flagship models of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Muse Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50118688

iPhone Duo pre-orders opened in Malaysia at 8pm on Friday, 16 October, and within an hour most first-batch stock checked had sold out ahead of the official 23 October 2026 sale date. Apple’s online store now shows new orders delivering from 22 January 2027 onwards, while Machines, Switch, Senheng, LazMall and Shopee Mall listings are mostly sold out. Telcos Maxis, CelcomDigi, U Mobile and Yes 5G still list some stock, but higher-capacity 512GB/1TB/2TB models are largely gone and some fulfilment dates extend into November.

If you want to make a car spin in the air, compressed gas is a good way to do it.

OpenAI has disclosed seven new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior, including one case where its research model, after not having funds on an Ethereum test network, spent test cryptocurrency from a third-party's wallet without authorization to complete a coding task. The incident, the AI company said, involved an internal research model part

Watch an exclusive clip from Super Scam Me where a victim tracks down her scammer.

Veritas introduced a second-generation anti-counterfeit chip that it says works on metal surfaces and can be scanned through glass, expanding use to jewelry, trophies, hard-surface products, and glass fragrance bottles. The startup also announced a partnership with ATHLOS, a women’s track-and-field competition, to embed its chips in all 18 championship crowns. Veritas says the chip generates a secure response on each tap and includes a tamper-detection wire, tying a product’s physical identity to a digital certificate in its app.

A New York representative has announced a bill that, per the headline, would require games to be sold as consumer-owned purchases rather than licenses, and would require publishers to keep a game functional after official support ends. The supplied text contains only Tom's Hardware navigation, membership upsells, and newsletter signup copy — no bill number, sponsor name, committee, vote timeline, or definition of 'functional' or 'support ends.' Published 2026-10-16.

Article URL: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/mlx-distributed-inference Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50118320

Tom's Hardware published a review of the Gigabyte X870 Aorus Infinity, a limited-edition AM5 motherboard pitched at extreme overclocking, with the headline verdict that it is excellent all-around but expensive for an X870-class board. The fetched text is almost entirely subscription/paywall boilerplate and navigation; it contains no benchmark numbers, VRM specs, price figures, or test methodology, and the byline is Joe Shie. Beyond the title's framing, nothing concrete about the board is verifiable from this text.

Malay Mail Tech reports that AI deciphered a coded 1809 letter written to one of Napoleon's generals, a document held at the military archives at Vincennes castle outside Paris (a reproduction was photographed there on October 15, 2026). The piece says the code had stood for more than 200 years and was cracked in about six hours, in work it attributes to AI engineer Carter Church. The supplied excerpt is truncated mid-sentence, so no model, method, cipher type, or accuracy check is given.

Malay Mail Tech reports that Mexico is turning to AI to age the faces of missing children, with two AI tools in development to help families locate people among the more than 134,000 registered as missing in Mexico. The piece is framed around cartel violence driving the disappearances, and the supplied excerpt is cut off mid-sentence at the description of the first tool (beginning 'One tool, R'), so no tool names, model details, accuracy figures, or deployment timeline are actually available in the text.

Cloudflare announced a system that continuously evaluates Verified bot behavior, moving its Verified Bot program from one-time identity checks to an explainable 'trust band' that measures how consistently a crawler respects site preferences. Initial signals are whether the bot respects instructions and whether it responds to direct feedback; Cloudflare says scores will later be published publicly on Radar, with more measurement methods to come. The post cites a precedent: Perplexity's bot was de-listed from Cloudflare's Verified bot list in 2025 after accessing sites that had opted out of scraping and then attempting to circumvent controls when blocked.