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Judge Orders New York to Scrap Rollout of Second-Home Tax and Start Over

A Staten Island judge sided with a group of homeowners who had sued the city over its introduction of the tax, dealing a blow to Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Supreme Court Allows Rapid Third-Country Deportations, for Now

The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.

ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive

A similar surge last year resulted in undervetted officers initially being let in and then removed as the agency skipped basic checks for new recruits.

Burnham vows to end existing pension triple lock in 2030 to help fund care

The PM was at times emotional during his conference speech in which he outlined his long-term plan for the UK.

Chris Mason: Burnham delivers deeply political speech with a personal core

The key thing to understand about Andy Burnham's speech is these were the words and the delivery of both a new prime minister and a grieving son, the BBC's political editor writes.

Man City guilty of 'sham' contracts and misleading accounts

The Premier League confirms that Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to breaches of Premier League financial rules between 2009-10 and 2017-18.

Some on-air claims about Dominion Voting Systems were false, Fox News acknowledges in statement after deal is announced

Dominion still has pending lawsuits against election deniers such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell

Here are the 20 specific Fox broadcasts and tweets Dominion says were defamatory

• Fox-Dominion trial delay 'is not unusual,' judge says • Fox News' defamation battle isn't stopping Trump's election lies

No Time to Pwn – Can AI Find and Exploit the Linux Kernel?

Article URL: https://xbow.com/blog/no-time-to-pwn-cve-2026-72018

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Pluralis Towards a Multicultural Multimodal, Multilingual Benchmark for AI Risk

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06196

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c

Can AI Decipher the Indus Valley Script?

If AI can solve Navier Stokes grade problems, it should take a stab at such a thing too. I know the language is fundamentally not "english" or another widely used one so it can't do any inference

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory

Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello

SMARtCARE: Privacy-Preserving Agentic AI Systems for Bounded-Autonomy Clinical Decision Support

arXiv:2609.31763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context clinical AI systems can miss relevant patient history when prior admissions fall outside the active reasoning context. In ICU monitoring,

Witeness Overlap: Directional Provenance Inside Open-Weight Model Families

arXiv:2609.31784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-weight models are often released, fine-tuned, aligned, merged, and re-released, making provenance audits ask not only whether checkpoints are rela

CP-Agent: A Harness-Engineered Agent for Crystal Plasticity Simulation Workflows

arXiv:2609.31790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crystal plasticity (CP) simulations predict the mechanical behavior of polycrystalline metals, yet their routine use is hindered by the manual effort o

Replay in the Silent Degrees of Freedom: Continual Learning Without an Offline Phase

arXiv:2609.31630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Replay-based continual learning almost always consolidates in a dedicated offline phase or by interleaving replayed samples with the input stream, wher

OMP-MoE: Efficient Expert Pruning for Mixture-of-Experts LLMs via Orthogonal Matching Pursuit

arXiv:2609.31631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models enable efficient scaling of large language models but face critical deployment challenges due to massive memory require

EEGAgentBench: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Short- and Long-Horizon EEG Analysis

arXiv:2609.31632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) analysis is evolving from short-segment classification toward long-horizon interpretation that demands iterative evidence

As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open

At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts — Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng — debated regulation, open source access, and how America can compete as China advances in Asia.

Data center demand drives 66% surge in natural gas power plant costs

Natural gas power plant costs have nearly doubled in two years and take 23% longer to build as data center electricity demand skyrockets.

Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz

AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing from executives at Meta, OpenAI, and Wiz.

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OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack

A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.

Away’s New Series 3 Luggage Plays It Safe—That’s the Point

Away’s third generation of its iconic luggage retains the familiar design while introducing invisible tech, such as a new wheel system and an improved telescoping handle.

Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?

“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert.

社区速递 160 | 水月雨首款游戏耳机与八月派友剁手清单

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更懂你的心，也更懂你：Apple Watch Series 12 体验

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可塑的白昼：ColorOS17 深度评测

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科技爱好者周刊（第 413 期）：再见了，React Native

这里记录每周值得分享的科技内容，周五发布。（[通知] 下周五开始的中秋和十一假期，周刊休息。）

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科技爱好者周刊（第 412 期）：禁止 issue，只用 PR

这里记录每周值得分享的科技内容，周五发布。

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科技爱好者周刊（第 411 期）：OpenClaw 2.0 是一个缩影

这里记录每周值得分享的科技内容，周五发布。

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Trump tries to rename AI 'super intelligence' as polls show him sinking on key issue

Trump shrugged when asked if he is concerned that his support for AI and data centers could hurt Republicans in the upcoming midterm election.

The Fed's main inflation measure will be released Wednesday. Here's what to expect

Data is expected to show ongoing price pressures and consumers who nevertheless continue to spend.

30-year Treasury bond yield scales to highest level since 2002

U.S. Treasury yields largely rose Tuesday, adding to the gains that catapulted them to multi-year highs amid central bank monetary policy concerns.

Newell Brands Is In The Earliest Stages Of A Turnaround (Ratings Upgrade)

Equinix, Inc. (EQIX) Presents at RBC Capital Markets 2026 Global Communications and Infrastructure Conference Transcript

Annaly Capital: The Fed Just Changed The Game (Rating Downgrade)

Dow Jones Futures Rise With Micron, Inflation Data Due; Yields Pressure Stocks But Bloom Energy Soars

Stocks are resilient as Treasury yields rise but aren't thriving. Bloom Energy surged. Inflation data, Micron earnings loom.

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Trying To Find Pokemon Cards? You Can Buy Them On Coinbase Soon.

Hunting for a 30th Anniversary Charizard? Coinbase hints at a new on-chain Pokemon trading card offering backed by real cards.

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Treasury Yields Rise Despite Weak Jobs Data; Why That's A Concern

The 10-year Treasury yield rose despite weak job market signals.

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Investing for babies involves knotty trade-offs

Should new parents favour financial capital, human capital or something else?

The AI boom meets a new kind of crypto scam

Payment cards linked to cryptocurrency accounts may enable Chinese purchases of American AI models

How the AI boom could worsen the rich world’s fiscal crunch

Even with higher growth, taxes may be harder to find

The best flea and tick treatments for cats

Veterinarians helped us make our picks for the best flea and tick treatments for cats, from prescription topicals to OTC options.

Judge rules Mamdani's pied-à-terre tax rollout needs a do-over

New York City plans to place a tax on multi-million-dollar second homes. A judge ruled Tuesday that its rollout needs to be redone.

Sam Altman outlined OpenAI's 3-part plan for dominance

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman outlined a three-pronged approach to business dominance at the company's DevDay conference on Tuesday.

Agencies publish resolution plan feedback letters for 15 banking organizations

Agencies publish resolution plan feedback letters for 15 banking organizations

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Peoples Bancorp Inc.

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Peoples Bancorp Inc.

Federal Reserve Board requests public comment on two proposals related to establishing a regulatory framework for Board-supervised payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act

Federal Reserve Board requests public comment on two proposals related to establishing a regulatory framework for Board-supervised payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act

亚马逊云科技无法恢复仅存储在受损的中东可用区的数据

Agent 不只烧 Token：为什么 Agent Sandbox 正在变得重要？

Agent 编程能力从 10% 飙到 70%，Anthropic 新模型却遭遇灵魂拷问：我什么时候才会用它？

删除储能相关，川润股份大幅下调定增募资额，“瘦身”过冬押注液冷

储能出局，募资变动始末

8.25亿增资、8.26亿转让：迈威生物TCE管线分拆至新公司联威创元

上市公司资金完成一轮内部流转之后，最终落到平台的是外部投资人实缴的1.6亿元增量资金。

押注固态电池设备“三年后”：金银河15亿定增卡位

金银河此���融资扩产，赌的是三年后的量产线招标，而非今年的中试订单。

Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop

Where do you exceed the capabilities of an LLM?

Import AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics

Is the wall AI is hitting in the room with us right now?

Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman

Plus, a machine hermeneutics story

AI Weekly Issue #533: Meta tested human callers behind its AI phone agent

The AI story of September 22–28 was not simply that agents became more capable. It was that their hidden handoffs became visible: a supposedly automated call could reach a contractor, a supposedly pri

AI Weekly Issue #531: AI labs shipped agents before agreeing how to report failures

The AI story of September 14–20 was not one spectacular model launch. It was the machinery around agents becoming visible: people reading private chats, models writing instructions into their own memo

AI Weekly Issue #530: Applied AI This Week

Companies are giving AI specific jobs: checking security cameras, helping farmers understand their records, searching satellite images, and preparing sales quotes. This edition explains how those tool

OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model

OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.

OpenAI repotedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation

The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.

Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents

OpenAI isn't a public supporter of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform, but it is privately working with Nvidia, TechCrunch has learned.

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory

Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello