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Infrastructure limits drive the day: power, debt and chips. Revolut had a global outage and a former OpenAI engineer was detained in an espionage case. Apple's October 28 event is set.
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Revolut suffered a worldwide outage that disrupted most of its services and online banking operations. The summary gives no cause or duration. BleepingComputer ↗
A court ordered former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan detained over an alleged recording device planted in an OpenAI executive conference room. The FBI says he had a folder named 'Saudi Gov Docs' and fears Saudi help for him to flee. The Hacker News ↗
CoreWeave's bonds slipped into distressed territory and its shares fell over 20 percent. The Verge frames its debt as a risk for the wider AI industry. The Verge ↗
Microsoft abandoned its planned flagship UK AI supercomputer in Essex because of grid connection delays. The Register ↗
Amazon, X-energy and AEP agreed to fund a 960 MW nuclear plant replacing Indiana's Breed Generating Station. TechCrunch describes it as twelve small modular reactors at the former coal site, generating nearly 1 GW. The Verge ↗
Tenstorrent raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2B valuation to stay independent after earlier acquisition interest. It is focusing on chips for open-weight AI. TechCrunch ↗
Apple announced an October 28 event, with new Macs expected, including an OLED MacBook Pro and a refreshed iPad mini, per Bloomberg. The Verge ↗
The Dutch government is reportedly developing its own Linux-based operating system to reduce dependence on Microsoft. The summary gives no timeline or scope. Lobsters ↗
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Fintech Revolut suffered a massive worldwide outage that disrupted most of its services and online banking operations.
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Fintech company Revolut is working to resolve a massive outage that disrupted most of its services worldwide earlier today. [...]
A former OpenAI engineer, Abdulrahman Alfozan, was ordered detained over an alleged recording device planted in an OpenAI executive conference room to steal secrets.
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A U.S. court on Monday granted the U.S. government's request to detain a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco office to allegedly steal sensitive secrets. In a new court filing Sunday, prosecutors revealed that Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national, was "in frequent communications via WhatsApp
A US order bars federal civilian agencies from using DeepSeek, the Chinese AI service, though its scope is unclear.
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Order disallowing use of Chinese AI service is unhelpfully vague and broad
Linux 7.4 adds a generic emulation for two-byte cmpxchg() and signals that some old CPU architectures may lose kernel support.
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Linux 7.4 is seeing a new emulation function added for cmpxchg() for compare and exchange. This is being done so that two-byte cmpxchg() can be used in common Linux kernel code that is already natively supported on newer CPU architectures. The pull request notes though that some old CPU architectures might no longer be supported by the Linux kernel moving ahead...
A Google bug causes some Google Home speakers to continuously download hundreds of gigabytes of data, likely from a failed firmware update; Google says a fix is rolling out.
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Google says a fix is rolling out that should solve the issue. | Photo: Jennifer Patison Tuohy / The Verge Some Google Home Speaker owners are currently experiencing an issue in which hundreds of gigabytes of data are being continuously downloaded to their device in the background. The bug, reported by 9to5Google and several Reddit users over the last week, may be caused by the speakers failing to correctly download and install a firmware update, with one Redditor finding that his device was consuming more than 200GB per day. Thankfully, Google is aware of the issue. In a statement to 9to5Google, the company said that "a fix is already rolling out that should address this for users." Most of the reports are tied specifically to the new Google Ho … Read the full story at The Verge.
Linux 7.4 will bring about 17k lines of new Rust kernel code, including an update of the Zerocopy vendored library.
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Miguel Ojeda sent out his pull request of the new Rust kernel code slated for introduction in Linux 7.4. It's a big one this round due to updating the Zerocopy vendored library plus updating other Rust crates for the kernel...
Samsung is building a massive Pyeongtaek semiconductor complex, with three fabs running and a fourth coming online to meet HBM memory demand.
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Generative AI models run on powerful chips known as GPUs, which depend on stacks of specialized memory chips packaged with the processor. To meet growing demand for memory, Samsung is building a massive new semiconductor manufacturing complex in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Three fabs already operate around the clock, and a fourth is coming online. Construction…
Supporters of Brazilian President Lula protested against Meta, accusing it of electoral interference.
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Article URL: https://efe.com/english/latest-news/2026-10-20/lula-supporters-protest-against-meta-to-denounce-its-electoral-interference/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50159993 Points: 186 # Comments: 89
Trump announced that Elon Musk's proposed SpaceX share giveaway to children will be funded through Trump Accounts, reportedly worth about $10.5 billion.
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President Donald Trump announced this afternoon that Elon Musk's SpaceX shares for children will be given through Trump Accounts. Musk said earlier today that he would give one of his SpaceX shares to "every kid in America" sometime next year. Musk had thanked Trump Account booster Brad Gerstner for "helping enable this," and Trump appeared to confirm the plan in a post on Truth Social. Given the value of SpaceX's stock on Friday, 72 million shares would be worth approximately $10.5 billion, according to CNBC. "This will be the first of many," Musk said. Michael and Susan Dell, Ray and Barbara Dalio, Gerstner, and SpaceX president Gwynne … Read the full story at The Verge.
CoreWeave's bonds slipped into distressed territory and its shares fell over 20 percent, raising AI industry debt concerns.
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CoreWeave had a bad week last week. Its bonds slipped into distressed territory by a common definition - when investors demand 1,000 basis points more in yield than they'd get from government bonds. Last Tuesady Chamath "SPAC King" Palihapitiya noticed the distressed debt, and also asked whether the AI buildout was a private credit bubble. Its shares are down more than 20 percent since Tuesday's close, which is kind of a lot! There even seemed to be some collateral damage in the market on other AI companies, too. Now, I have also asked if the AI industry is a bubble, but when the SPAC King echoes concerns held by a lady whose ongoing questi … Read the full story at The Verge.
FBI says an accused former OpenAI engineer had a folder named "Saudi Gov Docs" amid fears Saudi government may help him flee.
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US fears Saudi government will help ex-OpenAI engineer flee spying charges.
The Dutch government is reportedly developing its own Linux-based operating system to reduce dependence on Microsoft.
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Tenstorrent raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2B valuation to stay independent after earlier acquisition interest, focusing on open-weight AI chips.
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After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.
Amazon and X-energy agreed to fund twelve small modular nuclear reactors at a former Indiana coal plant, generating nearly 1 GW.
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Amazon and X-energy have inked another deal to deploy nuclear power to the grid. This one will generate nearly 1 gigawatt of electricity.
A GitHub project called Mac.apk lets Android apps run natively on macOS.
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Article URL: https://github.com/kksimp/Mac.apk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154624 Points: 184 # Comments: 67
Apple announced an October 28 event to unveil new Macs, including an OLED MacBook Pro, and a refreshed iPad mini, per Bloomberg.
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Apple has sent invites to a second product launch this month, and it's scheduled for October 28th at 1PM ET in Los Angeles. At the event, Apple is set to announce new Macs and a refreshed iPad Mini, according to Bloomberg. The big announcement is expected to be a new MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen that's also lighter and has an iPhone-like Dynamic Island. But Apple is also planning on revealing a 14-inch MacBook Pro and a new iMac with the M6 chip, which was recently introduced with the Mac Mini. Apple's updated iPad Mini will apparently finally get an OLED screen as well and put the selfie cam on the landscape edge. "Can't wait to p … Read the full story at The Verge.
Amazon signed an agreement with X-energy and AEP to fund a 960 MW nuclear plant replacing Indiana's Breed Generating Station.
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It’ll be several years before the facility is complete, but this digital rendering gives us some idea of what it’ll look like. | Image: Amazon 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 plant, which would replace the now defunct coal-fueled Breed Generating Station in Fairbanks, Sullivan County, aims to provide up to 960 megawatts of carbon-free energy for both the regional power grid and Amazon's data centers. No timeline for construction or operation has been announced for the facility, which Amazon says "could" create 1,000 construction jobs and 100 permanent roles. The facility in Indiana is targeting to build 12 Xe-100 SMR's, an advanced (but unproven) reactor th … Read the full story at The Verge.
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone signed a letter of intent to jointly bid for spectrum for a European direct-to-device satellite service.
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Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone signed a letter of intent saying they're considering a joint bid for spectrum that would support European direct-to-device satellite competition for SpaceX's Starlink. The four telecom companies say they would handle the ground infrastructure while a separate, unannounced satellite partner provides the satellite constellation: The joint initiative by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone has a clear ambition: to meet customer demand for universal coverage in underserved areas, strengthen the resilience of public networks, protect critical communications, and support the develop … Read the full story at The Verge.
Jana Dönszelmann presented a checked cross-crate forward declaration feature for Rust at Kangrejos 2026, possibly aiding kernel integer overflow handling.
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Rust has several ad-hoc mechanisms to allow user code to influence how the standard library executes. For example, custom panic handlers and custom allocators both involve registering functions that core standard library code needs to call. With more similar features planned, Jana Dönszelmann spotted the developing pattern and put together a general solution, introducing a safer, checked analogue of C's weak symbol linking. At Kangrejos 2026, she explained how this new language feature works, and proposed using it to clean up the kernel's handling of integer overflows in Rust code.
A German court issued a function injunction against SAP's Signavio over a Celonis patent ruling, which SAP says covers only one process.
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Vendor says patent ruling only restricts one specific process, not the whole product, after legal challenge from Celonis
Microsoft has abandoned its planned flagship UK AI supercomputer in Essex because of grid power connection delays.
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Tech giant walks away from flagship Essex project as power connection delays threaten to leave nation's AI ambitions waiting until the 2030s
A WSJ report examines a private trust structure that could complicate Anthropic's planned initial public offering.
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Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-ipo-private-trust-188f41f7?st=RtdGHg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151376 Points: 110 # Comments: 68
Blackwall raised $100M at a $2.2B valuation to expand bot and AI traffic filtering tools for websites.
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Blackwall has raised $100M at a $2.2B valuation to continue building security and filtering tools that help websites grapple with growing bot and AI traffic.
The open-source MicroG project, a free re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space services, is trending on Hacker News.
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Article URL: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50162177 Points: 10 # Comments: 0