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Politics and platforms drive the day: French DNS-block plans, Meta accused of bias in Brazil's election, and Starlink service in Ukraine reportedly restored. Smaller items cover product end-of-life, AI labelling law and European dependence on US technology.
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France: the prime minister reportedly asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks of major social platforms for October 24, per Blast.
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Meta reportedly ignores a Brazilian court order to end alleged favoritism toward Bolsonaro-linked accounts. Separately, Al Jazeera reports Meta employees say President Lula's accounts were restricted during the election period.
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Starlink service in Ukraine is reportedly working normally again after Elon Musk reportedly ordered throttling of access. Steve Blank argues the episode gives Europe a reason to replace American technology.
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The Danish digitalisation ministry quietly dropped a large pilot to move government from Microsoft Office to open-source alternatives, per Computerworld Denmark.
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Reuters: the PHP Foundation's director says it is under-funded, with only one full-time staff member, as the language faces critical bugs.
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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed a law requiring labels on ads significantly modified or generated by AI.
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Google has ended support for older Nest thermostats, which now work only as basic non-smart thermostats. Reports also say Google illegally cleared about 250,000 trees in Finland for a data center.
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Apple's 'Pro and tell' event is on October 28 and is expected to bring a touchscreen MacBook Pro and other M6 updates. Separately, Instacart reportedly discussed selling itself to DoorDash and Uber.
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National bodies disapproved the C++26 standard ballot, reportedly an unprecedented rejection of the language standard.
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tl;dr: it looks like C++ 26 got turned down by the national bodies (afaik unprecedented) Comments
Meta employees reportedly say accounts belonging to Brazilian President Lula were restricted during the Brazil election period.
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Article URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/10/16/meta-employees-say-lulas-accounts-restricted-in-brazil-election-report Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227639 Points: 112 # Comments: 37
FindMyWeb is an open-source project that reverse engineers Apple's Find My network to access location data via a web interface.
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Article URL: https://codeberg.org/Misom/FindMyWeb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50226646 Points: 26 # Comments: 7
Apricitas analysis examines whether AI is responsible for a 200,000 job loss in US media, film, and arts sectors.
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Article URL: https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-class Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50226419 Points: 20 # Comments: 11
An Apollo Daily Spark note argues AI productivity payoff is not visible outside the tech sector.
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Article URL: https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224463 Points: 233 # Comments: 194
Reports say Instacart discussed selling itself to DoorDash and Uber, its larger competitors.
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Instacart might sell itself to a larger competitor.
Reports say Google illegally cleared about 250,000 trees in Finland to build a data center, angering locals.
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Article URL: https://nypost.com/2026/10/24/business/google-illegally-tore-down-250k-trees-for-finland-data-center-infuriating-locals-report/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50221676 Points: 31 # Comments: 6
UK minister says responsibilities are clear, though datacenter construction, telecoms, and energy fall under separate government departments.
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Minister insists responsibilities are clear as construction, telecoms, and energy fall under separate departments
Microsoft's Xbox reportedly rejected a $500 million acquisition offer from Netflix.
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Article URL: https://www.darkhorizons.com/xbox-turns-down-netflix-500-million-offer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227892 Points: 74 # Comments: 95
TechCrunch essay asks whether AI demand will expose the fragility of internet infrastructure.
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The moment you realize the internet is "held together by glue and dreams."
Developers are building novel apps that showcase the capabilities of Apple's first foldable iPhone.
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From retro cassette players and virtual notebooks to flight trackers and even a digital toaster, developers are finding creative ways to take advantage of Apple's first foldable iPhone.
The Verge reviews the Lenovo Yoga 9n RTX Spark laptop and argues it previews what a touchscreen MacBook should be.
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The Lenovo Yoga 9n is a pricey workstation laptop, but being a 2-in-1 also makes it fun. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge It looks like the long-rumored touchscreen MacBook might actually get announced next week, and after using the Lenovo Yoga 9n for our testing of Nvidia's RTX Spark platform, it got me thinking: this is a lot of what I want from a touchscreen MacBook. Like the Apple silicon in modern MacBook Pros, RTX Spark is an Arm-based processor with a beefy integrated GPU and lots of unified memory. And the Yoga is the most fun RTX Spark laptop so far because it's a 16-inch 2-in-1 convertible with a stylus. Its Nvidia-powered compatriots also have touchscreens, like most Windows laptops, but they're conventional clamshell designs. The Lenovo Yoga d … Read the full story at The Verge.
Steve Blank argues Elon Musk's actions could push Europe to replace American technology providers.
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Article URL: https://steveblank.com/2026/10/24/europe-gets-a-wake-up-call/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50220913 Points: 265 # Comments: 267