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UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms

https://unicode.org/reports/tr39/

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physic...

Single-File Web Apps

https://gods.art/articles/single_file_web_apps

New Records Obtained by EFF Expose More Problems with Medicare's AI Experiment

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/new-records-...

Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset

https://www.dreamhoststatus.com/

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

https://lynchlab.net/llm-skin-cancer

IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/22/ibm...

OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache

https://the-decoder.com/openais-isolated-ai-agents...

Show HN: Tar-minefield shows where tar implementations disagree

https://stoppels.ch/tar/

Why is it so expensive to send an email?

https://evancz.dev/why-is-it-so-expensive-to-send-...

GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards

https://github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock

I will no longer upload to NEW

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/10/msg0...

SpeedCrunch 1.1

https://www.speedcrunch.org/

Two Million Hornets

https://dark-mountain.net/two-million-hornets/

Show HN: Freehire, open-source search 3M+ tech jobs from company career boards

https://freehire.me/

Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech

https://block.xyz/dessa

Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop

https://jank-lang.org/

Industry Knew for Decades That Microplastics Could Infiltrate Human Bodies

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/chemical-industry-mic...

What Happened to the Neanderthals?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/science/what-ha...

Google can now use your Gmail data for ads: How to turn it off

https://proton.me/blog/gmail-ads

OBS Studio 33

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/...

Twelve years of distributed SQLite

https://philipotoole.com/twelve-years-of-distribut...

fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine

https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2

BYD’s $10,000 EV blows a tire at nearly 90 mph — Watch what happens

https://electrek.co/2026/10/27/byds-10k-ev-blows-t...

Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer

https://corgi.computer/

AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/ai-...

Anthropic's Disproof of the ETH

https://hexagonmath.org/2610.00577v1

The 'Buy, Borrow and Die' Wealth Strategy Has Become a $5T Market

https://www.wsj.com/finance/the-buy-borrow-and-die...

Root shell on Samsung TV

https://twitter.com/log4j/status/21130141426009538...

Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2026 Results [pdf]

https://s206.q4cdn.com/479360582/files/doc_financi...