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Elon Musk has acquired a $1 billion stake in Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of CNN, according to reports. The size of the stake and its exact structure were not fully detailed in available reporting.
A QR code hides its destination until you have already opened it. susQR is a free web tool that checks the link first, and it is worth keeping one tap away.
A developer spent time optimizing roc-deflate, a DEFLATE compression package for the Roc functional programming language written by Niclas Ahden, aiming to see how close it could get to the performance of libdeflate, the C library widely regarded as the fastest DEFLATE implementation. The effort followed an earlier result showing a Lean 4 library, lean-zip, beating Rust's popular miniz_oxide package but still falling well short of libdeflate, which uses hand-tuned, architecture-specific SIMD code. Testing used the non-streaming APIs and the Silesia corpus, since roc-deflate does not yet support streaming.
An agent is a language model given tools and a loop. That single design choice explains both why agents can finish real work and why they fail in ways a chatbot never could.
Researchers at the University of Kentucky found that temporarily depleting microglia, the brain's resident immune cells, restored more than two hours of sleep per day in mice with Alzheimer's-like brain changes, without removing amyloid plaques. The team, led by Shannon L. Macauley and first author Nicholas J. Constantino, published the findings in Alzheimer's & Dementia, showing mice also spent more time in deep, restorative sleep stages.
Quishing works because a QR code gives you nothing to judge before you commit. Here is what the scams look like in practice and the habits that defuse them.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection searches of travelers' laptops and phones increased 32% this year compared to the prior period, according to reported figures. The increase continues a trend of more frequent device inspections at U.S. entry points, affecting both citizens and visitors.
A new router upgrades the link between your devices and the router. Almost nothing people complain about lives on that link, which is why the box rarely delivers the numbers on it.
The developer behind rqlite, an open-source system that pairs SQLite with the Raft consensus protocol, published a retrospective marking the project's origin in September 2014. He recounts building it to solve a storage problem at jut.io, switching its Raft implementation from goraft to Hashicorp's Raft in 2016, and designing it as a CP system where writes require majority acknowledgment through a leader node.
Ethereum core developers postponed the Glamsterdam upgrade activation on the Hoodi testnet, originally set for October 26, following discussion at ACDE #248 on October 22. The delay, announced via the Ethereum Foundation blog, cancels the Amsterdam and Gloas activations and the planned increase of Hoodi's gas limit to roughly 200M, citing a need to study EIP-8037's interaction with deployed smart contracts.
The UK government announced it will fund a national AI Biosecurity Lab (AIBL) with £100m in Wednesday's Budget, describing it as a 'world first' institute to counter biological and AI-enabled threats. OpenAI and Anthropic will support the effort with £200m worth of AI model credits, though specific details about the lab's structure and remit have not yet been released.
Security researchers report a sharp rise in cyberattacks that exploit a widespread internet vulnerability using AI-powered hacking tools. The wave of incidents has been informally labeled 'Black October' by those tracking the activity, reflecting the scale and speed of the attacks.