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Volvo announced it will use Nvidia's autonomous driving technology, including the Hyperion hardware platform and Alpamayo software, to build a Level 2++ system enabling hands-free, point-to-point driving. The system is designed to handle complex urban scenarios like intersections and unprotected turns without direct driver input, and will not initially include lidar.
The EU is negotiating with China to lift export restrictions on German firm Sindlhauser Materials, a supplier to ASML, in exchange for the EU removing sanctions on an unnamed Chinese company accused of aiding Russia, according to Bloomberg sources. The talks occurred during EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič's visit to Beijing, with the EU expected to act first, pending unanimous approval from member states.
HBO Max has begun streaming the live-action horror anthology Strange: Junji Ito's Tales for Sleepless Nights, which originally aired a 12-episode season on TV Tokyo. Two episodes are currently available in the US, and a third, 'Face Thief' directed by Yûta Shimotsu, premiered at New York Comic Con based on Ito's story 'The Face Burglar.'
A startup originally built around AI applications for climate work has received backing from Nvidia, reportedly after deprioritizing its climate-focused mission. The shift in focus preceded or accompanied the investment, according to reporting on the deal.
Market research firm Omdia reports TCL is working on 32- and 34-inch OLED gaming monitors with refresh rates up to 700Hz, to be built at the company's Gen 8.6 OLED plant in Guangzhou with production starting in 2028. The panels will reportedly use inkjet-printed OLED technology rather than the vacuum thermal evaporation process common in current OLED displays, though resolution, response time and launch timing are still unconfirmed.
A developer has released DEsk, a Wayland-based Linux desktop environment formerly known as DeskWM, designed with realistic skeuomorphic visuals reminiscent of iOS 6. The desktop renders windows as paper on a ray-traced walnut desk, with a drawer-style dock, bookshelf app launcher, and a post-box notification system. Version 0.1.2 is a beta release with installers for Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, and Fedora, alongside a new Discord server for bug reports and feature requests.
Google announced updates to its AI search features that place inline links higher and more frequently in responses, add link carousels for timely articles, and make end-of-query links more visually prominent with thumbnails. It's also testing clickable publisher profile links in AI Mode and says over 400 publishers now participate in its News AI licensing pilot, with Axios, CNN, and the Financial Times newly joining.
Ryanair, Europe's largest airline, has rolled out proprietary predictive AI models built by its internal unit Ryanair Labs to anticipate disruptions like weather delays, airport curfews and crew-hour limits before they cause cancellations. CEO Eddie Wilson said the tools are meant to help staff manage operations across the airline's 96 bases and roughly 3,800 daily flights, not replace human operators.
Netflix is laying off about 1,000 employees, or 6% of its global workforce, according to Variety. Co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos told staff in an email that the cuts will mostly affect product, technology, legal and human resources teams. The reductions come a week ahead of the company's quarterly earnings report.
A threat actor using the account 'marchos1as' uploaded trojanized packages to the Arch User Repository, typosquatting the popular yay and paru helper tools. The packages bundled legitimate upstream code with a malicious install script that ran a remote shell script with root privileges, discovered by the community on October 13. Arch Linux maintainers banned the account and removed the malicious uploads after users flagged them on the project's mailing list.
A technical walkthrough demonstrates how C++26 introduces built-in 'contracts' syntax, letting developers express function preconditions directly in a function's signature using pre(...), rather than relying on assert() calls buried inside the implementation. The example shows a get_value function checking that an index is within a vector's bounds, with the condition visible in both declaration and definition.
B&H Photo is offering Sony's WH-1000XM6 noise-canceling headphones in silver for $328, a $130 discount, as part of its Deals of the Day promotion running through the rest of today. The price undercuts what Amazon and Best Buy have charged even during seasonal sales, including the recent Prime Day event.