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Daylight saving time in the US ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1, when clocks shift back an hour to standard time. It will resume at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 14, 2027, under the twice-yearly schedule set by the Uniform Time Act of 1966.
In a newly published full TIME interview, Apple CEO John Ternus discussed his relationship with the company's design teams, saying he has worked closely with industrial designers since joining Apple. He described design as central to Apple's culture, noting that designers and engineers collaborate from the earliest stages rather than working in isolation from one another.
Industry analysis highlights that video service providers now need infrastructure capable of both real-time livestreaming and traditional on-demand delivery via CDNs. The piece cites Rethink Research data showing livestreamed video traffic is set to exceed on-demand traffic soon, driven by interactive live experiences like sports, esports, concerts, gaming, and livestream shopping.
An industry resource hub is promoting content on edge AI applications for smart cities, framed around moving from passive data insight to automated 'cognitive action.' Access requires users to register a profile and log in before viewing the full material.
Mistral has released Timestral, its first family of time-series foundation models, with sizes ranging from 5M to 209M parameters. The company says its largest 209M-parameter model tops all three major public benchmarks—GIFT-Eval, TIME, and fev-bench—surpassing previous state-of-the-art models that used more parameters. The models produce probabilistic, multivariate forecasts and support both past and known-future covariates, with fine-tuning available through Mistral Forge.
A Show HN post presents a chronological walkthrough of the Legend of Zelda timeline, tracing events from Skyward Sword through games like Minish Cap, Four Swords, A Link to the Past, Oracle of Seasons/Ages, A Link Between Worlds, Tri Force Heroes and Link's Awakening, up to Ocarina of Time. It summarizes each game's plot and how they connect across Nintendo's official branching timeline structure.
Artie, a Y Combinator-backed startup focused on real-time data streaming, has posted five open positions including enterprise account executives and senior engineers. The company describes its hiring focus as seeking candidates who prioritize craft, speed, and impact.
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures has voted to accelerate the end of leap seconds, shifting the planned retirement from 2035 to May 20, 2027. The move comes amid rising odds—estimated at 30% by 2035—that an unprecedented 'negative leap second' would be required to keep Coordinated Universal Time aligned with Earth's rotation.
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures announced it will stop issuing leap seconds to Coordinated Universal Time starting in May 2027, ending a practice used since 1972 to reconcile atomic clock time with Earth's slowing rotation. Since 1972, 32 leap seconds have been added, with the last one inserted in 2016.
The podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out released an episode featuring two short clips from Wu-Tang Clan's famously restricted album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, played at a listening event organized with current owner PleasrDAO. Wu-Tang member Method Man heard the album for the first time at the event, and his recorded reaction is included in the episode.
Michael Dell said Dell Technologies relies on just-in-time manufacturing rather than accumulating long-term debt to fund AI infrastructure projects, unlike many other tech firms. He drew on his experience surviving the dot-com bust to explain the company's approach to managing risk amid heavy industry investment in AI.
Productivity writer Ben Meer has shared five insights from his new book, 'How to Be Good at Life: Simple Systems to Achieve More and Stress Less.' The insights center on a short Sunday planning routine Meer says can make the rest of the week easier to manage.