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China's AI race collides with a deep technology-market selloff
Chinese technology shares have lost trillions of dollars as weak demand, export controls and doubts about near-term AI profits weigh on investors.
Developer recounts the hidden autoplay bug behind Google's Pac-Man doodle
Vela Linux desktop reaches first beta release
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Prospero offers a lightweight desktop harness for local coding models
A developer has released Prospero, a C++ coding assistant interface designed to connect to user-supplied local or hosted language models while keeping resource use low.
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Researchers detail ChatGPT shared-link flaw that exposed private conversations
Parameter AI says OpenAI fixed a high-severity vulnerability that could let a malicious shared conversation run code inside a signed-in user's ChatGPT session.
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Residential cruise ends in Cambodia after operator cites fuel-cost surge
Villa Vie Residences told passengers to leave the MV Odyssey in Sihanoukville as it evaluates restructuring and new financing.
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Analysis of Hacker News requests finds privacy tools remain in demand
A new project classified 12,441 software requests posted since 2008 and found users repeatedly ask for products that have already been built.
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Polish court leadership dispute draws president back from Senegal
Riot police deployed around the Constitutional Tribunal after its president was suspended and the court denounced the move as a judicial coup.
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Italy-wide general strike brings mass protests and clashes in major cities
Demonstrators marched over living costs and military spending, while police and protesters clashed in Rome and Turin during the October 30 mobilization.
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AI automation raises deskilling concern for site reliability teams
A SigNoz analysis argues that automating routine incident work may leave engineers less prepared for rare, complex outages.
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Hosting provider rejects ICE-linked takedown request for personnel reference site
FlokiNET says it refused a contractor's request targeting Icepick, while the site's original domain was separately suspended at registrar level.
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El Salvador Deploys More Than 2,000 Troops to Haiti Search
The force is seeking four Salvadoran military technicians missing after an ambush while also supporting operations against armed gangs.
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Politics
Power, policy and the institutions shaping public life.
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France sees third weekend of nationwide cost-of-living protests
Authorities counted 320,000 demonstrators and more than 290 arrests as largely peaceful marches ended in clashes in several cities.
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Business
Markets, companies and the decisions moving global capital.
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Bank of Canada raises policy rate to 2.5% as energy costs threaten broader inflation
The quarter-point increase is Canada’s first rate rise since July 2023, with the central bank seeking to stop higher fuel costs spreading through the economy.
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Technology
AI, platforms, cybersecurity and the systems shaping what comes next.
All technology →China's AI race collides with a deep technology-market selloff
Chinese technology shares have lost trillions of dollars as weak demand, export controls and doubts about near-term AI profits weigh on investors.
NTN desk
Science
Research, health and discoveries with real-world consequence.
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WMO says greenhouse gas concentrations reached new highs in 2025
Carbon dioxide averaged 426.8 parts per million as the UN weather agency warned that long-lived gases will sustain warming for decades.
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Climate
A changing planet, extreme events and the global response.
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Four Killed in Italian Chinook Crash During EUFOR Mission in Bosnia
Eleven others were injured when the military transport helicopter crashed near Brčko during a routine operation.
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Culture
Ideas, media and the people changing how the world sees itself.
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Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
The Swedish Academy honored the Canadian poet, essayist, translator and classicist for an inventive body of work that crosses genres and reimagines ancient literature.
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Sports
Competition, institutions and the stories beyond the result.
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Sovereignty captures $7 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland
Junior Alvarado guided the defending horse-of-the-year past Knightsbridge before holding off The Puma by 1¾ lengths in Lexington.
