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Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model

Score: 196 | Comments: 39

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Rivian’s CFO is leaving the company

Claire McDonough is stepping down on October 30 to pursue a new opportunity, the company said in a filing on Thursday.

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Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral

Sometimes people just want to post to their followers, Bluesky says.

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Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data

Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detection models, highlighting a privacy trade-off built into the deal.

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YouTube now lets creators tag Amazon products and earn commissions from purchases

The update turns product recommendations into a more direct revenue stream for creators, and for Amazon, the move puts its massive online marketplace inside one of the most popular video platforms.

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Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google

Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.

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GTA VI looks just as great as we could hope for

Netflix and Rockstar Games finally debuted their "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI. It showed that the new game looks to keep much of the spirit of GTA - exploration, driving, crimes, shooting, a

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Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books

Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly

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Google tells Android app developers to cool it on memory use, or else

Google will start policing memory-hungry Android apps as a direct response to the RAM crisis. Spotted by TechCrunch, the company yesterday published a memo addressing the Play Store's role in enforcin

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Gemini-3.5-Transcribe

Score: 321 | Comments: 107

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Show HN: Voronoi Go

Score: 140 | Comments: 21

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ATF declares ‘major incident’ as ransomware gang claims hack

The ATF is the latest federal government agency in recent years to notify Congress of a "major incident" involving its cybersecurity.

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We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer

Score: 268 | Comments: 231

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M5Stack Launches PaperMono

Score: 155 | Comments: 52

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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI

Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of

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Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache

Score: 824 | Comments: 243

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Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

Score: 280 | Comments: 208

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Google’s new Fitbit Air brings Pokémon Sleep to your wrist

Google teamed up with the Pokémon Company to introduce a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with the Pokémon Sleep app.

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Fashion startup Atorie raises $9.5M to bring consumers luxury goods without the markup

Shoppers can visit the Atorie website and buy handbags or clothes made from the same material — and coming from the same factory — that manufacturers use in high-end goods.

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Hoomanely’s building a smart feeding bowl and an AI platform to help owners spot when their pup is sick

Hoomanely has developed a smart bowl to measure and record dogs' feeding data, then tells owners if behaviors change.

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