Key indicator dropped about 20% after the Reserve Bank last month announced the highest interest rates since 2011Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian households are the most persistently …
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World
In today’s newsletter: The party has voted to define Zionism as racist and back a single Palestinian state. But what does the policy mean, why has it caused alarm among Jewish members, and how will it impact the future o…
A young mother has lost two husbands and two children during Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.
The Manchester City star asked to be substituted and was replaced in the 67th minute of the 2-1 defeat in Porto.
International leaders visit Tuvalu as part of climate talks co-hosted by Australia ahead of Cop31 conferencePacific island leaders have urged a promised global transition away from fossil fuels must not be left open to r…
British banker Simon Andriesz helped to expose alleged ties between late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and US commerce secretary Howard LutnickA top UK regulator has launched an investigation into how it handled a whistle…
Civilians try to flee as men and boys rounded up on streets by new alliance as Ethiopia conflict erupts againAs renewed fighting has threatened a fresh humanitarian crisis in the northern region of Ethiopia, reports are …
Police have said it is “strongly suspected” that the incident was caused by a gas leak.
Protesters in Barcelona set fires, built barricades and hurled projectiles as violence erupted at a housing protest.
Parti Quebecois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon vows a future referendum on independence from Canada.
Mark Steele says he is ‘ashamed to be associated’ with the RSPCA Certified scheme, which badges 97% of chicken sold in AustraliaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastRSPCA New South Wales’s vice-pres…
Members of Mexican and Colombian cartels are reportedly joining Ukraine’s International Legion to learn drone warfare.
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Business
Top executive Jason Kwon tells hearing company has added "more precautions" to its training environments.
The threshold at which people start paying the higher income tax rate is also expected to increase.
Applications are being denied despite a change to make it easier, Jersey Consumer Council says.
Shoppers can access a wealth of budget-friendly groceries at the new social supermarket.
The world's fastest growing major economy has one of the worst performing major equity markets in 2026.
A growing number of parents are opening retirement funds for their children.
Lucid delivered 3,806 EVs and produced 2,954 vehicles during the third quarter. That compared with 4,078 deliveries on production of 3,891 vehicles a year earlier.
Pascal Soriot spoke exclusively with CNBC from the site of AstraZeneca's new $1 billion R&D facility in Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Party has common enemy in defectors, while Nigel Farage’s woes have given some insiders reason to hopeDuring a quick-fire Q&A at the Conservative party conference this weekend, Kemi Badenoch was asked who she would pick …
PepsiCo initiated class II recall of 28oz bottles last month over ‘undeclared’ yellow dyes, FDA notice saysAbout 122,000 cases of the popular sports drink Gatorade have been voluntarily recalled across 37 US states due t…
Party’s pledge to reduce aid budget from £9bn a year to £1bn to fund new prison places branded as ‘posturing’Conservative plans to slash the aid budget by 90% would leave the UK unable to cover existing contributions to …
The Conservatives blame their failures on abandoning their 1976 principles. But the country needs investment and resilience rather than another round of spending cutsThe Conservative party wants to go back to the future …
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IT / AI
The "old" version of Cowork runs model inference in the cloud, executing tool calls in an Anthropic-provided VM we shipped to your computer. We added the VM for capability, safety, and security reasons - mapping in just …
Google may be expanding its "Call for Me" AI feature beyond business calls so you can use it to send messages to friends and family. Android Authority reports finding a "Gemini Calling" introductory screen in an APK tear…
Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971846 Points: 347 # Comments: 254
Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.
It’s a wild time for retro gaming. Thanks to decompilations and recompilations of classic titles, those games are becoming unshackled from their proprietary code and original hardware to be ported to new devices or updat…
The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum and robo-mop, and it's also now the first to escape the FCC's Roomba ban. Well, sort of - because the Matic wasn't banned to begin with. Here's what's actually happening: On October…
Article URL: https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970667 Points: 261 # Comments: 180
Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
Prices of public records tracking cops' use of Flock go up as backlash swells.
People in Utah can now use AI to get a prescription for acne treatment. On Monday, healthcare startup Nolla Health announced that users in the state can scan their faces using its app, allowing its AI system to analyze a…
This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current systems to be capable of…
Article URL: https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969183 Points: 211 # Comments: 58
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Film
EXCLUSIVE: Raj Shamani, who hosts the hit Figuring Out podcast that has featured guests including Emmanuel Macron and Bill Gates, has signed with WME. The Indian entrepreneur, investor and author has signed in all areas.…
Michael Douglas is wading into the “nepo baby” debate. The “Wall Street” actor, who is the son of the late Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas, opened up on a recent episode of the Smartless podcast and said the title “really …
It’s been an encouraging year for South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), which has received recognition from the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF) and also been designated a…
On Sunday night, John Oliver dedicated the majority of his Emmy-winning show “Last Week Tonight” to the Secret Service’s failings in recent years while declining to address the major media news of the week: David Ellison…
"Artificial" is a brilliant but playful docudrama, meticulously true to history, that focuses on the founders of OpenAI, notably its CEO Sam Altman (Andrew Garfield). But the tale it tells is much larger than that. "Arti…
Jim Bakker, the televangelist who built a media empire with former wife Tammy Faye Bakker, has died. He was 86. In a social media post, Bakker’s wife Lori Bakker shared the news of his death. “It is with a broken heart t…
Andrew Garfield says he prepared “day in and day out” for months to play Sam Altman, “listening and watching footage of him … trying to find my version of that character.” Where he landed on the co-founder and CEO of Ope…
Andrew Garfield admits he was initially charmed by Sam Altman before he portrayed the controversial CEO of OpenAI in director Luca Guadagnino’s new film “Artificial.” “I remember seeing Sam testifying to Congress for the…
Casey Bloys’ new role at a new company comes with a new contract too. Deadline has confirmed that Bloys, named earlier today Co-Chair and Chief Content Officer, Skydance DTC, has signed a multi-year extension to his curr…
Reverberations from the historic combination of Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery are now being felt overseas. Despite a Monday report claiming international executive Kevin MacLellan was close to clinching the top job…
Artificial, which had its world premiere Monday at the New York Film Festival, certainly comes in with a bit of controversy attached. Produced and made under Amazon MGM Studios, the Luca Guadagnino film about the origin …
Amy Poehler’s Good Hang won the inaugural award for Best Podcast at this year’s Golden Globes. The awards show has now revealed the list of 30 eligible podcasts for its second award, to be handed out on Sunday, January 1…
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