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Shopify is migrating its mobile apps off React Native and back to Swift and Kotlin, and the stated reason is that coding models got dramatically better. The company argues LLM agents now absorb enough of the implementation, testing, and review cost that maintaining two native codebases is cheaper than it used to be, flipping the economics that justified cross-platform in the first place. They rebuilt the Shop app in twelve weeks with AI assistance as proof.
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A second researcher has publicly accused OpenAI of ingesting user conversations and then presenting derived ideas as original research breakthroughs. The thread includes reports of ChatGPT surfacing a researcher's own months-old unpublished work back at them, and mathematicians worrying that private problem discussions are showing up without attribution. Nothing is proven, but the pattern is now being alleged by more than one person.
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Amazon is opening ChatGPT ad inventory to its advertisers, bought through Amazon DSP as a managed service on both CPC and CPM. It's a US pilot with select brands including Delta Vacations, landing as OpenAI's ad business reportedly hits a billion-dollar annualized run rate against roughly 900 million weekly users. The retail-media giant just became a distribution channel for the chatbot ad market.
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A longtime HN user reports turning off the "allow training" toggle in ChatGPT repeatedly, only to find it switched back on. The thread splits between people confirming the same thing, people whose settings stayed off, and a loud contingent questioning whether the checkbox does anything at all. Sitting near the top of the front page alongside the research-attribution story, which is not a great pairing for OpenAI today.
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Bending Spoons has agreed to acquire the whiteboard collaboration company Miro at a $1.355 billion enterprise value, roughly $1.79 billion in equity value, all cash. Certain Miro shareholders are rolling $295 million of proceeds back into Bending Spoons stock, and the deal is slated to close in Q4 2026 pending regulators. CEO Luca Ferrari says they intend to own and operate it long term.
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Rust has officially been designated a Tier-1 language at Microsoft, putting it on the same internal footing as C++, C#, and TypeScript. That means secure toolchain builds, first-class developer tooling, deep platform integration, and compliance support. The headline technical piece is rustc_codegen_utc, a new backend wiring Rust into Microsoft's native MSVC compiler for real Rust and C++ interop on Windows.
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Four California consumers are suing Sony, arguing the PlayStation Store's "Buy Now" language misleads buyers who actually receive a revocable license, under California's AB 2426. Sony's defense is that no reasonable consumer would be misled, so someone catalogued Sony's own support pages telling customers how to upgrade "the digital PS4 game you already own." It's a receipts-based rebuttal to a corporate legal position.
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Hitachi Global Life Solutions is bringing its Y-series EcoCute CO2 heat pump water heaters to the Japanese market starting November 2026, in 370-liter and 460-liter configurations with direct mains-pressure delivery. The upgrade is smarter tariff handling that steers heating into daytime hours to soak up rooftop solar, plus home energy management system connectivity over wireless adapters. Five-year warranty on the heat pump, tank, and specified components.
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Raymond Chen digs up the code behind that little chess piece or soccer ball XP assigned you at setup. It's a one-pass reservoir sampling variant using RtlRandomEx seeded from GetTickCount, chosen to minimize filesystem calls and stay correct if files appeared or vanished mid-enumeration. It also bails after sampling 100 pictures so nobody could tank setup by dumping a huge folder in there.
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Survey data shows spouses and partners are the overwhelming first choice of confidant across every religious group, at roughly 80 percent comfort. Most Americans are more comfortable opening up to a therapist than to clergy, with evangelicals the lone exception, leaning slightly toward their pastor. The sharpest split is political: Republican identification correlates strongly with lower comfort toward therapists, suggesting mental healthcare has become another axis of political sorting.
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