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Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's President, CEO, and board member effective immediately on November 12, ending 33 years leading the company, after reporting of extramarital affairs including one with Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed who is alleged to have acted as a Chinese intelligence asset. Megaspeed, Nvidia's main Southeast Asia partner, is under FBI and congressional investigation over whether its roughly 4.8 billion dollar stock of Nvidia GPUs was routed to Chinese firms. CFO Colette Kress steps in as interim CEO while Harvey Jones becomes the board's first-ever chair; shares fell over 4 percent on the news.
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Anthropic logged an authentication failure beginning at 09:58 UTC today that hit claude.ai, Claude Code, the Console, and Cowork. A fix went out at 11:05 UTC and the incident was marked fully resolved at 11:58 UTC. No deeper root cause was published beyond the auth layer.
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October producer prices climbed 6.5 percent year over year, the hottest reading since November 2022, up from 6.3 percent and just shy of the 6.6 percent consensus. Month over month PPI rose 0.3 percent against an expected 0.4 percent, while September was revised up from 1.3 to 1.4 percent. Hot input costs feed directly into rate expectations, which is what the venture and growth-stage crowd actually cares about.
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Fed up with a flaky vendor cloud, the author tore into a Coway Airmega IconS and found it pulling its root certificate over plain HTTP before talking MQTT. That opening let him man-in-the-middle the traffic and eventually decode the Bluetooth provisioning handshake. The payoff is a custom Home Assistant integration that talks to the fan locally, no Coway servers required.
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The piece argues Zig beats C for greenfield systems work while keeping C's close-to-the-metal philosophy, pointing to compiler-enforced error handling, slices that carry their own length, and errdefer for cleanup instead of goto chains. It's refreshingly honest about the tradeoffs. C stays more stable, more widely supported, and remains the only real option for some embedded targets and for reading UNIX source.
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A 1960 Science paper by von Foerster, Mora, and Amiot fit world population to N equals C over t-zero minus t, and the singularity landed on t-zero of 2026.87 — which is literally today. The date was also von Foerster's birthday, so the joke was baked in. Population started falling off the curve around 1993, and the real lesson was that centuries of faster-than-exponential growth were about to break, not that the world would end.
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The Haskell Foundation's Technical Leadership Committee laid out a strategy built on three pillars: developer productivity, a secure and trustworthy ecosystem, and long-term stability so decade-old code still compiles. Concrete targets include onboarding that rivals Rust and cutting GHC CI times from six hours to two. It also positions Haskell for human-in-the-loop workflows alongside responsible AI applications.
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Lonewolf is a pre-1.0, single-node XMPP server written in Rust, with clustering and full spec compliance on the roadmap. Version 0.3.0 adds federation so servers can exchange messages and presence with certificate authentication, plus direct TLS and private XML storage. Operational additions include CRL checking and configurable stanza limits.
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IceWM is an X11 window manager built around speed, simplicity, and staying out of your way, originally written by Marko Maček back in 1997. It leans hard on themes and keybindings while sipping system resources. The current release is 4.1.0 from August 6, 2026 — nearly thirty years of continuous maintenance.
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Ben Ranson of Sandstone, Minnesota invented palmfrets, an accessory that adds a fret near the wrist so a player can stop strings using the pisiform bone in the palm. The effect is that one hand can hold a bass line while the fretting fingers stay free for melody. Ranson's patent issued October 6, 2026, and he demoed prototypes on acoustic, electric, and bass at a restaurant in Fergus Falls.
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