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How Spotify's Discover Weekly makes recommendations: a mix of collaborative filtering, natural language processing, and analyzing raw audio tracks — The science behind personalized music recommendations — This Monday—just like every Monday— over 100 million Spotify users found a fresh new playlist waiting for them.| Bloomberg: |
How Google's meandering, secretive, non-committal robotics efforts since 2013 slowed progress in the field — Its scattered, ambiguous, frequently abandoned objectives for its string of big acquisitions have hurt the whole field. — In 1982, Blade Runner introduced the world to replicants …
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Inside Alphabet's moonshot division, X, which wants to build the next Google by nurturing invention and innovation, finding radical but feasible solutions — I. The Question — A snake-robot designer, a balloon scientist, a liquid-crystals technologist, an extradimensional physicist … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Surreptitious cryptocurrency miners hide on Politifact and hundreds of other sites — Politifact is the latest and perhaps most high-profile website to have hosted code that secretly hijacks visitors' CPUs to mine cryptocurrency. Driven by a boom in cryptocoin value and a lack of protections …
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After outcry over excessive data collection, OnePlus says it will add a usage analytics opt-out to the OxygenOS setup process — OnePlus once again found itself in hot water earlier this week after an eagle-eyed developer, Chris Moore, discovered that his OnePlus smartphone was uploading a raft of information back to the company.| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
The dream of USB-C being one port and cable to replace all others is mired in confusion because of Alternate Modes and inconsistent backwards compatibility — I love the idea of USB-C: one port and one cable that can replace all other ports and cables. It sounds so simple, straightforward, and unified.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey promises to crack down on hate, violence, and harassment with “more aggressive” rules — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took to...Twitter today to promise a “more aggressive” stance in its rules and how it enforces them. The tweet storm was based in a response …
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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
T-Mobile ends unlimited LTE roaming in Canada and Mexico, will limit to 5GB per month starting November 12 — One of T-Mobile's big “uncarrier” moves was to offer international roaming data to most customers for free. However, Canada and Mexico were special cases where you'd get full-speed LTE data on most plans.
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Study: patent suit filings in East Texas dropped 60%+ in 90 days after SCOTUS limited “venue shopping” by patent trolls, compared to 90 days before the ruling — Can Delaware handle the incoming caseload? — New lawsuits are down—way down—in the mostly rural district …
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How an inmate hacker hid computers in the ceiling and used them to access the internet, the prison's internal network, and commit fraud — How an inmate hacker hid computers in the ceiling and turned the prison upside down — In the summer of 2015, Stan Transkiy was 16 years into a life sentence …
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Apple's VP of diversity apologises to staff in email over comments she made about being “a little bit frustrated” that “diversity is tagged to” minority groups — Apple's Denise Young Smith sent an apology to team members at Apple today over comments … | Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
An in-depth look at Facebook's role in eroding the informational underpinnings of democracy during the 2016 election, and why it was so hard to see it coming — In the media world, as in so many other realms, there is a sharp discontinuity in the timeline: before the 2016 election, and after.Sponsor Posts
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SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
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Update on Node.js vulnerabilities CVE-2026-111497, CVE-2026-105482, CVE-2026-105483 and CVE-2026-106069 — Overview On October 21, 2026, Node.js announced security releases for the 26.x, 24.x and 22.x release lines to fix multiple vulnerabilities.
Update on Node.js vulnerabilities CVE-2026-111497, CVE-2026-105482, CVE-2026-105483 and CVE-2026-106069 — Overview On October 21, 2026, Node.js announced security releases for the 26.x, 24.x and 22.x release lines to fix multiple vulnerabilities.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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