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Intel's stock decline deepens as a broader sell-off worth $3.5 trillion spreads across chip stocks, pressuring the semiconductor sector.

GUI64 is a graphical user interface for the Commodore 64 that runs as a layer on top of the built-in Kernal ROM, offering windowed file management for floppies and SD2IEC disk images, with version 2.1 adding Windows-like and other interface variants.

WorkOS disclosed a security breach detected on October 30, 2026, in which an attacker likely using ARTEX, an AI-assisted autonomous penetration testing framework, accessed an internal API and obtained CRM and support data from its Salesforce and Snowflake instances, with no evidence that production services or application data were affected.

Anthropic's Q3 revenue reportedly reached $16.8B, but monthly growth flattened between July and September, signaling a meaningful slowdown that could temper IPO expectations and pressure AI compute providers like CoreWeave.

一篇政策评论文章呼吁SEC阻止Anthropic的IPO，指出其约9000亿美元的支出承诺、未审计的财务状况以及AI行业普遍的循环交易和财务工程问题，认为普通投资者和退休人员将承担风险。

An open-source reference kit for NVIDIA V100 SXM2 pinouts and NVLink interconnects, providing 800 canonical contacts, connection tables, and KiCad starter designs for two- and four-GPU configurations as groundwork for an open carrier board.

Apple reported fiscal Q4 2026 revenue of $114.5 billion, up 12% year over year, with record iPhone revenue and all-time high Services revenue, closing a record fiscal year of $479 billion in total revenue.

A SLAC-led team published in Science the first direct experimental proof of altermagnetism, a third magnetic phase beyond ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, by observing chirality in the spins of manganese telluride (MnTe). The discovery could enable advanced electronics, quantum technologies, memory devices, and data centers.

Ford announced the Ford Privacy Promise, an explicit commitment giving customers control over their connected-vehicle data, alongside a new education website and a survey of over 1,000 U.S. consumers about vehicle data privacy.

A former Epic Games developer argues that Valve's Steam has become an unreplaceable monopoly in PC gaming, with its 30% cut effectively siphoning money from the industry while users refuse to adopt alternatives, a situation a Newzoo analyst says is unlikely to change while Valve stays private.

Oracle filed to raise $20 billion through new stock and senior notes to finance its AI infrastructure buildout, even as shares fell 8.8% amid investor concern over its growing debt load and mounting pressure on its bonds and credit default swaps.

The Vesuvius Challenge awarded a $50K First Letters Prize after Liam Warner and Nicola Bodill recovered readable ancient text from PHerc. 306B, marking the first time writing has been seen on this scroll in 2000 years. Their ink-identification work also determined that 306B is the upper section of the scroll, making it a prime candidate for virtual unrolling.

A guest post on Terence Tao's blog by Karthik C. S., Amit Sahai, and Jie Xue reflecting on how AI forces mathematicians to reconsider the purpose and value of their work, arguing for a Platonic, 'egoless' view of mathematical discovery over one tied to individual achievement and result production.

SOML (Sindre's Objectively Marvelous Language) is a new open-source config format that combines JSON's strictness with YAML-like comfort: no braces or quotes at the top level, comments allowed anywhere, syntax-based typing, native dates/instants/durations, and a single canonical form with a conformance suite. It is currently a draft spec seeking feedback.

Ubuntu has yet to ship patched LTS kernels for critical CVE-2026-98432, a CVSS 9.8-rated Linux kernel RCE, leaving 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04 users exposed for nearly three weeks with no announced ETA for fixes.

Raymond Chen recounts sneaking into the Civic Auditorium during the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal in San Francisco, witnessing a stand-in perform for Patrick Stewart before the real host appeared at the event.

Skill Video Studio v1.0.1 is an open-source local video-production workspace driven by a Claude Code skill, using Playwright for real product capture, HyperFrames for branded composition, and FFmpeg for mastering and QA.

A math blog post arguing that the projective plane and homogeneous coordinates should be taught bottom-up, motivated by eliminating exceptional cases (like vertical lines and points at infinity) rather than presented as arbitrary abstractions, with examples from graphics programming and elliptic curve cryptography.

NIST released a lay-language cybersecurity guide, "Small Business Cybersecurity: Non-Employer Firms," tailored to solopreneurs with no technical background, drawing on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF 2.0) and updating the earlier NISTIR 7621 publication.

A reflective blog essay about a lead developer whose role has shifted from writing code to supervising an AI agent, exploring a production bug caused by server/warehouse clock desynchronization and what 'checking' work means in the age of agents.