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Developers & Open Source · ollama/ollama Releases

v0.33.1-rc0: MLX: Qwen3.8 Flash Next support (#18032)

MLX: Qwen3.8 Flash Next support review comments

Society · BBC Technology

Xbox boss 'thinking about affordability' of next-gen console

In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Asha Sharma also discusses giving gamers digital versions of games they own.

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time

Messing with the genetic code might have gotten a bit easier to do.

AI · TechCrunch AI

Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor

Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.

World · Al Jazeera

Why a Christian group is suing the Dutch government for West Bank trade ban

The Israeli Product Centre says it has not been given enough time to sell off its stock.

Society · NPR Top Stories

Will Trump's latest beef plan make your hamburger cheaper? Not much, experts say

The proposal comes weeks before the midterm elections, when food prices and the cost of living are expected to be major issues on voters' minds.

World · Deutsche Welle

Frankfurt Airport worker dies after malaria infection

An unusual cluster of malaria cases at Frankfurt Airport infected six employees, one fatally. It is thought to have been caused by a mosquito brought in on an aircraft.

World · Deutsche Welle

Saxony-Anhalt a state dominated by the Chemical industry and a strong AfD

Saxony-Anhalt is a structurally weak, predominantly rural state. Could it become the first German state to be governed by the far-right AfD?

Developers & Open Source · Chrome Releases

Chrome Beta for Android Update

Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Beta 153 (153.0.8010.11) for Android. It's now available on Google Play . You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log . For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog , and for details on web platform updates, check here . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Chrome Release Team Google Chrome

World · Al Jazeera

Israel extends campaign against UNRWA to advance West Bank annexation

Raid on UNRWA centre exposes Israel's strategic push to erase refugee rights, seal West Bank annexation, analysts say.

AI · The Decoder

Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, targeting "ultimate cost efficiency"

Alibaba's Qwen team is previewing the Qwen4 architecture with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a mixture-of-experts model that activates just 6 out of 125 billion parameters per token. At one-ninth the training cost, it beats much larger competitors like DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Claude Opus 4.6 on coding and office benchmarks, adding more pricing pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic. The article Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, targeting "ultimate cost efficiency" appeared first on The Decoder .

AI · TechCrunch AI

Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI

Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.

Society · The Guardian Society

Flight attendant’s breast cancer was occupational disease, court rules

Sophie Lainault, who worked for Air France, wins legal case linking illness to more than 12,600 hours on flights A flight attendant in France has succeeded in having her breast cancer recognised as an occupational disease, a first for the country’s aviation industry, her lawyer and a trade union said. The ruling, which recognised that Sophie Lainault, a former flight attendant for Air France , had frequently worked at night and been exposed to passive smoking, could pave the way for similar claims, the lawyer and the CFDT union said. Continue reading...

World · Al Jazeera

Kremlin says CIA head met Russian intelligence officials, but not Putin

CIA's Ratcliffe has met with Russian intel officials in Moscow, but not President Putin; Kremlin calls talks 'positive'.

Developers & Open Source · Node.js Blog

Node.js 26.8.0 (Current)

Node.js Blog published: Node.js 26.8.0 (Current)

Developers & Open Source · Node.js Blog

Node.js 24.20.0 (LTS)

Node.js Blog published: Node.js 24.20.0 (LTS)

AI · TechCrunch AI

Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model

Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

GLM-5.3-Flash

Article URL: https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449507 Points: 658 # Comments: 307

World · Al Jazeera

Bodies of missing people found in Korea becomes national scandal

A police officer has been arrested after the bodies of four missing people were found on Jeju Island in South Korea.

World · Al Jazeera

Children in Gaza fear flying their kites after Israeli threat

A 10-year-old boy who makes kites says he is afraid to fly them after Israel threatened to treat kites as acts of war.

World · Deutsche Welle

Meta settles in US states lawsuit on teen user addiction

Meta has agreed to pay what could amount to billions of dollars and to implement platform usage limitations on young users in a lawsuit brought by US states. The challenge revolved around addiction issues and overuse.

Society · NPR Top Stories

How Dolly Parton wrote the story of a changing America

Parton, who died at 80 on Tuesday, had charm, depth, beauty, wit and radiant goodness. She was also a songwriter whose work told the story not just of country music but of the country itself.

Developers & Open Source · JetBrains Blog

AI Agents in DataGrip

The most recent DataGrip release is packed with goodies, but the headline feature is the ability to work with AI agents. Today, we dropped a new video showing you how to get the most out of this integration. Whether you prefer Claude Code, Codex, or Junie, DataGrip powers them up with database capabilities, thanks to […]

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

NovaCookies Campaigns Abuse Genuine Docusign Notifications to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing toolkit called NovaCookies that's used as a proxy to redirect Microsoft 365 sign-ins, while capturing authenticated sessions in the process. In a report shared with The Hacker News ahead of publication, Island characterized the $320/month service as a subscription-based phishing platform that