America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
October 25, 2026
The best of what first appeared in the trends on this day (UTC).
rddmwmddr/android-ad-cleaner
关掉国产安卓手机系统里的广告、热搜、资讯推荐和营销推送。不 root，可还原，支持 AI 智能体一键执行。
The Slurptop: A home-built luggable that runs on power tool batteries
My x86-64 artisinal, hand-crafted, bespoke cyberdeck laptop.
Kimi K3.1 Pro's debut draws scrutiny over allegations that influencers were asked to promote the model without disclosing a commercial relationship to Moonshot
That's because Kimi K3.1 Pro scores so high on third-party benchmarks — according to both Moonshot and third-party AI model …
From overeliciting to undereliciting LLM propensities in just a few months
For a while, we felt we had a pretty good grasp over LLM behaviour because we had to exert significant effort to elicit misaligned behaviour. Then, fairly suddenly, we moved to undereliciting misaligned behaviour. Let us recount: * There w…
A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
I am a dermatologist. I tested the ability of GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 to diagnosis skin cancer and found that they were less accurate than I expected. I compared to a 10-year old CNN and to my surprise found that this was superior.
morganlinton/BeautifulRust
A Claude Code plugin that teaches Claude to write idiomatic, robust Rust
Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
Sleeping Giants and CTRL-Z sent evidence to Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court today showing Meta AI continues to spontaneously link Lula to negative content
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
With today's news, I thought I'd share this great program: “When I was growing up in the hills of East Tennessee, I knew my dreams would come true. I know there are children in your community with their own dreams. They dream of becoming a…
Elon Musk says SpaceX closed $40B in GPU debt, debt markets have shut off credit for AI data center firms, and 200+ neoclouds face “death and consolidation”
Pretty much. As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn't have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers. SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we're…
Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
Eugene-based Double Sided Media requested police officer Justin Peckels’s records. The city slapped the publication with an exorbitant fee.
Control monitors need alignment assessments too
TL;DR: * When misalignment monitors fail, it is already often because of alignment failures, not because they are too weak. I expect this to continue in the future. * Monitor evals share similar difficulties with agent alignment evals - wh…
lyramakesmusic/neuron-explorer
Steering-first neuron explorer for Qwen3.5-4B: push every MLP neuron, keep every rollout, browse the results
Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Learn how Cerebras maps trillion-parameter frontier models across WSE-3T wafers to deliver scalable inference at 1,000–2,000+ tokens per second.
Personal Experience Does Not A Study of China Make
I am often skeptical of arguments about China that rely heavily on personal experience. The author may explicitly acknowledge that their experience is limited without appropriately treating their arguments with rigor beforehand. This ackno…
Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you
Ok, I just checked this, and its literally running a freaking TensorFlow Lite model on 960×540 images with INT8 quantization every couple of seconds in an attempt to figure out what game you are playing. It's literally called…
Sources: Apple tweaked macOS for its OLED touch MacBook Pro, due Wednesday, with a dynamic interface that adapts to whether touch or the trackpad was last used
Also: The company rolls out a retail store tool to reduce wasted inventory. — Apple's touch-screen MacBook Pro will arrive on Wednesday …
udhaykumarbala/cleanyourtv-app
A community-built phone app for Clean Your TV: clean up an Android TV from your phone. No laptop, no coding agent, nothing uninstalled.
AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework
Richard Borcherds, a UC Berkeley professor and Fields medalist, no longer grades his students’ homework. After seeing how many of his students used AI to consistently receive top scores, he
mizorewww/gdirect
Rust Google Drive direct downloader using pinned libaria2
fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine
fheroes2 is a recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine - ihhub/fheroes2
When a glibc update accidentally breaks Chromium's audio (2021)
A few weeks ago, I updated the Chromium Flatpak to use runtime version 21.08. I had given it some testing without running into any issues, plus Chrome, Brave, and Edge were all already on runtime 21.08, thus it seemed like an easy change…
JetBrains Thinkrail
Vibe code with pi in a lightweight, real IDE that customises itself around the way you work — The Vibe You Need - JetBrains/thinkrail
San Francisco State University in Twilight
> You will agree that for a woman who has fought three duels, all of them kills, indulging in such fears is ludicrous. But what's around the corner now is a duel so big that I don't think I have the guts for it; in Faust's words: Verweile…
Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs
A fun little project that came out of a creative exercise around the word 'Overgrowth'.
Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness
GVS5H: Five Qwen3.8-27B Models Match Claude Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard | Fable 5 Level Coding for a Fifth the Price - or on a Single GPU - slee-persis/GVS5H
MacOS Extensions pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0
By now regular readers of this blog are quite familiar with my affection for the 1996 Apple Network Server, Apple's Unix-through-and-thro...
Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report
The messages, reported by a Brazilian daily, say the platform recommended Bolsonaro's profile and his WhatsApp channel.
LSEG agrees to acquire Octus, an NY-based provider of credit intelligence, data, and workflow software, from Permira and Octus' management for $3.54B in cash
The group said the acquisition would transform its presence in credit and private markets data — London Stock Exchange Group …
How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made
This workshop founded in 1882 still makes dried bonito like they did back in the Edo period. How katsuobushi — Japanese dried bonito, said to be the world’s har
DenisSergeevitch/ex-ussr-kinship-research
Evidence-first genealogy skill for AI agents (Codex, Claude Code): church books, civil, military, deportation and repression records across the former USSR. Replies in your language.
Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles
I was playing around with visualising the S&P 500 by market cap and decided to add employees to each company's bubble. What surprised me was how empty some of the biggest companies looked. Nvidia is worth $5.2 trillion but employs only 42,…
Instagram launches an Apple TV app for watching Reels, longer videos, and live shows; the app previously launched on Fire TV, Google TV, and Samsung smart TVs
Instagram is now available on the Apple TV, bringing Reels, longer videos, and live shows via the platform to Apple's streaming device for the first time.
Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505
Explored, page by page. A non-commercial passion project exploring the Nuremberg house book of Martin Löffelholz, begun in 1505.
Is GPT 2XL already clean?
In which I investigate if Opus is able to interpret neurons better than GPT 4. TLDR: Opus 5.5 is able to identify 3-19% of the neurons of GPT 2-XL based on activations. This is a big improvement over the 0.3% that GPT-4 was able to achieve…
France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms
Deux jours avant la manifestation du 24 octobre, le Premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu a demandé à Orange, SFR, Free et Bouygues Telecom de se tenir prêts à couper l’accès à TikTok, Instagram,Snapchat et X. Blast révèle la lettre et le…
A vision for a next-generation timeline
Slides: https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/media/matrix-conference-2026/submissions/WRGTRX/resources/sli_ZZVyXQu.pdf
Samsung TVs look for microphones in your house via Bluetooth and then spy events
Samsung TVs look for microphones in your house via Bluetooth and then spy events like dogs barking or babies crying. They also spy what you do on YouTube and other apps. Thanks abliterated DeepSeek.
Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset
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Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics
From social media platforms to payment processors, new restrictions are making it harder for webcomic artists to exist
Amazon's "digital pacifier" for toddlers
Amazon released new touchscreen tablets last week marketed specifically for toddlers to use, even as a growing body of pediatric research links such devices to developmental problems, emotional dysregulation, and poor eyesight.
SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller
An accelerated FAST feature detector for the ESP32-S3 leveraging 128-bit SIMD instructions, achieving ~2x the performance of the reference implementation.
I Built a Stereo Vision Board for Hardware Hackers
This article was written entirely by a human, for humans. I tend to get excited about certain chips. This time, it was a microprocessor: The Rockchip …
The State of Context Engineering
As models improve, they bring surprising challenges for those building apps and harnesses. How context engineering has changed this year, and where it’s headed.