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A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

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Lily JamaliTechnology correspondent, San FranciscoGetty ImagesSilicon Valley is home to many major tech firms, including Apple's circular headquartersAt OpenAI's DevDay this week, OpenAI boss Sam Altman did what American tech bosses rarely do these days: he actually answered questions from reporters."I know it's tempting to write the bubble story," Mr Altman told me as he sat flanked by his top lieutenants. "In fact, there are many parts of AI that I think are kind of bubbly right now."In Silicon Valley, the debate over whether AI companies are overvalued has taken on a new urgency. Sceptics are privately - and some…

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Verge Genomics (YC S15) Is Hiring for Multiple Engineering and Product Roles

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Verge is using AI to develop better drugs faster. We are one of the few AI drug discovery companies to advance from data to clinic – delivering two new AI-derived drugs in the last three years, discovered using our industry-leading proprietary datasets and tooling. Along the way, we've signed commercial partnerships with Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca totaling $1.6B in contract value and $67M in near-term cash.We're hiring for the following roles on our platform team:* Head of Product & Engineering* Principal Full-Stack Engineer (Django)* Senior Computational Biologist (AI/ML)* Senior Data EngineerPlease apply through our careers page, and mention Hacker News…

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Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26

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Summary:  iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions. With iOS 26, Apple seems to be leaning harder into visual design and decorative UI effects — but at what cost to usability? At first glance, the system looks fluid and modern. But try to use it, and soon those shimmering surfaces and animated controls start to get in the way. Let’s strip back the frost and look at how these changes affect real use. Liquid Glass: Apple’s New Visual Language iOS 26 introduces Apple’s new…

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Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”

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from the ice-is-not-a-marginalized-group dept Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to redefine “protected class” in a way that would make Orwell proud. According to internal correspondence obtained by Migrant Insider, Apple has removed the DeICER app—which allowed users to log sightings of ICE enforcement activity—by invoking guidelines normally reserved for protecting marginalized communities from hate speech. Apple justified this by treating federal immigration agents as a protected class equivalent to groups protected from discrimination based on “religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin.” According to internal correspondence reviewed by Migrant Insider,…

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Backlash as new EU political ad rules kick in – POLITICO

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The new law on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising, which kicked in on Friday, brings new restrictions and transparency requirements for paid political ads. Since the law was agreed, Google, Meta and Microsoft have all opted to stop showing political ads in the EU altogether. “Smaller, newer parties and independent candidates will lose an affordable channel to reach voters, while large, well-followed accounts remain largely unaffected,” said liberal Slovak EU lawmaker Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová. “That shift risks narrowing who can be heard and makes campaigning harder for newcomers.” She said that by axing political advertising, platforms are “taking the…

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I’m in Vibe Code Hell

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When I started thinking about the problems with coding education in 2019, “tutorial hell” was enemy number one. You’d know you were living in it if you: Successfully followed plenty of tutorials, but couldn’t build anything on your own Spent more time watching videos about programming than actually programming Had flash-card level knowledge of many technologies, but didn’t understand anything under the hood Students would watch (or fall asleep to) 6-hour videos, code along in their own editors, feel like they got it, and then freeze up the moment they had to write anything from scratch. Classic tutorial hell. That’s…

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Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund

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Igalia is excited to announce a new commission from the Sovereign Tech Fund to advance the Servo web engine. As stewards of Servo, Igalia is honored to receive support for a multi-pronged effort focused on public interest, developer usability, and long-term sustainability. Servo is a modern, parallelized web engine written in Rust, a Linux Foundation Europe project which Igalia has been actively maintaining since 2023, Servo represents a bold rethinking of browser architecture. Its modular design has made it a valuable resource across the Rust ecosystem. But like many promising open source technologies, Servo needs sustained investment to reach its…

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EU lawmakers push to ban term ‘veggie-burger’

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BRUSSELS, Oct 8 (Reuters) - EU lawmakers voted on Wednesday to ban the use of the term "veggie-burger" and limit food descriptions such as steak, escalope and sausage to products containing meat, part of a proposed EU law to protect farmers.Lawmakers at the European Parliament voted by 355 to 247 in favour of an amendment to a regulation designed to give farmers a stronger negotiating position so that powerful companies in the food supply chain do not impose unfavourable conditions. Sign up here.The text of the final regulation will follow negotiations between representatives of the Parliament, EU governments and the…

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My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects – Mitchell Hashimoto

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Whether it's building a new project from scratch, implementing a big feature, or beginning a large refactor, it can be difficult to stay motivated and complete large technical projects. A method that works really well for me is to continuously see real results and to order my work based on that. We've all experienced that feeling of excitement starting a new project. The first few weeks you can't wait to get on the computer to work. Then slowly over time you get distracted or make up excuses and work on it less. If this is for real work, you forcibly…

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Apple Took Down These ICE-Tracking Apps. The Developers Aren’t Giving Up

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Legal experts WIRED spoke with say that the ICE monitoring and documentation apps that Apple has removed from its App Store are clear examples of protected speech under the US Constitution’s First Amendment. “These apps are publishing constitutionally protected speech. They're publishing truthful information about matters of public interest that people obtained just by witnessing public events,” says David Greene, a civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.This hasn’t stopped the Trump administration from attacking the developers behind these ICE-related apps. When ICEBlock first rose to a top spot in Apple’s App Store in April, the Trump administration responded…

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