Prism
Linux 7.3 Released
The Linux 7.3 kernel has been released on a Sunday afternoon, with the announcement noting no random delay.
Prism
Netflix vmaf: Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion
Netflix has released a new generation of VMAF models, version 1 (v1), as of June 2026. VMAF is an Emmy-winning perceptual video quality assessment algorithm.
Crypto
Qubic freezes chain after attacker drains 1.4K wallets with weak seeds
Qubic halted its layer-1 blockchain Sunday after an attacker exploited weak wallet seeds to drain about $1.4 million from over 1,400 accounts.
Statecraft
SEC tokenized stock framework faces issuer pushback as Broadcom, Verizon object to OKX-ICE listing
Broadcom, Verizon and UnitedHealth are among nine companies objecting to having their shares traded on OKXICE’s planned tokenized-stock platform.
Prism
Zcash developers plan a fix to keep ZEC swaps private from future quantum computers
Zcash developers behind Zakura have proposed giving every ZEC swap through NEAR Intents its own viewing key.
AI
A Savannah police officer gave her Flock login to her ICE agent husband
Former Savannah Police Department officer Amber Harpe was fired in August after an internal investigation found she shared her Flock Safety login credentials with her husband, Tyler Harpe, an ICE agent.
AI
Kylie Minogue songs already used to train AI as tech firms ‘strong-arm’ Australian government, music body warns
The International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) says AI has trained on works by Australian artists including Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave without compensation.
AI
Llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1
llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 was released on 18 October 2026. This patch update fixes compatibility with LLM 0.3, which switched to the httpx2 HTTP client library.
Crypto
Richard Heart caught ‘off-guard,’ QDay gets even closer: Hodler’s Digest
HEX founder Richard Schueler, known as Richard Heart, was detained in an Istanbul raid on October 14.
AI
Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare
A new open-source server called WhatsApp MCP lets AI agents read and search a user’s WhatsApp messages running in a Cloudflare account.