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Amdocs shares nosedive on legal bust-up with T-Mobile

Shares in the software company plunge in Frankfurt after a legal dispute with T-Mobile forces Amdocs to lower its outlook.

Light Reading · EN

AT&T, Rakuten tout integration with Starlink rival AST SpaceMobile for D2D services

AT&T makes first call handoff to satellite with AST SpaceMobile and prepares for beta service, while Rakuten targets commercial launch in 'near future.'

Light Reading · EN

‘There Is One Fight’: American Voters Reject Tech Oligarchy

Tuesday's election was a wholesale rejection of Silicon Valley's worldview and AI-powered kleptocracy.

404 Media · EN

Pluralistic: The AI fatfinger economy has come for my receipts app (04 Nov 2026)

Today's links The AI fatfinger economy has come for my receipts app: Every heretofore useful button now summons a useless AI genie. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Army Times v Rumsfeld; RIAA v soccer mom; Skateboard truck table; Internet scare-story prof won't show her workings; IoT botnet v Liberia; BLM v TPP. Upcoming appearances: Kilkenny, Courtenay, Vancouver, Folkestone, Oxford, Sheffield, Virtual, Oxford, Montreal. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.

Cory Doctorow Pluralistic · EN

Understanding Software PLCs: Architecture, Execution, and Security Boundaries

Explore software PLC architecture, deployment, control logic, program execution, engineering workflows, and the security boundaries that shape their protection.

Hacker Noon · EN

AI-search Results Are Emerging As An Important Influencer and Creator Discovery Tool

Creator discovery is no longer just about winning Instagram, TikTok, or Google. Brands and agencies increasingly use AI tools to identify creators.

Hacker Noon · EN

The Prompt Engineering Trick That Could Be Making Your AI Slower

A study of expert persona prompting on cost and speed.

Hacker Noon · EN

Agent Graph Engineering, Part 5: How to Build Safer AI Agents With Structured Errors and Guardrails

Two edges, one idea: constrain the model declaratively rather than by inspecting what it produced.

Hacker Noon · EN

How I Built an AI-Powered Hacker News Book Recommendation Site in 2.5 Hours

Karpathy built HackerTube in about 2 hours with Claude Code. I rebuilt it for books with Cursor. Here's my honest time, cost, and everything that broke.

Hacker Noon · EN

Audio8-TTS-Realistic-Air: Edge0's 0.6B Multilingual Text-to-Speech Model Explained

Learn how Audio8-TTS-Realistic-Air works, including its features, technical specifications, benchmarks, limitations, and voice cloning capabilities.

Hacker Noon · EN

A One-Line JavaScript Bug Broke My GA4 Tracking for Five Months

one-line JavaScript bug silently broke GA4 conversion tracking for five months. Learn how to detect missing events, fix gtag.js, and verify your data.

Hacker Noon · EN

Your GitHub Actions Cron Job Can Disappear Without Failing

Learn how to make GitHub Actions scheduled workflows more reliable with automated QA, Slack reporting, duplicate prevention, and watchdog monitoring.

Hacker Noon · EN

Commemorating the death of Albin Egger-Lienz: work and war

How this Austrian artist's painting changed through years before the First World War, then the carnage of that conflict, and its aftermath.

The Eclectic Light Company · EN

(Podcast) Designed in California 16: Shades of White (Part 4, Origin of the iPod)

Just in the nick of time, the design of the iPod begins to emerge—but will Steve Jobs give it his seal of approval? And Apple designer Jony Ive turns away from the brightly colored plastic that made his name and learns to love pure white.…

Six Colors · EN

Siri AI’s Evolution Is Both Surprising and Obvious

Siri AI in iOS 27.3 beta. As part of the release of the 27.3 developer betas yesterday, Apple announced a substantial expansion of the capabilities of Siri AI. As you recall from my iOS 27 review two months ago, Siri AI launched with support for a limited subset of app domains based on schemas that […]

MacStories · EN

Google Photos now lets you turn off background music in Memories

In an update, Google Photos is making it possible to fully disable background music in Memories. more…

9to5Google · EN

How to get access to Sonos AI features, as company aims to avoid another app disaster

When Sonos tried a major app update two years ago, things did not go well. Much-loved features disappeared, older speakers experienced connection problems, and accessibility features were broken. That debacle saw the company’s CEO fired. The company is taking a much more cautious approach as it moves into the AI era with a Sonos 27voice update, enabling natural-language voice control via Hey Sonos requests … more…

9to5Mac · EN

Apple still charging 300% of costs on iPhone storage upgrades, says WSJ

Opting for more RAM or storage when buying Apple devices has always been an expensive business, with the company famously charging huge markups. Apple said in its most recent earnings report that even after the price increases, its margins are being squeezed by higher component costs. But an analysis suggests that the company is still charging three times its own costs for higher storage tiers on the iPhone 18 Pro … more…

9to5Mac · EN

More ads coming to Reddit, platform will evaluate how users respond

You can expect to see more ads in the Reddit app as the platform begins placing them in search results. The company says that it will be evaluating how users respond to the development … more…

9to5Mac · EN

iOS 27.3 adds CarPlay redesign for Apple Music, here’s what’s new

iOS 27.3 is packed with new features for iPhone, and it also includes a noteworthy CarPlay change: a redesign of the Apple Music app. more…

9to5Mac · EN

Linux 7.4’s Merge Window is Huge, and Linus Says it Might Not Just Be AI

Another possible factor is that people expect 7.4 to be the next LTS release.

It's FOSS · EN

Local AI Weekly #8: All Your RAM Are Belong to Us

Sam Altman thinks the RAM in your PC would be better off in a data center.

It's FOSS · EN

AMD Releases ZenDNN 6.1 With New Kernels & Optimizations

Last month Intel and AMD jointly announced they would be collaborating on software optimizations with PyTorch/oneDNN. That already led to the UXL Foundation's release of oneDNN 3.14 with initial AMD Zen optimizations. It looks though like for now at least AMD will also continue to concurrently push new work into their ZenDNN library and not exclusively tied to oneDNN. Out today is ZenDNN 6.1...

Phoronix · EN

Experimental Project Gets Intel XeSS On XMX Working With Valve's Steam Play (Proton)

Last month I wrote about Intel working on adding proper XeSS support to Steam Play (Proton). While those efforts haven't yet been completed for benefiting Linux gamers running Intel Arc Graphics, in the meantime an independent open-source developer has managed to get XMX-accelerated XeSS working under Proton...

Phoronix · EN