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Anthropic's amended S-1 landed this morning showing roughly $17 billion in Q3 revenue — up about 1,127% year over year and 47% from Q2's $11.56 billion. The filing also discloses $895.4 billion in aggregate purchase and lease commitments, almost entirely compute and infrastructure, with about $70 billion due inside twelve months. The company swung to a $567 million operating quarterly operating loss, and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are leading the Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT.
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Meituan shipped LongCat-2.5, a natively multimodal agentic model with 1.6 trillion total parameters and roughly 48 billion active, built for long-horizon agentic work. It carries a one-million-token context window, handles text and images, supports tool calling and optional thinking, and targets agentic coding plus visual tasks like creative design and 3D. Meituan's own benchmark table claims it beats GPT-5.6-Sol on 20 of 27 shared tests — self-reported numbers, so grade accordingly.
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Robert Haas explains PostgreSQL 19's delay: back-patched commits to stable branches jumped more than 60% year over year, 1,169 in 2026 against 724 in 2025. The cause isn't declining code quality — it's a flood of people using LLMs to find real bugs in a forty-year-old codebase, plus the human review burden of validating AI-generated patches. Haas frames it as an open question about how the project sustains innovation velocity against a backlog that was previously invisible.
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Bloomberg documents the split screen in San Francisco: imminent OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs minting enormous wealth while tech employers filed layoff notices for over 14,500 Bay Area workers in the twelve months ending in June, nearly double the prior year. Demand for software engineers is down 42% since 2022 even as AI-specific roles climbed 37%. Early-career engineers are hit hardest — California employment for 22-to-25-year-olds in AI-exposed occupations is down 16.8% since ChatGPT launched, against 4.6% elsewhere.
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The Wikipedia entry traces a concept that emerged independently in security and economics: that platform giants function less like market competitors and more like feudal landlords, owning the marketplaces rather than playing in them. Bruce Schneier was making the internet-security version of this argument as far back as 2012; Marina Gorbis, Kostakis and Bauwens built the parallel economic case, and Cédric Durand and Yanis Varoufakis popularized it. The core claim is that centralized platforms enable user cooperation while appropriating essentially all the monetized exchange value.
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A sysadmin details Ubuntu leaving a critical kernel vulnerability — CVE-2026-98432, CVSS 9.8 — unpatched for over two weeks after Debian shipped a fix and nine days after a working exploit went public, forcing them to take servers offline. The post contrasts Canonical's "enterprise-grade" and "enterprise resilience" marketing, and its paid security subscriptions, with volunteer-run distros that patched faster. The author is migrating every server off Ubuntu.
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An HN reader wants a 60-to-80-inch 4K panel that isn't a surveillance device, and asks whether an Apple TV front-end meaningfully isolates the display. Top answer: buy an LG OLED, root it with a known exploit, and install Glasshouse to kill telemetry — but LG patched that hole in firmware after October 2026, so newer units may be locked down. The broader consensus is to treat the TV as a dumb panel, never connect it, and run everything through an Apple TV, Roku, or a Kodi NUC over HDMI-CEC.
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Researchers chasing the mechanism behind exercise's antiaging effects extended mouse lifespan by nearly three months — roughly nine human years — by gently squeezing the animals' leg bones. The intervention raised plasma melatonin, betaine, glutathione, ATP, and osteokines including osteocalcin and PEDF, with pigment epithelium-derived factor identified as a novel mechano-responsive antiaging factor tied to healthy aging in humans. Published in Cell Metabolism in October, the work recasts bone as an active organ that helps set the body's aging pace.
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syscall.sh collects every Linux syscall table in one place across 27 processor architectures — x64, x86, ARM64, RISC-V, PowerPC, MIPS, s390x, SPARC, LoongArch and more — covering kernels from 3.3 through 7.3. Each table lists syscall numbers, arguments, register mappings, and how to enter the kernel, with historical tracking of when calls appeared and disappeared. This update adds more architectures, a kernel selector, syscall docs, better mobile layout, plus JSON files and a REST API at api.syscall.sh.
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A ten-year longitudinal study of 995 older adults found those who napped most days carried 1.48 times the hazard of developing possible or probable dementia versus non-nappers. Unintentional dozing carried a 1.39 hazard ratio after adjusting for sleep characteristics, and short naps under 30 minutes stayed associated even controlling for nighttime sleep. The authors flag frequent unintentional napping as a potentially modifiable risk factor but caution it may simply be a marker of underlying disease rather than a cause.
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