Tuesday, 28 October 2025
Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
TechRadar / Tom's Guide / PCWorld / Pocket-lint / Stuff
The Stuff Gadget Awards 2025: our fitness tech of the year
Faster. Stronger. Healthier – here are the year's best workout-enhancers
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Neon is Sponsoring Open Source Projects
If you’re building open-source tools powered by Postgres, we want to help you grow. The Neon Open Source Program provides up to $5,000 in Neon credits each year, additional real cash payouts through GitHub Sponsorships, and promotional support to help your work reach millions of...
OpenAI News
Advancing organizational transformation for business innovation
DNP rolled out ChatGPT Enterprise across ten core departments, achieving 95% faster patent research, 10x processing volume, 87% automation, and 70% knowledge reuse in three months.
TechRadar / Tom's Guide / PCWorld / Pocket-lint / Stuff
The Stuff Awards 2025: top design and innovation of the year
It's time to celebrate the categories that pushed the boundaries forward in 2025
Hugging Face Blog
Granite 4.0 Nano: Just how small can you go?
TechRadar / Tom's Guide / PCWorld / Pocket-lint / Stuff
The Stuff Gadget Awards 2025: our headphones of the year
These cans can. Read on to discover the best sports, true wireless and over-ear headphones of 2025
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Bun runtime on Vercel Functions
Bun runtime option for Vercel Functions We now supportas a, available in Public Beta. You can choose between Node.js and Bun for your project, configuring runtime behavior based on workload. We're working closely with the Bun team to bring this capability to production. This flexibility allows you…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
MiniMax M2 now available for free in Vercel AI Gateway
AI Gateway You can now access MiniMax's latest open source model, MiniMax M2 using Vercel'swith no other provider accounts required. The model is free to use until Nov 7th, 2025. Focused on agentic use, Minimax M2 is very efficient to serve, with only 10B active parameters per forward pass. AI…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Bun runtime now in Public Beta for Vercel Functions
The Bun runtime is now available in Public Beta for Vercel Functions. You can choose between Node.js and Bun as your project runtime, selecting the best option for your workload. Benchmarks show Bun reduced average latency by 28% for CPU-bound Next.js rendering compared to Node.js. vercel.json To…
Martin Fowler / Overreacted / Kent C. Dodds / Josh Comeau
Springs and Bounces in Native CSS
The “linear()” timing function is a game-changer; it allows us to model physics-based motion right in vanilla CSS! That said, there are some limitations and quirks to be aware of. I’ve been experimenting with this API for a while now, and in this post, I’ll share all of the tips and tricks I’ve…
tl;dr sec / Risky Biz News / Unsupervised Learning
Humans Need Entropy
Humans Need Entropy/images/humans-need-entropy.png?v=2 I've had several thoughts on the Karpathy and Dwarkesh conversation/blog/why-i-think-karpathy-is-wrong-on-the-agi-timeline that took place in late October 2025. But the one that keeps haunting me is something Karpathy just kind of casually m...
OpenAI News
Doppel’s AI defense system stops attacks before they spread
Doppel uses GPT-5 and reinforcement fine-tuning to stop deepfake and impersonation attacks, cutting analyst workloads by 80% and reducing response times from hours to minutes.
OpenAI News
The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
Microsoft and OpenAI sign a new agreement that strengthens its long-term partnership, expands innovation, and ensures responsible AI progress.
OpenAI News
Built to benefit everyone
OpenAI’s recapitalization strengthens mission-focused governance, expanding resources to ensure AI benefits everyone while advancing innovation responsibly.
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now
Criminal complaint against facial recognition company Clearview AI
Biometric Data Today, noyb has filed a criminal complaint against Clearview AI and its managers. The facial recognition company is known for scraping billions of photos of Europeans and people around the world on the internet – and selling its facial recognition system to law enforcement and state…
Steam store news / itch.io
The itch.io Halloween Sale 2025 is live!
The shadows are growing longer and the best time of year for spooky games is finally here: The itch.io Halloween Sale 2025 is live! Creators across the site have summoned frighteningly good deals on t...
Hugging Face Blog
Voice Cloning with Consent
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
We built a vector search engine that lets you choose precision at query time
We added QBit to ClickHouse, a column type that stores floats as bit planes. It lets you choose how many bits to read during vector search, tuning recall and performance without changing the data.