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Death toll from Hurricane Helene rises to 227 as grim task of recovering bodies continues (+5181)
apnews.com

Florida is on alert as Tropical Storm Milton forms in the Gulf, just days after Hurricane Helene (+15302)
cnn.com

Private equity’s role in US healthcare remains unchecked after California veto | US healthcare (+3566)
theguardian.com

NZ Navy ship runs aground off Samoa, catches fire and sinks (+998)
rnz.co.nz

Surgeon James Ryan gave his much younger girlfriend Sarah Harris anesthesia drugs to control her, prosecutors say (+13131)
cbsnews.com

Hacker News

Noise (+590)
noise.jake.fun

Linux from Scratch (+387)
www.linuxfromscratch.org

Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up (+356)
www.theregister.com

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (+263)
www.thetimes.com

LLMs, Theory of Mind, and Cheryl's Birthday (+245)
github.com

Arthur Whitney's one liner sudoku solver (2011) (+200)
dfns.dyalog.com

The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (+173)
www.righto.com

An Intuitive Explanation of Black–Scholes (+152)
gregorygundersen.com

What P vs. NP is about (+139)
vasekrozhon.wordpress.com

CoRncrete: A corn starch based building material (2017) (+137)
research.tudelft.nl

Daring Fireball

WorkOS – My thanks to WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring the week at Daring Fireball. WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. Ship complex features like SSO and SCIM (pronounced …
workos.com

CNBC: ‘WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg Goes “Nuclear” on Silver Lake, WP Engine’ – Another good overview of the Automattic/WP Engine saga, this one from Ari Levy at CNBC: Mullenweg may be openly enthusiastic and grateful for the employees he still has on board, but the WordPress community is a mess. Many WP Engine customers are su…
www.cnbc.com

The Verge Summarizes the Nasty WordPress/Automattic/WP Engine Feud – Emma Roth does the yeoman’s work of summarizing the complex and fast-moving legal feud between WordPress’s commercial arm and WP Engine, a major WordPress hosting provider: Over the past several weeks, WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg has made one…
www.theverge.com

Why Is Jack Smith’s Unsealed Motion, Outlining Trump’s Criminal Actions to Overturn the 2020 Election, Not the Top Story? – Taegan Goddard, writing at Political Wire: It’s worth recalling that a major reason Trump won in 2016 was that, just before the election, news broke about emails related to a closed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails being found on Anthony …
politicalwire.com

MLB Sold Ads on Players’ Batting Helmets for the Postseason – I missed this announcement from MLB a month ago: Major League Baseball today announced a new multi-year international partnership with European workwear leader STRAUSS that makes the German company the Official Workwear Partner of MLB. The partnersh…
www.mlb.com

r/technology

I'm a Tech CEO at the Berlin Global Dialogue (w OpenAI, Emmanuel Macron) - Here's what you need to know about what's being said about AI/Tech behind closed doors - AMA (+817)
self.technology

JD Vance claimed Democrats are censoring the internet. He’s lying. (+18268)
msnbc.com

Hillary Clinton Calls For Much More Social Media Regulation (+3204)
mediaite.com

Truth Social Users Are Losing Ridiculous Sums of Money to Scams | Read the complaints submitted to the FTC by users of Donald Trump's social media platform. (+23796)
gizmodo.com

X reportedly paid its Brazil fines to the wrong bank, causing further delay in reinstatement case (+3540)
engadget.com