Unforeseen a year ago , Democrats' now have a real chance at taking the majority in the U.S. Senate. (Gamblers in some betting markets now see it as likely , even.) What are the potential paths for Democrats to take over the Senate — or for Republicans to block them and hold on? The current Senate has 53 Republican members. The Democratic caucus is made up of 47 Senators, or 45 Democrats and two independents (Sens. Angus King of Maine and Bernie Sanders of Vermont). Democrats need to pick up a net of four Senate seats in order to gain a majority of 51 seats. Republican Vice President JD Vance would break a 50/50 tie, so Democrats need 51 seats minimum. President Donald Trump said Tuesday
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Ask HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer? | Hacker News Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login Ask HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer? 38 points by guitarlimeo 6 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 75 comments Been recently thinking about this more and more: When the need for a human in the design loop ceases? Given that LLMs were a fancy autocomplete back in 2024, and now people are talking about building "software factories" with the agents, what in your mind is the stop to this development? Why software architecture would be hard for agents still in a year or two? Just thinking because I see more and more examples of
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At least 16 additional protesters have been arrested after clashing with riot police. Protesters started a blaze at Albania’s Education Ministry overnight after a second day of student protests in the country’s capital Tirana that continue unabated. Demonstrators broke in overnight on Tuesday and lit a fire inside of the building, according to police, adding that the violence resulted in 16 arrests. Protesters continued to rally on Wednesday. Hundreds of students gathered and slung rocks at the ministry, as they demanded better university conditions and the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama. In an attempt to break up the crowds, riot police responded with tear gas and water cannons.
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Rising gasoline and diesel prices pushed inflation higher in September. The cost of living index was up 3.7%, according to a report Wednesday from the Labor Department. Isabelle Souriment/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images hide caption A report from the Labor Department on Wednesday showed consumer prices in September were up 3.7% from a year ago. That's a larger annual increase than the previous month. A spike in energy prices tied to the U.S. war with Iran drove the cost of living higher. Prices jumped 0.6% between August and September. "It's not looking good," said economist Brian Bethune of Boston College. "The main problem, of course, that everybody knows is gasoline prices. But also
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Kyiv’s forces experience connectivity problems on Elon Musk’s satellite network. Ukrainian troops have been caught off guard by restrictions on Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite Internet systems that disrupted frontline operations, while Kyiv received no warning from its partners of a Russian missile attack on its energy facilities for the second day running, according to Ukrainian officials. Starlink terminals used by Ukrainian drone units began experiencing signal failures at speeds above 160 km/h, disrupting several missions early on Wednesday morning, according to military personnel and senior Ukrainian officials. “Logistics at the frontline and middle strikes are badly limited,” one
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The justice department has threatened California over alleged noncitizen voters. In a letter addressed to the California secretary of state, Shirley Weber, on Tuesday, the acting deputy attorney general, Trent McCotter, said the justice department gave Los Angeles county officials a “password-protected thumb drive” with names of people that the federal government “believes are likely noncitzens”, Reuters first reported. The letter, which gives state officials 48 hours to review the list, demands California withhold mail-in ballots from the listed people until their citizenship is confirmed, adding that ballots mailed back should be “segregated” and that those already returned should not be
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The Iosevka’s monospace family is provided in a slender outfit by default: glyphs are exactly 1/2em wide . Compared to the competitors, you could fit more columns within the same screen width. Iosevka provides two widths, Normal and Extended . If you prefer more breeze between the character, choose Extended and enjoy. Terminal emulators have a stricter compatibility requirements for fonts. Therefore, Iosevka and Iosevka Slab all contain two specialized families, Term and Fixed , targeting terminal users. In these families, the symbols will be narrower to follow terminals’ ideology of column count. In the Fixed families, the ligation will be disabled to ensure better compatibility in certain
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Hi everyone, we are excited to share t0-gamma, the latest model in our t0 family. It is a 256M parameter open-weights foundation model for time series (TSFM). It runs on CPU, GPU or Apple chips. https://huggingface.co/theforecastingcompany/t0-gamma t0 leverages historical data to forecast the likely outcomes over a given horizon. It does so zero-shot. It works on almost any time series, as it can pick up small signals like trends and seasonality. It can also leverage future-known information, like holidays, promotions and weather forecasts. Under the hood, t0 is a transformer that alternates attention between time and across the variates of a series. t0 is agnostic to the domain and to the
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Meet Prismm , a startup that helps banks keep families’ money in-house after an account holder dies. It does this by building beneficiary and estate planning into accounts from day one, which makes the transfer of assets to heirs less complicated. Prismm is presenting its mission today on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 . Prismm was founded in 2020 by sisters Martha Underwood and Shella Sylla, who each have decades of experience in banking and finance. The pair came up with the idea for Prismm based on their own experience of seeing firsthand how difficult it can be to manage a family’s affairs in an emergency. Their father was hospitalized in 2017 after he fell
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GitLab warned users today to immediately patch a maximum-severity vulnerability in the CI/CD Regular Expression Compiler that could let remote attackers run arbitrary code on targeted instances. Tracked as CVE-2026-97229 , this critical security flaw was discovered by a security researcher using the ' joaxcar ' handle and reported via GitLab's HackerOne bug bounty program. CVE-2026-97229 stems from an integer overflow weakness in GitLab's CI/CD Regular Expression Compiler, which parses, compiles, and evaluates regular expressions in projects' pipeline configuration files. "GitLab has remediated an issue that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an unauthenticated user to execute
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If you don’t have AppleCare Plus for your iPhone Duo, you’ll have to shell out $999 for an inner screen repair. If you don’t get AppleCare Plus for the iPhone Duo, any repairs are going to be pretty expensive. Apple published the estimated repair costs for the iPhone Duo without AppleCare Plus today, as reported by MacRumors , and they can be high: Battery service, for example, will cost $229, inner display damage will cost $999, and “other damage” costs $1,499. Here’s Apple’s estimated costs for various repairs if you don’t have AppleCare Plus: With AppleCare Plus, prices are lower, including $0 for battery service, $99 to repair the inner display, and $99 for “other accidental damage.”
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The former employee took more than 100 confidential files before leaving to join Apple, OpenAI alleges. OpenAI claims a former employee took more than 100 files related to its product plans before joining Apple. In a document filed on Wednesday , OpenAI accuses the unnamed employee of sending this information to a personal account and then presenting it to Apple leadership, including the vice president of the company’s operations in Asia. The filing, reported earlier by Reuters , is tied to a legal battle between Apple and OpenAI over trade secrets — but this time, OpenAI is doing the accusing. It alleges that the files in question contain images of at least one unreleased device, along
The Verge / AI2h ago
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As artificial intelligence bots spread, we are increasingly glimpsing how these digital entities interact and what they talk about with one another.
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With GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex, and Daybreak for cybersecurity, this AI lab builds agents that focus for days and improve with use.
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