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01 — EDITION

The day in tech,
Sun 18 Oct.

EDITION · 2026-10-18 · 26 ITEMS · 5/7 SOURCES

PRINTED 09:30 UTC+8 · NEXT 09:30 UTC+8

02 — BRIEF · AI-WRITTEN (GLM-4.7-Flash) · MAY CONTAIN ERRORS

Corals recover quickly from bleaching, and Google claims a quantum processor breakthrough. PC shipments fell sharply, and hackers stole TLS certificates. MapQuest added a surveillance layer, and Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT support.

Science & Environment · 1, 4, 15Tech Industry & Hardware · 2, 3, 5, 6, 11, 16, 18, 19Security & AI · 8, 9, 12, 20, 24, 25, 26

03 — STORIES

Front page

  1. Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour

    Hacker News · nature.com · 316 points · 68 comments · Discuss ↗

  3. Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware

    Ars Technica · arstechnica.com · Scharon Harding · Discuss ↗

    Topgolf and VMware "ran deep" before the migration.

  4. Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States

    Hacker News · smithsonianmag.com · 189 points · 52 comments · Discuss ↗

  6. PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023

    Ars Technica · arstechnica.com · Scharon Harding · Discuss ↗

    "The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."

  7. Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana

    Hacker News · furifont.antfu.me · 263 points · 53 comments · Discuss ↗

  9. Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services

    Ars Technica · arstechnica.com · Dan Goodin · Discuss ↗

    Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.

  10. Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG

    Hacker News · pele.run · 229 points · 26 comments · Discuss ↗

  12. OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic

    Ars Technica · arstechnica.com · Dan Goodin · Discuss ↗

    The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.

  13. The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results

    Hacker News · github.com · 142 points · 23 comments · Discuss ↗

  15. Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust

    Hacker News · chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com · 254 points · 66 comments · Discuss ↗

  17. Types of types: Haskell's Kind system

    Hacker News · thunk.blog · 47 points · 27 comments · Discuss ↗

  18. Gold is now the top U.S. export

    Hacker News · numismaticnews.net · 230 points · 118 comments · Discuss ↗

  19. Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not

    Hacker News · doctor-seo.net · 84 points · 80 comments · Discuss ↗

  20. Source code of the Estonian online voting system

    Hacker News · github.com · 165 points · 135 comments · Discuss ↗

Repositories

  1. deeplethe/solid-glass

    GitHub · github.com · ★ 1,731 · TypeScript

    A design system for AI applications. Material, physical, tactile, technical.

  2. Supermedo/uncharted_pc

    GitHub · github.com · ★ 1,264 · C++

    Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection running natively on Windows - by SuperMedo

  3. Caho1/open-claude-ui

    GitHub · github.com · ★ 1,138 · TypeScript

    基于 REA 深度拆解并高保真还原 Claude 官方桌面端 UI。还原 30 个独立 React 组件与 8 项硬核交互物理算法，附带 3000+ 行逆向分析手册。

Papers

  1. GaCLLM: Large Language Model with Graph Convolution for Recommendation

    OpenAlex · doi.org · Yingpeng Du · Ziyan Wang · 2026-10-11

  3. Large Decision Models: Repurposing Large Language Models as Single-Pass Decision Makers

    OpenAlex · doi.org · Ziyi Chen · Yan Zhang · 2026-10-11

04 — SOURCES