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Erika Kirk takes step to sue Utah over Charlie Kirk assassination (r/news)

• pffffffsauce: I might have to sue Texas for JFK.
• PigFarmer1: And the grifting continues…
• Stereo_Jungle_Child: Good luck trying to sue the cops for “allowing” a crime to be be committed. Those lawsuits get laughed out of court. That’s part of what qualified immunity is.

Russian disinformation campaign sets sights on US midterms (r/news)

• hukep: It’s scary how well it works, and how cheap it is.
• Lower-Acanthaceae460: Correction: Russia coordinating with GOP on setting sight on disinformation campaign on US midterm
• mmoore327: Supporting Trump and Republicans no doubt

Photos show widespread damage at US sites from Iranian attacks (r/news)

• TurtleRocket9: That looks like the US leaders have been lying to the American people about the damage. Isn’t that treasonous?
• Mobile-Bar7732: This should have been done when he decided murdering people boats was a fun activity.
• AverageLiberalJoe: If Ukraine did this to Russia we’d be dunking on Russia all week about it.

Police searching for Noah Woods, 3, say they have found body of a child in lake (r/news)

• Eliteclarity: Absolutely heartbreaking.
• J0hn_Keel: Oh this is so sad :( that poor family. Was very much hoping for a different outcome on this one
• YesHunty: The amount of autistic children who go missing and perish is shockingly high. This is awful.

What’s the most inconvenient first name? (r/AskReddit)

• bengalfan: Have a friend with a 2 letter first name. A lot of sites won’t allow only 2 letters.
• blackdogwhitecat: A Thai guy I know is named “twat” so in western countries he introduces himself as “wat”
• Pocket_Sand-: Those incomprehensible spellings of regular names parents use to try and be unique. My sister has a Khynneddi (Kennedy) in her class.

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Google: special hiring event (Blind)

• ohjif (Microsoft): There are people waiting in TM for weeks and months and Google is doing hiring event. 🤦‍♂️
• GNsp11 (Google): This is definitely GCP lmao what a fucking shit show their expedited hiring process is why everyone makes fun of them
• Antigravty (Google): Prepare for termination

How do people survive Amazon? (Blind)

• heksbfjd (Amazon): There are a lot of morons who think they are gods gift to software engineering. They get pipped and don’t have the introspection to see what went wrong, and just say it’s unfair.
• nopeaceful (Qualcomm): Amazon is particularly hard on pure techies with no street smartness. You have to be able to game the leadership principles to your advantage, self promote without coming off as a show pony ," read the room", read between the lines etc. That’s the pattern I have observed among my co workers who left for Amazon all else being equal with regard to technical capability. It’s a black box observation of the traits that seem to work there take it for what its worth.
• (◕ᴥ◕ʋ) (Amazon): Been here 12 years. Actually loved being here until it was mainly about focusing on solving customer problems and delivering results. Now with AI rat race and all the layoffs etc. people are simply acting out and knowingly/unknowingly harming others to benefit themselves. Not sure what the playbook is now, but I have decided not to be part of the game and deliver/help others as much as I can. If I don’t survive, at least I will leave knowing that I was not the cause of anyone’s suffering.

People who say AI will end up creating more jobs instead of erasing them (Blind)

• Dalmartion (Meta): AI operators. Low paying jobs almost like blood draw nurses. No one wants them but they are the only jobs available
• napa9999 (ServiceNow): If you don’t know, you should prepare for unemployment. Sorry.
• BIyv26 (Amazon): We never know in advance what will emerge. We went from 90% agriculture to low single digits and no one figure out we’d watch influencers on our phones.

Companies that pay 700k+ for Staff roles (Blind)

• JasperAmaz (Amazon): I think people need a list of companies giving real jobs
• s&1sd (Apple): OpenAI definitely is 900k-1M+ for staff
• LC_God (Cisco): Cisco. Depending on team.

If Flock Wasn’t Enough, Dallas’ AI Cameras Are Scanning Homes From Garbage Trucks—57 Citations Have Followed (r/technology)

• tabrizzi: At this rate, drones will eventually be used to check backyards for violations.
• ICLazeru: They got cameras on the garbage trucks scanning your home so they can send you citations for HOA level bullsh*t…meanwhile, Epstein File child abusers walk free.
• epochwin: I’m curious about what are the major lawsuits against this type of surveillance and the intersection with 4th Amendment protections when it comes to government use

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TBPN surfaced the idea in its October 3 episode, “Sign-In With GPT, Anthropic Vs. the Pope, Paramount Rebrands as Skydance.” The hosts argue that OpenAI’s modest-sounding sign-in feature may matter more to small developers than the week’s flashier agent announcements. It lets eligible users authorize a third-party app to draw on usage already included in their ChatGPT plan, moving part of the inference bill from the app builder to the user who requested the work.

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America’s treasury secretary has a diagnosis for the country’s rising borrowing costs: the bond market has a “fever” caused by speculators, and official buy-backs can help restore equilibrium. The article argues that this gets the problem backwards. Treasury yields are high not because the market is broken, but because it is responding rationally to a government that is borrowing heavily while pursuing policies that add to inflation risk.

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At enterprise scale, connecting an AI agent to a useful tool is less an integration problem than a platform problem. A few hand-built Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers can work well, but hundreds of teams independently wiring agents to internal systems create duplicated infrastructure, inconsistent security, poor discoverability, and tool definitions that are expensive to load into a model’s context. In “Designing MCP Gateway: Uber’s MCP Management Platform,” published by the official Uber Engineering blog, Uber describes the shared control and data planes it built to turn thousands of existing service APIs into governed agent tools. The platform now hosts more than 800 MCP servers and 5,000 tools.

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Robert Kraft says Ed Sheeran asked him to donate \$2m to aid “in the region” after Macklemore backlash (r/news)

• Otarmichael: Where in the region, Ed? Where in the region??
• Odd-Kaleidoscope8863: Going straight to the IDF
• BTTammer: To Trump’s Board of Peace, of course

FBI shut down Russian plot to kill US individuals and Europeans supporting Ukraine (r/news)

• Dandan0005: Just thinkin about lindsey graham for no reason in particular
• ERedfieldh: Isn’t it because he’s not allowed within 100 miles of that island?
• -rose-mary-: You talking about Lady bugs?

Satellites show Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, Antarctica in 47 years (r/news)

• amIThatdoomed: 12 trillion tons so far*! Who lit this match?
• Journeyman-Joe: “We are now as a society smart enough to know the future, but not prudent enough to act upon the knowledge.” - Ted Scambos, University of Colorado
• celix24: Gotta build more data centers so billionaires can build their bunkers.

People 25+ y/o, what exercise or sport did you get into to maintain your health? (r/AskReddit)

• The–Marf: Rock climbing. Full body workout plus I can do a bunch of pullups now.
• nwp1010: I’m 66 days into daily swimming, for 30-45 minutes per day, going for 90 (and have so far only missed 3 or so days in my streak), and honestly, I didn’t think it would be all that useful, but my cardio is better than ever, and i’ve dropped a waist size or two
• anho456: Running. Im now 35 and think I’m the fittest I’ve been my entire life, which is a great feeling

People who can fight, what advice would you give to someone who has never been in one? (r/AskReddit)

• ReplacementFeisty397: Don’t
• Empty_Ad_5523: Do anything you can to avoid getting into one!
• infinitewowbagger: It’s a learnt skill, run away by preference.

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Amazon October layoffs are starting to feel VERY real (Blind)

• cakecake (Amazon): My manager asked me if I want to switch team in 1 on 1 🤔
• vUkw56 (Expedia Group): 2026 where every month is Russian roulette for your employment status
• Jtermite (Apple): Former Amazonian. QuickSuite is pretty reliable. He/she was right about the last year Oct and this Jan layoffs

How are benefits at @Anthropic (Blind)

• run escape (Meta): Get the offer first. This is getting ridiculous. You can apply and not even get an interview. Why are you already thinking about benefits the ffff
• funi: Who cares about the benefits if your TC jumps from \$350k to \$1.5M
• skibiDB (MongoDB): The main benefit is not being at Microsoft.

Best AI startups with real equity upside left? (Not joining at \$5B+) (Blind)

• yiJv20 (Amazon): p0, legora, gc ai, liquid ai, cohere
• h1b&h4.ead: You won’t find anything. What you are looking for doesn’t exist
• abcdcbrf (Razorpay): let me know , if you find anything . On the same boat

Meta is cooking 🍳 (Blind)

• wd40s (Amazon): No one in their right mind will give any meaningful data to meta or Zuckerberg. They have the worst track record of data handling
• UnionRep (Meta): Yikes. People who work on it won’t even open the app because of security concerns btw.
• Mr. Wang (Google): Google Home is cooked

Apple’s new hardware chief says seeing screen protectors used on iPhones makes his “skin crawl” (r/technology)

• Level_Working9664: The price of a replacement iPhone screen makes my skin crawl
• PA2SK: If he’s so confident in his screens then offer to replace them for free.
• BlackDeath3: I have absolutely shattered my phone screen dropping it.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Monthly Transactions I
• Topics: Database

The problem in one picture

The Transactions table contains one row per transaction: its country, whether it was approved or declined, its amount, and its date. The requested report has one row for every (calendar month, country) pair and six columns:

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Techmeme surfaced Apple’s October 2 developer notice, “Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS”. Apple says it will add controls that make granting this permission require unusually explicit user action, because AI agents turn a broad but historically specialized capability into a much larger privacy risk. The announcement is short and leaves the design unfinished, but its premise is important: consent that was barely adequate for conventional software becomes weaker when the recipient can plan, infer, and act on its own.

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Macklemore pledges his \$1m Ed Sheeran tour salary to Palestine (r/news)

• SillyGoatGruff: \$1m for two shows is a pretty sweet deal
• iamacannibal: He is making the best of this situation. He has gained a ton of fans and is using this to help people. Seems like an overall good dude too.
• math-yoo: The realness of Macklemore has been incredible to see unfold this week. Never was a fan of his music, but he is a person of conviction.

Women sue Epstein’s estate, saying their photos were found in his vast child porn collection (r/news)

• ChopperChange: Who are the people managing Epstein’s estate?
• rnick467: Good. 18 U.S. Code 2255 allows victims to sue anyone found in possession of pictures or videos of their abuse.
• ScarSignal7723: them releasing the victims names with their information and redacting the pedophiles is proof everyone behind it needs to be jailed forever. what a fucking travesty of a life it is to be done like this and then doxed by the government for speaking on it. just filthy.

what’s the scariest science fact that the public knows nothing about? (r/AskReddit)

• Ezenthar1: An alarming number of psychology studies have failed to have their findings replicated when tested again. What this means is that even if the findings within these studies were found to be significant, there’s a strong possibility that the “significance” was circumstantial and not meaningful. It’s possible that a lot of underlying assumptions about psychology, and the treatment of mental health, are based on findings that have not been able to be replicated.
• sylar_c: Prions. They aren’t even alive—just defective, indestructible protein zombies that turn your brain into Swiss cheese, survive temperatures up to 1,000°F, have no cure, and a 100% mortality rate.
• floorshitter69: You can have an aneurysm at any moment and you’ll just instantly die. Most people have no symptoms leading up to it. And it’s almost impossible to find it beforehand medically unless you’re specifically looking for it.

What is your go-to word or phrase when something goes horribly wrong? (r/AskReddit)

• ImaginaryCandy: Fetch me my bathing toaster
• GPUfollowr77: My mom loved, “Shit. Fuck. Fire”
• Either-Welder-6211: “I’m canceling my birth certificate”

what’s the most annoying sound on earth? (r/AskReddit)

• Zombiebelle: When my kids are just shrieking for no damn reason. Oh my god.
• Tmettler5: Waking up at 2:30 am to the sounds of a cat throwing up on the carpet.
• RecentAd7186: Someone whose phone is going PING PING PING like multiple messages in quick succession. Just put it on silent ffs