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Launches, updates, hands-on coverage.
- Epic confirms Unreal Engine 5.9 preview next week, with web back as a target
Epic exercised the 5.9 option it left open at State of Unreal, naming AI workflows, web targeting, rendering and animation for the Preview.
- UnfairPlay lets opted-out iOS apps run on Apple silicon Macs
Kishan Bagaria's November 2nd demo used UnfairPlay and ipatool to run an opted-out car app on a Mac, then needed a binary patch for Netflix.
- ARIA will test Lumai's optical AI servers at rack scale in a commercial data center
Oxford spinout Lumai, led by Xianxin Guo, will put its Iris servers into ARIA's lab so researchers can test its claim of up to 90% power savings at rack scale.
- Linker Vision unveils Nexa to coordinate city responses with AI
Paul Shieh's Linker Vision unveiled Nexa in Barcelona on November 3rd, months after announcing a $35M Series A. The platform combines NVIDIA models, digital twins and city procedures.
- Ultima Genomics wins sequencing role in Singapore's 450,000-person precision medicine program
Founder Gilad Almogy's UG200 joins Lucence and QIAGEN for SG-INSIGHT, as Singapore expands genome sequencing from healthy volunteers to patients in public hospitals.
- Hippocratic AI ships Polaris 6 Ultra to think while it talks to patients
Hippocratic AI co-founders Munjal Shah and Subhabrata Mukherjee introduce a model that plans its next sentence mid-speech, backed by a 7.4-trillion-parameter safety constellation.
- Foto Jockovic puts a 1994 VHS camcorder in the browser, no upload required
The Belgrade shop's free tool shoots live video, degrades existing clips, and renders the whole 1994 treatment locally with a WebAssembly ntsc-rs fork.
- Tripo launches Agentic Canvas to turn one-off 3D models into reusable workflows
Founder Simon Song's 3D platform now lets an agent assemble generation, texturing, retopology and export into editable pipelines users can save and rerun.
- PostHog moves its warehouse off DuckDB five months after rebuilding on it
PostHog cites complex customer queries and DuckLake catalog strain, and says it rebuilt around Trino and its own HogLake format.
- 10x Genomics puts a Claude agent on Chromium data and charges by the analysis
Co-founder Serge Saxonov's company is adding a Claude-powered agent to Chromium, with a reproducible notebook and consumption-based pricing.
- Cloudflare stops rebuilding 20-million-record DNS zones to change one setting
Engineer Alex Fattouche says a targeted planner and unified scheduler let Cloudflare skip full rebuilds on 92.95% of DNS builds over 24 hours.
- Gib Bassett takes MyDataWork into AWS GovCloud to sell agencies the context behind their analytics
Founder Gib Bassett is taking his analytics work-context workspace to agency buyers through AWS GovCloud, with Bedrock AI and a $15,000 annual public package.
- Peter Majanen launches Q-Ball Intelligence after 19 years of forecasting research
Majanen, who co-founded Quattroporte in 2005, is developing an AI forecasting platform based on Q-Ball research dating to 2007.
- Abacum launches Abra to route planning questions to the right finance agent
Julio Martinez's Abacum is bringing Modeler, Analyst, Reporter and Data Manager together behind one prompt, free for customers, as rival planning tools ship their own agents.
- Syscall.sh returns from hiatus with Linux tables for 27 architectures and an API
Maintainer Guilherme revived the 2020 project in 2026, with tables from Linux 3.3 to 7.3, JSON downloads and diff queries.
- HackerBooks turns 16,543 Hacker News book recommendations into a daily shelf
Hacker News user roansh submitted the site on November 1st; it lists Snow Crash with 1,004 recommenders and reshuffles its catalog daily.
- Dan Harple's Context Labs launches AI Distillery for sovereign enterprise AI
Dan Harple's Context Labs launched the AI Distillery on November 1st to package enterprise data with verified lineage for any model, inside the customer's own environment.
- BBRouter puts Ben Eater's 8-bit computer on 3D breadboards you can rewire in the browser
The browser simulator runs Eater's SAP-1 live, generates build sheets from virtual wiring, and lets Claude inspect and rerun circuits through MCP for $7 a month.
- TBC's neurosurgeons put neuron-derived video on fal from half a cent a second
Built on Wan 2.2 and released October 30th, TBC's mischief 1 prices a five-second 480p clip at 2.5 cents on fal and OpenRouter.
- Snaptrude launches an AI agent for editable building models
Founder Altaf Ganihar says the agent can take a site brief through BIM, building systems and drawings. Snaptrude's accompanying benchmark compares its agent with coding tools that produced different kinds of output, and the company says the benchmark has not yet been released.
- Higgsfield offers seven days of unlimited generation on four models
Higgsfield's seven-day bonus varies by plan and billing cycle, with annual Pro and Plus subscribers getting Seedance 2.5 access excluded from their monthly equivalents.
- Musk says Neuralink's Blindsight is engineering-ready, pending approval
The visual implant would route camera images to the brain, but Neuralink's website still describes U.S. Blindsight trials as future studies.
- Reddit wants more readers to log in as search traffic falls
Steve Huffman says tests will begin outside the U.S. as Reddit seeks more logged-in users, tighter control of data access and more relevant advertising.
- Natural lets AI agents choose how to pay vendors
CEO Kahlil Lalji built Natural to handle the point where an automated workflow still needs a person to move money; Direct adds ACH, wire, RTP and FedNow.