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Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift

Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more After pleading guilty, a 54-year-old North Carolina man, Michael Smith, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for using artificial intelligence to generate songs for a scheme that stole millions from music streaming platforms. In a press release Tuesday, the US Department of Justice said that Smith is the first American criminally charged with AI-assisted streaming fraud.

Updated Oct 8, 2026 · source date Oct 7, 2026 · 1 source(s)

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langchain-huggingface==1.2.3

langchain-huggingface==1.2.3 Changes since langchain-huggingface==1.2.2 fix(huggingface): use a supported Scaleway model in streaming test (#41095) chore(deps): bump langgraph-sdk from 0.4.4 to 0.4.6 in /libs/partners/huggingface (#41098) chore(deps): bump langgraph-sdk from 0.4.2 to 0.4.4 in /libs/partners/huggingface (#41076) chore(deps): bump fsspec from 2026.6.0 to 2026.9.0 in /libs/partners/huggingface (#41092) chore(deps): bump fsspec from 2025.9.0 to 2026.6.0 in /libs/partners/huggingface (#41077) chore(huggingface): update lockfile (#41088) release(huggingface): 1.2.3 (#41058) fix(huggingface): hide `huggingfacehub_api_token` from `repr` (#41047) chore(deps): bump sentence-transformers from 5.2.3 to 5.6.0 in /libs/partners/huggingface (#40959) chore(deps): bump urllib3 from 2.7.0 to 2.8.0 in /libs/partners/huggingface (#40957) chore(deps): bump tornado from 6.5.8 to 6.5.9 in /libs/partners/huggingface (#40958) chore(model-profiles): refresh model profile data (#40747) chore(model-profiles): refresh model p

Updated Oct 8, 2026 · source date Oct 7, 2026 · 1 source(s)

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Ask HN: Is the Future of IDEs Bleak?

Updated Oct 8, 2026 · source date Oct 7, 2026 · 12 source(s)

DeveloperTools

AI Development on Windows: From PyTorch and Llama.cpp to Windows ML

AI Development on Windows: From PyTorch and Llama.cpp to Windows ML Today we are highlighting improvements across a few key open-source projects many of you already use, as well as updates to Windows ML. To empower developers, we must support the broad range of tools for experimentation and exploration across inference and training, in addition to our production grade native inference stack.

Updated Oct 8, 2026 · source date Oct 7, 2026 · 1 source(s)

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New Linux tech compresses memory in RAM, as RAM, for 452x speedup

New Linux tech compresses memory in RAM, as RAM, for 452x speedup (Image credit: Clamp image by WilliPuschel from Pixabay ) Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 2 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Subscribe to our newsletter A new compression model, called CRAM, offers a different path to compression that avoids swap entirely by keeping the compressed data in memory, and it offers up to 452x the performance of ZRAM. I was a kid in the 1990s when the idea seemed so simple to me: I can use PKZIP to compress my files, so why can't we do that with RAM?

Updated Oct 8, 2026 · source date Oct 7, 2026 · 1 source(s)

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Surface Laptop Ultra has a release date – and a starting price of $2,599

Surface Laptop Ultra has a release date – and a starting price of $2,599 Tech Updated Today, Oct 7, 2026, 7:05 PM UTC Everything announced at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra event by Jay Peters Microsoft just wrapped up a big Windows and Surface-focused keynote in San Francisco. The biggest announcement was arguably the release details about the Surface Laptop Ultra , its new laptop that’s powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark Arm-based chip.

Updated Oct 8, 2026 · source date Oct 7, 2026 · 1 source(s)

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