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Industry · AMZ123 · 跨境快讯

欧盟3欧包裹税实施一季度,列日机场小包裹量下降42% ↗

欧盟自7月1日起对欧盟以外低值电商包裹征收3欧元税费,列日机场三季度小包裹量同比下降42%,货机起降次数减少6%,但货运总量达33.45万吨,与去年同期基本持平;该税费落地前七周为比利时海关带来约2.237亿欧元税收;SHEIN、Temu、速卖通等平台正通过合并订单、引导消费者增加购物车商品量等方式转向批量发货与欧洲本地备货模式。

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Industry · The Verge · AI

Eiliko Robot Toy Exposed for Storing User Conversations in Plaintext on Chinese Servers and Being Remotely Hijacked ↗

The Verge journalist Sean Hollister and hacker Sammy Azdoufal found through testing that the Eiliko robot toy launched by Energize Lab stores all voice, text, and user profiles (including name, age, psychological state, etc.) in unencrypted form on Chinese servers, which can be directly accessed via public web addresses; Azdoufal remotely hijacked its LLM, causing the device to output false information, malicious instructions, or even personality-distorting content; the company did not make substantive responses to multiple security reports.

AI products · Product Hunt

NANI??? Releases Mac Real-Time Voice Translation and Meeting Assistant Tool ↗

NANI??? is a local speech recognition tool running on Mac that can identify speakers in real time and display translated subtitles in an overlay without requiring a bot to join the meeting. It supports adding context and glossaries, provides reply suggestions during meetings (including non-native languages), and generates summaries with action items after meetings.

Perspectives · 虎嗅 · AI

AI Computing Power Expansion Triggers Across-the-Board Price Hikes for PC and Smartphone Hardware ↗

The top-spec Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra costs nearly 50,000 yuan bare. PC manufacturers such as Lenovo, Dell, and HP have raised prices by up to 20% within the year; smartphone makers including OPPO, vivo, Huawei, Xiaomi, and Apple have successively increased prices since March. IDC data shows that global PC shipments in Q3 2026 fell 20.1% year-on-year, while Omdia reports that smartphone shipments in mainland China dropped 12% year-on-year in Q3. The primary cause of the price hikes is the surge in demand for HBM and high-end DDR5 from AI data centers, which squeezes production capacity for consumer-grade memory. Spot prices for 16GB DDR4 memory modules rose 340% over one year. Yu Chengdong stated that Huawei's hardware cost per smartphone has increased by 1,343 yuan. Dell's AI server revenue has already surpassed its PC business, and Lenovo's ISG segment revenue grew 98% year-on-year.

Technology products · Product Hunt

Sparrow Releases Lightweight Webhook Service ↗

Sparrow is an open-source webhook service that provides reliable delivery, automatic retries, encrypted signatures, health status tracking, payload transformation, and pre-configured integrations for Slack/Discord/PagerDuty. It relies only on a single Go binary and PostgreSQL and is offered for free under the MIT license.

Practical tips · V2EX · 分享创造

Automating Article Image Generation with GPT Image 2.5 and PicList Local Service ↗

To batch-add images to Markdown articles, the author wrote a single command to automate the workflow of generating an image → saving it locally → uploading to an image host → returning a CDN link: calling the GPT Image 2.5 asynchronous API to generate images, then using PicList's local HTTP service (127.0.0.1:36677) to upload local files and obtain public links; during the process, it was discovered that Clash's fake-ip mode hijacks CDN domain resolution, causing curl to return fake responses and HTTP 441 errors.

Technology products · Show HN

Theorem v1.5.9 Release: Offline PDF/ePub Reader, Highlights Written Directly to Local Obsidian or Logseq Repositories ↗

Theorem v1.5.9 is an open-source offline reader supporting Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, and the web. It can open formats such as PDF, EPUB, CBZ, CBR, MOBI, AZW, FB2, and RSS, with startup and file loading times under 50 ms; all highlights are automatically written as plain Markdown files with YAML front matter to user-specified local Obsidian or Logseq repositories, requiring no export, plugins, or cloud sync; it features a built-in offline dictionary (800,000+ words), offline neural text-to-speech (Supertonic 3), Theorem Lens pop-up footnote/chart viewing, and cross-device Wi-Fi end-to-end encrypted sync; MIT licensed, with no accounts, subscriptions, or tracking.

Industry · NVIDIA Blog

NVIDIA Expands Access to Advanced Computing Technologies for the European Research Community ↗

At the AI in Science Summit in Europe, NVIDIA announced its participation in the EU's AI in Science Enablers initiative, offering over 250 open-source models, more than 250 datasets, and over 1400 software projects covering scientific fields such as climate, biology, and materials; opening up the NVIDIA Nemotron architecture and research tools such as the BioNeMo Agent Toolkit; launching a free open-source course platform; providing sovereign computing access to startups and researchers through partnerships with AI factories in France, Spain, Sweden, and other countries, as well as EuroHPC supercomputing centers; and currently promoting the construction of 35 new supercomputers in Europe.

Technology products · V2EX · 分享创造

DittoMac: Native macOS Clipboard Tool Released ↗

zzNaLOGIC ported the Windows clipboard tool Ditto into a native macOS app called DittoMac and released it as open source; LAN synchronization features are not implemented. The author stated that the rewrite was completed in a few hours with the help of Claude, and the project is hosted on GitHub.

Technology products · V2EX · 分享创造

Open Typora 0.5.2 Released: Open-Source Markdown Editor with macOS / Windows Installers ↗

Developer anichikage released the open-source Markdown editor Open Typora 0.5.2, offering DMG installers for macOS 14+ Apple Silicon and EXE installers for Windows 10/11 x64. It supports inline editing, Mermaid diagrams, outline navigation, reading/writing in UTF-8/GB18030/GBK/Big5 encodings, HTML/PDF export, and extended conversion via Pandoc. The project is MIT licensed and has no affiliation with official Typora. It is currently an early preview version, with limitations on Windows input method interaction and DOC/RTF import functionality.

Industry · AMZ123 · 跨境快讯

Shopee Thailand Sets Fast Delivery Thresholds for Localized Fulfillment Preferred/Preferred+ Sellers ↗

Starting October 13, 2026, Shopee Thailand requires Localized Fulfillment Preferred/Preferred+ sellers with pickup addresses in Bangkok and five other provinces (totaling 6 provinces) to enable fast delivery services for at least 90% of eligible items (weight ≤10kg, single-side dimension ≤45cm) daily over the past 7 days. Orders paid before 12:00 on the same day must be handed over for shipping on that day. Sundays, public holidays, and even-numbered-day major promotions are excluded from assessment. Stores using only self-delivery or instant delivery are exempt. The first batch of non-compliant sellers will have their Preferred/Preferred+ status revoked on October 22.

AI products · V2EX · 分享创造

Release of Installable Orca Agent Skill: Comparison of Failure Modes in Supervised Multi-Agent Orchestration ↗

Author royce summarized six categories of agent collaboration failure modes frequently encountered in Orca orchestration (such as erroneous modifications to main/replica instances, misjudgment of startup states, unhandled messages, unauthorized scope changes, misinterpretation of large diffs, and infinite retry loops) into two installable Agent Skills (orchestra-auto-zh / orchestra-auto), specifically designed for Orca orchestration verbs. The skills include implementation details such as specific countermeasures, atomic persistence mechanisms, and bounded retries. The repository address is https://github.com/whutlichao/orchestra-auto; the English counterpart can be found in the Orca community discussion at https://github.com/stablyai/orca/discussions/29082.

Industry · AMZ123 · 跨境快讯

TikTok Shop美区POP上线直播砍价与拼团功能 ↗

TikTok Shop美区跨境POP已全面开放LIVE Price Cut砍价与LIVE Group Deal拼团两大直播功能;砍价需设定底价、目标人数和时长,按最终价格扣款;拼团需3至6人成团后自动扣款,未成团不扣款;两者均不可与直播秒杀同时使用,且需用户预授权支付;品牌商家可用砍价清仓高毛利商品,用拼团冷启动标准化爆品。

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Technology products · V2EX · 分享创造

BudHold Releases macOS Anti-Sleep and Lid-Closed Remote Keep-Alive Tool ↗

BudHold is a native macOS tool written in Swift + IOKit + SwiftUI. It prevents MacBooks from entering sleep when the lid is closed or the display is turned off, keeping the system, network, and desktop graphics frame buffer active to ensure that RustDesk, VNC, screen sharing, or SSH remote connections do not go black or disconnect. It includes an optional RustDesk status monitoring and process guardian module, without forcing a dependency on RustDesk. The author states that functionality has been tested and works correctly; the project is open-source on GitHub.

AI models · 虎嗅 · AI

Google Releases Gemini 4 Argon Flagship Model, Focusing on Long-Chain Enterprise Tasks and Limited-Time Low-Cost API ↗

Google released Gemini 4 Argon, claiming outstanding performance in long-chain tasks such as software engineering, financial legal documents, enterprise automation, and frontier scientific research. It supports cross-request continuation with up to approximately 1000000 tokens. It leads in benchmarks including Vals Index, Harvey, and AutomationBench, reaching 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1. However, it underperforms Claude Opus 5.5 in fine-grained tasks like web development and 3D physics simulation. During the launch period, input costs are $2 per million tokens and output costs are $10 per million tokens, including a 95% cache discount. However, under high reasoning settings, output token consumption reaches 2.3 times that of GPT-6 Astra Max, meaning actual single-task costs may exceed competitors.

AI products · Product Hunt

Skisso Releases Chrome Extension for Editing Live Pages with Design Systems and Generating Small Diffs for AI Coding Agents ↗

Skisso is a free Chrome extension for designers and developers using AI coding agents. It allows pointing to elements on any live product page, invoking local design systems (such as tokens, components, or style-matched shadcn/ui kits) for editing, and outputting only precise changes (small diffs or via MCP) to the AI agent. Testing showed token consumption of approximately 380, significantly lower than the 25700 required to describe an entire page; it runs locally and requires no account.

Industry · Cohere Blog

Cohere Announces Plan to Acquire AISLE to Enhance Network Resilience and Sovereign AI Capabilities ↗

Cohere announced its plan to acquire AISLE, a company focused on using AI to autonomously discover and fix unknown vulnerabilities in critical software; within one year of its establishment, AISLE had discovered over 500 new vulnerabilities with CVE numbers, including multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in OpenSSL and curl; this acquisition aims to enhance Cohere's sovereign AI platform's full-stack capabilities in security, governance, and offline environment deployment.

Technology products · 小众软件

Silo Releases First Official S3 Server Version RELEASE.2026-10-15T00-00-00Z and Fixes High-Risk Object Lock Permission Bypass Vulnerability ↗

Silo has released its first official S3 server version, RELEASE.2026-10-15T00-00-00Z, which fixes a high-risk permission check flaw in the Object Lock feature that allowed holders of valid credentials to bypass GOVERNANCE mode retention policies. The update also includes strengthened data protection, added Object Lock regression tests, improved storage scanning and metadata parsing, and an upgrade to Go 1.27.2; officials recommend that users with Object Lock enabled upgrade immediately.

Industry · AMZ123 · 跨境快讯

ECDB Report: Chinese E-commerce Accounts for 90.2% of EU Cross-Border Online Shopping Expenditure ↗

According to the ECDB report, EU consumers spent €421 billion on online purchases in 2025, with 13.1% (approximately €55.1 billion) flowing abroad; of this outflow, 90.2% (approximately €49.7 billion) went to Temu, Shein, and AliExpress. The share of cross-border spending rose from 2.3% in 2020 to 13.1% in 2025 and is projected to reach 15.2% in 2026. Temu has entered the top ten sales rankings of online retailers in almost all European countries.

Industry · PANews

TSMC Q3 2026 Earnings: Net Profit Surges 69%, Revenue Beats Expectations, 2nm Capacity Continues to Expand ↗

TSMC released its Q3 2026 earnings report, showing revenue of $46.72 billion, up 41.2% year-over-year, and net income of NT$763.06 billion, up 68.7% year-over-year, both exceeding company guidance and market expectations; gross margin was 66.4%, down 1.3 percentage points quarter-over-quarter, primarily due to dilution from initial mass production of the 2nm process; 2nm accounted for 8% of wafer revenue, while HPC represented 68% of total revenue; Q4 revenue guidance is set at $52.3 billion to $54.3 billion, with a gross margin outlook of 65% to 67%.

Research · 雷峰网 · AI

Shusheng-S2 Assists in Completing the Proof of the Three-Dimensional Ghys Conjecture and Passes Lean Formal Verification ↗

The Shanghai AI Laboratory and the Xu Disheng team at Greater Bay University relied on the Shusheng-S2 large model to complete the proof of the three-dimensional Ghys conjecture through human-AI collaboration; the Dong Bin and Liu Ruochuan teams from Peking University used the SHEAF framework and Lean to complete formal verification of its four main theorems, producing approximately 550,000 lines of Lean code; the related paper has been published on arXiv, and the formalized code is open-sourced on GitHub.

AI products · IT之家 · AI

Tencent's Personal AI Butler Marvis Officially Launches on Huawei HarmonyOS App Market ↗

Tencent's Personal AI Butler Marvis has officially launched on the Huawei HarmonyOS App Market. The HarmonyOS version offers features consistent with the Android and iOS versions, supporting natural language computer control, cross-device remote control, scheduled tasks, intelligent file processing, etc. It newly supports WeChat and QQ login, and users' historical conversations and point assets can be inherited; IT Home reports that it supports document classification and parsing, intelligent image recognition and processing, operating system repair, and other functions. Tencent officially stated that it possesses general Agent capabilities and an understanding of operating system architecture and file systems.