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China's economy increasingly relies on 200 million "flexible workers" who lack formal employment contracts, pensions and urban residency permits despite comprising 25% of the national workforce and 40% of urban workers. The demographic includes 40 million day-wage factory workers and 84 million platform economy workers performing deliveries and ride-share driving. Factory gig workers average 26 years old, are 80% male, and 75-80% single and childless. These workers face systemic exclusions from urban benefi
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The Browser Company's Dia app is now open to anyone on Mac. It's the first time the AI-powered browser has been widely available since its beta launch in June. Following on from Opera's Neon, which arrived last month, Dia is another AI-first browsing experience that's centered around tab-based chat functionality. The browser includes Skills, which are a mix of user-created and built-in shortcuts for everyday tasks like planning, learning, writing,... Read more ›
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Legendary Windows dev confirms the infamous XP-era 'FCKGW' volume licensing key was just a leak, not a hack. Read more ›
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Ubisoft reportedly cancelled development on its next Assassin's Creed game last year over political concerns due to its planned post-American Civil War setting. Read more Read more ›
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Berlin-based n8n, a workflow automation platform, has raised $180M (approximately €154.9M) in Series C funding, bringing its total to $240M (approximately €206.6M). The latest funding round values the company at $2.5B (approximately €2.15B). The round was led by Accel, with participation from Meritech, Redpoint, Evantic, and Visionaries Club. Corporate investors NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm) ... Read more Read more ›
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China has expanded its export controls on rare-earth elements, adding new items to a growing list of restricted materials and processing technologies. Read more ›
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Two Redditors compete online to see who bought the cheapest GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card. Read more ›
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The U.S. has approved tens of billions worth of Nvidia AI hardware exports to the UAE under a new bilateral agreement linking up to 500,000 GPU shipments per year with $1.4 trillion in Emirati investment, in the U.S. Read more ›
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Motorola is gearing up to launch its “impossibly thin” Edge 70 (aka Moto X70 Air in China) on November 5, but the phone made a surprise appearance on a Polish retailer’s website ahead of next month’s announcement. The listing comes with a detailed spec sheet and multiple product images. Motorola Edge 70 in Pantone Bronze Green Edge 70 is set to measure 160 x 75 x 6mm. This means it... Read more ›
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Elon Musk's automaker launched the Model Y and 3 Standard on Tuesday, after teasing more affordable models for years. Read more ›
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said 53% of flight delays are being caused by staffing issues, compared to 5% before the government shutdown. Read more ›
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Stephen King has posted on X about Trump sending troops into Democratic-run cities, and what he thinks that could mean for the 2026 midterm elections. Read more ›
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Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to the two counts of lying to Congress being brought against him by the Trump administration. On the same day, ABC News reported that the prosecutors who were working on the Comey case — who were fired for their refusal to charge him — believed the key […] Read more ›
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Cori Jackson — a single mom living in Indiana — took in her two young nieces to keep them out of foster care this summer. It hasn’t been easy. The youngest still isn’t potty-trained. The oldest isn’t used to having food in the fridge so, sometimes, she eats so much it makes her sick. The […] Read more ›
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Owen Poole runs through the biggest tech stories of the day, including a new survey from Pew Research showing more kids are using AI chatbots, but TV still dominates screen time; Microsoft is delaying price increases to Xbox Game Pass in certain markets, but it might not have anything to do with gamers' backlash; and California passes a new law to turn down the volume on streaming ads. Read more ›
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As the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta draws to a close, almost 99 percent of later matches were cheater free, Activision has claimed. Read more Read more ›
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More than 1,000 hp, 192 mph, and regen braking with more than half the force of an emergency stop aren't enough for the Italian carmaker—it might just have solved the EV sonic problem once and for all. Read more ›
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A Financial Times report sheds light on worldwide AI penetration and usage patterns Read more ›
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BCG says that software, telecommunications, and fintech companies are getting the most out of AI, while others are lagging behind. Read more ›
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Microsoft is getting ready to release a new OneDrive app on Windows next year that will include a photo gallery, people view, AI-powered slideshows, and editing features. It’s part of a number of new features coming to OneDrive in the coming months, including a new Photos Agent and AI-powered mobile editing. The new OneDrive app […] Read more ›
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Microsoft is eliminating all known workarounds that let users install Windows 11 without an internet connection or Microsoft account, forcing everyone through the online setup process. The Verge reports: "We are removing known mechanisms for creating a local account in the Windows Setup experience (OOBE)," says Amanda Langowski, the lead for the Windows Insider Program. "While these mechanisms were often used to bypass Microsoft account setup, they also inadvertently skip... Read more ›
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Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law banning excessively loud advertisements on streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime that could become a de facto national standard. From a report: The new California law is aimed at addressing what the Federal Communications Commission has called a "troubling jump" in TV ad noise complaints, fueled by streamers airing commercials louder than the shows and movies they accompany. It's modeled off... Read more ›
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The director of a tour operation remembers two tourists arriving in a rural town in Peru determined to hike alone in the mountains to a sacred canyon recommended by their AI chatbot. But the canyon didn't exists — and a high-altitude hike could be dangerous (especially where cellphone coverage is also spotty). They're part of a BBC report on travellers arriving at their destination "only to find they've been fed... Read more ›
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James Marriott, writing in a column: The world of print is orderly, logical and rational. In books, knowledge is classified, comprehended, connected and put in its place. Books make arguments, propose theses, develop ideas. "To engage with the written word," the media theorist Neil Postman wrote, "means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning." As Postman pointed out, it is no accident,... Read more ›
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Ford's push for a four-day in-office workweek hit turbulence when someone hijacked meeting room screens to display an anti-RTO protest image targeting CEO Jim Farley. The company quickly removed it and is investigating. The Detroit Free Press reports: According to photos employees took of the image, which were posted on social media and sent to the Detroit Free Press, it contained an image of CEO Jim Farley along with a... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Tucked in the foothills of Tennessee's Smoky Mountains is a factory that has figured out a way to manufacture in America that's cheaper, quicker and better. It's the home of a famous American writing implement: the Sharpie marker. Pen barrels whirl along automated assembly lines that rapidly fill them with ink. At least half a billion Sharpie markers are churned out here every year,... Read more ›
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Currently DNA synthesis companies "deploy biosecurity software designed to guard against nefarious activity," reports the Washington Post, "by flagging proteins of concern — for example, known toxins or components of pathogens." But Microsoft researchers discovered "up to 100 percent" of AI-generated ricin-like proteins evaded detection — and worked with a group of leading industry scientists and biosecurity experts to design a patch. Microsoft's chief science officer called it "a Windows... Read more ›
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"It's not just you. The internet is getting worse, fast," writes Cory Doctorow. Sunday he shared an excerpt from his upcoming book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. He succinctly explains "this moment we're living through, this Great Enshittening" using Amazon as an example. Platforms amass users, but then abuse them to make things better for their business customers. And then they abuse those... Read more ›
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Paramount has acquired The Free Press, Bari Weiss's Substack-born media outlet, for $150 million and appointed Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News. The move effectively places a conservative-leaning Substack writer at the helm of a legacy news network, following the FCC's approval of the Skydance-Paramount merger, which required CBS to feature a broader "diversity of viewpoints from across the political and ideological spectrum." The Verge reports: Before starting The Free... Read more ›
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Americans' confidence in the mass media has edged down to a new low, with just 28% expressing a "great deal" or "fair amount" of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly, according to Gallup. From the report: This is down from 31% last year and 40% five years ago. Meanwhile, seven in 10 U.S. adults now say they have "not very much" confidence... Read more ›
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