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While the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are still nearly a year away, a handful of new features and changes have already been rumored for the devices. Below, we have recapped some of the early iPhone 18 Pro rumors so far. Smaller Dynamic Island The standard iPhone 18, iPhone 18 Pro, and iPhone 18 Pro Max will be equipped with a slightly smaller Dynamic Island, but the... Read more ›
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'Strange New Worlds' has seemingly heard your complaints that the show has been missing some strange new worlds lately. Read more ›
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After my husband died, I knew my daughter and I needed a fresh start. I was nervous for her to move so far into high school, but it's been great. Read more ›
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Diane Keaton played some much-loved film characters over her decades in Hollywood and established herself as a style icon. Read more ›
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Led by Gen Z, Delete Day encouraged attendees to get rid of social media apps on their smartphones. Read more ›
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Hackers claim to have "breached" Nintendo and stolen internal data from the Japanese megacorp. Read more Read more ›
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President Trump imposed a 100% tariff on Chinese goods and announced export controls on undefined 'critical software,' a move that could cripple China’s tech and manufacturing sectors more than tariffs themselves. Read more ›
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In a four-part lecture series on his views of religion, billionaire Peter Thiel reportedly said Luddites are the Antichrist. Read more ›
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On October 9, Cambridge University Library opened its doors to anyone with an old floppy disk and a question: What’s on here? Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent: Bitcoin and Ethereum both saw record liquidations as investors reacted to fears over a trade war, which saw many crypto investors move their money to stablecoins or safer assets... Bitcoin fell by more than 10 per cent to below $110,000, before recovering to $113,096 on Saturday morning. The value of Ethereum slumped by 11.2 per cent to $3,878. Other cryptocurrencies, including... Read more ›
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In Arizona, I can't feel fall, but I can create it. My fall décor makes desert life feel a little more like home. It also gives me nostalgia for my childhood. Read more ›
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Get ready to sit on your couch watching weekly episodes of 'Daredevil: Born Again,' 'Wonder Man,' and other Marvel shows. Read more ›
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I uploaded a photo on my phone to Microsoft's "OneDrive" file-hosting app — and there was a surprise waiting under Privacy and Permissions. "OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos..." And... "You can only turn off this setting 3 times a year." If I moved the slidebar for that setting to the left (for "No"), it moved back to the right, and said "Something went wrong while updating... Read more ›
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A wedding video on social media shows a young couple exchanging gifts, with the groom receiving a GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card. Read more ›
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The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries. Read more ›
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From a new Iron Man solo to the next Spider-Man event, change is a-coming for Marvel in 2026. Read more ›
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Intel announced its next series of processors, the Core Ultra series 3, this week, but I got a close up look at these new chips in Arizona ahead of the announcement. Here's what I saw. Read more ›
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The Crimson Collective hacking group claims to have breached Nintendo's security and stolen files from the gaming company. Read more ›
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Two newly disclosed vulnerabilities in 7-Zip could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking users into opening a malicious ZIP archive. Read more ›
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The fight ain't over yet, cuz New Line's already got their eye on a 'Mortal Kombat III' movie. Read more ›
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Oracle became the best-performing megacap stock of 2025 after its executives said last month that the once-sleepy database firm will generate an astonishing $381 billion in revenue from renting out specialized cloud servers to OpenAI and other artificial intelligence developers over the next five fiscal years. But internal documents show the fast-growing cloud business has had razor-thin gross profit margins in the past year or so, lower than what many... Read more ›
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When ecommerce consultant David Khandrius had to help a client who sold baby strollers write a product listing for Amazon’s website in the past, he typically tried to jam as many words into the listing as possible to ensure Amazon’s search algorithm would capture it. That might result in a convoluted title for a listing, like “travel stroller for beach park super compact airplane overhead.” Nowadays, though, he said, the... Read more ›
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I’m not sure what everyone else’s social media feeds are looking like these days, but over the past 72 hours mine has become unrecognizable to me. On TikTok, I’ve been inundated with short clips of slap-boxing competitions between Fred Rogers and Kurt Cobain, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, and Elvis Presley and Bob Marley. I’ve watched indie rocker Elliott Smith dunking a basketball in a Portland Trail Blazers uniform while... Read more ›
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Over the past year, companies have been tinkering with generative artificial intelligence to create customized agents that automate complex tasks, but they’ve gotten mixed results. Now, OpenAI is pushing a new suite of tools to make the assembly of agents easier, and to peel customers away from competitors like Anthropic and Google.OpenAI on Monday announced Agent Builder, a set of tools for configuring agents to resolve IT support tickets or... Read more ›
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OpenAI told Europe’s top antitrust regulator that big tech firms including Microsoft, Google, and Apple could be difficult for the startup to compete against, Bloomberg reported Thursday. During a Sept. 24 meeting with EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribaldi, OpenAI said it faced “difficulties” ... Read more ›
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CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator said Tuesday that the cloud provider will not change its $9 billion bid for Core Scientific ahead of a shareholder vote scheduled for October 30. Two Seas Capital said last month it would vote against the deal and urged other shareholders to do so. The hedge fund, ... Read more ›
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Countless startups sell tools to software engineers, such as version control systems to track who’s making changes to a codebase, and sandboxes where code can be safely run and tested without affecting the main system.Now, a startup is building such tools for artificial intelligence agents that aim to do the work of human coders. Andreessen Horowitz, which has been among the most prolific backers of young AI startups in the... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s effort to catch up to Anthropic in code-generating artificial intelligence seems to be working. New data show OpenAI’s Codex coding assistant has pulled ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Code assistant in certain coding capabilities. Codex usage among developers is also catching up to Claude Code’s.Developers approved 74.3% of code written by Codex, slightly higher than Claude Code’s 73.7% success rate in terms of approving code pull requests, according to data... Read more ›
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Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund is doubling down on its biggest artificial intelligence bets, embracing a concentrated strategy as rivals spread their bets across a wide swath of startups. Among them are OpenAI, data center builder Crusoe and General Matter, a nuclear fuel startup the firm has incubated, Founders Fund said at its recent annual general meeting for investors. In contrast, other venture firms have poured money across the AI landscape,... Read more ›
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It’s been nearly a year since we scooped the news that OpenAI, Google, Snowflake and Cohere were all working on artificial intelligence search products similar to the one startup Glean made a big splash with. Glean’s AI-powered search lets workers at companies easily find emails, Slack messages and other data scattered across business applications. As we said at the time, it seemed like everyone was trying to be like Glean.... Read more ›
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