The DaB - Daily Briefing

October 17, 2025, 06:21 PM


📊 39 articles collected from multiple sources
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Articles Collected: 39
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Source Breakdown: RSS: 24, Hacker News: 6, arXiv: 4, Reddit: 5

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AI Summaries: 39
Tweet Sets: 39

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Engagement Scores: 39
Distribution: Notable: 7, Standard: 19, Low: 13
Topics Detected: 7
Cross-platform Stories: 1

[01]
💻 How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
Source: Hacker News | Published: 2025-10-16 20:22 | ID: 8b203a5cf651 | | Topics: 🔒 Security, 🏢 Big Tech
🤖 AI Summary:
Hacker News discussion with 1454 points and 450 comments. Posted 2025-10-16 20:22.
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Check out this tech news: How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM... https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/
[02]
💻 Apple M5 chip
Source: Hacker News | Published: 2025-10-15 13:02 | ID: 2ffef67a0d52 | | Topics: 🔒 Security, 🔧 Hardware
🤖 AI Summary:
Hacker News discussion with 1239 points and 1367 comments. Posted 2025-10-15 13:02.
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Check out this tech news: Apple M5 chip... https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon/
[03]
💻 Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
Source: Hacker News | Published: 2025-10-17 10:00 | ID: 27d5da9abe87 | | Topics: 🔒 Security, ☁️ Cloud
🤖 AI Summary:
Hacker News discussion with 907 points and 500 comments. Posted 2025-10-17 10:00.
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Check out this tech news: Migrating from AWS to Hetzner... https://digitalsociety.coop/posts/migrating-to-hetzner-cloud/
[04]
💻 FSF announces Librephone project
Source: Hacker News | Published: 2025-10-14 23:47 | ID: fac4c495a2a2 | | Topics: 🔒 Security
🤖 AI Summary:
Hacker News discussion with 1533 points and 617 comments. Posted 2025-10-14 23:47.
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Check out this tech news: FSF announces Librephone project... https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project
[05]
💻 NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
Source: Hacker News | Published: 2025-10-13 15:22 | ID: 075e08e52175 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, 🔒 Security
🤖 AI Summary:
Hacker News discussion with 1508 points and 305 comments. Posted 2025-10-13 15:22.
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Check out this tech news: NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy... https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
[06]
💻 I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
Source: Hacker News | Published: 2025-10-15 12:56 | ID: 8023bef3adb6 | | Topics: 🔒 Security
🤖 AI Summary:
Hacker News discussion with 885 points and 495 comments. Posted 2025-10-15 12:56.
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Check out this tech news: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'... https://blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-almost-got-hacked-by-a-job-interview
[07]
📰 ChatGPT’s mobile app is seeing slowing download growth and daily use, analysis shows
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:26:22 +0000 | ID: 427c62099968 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, 📱 Mobile
🤖 AI Summary:
ChatGPT’s mobile app may have reached its growth peak, according to new data from app intelligence firm Apptopia.
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Check out this tech news: ChatGPT’s mobile app is seeing slowing download growth and daily use, analysis shows... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/chatgpts-mobile-app-is-seeing-slowing-download-growth-and-daily-use-analysis-shows/
[08]
📰 Facebook’s AI can now suggest edits to the photos still on your phone
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:29:47 +0000 | ID: 5f6cf3053706 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, 🏢 Big Tech
🤖 AI Summary:
Facebook is rolling out a new Meta AI photo suggestion feature across the U.S. and Canada that lets its AI recommend edits to images stored on users’ camera rolls—even if they haven’t been shared. The...
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Check out this tech news: Facebook’s AI can now suggest edits to the photos still on your phone... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/facebooks-ai-can-now-suggest-edits-to-the-photos-still-on-your-phone/
[09]
📰 Stellantis teams up with Pony AI to develop robotaxis in Europe
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:12:55 +0000 | ID: 422be787e0e1 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
The collaboration will integrate Pony’s self-driving software into Stellantis’ electric medium-size van platform, which is built with advanced sensors to support autonomous vehicles.
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Check out this tech news: Stellantis teams up with Pony AI to develop robotaxis in Europe... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/stellantis-teams-up-with-pony-ai-to-develop-robotaxis-in-europe/
[10]
📰 ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:05:12 +0000 | ID: 313eb8adb829 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
A timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, starting with the latest, which we’ve been updating throughout the year.
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Check out this tech news: ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/chatgpt-everything-to-know-about-the-ai-chatbot/
[11]
📰 Crypto’s next chapter with Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0000 | ID: 3845a2f11265 | | Topics: ₿ Crypto
🤖 AI Summary:
Solana's Anatoly Yakovenko joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to discuss the future of crypto — from memecoins to real-world finance. Don’t miss this must-see session. Register now to ...
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Check out this tech news: Crypto’s next chapter with Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/cryptos-next-chapter-with-solanas-anatoly-yakovenko-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2025/
[12]
📰 A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:06:54 +0000 | ID: b61572200e39 | | Topics: 🚀 Startup
🤖 AI Summary:
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.
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Check out this tech news: A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/tech-layoffs-2025-list/
[13]
📰 Together, we make TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 unforgettable — thank you to our sponsors
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000 | ID: 19f582856753 |
🤖 AI Summary:
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 wouldn’t be what it is without the incredible companies that power the innovation behind the scenes.
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Check out this tech news: Together, we make TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 unforgettable — thank you to our sponsors... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/together-we-make-disrupt-unforgettable-thank-you-to-our-sponsors/
[14]
📰 Less than 24 hours to spotlight your startup at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in front of 10,000 tech leaders and VCs
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:30:00 +0000 | ID: bc05654dc341 | | Topics: 🚀 Startup
🤖 AI Summary:
You have less than 24 hours — and only a couple of tables left — to lock in the most valuable growth opportunity of the year at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025.
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Check out this tech news: Less than 24 hours to spotlight your startup at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in front of 10,000 tech leaders and VCs... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/less-than-24-hours-to-spotlight-your-startup-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2025-in-front-of-10000-tech-leaders-and-vcs/
[15]
📰 Apple pays $750 million for US Formula 1 streaming coverage
Source: Ars Technica - All content | Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:07:01 +0000 | ID: 77c23d5e60aa | | Topics: 🏢 Big Tech
🤖 AI Summary:
Some races will be free as F1 TV moves from standalone streaming to Apple TV.
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Check out this tech news: Apple pays $750 million for US Formula 1 streaming coverage... https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/apple-pays-750-million-for-us-formula-1-streaming-coverage/
[16]
📰 12 years of HDD analysis brings insight to the bathtub curve’s reliability
Source: Ars Technica - All content | Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:27:02 +0000 | ID: f7280a7f8cf3 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
Backup firm brings a unique, informed perspective to HDD failure rates.
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Check out this tech news: 12 years of HDD analysis brings insight to the bathtub curve’s reliability... https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/backblaze-owner-of-317230-hdds-says-hdds-are-lasting-longer/
[17]
📰 3 years, 4 championships, but 0 Le Mans wins: Assessing the Porsche 963
Source: Ars Technica - All content | Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:57:07 +0000 | ID: 334f55689cba | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
Riding high in IMSA but pulling out of WEC paints a complicated picture for the factory team.
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Check out this tech news: 3 years, 4 championships, but 0 Le Mans wins: Assessing the Porsche 963... https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/3-years-4-championships-but-0-le-mans-wins-assessing-the-porsche-963/
[18]
📰 Teachers get an F on AI-generated lesson plans
Source: Ars Technica - All content | Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:16:58 +0000 | ID: 17cff7ab40d2 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking.
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Check out this tech news: Teachers get an F on AI-generated lesson plans... https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/teachers-get-an-f-on-ai-generated-lesson-plans/
[19]
📚 From Pixels to Words -- Towards Native Vision-Language Primitives at Scale
Source: arXiv | Published: 2025-10-16 | ID: 70a6b9f3ec9b | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, ☁️ Cloud
🤖 AI Summary:
Research paper by Haiwen Diao, Mingxuan Li, Silei Wu et al.. The edifice of native Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has emerged as a rising contender to typical modular VLMs, shaped by evolving model arc...
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Check out this tech news: From Pixels to Words -- Towards Native Vision-Language Primitives at Scale... http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14979v1
[20]
📚 Learning an Image Editing Model without Image Editing Pairs
Source: arXiv | Published: 2025-10-16 | ID: 81c14d28398c | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
Research paper by Nupur Kumari, Sheng-Yu Wang, Nanxuan Zhao et al.. Recent image editing models have achieved impressive results while following natural language editing instructions, but they rely on...
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Check out this tech news: Learning an Image Editing Model without Image Editing Pairs... http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14978v1
[21]
📰 Amazon’s Ring now works with video surveillance company Flock
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-17T13:52:11-04:00 | ID: 9728d1059f07 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, 🏢 Big Tech
🤖 AI Summary:
Amazon’s smart doorbell company Ring is now working with the AI-powered surveillance camera company Flock. According to a letter sent to the company by Sen. Ron Wyden, Flock had allowed data access to...
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Check out this tech news: Amazon’s Ring now works with video surveillance company Flock... https://www.theverge.com/news/801856/amazon-ring-partners-flock-video
[22]
📰 OpenAI suspends MLK deepfakes on Sora after ‘disrespectful’ videos
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-17T10:28:39-04:00 | ID: a8ba1a8b8a8a | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, 🏢 Big Tech
🤖 AI Summary:
OpenAI said on Thursday night that it has “paused” deepfakes of Martin Luther King Jr. on its social app Sora after users created “disrespectful” AI-generated videos of the late civil rights leader. I...
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Check out this tech news: OpenAI suspends MLK deepfakes on Sora after ‘disrespectful’ videos... https://www.theverge.com/news/801539/open-ai-sora-mlk
[23]
📰 Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution
Source: Ars Technica - All content | Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:40:15 +0000 | ID: 190266f30d88 |
🤖 AI Summary:
A recent study found lead in teeth from 2 million-year-old hominin fossils.
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Check out this tech news: Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution... https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/hominins-suffered-lead-poisoning-starting-at-least-2-million-years-ago/
[24]
📰 RFK Jr.’s MAHA wants to make chemtrail conspiracy theories great again
Source: Ars Technica - All content | Published: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 22:41:42 +0000 | ID: 3fc247f6039d | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
It's unclear if Kennedy will follow through, but he supports the conspiracy theory.
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Check out this tech news: RFK Jr.’s MAHA wants to make chemtrail conspiracy theories great again... https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/rfk-jr-s-maha-wants-to-make-chemtrail-conspiracy-theories-great-again/
[25]
📰 These AI glasses promised to make me smarter, and all I got was Clippy for my face
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-17T10:00:00-04:00 | ID: 4fa3059fc31b | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they're...
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Check out this tech news: These AI glasses promised to make me smarter, and all I got was Clippy for my face... https://www.theverge.com/column/801554/optimizer-halo-smart-glasses-ai-assistant
[26]
📚 Coupled Diffusion Sampling for Training-Free Multi-View Image Editing
Source: arXiv | Published: 2025-10-16 | ID: d6cd9dfbd037 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
Research paper by Hadi Alzayer, Yunzhi Zhang, Chen Geng et al.. We present an inference-time diffusion sampling method to perform multi-view consistent image editing using pre-trained 2D image editing...
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Check out this tech news: Coupled Diffusion Sampling for Training-Free Multi-View Image Editing... http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14981v1
[27]
📰 Atari’s resurrecting the Intellivision, one of its biggest competitors in the ‘80s
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-17T11:29:18-04:00 | ID: 91c3189ebfa3 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, 🔧 Hardware
🤖 AI Summary:
Atari has announced yet another retro console revival, but this time it’s launching hardware from an old competitor. Atari and Plaion, a company that develops, publishes, and distributes games, have c...
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Check out this tech news: Atari’s resurrecting the Intellivision, one of its biggest competitors in the ‘80s... https://www.theverge.com/news/801646/atari-intellivision-sprint-console-competition
[28]
📚 Agentic Design of Compositional Machines
Source: arXiv | Published: 2025-10-16 | ID: b17d85900053 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, 🔧 Hardware
🤖 AI Summary:
Research paper by Wenqian Zhang, Weiyang Liu, Zhen Liu. The design of complex machines stands as both a marker of human intelligence and a foundation of engineering practice. Given recent advances in ...
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Check out this tech news: Agentic Design of Compositional Machines... http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14980v1
[29]
📰 Ex-lidar CEO makes a bid to reclaim his company
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-17T14:12:29-04:00 | ID: 23e2ae3e0f67 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
Earlier this year, Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell abruptly resigned from his position after it was revealed he was the target of an ethics inquiry. Now, the 30-year-old billionaire is trying t...
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Check out this tech news: Ex-lidar CEO makes a bid to reclaim his company... https://www.theverge.com/news/801827/ex-lidar-ceo-makes-a-bid-to-reclaim-his-company
[30]
📰 Kelly Reichardt’s anti-heist movie
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-17T12:30:00-04:00 | ID: d04f5d200664 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, ₿ Crypto
🤖 AI Summary:
Kelly Reichardt has been called one of America's greatest filmmakers, and also one of its quietest. But her latest, The Mastermind, centered on an art heist that goes off the rails, is probably her lo...
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Check out this tech news: Kelly Reichardt’s anti-heist movie... https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/801651/the-mastermind-kelly-reichardt-director-interview
[31]
🗨️ Bypassing Amazon's Kindle Web DRM Because Their App Sucked
Source: Reddit (r/programming) | Published: 2025-10-17 01:30 | ID: f4fc4206f282 | | Topics: 👩‍💻 Programming, 🏢 Big Tech
🤖 AI Summary:
Reddit discussion in r/programming with 706 upvotes and 111 comments.
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Check out this tech news: Bypassing Amazon's Kindle Web DRM Because Their App Sucked... https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/
[32]
📰 Rocket Report: China launches with no advance warning; Europe’s drone ship
Source: Ars Technica - All content | Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:00:49 +0000 | ID: 50c99820a7b3 |
🤖 AI Summary:
Starlink, Kuiper, and the US military all saw additions to their mega-constellations this week.
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Check out this tech news: Rocket Report: China launches with no advance warning; Europe’s drone ship... https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/rocket-report-a-nearly-perfect-flight-for-starship-chinas-surprise-launch/
[33]
📰 Yes, everything online sucks now—but it doesn’t have to
Source: Ars Technica - All content | Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:30:59 +0000 | ID: 151877fbec2e |
🤖 AI Summary:
Ars chats with Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification.
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Check out this tech news: Yes, everything online sucks now—but it doesn’t have to... https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/yes-everything-online-sucks-now-but-it-doesnt-have-to/
[34]
📰 This weirdo Xbox game about a walking lighthouse is a Keeper
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-17T11:00:00-04:00 | ID: 5c6d1e38028f | | Topics: 👩‍💻 Programming
🤖 AI Summary:
It's a testament to the developers at Double Fine that it doesn't take long before controlling a sentient lighthouse with spidery legs starts to feel almost normal. Keeper, the latest from the studio ...
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Check out this tech news: This weirdo Xbox game about a walking lighthouse is a Keeper... https://www.theverge.com/games/801563/keeper-review-xbox-double-fine
[35]
🗨️ Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials | Hackers posted phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials.
Source: Reddit (r/technology) | Published: 2025-10-17 13:09 | ID: 50abe1c1d368 | | Topics: 🔒 Security
🤖 AI Summary:
Reddit discussion in r/technology with 38903 upvotes and 1289 comments.
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Check out this tech news: Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials | Hackers posted phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials.... https://www.404media.co/hackers-dox-hundreds-of-dhs-ice-fbi-and-doj-officials/
[36]
🗨️ [R] Plain English outperforms JSON for LLM tool calling: +18pp accuracy, -70% variance
Source: Reddit (r/MachineLearning) | Published: 2025-10-17 05:30 | ID: a47b6402f566 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, ₿ Crypto
🤖 AI Summary:
**TL;DR:** Tool-call accuracy in LLMs can be significantly improved by using natural language instead of JSON-defined schemas (\~+18 percentage points across 6,400 trials and 10 models), while simulta...
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Check out this tech news: [R] Plain English outperforms JSON for LLM tool calling: +18pp accuracy, -70% variance... https://reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1o8szk0/r_plain_english_outperforms_json_for_llm_tool/
[37]
📰 SteelSeries makes some of the best wireless gaming earbuds, and they’re 36 percent off
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-17T11:41:43-04:00 | ID: b91ef016d2db |
🤖 AI Summary:
When I have to decide which wireless gaming earbuds that I want to use, it’s a tough choice between the SteelSeries Arctis Buds and the Sony InZone Buds. Both have a comfortable fit, active noise canc...
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Check out this tech news: SteelSeries makes some of the best wireless gaming earbuds, and they’re 36 percent off... https://www.theverge.com/tech/801041/steelseries-arctis-buds-rtx-5070-gpu-deal-sale
[38]
🗨️ Teen sues ClothOff developer over fake nude images made with clothes removal tool
Source: Reddit (r/technology) | Published: 2025-10-17 13:16 | ID: 0604875f6c1d | | Topics: 👩‍💻 Programming
🤖 AI Summary:
Reddit discussion in r/technology with 1474 upvotes and 101 comments.
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Check out this tech news: Teen sues ClothOff developer over fake nude images made with clothes removal tool... https://www.techspot.com/news/109897-teen-sues-clothoff-developer-over-fake-nude-images.html
[39]
🗨️ How Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was BROKEN by a Windows 11 update
Source: Reddit (r/programming) | Published: 2025-10-17 06:25 | ID: 59ee00fdbaff | | Topics: 👩‍💻 Programming
🤖 AI Summary:
Reddit discussion in r/programming with 53 upvotes and 34 comments.
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Check out this tech news: How Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was BROKEN by a Windows 11 update... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poEo0GrQTtQ