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/
Check out this tech news: Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/too-burned-out-to-travel-this-new-app-fakes-your-summer-vacation-photos-for-you/
Check out this tech news: Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/wikipedia-says-traffic-is-falling-due-to-ai-search-summaries-and-social-video/
Check out this tech news: WhatsApp changes its terms to bar general purpose chatbots from its platform... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/whatssapp-changes-its-terms-to-bar-general-purpose-chatbots-from-its-platform/
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:36:10 +0000 | ID: 2032c619b882
| Engagement: [44.5/100] 📰 Standard
| Topics: 🔒 Security, 🔧 Hardware
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A federal judge has granted Meta-owned WhatsApp’s request for a permanent injunction blocking Israeli cyberintelligence company NSO Group from targeting the messaging app’s users. At the same time, th...
Check out this tech news: Spyware maker NSO Group blocked from WhatsApp... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/spyware-maker-nso-group-blocked-from-whatsapp/
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:51:59 +0000 | ID: d82d5b8bb420
| Engagement: [42.5/100] 📰 Standard
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Marc Benioff, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, appears to be walking back his controversial comments calling for the National Guard to patrol San Francisco.
Check out this tech news: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff apologizes for saying National Guard needed in San Francisco... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-apologizes-for-saying-national-guard-troops-needed-in-san-francisco/
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 | ID: eb9149fc83be
| Engagement: [40.5/100] 📰 Standard
| Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 102, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy spooky season, and also you can read all the old editions at th...
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Eventbrite co-founder Kevin Hartz is onto his next thing — teenage founders, not as a social experiment but as an unplanned investment thesis.
Check out this tech news: This top VC has bet close to 20% of his fund on teenagers — here’s why... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/this-top-vc-bet-close-to-20-of-his-fund-on-teenagers-heres-why/
Check out this tech news: YouTubers aren’t relying on ad revenue anymore — here’s how some are diversifying... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/youtubers-arent-relying-on-ad-revenue-anymore-heres-how-some-are-diversifying/
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This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI and the industry's power dynamics and societal implications, follow Hayden Field. The St...
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The White House's David Sacks and OpenAI's Jason Kwon caused a stir online this week for their comments about groups promoting AI safety.
Check out this tech news: Silicon Valley spooks the AI safety advocates... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/silicon-valley-spooks-the-ai-safety-advocates/
Check out this tech news: Teen sues to destroy the nudify app that left her in constant fear... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/teen-haunted-by-fake-nudes-sues-to-kill-nudify-app-block-telegram-bots/
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Outside a florist-cum-coffee shop in upstate New York, a row of vintage cars gleam in the sun. It's unseasonably warm for early October, so there's a veritable crowd of car enthusiasts snapping photos...
Check out this tech news: The future I saw through the Meta Ray-Ban Display amazes and terrifies me... https://www.theverge.com/tech/801684/meta-ray-ban-display-review-smart-glasses-ai-wearables
Check out this tech news: What Bill Gates’ first commercial code (Altair BASIC) looks like under the hood... https://maizure.org/projects/decoded-altair-basic/index.html
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Forty years ago today, the Nintendo Entertainment System launched in North America, and to help celebrate the anniversary, 8BitDo has announced a new NES40 collection. It features updated versions of ...
Check out this tech news: 8BitDo’s new collection celebrates the NES’s 40th anniversary... https://www.theverge.com/news/801832/8bitdo-nintendo-nes-ultimate-2-controller-retro-keyboard-bluetooth-cube-speaker
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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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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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In the 2000s, TiVo reached heights few companies ever achieve. Like Google and Xerox, its name became a verb. People had to "TiVo" the new episode of Battlestar Galactica or game 4 of the Red Sox vs. ...
Check out this tech news: TiVo won the court battles, but lost the TV war... https://www.theverge.com/tech/802254/tivo-time-warp-patent-courtoom-battles-lost-tv-war
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If you’ve been thinking about buying a foldable phone that truly stands out, few models can rival the 2025 Motorola Razr Ultra, which is currently on sale at Amazon and Best Buy with 16GB of RAM and 5...
Check out this tech news: Motorola’s Razr Ultra and the Marshall Emberton II top this week’s best deals... https://www.theverge.com/tech/801962/motorola-razr-ultra-2025-foldable-marshall-emberton-ii-speaker-deal-sale
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Pokémon Legends: Z-A hadn't been out even a few hours before the tweets started rolling in: Shiny pokémon don't despawn. You can walk away from a shiny, and it'll still be there when you com...
Check out this tech news: Pokémon Legends: Z-A makes a big, welcome change for shiny hunters... https://www.theverge.com/games/802089/pokemon-legends-z-a-shiny-hunting
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I have been a fan of David Lynch ever since a friend's older brother interrupted a 13th birthday celebration to insist we all watch Eraserhead. In the realm of horror movies, it's a common way to be i...
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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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I'm a reviewer (PC) and don’t have a submission myself, but honestly, this is the weirdest reviewing process I’ve ever experienced. 1. Phase 2 papers are worse than Phase 1. In Phase 1, I reviewed fou...
Check out this tech news: Big Tech sues Texas, says age-verification law is “broad censorship regime”... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/big-tech-sues-texas-says-age-verification-law-is-broad-censorship-regime/
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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 ...
Check out this tech news: Secret SpaceX satellites are transmitting mysterious signals on the wrong spectrum — a classified network caught sending data on the uplink frequency... https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/network-providers/secret-spacex-satellites-are-transmitting-mysterious-signals-on-the-wrong-spectrum-a-classified-network-caught-sending-data-on-the-uplink-frequency
Check out this tech news: Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement... https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/ring-cameras-are-about-to-get-increasingly-chummy-with-law-enforcement/
Check out this tech news: Judge tells Homeland Security that Chicago agents wearing body cameras was "not a suggestion"... https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/judge-homeland-security-federal-agents-chicago-body-cameras/
Check out this tech news: Roberta Williams’ The Colonel’s Bequest was a different type of adventure game... https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/10/roberta-williams-the-colonels-bequest-was-a-different-type-of-adventure-game/
Check out this tech news: With deadline looming, 4 of 9 universities reject Trump’s “compact” to remake higher ed... https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/10/with-deadline-looming-4-of-9-universities-reject-trumps-compact-to-remake-higher-ed/
Check out this tech news: Vaginal condition treatment update: Men should get treated, too... https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/vaginal-condition-treatment-update-men-should-get-treated-too/
Check out this tech news: Dead Ends is a fun, macabre medical history for kids... https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/dead-ends-is-a-fun-macabre-medical-history-for-kids/
Check out this tech news: NASA’s next Moonship reaches last stop before launch pad... https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/nasas-next-moonship-reaches-last-stop-before-launch-pad/