The DaB - Daily Briefing

October 20, 2025, 06:25 PM


📊 39 articles collected from multiple sources
🔄 Generated at 2025-10-20 18:25:07

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Start Time: 2025-10-20 18:25:07
End Time: 2025-10-20 18:27:22

📡 Data Collection:

Articles Collected: 39
Sources Configured: 4
Source Breakdown: RSS: 24, Hacker News: 6, arXiv: 4, Reddit: 5

🤖 AI Processing:

AI Summaries: 39
Tweet Sets: 39

📊 Analytics:

Engagement Scores: 39
Distribution: Notable: 7, Standard: 15, Low: 17
Topics Detected: 8
Cross-platform Stories: 2

[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 1737 points and 504 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 1259 points and 1387 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 1122 points and 620 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]
📰 Meta AI’s app downloads and daily users spiked after launch of ‘Vibes’ AI video feed
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:22:38 +0000 | ID: 6674df7ae498 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, 📱 Mobile
🤖 AI Summary:
New data from Similarweb shows Meta AI’s mobile app is surging in popularity, jumping from 775,000 to 2.7 million daily active users in just four weeks. The app is now seeing roughly 300,000 new insta...
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Check out this tech news: Meta AI’s app downloads and daily users spiked after launch of ‘Vibes’ AI video feed... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/meta-ais-app-downloads-and-daily-users-spiked-after-launch-of-vibes-ai-video-feed/
[05]
💻 FSF announces Librephone project
Source: Hacker News | Published: 2025-10-14 23:47 | ID: fac4c495a2a2 | | Topics: 🔒 Security
🤖 AI Summary:
Hacker News discussion with 1575 points and 629 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
[06]
💻 Space Elevator
Source: Hacker News | Published: 2025-10-20 04:42 | ID: 07162c0d3735 | | Topics: 🔒 Security
🤖 AI Summary:
Hacker News discussion with 1218 points and 264 comments. Posted 2025-10-20 04:42.
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Check out this tech news: Space Elevator... https://neal.fun/space-elevator/
[07]
💻 Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
Source: Hacker News | Published: 2025-10-17 17:24 | ID: cc401d6b2356 | | Topics: 🔒 Security
🤖 AI Summary:
Hacker News discussion with 1177 points and 1076 comments. Posted 2025-10-17 17:24.
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Check out this tech news: Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents... https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathy
[08]
📰 Anthropic brings Claude Code to the web
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:00:00 +0000 | ID: 7f1f845f84aa | | Topics: 📱 Mobile, 👩‍💻 Programming
🤖 AI Summary:
Anthropic now lets developers spin up Claude Code agents, and manage them, from their web browser on desktop and mobile.
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Check out this tech news: Anthropic brings Claude Code to the web... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/anthropic-brings-claude-code-to-the-web/
[09]
📰 Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay plan draws some protest ahead of likely approval
Source: Ars Technica - All content | Published: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:55:31 +0000 | ID: 991882cd1da0 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, ☁️ Cloud
🤖 AI Summary:
Proxy firm says plan doesn't ensure that Musk's "focus and time remain on Tesla."
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Check out this tech news: Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay plan draws some protest ahead of likely approval... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/musks-1-trillion-pay-plan-doesnt-force-him-to-keep-focus-on-tesla-critics-say/
[10]
📰 Cards Against Humanity settles trespass lawsuit against SpaceX
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:44:47 +0000 | ID: af4744ee119b | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, ☁️ Cloud
🤖 AI Summary:
Cards Against Humanity, the irreverent party game company known for its provocative humor, has settled its trespassing lawsuit against SpaceX, one year after filing the complaint and launching a profa...
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Check out this tech news: Cards Against Humanity settles trespass lawsuit against SpaceX... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/cards-against-humanity-settles-trespass-lawsuit-against-spacex/
[11]
📰 Trump DOE confirms it’s canceling over $700M in manufacturing grants
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:18:21 +0000 | ID: 7993abae851b | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, 🚀 Startup
🤖 AI Summary:
The Department of Energy said it was canceling grants to build new factories in places like Alabama and Kentucky. Three startups are affected.
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Check out this tech news: Trump DOE confirms it’s canceling over $700M in manufacturing grants... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/trump-doe-confirms-its-canceling-over-700m-in-manufacturing-grants/
[12]
📰 Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his ‘biggest failure’ so far
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:21:50 +0000 | ID: 30a3c9a688c8 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
At WordCamp Canada 2025, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg called Tumblr his “biggest failure,” noting the challenge of maintaining the platform’s half-billion blogs while it remains unprofitable. Though ...
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Check out this tech news: Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his ‘biggest failure’ so far... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/automattic-ceo-calls-tumblr-his-biggest-failure-so-far/
[13]
📰 Regulators probe Waymo after its robotaxi drove around a stopped school bus
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:41:56 +0000 | ID: 3a1eebd3fb81 |
🤖 AI Summary:
The incident happened in Atlanta, Georgia, earlier this month. Waymo says it has already updated the software on its robotaxis.
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Check out this tech news: Regulators probe Waymo after its robotaxi drove around a stopped school bus... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/regulators-probe-waymo-after-its-robotaxi-drove-around-a-stopped-school-bus/
[14]
📰 FTC removes Lina Khan-era posts about AI risks and open source
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:49:58 +0000 | ID: 78bfa8f96aec | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
One post, authored by Khan’s staff, was published on January 3, 2025 with the title “AI and the Risk of Consumer Harm.” It noted that the FTC was “taking note of AI’s potential for real-world instance...
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Check out this tech news: FTC removes Lina Khan-era posts about AI risks and open source... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/ftc-removes-lina-khan-era-posts-about-ai-risks-and-open-source/
[15]
📰 Shin Starr’s robotic food truck kitchen will serve up Korean BBQ at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:38:49 +0000 | ID: 42a7bd68544e |
🤖 AI Summary:
Shin Starr's OLHSO food truck is an autonomous kitchen on wheels, serving Korean BBQ cooked by a robot.
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Check out this tech news: Shin Starr’s robotic food truck kitchen will serve up Korean BBQ at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/shin-starrs-robotic-food-truck-kitchen-will-serve-up-korean-bbq-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2025/
[16]
📰 F1 in Texas: Well, now the championship is exciting again
Source: Ars Technica - All content | Published: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:27:01 +0000 | ID: 542396090b0b | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
The Circuit of the Americas was packed for the US Grand Prix.
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Check out this tech news: F1 in Texas: Well, now the championship is exciting again... https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/f1-in-texas-well-now-the-championship-is-exciting-again/
[17]
📰 Something from “space” may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah
Source: Ars Technica - All content | Published: Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:50:10 +0000 | ID: adc15e17bd23 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
"NTSB gathering radar, weather, flight recorder data."
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Check out this tech news: Something from “space” may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah... https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/something-from-space-may-have-just-struck-a-united-airlines-flight-over-utah/
[18]
📰 Major AWS outage took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-20T12:41:13-04:00 | ID: 8e1585f7b626 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, ☁️ Cloud
🤖 AI Summary:
A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took down multiple online services for several hours this morning, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT, Epic Games Store, Epic Online Services...
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Check out this tech news: Major AWS outage took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more... https://www.theverge.com/news/802486/aws-outage-alexa-fortnite-snapchat-offline
[19]
📰 Kohler’s new toilet camera provides health insights based on your bathroom breaks
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-20T12:29:14-04:00 | ID: 3bee6801710c | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
Knowing what’s coming out of your body can be just as useful for maintaining a healthy lifestyle as being choosy about what goes into it. As part of a new initiative focused on “turning the bathroom i...
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Check out this tech news: Kohler’s new toilet camera provides health insights based on your bathroom breaks... https://www.theverge.com/news/802727/kohler-health-dekoda-toilet-camera-optical-sensors
[20]
📰 Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-20T11:09:26-04:00 | ID: cf39e8e887a7 | | Topics: 📱 Mobile, 🏢 Big Tech
🤖 AI Summary:
Meta is getting ready to pull support for its desktop Messenger apps on Windows and macOS. Both apps have already been removed from the Microsoft Store and Mac App Store, and existing users are starti...
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Check out this tech news: Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS... https://www.theverge.com/news/802627/meta-messenger-app-removal-windows-macos
[21]
📰 Anti-vaccine activists want to go nationwide after Idaho law passes
Source: Ars Technica - All content | Published: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:51:44 +0000 | ID: adb6876fa343 |
🤖 AI Summary:
The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine.
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Check out this tech news: Anti-vaccine activists want to go nationwide after Idaho law passes... https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/after-success-in-idaho-anti-vaccine-activists-want-to-export-their-idiocy-nationwide/
[22]
📰 Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?
Source: Ars Technica - All content | Published: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:00:09 +0000 | ID: d95b67a314d5 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
Doctors share top concerns of AI surrogates aiding life-or-death decisions.
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Check out this tech news: Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?... https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/10/should-an-ai-copy-of-you-help-decide-if-you-live-or-die/
[23]
📰 Lenovo’s Legion 5 is a fast, OLED-equipped gaming laptop for $1,050
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-20T10:48:01-04:00 | ID: 4fa82d525964 | | Topics: 🔧 Hardware, 🏢 Big Tech
🤖 AI Summary:
As part of our Amazon Prime Big Deal Days coverage earlier this month, I was tasked with spotting notable discounts happening at Walmart. My favorite was the $600 off deal on Lenovo’s Legion 5 gaming ...
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Check out this tech news: Lenovo’s Legion 5 is a fast, OLED-equipped gaming laptop for $1,050... https://www.theverge.com/tech/802576/lenovo-legion-5-gaming-laptop-nvidia-rtx-deal-sale
[24]
📰 The Friend AI pendant’s creator publicized a ‘Friend protest’ in NYC
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-20T13:02:59-04:00 | ID: 9452470c54f2 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
If you live in NYC, there’s almost no way you’ve missed the Friend AI pendant subway ad fallout — whether you’ve taken pictures of the most inspired graffiti on the ads in the tunnel...
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Check out this tech news: The Friend AI pendant’s creator publicized a ‘Friend protest’ in NYC... https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/802697/friend-ai-device-subway-ad-protest-nyc
[25]
🗨️ The Majority AI View within the tech industry
Source: Reddit (r/programming) | Published: 2025-10-19 22:16 | ID: 485f47b08e3b | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, 👩‍💻 Programming
🤖 AI Summary:
Reddit discussion in r/programming with 227 upvotes and 106 comments.
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Check out this tech news: The Majority AI View within the tech industry... https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/
[26]
📰 The Sims Mobile is shutting down next year
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-20T11:24:54-04:00 | ID: 7310847ce7fd | | Topics: 📱 Mobile
🤖 AI Summary:
The Sims is in a period of transition — and as part of that, the ongoing mobile version will be shutting down in a few months. EA announced that today’s update for The Sims Mobile will be its last, an...
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Check out this tech news: The Sims Mobile is shutting down next year... https://www.theverge.com/games/802631/the-sims-mobile-shut-down-2026
[27]
📚 Skyfall-GS: Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery
Source: arXiv | Published: 2025-10-17 | ID: f02f85c56bb2 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
Research paper by Jie-Ying Lee, Yi-Ruei Liu, Shr-Ruei Tsai et al.. Synthesizing large-scale, explorable, and geometrically accurate 3D urban scenes is a challenging yet valuable task in providing imme...
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Check out this tech news: Skyfall-GS: Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery... http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15869v1
[28]
📚 LightsOut: Diffusion-based Outpainting for Enhanced Lens Flare Removal
Source: arXiv | Published: 2025-10-17 | ID: b7b6b6b4f2eb | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
Research paper by Shr-Ruei Tsai, Wei-Cheng Chang, Jie-Ying Lee et al.. Lens flare significantly degrades image quality, impacting critical computer vision tasks like object detection and autonomous dr...
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Check out this tech news: LightsOut: Diffusion-based Outpainting for Enhanced Lens Flare Removal... http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15868v1
[29]
🗨️ The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
Source: Reddit (r/programming) | Published: 2025-10-19 17:29 | ID: acf2e786eeda | | Topics: 👩‍💻 Programming
🤖 AI Summary:
Reddit discussion in r/programming with 842 upvotes and 338 comments.
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Check out this tech news: The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe... https://techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-software-quality-collapse
[30]
📰 Iniu’s tiny 10,000mAh power bank is almost half off right now
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-20T13:11:58-04:00 | ID: bd936edd0dab | | Topics: 🏢 Big Tech
🤖 AI Summary:
Small power banks are a dime a dozen, but Iniu’s Pocket Rocket P50 stands out for its combination of size, capacity, and features. We saw this model drop in price during Amazon’s recent October Prime ...
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Check out this tech news: Iniu’s tiny 10,000mAh power bank is almost half off right now... https://www.theverge.com/tech/799260/iniu-45w-usbc-power-bank-deal-sale
[31]
📰 Anbernic’s DS clone will be cheaper than Nintendo’s original
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-20T11:14:34-04:00 | ID: eee2dbccc10d |
🤖 AI Summary:
Anbernic has shared footage of its upcoming RG DS dual-screen clamshell handheld playing a selection of emulated games, including stylus-driven titles like Kirby: Canvas Curse from the Nintendo DS and...
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Check out this tech news: Anbernic’s DS clone will be cheaper than Nintendo’s original... https://www.theverge.com/news/802610/anbernic-rg-nintendo-ds-dual-screen-handheld-emulator
[32]
📚 BiomedXPro: Prompt Optimization for Explainable Diagnosis with Biomedical Vision Language Models
Source: arXiv | Published: 2025-10-17 | ID: f702a4eaa0a2 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
Research paper by Kaushitha Silva, Mansitha Eashwara, Sanduni Ubayasiri et al.. The clinical adoption of biomedical vision-language models is hindered by prompt optimization techniques that produce ei...
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Check out this tech news: BiomedXPro: Prompt Optimization for Explainable Diagnosis with Biomedical Vision Language Models... http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15866v1
[33]
🗨️ Snapchat, Roblox, Duolingo, Fortnite and more go down in huge internet outage
Source: Reddit (r/technology) | Published: 2025-10-20 07:51 | ID: 75474044b48c |
🤖 AI Summary:
Reddit discussion in r/technology with 5345 upvotes and 617 comments.
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Check out this tech news: Snapchat, Roblox, Duolingo, Fortnite and more go down in huge internet outage... https://www.the-independent.com/tech/snapchat-roblox-duolingo-fortnite-down-not-working-b2848289.html
[34]
🗨️ [D] On AAAI 2026 Discussion
Source: Reddit (r/MachineLearning) | Published: 2025-10-19 03:07 | ID: b348ae9a5615 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml
🤖 AI Summary:
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...
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Check out this tech news: [D] On AAAI 2026 Discussion... https://reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1oaf1v0/d_on_aaai_2026_discussion/
[35]
📚 OmniVinci: Enhancing Architecture and Data for Omni-Modal Understanding LLM
Source: arXiv | Published: 2025-10-17 | ID: 71a4ef1811f6 | | Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, 🔧 Hardware
🤖 AI Summary:
Research paper by Hanrong Ye, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Arushi Goel et al.. Advancing machine intelligence requires developing the ability to perceive across multiple modalities, much as humans sense the wo...
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Check out this tech news: OmniVinci: Enhancing Architecture and Data for Omni-Modal Understanding LLM... http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15870v1
[36]
🗨️ Massive AWS outage takes down Snapchat, Reddit, Alexa, Ring and much of the interne
Source: Reddit (r/technology) | Published: 2025-10-20 10:20 | ID: 035a8918d19a | | Topics: ☁️ Cloud
🤖 AI Summary:
Reddit discussion in r/technology with 5218 upvotes and 417 comments.
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Check out this tech news: Massive AWS outage takes down Snapchat, Reddit, Alexa, Ring and much of the interne... https://www.techradar.com/news/live/amazon-web-services-alexa-ring-snapchat-fortnite-down-october-2025
[37]
📰 Roberta Williams’ The Colonel’s Bequest was a different type of adventure game
Source: Ars Technica - All content | Published: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:15:59 +0000 | ID: 71f297379d43 |
🤖 AI Summary:
What if point-and-click games weren't about the puzzles?
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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/
[38]
📰 With deadline looming, 5 of 9 universities reject Trump’s “compact” to remake higher ed
Source: Ars Technica - All content | Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:14:59 +0000 | ID: 0eb8d12383a8 |
🤖 AI Summary:
But Trump is pressuring the other four.
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Check out this tech news: With deadline looming, 5 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/
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📰 Vaginal condition treatment update: Men should get treated, too
Source: Ars Technica - All content | Published: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:02:54 +0000 | ID: 746a17d040c1 |
🤖 AI Summary:
For bacterial vaginosis, partners are part of the problem—and the solution.
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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/