Apple will launch Apple Intelligence in China with iOS 27.3, the company announced on its Chinese newsroom website , as reported by MacRumors . The Apple Intelligence features will be available first in an iOS 27.3 beta that's set to launch on November 4th, with a full iOS 27.3 release scheduled for December. This launch doesn't bring the new Siri AI to China. Instead, Apple is launching several o…
Amazon has set up a supplier financing facility to borrow up to $80B against the hardware it buys, usable from 2027 to late 2028. It had a $42.4B free cash outflow in the year to September, and its spending commitments reached $883B. Amazon has set up a loan facility that lets it borrow up to […] This story continues at The Next Web
Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle have committed more than $3T to future spending on data centres, leases, equipment and energy, Bloomberg reports. Alphabet leads with more than $1T, followed by Meta with over $800B. Some of the leases run for 30 years. Five tech giants have lined up more than $3T in future spending […] This story continues at The Next Web
Google’s latest smartwatch packs great new health and fitness features, and it’s already on sale ahead of Black Friday.
Fujifilm plans to multiply magnetic tape production fivefold by fiscal 2028 The company is committing ¥10 billion ($63.3 million) to its Odawara plant expansion Offline tape copies can reduce exposure to remote cyberattacks on networked systems Fujifilm has revealed plans to increase its magnetic tape production capacity fivefold by fiscal 2028 in response to rising data storage demands driven by…
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire : Filing: Vancouver, WA-based Powerlattice, which makes a power delivery chiplet to reduce AI compute power needs by 50%+, raised $86M, after raising $31M in 2025 — Powerlattice, a Vancouver, Wash.-based startup developing chips that cut the power demands of AI processors, has raised $86 million, according to an SEC filing on Friday.
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Spooky season is the perfect time to cozy up with Haunted Hotel. The Netflix animated series blends horror with an animated family sitcom format that makes for fresh fun, and an addictive rewatch binge. (And, really, we've been revisiting Season 1 over and over since last Halloween.) Now, with Season 3 announced ahead of this Halloween, we're sharing a secret we've found hidden in the Undervale. S…
There are only so many ways I can say how good the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite is, but perhaps the simplest way is the best: it is the greatest gaming headset I have ever tested and reviewed. Yup, it still looks very familiar, and very SteelSeries Arctis on the outside, but this headset is like no other in the brand's lineup, or the wider market. Everything, every minute detail, has had time and…
Intel is being hurt by PC sales as the AI industry gobbles memory and other components causing PC prices to rise.
Blackstone's forecast is just a prediction, but naturally, a high junk rating would make it more difficult and costlier for Anthropic to raise the money to keep funding its massive spending that has undergirded its business.
EXCLUSIVE: A security researcher discovered the hardcoded credential in Applebee's app, allowing unrestricted access to customers' personal data.
Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson, a Democrat, was the target of an outrageous video apparently fabricated by Russian operatives, according to the data analysis service NewsGuard . In the video, which appears as a legitimate news report from Maine TV station WABI, an anchor alleges that Jackson threatened to kill "any insubordinate staffer" with an axe. Jackson is a fifth-generation logger chall…
No Halloween costume? Just be a deceptively cute AI agent icon, a PHP vulnerability, or sleepy time Bryan Johnson.
This week on Uncanny Valley, we also discuss Anthropic’s IPO filing and the volunteers gearing up to counter ICE at the midterms.
Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are raising questions about the sustainability of the AI spending boom.
Emma Roth / The Verge : OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI across multiple crawlers — The new control will allow publishers to apply their AI training preferences across multiple crawlers.
Akai teased its new MPC Sample Key on Instagram earlier this week, and said it plans to open-source its software so the modding community can hack it to their hearts' delight. While there's no word yet on when the device will launch or how much it will cost, The Verge has received exclusive images of the upcoming instrument that offer some details about its feature set. While the Sample Key shares…
So you've got your water, cash, canned food, and a wind-up radio, but something is missing from your prepping supplies. If the power goes out and your water supply is cut, how will you make your morning coffee? Put down that jar of instant granules — basic services might have failed, but your tastebuds haven't. Drip coffee is an easy way to perk yourself up and boost your morale in a crisis (just…
Reuters : OpenAI tightens limits on the weapons-related information that ChatGPT provides teens, even when a question appears harmless, as part of new safeguards — OpenAI said on Friday it is tightening limits on the weapons-related information ChatGPT provides to teens, even when a question appears harmless …
Google's latest earnings call has caused quite a kerfuffle on the stock market. It turns out that Google's AI Mode, the AI summaries that help answer user search queries right on the search page instead of directing them to the most authoritative links, is eating into the company's ad revenue — an extremely predictable problem. There's even a term for the phenomenon — zero-click search…
Asked about supply chain shortages, like the ongoing RAM shortage , OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that it's "terrible" to have RAM in personal PCs instead of data centers. During his appearance on the Cheeky Pint podcast, where he also commented on AI's impact on math , Altman said: "A lot of people want local inference. And somehow, they assume that the problem is solved now because…
DT Research unveils the LT365PA, a 15.6-inch rugged laptop offering Nvidia RTX A2000 or RTX 5000 Ada graphics It targets crime scene, crash reconstruction, and command post work, and reaches resellers worldwide in Q1 2027 but has no published price yet Much of the design carries over from 2023's LT355, and PNY lists an end-of-life window for RTX A2000 modules in that same quarter Police crash inve…
On August 9, 2026, Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell wrote a Washington Post op-ed called "Universities are fighting AI cheating. But there’s a deeper problem." This week, Schnell discovered the depths of the problem himself as he resigned from the university after an advisory committee found that he failed to disclose significant AI use in an academic paper and in the Washington Post op-…
Thanks to a lucky break, flawed code in a tainted Claude extension prevented the attacker from fully worming their way into some 5,000 developer machines.
CNBC : Intel stock closed down 28.58% on Friday, its worst day since the 1970s and wiping ~$12B off US government's stake, after issuing weaker-than-expected guidance — Intel shares plummeted 29% on Friday, their worst day since the 1970s, after the chipmaker issued weaker-than-expected guidance due …
AI slop has a signature style. At a glance, it’s easy to clock the hallmarks of an AI-generated poster : Crowded blocks of cliché-ridden text. Cutesy characters straight from the uncanny valley. Inexplicably explosion-filled backgrounds. But Canva might have the solution to graphic design’s AI crisis. The platform’s newest feature reimagines AI design from the ground up, and it’s causing a stir on…
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI, as reported earlier by Search Engine Roundtable . With this control, publishers can apply their AI training preferences across multiple AI companies, instead of setting them individually. The shared "policy token" signal is proposed by Kevin Kelley, a technical lea…
Caleigh Keating / CNBC : Reddit closed down 29.27% on Friday, the worst drop since becoming a public company in 2024, after it forecast weak Q4 revenue — Shares of Reddit cratered 29.22% on Friday, the worst drop since becoming a public company in 2024, after the company forecast weak fourth-quarter sales in its latest earnings report.
Snap is now the only defendant in the case. Snap is now the only defendant in the case.
A significant number of patients in the US lie to their doctors to get antibiotics they likely don't need, according to two new studies. While that may not be a startling revelation, the studies drills down on the phenomenon, finding that the lies patients tell are generally bad ones—and yet, they work almost all the time. In the two linked studies published Friday in JAMA Network Open, a team of…
Something in the real estate market just got a little less spooky this holiday season. Out of all residential properties in the U.S., the number of homes abandoned during the foreclosure process dropped to 3% in the last quarter, an improvement from 3.3% measured over the same time period last year. The data comes from the real estate analytics firm ATTOM’s latest Vacant Property and Zombie Forecl…
A good and creative costume will only go so far this Halloween. Now instead of just the costume, TikTok users are focusing on its reveal. The trend follows a simple template: Users appear wearing normal clothes and no makeup with text reading “costume loading.” A quick transition later, users reveal their extravagant costumes and costumes to viewers. Unlike most trends, which are tied to a specifi…
The beta feature makes it easier to stay on top of reports and account strikes. The beta feature makes it easier to stay on top of reports and account strikes.
Brody Ford / Bloomberg : Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle have a collective $3T+ in AI spending commitments over the coming years, including Alphabet's $1T and Meta's $800B — The five largest players in the data center race have committed more than $3 trillion in spending over the coming years …
Like a real-life episode of "Suits," the demise of famed white-shoe Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been the talk of the legal industry. And now an AI firm has entered the picture.
In our experience, when it comes to business laptops you can't really go wrong with a Dell. But while the likes of the XPS dominate the high-end, I'm not convinced most professionals need a machine like that. For remote and hybrid workers the Dell 15 laptop for $900 (was $1200) at Best Buy , is an easy pick for productivity that doesn't compromise on power for general office work, emails, video ca…
Traders are running scared this Halloween weekend as a combustible mix of market forces have sparked a selloff in major technology stocks and cryptocurrencies. Weak earnings reports from AI hyper-scalers including Amazon and Google, along with a historic hack on crypto exchange Binance, have left investors in high-growth assets feeling like they have nowhere to turn. As of this writing, the tech-h…
Financial Times : Chainalysis says Binance hackers used automated money-laundering patterns not seen before; Elliptic: almost all of the $6.3B was taken in the first 30 minutes — North Korean hackers' attack on Binance takes crypto theft to an unprecedented scale — The largest financial theft in history took no more than 30 minutes.
EcoFlow has been a consistent top-performer in our tests, with one model earning the top spot in our guide to portable power stations. High-capacity, durable build, and reliable output are all strong with this line. So, the EcoFlow Delta 3 Classic with 45W solar panel for $479 (was $598) at Best Buy is an easy recommendation. If a power outage leaves you without heat controls, internet, or a worki…