As Election Day approaches, the billionaire’s longstanding relationships with GOP leaders in Texas are under scrutiny.
Foxconn is working on a new partnership with OpenAI, chairman Young Liu told reporters in Taipei on Friday, Reuters reported. Liu said he had met OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman earlier that day. He gave no details about what the two companies are discussing, saying Foxconn would announce the agreement once the terms were finalised. […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Wikimedia Foundation wants the judge in The New York Times’ copyright fight with OpenAI to split the question in two. Training an AI model on copyrighted work is likely fair use, it argues. A chatbot that copies websites to answer a user’s question is likely not. The foundation runs Wikipedia. On Thursday, it asked […] This story continues at The Next Web
Researcher finds exposed database containing 42 million documents and hundreds of thousands of records with personal data The CitySourced-linked repository exposed names, contact details, complaint reports, and internal records for years Database was secured after disclosure, highlighting ongoing risks from misconfigured cloud storage Millions of documents, many exposing personally identifiable in…
Spotify is preparing to launch a paid AI tool that lets fans create their own versions of songs, with a release planned for early 2027, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the plans. The company could unveil the product around the Grammy Awards in February, although the launch date and pricing […] This story continues at The Next Web
In 2024, Lukas Bentel helped pull off a heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art . Sort of. Bentel is a cofounder of the iconic Brooklyn-based art collective Mschf and, until recently, served as its chief creative officer. After nearly eight years with the brand, he’s parting ways with the collective to start his own design practice. He says it is still in an “exploration phase” but will include a…
Manhood, a new documentary about “girth enhancement,” explores how wellness professionals are encouraging men to undergo increasingly extreme procedures to be sexually desirable.
Your cell phone can handle basic language translation, but dedicated translator devices can offer a much more immersive, versatile experience.
Reddit is moving to a “logged-in-only experience”, chief executive Steve Huffman told shareholders on Thursday. For most of its 21-year history, anyone could read the site without an account. The plan came with Reddit’s third-quarter results, which beat analysts’ revenue estimates. In his shareholder letter, Huffman said search traffic was “down meaningfully” and that the […] This story con…
SAVE $300.09: As of Oct. 30, the Samsung SSD 990 PRO 4TB is on sale for $799.90 at Amazon. That's a 27% discount on the list price. Opens in a new window Credit: Samsung Samsung SSD 990 PRO 4TB $799.90 at Amazon $1,099.99 Save $300.09 Get Deal at Amazon Upgrading your PC's storage can make a noticeable difference to how it runs. No more sluggish performance or waiting forever for games , files, or…
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Waymo and Toyota will start testing autonomous bZ4X vehicles in Japan next year. (edited) Waymo and Toyota will start testing autonomous bZ4X vehicles in Japan next year. (edited)
The meme appeared to reference gender-swapping “Malfoid” fan fiction, a term with incel roots. When asked about it, the DOE responded by quoting Dumbledore.
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch : Dream, which is training AI world models on US building data to automate construction design and engineering, emerges from stealth with a $17M seed led by a16z — Andy Alder and Arjun Mather were Stanford roommates who both studied computer science before spending a decade at Palantir.
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Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu : Ravical, whose AI-powered platform helps accounting and tax firms manage their operations, raised a $17M seed led by MMC, bringing its total funding to $25M — As AI transforms the accounting industry, Ravical aims to help firms turn individual expertise into shared knowledge …
US senators have asked Meta to explain how it's mitigating 'serious' privacy risks with its AI glasses. US senators have asked Meta to explain how it's mitigating 'serious' privacy risks with its AI glasses.
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In the thick of a heated midterm electoral season, the Cheesecake Factory, of all things, became the latest brand to get sucked into a political food fight against its will. This week, Democrats and Republicans converted the familiar restaurant into a symbol for who is and isn’t out of touch with mainstream America. But largely because the chain has remained stoically above the fray, the incident…
Hello again and welcome back to Fast Company ’s Plugged In . Contrary to conventional wisdom , Steve Jobs didn’t reject the possibility of Apple adding touch input to Macs. I remember that only because he told me so himself, when I squeezed in the last question during a post-keynote Q&A at Apple’s headquarters on October 14, 2008. As far as I know, there’s no video of our brief exchange. But here’…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/netflix-titus-kubernetes-microvm/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1793268697529.jpg"/><p>Netflix has added single-tenant Titus, a mode that runs one task alone on its own right-sized EC2 instance. The Compute/Platform team still owns and patches the host, so application teams keep the same API and deployment path</p> <i>By Claudio Masolo</i>
European countries are leading the way harvesting heat that would otherwise be wasted as green death practices become more common.
It performs great, with rich texture and high brightness, but faces new competition when it comes to color dominance.
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Financial Times : Inside Nscale's 2,250-acre, 8GW Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia, which has been hit by construction issues, local opposition, and financing risks — Nvidia-backed neocloud bets on West Virginia data centre campus hit by construction issues, local opposition and financing risks — NEW
These are the WIRED-tested gadgets, kitchen tools, and cozy comforts I’d actually buy for my own inner circle.
TL;DR: Through Nov. 1, fans dressing as historical American Girl dolls for Harry Styles' " Harryween " shows can get $40 off a Historical Character doll at the American Girl NYC flagship by showing photo proof of their costume. When Harry Styles dropped his track "American Girls," he was probably singing about classic romance. His fans took the title dead literally anyway, showing up to his shows…
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For three seasons of Adam Ruins Everything, comedian Adam Conover educated audiences on everything from Facebook and fatbergs to the justice system to how children's toys became gendered. But did educating through comedy heal the world? It did not, and in his new comedy special Big Divorce Energy he digs into that and much more. Sitting down in the Say More studio with Mashable Entertainment Edito…
Our top Ego pick is discounted, and our resident leaf blower expert demonstrates how to make a TP cannon.
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NASA 's farthest spacecraft gave mission control a scare when it inexplicably went silent and missed two days of planned check-ins. The nail-biting incident happened just two weeks ago, when the Deep Space Network didn't receive a call from Voyager 1 on either Oct. 18 or 19. But before the agency could send repair commands, the spacecraft, now outside the solar system, signaled back on Oct. 20. No…
The Wikimedia Foundation is staking out a middle ground in a group of landmark AI copyright cases, pushing courts to legally protect large language models (LLMs) training on copyrighted work - but not chatbots regurgitating that work to users. An overly black-and-white ruling, it says, could either deprive Wikipedians of useful AI-based tools or endanger the open web. In an amicus brief filed Frid…
GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade. But to some clinical psychologists, they can represent something more sinister—a potential trigger for eating disorders. A new report suggests that the global incidence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa shot up between 1990 and 2023—by a whopping 71%. By 2023, there were an estimated 18.1 million people…