• Apple iPhone Duo review: Two screens, two experiences, two thousand dollars
• Some iPhone Duo screens are already failing, Apple says only a "small number" are affected
• Sculpture recreates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup
• US officials want Section 702 renewed before damaging court ruling goes public
• Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce
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• Apple releases iOS and macOS 27.2 with new Siri AI features, new Music logo
• Apple reveals updated iPad mini with a bigger OLED screen for $700
• ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees
• Musk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink terms with deadly drone strikes
• Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo
• F1 in Texas: The American race that fans love to attend
• Tesla gave up the EV crown. Now it wants to win the autonomy race.
• From impulse purchase to pocket studio: The M-Vave FM-1
• A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature
• Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that
• NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings, finally solves long-festering Orion issue
• Hegseth warns prediction market bets warp military judgment, endanger troops
• Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising
| • Oracle adds ChatGPT and Codex to its app stack and expands Oracle Cloud Infrastructure lineup with Google TPUs, OpenAI's Jalapeño chip, and Cerebras hardware (Seema Mody/CNBC)
• Google launches Genie 4, a world model powered by Gemini 3.8 Flash designed to generate interactive AI simulations, initially as a preview to trusted testers (Jay Peters/The Verge)
• Anthropic's S-1 shows an 85% gross margin in H1 from running its models, a reality check for skeptics who said pay-as-you-go model sales wouldn't be profitable (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
• London-based Machenta, which is building an AI model that can teach robots new physical tasks after seeing them performed just once, raised a $40M seed (Rya Jetha/Business Insider)
• Apple adds a beta AI assistant built on Apple's and OpenAI's models to Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Logic Pro, plus MCP support to Keynote, Pages, and Numbers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
• Dallas-based Disruptive raised $10B to invest in AI, defense, and software, doubling its AUM, and pivots from single-deal SPVs to a discretionary fund structure (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
• Neocloud General Compute, which specializes in bare-metal infrastructure, raised a $100M Series A led by Blackbird and Abstract at an $800M post-money valuation (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
• Anduril and Qualcomm unveil BlueChip, a line of laptops designed and assembled in the US for defense and government; Anduril will begin taking orders in 2027 (Bloomberg)
• Apple updates the 24-inch iMac with an M6, which has up to a 12-core CPU and up to a 12-core GPU, and a dual 16-core Neural Engine, for $1,499+ from November 6 (Apple)
• Apple unveils a 14" MacBook Pro with an M6, which has a 12-core CPU and a 12-core GPU, 16GB or 32GB of unified memory, and Wi-Fi 7, for $1,999+ from November 6 (Apple)
• The FCC warns TP-Link that three of its routers violate power limits, which could bring more bans, and it may have submitted "false or incorrect information" (Bloomberg)
• Study: non-English languages can consume far more AI tokens, with the most expensive language using 1.5x to 5x more than the cheapest, causing a "tokenizer tax" (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World)
• Sources: Trend Micro's TrendAI found Israeli adtech company Discover-Tech heavily targeted Starlink users in 100+ countries, likely to geolocate or surveil them (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
• PayPal reports Q3 revenue up 2% YoY to $8.58B, below $8.71B est., TPV up 6% to $487.14B, and raises full-year adjusted EPS guidance to ~$5.60, above $5.39 est. (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
• Hyphenate, which develops reinforcement-learning-driven AI agents to automate corporate finance tasks, raised a $45M Series A, taking its total funding to $54M (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
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• Nintendo sets an Indie World showcase for October 28
• Why some iPhone apps don't appear in Apple CarPlay
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• Anthropic's political problem will get worse before it gets better
• Book vs clamshell foldable phones: which is better for your everyday needs?
• Apple's iMac with M6 arrives promising a 'huge leap' in AI performance
• Apple has updated the 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M6 chip
• A jailbroken PlayStation 5 can play PS2 discs, but Sony is giving users a tough choice
• 4 drawbacks you should know before buying an Xbox Series X
• Here's how much your older Samsung phones are actually worth
• NASA plans to launch three massive rockets for the Artemis 3 crewed lunar test mission
• Acer's Predator Atlas 8 gaming handheld finally launches at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,300
• 20 Years of MacBook: How Apple shaped the laptops we use today
• Slate teams up with Smarties to add candy colors to its EV trucks
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