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• Science says your boss should talk less in meetings
• Why BioWare's Neverwinter Nights still has thousands of active players
• OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites
• “thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops
• US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license"
• Bug turns one of the biggest fears about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses into reality
• RFK Jr. proposes FDA look the other way on unproven peptides, report says
• Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees
• Polymarket saw $600 million in election trades after the elections were over
• Tesla turns to 50-year-old stunt technology as it tries to Roadster again
• Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer
• The Surface Laptop Ultra delivers on most of Microsoft's promises
• Rocket Report: FAA eyes more Starbase traffic; India's Skyroot snares US customer
• Blue Origin is going all in on the New Glenn rocket
• Googlebook review: Android on a laptop is still Android
• KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, remote upgrades, and an X11 farewell
• Plex now helps sell movie theater tickets
• Hegseth’s dubious low-T screening may flag up to 25 percent of the Army
• Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware
| • Elon Musk says "I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America" in 2027; at SpaceX's $146.03 Friday close, the gift would be valued at ~$10.5B (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
• Q&A with Nvidia's Vera team on agentic AI driving CPU demands and forcing CPU design priority back to single-threaded performance over core counts, and more (Wccftech)
• How the data center industry courts kids amid a backlash: 11+ firms and groups hosting field trips since 2025, flag kits and cards for first graders, and more (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
• Analysis: 11K+ accounts on X, Bluesky, Discord, Telegram, and others made nearly 25K posts to unmask a Cornell sexual assault accuser, after she named seven men (New York Times)
• CyberSN: US cybersecurity job postings fell 26.4% YoY to a four-year low of ~236K roles from January to September; AI security engineer demand soared by 200%+ (Kevin Townsend/SecurityWeek)
• A profile of Alona Katz, chief of Brooklyn DA's Virtual Currency Unit, who recently led an operation that seized and disrupted over 240 crypto fraud websites (Bloomberg)
• AI's ability to forecast extreme weather faces a major test in the coming months amid a historic El Niño, as some scientists question the tech's accuracy (Financial Times)
• Survey of 94 economists: 54% expect AI's gains to spread across the G20 over the next decade, not just the US and China; 32 see African countries falling behind (Financial Times)
• Stripe Link data shows agentic transactions increased by 38x and volume of payments by 20x in September, with retail leading in both, and a ~$100 average spend (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
• Abby Care, which runs a clinically led, AI-powered platform to train and certify family caregivers, raised an $82M Series C led by Transformation Capital (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
• Allium: stablecoin payments rose 45% YoY to $482B YTD through September 30, with transactions up 71% to 1.04B, while circulating supply grew just 0.4% (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
• Intel unveils its GPU D-series for data centers, featuring up to 480GB of LPDDR5X memory, an unusually large capacity to support demanding inference workloads (Efosa Udinmwen/TechRadar)
• China's GDP is set to grow 4.5% YoY in Q3, up from Q2's three-year-low growth rate of 4.3%, as AI-driven exports helped offset weak domestic spending (Osmond Chia/BBC)
• Sam Altman's World launches a World ID verification suite for banks, bundling tools to verify human and agent identities, its first industry-specific offering (Zack Abrams/The Block)
• Analysis: 795 accounts funded by ADI Predictstreet's own fee-collecting wallet drove 99% of the FIFA-partnered prediction market's activity since late August (Wall Street Journal)
| • Google Gemini 4 agents just beat Minecraft with no human intervention
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• How to use Google's SynthID AI detection website
• An Xbox Series X can now run PlayStation 5 games, but there's a catch
• Starlink has two $55 plans that are wildly different — here's how
• Router and modem or gateway: What's actually in your home network?
• What is Apple's Image Playground app for and how do you use it?
• After five years, Inscryption is finally coming to mobile
• What is the star button for on your Roku remote?
• Here's how the Slate truck gets software updates without built-in infotainment
• From the Royole FlexPai to the iPhone Duo: How the modern foldable phone has evolved
• Should you limit your FPS in games? Here's when it makes sense
• TikTok reportedly banned ads for Musk documentary before its wider US release
• How to fix scaling and app size issues on your Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8
• Flat Ethernet cables probably aren't the answer to your home networking problem
• The reason why your drive shows less storage than you paid for
• iOS 27's new CarPlay features are great, but only these iPhones can actually use them
• The reason your Amazon Alexa devices are always listening
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