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• Survey: 53% of US adults say they spend too much time on their smartphone and 36% say about the right amount; 70% of ages 18 to 29 report spending too much time (Pew Research Center)
• Memo: Uber is cutting ~3,300 jobs, or 10% of its staff globally, to reduce management layers and reallocate spending into ride-sharing, delivery, and robotaxis (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
• Acer unveils the Swift Blade 14, an ultralight laptop weighing 1.76lbs with Intel Wildcat Lake processors, and the Swift Air 16, set to launch in December (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
• Acer unveils its fourth-generation Vero 16 with modular elements like removable bottom covers and hinges, user-replaceable batteries and SSDs, and more (Tyler Graham/CNET)
• Acer unveils the Predator Atlas 7, a 7" handheld with an Intel Arc G3 Extreme CPU, shipping in November, and the Project DualPlay Mini, an 8" concept device (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
• Robotics and AI startup Lyte, founded by ex-Face ID engineers, raised $165M led by Maverick Silicon at a $1.6B valuation, taking its total funding to $272M (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
• Dell unveils the student-focused Dell 14S, with Intel Wildcat Lake chips and starting with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, in a bid to rival the MacBook Neo (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
• The FBI is investigating a new ID theft service called Nexus, which claims to have digital scans of 153M+ drivers licenses from people in the US and Canada (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
• A look at Kioxia's expansion in Japan's Kitakami, which helped stall the city's demographic decline and is a test of Japan's $640B AI and chips investment plan (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Health integration with Epic's EHR system and a new Healthcare Public Data plug-in that can fetch info from sources including PubMed (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
• Q&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
• The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of "rogue AI", and may presage truly "self-sovereign" agents and swarms of agents that have no "owner" (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)
• A look at South Korea's sovereign AI efforts, including its planned $919B AI infrastructure investment and Nvidia's expanded ties with Samsung and SK Hynix (SemiAnalysis)
• Frontier AI labs are stepping up biological risk testing, which is harder than cybersecurity testing, where capabilities can be tested in digital environments (Financial Times)
• A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome (Kai Williams/Understanding AI)

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• iRobot's new $1,199 Roomba Max 875 Combo is its most powerful robot yet
• Acer's Predator Atlas 7 is the brand's smaller handheld gaming flagship model
• Acer's new monitors include a 24-inch, 1,000Hz screen for esports sickos
• Acer's Vero 16 laptop is built to be easily repaired
• Acer shows off its AI desktop future with the RTX Spark design
• Acer's Project DualPlay Mini is gaming handheld that becomes a tiny laptop
• The Dell 14S is yet another cheap laptop chasing the MacBook Neo
• GTA VI extended look got 31 million views on Netflix despite six-hour exclusivity window
• This is the best setting and placement for your Dolby Atmos soundbar
• Are all TVs at risk from burn-in? Here's how to avoid the problem altogether
• Blue Origin wins NASA contract for telecommunications on Mars
• Android stuck in Safe Mode? Here's how to turn it off
• Lake Ontario is now 'Lake America' on Apple Maps
• How to change the background on iPhone Messages
• Skip the 5K monitor for gaming and go with a 4K instead — here's why
• Meta's new AI transcription model can distinguish between multiple speakers and languages in real-time
• Are expensive HDMI cables worth it?
• The new Street Fighter movie trailer looks fun in all the right ways
• The Sonos Ace Ultra headphones and Beam Ultra soundbar are smarter than I expected
• The TV vs projector value debate isn't close — here's why

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