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  1. Anker launches ‘world’s longest lasting’ 5,024Wh power station with $2,150 exclusive savings, Lectric XP Lite3 e-bike launch, more
    USElectrek Energy & Green Tech

    We’ve got an exciting Tuesday Green Deals edition with two new launches and a first-time discount. Leading the pack is the official launch of Anker’s SOLIX S5000 Portable Power Station + bundles that our readers can get up to $2,150…

  2. Oracle To Start Running Google TPUs in Its Cloud
    USThe Information Semiconductors

    Google and Oracle announced a partnership that will make Google’s tensor processing units available to Oracle cloud customers, the first time the AI chips would be made available on a cloud platform outside of Google’s. Oracle said in a…

  3. Military drone outfit Anduril partners with Qualcomm to build laptops on US soil with new BlueChip venture
    USTom's Hardware Semiconductors

    Defense contractor Anduril, which is known for its military drones, just announced that it’s building laptops in the U.S., with the company saying that it will begin taking orders in 2027. According to its press release , it will call its…

  4. Israeli ad tech firm tied to suspected Starlink tracking effort, report claims
    USTom's Hardware Semiconductors

    Discover-Tech, an Israeli advertising technology company, has reportedly been linked to a suspected surveillance effort aimed at Starlink users, according to Reuters . The report, which cites six people familiar with the matter, claims the…

  5. North Korea places self-propelled guns near DMZ
    JPNikkei Asia Semiconductors
  6. VisionQuest is what happens when AI really goes rogue
    USThe Verge Hardware Hardware

    In Marvel's VisionQuest , a superpowered robot tries to better understand humanity by getting lost in elaborate, digital daydreams in which he and other artificial intelligence-powered beings live together in a home. The series is deeply…

  7. Better telco economics today, uncertain telco economics tomorrow (Telco Diary)
    USRCR Wireless News Telecom & 5G

    From the newsletter (October 27; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Orange, AT&T and Verizon are improving earnings through commercial growth and cost discipline, while telcos place bets…

  8. Apple’s Most Expensive iPhone Is Missing This Basic FaceTime Feature
    USGizmodo Hardware

    The iPhone SE 2 has it, for Pete's sake.

  9. Build specialized multimodal models with LFM3
    USHugging Face Blog Artificial Intelligence
  10. Why Is a Giant Arm Appearing to Point X Users to Promote Whatever Tweets Are Called Now?
    USGizmodo Hardware

    Masterful gambit, sir.

  11. Quince’s Merino Wool Tee Doesn’t Cost a Fortune
    USWired Gear Hardware

    Merino wool is a super fiber, and Quince’s all-season tee is the perfect way to try it out without spending a fortune.

  12. vivo X500 Pro in for review
    BGGSMArena Hardware

    The vivo X500 series only just became global, and we've got the X500 Pro, and X500 Pro Max in the office, alongside the X500, which is not coming to Europe for now. The series is oddly lopsided, with the Pro Max towering over the Pro with…

  13. Fujifilm’s New Instant Camera Records 4 Seconds of Video Before You Press the Shutter
    USGizmodo Hardware

    It's kind of like Live Photos on an iPhone. The Instax Mini Evo 2 also has a larger touchscreen.

  14. Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?
    USTechCrunch Tech Market & VC

    TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery

  15. Crypto.com and OG.com launch US crypto perps with up to 5x leverage
    USThe Block (Crypto/Fintech) Quant Finance

    The contracts have no expiration date and allow traders to bet on crypto prices rising or falling.

  16. Superbugs Are Winning—and They’re Now Killing 50,000 Americans a Year
    USGizmodo Hardware

    Infections and deaths in the U.S. caused by drug-resistant bacteria and fungi have risen since 2019, the CDC says.

  17. Shining light on Australia’s largest rooftops
    DEPV Magazine Energy & Green Tech

    Australia is portrayed as a solar success story, and on two fronts it has earned that reputation. More than 4 million households have rooftop solar, while large-scale solar and wind continue to grow under state and federal schemes. Between…

  18. The Super Mouse puts a touchscreen macro pad under your hand
    USThe Verge Hardware Hardware

    A company called Arctic Fox Technologies has announced a new multifunction mouse that forgoes a myriad of customizable shortcut buttons peppered across its surface for a compact touchscreen sitting beneath your hand. The Super Mouse may…

  19. A fast and secure tar parser for the Rust ecosystem
    USlobste.rs Software Engineering

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  20. Windows finally gets a built-in internet speed test tool – how to try it
    USZDNet Security Cybersecurity

    Available to Windows Insiders, the built-in tool measures your upload and download speeds over Ethernet or Wi-Fi.

  21. Canton-based trading platform Cancore raises $7.2 million at $60 million token valuation
    USThe Block (Crypto/Fintech) Quant Finance

    Cancore, a Canton-based trading platform connecting assets on the network with liquidity on public blockchains, has raised $7.2 million in seed funding. Paper Ventures, dao5, ArkStream Capital, X Ventures, MH Ventures and Proof of Talk…

  22. Pokémon Unite is shutting down
    USEngadget Hardware

    Its journey ends in March 2027.

  23. This tool can recover deleted AI chats from your phone – how it works
    USZDNet Security Cybersecurity

    This new tool proves it’s still best to limit the info you share with chatbots.

  24. Anthropic’s elaborate plan to keep Wall Street at bay
    USThe Verge Hardware Hardware

    Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Anthropic wants to have it both ways. With its impending IPO, it wants to tap the vast riches of the public markets and insists it doesn't want to compromise its core…

  25. The politicians still making the case for data centers this election season
    USFast Company Tech Tech Market & VC

    Data centers might be the boogeyman of the 2026 election. As anxiety about the impact of AI on the economy—and of hyperscaler facilities on local communities—ramps up, politicians on both sides of the aisle have distanced themselves from…

  26. Finding panics with Call Graph Analyzer
    USlobste.rs Software Engineering

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  27. Why does the FCC hate Minions routers?
    USEngadget Hardware

    These themed routers are surprisingly (inexplicably) capable, but they are under threat by the FCC.

  28. Meta’s $25 billion legal loss just put blood in the water
    USThe Verge Hardware Hardware

    When attorneys general from across the US announced a $17 billion settlement with Meta this summer, the sum was unprecedented. But a ruling last week by a New Mexico judge blew that number out of the water. The judge ordered Meta to pay…

  29. Filian, Fil-C binaries on Debian
    USlobste.rs Software Engineering

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  30. XPENG Tops Customer Satisfaction Ranking For Second Year, Beating Tesla
    USCleanTechnica Energy & Green Tech

    XPENG recently ranked highest in the European USCALE “EV Satisfaction Study” for the second year in a row. Not only did XPENG top the chart again, but their score improved over the previous year. The leading 82% recommendation rate ranks…