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Tech Market & VC news — Saturday 24 October 2026

18 stories from 4 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.

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  1. Starlink seems to be working normally again in Ukraine
    USTechCrunch

    Elon Musk reportedly ordered SpaceX to throttle Ukraine's Starlink access.

  2. Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?
    USTechCrunch

    The moment you realize the internet is "held together by glue and dreams."

  3. The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
    USTechCrunch

    From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

  4. Instacart reportedly discussed selling itself with DoorDash and Uber
    USTechCrunch

    Instacart might sell itself to a larger competitor.

  5. Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human
    USTechCrunch

    Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max

  6. PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet
    USTechCrunch

    Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it's unlikely to be the last major software scare.

  7. These clever apps show off the iPhone Duo’s potential
    USTechCrunch

    From retro cassette players and virtual notebooks to flight trackers and even a digital toaster, developers are finding creative ways to take advantage of Apple's first foldable iPhone.

  8. Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats. 
    USTechCrunch

    A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.

  9. The Boox Palma 2 Pro finally got me to stop reading on my phone
    USTechCrunch

    The $400 Boox Palma 2 Pro is a smartphone-sized e-reader designed for people who want to read books, articles, and documents on a small E Ink display.

  10. Comm min identifying AI-proof professions, sectors where India can take global lead: Goyal
    INYourStory (India)

    The commerce ministry is identifying professions less vulnerable to artificial intelligence (AI) to prepare for a fast-changing technological landscape and seize opportunities for India to emerge as a global leader, Union Minister Piyush…

  11. The AI infrastructure race: I’ve seen this movie before
    USFast Company Tech

    Back in 2022, when the auto industry was fixated on autonomous vehicles, I was cofounder and chief technology officer at Luminar, where our lidar technology was helping enable the next generation of self-driving cars. Speaking at an…

  12. Google says now is your best time to snag cheap flights for Thanksgiving and Christmas
    USFast Company Tech

    As anyone who travels frequently knows, airfare costs around the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays can be significantly higher than those for the same route at other times of the year. It’s little surprise why: the year-end holiday…

  13. How art festivals benefit when galleries across cities collaborate
    INYourStory (India)

    Launched in 2014, PhotoSparks is a weekly feature from YourStory, with photographs that celebrate the spirit of creativity and innovation. In the earlier 1,020 posts, we featured an art festival, <a…

  14. Cheque-in: 3 startups bank $25.1 million this week
    AUStartupDaily (AU)

    Cuttable, Syncrowin and SupaHuman bank $25.1m to kill ad grunt work, dumb industry systems and stale training.

  15. How to turn off Google’s AI Overviews—and reclaim search sanity
    USFast Company Tech

    We’ve got two competing realities when it comes to tracking down info online these days: Getting answers has never been easier, between all the artificial intelligence chatbots in front of us and the unavoidable smearing of “AI Overview”…

  16. Why India’s flying taxi revolution begins with electric air ambulances
    INYourStory (India)

    For most deeptech entrepreneurs, the hardest lesson is not solving complex physics but overcoming their own technical fascination. Professor Satya Chakravarthy, Founder and technical lead of The ePlane Company, explained this clearly at…

  17. Rs 10,000 Cr into restaurants. But why do 80% fail? Here's the Hotshare F＆B investment playbook
    INYourStory (India)

    India's restaurant industry is attracting serious capital, but building a profitable restaurant remains one of the most difficult businesses to crack. According to Lavanya Jayashankar, Founder and CEO of Hotshare, an F&B investment…

  18. Infosys AI revenue jumps 29%; Apple’s foldable iPhone fully pre-booked in week 1
    INYourStory (India)

    Dear Reader, Cybercriminals wasted little time turning a software disclosure into an opportunity. Cloudflare detected millions of attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in PHP soon after they were made public, underscoring how quickly…