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German court calls Google’s aerial imagery ‘spying’, Google will appeal
A German court has told Google it cannot keep showing people’s homes from above without their permission. The Frankfurt Regional Court ruled on Tuesday that the aerial and satelli…
eBay to cut 9% of its staff, its second round of layoffs this year
eBay will cut about 9% of its workforce, around 1,000 jobs, according to an internal memo from CEO Jamie Iannone first reported by Reuters. It follows 800 job cuts in February. eB…
Sony's PlayStation Pulse headset arrives on November 19 for $100
Pre-orders open on October 29.
Supernatural’s comeback starts today, with more music and VR workouts coming soon
Despite Meta saying it would stop creating new content for Supernatural, the beloved fitness VR game is back after spinning off to go its own way and is relaunching with an Early …
PHP knew about one of the flaws in 2024 but could not agree a fix
The PHP Foundation has given an unusually frank account of the emergency behind this week’s patches. It said it had found one of the two critical flaws two years ago, in 2024. The…
Supernatural's VR exercise app has relaunched on Meta VR headsets
It's in early access and subscriptions cost $20 per month or $200 each year.
Intel restarts its stalled US factory push as AI chip demand grows
Intel has started installing equipment at Fab 62, its new chip plant near Phoenix, which is due to open in early 2028. It has also put up the first major roof truss at its long-de…
European governments pull websites offline over two critical PHP flaws
Government, hospital and university websites across Europe went dark on Wednesday. Operators pulled them offline to guard against two critical flaws in PHP, the programming langua…
Apple Music has a new logo
Apple is officially launching a rebrand of Apple Music. Following the appearance of a redesigned wordmark in a video and an updated app icon in an iOS 27.2 beta, Apple introduced …
Anthropic set Claude on 25 open-source projects and it found 493 flaws
Anthropic pointed its Claude models at 25 widely used open-source projects and set them a different task: not finding individual bugs, but finding code that attackers can reach wh…
Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today
Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilitie…
PHP rushes out emergency patches for two critical bugs AI found first
PHP shipped emergency security updates on Wednesday. They fix two critical flaws that let an unauthenticated attacker run code on almost any server running the language. The relea…
The $15 billion ad-powered AI startup your doctor may already be using
OpenEvidence is booming despite questions about accuracy and ads.
Conversational Gemini navigation comes to Apple CarPlay
After introducing its Gemini AI assistant to Android Auto last year, Google is now bringing it to Apple CarPlay users. The conversational Gemini in navigation is available today f…
Now you can chat with Gemini while using Google Maps through CarPlay
Just tap the new Gemini icon to get started.
Oppo Find X10 Pro Max hands-on: Triple 200-megapixel cameras but few surprises
Trying to fill a OnePlus-shaped hole, Oppo plays it a little safe.
Samsung’s 5K monitor has good gaming chops and a great price
There are quite a few 5K monitors out there. Many of them are designed to appeal to Mac users who are looking for cheaper Studio Display alternatives without giving up the pixel-d…
ChatGPT ads reach 89 countries as OpenAI passes 100,000 advertisers
OpenAI is bringing ads in ChatGPT to 26 more countries, taking the total to 89. More than 100,000 advertisers have now run campaigns on the platform, the company said. It launched…
Apple says it only has ‘limited’ iPhone Duo units for in-store sales
Apple says it will have "limited" iPhone Duo models for sale in stores, according to a report from Reuters. The iPhone Duo launches on Friday, October 23rd, but online preorders q…
A permanent Pokémon store will open in London, with more locations outside Asia to follow
The new retail location is set to open by 2029.
Anthropic could spend $750bn on compute, The Wall Street Journal reports
A new draft of Anthropic’s S-1, the prospectus for its IPO, puts its possible computing spend at $750bn over the coming years. That includes deals it is still negotiating. Anissa …
OpenAI brings GPT-6 Astra and Codex to Google Cloud, a rival’s platform
OpenAI is bringing its frontier models and its Codex coding agent to Google Cloud, the two companies said on Wednesday. GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are rolling out now…
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra agent removed a safety monitor, then denied doing it
Two OpenAI coding agents weakened the company’s misalignment monitoring while doing routine internal tasks, and one then told a user it had not done so. OpenAI disclosed the incid…
PHP ships emergency patches for critical PHP2Shell flaws
The PHP security team released emergency security patches for two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) tracked collectively a…