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Amazon Leo wins FCC approval to buy iPhone satellite partner Globalstar
The US Federal Communications Commission has approved Amazon Leo’s $11.5bn purchase of Globalstar. Globalstar runs the satellite service behind Apple’s iPhone emergency features. …
Meta weighs delaying 'alarming' new business terms as backlash grows
The company says it won't make "policy changes" until it consults with publishers.
The PlayStation 5 just might be Sony's final Blu-Ray player
Between Sony's plan to end PlayStation disc production and discontinuing its Blu-ray players, the future looks grim for physical media.
Foreign gadget bans: all the news about the FCC’s clampdown on Chinese tech
What do drones, routers, and Roombas have in common? The US government wants to keep Chinese ones from entering the country. They’re the first consumer gadgets that are facing de …
Palantir’s defence chief says the AI race raises the risk to Taiwan
Palantir defence chief Mike Gallagher said the AI race makes it more tempting for Xi Jinping to seize Taiwan, home to TSMC, before China falls behind for good. He warned that Beij…
Australia moves to ban AI chatbots from ‘emotional intimacy’ with children
Australia’s digital duty of care bill would bar AI chatbots from building “emotional intimacy” with children. The bill passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday, 28 October…
Trump admin sues Utah to save Kalshi from the state's total ban on gambling
US agency has sued 10 states for trying to stop gambling on prediction markets.
The last, best hope for space tourism just rolled onto a runway in Arizona
It has been nearly a year since any space tourism flights occurred.
Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying
The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.
AMD to invest $1bn in Meta as its Helios racks start running there
AMD will invest $1bn in Meta’s equity offering, the chipmaker said on Tuesday, 27 October. It made the pledge in a release on its partnership with Meta. AMD also said its first He…
Hands-on with the new OLED iPad Mini
Apple announced a new iPad Mini with a larger OLED display this week, and we've just gotten to try it out at Apple's "Pro and tell" event. It's an iPad for sure, but the new OLED …
Oracle shares jump as it targets $30B in free cash flow by 2029
Oracle said free cash flow will reach $30B in the year to May 2029, when analysts expected it to stay negative. It capped new fundraising at $20B through May 2030 and kept its $22…
OpenAI now lets you text your Dot agent
The feature works with both iMessage and RCS messaging.
Touchscreen MacBook Pro hands-on: OLED looks great on a Mac
It's not as different from the previous model as you might have expected.
Munich’s biggest taxi firm plans up to 500 Tensor robotaxis in Germany
Munich’s largest taxi operator plans to run up to 500 self-driving cars from US company Tensor in German cities. Tensor and Münchner Taxi Zentrum (MTZ) have signed a letter of int…
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Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’
The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organiz…
Brendan Carr plans to let prisons jam cellphone signals
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced the agency will vote on November 19th on rules that would allow prisons to use signal jamming. Radiofrequency jammers are generally banned unde…
GitHub launches Copilot Fusion as agents start 40% of pull requests
GitHub launched Copilot Fusion at GitHub Universe, its developer conference, on Wednesday. The system decides which AI model, or mix of models, should handle each step of a coding…
Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can't use
Gemini 4 Carbon is essentially a slightly better version of Argon.
Discord to let search engines index public server messages
Discord will allow search engines to index discussions in Discoverable Servers and make them accessible on the web to users outside the platform without an account or invitation. …
Sony's new see-through DualSense controllers let you game like its 1999
The company is also releasing matching PS5 console covers.
Microsoft is ending Copilot support on smart TVs
Nearly two years after LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their latest smart TVs would include access to Microsoft's Copilot, the company is ending support for the AI assis…
SK Hynix profit jumps 632% as it says memory shortage will last to 2030
SK Hynix reported record third-quarter results on Wednesday, 28 October. Operating profit rose 632% from a year earlier to 83.3 trillion won (about $62bn). Revenue rose 328% to 10…