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Meta removes an AI video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin that falsely showed Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the race (www.irishtimes.com)
2025-10-23 AI

Google says its Willow quantum chip using a new Quantum Echoes algorithm ran computations 13,000x faster than supercomputers, aiding drug and materials research (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-23 Google Algorithm Quantum

Resistant Bacteria Are Advancing Faster Than Antibiotics (science.slashdot.org)
2025-10-23

FinWise data breach shows why encryption is your last defense (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-23

Meta launches new anti-scam tools for WhatsApp and Messenger (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-23 WhatsApp

GM plans to roll out Google Gemini in its vehicles starting in 2026 and plans an advanced driver-assistance system with eyes-off driving capabilities in 2028 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-23 Google

PhantomCaptcha ClickFix attack targets Ukraine war relief orgs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-23 Ukraine

More Than 1,100 Public Figures Call for Ban on AI Superintelligence (slashdot.org)
2025-10-23 AI Ban

ShopMy, which lets brands run influencer marketing efforts, raised $70M led by Avenir at a $1.5B valuation, up from ~$410M after raising $77.5M in March 2024 (www.businessoffashion.com)
2025-10-23

Starbridge, which helps businesses monitor public sector opportunities by consolidating fragmented data, raised a $42M Series A led by David Sacks' Craft (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-23

The UK CMA says it will label Apple and Google as having “strategic market status”, imposing stricter rules on how they run their platforms to boost competition (t.co)
2025-10-23 Google Apple

Rubbish IT Systems Cost the US At Least $40 Billion During Covid (it.slashdot.org)
2025-10-23

Smart Beds Malfunctioned During AWS Outage (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-23

Sumble, which offers an AI sales intelligence service, emerges from stealth and raised a $30M Series A led by Canaan Partners and $8.5M seed led by Coatue (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-23 AI Intelligence

YouTube now lets mobile users set a customizable daily limit to restrict how long they can scroll Shorts feeds; the limit notifications are dismissible (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-23 Mobile YouTube

Internal memo and a source: Meta is cutting ~600 jobs out of several thousand within its Superintelligence Lab, including in its FAIR unit, to cut bureaucracy (www.axios.com)
2025-10-22

The NHL reaches multiyear licensing agreements with prediction market startups Kalshi and Polymarket, the first major US league to allow use of its trademarks (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-22 Startup

Shenzhen-based humanoid robot maker Leju Robotics raised $200M+ led by Citic Goldstone and Shenzhen Investment Holdings ahead of a planned IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-22 IPO Robot Shenzhen

10 Common Misconceptions About the Renaissance (listverse.com)
2025-10-22

Sharepoint ToolShell attacks targeted orgs across four continents (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-22

Store your data with 2TB of FileJump storage in this $69.97 lifetime deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-22

Sources: Apple cuts iPhone Air orders nearly to “end of production” levels after a lukewarm reception in China, but keeps iPhone 17 lineup forecasts at 85M-90M (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-22 China iPhone Apple

Crypto trading firm FalconX agrees to acquire 21shares, one of the main crypto ETF managers, for an undisclosed sum; 21shares had $11B+ in assets in September (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-22 ETF Asset

Sources: Microsoft is significantly increasing the price of its Xbox Development Kit from $1,500 to $2,000, after hiking Series X prices by $150 in September (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-22 Microsoft Xbox

UEFA joins the MPA-led anti-piracy coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, the first sports governing body to join the group, which has 50+ members (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-22

GM To End Production of Electric Chevy Brightdrop Vans (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-22

China is racing ahead of the rest of the world in the adoption of robovans, despite limitations like slow speeds; Neolix has deployed 10,000 robovans so far (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-22 China

Researchers detail systemic vulnerabilities in AI agentic browsers, including Perplexity's Comet and Fellou, related to indirect prompt injection attacks (brave.com)
2025-10-22 AI

Sources: Chinese chipmaker YMTC considers an IPO in China at an up to ~$40B valuation as soon as 2026, in what could be one of China's biggest IPOs in years (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-22 China IPO

Apple's Vision Pro with the M5 chip is assembled in Vietnam, according to labels on its packaging; the M2-based model, launched in 2024, was built in China (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-22 China Apple Vietnam

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