Tech

Israel-based Second Nature, whose conversational AI helps train sales teams, raised a $22M Series B led by Sienna VC, taking its total raised to $80M (www.calcalistech.com)
2025-10-17 Israel AI

Sources: French regulator ACPR is carrying out anti-money laundering checks on Binance and others, as it seeks to determine eligibility for EU MiCA licenses (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-17 France

Turn a 10.5″ tablet into a Chromebook laptop in this open-box ASUS deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-17

EssilorLuxottica stock jumps 10%+ after reporting Q3 revenue up 11.7% YoY to €6.9B, with wearables like Ray-Ban Meta contributing 4 percentage points to growth (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-17 Ban

Meta plans new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026, letting parents block teens from chatting with AI characters and sending them “insights” from teens' chats (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-17 AI Instagram

Physicists Inadvertently Generated the Shortest X-Ray Pulses Ever Observed (science.slashdot.org)
2025-10-17

Anthropic's Skills for Claude, which are conceptually very simple, may become a bigger deal than MCP, whose high token usage is its most significant limitation (simonwillison.net)
2025-10-17

OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created “disrespectful depictions” (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-17

Reddit announces that it is expanding its Google Gemini-powered search experience to five new languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-17 Germany France Italy Google Spain Reddit

Scientists Create New Form of Ice, Known As Ice XXI (science.slashdot.org)
2025-10-17

How the FBI's hunt for the person who coerced a 13-year-old into livestreaming his suicide led to the arrest of a German member of the online predator group 764 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-10-17 Germany FBI

Sources: Samsung to showcase its trifold phone at this month's APEC summit; attendees won't be allowed to touch it, as it's expected to be displayed under glass (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-17 Samsung APEC

Source: OpenAI expects to spend 20% to 30% less on AI chips co-developed with Broadcom than on chips from Nvidia, which is notoriously backlogged on GPU orders (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-17 AI Nvidia

Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials in a mass doxxing event (www.404media.co)
2025-10-17 Hacker FBI

Three labor unions filed a lawsuit in NY federal court to block the Trump administration from searching visa holders' social media for posts it deems hostile (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-10-17 Trump

Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through (www.404media.co)
2025-10-17 AI chatbot

Sources: Micron plans to stop selling server chips to data centers in China after a 2023 ban, but will continue selling chips to auto and smartphone sectors (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-17 China Ban

Auction giant Sotheby's says data breach exposed financial information (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-17

Internal documents: Salesforce pitched ICE on using its AI tech to nearly triple the agency's staff by hiring 10K new officers, improve investigations, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-17 AI Salesforce

Sources: Nintendo has asked manufacturers to produce as many as 25M Switch 2 units by the end of March 2026, surpassing analysts' estimates of 17.6M (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-17 Nintendo

Microsoft to bring Copilot Actions, which can use apps to complete certain tasks on local files in Windows 11, to the Windows Insider Program and Copilot Labs (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-17 Microsoft

Kayak launches a ChatGPT-powered chatbot on its desktop and mobile website that lets users ask travel questions and compare flights, hotels, and car rentals (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-17 Mobile chatbot

New ITVX Channel Streams Absolutely Spellbinding Footage of Earth... Forever (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-17

Sources: Meta is set to seal an almost $30B financing package for its Louisiana data center; Meta will retain 20% ownership in the Hyperion data center site (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-17

AI data centers are building on-site power plants to bypass the overloaded grid and meet soaring electricity demand amid permitting and supply challenges (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-17 AI

A look at ByteDance's Doubao, which became China's most popular AI app in August, with over 157M MAUs, thanks in part to its deep integration with Douyin (www.wired.com)
2025-10-17 China AI

Spotify Says It's Working With Labels On 'Responsible' AI Music Tools (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-10-17 AI Spotify

Steam hit a new record with over 41.6M concurrent users on October 12, a surge largely sparked by the release of Battlefield 6 (www.tweaktown.com)
2025-10-17

Video Game Union Workers Rally Against $55 Billion Saudi-Backed Private Acquisition of EA (games.slashdot.org)
2025-10-17

Miami Is Testing a Self-Driving Police Car That Can Launch Drones (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-17 Drone

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