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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

Sony Tells SCOTUS That People Accused of Piracy Aren't 'Innocent Grandmothers' (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-10-17 Sony

Windows 11 updates break localhost (127.0.0.1) HTTP/2 connections (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-17

Sources: CME Group plans to debut financial contracts tied to sports games and economic indicators by the end of 2025, including through its FanDuel partnership (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-17

Meta Is Building a Smart TV In VR (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-10-17 VR

Google DeepMind Partners With Fusion Startup (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-10-17 Google Startup

Open Source GZDoom Community Splinters After Creator Inserts AI-Generated Code (games.slashdot.org)
2025-10-17 AI Open Source

Aboon, an AI-powered platform for financial advisers to help business owners launch and manage 401(k) plans, raised a $17.5M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures (www.wealthmanagement.com)
2025-10-17 AI

Chinese Criminals Made More Than $1 Billion From Those Annoying Texts (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-10-17 China

Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement agencies that work with Flock request footage from Ring doorbell users (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-17 Amazon

Apple Readies High-End MacBook Pro With Touch, Hole-Punch Screen (apple.slashdot.org)
2025-10-17 Apple MacBook

A profile of Joshua Kushner, including Thrive Capital's investments in GitHub and Stripe and its role in reinstating Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO in November 2023 (joincolossus.com)
2025-10-17 GitHub

Have I Been Pwned: Prosper data breach impacts 17.6 million accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-17

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

Sal Khan Will Become the Public Face of the TED Conference (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-17

Sources: Apple readies a slimmer M6 MacBook Pro featuring an OLED touch display with a hole-punch design replacing the notch, for late 2026 or early 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-17 Apple MacBook

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