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- AuxoAI, which helps large businesses build and deploy AI systems, raised a $20.7M Series A led by NTTVC to accelerate growth and scale (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE) [1d]
- SAP: Q3 cloud revenue up 25% YoY to €6.67B, vs. €6.57B est., total revenue up 12% to €10.27B, current cloud backlog up 26% to €24.1B, all in constant currencies (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg) [1d]
- IBM reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $17.1B, above $16.82B est., net income up 26% to $2.19B, software revenue up 8% to $7.8B, and infrastructure revenue up 4% (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- GitLab patches a critical flaw that lets unauthenticated attackers run code on self-managed servers, affecting every release since 7.0 in 2014 (Swati Khandelwal/The Hacker News) [1d]
- Texas Instruments reports Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $6.06B, above $5.93B est., net income up 78% YoY to $2.43B, and forecasts $5.8B-$6.3B in Q4, vs. $5.73B est. (Ian King/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Mark Zuckerberg says Muse has drawn 10M+ users since its launch and 25%+ of users are making purchases through the app, with an average purchase size of $200+ (Business Insider) [1d]
- Meta expects its 2026 capex to be $135B-$145B, vs. $130B-$145B previously, and forecasts Q4 revenue of $73B-$76B, vs. $73.6B est.; META jumps 3%+ after hours (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Anthropic unveils Claude Duet, a proactive agent app on iOS, Android, and the web that works in the background, in research preview for US Pro and Max users (Claude) [1d]
- Filing: Meta says Mark Zuckerberg is considering leaving California if it passes a one-time 5% tax on billionaires; voters will decide on the measure next month (Pierre Paulden/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Meta says it will create a new class of nonvoting stock to raise the capital it needs for developing AI models, with an effective date in January 2027 (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Meta reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $64.6B, operating income down 37% to $12.99B on a $9.89B AG settlement charge, and family DAP up 3% to 3.64B for September (Meta) [1d]
- OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps say thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents analyzed data on millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, a job that takes humans months (OpenAI) [1d]
- Microsoft reveals pricing for Xbox Cloud Gaming without Game Pass, for Xbox Insiders now and others next month: 10 hours for $3.99, 25 for $7.99, 50 for $11.99 (Tom Warren/The Verge) [1d]
- Flapping Airplanes, which is working on methods to train AI models on less data and compute and make the chips more efficient, raised $1B at a $6B valuation (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) [1d]
- A New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $25B in penalties after a jury found Meta misled residents about its data practices in the Cambridge Analytica scandal (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [1d]
- Source and leaked memo: EA plans to cut ~400 jobs, or ~3% of its total staff, and shut down BioWare; EA went private in August following a $55B leveraged buyout (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg) [1d]
- The PHP Foundation says its RCE patches are limited to PHP 8.2 and newer, leaving legacy deployments dependent on third-party vendors (Wired) [1d]
- Recursive releases Flint, an open-weight, 40B-parameter coding model developed with its Eureka Machine AI system, which automated most of the development (Will Knight/Wired) [1d]
- Watchtower, which uses AI and simulation software to help the US Armed Forces make logistical decisions, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media) [1d]
- The PHP Foundation details how it found and fixed the two flaws, and says it had to release patches a day early after the CVE IDs began circulating online (The PHP Foundation) [1d]
- Several government, school, and hospital websites in Europe were taken offline as organizations rush to protect themselves from two critical PHP security flaws (Reuters) [1d]
- Whop, which helps people start, run, and scale businesses and uses AI to suggest business decisions, raised $205M led by Sequoia Capital at a $5.1B valuation (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg) [1d]
- OpenAI says the PHP flaws, found using GPT-5.6 Sol, "are among several significant vulnerabilities" it found and expects "similar findings to increase sharply" (OpenAI) [1d]
- Mach9, which develops AI-powered CAD software trained on proprietary, in-house AI models using multimodal image and laser scan datasets, raised a $34M Series A (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Cloudflare says it deployed default WAF mitigations for all free and paid tier customers to combat two PHP flaws, roughly nine hours ahead of public disclosure (Cloudflare) [1d]
- Claude flagged 493 security issues across 25 open-source projects, covering 5M+ lines of C, C++, Java, PHP, and Python code; one went unnoticed for 21 years (Chris Rohlf/Anthropic) [1d]
- PHP discloses a critical memory-management vulnerability, dubbed "PHP2Shell", that affects up to 70% of websites, discovered using GPT-5.6 Sol in August (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- PHP releases security fixes for two critical unauthenticated RCE vulnerabilities, urging all PHP users to update; all web-serving deployments are affected (PHP) [1d]
- ServiceNow and Nvidia launch Arc, a personal, long-running enterprise AI agent for productivity tasks across email and Teams, for RTX Spark and Nvidia OpenShell (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET) [1d]
- Stockholm-based legal AI startup Legora raised a $550M Series E at an $8.8B post-money valuation, up from $5.55B after raising a $550M Series D in March (Rosie Harris-Davison/City A.M.) [1d]
- OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads to 26 additional countries, taking the total to 83 countries, and says the platform's advertiser base is 100K+, up from 20K in August (Alix Coutures/The Information) [1d]
- Apple says it plans to add Reachability for the iPhone Duo later in 2026, helping people with smaller hands more easily access the left or right display edges (Julian Chokkattu/Wired) [1d]
- Spotify launches its first standalone, native in-car app built on Android Automotive OS, debuting on select Audi models, with a custom UI controlled by Spotify (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge) [1d]
- Nvidia launches its OpenShell Reference Architecture, a framework to secure, monitor, and govern AI agents, and partners with Canonical, AWS, BBVA, and others (Thomas Claburn/The Register) [1d]
- GTC Berlin: Jensen Huang pushes Europe on AI adoption, saying "for Europe to benefit from AI ... you need all the end markets, the end industries to adopt AI" (Bloomberg) [1d]
- OpenAI says it will make its AI models available on Google Cloud's model garden and Antigravity coding tool in the coming weeks, after launching on AWS in April (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [1d]
- iPhone Duo review: fun to play with and cool matte inner display, but small cover display, heavier and bulkier than other phones, average cameras, and gets hot (The Verge) [1d]
- Memo: eBay is cutting ~9% of its workforce to simplify operations and reallocate resources toward high-growth areas; eBay cut 6%, or ~800 staff, in February (Reuters) [1d]
- WiiM Bar review: a worthy Sonos rival? [1d]
- Lenovo's MacBook Neo rival has landed a month early — but is it worth your money? [1d]
- SteelSeries Sensei Pro review: clever battery management meets high performance [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, October 22 (game #1732) [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, October 22 (game #1229) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, October 22 (game #963) [1d]
- 'Data centers can be located in exhausted open pits': Russia eyes 300-meter-deep coal mines to shield server infrastructure from Ukrainian drones [1d]
- 12 days of nerd-friendly Advent calendars — from rubber ducks to Funko Pops [1d]
- 'Autonomously commanded from up to 70 miles away': The US military is testing self-flying cargo helicopters that navigate around sudden no-fly zones on their own [1d]
- Before you bid on vintage gadgets, find out how much retro tech you can really handle with this quiz [1d]
- Ukraine’s new StarGate drone can evacuate wounded soldiers from the battlefield — without risking a rescue crew [1d]
- South Korea unveils world's first fielded laser air defense weapon — Hanwha's Cheongwang downs drones in 1 second for just $1.50 a shot [1d]
- Clayface review: Tom Rhys Harries shines in DCU body horror gamble that largely pays off [1d]
- How to watch Ellie & Natasia season 2 for free online from anywhere [1d]
- I use Bitdefender Total Security to protect all of my devices, and it’s down to $28 at Newegg [1d]
- DJI’s Power 1000 V2 delivers all-day drone charging with 2,600W of home backup — and Amazon dropped the price to $400 [1d]
- Turn your laptop into a triple-screen workstation for $230 [1d]
- 'Faster code is not the same as better software delivered sooner': New report claims AI isn't solving productivity across the entire software development lifecycle - yet [1d]
- Three dormant US nuclear reactors are being restarted to power AI data centers [1d]
- SACD's are making a big comeback and Esoteric's new $45k / £38k player proves it [1d]
- Dell put Nvidia DGX Spark silicon into its Pro Precision workstation — and undercut it by $1,000 [1d]
- Stranger Than Heaven director says Makoto Daito's life story is 'not just entertainment' and hopes it will break the barriers of racism — 'I hope that Makoto’s life journey really speaks to people around the globe who have had similar experiences' [1d]
- How to watch Bayern Munich vs Arsenal: FREE live Streams, TV channels & kick-off time for Champions League 2026/27 [1d]
- Wikipedia is down for millions —here's what we know about the outage [1d]
- Amazon's brand-new and improved Fire TV Stick 4K just dropped to its lowest price ever [1d]
- Website admins across the world bracing for impact following major PHP flaw reveal [1d]
- “The ultimate destination for Pokémon fans”: The first permanent Pokémon store outside Asia is coming — and I'm already praying for my bank account [1d]
- Has Windscribe quietly completed the first-ever AI VPN audit? [1d]
- Stranger Than Heaven director says RGG 'intentionally' forgot about Yakuza to create 'something new' — 'Every single aspect of it, we started thinking about it from scratch, just to suit the style of Stranger Than Heaven' [1d]
- Oppo Find X10 Pro Max review: the zero-compromise camera phone [1d]
- Oppo Find X10 Review: a pro-level phone disguised as a standard flagship [1d]
- Antigravity A1 Follow Me Bundle review: a game-changing wearable bundle that changes how you fly the 360 drone [1d]
- How to watch Northern Ireland Open snooker – live stream Alex Higgins Trophy [1d]
- A Microsoft exec has admitted that the Windows 11 design team is using AI [1d]
- Saily’s security-first travel eSIM is 16% off — and it beats relying on hotel Wi-Fi [1d]
- Proton CEO Andy Yen wins 2026 Liberal Award amid Swiss surveillance debate [1d]
- Gran Turismo PS5 controller pre-orders — all the best links and info ahead of the new DualSense dropping [1d]
- State Bank of India reports cyberattack — thousands of customer records affected, here's what we know [1d]
- Stranger Than Heaven preview: all the makings of a unique off-beat adventure from RGG Studio [1d]
- How to watch Como vs Man Utd for FREE: Live streams [1d]
- Amazon is planning its biggest-ever hiring plan for Christmas 2026 workers [1d]
- AI 'antidetect' browsers are making scams, fraud, and influence operations harder to spot [1d]
- Apple Pay faces UK crackdown that could change iPhone tap-to-pay [1d]
- Lawsuits claim delivery robots recorded biometric data without permission [1d]
- Unitree reveals 'kung fu' robot bodyguard with eight-hour battery life [1d]
- Anomalith producer reveals that 'liminal spaces, including things like the Backrooms' inspired the upcoming third-person survival shooter [1d]
- ‘It's our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more’: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlines what businesses need to conquer the AI frontier ecosystem [1d]
- I’ve been watching my Dawn of War 4 armies dominate enemies, completely cover maps, and take more resource points than you can shake a Gretchen at, and it’s reminded me why I fell in love with the first game all those years ago [1d]
- Apple iPhone Duo review: this is the foldable Apple fans have been waiting for [1d]
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- Google Chrome Will Notify You If You’re on a Scam Website [1d]
- Do You Need a Filtered Showerhead for Your Skin and Hair? Here’s What Dermatologists Say [1d]
- Lawsuits Allege Delivery Robots Recorded Biometric Data Without Permission [1d]
- Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Oct. 22 #759 [1d]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Spangram and Answers for Thursday, Oct. 22, #963 [1d]
- The 3-in-1 Alloop Wearable Could Replace Both Your Wellness Wristband and Ring [1d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Thursday, Oct. 22, #1229 [1d]
- Today’s NYT Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Thursday, Oct. 22, #1951 [1d]
- Apple’s iPhone Duo Should Get Reachability Accessibility in an Upcoming Update [1d]
- Save Up to a Massive $800 on Flux Laser Cutters With Our Exclusive Coupon Codes [1d]
- Tech Issues Are on the Ballot This Midterm Election Season: What to Know [1d]
- Score a 55-Inch 4K OLED TV With a 120Hz Refresh Rate for Just $500 [1d]
- The ESA’s Euclid Telescope Discovered a New Comet Completely by Accident [1d]
- Ohio State Makes a Stink by Digitally Sending Scents [1d]
- Get Your Hands on an Apple Watch or Samsung Galaxy Watch for Up to 47% Off [1d]
- Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, Oct. 21 [1d]
- Real Madrid vs. RB Leipzig: Livestream Champions League Soccer From Anywhere [1d]
- Save 20% Off Your First Year of DeleteMe’s Data Removal Tool With Our Discount Code [1d]
- Bayern Munich vs. Arsenal: Livestream Champions League Soccer From Anywhere [1d]
- Supernatural Restart: The VR Fitness App Is Back as VR Itself Starts to Change [1d]
- Amazon Deals of the Day: These Budget-Friendly Earfun Earbuds Are Close to Their Lowest Price Ever [1d]
- I’m Baffled by Oppo’s Find X10 Pro Max, but I Love It Anyway [1d]
- PHP Vulnerabilities Could Put Much of the Internet at Risk, Experts Warn [1d]
- My Favorite Budget Camera Brand Is Finally Getting 4K Plus and a Mile-Long Range [1d]
- Como vs. Man United: Livestream 2026 Champions League Soccer From Anywhere [1d]
- iPhone Duo Review: Late to the Foldable Party, but It Steals the Show [1d]
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