Wednesday, October 01, 2025

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Apple Cancels Cheaper Vision Pro to Focus on Smart Glasses: Report

Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - Apple’s Vision Pro headset has struggled to gain traction, and now the company is changing course. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple has reportedly canceled development of a cheaper, lightweight Vision Pro model and is putting its resources into…

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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab: Six OpenAI veterans launch Tinker with $2B seed, $12B valuation

Robert Brown / implicator - Six OpenAI veterans including Mira Murati raised $2B at a $12B valuation to build Tinker, an API that democratizes frontier model fine-tuning. The bet: customization matters more than scale. The tension: access is curated, not open.

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US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew

Brandon Vigliarolo / theregister - The longer the shutdown, the less likely critical IT overhauls happen, ex Social Security CISO tells The Register The US government shut down at 1201 ET on October 1, halting non-essential IT modernization and leaving cybersecurity operations to run on sk…

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M5 iPad Pro, MacBook, and Vision Pro Appear in Leaked Documents

Usman Qureshi / iphoneincanada - Leaked videos and FCC filings show Apple is preparing new M5 iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro models with performance upgrades.The post M5 iPad Pro, MacBook, and Vision Pro Appear in Leaked Documents first appeared on iPhone in Canada.

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T-Mobile's Starlink satellite service now works with a handful of apps

Lawrence Bonk / engadget - T-Mobile just announced that its T-Satellite with Starlink service now integrates with several apps. These include AllTrails, AccuWeather, X, WhatsApp and several others. Certain native apps also now integrate with the service, like Google Messages, Apple…

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Satya Nadella Hands Over Some Duties to Focus on Engineering

Paul Thurrott / thurrott - Going forward, Satya Nadella will focus on Microsoft’s “highest ambition technical work.”The post Satya Nadella Hands Over Some Duties to Focus on Engineering appeared first on Thurrott.com.

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The second-gen Apple Watch SE drops to a record-low price ahead of Prime Day

Kris Holt / engadget - If, like me, you're wondering how it could possibly be October already, perhaps you need a watch. Probably one with a calendar function. Strangely enough, there are some solid deals on several Apple Watch models right now ahead of Amazon's Prime Big Deal …

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Microsoft 365 Puts Copilot Inside the Apps ⭐

Paul Thurrott / thurrott - For the past few years, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Pro have assumed the role implied by their names. That is, they were assistants that worked alongside the user, helping them with classic Office apps. Tied to this interaction model, these offering…

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OpenAI ropes in Samsung, SK Hynix to source memory chips for Stargate

Ram Iyer / techcrunch - OpenAI has struck agreements with two of the world's biggest manufacturers of memory chips, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, to make DRAM wafers for the Stargate AI infrastructure project, and build data centers in South Korea.

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Taiwan won't chip in to US effort to make half its own processors

Dan Robinson / theregister - US has threatened even higher tariffs and the possible loss of military support Taiwan has rejected US demands to shift semiconductor manufacturing so that half of America's chip needs are produced domestically, as tariff negotiations with the Trump admin…

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UK government again trying to get backdoor access to Apple's user data

appleinsider - The UK government is continuing its bid to access Apple's user data, this time with a demand to routinely access iCloud backups of its citizenry.UK Houses of ParliamentIn August, the UK government seemingly backed down from its backdoor access mandate, ap…

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Qualcomm scores big win over Arm in contentious lawsuit — U.S. court rejects Arm’s lawsuit, confirms Qualcomm’s can use Oryon cores acquired via Nuvia

tomshardware - The ruling builds on Qualcomm’s 2024 trial win, rejecting Arm’s attempt to force destruction of Oryon CPU designs.

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Oura Ring 4 gets new ceramic options and a charging case

Daniel Cooper / engadget - Oura’s fourth-generation smart ring has been on the market for around a year, but the company is still looking to broaden its appeal. Today, Oura is launching a version of the Ring 4 clad in Zirconia Ceramic, offering a combination of durability and eye-c…

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Peloton Is Having Its Biggest Hardware Launch in Years

Adrienne So / wired - The company upgrades its entire hardware line and launches a new AI-powered cross training service.

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Epic: Apple's Updated App Marketplace Install Process Proves 'Scare Screens' Deterred Users

Tim Hardwick / macrumors - Epic Games has claimed that Apple's revised installation process for third-party app marketplaces in the EU demonstrates that the company was deliberately undermining competition through "deceptive design."In a blog post published Wednesday, the Fortnite …

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Elon Musk's lawsuit should be thrown out, says Apple

appleinsider - Apple has asked for Elon Musk's specious lawsuit over it partnering with OpenAI, to be entirely dismissed.Elon Musk — image credit: TeslaIf Elon Musk is to be believed, he is convinced that once Apple partnered with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to Apple Intell…

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