Thursday, October 09, 2025

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The Minecraft movie is getting a sequel

Jay Peters / theverge - A Minecraft Movie is getting a sequel, and according to a post on X, the new film will debut in theaters on July 23rd, 2027. Jared Hess, who directed the first film, is returning for the second, Deadline reports, but Warner Bros. Discovery hasn’t yet said…

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AWS Debuts Quick Suite as a Secure, Lower-Cost Rival to Copilot and Gemini Enterprise

PYMNTS / pymnts - Amazon Web Services on Thursday (Oct. 9) launched Quick Suite, a new agentic AI platform designed to act as a virtual teammate for employees. Quick Suite as an enterprise-grade system that helps workers find information, analyze data, and automate tasks a…

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Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users

Dan Goodin / arstechnica - As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come.

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It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic

Brandon Vigliarolo / theregister - Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on. …

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YouTube opens ‘second chance’ program to creators banned for misinformation

Jay Peters / theverge - YouTube is now giving some creators who were banned for spreading covid and election misinformation a chance to make a new channel, according to a blog post. Under political pressure, the company had said last month that it was going to set up this pilot …

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Sony and AMD tease likely PlayStation 6 GPU upgrades —Radiance Cores and a new interconnect for boosting AI rendering performance

tomshardware - Sony and AMD teased several new technologies that will be making their way into Sony's next-generation console, dubbed Project Amethyst. Upgrades include new cores for rendering path tracing in real time and a new interconnect that will boost AI-rendering…

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Apple TV+ 'Pluribus' finally gets a full trailer ahead of debut

appleinsider - Apple TV+ lifts the curtain on "Pluribus," a new series from the creator of "Breaking Bad," following a woman immune to a world-changing virus — and the government that wants to "fix" her.Image Credit: Apple TV+In 2022, Apple TV+ signed a two-season, stra…

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OpenAI’s Sora has already hit more than 1 million downloads

Emma Roth / theverge - OpenAI’s social AI video-generating app, Sora, has reached over 1 million downloads in fewer than five days since its launch. That’s according to Sora head Bill Peebles, who said on Wednesday that Sora racked up downloads faster than ChatGPT did at launch…

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The Browser Company’s Dia is now available on Mac, no invite needed

Matt Tate / engadget - The Browser Company’s AI-powered browser is now available to download for all macOS users. Dia started rolling out to private beta testers in June, following its initial reveal at the end of last year, but if you’re a Mac user you can download it here if …

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US opens Tesla probe after more crashes involving its so-called full self-driving technology

techxplore - Federal auto safety regulators have opened yet another investigation into Tesla's so-called full-self driving technology after dozens of incidents in which its vehicles ran red lights or drove on the wrong side of the road, sometimes crashing into other v…

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Netflix’s first TV party games include Lego, Boggle, and Tetris

Andrew Webster / theverge - Netflix is making good on its plan to bring co-op party games to your television. The company just outlined a quintet of multiplayer games that will be available to subscribers some time this holiday season. According to Netflix, to play you need to choos…

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China tightens export controls on rare earth minerals once again

Ram Iyer / techcrunch - As the race to make ever faster semiconductors intensifies, China has once again notched up export controls on rare earth minerals as well as related mining and refining technology.

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Hyped AI business automation startup n8n raises $180M, valuing it at $2.5BN

John Reynolds / tech - N8n, the Berlin-based hyped AI startup which helps businesses automate tasks, has confirmed that it has raised $180m, valuing it at $2.5bn.Leading the Series C funding round was US VC firm Accel, with...

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Everything we know about Ferrari’s first electric vehicle

Jonathan M. Gitlin / arstechnica - Four motors, 800 V, more than 1,000 horsepower, and it's all made in-house.

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Nvidia CEO surprised by AMD's deal giving OpenAI a 10% stake

techspot - In an interview on CNBC's Squawk Box, Huang called the arrangement "unique and surprising," given AMD's excitement about its upcoming hardware. "I'm surprised they would give away 10 percent of the company before they even built it," he said. "It's clever…

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