Amazon Builds First Solo Subsea Cable Linking Maryland To Ireland
msmash / slashdot - AWS today announced Fastnet, a subsea fiber-optic cable that will link Maryland's Eastern Shore to County Cork, Ireland. The project marks Amazon's first wholly-owned subsea cable system after previously participating in similar ventures through consortiu…
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Apple Launches App Store for the Web
Juli Clover / macrumors - Apple launched a new App Store on the web today, allowing users to browse through and search for apps across all of its platforms.The updated apps.apple.com site provides a drop down for each platform, and it includes the Today section with app and game r…
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Back to Top / Monday, November 3, 2025, 2:21 pm / permalink 15621 / 13 stories in 4 months
Google & Bing Are Indexing Grokipedia - AI Generated Wikipedia / Encyclopedia
barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) / seroundtable - Grokipedia, an AI-generated online encyclopedia launched a week ago with over 800,000 AI-generated pages, and both Google and Bing have already indexed hundreds, if not thousands, of those AI-generated pages.
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Bluesky Hits 40 Million Users, Introduces 'Dislikes' Beta
BeauHD / slashdot - Bluesky has surpassed 40 million users and is launching a "dislikes" beta to improve its personalization algorithms and reduce toxic content. TechCrunch reports: With the "dislikes" beta rolling out soon, Bluesky will take into account the new signal to i…
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Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia to Take On ‘Propaganda’ Wikipedia
Jon Swartz / techstrong - Is the world ready for Grokipedia? Elon Musk, xAI's billionaire founder, thinks so. This week, he unveiled Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia positioned as an alternative to Wikipedia amid ongoing conservative criticism of the established plat…
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Bending Spoons to acquire early internet pioneer AOL
John Reynolds / tech - Bending Spoons, the acquisitive Italian software conglomerate, is acquiring AOL, one of the internet’s most well known early companies.Bending Spoons is buying AOL from Yahoo, which is backed by priva...
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Character.AI to block romantic AI chats for minors a year after teen's suicide
cnbc - Character.AI said it will phase out open-ended chats for minors, including romantic dialogues with AI chatbots, by Nov. 25.
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Elon Musk launches Grokipedia, an AI-written rival to Wikipedia
techspot - Elon Musk has introduced Grokipedia, a digital encyclopedia that relies on artificial intelligence rather than human editors to compile and update entries. The new platform, developed through his artificial intelligence company xAI, marks his most direct …
Back to Top / Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 11:21 am / permalink 15489 / 10 stories in 4 months
Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Is Live. Here’s what the difference is
Mike Pearl / gizmodo - Grokipedia exists. You can read it if you want.
Back to Top / Monday, October 27, 2025, 8:20 pm / permalink 15475 / 10 stories in 4 months
X to Retire Twitter.com Domain for Good
Laurent Giret / thurrott - X/Twitter is urging users who set up two-factor authentication with a security key to make some changes, as it’s preparing to fully retire the twitter.com domain.The post X to Retire Twitter.com Domain for Good appeared first on Thurrott.com.
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Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web
Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman / wired - Plus: The Jaguar Land Rover hack sets an expensive new record, OpenAI’s new Atlas browser raises security fears, Starlink cuts off scam compounds, and more.
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Automattic Files Sweeping Counterclaims Against WP Engine, Alleging Trademark Misuse and Deceptive Branding
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Automattic escalates its legal battle against WP Engine, filing counterclaims that accuse the company of trademark misuse and deceptive branding driven by private equity pressure.The post Automattic Files Sweeping Counterclaims Against WP Engine, Alleging…
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas AI-powered browser
OpenAI has officially unveiled ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered browser designed to integrate natural language processing with real-time web browsing. Industry observers note its entry in the emerging “AI browser wars” against competitors like Perplexity’s Comet, even as security concerns such as prompt injection issues have been raised.
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Major AWS outage disrupts global services, costing billions
A severe AWS outage, sparked by a DNS malfunction, brought down vast swathes of online services worldwide. Reports detail everything from smart devices misbehaving to extensive financial losses. Critics argue this event underscores troubling overreliance on cloud infrastructure and its inherent fragility.
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Back to Top / Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 8:21 am / permalink 15309 / 10 stories in 4 months
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas AI browser, LLM can browse the internet for you and even complete tasks — initial release for macOS, with Windows, iOS, and Android to follow soon after
tomshardware - OpenAI just released its ChatGPT-powered AI browser, letting the LLM take over users' browsers and so staff on their behalf.
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Back to Top / Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 5:20 am / permalink 15302 / 13 stories in 4 months
A global AWS outage exposes fragile digital foundations
Cate Lawrence / tech - Yesterday was frustrating for many of us due to trouble accessing websites like Canva, Grammarly, Disney+, Duolingo, Reddit, Microsoft 365, Fortnite, Facebook, Zoom, Slack, Snapchat, Signal and Perple...
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Back to Top / Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 5:20 am / permalink 15263 / 17 stories in 4 months
Wikipedia Says It's Losing Traffic Due to AI Summaries, Social Media Videos
Julian Dossett / cnet - The popular online encyclopedia saw an 8% drop in pageviews over the last few months.
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X will soon let you buy inactive usernames
Bradly Shankar / mobilesyrup - X (Twitter) will soon launch a marketplace in which you can buy inactive usernames. In the appropriately named X Handle Marketplace, X Premium Plus and Premium Business users will be able to browse and request ownership of inactive usernames. Some will be…
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YouTube is down worldwide with playback error
Mayank Parmar / bleepingcomputer - YouTube is currently facing a global outage, with users reporting playback errors on both the website and mobile apps. [...]
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