The company Discord blamed for its recent breach says it wasn't hacked

Andre Revilla / engadget - Customer service support company 5CA has released a statement contradicting claims by Discord that it was the victim of a hack last month. On October 3, Discord disclosed a data breach that the company says included a “small number” of government IDs like…

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Facebook brings back job listings in the US

Lauren Forristal / techcrunch - Facebook is reintroducing job listings to users in the U.S., focusing on entry-level, trade, and service jobs.

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Spotify's managed accounts will help keep your kids from wrecking your music taste profile

Matt Tate / engadget - Spotify has introduced a new "managed accounts" feature aimed at younger listeners. Initially piloted last year and launching in seven new markets, including the US, today, it allows parents and guardians with a Spotify Premium Family plan to allocate the…

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You’ll soon be able to shop Walmart from ChatGPT

Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Walmart is partnering with OpenAI to let shoppers buy products directly through ChatGPT. The new integration will allow users to link their Walmart accounts, browse items ,and instantly check out — all within the chatbot.

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Oura raises over $900M, valuing it at "approximately $11BN”

John Reynolds / tech - Oura, the Finnish health tech startup known for its popular smart rings, has raised over $900m in a new funding round, valuing the startup at “approximately $11bn”, it said.The funding round was led b...

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Google to invest $15 billion to build data center hub in India; largest outside of the U.S.

cnbc - Google plans to invest $15 billion to build artificial intelligence data center capacity in Southern India, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said.

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JPMorgan launches $10B tech, infrastructure investment initiative

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - JPMorgan Chase & Co. today announced plans to invest up to $10 billion in technology and infrastructure companies. The news sent several quantum computer makers’ shares soaring more than 20%. JPMorgan will invest mainly in U.S. companies with the goal of …

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Google is making search ads more and less avoidable

engadget - Google is tweaking how sponsored results will appear in Search. Going forward, it will group any text ads on the Search page into a "Sponsored results" section that will appear at the top of the screen. The size of the ads is unchanged and Google says the…

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Anduril’s EagleEye AR Headset Aims to Succeed Where Microsoft’s $22B IVAS Failed

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Anduril, led by Palmer Luckey, unveils its modular EagleEye AR headset for the U.S. Army, promising to fix the flaws of Microsoft's failed IVAS program.The post Anduril’s EagleEye AR Headset Aims to Succeed Where Microsoft’s $22B IVAS Failed appeared firs…

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Apple Expected to Announce These Two to Three Products 'This Week'

Joe Rossignol / macrumors - Apple plans to announce new products "this week," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.Apple's "Mac Your Calendars" teaser last OctoberIn his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said the products set to be updated this week include the iPad Pro, Vision Pro,…

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Apple says goodbye to the Clips app

Anthony Ha / techcrunch - Apple appears to be winding down support of Clips, with the company removing Clips from the App Store and saying it will no longer be making any updates.

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China tightens rare earth exports, threatening global chip supply

techspot - This week, China announced new rare earth export restrictions. Reuters reports that the expanded bureaucratic controls also cover technologies critical to rare earth extraction and refinement, seemingly intended to keep other countries reliant on Chinese …

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OpenAI GPT-5: great taste, less filling, now with 30% less bias

Thomas Claburn / theregister - AI model maker touts effort to depoliticize its product OpenAI says GPT-5 has 30 percent less political bias than its prior AI models.…

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Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Jason Koebler / 404media - Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

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OpenAI’s Sora Hits 1 Million Downloads in Under 5 Days, Faster Than ChatGPT

John Quintet / iphoneincanada - OpenAI’s new video-generation app Sora has taken off in record time, surpassing 1 million downloads in less than five days, according to Bill Peebles, head of Sora at OpenAI. Peebles said on Wednesday that the milestone came “even faster than ChatGPT did …

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Remedy's Control is coming to iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro early next year

Mariella Moon / engadget - Control: Ultimate Edition will be available on the iPhone, the iPad and the Apple Vision Pro in early 2026, its developer Remedy has announced. The developer says you can either "tap into the action with touch controls," which presumably includes hand tra…

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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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