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Argentina's Milei wins big in midterms with 'chainsaw' austerity: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gw8qpyvqdo

The striking Swedish workers taking on carmaker Tesla: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y9082q0jjo

Sixty-five countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to share data and extradite suspects: https://www.techmeme.com/251027/p2

GM Plans to Drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto From All Its Cars: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/26/2342252/gm-plans-to-drop-apple-carplay-and-android-auto-from-all-its-cars

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Trump and Xi will "consummate" a TikTok deal on Thursday: https://www.techmeme.com/251026/p13

Walmart Just Fired A Big AI Shot Across Amazon's Bow: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherwalton/2025/10/26/walmart-just-fired-a-big-ai-shot-across-amazons-bow/

SNAP Funding Has 'Run Dry' For November, Trump Administration Says: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2025/10/26/snap-funding-has-run-dry-for-november-trump-administration-says-heres-what-to-know/

Some US Electricity Prices are Rising – But It's Not Just Data Centers: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/26/2147249/some-us-electricity-prices-are-rising----but-its-not-just-data-centers

Argentina midterm election, Javier Milei, Swedish Tesla strike, UN cybercrime treaty, GM Apple CarPlay, TikTok deal, Walmart OpenAI partnership, ChatGPT shopping, SNAP funding shutdown, data center electricity prices, agentic commerce, collective bargaining rights

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FBI arrests NBA figures in Mafia-linked gambling rings: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/current-and-former-national-basketball-association-players-and-four-other-individuals

Trump ends Canada trade talks over Reagan ad: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/politics/trump-ends-trade-negotiations-canada

OpenAI acquires Sky for Mac computers: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/23/218215/openai-buys-ai-startup-that-built-interface-for-apple-computers

Anthropic Google Cloud deal 1 million TPUs: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/23/2054219/anthropics-google-cloud-deal-includes-1-million-tpus-1-gw-of-capacity-in-2026

Nike powered footwear Project Amplify: https://www.theverge.com/news/805664/nike-powered-show-project-amplify

Trump quantum computing government equity stakes: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/10/23/2048226/trump-eyes-government-control-of-quantum-computing-firms

Target 1,800 corporate layoffs: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/target-layoffs-corporate-jobs-sales-slump.html

Intel foundry business recovery: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/with-an-intel-recovery-underway-all-eyes-turn-to-its-foundry-business/

FBI NBA gambling investigation, Mafia sports betting, Trump Canada trade negotiations, OpenAI Sky acquisition, Anthropic Google Cloud, Nike powered footwear, quantum computing government control, Target layoffs, Intel foundry recovery, Terry Rozier Chauncey Billups arrest

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Discovery of 15,000 Roman coins could be nation's biggest ever: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd67vv66wxxo

US military strikes suspected drug vessels in the eastern Pacific: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH5oFlMPrZo

SpaceX Disables 2,500 Starlink Terminals Allegedly Used By Asian Scam Centers: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/23/0311231/spacex-disables-2500-starlink-terminals-allegedly-used-by-asian-scam-centers

Meta Lays Off 600 From 'Bloated' AI Unit: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/22/2351229/meta-lays-off-600-from-bloated-ai-unit

Amazon claims the headline isn't robots taking jobs as it reveals new cost-cutting robots: https://www.theverge.com/news/805098/amazon-robots-ai-warehouses

AI Assistants Misrepresent News Content 45% of the Time: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/22/2011239/ai-assistants-misrepresent-news-content-45-of-the-time

Netflix's Use of Gen AI in Happy Gilmore 2 Is a Taste of What's to Come: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/netflixs-use-of-gen-ai-in-happy-gilmore-2-is-a-taste-of-whats-to-come/

Tinder Launches Mandatory Facial Verification to Weed Out Bots and Scammers: https://www.wired.com/story/tinder-launches-mandatory-facial-verification-to-weed-out-bots-and-scammers/

15000 Roman coins Wales discovery biggest hoard, David Moss metal detector North Wales, US military drug vessels Pacific strikes, Trump counter-narcotics operation, SpaceX Starlink Myanmar scam centers disabled, Meta AI layoffs 600 employees Alexandr Wang, Amazon Blue Jay robot Project Eluna automation, AI assistants misrepresent news 45 percent, ChatGPT Gemini accuracy problems hallucinations, Netflix Happy Gilmore 2 generative AI, Tinder mandatory facial verification bots scammers

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LIVE: Senator Jeff Merkley speaks on the Senate floor through the night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STH89y8Oke0

More than 60 dead after multi-vehicle crash in Uganda: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgql9lwddw5o

Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents: https://www.theverge.com/news/803257/amazon-robotics-automation-replace-600000-human-jobs

YouTube's Likeness Detection Has Arrived To Help Stop AI Doppelgangers: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/21/2250229/youtubes-likeness-detection-has-arrived-to-help-stop-ai-doppelgangers

US Investigates Waymo Robotaxis Over Safety Around School Buses: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/21/2244249/us-investigates-waymo-robotaxis-over-safety-around-school-buses

OpenAI looks for its "Google Chrome" moment with new Atlas web browser: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/openais-new-atlas-web-browser-wants-to-let-you-chat-with-a-page/

Warner Bros. Discovery says it's open to a sale; shares jump 10%: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/wbd-sale-warner-bros-media.html

Google eyes massive AI partnership with Anthropic worth billions: https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/google-eyes-massive-ai-partnership-with-anthropic-worth-billions-check-details-11761115421233.html

Senator Jeff Merkley Senate floor overnight protest, Trump authoritarianism democracy threats, Amazon 600000 workers robots automation 2033, leaked documents robotics replacement, YouTube likeness detection AI deepfakes, Waymo robotaxi school bus safety investigation, OpenAI Atlas browser ChatGPT integration, Google Chrome moment web browsing, Warner Bros Discovery sale shares jump, Google Anthropic AI partnership billions

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Sanae Takaichi makes history as Japan's first female prime minister: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c751z23n3n7o

French ex-president Sarkozy goes to jail for campaign finance conspiracy: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgkm2j0xelo

Wikipedia Says It's Losing Traffic Due to AI Summaries, Social Media Videos: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/wikipedia-says-its-losing-traffic-due-to-ai-summaries-social-media-videos/

Bryan Cranston and SAG-AFTRA say OpenAI is taking their deepfake concerns seriously: https://www.theverge.com/news/803141/openai-sora-bryan-cranston-deepfakes

iOS 26.1 Beta 4 Lets Users Control Liquid Glass Transparency With New Toggle: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/10/20/2113254/ios-261-beta-4-lets-users-control-liquid-glass-transparency-with-new-toggle

Claude Code gets a web version—but it's the new sandboxing that really matters: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/claude-code-gets-a-web-version-but-its-the-new-sandboxing-that-really-matters/

Why did NASA's chief just shake up the agency's plans to land on the Moon?: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/nasas-acting-leader-seeks-to-keep-his-job-with-new-lunar-lander-announcement/

U.S. Immigration Service Issues Guidance On Who Pays The $100,000 H-1B Fee: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/10/20/immigration-service-issues-guidance-on-who-pays-the-100000-h-1b-fee/

Sanae Takaichi Japan first female prime minister, Nicolas Sarkozy prison sentence Libya campaign, Claude Code web version mobile, Anthropic coding tool sandboxing, Bryan Cranston OpenAI deepfakes SAG-AFTRA, Wikipedia traffic decline AI summaries, Apple Liquid Glass iOS 26.1 transparency toggle, NASA lunar lander competition SpaceX, H-1B visa $100,000 fee guidance USCIS

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Organizers say over 7 million showed up to No Kings protests: https://www.theverge.com/news/802321/organizers-say-over-7-million-showed-up-to-no-kings-protests

Everything we know about the Louvre jewellery heist: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7nrlkg0zxo

X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles: https://www.theverge.com/news/802474/x-is-launching-a-marketplace-for-inactive-handles

Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more: https://www.theverge.com/news/802486/aws-outage-alexa-fortnite-snapchat-offline

China says the US NSA has been hacking its National Time Service Center: https://www.techmeme.com/251019/p9

Something from "space" may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/something-from-space-may-have-just-struck-a-united-airlines-flight-over-utah/

Korean business leaders meet Trump amid tariff talks: https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/korean-business-leaders-meet-trump-amid-tariff-talks-11760936923996.html

Sony Applies to Establish National Crypto Bank, Issue Stablecoin for US Dollar: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/19/1749212/sony-applies-to-establish-national-crypto-bank-issue-stablecoin-for-us-dollar

No Kings protests 7 million, Trump administration demonstrations, Louvre jewelry heist Paris, X handle marketplace inactive usernames, AWS outage October 2025, Alexa Fortnite Snapchat down, China NSA hacking accusations, United Airlines space debris strike, NTSB investigation windscreen, Korean tariff negotiations Trump, Sony crypto bank stablecoin, Connectia Trust OCC application

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Kilauea volcano erupts again in Hawaii: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMWVaRLQ7jo

Scientists Create New Form of Ice, Known As Ice XXI: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/10/16/2342232/scientists-create-new-form-of-ice-known-as-ice-xxi

Reddit expands its AI-powered search to five new languages: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/reddit-expands-its-ai-powered-search-to-five-new-languages/

MacBook Pro rumor points to OLED, touchscreen upgrades next year: https://www.theverge.com/news/801363/apple-macbook-pro-2026-rumor-oled-touchscreen

Meta Is Shuttering Its Messenger Apps for Mac and Windows: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/meta-is-shuttering-its-messenger-apps-for-mac-and-windows/

Nvidia Packs Data Center AI Into A Desktop Box: https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2025/10/17/nvidia-packs-data-center-ai-into-a-desktop-box/

Waymo and DoorDash Are Teaming Up to Deliver Your Food via Robotaxi: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/waymo-and-doordash-are-teaming-up-to-deliver-your-food-via-robotaxi/

OpenAI expects to spend 20% to 30% less on AI chips co-developed with Broadcom: https://www.techmeme.com/251017/p9

Kilauea volcano eruption 2025, Hawaii lava fountains, Ice XXI discovery, supercompressed ice, Reddit AI search languages, MacBook Pro 2026 OLED touchscreen, Meta Messenger desktop shutdown, Nvidia DGX Spark, desktop AI supercomputer, Grace Blackwell chip, OpenAI Broadcom partnership, custom AI chips, Waymo DoorDash robotaxi delivery

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Trump authorizes CIA operations in Venezuela: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-authorizes-cia-operations-venezuela-raising-pressure-maduro-2025-10-15/

New Alzheimer's treatment clears plaques in mice: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/10/16/0245204/new-alzheimers-treatment-clears-plaques-from-brains-of-mice-within-hours

DirecTV AI-generated ads with customer faces: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/directv-customers-will-soon-see-their-own-faces-in-ai-generated-tv-ads/

SpaceX Starlink V3 gigabit speeds: https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/spacexs-new-v3-starlink-satellites-bring-gigabit-internet-speeds-for-the-first-time/

Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 released: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/anthropics-claude-haiku-4-5-matches-mays-frontier-model-at-fraction-of-cost/

Reddit cofounder says internet is dead: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/15/1736225/reddit-cofounder-says-much-of-the-internet-is-now-dead

Nestlé cutting 16,000 jobs: https://www.ft.com/content/9bf755d8-5831-4bab-b1a1-6dc66f6cf252

Western executives shaken by China automation: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/16/006222/western-executives-shaken-after-visiting-china

Trump CIA Venezuela, Maduro covert operations, Alzheimer's treatment breakthrough, DirecTV AI ads, Starlink gigabit internet, Claude Haiku 4.5, dead internet theory, Alexis Ohanian, Nestlé layoffs, China automation, dark factories, Reddit cofounder, bot activity online

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UK migrants need A-level English to work: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8679q0pe57o

D'Angelo dies at 51 after cancer battle: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwynv40ly4vo

Spotify Netflix deal bars YouTube podcasts: https://www.techmeme.com/251014/p43

Walmart ChatGPT shopping partnership: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/14/2048246/walmart-chatgpt-team-up-for-shopping

Apple teases M5 MacBook launch: https://www.theverge.com/news/799408/apple-m5-macbook-launch-teaser

OpenAI ChatGPT mental health guardrails erotica: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/openai-will-loosen-chatgpts-mental-health-guardrails-and-allow-erotica-for-adult-users/

Salesforce AI saves $100 million annually: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/14/1925230/salesforce-says-ai-customer-service-saves-100-million-annually

Bitcoin drops Trump cooking oil ban trade war: https://crypto.news/bitcoin-price-slides-trump-u-s-china-trade-war-2025/

UK immigration English requirement, A-level English migrants, D'Angelo death neo-soul, ChatGPT erotica adult content, OpenAI mental health guardrails, Walmart ChatGPT shopping, Apple M5 MacBook, Spotify Netflix podcast deal, Salesforce AI savings, Bitcoin trade war, Sam Altman ChatGPT changes

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Scott Bessent accuses China of damaging global economy: https://www.ft.com/content/fbc5f7bc-b36c-4a12-9c5e-a3f0c19aad12

Venezuela shuts Norway embassy after Nobel Prize: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjwlxjn1xgo

NASA JPL layoffs 550 workers: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/10/14/0133211/nasa-unit-jpl-to-lay-off-about-550-workers-citing-restructure

Slack transforms Slackbot into AI assistant: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/slack-is-transforming-slackbot-into-an-ai-assistant/

Microsoft MAI-Image-1 text-to-image model: https://www.techmeme.com/251013/p40

Palmer Luckey Anduril EagleEye military helmet: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/13/2230223/palmer-luckeys-anduril-launches-eagleeye-military-helmet

US car prices surpass $50,000: https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/10/13/average-us-new-car-price-surpasses-50000-an-all-time-high-amid-surging-ev-sales/

US retailers remove Chinese electronics listings: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/13/2236211/major-us-online-retailers-remove-listings-for-millions-of-prohibited-chinese-electronics

Scott Bessent China trade, rare earth exports, Venezuela Norway embassy, Maria Corina Machado Nobel Prize, Palmer Luckey EagleEye, military AI helmet, NASA JPL layoffs, Slack AI assistant, Microsoft MAI-Image-1, US car prices, Chinese electronics ban, Anduril Meta partnership

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