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Sources: Amazon close to making a decision on HQ2, with Crystal City in Northern Virginia and Austin as frontrunners, but new HQ may be split between them — - Amazon is in the advanced stages of placing its second headquarters in Northern Virginia, The Washington Post reported on Saturday
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
New research from OpenAI shows how an AI agent with a sense of curiosity outperformed its predecessors playing the classic 1984 Atari game Montezuma's Revenge — This question is perhaps too broad to yield a single answer, but if you had to sum up why you accept that next quest … | Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Inside Uber's deal with Saudi Arabia, from David Plouffe's first meetings with local officials to the 10%+ stake that, sources say, the kingdom now owns — Even as Uber's lawyers finalized the details of the deal, they still couldn't quite believe it would really happen.
Tweets: @markmilian
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A history of the ongoing quest to build a viable 2-in-1 tablet-laptop hybrid and why they are so hard to design — In a recent barrage of new products, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Lenovo, and HP have all shown off computers that are trying to tackle one of the industry's most vexing problems … | TechCrunch: |
Facebook reorganized AR and VR team from a divisional structure focused around products to a functional structure focused around technology areas of expertise — Facebook is again looking to whip Oculus into shape for its 10-year journey towards making virtual reality mainstream.| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Current and former employees on Google's ongoing struggle balancing user privacy with business interests — OVER TWO DAYS during the summer of 2009, experts from inside and outside Google met to forge a roadmap for how the company would approach user privacy.| Martha Pskowski / New York Magazine: |
Profile of TIC, a community-run low-cost cellular service operating in underserved areas across Oaxaca in Mexico, as it gears up to launch in four more states — Talea de Castro is a four-hour drive through winding mountain roads from the capital of Oaxaca, Mexico.| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
A look at how deepfakes, with recent software advances that easily create AI-generated fake audio and video, could be misused to undermine elections — PLENTY OF PEOPLE are following the final days of the midterm election campaigns. Yale law researcher Rebecca Crootof has a special interest—a small wager.| Andrei Zakharov / BBC: |
Hackers publish private messages from 81K Facebook accounts and claim to have details from up to 120M accounts for sale; FB blames 3rd-party browser extensions — Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users' accounts.
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Tweets: @imeluny, @basche42, @saradannerdukic, @marcelweiss, @iblametom, @yoda, @nightafternight, @rustybrick, @leoniegsmith, and @gossithedog
| Zachary Fryer-Biggs / Center for Public Integrity: |
Current and former senior US officials say the Pentagon has outlined an offensive cyberattack against Russia if it electronically interferes with the midterms — U.S. military hackers have been given the go-ahead to gain access to Russian cyber systems as part of potential retaliation for any meddling in America's elections| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
How Facebook and Twitter fight online voter suppression for the midterms with algorithm changes and partnerships with organizations that report disinformation — Facebook and Twitter aren't just trying to drive people to the polls — they're racing to fight back bad actors who seek to deter their users from voting.
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CNN, Reuters, Bloomberg, MSPoweruser, CNET, Vox, Mashable, The Hill, Cyberscoop, Wired, Axios, and Reuters
Tweets: @wired, @tonyromm, @cnetnews, @peteskomoroch, @nickpacilio, @bcappelbaum, and @tonyromm. Thanks:@tonyromm
| Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times: |
Blockchain-powered network Civil's token sale failed because people buy into blockchain to make money and don't necessarily want to use it to “fix” journalism — Hype around the technology has led to incomprehensible applications of it. — Civil Media Company was introduced earlier … Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cloudflare:
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Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
IDrive:
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