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| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through — The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it's seeing a significant decline …
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Forums: r/technology, r/antiai, r/wikipedia, and Slashdot
| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Apple and Formula One announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races, starting in 2026; sources: Apple is paying ~$140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year — Apple and Formula 1 announced a five-year media rights deal Friday that will bring every F1 race to Apple TV beginning in 2026.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created “disrespectful depictions” — OpenAI announced Thursday it paused the ability for users to generate videos resembling the late civil rights activist …
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Anthropic's Claude Skills, which are conceptually extremely simple, may become a bigger deal than MCP, whose high token usage is its most significant limitation — Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models:
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts the alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of US DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials on Telegram — A group of hackers from the Com, a loose-knit community behind some of the most significant data breaches in recent years …
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung plans to unveil its trifold phone at APEC later in October; attendees won't be allowed to touch it as it's expected to be displayed under glass — Samsung Electronics Co. will unveil its highly-anticipated trifold smartphone when world leaders and global dignitaries gather … | Heather Knight / New York Times: |
Docs: Salesforce pitched ICE on using its AI tech to help the agency nearly triple its workforce by hiring 10K new officers, to improve investigations, and more — The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff.
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| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
A look at ByteDance's Doubao, which became China's most popular AI app in August, with 157M+ MAUs per QuestMobile, thanks in part to its deep Douyin integration — ByteDance's Doubao app has overtaken DeepSeek, proving that user-friendly design often matters more than having the most advanced AI model.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nintendo has asked its manufacturing partners to produce up to 25M Switch 2 units by the end of March 2026, surpassing analysts' estimates of 17.6M — Nintendo Co. has asked suppliers to produce as many as 25 million units of the Switch 2 by the end of March 2026 …
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Meta plans to add new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026 that let parents block teens from chatting with AI characters and get “insights” from teens' chats — From next year Instagram will let parents stop teens from chatting with AI characters entirely.
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| Kosta Andreadis / TweakTown: |
Steam hit a record 41.6M+ concurrent users on October 12, up from 37M+ users in August 2024, after the releases of Battlefield 6 and Hollow Knight: Silksong — 41,666,455 million PC gamers were online and on Steam on October 12, 2025, setting a new CCU (concurrent user) record for the platform.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft says it will bring Copilot Actions, which can use apps to complete some tasks on files in Windows 11, to the Windows Insider Program and Copilot Labs — On Tuesday, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10, the operating system it introduced 10 years earlier.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Source: OpenAI expects to spend 20% to 30% less on AI chips co-developed with Broadcom than on chips from Nvidia, which is notoriously backlogged on GPU orders — OpenAI's latest multibillion-dollar chips deal marks a new direction for the company. But first... Three things to know:
More: Wall Street Journal and The Decoder
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users for “evidence collection and investigative work” — Amazon's surveillance camera maker Ring announced a partnership on Thursday with Flock, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras …
More: CNBC, 404 Media, and Portland startups …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/loveland, r/Ring, and r/Eugene
| Claudia Cohen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: French regulator ACPR is carrying out anti-money laundering checks on Binance and others, as it seeks to determine which should get EU MiCA licenses — France is widening its anti-money laundering checks on crypto exchanges, as regulators seek to determine which of more than 100 entities registered … | Reuters: |
Sources: Micron plans to stop selling server chips to data centers in China, after a 2023 ban, but will continue to sell chips to auto and smartphone sectors — - China in 2023 banned use of Micron products in critical infrastructure — Micron to continue to sell chips to auto, mobile phone sectors, source says| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp is testing imposing per-month limits on how many messages individual users and businesses can send to unknown people without getting a response — WhatsApp is attempting to solve its spam problem by putting a curb on how many messages individual users and businesses can send to unknown people without getting a response.
X: @indianidle
| Financial Times: |
European automakers warn of substantial disruption to production after China cut off Nexperia's outbound shipments following the Dutch seizure of Nexperia — Industry warns of disruption to European production following Beijing's retaliation for Dutch government's seizure
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