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Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra is the closest Windows competitor to the MacBook Pro yet
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Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra is the closest Windows competitor to the MacBook Pro yet
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Carriers are already offering deals.
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Then check out this episode of TWiT’s Tech News Weekly, where I chat with host Mikah Sargent for an hour about HomeView, Apple TV, HomePod Mini 2, and the Apple Home Collection. (Audio options here.) [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBkWv-XA8Ko]
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$330 million is going towards expanding manufacturing plans next year that aim to produce up to 150 rocket upper stages. Blue Origin is also requesting to increase launches from 12 to 50 per year, and plans to “support multiple flights per week by the end of the decade.” That involves building additional New Glenn launch pads at Cape Canaveral, alongside restoring the one that blew up in May. [Link: Building the Infrastructure for More Frequent Launches in Florida | https://www.blueorigin.com/news/building-infrastructure-for-more-frequent-launches-in-florida | Blue Origin]
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Beijing is reportedly considering adding 23 AI technologies to its export-control list, including chip designs, agents, model weights, and source code. China has been steadily gaining on the US with recent releases like Kimi K3, and has been the target of Western AI-related export controls amid growing competition to maintain control over the strategic technology. [Link: China Plans AI Tech Export Curbs to Manage Security Risks | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-16/china-proposes-export-controls-on-ai-models-chips-and-agents | Bloomberg.com]
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Artificial intelligence is more a part of our lives than ever before. While some might call it hype and compare it to NFTs or 3D TVs, AI is causing a sea change in nearly every part of the technology industry. OpenAI’s ChatGPT is arguably the best-known AI chatbot around, but with Google pushing Gemini, Microsoft building Copilot, and Apple working to make Siri good, AI is probably going to be in the spotlight for a very long time. At The Verge, we’re exploring what might be possible with AI — and a lot of the bad stuff AI does, too.
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It feels like studios are finally ready to make critical films about Big Tech’s heavyweights.
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Bluesky’s CEO calls the Attie tool “vibe coding for your community.”
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A suspected gas cylinder explosion at Intel’s Kiryat Gat facility in southern Israel, where it makes its most advanced chips, has killed two workers and injured a third. JPost and CTech report that police believe a gas cylinder malfunctioned while trucks were loading material into tanks, causing serious burns to the victims and a leak of nitrogen trifluoride (NF₃). We’ve written about the risks fab workers face, including the death of a truck driver in 2024 while transporting sulfuric acid waste at TSMC’s Arizona facility, and an Intel employee who worried cost-cutting and downsizing were adding extra risk. [Link: Two dead after explosion at Intel’s Kiryat Gat facility | CTech | https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/ay5slvopq | ctech]
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The first expansion DLC for post-post-apocalyptic roguelike Caves of Qud — one of my all-time favorite games — will let you play as a mutated plant or animal, among other new features. Diaspora launches in Early Access on December 9th for $14.99. How many limbs can a puma have? Let’s find out. [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3hDMe8B3Vk]
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The FCC would like you to know that its DJI ban is justified — because of the contents of sealed letters from the Pentagon that it has now forwarded to 16 congresspeople. Do they know something they’re not saying out loud? So far, the government hasn’t revealed a single shred of public evidence about a national security threat.
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County election officials claim they largely cleared the backlog by Wednesday, but the incident still raised alarms and prompted a lawsuit from voting rights groups. According to the New York Times: > The lawsuit, which named Mr. Howden and Freeman F. Martin, director of the Department of Public Safety, among its defendants, said the backlog had resulted from a programming error on a website for driver’s license applications that was also supposed to allow applicants to register to vote. > Because of the error, voters who checked “yes” to register to vote between December 2025 and February 2026 received a receipt confirming their choice, but their data was never recorded, the lawsuit said. [Link: Glitch Delays 600,000 Voter Registrations in Texas as Early Voting Looms | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/us/politics/texas-voter-registration-lawsuit.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share | New York Times]