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TechCrunch

Pretend you're sitting at Elizabeth Holmes' desk on this weirdly detailed website

With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theranos founder's desk.

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Pretend you're sitting at Elizabeth Holmes' desk on this weirdly detailed website

Engadget

Child safety group calls ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk

After extensive testing, Common Sense Media found the chatbot failed in five key areas.

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Engadget

Child safety group calls ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk

Engadget

Cyberpunk 2077 is the latest video game to get the movie treatment

Paramount Pictures will develop the film and CD Projekt Red will produce.

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Cyberpunk 2077 is the latest video game to get the movie treatment

Ars Technica

R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing

Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering" and founded two successful software companies.

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Ars Technica

R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing

Engadget

Forza Horizon 6 is coming to PS5 on January 26

The racing game's first expansion will also be available early next year.

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Forza Horizon 6 is coming to PS5 on January 26

TechCrunch

Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect

Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.

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Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect

Ars Technica

Let's Encrypt cuts certificate lifetimes to 64 days starting February 2027

Free SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes reduce to 64 days in February.

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Let's Encrypt cuts certificate lifetimes to 64 days starting February 2027

Ars Technica

Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches

Mass surveillance gets stupider.

1 hour ago

Ars Technica

Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches

WIRED

She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate

Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people. But she didn’t anticipate just how angry they would get.

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She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate

Engadget

Google is doing away with Safety Signal on Pixel Watch

Access to the emergency feature for LTE-connected wearables will end by December.

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Google is doing away with Safety Signal on Pixel Watch

Engadget

The Atari 800XL hybrid gaming console is back after decades in obscurity

This updated version connects via HDMI and comes with 25 built-in games.

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The Atari 800XL hybrid gaming console is back after decades in obscurity

Ars Technica

An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light

Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light.

2 hours ago

Ars Technica

An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light

TechCrunch

Watch the trailer for 'The Altruists,' Netflix's show about the FTX scandal

A fictionalized Sam Bankman-Fried is coming to your TV screen on November 19.

2 hours ago

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Watch the trailer for 'The Altruists,' Netflix's show about the FTX scandal

Engadget

US suspends permanent residency program for Microsoft, Adobe and other tech companies

Seven companies have been accused of fraud regarding the H-1B worker visas.

2 hours ago

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US suspends permanent residency program for Microsoft, Adobe and other tech companies

TechCrunch

Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months

The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.

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Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months

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OpenAI's revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected

It had previously been reported that the AI lab's annualized revenue was some $70 billion, but a new report claims it's a whole lot less than that.

2 hours ago

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OpenAI's revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected

TechCrunch

Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses

Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets its own workplace identity, complete with an email address.

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Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses

WIRED

38 Best Last-Minute Prime Day Deals You Can Still Shop Today (2026)

Prime Day might be over, but the discounts are still going. We’ve tracked down the best last minute Prime Day deals on all the gear our team recommends.

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38 Best Last-Minute Prime Day Deals You Can Still Shop Today (2026)

Ars Technica

Amazon's new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever

Amazon killed its app store, so Google Play it is.

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Amazon's new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever

Ars Technica

Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch space internet service by end of year

"If this was easy, everybody else would be doing it."

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Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch space internet service by end of year

WIRED

Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro, Alexa Tablet 11, Alexa Tablet 8: Specs, Features, Price

The three new aluminum Alexa Tablets now run Android with full access to the Google Play Store. There are versions for kids too.

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WIRED

Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro, Alexa Tablet 11, Alexa Tablet 8: Specs, Features, Price

WIRED

The New Alexa Tablets Feel Like a Blueprint for an Amazon Phone

Amazon is rumored to be making a smartphone, and the Alexa-powered experiences on its new tablets give us a taste of what might come if that happens.

8 hours ago

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The New Alexa Tablets Feel Like a Blueprint for an Amazon Phone

WIRED

Life Is Asymmetric. The Scientists Who Figured Out Why Won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai designed chemical reactions producing only one of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule—an important finding for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biological substances.

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WIRED

Life Is Asymmetric. The Scientists Who Figured Out Why Won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

WIRED

Best Reusable Water Bottles of 2026, Tested by WIRED

We dropped them, tossed them in bags, and cleaned their fiddly lids. Here are the ones we recommend.

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WIRED

Best Reusable Water Bottles of 2026, Tested by WIRED