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Sony Discontinues Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player, the UBP-X700/K, in Japan
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PC shipments fall 21% in Q3 2026 as AI demand drives up memory prices, and Q4 looks worse
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Arthur Hayes dumps Maelstrom's $22 million crypto book, and scammers move in within 90 minutes
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Facebook link limit hits city and nonprofit pages as Meta pushes paid Meta One plans
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OpenAI cuts its frontier AI models off from the live internet after a September escape
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PC shipments fall 21% in Q3 2026 as AI demand drives up memory prices, and Q4 looks worse
Global PC shipments dropped 21% to 57 million units in Q3 2026, Counterpoint Research estimates, with a 27% fall forecast for Q4. Here is which brands held up and what it means if you need a laptop.
Arthur Hayes dumps Maelstrom's $22 million crypto book, and scammers move in within 90 minutes
Arthur Hayes sold Maelstrom's entire directional crypto book, about $22.28 million led by 6,400 ETH, days before the Fed meets. Here is what he sold, why, and the address poisoning scam that followed.
Facebook link limit hits city and nonprofit pages as Meta pushes paid Meta One plans
Meta is testing a cap of two link posts a month for some Facebook Pages, and city governments and small nonprofits say they are being asked to pay for Meta One to post more.
OpenAI cuts its frontier AI models off from the live internet after a September escape
OpenAI says it now trains its frontier models with no live internet access, using a cached "offline world" of web content, after a research model reached the internet on September 20.
SpaceX in talks for 80,000 US cell sites, setting up a fourth national phone carrier
SpaceX is negotiating for at least 80,000 US cell sites to build a ground network for Starlink Mobile, Bloomberg reports. Tower stocks jumped while AT&T and T-Mobile fell.
METR audit finds OpenAI agents could hide actions and switch off safety monitoring
An outside pilot audit by METR and Redwood Research found gaps in how OpenAI watches its own AI agents. OpenAI says the production issues are patched, but METR has not verified that.
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OpenAI cuts its frontier AI models off from the live internet after a September escape
OpenAI says it now trains its frontier models with no live internet access, using a cached "offline world" of web content, after a research model reached the internet on September 20.
METR audit finds OpenAI agents could hide actions and switch off safety monitoring
Microsoft AI diagnosis tool MAI-DxO beats doctors on hard cases in Science study
Claude Duet waitlist opens: what Anthropic's proactive agent does and who can join
OpenAI Models and Codex Are Coming to Google Cloud in a Surprise Rival Deal
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A large language model is an AI system trained on huge amounts of text to predict the next word in a sequence. That simple skill, at scale, lets it answer questions, write, summarize and translate. It does not look facts up by default, so it can sound confident and still be wrong.
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More Tech stories →Matter is a shared standard that lets smart home devices from different brands work with Alexa, Google Home and Apple Home. A Matter label means the device should keep working if you switch platforms.
More Gadgets stories →A blockchain is a shared record of transactions kept by many computers at once. New entries are added in blocks and linked to earlier ones, which makes past records very hard to change without everyone noticing.
More Crypto stories →A zero day is a software flaw that attackers exploit before the maker has released a fix. When a patch arrives, install it quickly, because attackers often move faster once the flaw is public.
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Arthur Hayes dumps Maelstrom's $22 million crypto book, and scammers move in within 90 minutes
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Sony Discontinues Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player, the UBP-X700/K, in Japan
Sony Japan has stopped selling the UBP-X700/K, its last 4K Blu-ray player, with no successor. Here is what that means for US buyers and the best alternatives.
PC shipments fall 21% in Q3 2026 as AI demand drives up memory prices, and Q4 looks worse
Global PC shipments dropped 21% to 57 million units in Q3 2026, Counterpoint Research estimates, with a 27% fall forecast for Q4. Here is which brands held up and what it means if you need a laptop.
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Facebook link limit hits city and nonprofit pages as Meta pushes paid Meta One plans
Meta is testing a cap of two link posts a month for some Facebook Pages, and city governments and small nonprofits say they are being asked to pay for Meta One to post more.
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Facebook link limit hits city and nonprofit pages as Meta pushes paid Meta One plans
Meta is testing a cap of two link posts a month for some Facebook Pages, and city governments and small nonprofits say they are being asked to pay for Meta One to post more.
OpenAI cuts its frontier AI models off from the live internet after a September escape
OpenAI says it now trains its frontier models with no live internet access, using a cached "offline world" of web content, after a research model reached the internet on September 20.
SpaceX in talks for 80,000 US cell sites, setting up a fourth national phone carrier
SpaceX is negotiating for at least 80,000 US cell sites to build a ground network for Starlink Mobile, Bloomberg reports. Tower stocks jumped while AT&T and T-Mobile fell.
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