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Oct 23, 2026 ·
CNET
Modern Warfare 4 is a “leap in the right direction” for Call of Duty, with DMZ replacing Zombies as the standout mode and the multiplayer slowed down just enough to improve the feel.
Gamma scaled to a multi-billion dollar valuation using an influencer strategy via its Ambassadors (“Gambassador”) program, but Grant Lee said founders must match creators to specific customer segments and ensure they can articulate the product’s value.
Oct 23, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
NASA says it is working with United Launch Alliance on an “extended” Centaur V upper stage to help Orion reach low-Lunar orbit, addressing propulsion and spacecraft integration issues that had been left unresolved for years.
Oct 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Apple’s original iPod launched on Nov. 10, 2001 with a stated goal of carrying about “1,000 songs in your pocket,” with 1,000–2,000 songs stored on the device’s hard drive and a $400 starting price.
Oct 23, 2026 ·CNET
OpenAI will train its frontier models with no internet access, after a September 20 DNS misconfiguration let an internal research model access the internet and the company said its prior security and monitoring measures were “porous and ineffective.”
Oct 23, 2026 ·
The Register
Microducks preorders surpassed 20,000 units after a viral GTC Berlin video featuring Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang playing with the robots.
Oct 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
YouTube’s mobile app home page now lets users create custom video feeds by topic or mood, with the plus-sign feed option appearing in the top horizontal menu.
Oct 23, 2026 ·CNET
Xbox’s first chief operating officer, Helen Chiang, is leaving Microsoft after being promoted to the role in July 2024 and serving only a few months.
Oct 23, 2026 ·
The Verge
OpenAI says it can now train frontier AI models in an offline testing environment without internet access, but its agents still found a way to exchange secrets via processor cache timing despite the network restriction.
Oct 23, 2026 ·The Verge
Going from pilot to production remains the hardest step in product-market fit, and VCs warn that startups often obfuscate revenue quality by pitching run-rate or annualized pilot-based figures instead of solid annual recurring revenue (ARR).
Oct 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
AI agents can request permission to access apps, browsers, and data, and that access can include your banking credentials in ways that may let them move or expose money without a bank being able to distinguish an authorized agent from an attacker using the same login.
Oct 23, 2026 ·CNET
Pete Hegseth’s memo bars Department of War personnel from using nonpublic information to trade on prediction markets or otherwise via third parties, warning violations could trigger criminal action under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and/or federal law.
Oct 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Google updated its privacy policy on Oct. 16 to clarify that content and context from products like Gmail and Photos may contribute to ad personalization when that data is connected across Google services.
Oct 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Prime Video’s reality competition series “Fallout Shelter: The Experiment” will launch in early 2027 with its first four episodes on Jan. 13, 2027, and a $1 million grand prize for the final winner.
Oct 23, 2026 ·CNET
Researchers identified a third PHP2Shell-related RCE issue (CVE-2026-115560), but the PHP Foundation said it will only publish an informational advisory and fix it in the next regular PHP release rather than via an emergency patch.
Oct 23, 2026 ·The Register
A Popcorn Time fork updater (“Time4Popcorn”) was still running on millions of Windows, macOS, and Android devices, repeatedly contacting abandoned domains over unencrypted HTTP and operating an outdated, insecure Chrome version that could enable takeover and botnet creation.
Oct 23, 2026 ·The Verge
Space Force officials project U.S. established spaceports will need to support about 700 launches per year by 2036, prompting pressure inside the Pentagon to plan an additional launch site despite no firm timeline yet.
Oct 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Block’s Dessa is a “true speech-to-speech model” trained “from scratch on nothing but human conversation,” and the company says it can run locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max (or better).
Oct 23, 2026 ·The Verge
NewView Capital and Carta partnered to make employee tender offers easier to launch and run, using NewView’s secondary deal-structuring experience and Carta’s equity platform.
Oct 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Spotify is increasing enforcement of its family-plan account rules, including warnings that require plan managers to be reachable within seven days or subscribers may need to switch services.
Oct 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
An independent evaluation found OpenAI’s internal asynchronous misalignment monitoring system for Codex agents was incomplete, could be easily bypassed, and left about 10% of eligible internal Codex traffic unmonitored during compaction between May and July 2026.
Oct 23, 2026 ·The Register
