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A new season of an Emmy-winning drama is the top Netflix show to watch this weekend.
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Derek Malcolm (via How-to Geek)
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10/16/26
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Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Filings: Meta reduced its $65M midterms budget by $25M through refunds, primarily from a super PAC it launched in 2025 with $45M to fight state AI bills …
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Via Techmeme
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10/16/26
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The metric might not mean much to laypeople, but leap seconds have been a source of contention in the timekeeping community for years. Now, they’re dead.
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Brian Kahn (via Wired)
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10/16/26
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Turns out, having more storage doesn't automatically make your PC less annoying
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Umair Khurshid (via How-to Geek)
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10/16/26
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Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with …
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Lucas Ropek (via TechCrunch)
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10/16/26
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Super Scam Me star Mariana van Zeller talks to HTG about going undercover to spotlight the dangers of romance scammers.
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Dan Girolamo (via How-to Geek)
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10/16/26
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Turn on the Surveillance option and you’ll see tiny eyeballs on the map marking the cameras’ locations.
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Alex Valdes (via CNET Technology)
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10/16/26
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Does the basics exceptionally well, costs nothing, and never nags you. That explains why VLC keeps winning three decades and 7 billion downloads later
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Viraj Gawde (via How-to Geek)
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10/16/26
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The company outlined a $65 million budget last year when it embarked on an effort to elect state politicians friendly to the A.I. industry.
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Theodore Schleifer (via The New York Times - Technology)
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10/16/26
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The documentary about Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Matt Novak (via Gizmodo | Tecg. Science. Culture)
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10/16/26
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Google's been trying, but it's not there yet.
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Arol Wright (via How-to Geek)
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10/16/26
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What's coming post-'Clayface' and 'Man of Tomorrow'? Peter Safran and James Gunn aren't saying, but they plan to get there.
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Justin Carter (via Gizmodo | Tecg. Science. Culture)
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10/16/26
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Anthropic:
Anthropic says Claude traced NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to a pseudorandom number generator, challenging decades-old suspicions of an NSA backdoor in the algorithm — “It's …
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Via Techmeme
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10/16/26
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When it comes to repairability, there really is no comparison in the wireless earbuds world.
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James Pero (via Gizmodo | Tecg. Science. Culture)
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10/16/26
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Republicans are leading the spending on AI-generated political ads, while Democrats are more wary of potential backlash.
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Bruce Gil (via Gizmodo | Tecg. Science. Culture)
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10/16/26
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The short-lived White House press secretary was listed as an adviser to a Kristi Noem–linked company that aims to use AI for mining. Both the company and she say she never worked there.
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Tess Owen, Tim Marchman (via Wired)
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10/16/26
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New research points to a "possibly overlooked mechanism" for how microplastics can harm people's health.
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Ed Cara (via Gizmodo | Tecg. Science. Culture)
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10/16/26
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CentOS is dead, but if you look hard enough, its spirit isn't.
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Arol Wright (via How-to Geek)
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10/16/26
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Bloomberg:
Sources: SoftBank weighs buying US security services giant Allied Universal at an ~$18B equity valuation, as Masayoshi Son explores deploying AI-powered robots — SoftBank …
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Via Techmeme
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10/16/26
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The 2026 Porsche Macan Turbo EV is a two-row crossover with 630 horsepower and a 100-kilowatt-hour battery.
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Tim De Chant (via TechCrunch)
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10/16/26
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