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Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands.
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Rebecca Bellan (via TechCrunch)
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10/19/26
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YouTube TV lets you watch lots of shows and movies on demand, even if you didn't DVR them beforehand. Just know up front that VOD content has a few downsides.
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10/19/26
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The stablecoin payments buildout has spent the year assembling rails: Visa Direct moving USDC prefunding into commercial production, Mastercard wiring BVNK stablecoin settlement into 130 countries, …
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Nolan Pratt (via Forkast)
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10/19/26
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Russia and the United States are discussing nuclear-powered data centers following a diesel agreement.
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Efosa Udinmwen (via TechnoBuffalo)
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10/19/26
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Bloomberg:
Korean data-center company Elice falls 30%+ in Kosdaq trading debut; sources: Australian data center operator AirTrunk delays real estate investment trust IPO — Data-center …
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10/19/26
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If you're tired of rising service costs, you may be wondering if it's cheaper to have a landline than a cell phone in 2026. Here's what you need to know.
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10/19/26
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The Department of Homeland Security has ordered artificial intelligence technology from the Chinese company DeepSeek Ltd. be removed from all federal civilian agencies. The order, published on the …
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James Farrell (via SiliconANGLE)
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10/19/26
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AI work assistant startup Town secures unicorn status after raising $108M just weeks after launching
Town.com Inc., an artificial intelligence agent startup laser focused on getting work done by collaborating with other AI agents, revealed today that it has raised $108 million in a new funding at a …
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Mike Wheatley (via SiliconANGLE)
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10/19/26
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Need a Connections: Sports Edition hint today? Get a hint for each color group in NYT Connections: Sports Edition No. 757 on Tuesday, Oct. 20, then all four answers.
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Gael Cooper (via CNET Technology)
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10/19/26
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Investment scams alone jumped 42% in 2025.
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Matt Novak (via Gizmodo | Tecg. Science. Culture)
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10/19/26
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Around $3 billion was lost in 2025 to fraud from people aged 60 and over in the US.
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Gael Cooper (via CNET Technology)
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10/19/26
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Amazon.com Inc. today introduced TorchNeuron, an open-source toolkit that enables developers to run PyTorch workloads on its AWS Trainium chips. PyTorch is the industry’s most popular artificial …
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Maria Deutscher (via SiliconANGLE)
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10/19/26
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Google’s Gemini 4 Argon helped researchers extend existing mathematical solutions for magnetic confinement, generating new configurations relevant to fusion simulation software.
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Efosa Udinmwen (via TechnoBuffalo)
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10/19/26
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Order disallowing use of Chinese AI service is unhelpfully vague and broad
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Thomas Claburn (via The Register)
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10/19/26
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HTG writers love Linux. And there's a few unexpected ones.
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David J. Buck (via How-to Geek)
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10/19/26
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The Resident Evil 4 remake runs well overall on Nintendo Switch 2, but isn’t quite perfect — here’s whether I’d recommend it or not.
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10/19/26
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Better coordination between school districts and early learning programs is essential to a smoother leap, says researcher David Jacobson.
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Ira Apfel (via EdSurge)
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10/19/26
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Apple TV has a number of surprising features that you may not be aware of, but you should definitely consider using them to make your life easier.
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Via BGR Tech
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10/19/26
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Someone check on the CEO of Nvidia.
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Mike Pearl (via Gizmodo | Tecg. Science. Culture)
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10/19/26
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A new untethered iOS 27.0.1 jailbreak for the iPhone 18 Pro has been shown off by a security firm called Calif.io at the Hexacon event in Paris.
The post iOS 27.0.1 Jailbreak Shown Off For iPhone …
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Oliver Haslam (via Redmond Pie)
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10/19/26
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