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One of the world's leading communities for tech for good. Founded at @Stanford in 2008. @nytimes featured. Helped launch @joindiaspora, now @WeVoyce.

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Nvidia is pitching AI factories, but 81% of companies say their GPUs run at half capacity or less venturebeat.com/infrastructu… via @VentureBeat

Nvidia pitches AI factories as GPUs sit idle | VentureBeat

In a VB Pulse survey, 81% of companies running AI in production use half their GPU capacity or less, yet 71% of them plan new AI infrastructure within a year.

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What telecoms leave behind when they exit a country globalvoices.org/2026/10/22/… via @globalvoices

What telecoms leave behind when they exit a country

“While the network will continue to provide service to users, the transparency practices and internal procedures and protocols for data safeguards may change after a sale.”

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Max-severity GitLab bug allows remote code execution over 12 years of releases theregister.com/security/202…

Max-severity GitLab bug allows remote code execution over 12 years of releases

Vendor 'strongly recommends' upgrading to a fixed version 'as soon as possible'

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Getty Images files for bankruptcy, pushes ahead with plan to go private thenextweb.com/news/getty-im… via @thenextweb

Getty Images files for bankruptcy, pushes ahead with plan to go private

Getty Images has filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware under a plan that hands the company to the Getty family and Koch Equity Development and cuts its debt.

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Meta shocked by $25B fine after N.M. refused to join multistate settlement arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…

Meta whines New Mexico is “impossible” to please after historic $25 billion fine

Meta will appeal a ruling imposing the largest fine Mark Zuckerberg’s ever seen.

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Meta strikes deal with Mark Zuckerberg to help him foot billionaire tax bill theguardian.com/technology/2…

Meta strikes deal with Zuckerberg to help him foot billionaire tax bill

Chief executive agrees to remain in California for eight years even if the state brings in a one-off wealth tax

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Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’ techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/mi… via @techcrunch

Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical...

Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Micros...

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Bluesky adds iPad support in latest feature update engadget.com/2294583/bluesky…

Bluesky adds iPad support in latest feature update - Engadget

Profile links to third-party platforms have also arrived on the social network.

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Ramp built an AI agent harness in six weeks — and LangChain's CEO says it's part of a bigger shift thenewstack.io/ramp-laminar-… via @thenewstack

Ramp built an AI agent harness in six weeks — and LangChain's CEO says it's part of a bigger shift

Ramp built its own AI agent harness, Laminar, instead of buying one. LangChain’s Harrison Chase sees a bigger shift in how agents get built.

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AWS analysts say that at least one actor attempted to exploit the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities on October 17, four days before their public disclosure and patching wired.com/story/hackers-expl…

Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched

Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They're now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.

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CTGT releases open source tool Concordance to trace why AI agents make inconsistent decisions venturebeat.com/data/ctgt-re… via @VentureBeat

CTGT releases open source tool Concordance to trace why AI agents make inconsistent decisions

CTGT replaced the identifiers with stable labels, sorted the list and isolated each test in a fresh organizational environment. Five subsequent runs each produced the same 34 obligations.

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How a civic tech platform is helping women in Serbia get home safely globalvoices.org/2026/10/20/… via @DergachevaD

How a civic tech platform is helping women in Serbia get home safely

“Many incidents of harassment, intimidation, or discomfort in public spaces never become official complaints. Some women do not believe reporting will lead to change.”

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EU wants Booking.com to check out of its scam problem theregister.com/security/202…

The largest selection of hotels, homes, and vacation rentals

Whether you’re looking for hotels, homes, or vacation rentals, you’ll always find the guaranteed best price. Browse our accommodations in over 85,000 destinations.

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Electronic Arts to cut 400 jobs and shut down Mass Effect studio BioWare thenextweb.com/news/ea-shuts… via @thenextweb

Electronic Arts to cut 400 jobs and shut down Mass Effect studio BioWare

EA will close BioWare, the studio behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age, and cut about 400 jobs, two months after its $55B Saudi-led buyout took it private.

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The $15 billion ad-powered AI startup your doctor may already be using arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/t…

The $15 billion ad-powered AI startup your doctor may already be using

OpenEvidence is booming despite questions about accuracy and ads.

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UK watchdogs urged to tackle suicide social media content after death of girl, 14 theguardian.com/technology/2… | Adriana Retyte took her own life after viewing ‘high-risk’ material on the video-sharing platform TikTok

UK watchdogs urged to tackle suicide social media content after death of girl, 14

Adriana Retyte took her own life after viewing ‘high-risk’ material on the video-sharing platform TikTok

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Foursquare co-founder says equity holders saw no returns from the company’s acquisition techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/fo… via @techcrunch

Foursquare co-founder says equity holders saw no returns from the company's acquisition | TechCrunch

Foursquare raised $411 million in funding according to PitchBook data, but its equity holders saw no returns from its final acquisition.

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Here's how SpaceX plans to catch Starship's upper stage for the first time engadget.com/2292685/heres-h…

Here's how SpaceX plans to catch Starship's upper stage for the first time - Engadget

SpaceX has released a demo showing how it intends to catch Starship’s upper stage, which could happen as soon as next month.

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“We are not forking TypeScript”: Cloudflare spearheads Rust port written by agents, for agents thenewstack.io/cloudflare-ru… via @thenewstack

“We are not forking TypeScript”: Cloudflare spearheads Rust port written by agents, for agents

Started at Owner.com last month, tsrs is now in Cloudflare’s hands, and the tricks it uncovered are making Microsoft’s own compiler faster too.

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Widespread PHP flaw may cause many site outages today krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/… via @KrebsInSecurity
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