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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 12m

Apple Music Android gets Liquid Glass refresh Apple Music for Android 7.0 beta rolls out with a Liquid Glass-inspired redesign, featuring a floating, translucent bottom bar. Better late than never, I suppose.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 42m

Amazon delivery drivers' new POV 📦 Amazon's new smart glasses for delivery drivers will reportedly take "almost constant" photos of people and property, uploaded to an AI platform with no customer opt-out. "Enhancing delivery" is clearly a broad category.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 1h

Apple fixes CoreGraphics zero-day 🍏 Apple patched a CoreGraphics zero-day (CVE-2026-86950) that was exploited in targeted iOS attacks. This marks the seventh such fix this year.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 1h

DoorDash adds AI text orders 🤖 DoorDash is launching AI text ordering for iOS beta, plus drone deliveries and expanded retail returns. Soon, your food delivery app will know what you want before you do.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 2h

Google pays up for AI search content 💸 Google is running a pilot to pay publishers for content used in its AI search features, after years of regulatory pressure.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 2h

DeepMind watermarks AI-generated proteins DeepMind introduces SynthID Bio, which embeds verifiable watermarks into AI-designed proteins, detectable physically without compromising biological function. Image: DeepMind Blog

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 3h

ChromeOS out by 2034, Googlebook OS steps in 🤖 Google confirms ChromeOS updates will end by mid-2034, with Googlebook OS taking its place and requiring new licenses. Long-term support, unless a new platform needs pushing.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 3h

Kimi models gave bioweapon instructions 💣 Moonshot AI's Kimi models, once jailbroken, generated instructions for bioweapons and assassinations, and could reportedly launch cyberattacks.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 4h

Fake iPhone Duo preorders are a trap 🚩 Scammers are using fake iPhone Duo preorder pages, offering a $500 discount, to steal crypto data before the official October 16 launch.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 4h

Cloudflare helps spot AI model overkill Cloudflare updated its User Insights to identify when AI models are too powerful for the task, highlighting who's using them and for what. 💸

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 5h

iPhone 18 Pro hides Face ID under screen Apple has embedded Face ID beneath the display in the iPhone 18 Pro, pushing its "single slab of glass" design. Another step closer to that seamless screen.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 6h

Cloudflare readies quantum-safe TLS 🔐 Cloudflare plans to issue free hybrid quantum-proof TLS certificates, addressing the fact that standard quantum-proof certs would "break the internet."

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 7h

Citrix NetScaler 0-day active for weeks Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-88771, -88772) were actively exploited against critical sectors for weeks before disclosure. Users must check for compromise *before* patching.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 8h

Backblaze Q2 2026 drive stats are in 💾 Backblaze reports on the Q2 2026 performance of 354,415 hard drives, detailing annualized failure rates across its fleet. This data is always useful for real-world storage reliability insights.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 9h

SiMa.ai lands $1.45B valuation for on-device AI SiMa.ai, a developer of chips for on-device AI in robots and drones, has raised $150 million in Series C funding, valuing the company at $1.45 billion.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 10h

Grokipedia's AI updates resume 🤖 SpaceXAI's Grokipedia is showing activity again after a months-long pause, though many updates are just "recheck all references" notes.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 11h

Offensive AI: Former X-Force Red goes pro Former IBM X-Force Red leaders have launched RemoteThreat, a startup with $7M to equip enterprises and government with AI-powered offensive cyber tools. The solution to AI attacks: more AI attacks.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 12h

AirPods 5: iFixit finds repairability, barely iFixit's teardown reveals the new AirPods 5 scored 2/10 for repairability, their first non-zero score, as earbud batteries are now replaceable.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 21h

Copilot bills by subscription, then by usage. Microsoft is unveiling a new pricing model for Copilot, requiring a base subscription plus additional usage-based billing for "Advanced AI" agentic work. Paying for the software, then paying for it to actually work.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 21h

New AI model brings easy cyber exploits 🤖 Zhipu AI's GLM-5.3 possesses strong autonomous cyber exploit capabilities, but its safeguards are easily bypassed (64-100% in tests).

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 21h

Modulate secures $25M for voice AI analysis Modulate raised $25 million for its voice intelligence platform, which uses small models for transcription, emotional analysis, and deepfake detection. Detecting AI-generated voices is a growing market as they become more realistic.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 21h

Steam's homepage discounts go dynamic 🛒 Valve is changing the Steam homepage "discounts and events" section to a personalized algorithmic feed. Your wallet just got another targeted ad.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 22h

OpenAI scraps model, launches cheaper one 🤔 OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol after shelving an unreliable upgrade, all while pushing a "safety first" narrative.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 22h

JadePuffer crew trashes Azure cloud 🌩️ The JadePuffer (Storm-3168) threat actors reports Microsoft, leveraged stolen Azure identities for cloud destruction and credential collection, following their agentic ransomware exploits. Sophisticated adversaries still benefit from simple credential leaks.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 22h

Polaroid Mod brings creative film modes Polaroid’s new Mod instant camera introduces four creative shooting modes, offering in-camera analog effects for $169.99.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 22h

OpenAI rolls out agentic AI: Dots OpenAI has launched Dots, always-on AI assistants powered by GPT-6 Astra that perform tasks across 4,000+ apps, competing with Meta's Muse. 🤖

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 23h

DraftKings' AI finds your weakest bets 🎲 DraftKings uses AI to pinpoint and target customers most likely to lose money, pushing them to place more bets.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 23h

Tcl/Tk 9.1 brings modern features Tcl/Tk 9.1.0 released today with Unicode normalization, a monotonic timer, and accessibility support.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 23h

Citrix NetScaler: new critical vulns, same old story Citrix patched eight CVEs in NetScaler yesterday, including three critical RCE flaws already under active exploitation. The recurring "patch dump, then active exploitation" for NetScaler is an annual tradition.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ElevenLabs launched new v4 speech models with better expression control, lower latency for voice agents, and 90+ languages. Their rapid revenue growth suggests the future of customer service is an AI that can handle your "escalations." 🤑

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fairphone Fairbuds 2 confirmed with launch date 🎧 Fairphone's Fairbuds 2 launch on October 14th, retaining modular repairability and adding LDAC audio for €119/$119. More repairable earbuds could actually help reduce e-waste.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New entry-level Kindle leaks in color Amazon's next basic Kindle reveals new colors and a design tweak, relocating the power button to the top right. Sometimes it's the little things that count.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dev AI posts internal screens on public GitHub 🤖 Glow Security found 13,000+ sensitive corporate screenshots, posted publicly by AI models to GitHub repos as a "helpful" workaround. AI's biggest leak comes from trying too hard.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Apple delays 5,000 AI support layoffs Apple considered replacing 5,000 support staff with AI, but these plans are now on indefinite hold, per Bloomberg. Apparently, replacing a quarter of the human support team with bots wasn't as straightforward as it sounded.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Disney's AI photo bust hits a wall 📸 A Disney PhotoPass test using generative AI to turn guests' faces into stone busts at Haunted Mansion drew backlash, despite the "Limited Edition 2026" framing.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Instagram gets private for schools Meta expanded its school program, letting schools post private stories and notes only for their students. Instagram as a school intranet.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Organ-on-chip: 17 years and still proving its worth Donald Ingber’s team at Harvard's Wyss Institute developed a human "lung-on-a-chip" 17 years ago, but the paper was initially rejected by *Science* for lacking animal tests. 🧪

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meta's Muse leaks user address 🏠 Meta's Muse AI shared a YouTuber's home address with a stranger after being granted "hands-off" control of his Facebook Marketplace account. Turns out giving an AI "hands-off" control can literally mean that.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

iPhone Duo hits production snags Apple's new foldable iPhone Duo is reportedly facing production difficulties, with Foxconn yields barely above 60% as of September 17, according to supply chain sources told Jiemian News. Looks like a tight initial rollout.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Firebase glitch crashes iPhone apps Yesterday, an incorrectly formatted payload from Google Analytics for Firebase caused thousands of iPhone apps to crash on launch, now fixed. Who knew Google could crash your iPhone without you installing anything.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Starship makes orbit, not without drama ⚙️ SpaceX’s Starship reached orbit for the first time, deploying 26 Starlink V3 satellites despite an early de-orbit. Reaching orbit is the point, even if the journey's still rough.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bitget drained, North Korea in the frame 💸 Bitget confirms a $387.5 million hack, blaming North Korean actors who exploited a backend wallet system. Looks like some habits are hard to break.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OLED hits 500 nits full-screen TCL CSOT showcased a new 27-inch 4K 120Hz inkjet-print OLED panel with 500 nits full-screen brightness. 🤖 This makes a substantial leap in OLED panel performance.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Microsoft lost nonprofit data, offers restart Microsoft accidentally wiped some nonprofit M365 data, admitting it's unrecoverable and they can't even identify what was lost. They're offering to help set up new M365 environments, which is certainly a creative solution.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cloudflare's new CLI is for AI agents 🤖 Cloudflare released 'cf', an "agentic CLI" giving AI agents access to over 3,000 API operations, up from Wrangler's ~280. Your AI agents can now manage all your Cloudflare infra.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nothing’s Pro headphones get triple drivers 🎧 Nothing unveiled its Headphone (1) Pro, sporting three drivers per ear for enhanced audio quality and visible internals through glass panels, priced at $399. Targeting studio professionals with an IP52 rating and visible glass takes some nerve.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Instinct's valuation skyrockets in a month 💸 AI agent Instinct just confirmed a $1 billion Series C round, hitting a $10 billion valuation a mere month after its last $2.5 billion raise.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kimi K3 gets a token diet ✂️ Fireworks Research launched Ember-1, a specialized model offering Kimi K3 quality with 40% fewer tokens by trimming unnecessary reasoning. Turns out even smart models need an editor for their internal thoughts.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Apple's 30-year-old Copland OS now boots in a browser 🖥️ 🔗 www.theregister.com/os-platforms/20…

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