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

macOS loses its official UNIX badge 🍎 Apple's macOS is no longer listed on The Open Group's official UNIX-certified product registry.

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

Rust goes full circle, compiles to C 🔄 Eurydice, a 2023 project by Inria and Microsoft, converts Rust code to "clean C" for high-assurance software and C-centric environments.

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

Telegram Desktop vulnerability: one click, all your files Telegram Desktop versions through 7.2.8 allowed arbitrary file reads and account takeover via a single clicked link. 🔐

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

SoftBank wants $100B for AI retrofits 🤖 Masayoshi Son is seeking $100 billion from Gulf investors for a fund to acquire and "AI-ify" established companies.

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

iPad mini price hike looms 💸 Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports the next iPad mini, with an OLED display, could see its price jump from $599 to $799. Compact Apple devices just got pricier.

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

Apple's HomeView smart home hub, unveiled October 13, is expected to ship around mid-November. It's an A18-powered display for Siri control.

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

3D printed jet RC aims for Mach 0.8 A team of graduates successfully flew the Kingchaser, the world's first 3D-printed, jet-turbine-powered RC aircraft, aiming for Mach 0.8. Using mostly PETG for a jet-powered RC plane is quite a flex.

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

Flock cuts staff amid privacy firestorm 🔥 Surveillance camera maker Flock is reducing staff by 18% as privacy backlash grows against its license plate readers.

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

Mistral Large 4 trails Chinese open models Independent tests rank Mistral’s new Large 4 the best model outside the US and China, but several Chinese open models still scored higher overall. 📉

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 15h

Oracle's agent control has a catch Oracle introduced Fusion Claw, a new runtime for governing AI agents automating business processes within its Fusion applications. ☁️ This offers control, but comes with the typical Oracle risk of deeper cloud lock-in.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Bevy 0.20 ships with major upgrades 🚀 The Rust-based Bevy game engine released version 0.20, bringing improved Solari path tracing, new UI widgets, and official WESL shader language adoption.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Microsoft, Anthropic play invoice tennis with Claude bill 🧾 Norwegian startup Vegalabs racked up a $17,600 Claude bill on Microsoft Foundry, as $25,060 in Azure credits expired unused and both Microsoft and Anthropic blamed each other. Invoice tennis, served with a side of AI-generated support.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

NetScaler admins get more patch homework 😬 Citrix reports a new critical vulnerability, CVE-2026-107406, with a CVSS v4.0 score of 9.5, affecting NetScaler ADC and Gateway via SAML.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Pimax tackles wireless VR image compression Pimax's new Crystal Pro VR headset aims to deliver DisplayPort image quality wirelessly, though its 60G AirLink needs a clear line of sight and an optional antenna kit.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Amazon's new tablets get a serious upgrade Amazon unveiled new Alexa Tablets that ditch the proprietary OS for stock Android and Play Store support. Amazon is finally admitting its tablet strategy needed a reset.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Prime Video picks up AI movie rights 🎬 Prime Video picked up global rights for "Çukur: Vartolu," an AI-generated movie spin-off of the popular Turkish series "Çukur." AI generates the visuals and character faces, with human actors performing the scenes.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oxide's $445M Series D round Oxide raised $445M in Series D funding to clear its large order backlog, having already achieved profitability. 📈

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Bambu Lab patents for better print adhesion Bambu Lab's parent company recently published a patent for a new heatbed design, aiming for more even heating to reduce print peeling. A complex machined part often means pricier replacements, though.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

AI turns the tables on phone scammers 🤖 Australian company Apate uses 350,000 AI bots to waste cybercriminals' time in lengthy calls, collecting intel on scam operations for banks and telcos.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Taming C's undefined behavior Martin Uecker discussed making C a memory-safe language, aiming to tame its pervasive undefined behavior despite its historical design for exotic hardware. Bringing memory safety to C after all this time is certainly a goal. 💾

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Climate models get a generative AI facelift Google Research and Caltech unveiled GenFocal, a generative AI that downscales coarse global climate models into fine-grain regional weather data by matching statistical distributions, not individual samples.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

AMD Verano gets its own AI server socket 🤖 AMD's EPYC Verano AI host CPUs, built for AI orchestration, will reportedly use a new, specialized SB1 socket. This points to a focused approach for AI server integration.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

More code, same software output A study found AI coding agents increase raw code output, but not overall software output or reduced employment. The bottleneck shifted to human code review.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

MXC: Microsoft's sandbox for untrusted code Microsoft released MXC, a cross-platform sandboxed execution system for untrusted code like AI model output, supporting Windows, Linux, and macOS with unified SDKs. This is a good primitive for building secure AI applications.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Anthropic AI goes rogue on visa forms 🤖 Anthropic's AI agents recently submitted 20 incomplete visa applications via a U.S. State Department website. AI agents, apparently, are just like us: not great at paperwork.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trauma-informed AI model for student persistence Researchers found GenAI can offer short-term cognitive relief for online students overwhelmed by stress, despite concerns about dependency. This introduces a new model for AI as a digital coping mechanism.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Valve gives Steam Deck devs real-world performance data 🤔 Valve now shares real-world frame rate data from Steam Deck users with developers, showing how games actually perform. This offers a chance to make "verified" actually mean something.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Smart coffee maker floods local network An IT pro reports a Keurig smart coffee maker sent 1TB of local Wi-Fi traffic in 10 days, saturating their network. ☕️

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Cal AI founder raises $10M for new AI venture 💰 Zach Yadegari, 19, co-founder of Cal AI, launched Persona, an AI agent startup that raised $10 million for its personal AI assistant and $179 wearable band. The business model involves ads, claiming unbiased results.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Book publishers secretly embrace AI 🤫 Big US publishers like HarperCollins and Hachette are quietly using AI for marketing and copy, even while publicly fighting AI and canceling authors who use it. The double standard for "creative integrity" is a classic.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Apple's October is packed with new hardware 🍎 Apple is preparing for a busy month with a smart home event on October 13, iPhone Duo launching October 23, and more Macs and iPads expected October 27.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

OLED monitor endures 30 months of abuse TechSpot's 30-month burn-in test on a 4K QD-OLED monitor (8,000 hours, static content, minimal compensation cycles) shows visible burn-in in the screen's center.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

SpaceXAI backs controversial Linux distro SpaceXAI joins the Omacom Foundation, donating $1.5M in Grok tokens to David Heinemeier Hansson's Omarchy Linux project. 🤝

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Debian 14 wants your artwork Debian is calling for community artwork submissions for its upcoming Forky (Debian 14) release, due November 26. Given past Toy Story-themed designs, expect some creative interpretations of "Forky."

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

PC shipments drop 20% in Q3 2026 Global PC shipments fell about 20% year-over-year in Q3 2026, largely due to vendors overstocking to beat anticipated memory price hikes.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Former Groq engineers sue over Nvidia LPU deal Former Groq engineers are suing the ex-board over a $20B Nvidia deal for LPU tech and the team, claiming shareholders were shortchanged. This tests how companies value human capital in licensing deals. ⚖️

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Amazon's premium tablet strategy rebooted Amazon unveiled new Alexa tablets (12 Pro, 11, 8) that run Android with Google Play access, departing from their usual Fire OS. A new tactic for Amazon to compete in the wider tablet market.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

IBM offloads hundreds of VMware cloud customers IBM has sold "hundreds" of its cloudy VMware customers to 11:11 Systems, following Broadcom's partner program cuts. Many of these customers now face migration. 🤔

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Waymo secures $5B for global robotaxis 🤖 Waymo has secured its first debt financing, a $5 billion loan, to accelerate robotaxi expansion in 15 US markets and launch in Europe and Japan. Scaling up means attracting new kinds of attention from regulators.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

First Apple TV 4K is already vintage 🍎 Apple added the 2017 first-gen Apple TV 4K to its vintage list, just four days before a new model is expected.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

SpaceX eyes massive Nvidia AI hardware deal SpaceX is reportedly seeking a $40 billion debt package to acquire Nvidia AI processors, potentially funding 360,000 Rubin GPUs for xAI by 2027. That's one way to corner the compute market. 🤔

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anbernic clones the 3DS with an "AI button" 🤔 Anbernic's new RG DDS handheld revealed as a Snapdragon-powered 3DS clone with an inexplicable "AI button."

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ransomware fixer paid ransoms, pocketed difference Zohar Pinhasi, who ran "MonsterCloud," was charged with wire fraud for allegedly claiming to decrypt ransomware but just paying the ransoms and pocketing the difference.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Simon Willison codes with his voice 🗣️ Simon Willison shipped a new "Newsletters" page for his blog, built almost entirely by speaking commands to the ChatGPT desktop app's Codex tab, powered by GPT-6 Astra High. The future of coding might just be talking to your computer while you cook.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anthropic secures critical infrastructure 🤖 Anthropic launched its Cyber Mission, offering AI models and engineers to secure critical infrastructure and provide free scans for open-source software projects. It's a proactive move for an AI developer to enter the cybersecurity market.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

iPhone 18 Pro demand dips after price hike 📉 Apple asked suppliers to cut iPhone 18 Pro component orders by 15% due to lower demand after a $100 price increase.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Qualcomm licenses Huawei chip stacking tech 💡 Qualcomm has reached a deal to license Huawei's LogicFolding chip architecture patents, a stacking method in the Kirin 9050 Pro. Sometimes, a "workaround" for sanctions becomes a valuable patent.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Intel brings back LGA1700 in 2027 Gigabyte reports Intel plans new LGA1700 CPUs in early 2027, bringing refreshed Raptor Lake/Arrow Lake chips with DDR4 support due to memory price hikes. An unexpected budget upgrade path for existing users.

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