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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 18m

EmbeddingGemma 2 now does all the things 🤖 Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2, a multimodal embedding model unifying text, code, images, video, and audio for on-device inference. Image: DeepMind Blog

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 40m

Cloudflare unifies AI web search 🌐 Cloudflare released its Web Search API in beta, letting AI agents query the internet for live information via integrated providers like Exa and Linkup. AI agents finally get a standardized way to browse the web, all managed through Cloudflare.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 51m

Xbox Elite 3 controller details emerge 🎮 Specs for the Xbox Elite Series 3 controller, including Hall Effect TMR sticks and advanced haptics, leaked from Xbox Design Lab.

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

AI agents unearth new magnetic materials Opus 5.5 AI agents `designed` and identified two new room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates for spintronic memory. AI is now digging into materials science for better storage.

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

Volantis aims to break the AI memory wall 💡 Altman-backed Volantis plans to use photonic interposers in AI accelerators, targeting 10 TB of memory at 240 TB/s by overcoming electrical interconnect limits. They are licensing all other IP.

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

Googlebook's "Better Together" feature is Pixel-only 🤖 Googlebooks' "Better Together" features for Android 17 phones currently only work with Pixels, not Samsung devices, as early users found.

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

Alexa drops aux input voice control Alexa voice commands for 3.5mm aux inputs on older Echo devices are no longer functional, a change Amazon confirmed. Another feature quietly disappears from legacy hardware. 🤔

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

GitHub Actions had a rough day ⚙️ GitHub Actions experienced significant degraded performance and availability yesterday, affecting job processing and other core services before its resolution on October 5. That "root cause analysis" might explain a few things.

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

Type One Energy gets $200M for 2034 fusion plant Type One Energy raised $200 million to build a 400-megawatt commercial fusion power plant by 2034, using an integrator model to outsource manufacturing. This cost-saving strategy shifts quality control risk to suppliers.

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

Mac mini loses its upgrade magic 💸 Apple's new M6 and M5 Pro Mac minis no longer include the hidden feature that allowed user upgrades, effectively soldering down storage.

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

Gemini AI could soon call your family Google's Gemini AI may expand its "Call for Me" feature to personal calls, automating simple messages to friends and family. Finally, an AI to handle those quick social obligations you've been avoiding.

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

Affirm’s AI model says yes more often 💰 Affirm launched a new AI underwriting model, approving 3.4% more purchases, including for those with limited credit, while improving loan performance.

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

Superseded SSO exposes school emails 🏫 UK education software provider Bromcom reported a data breach, with email addresses accessed via legacy SSO functionality that an internal system kept active. Leaving old tech running always has consequences.

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

Ubuntu 26.10 beta surfaces with Rust, LLM speech 🤖 Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” has entered beta with Rust-based OpenPGP and optional LLM speech-to-text. Old desktop quirks persist while new tech makes its way in.

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

Amazon drops secret data center deals 💰 AWS announced it will no longer require NDAs for data center projects, pledging over $1 billion to host communities by 2031 amid rising local opposition. Local resistance is proving effective at forcing transparency from tech giants.

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

Mold linker 3.0.0: now rewritten in Rust The Mold high-speed linker has released version 3.0.0, completely rewritten from C++ to Rust, superseding 2.42.1. This rewrite aims to make it a default linker in Linux distros, a significant step for core infrastructure.

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

Amazon's Alexa Plus develops a vocal tic 🤖 Some Amazon Echo Plus speakers are stuck repeating "lalala" for minutes due to a bug, with Alexa apparently oblivious to its own behavior. Your smart speaker is just quietly serenading itself.

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

Apple drops iOS 27.2 public beta Apple has released the second public beta of iOS 27.2, featuring the redesigned Health app for iPhone. That "all-new Health app" was first shown at the iPhone 18 Pro event. 🍏

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

DigitalX launched a new crypto app featuring generative AI for market analysis, portfolio diagnostics, and natural-language trade preparation. 💰 The AI provides insights and order cards, but users must confirm all trades.

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

FBI confirms ShinyHunters arrests The FBI and partners have arrested "multiple" suspects from the ShinyHunters group, including key figures like Saif al-Din Khader and Pepijn van der Stap. It seems cooperation is now the order of the day.

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

AstroLab gets proper sound design tools Arturia’s AstroLab series now offers full sound design via firmware 2.0, letting users tweak and save custom patches directly on the hardware. It's a proper synth now, if you don't mind the menu diving.

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

Apple's new email math Apple quietly increased iCloud+ email limits, tripling aliases to nine and boosting custom domains to ten. A subtle flexibility bump for paid iCloud subscribers.

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

LibreOffice makes 'no AI' a core feature 📄 The Document Foundation, behind LibreOffice, stated it will not integrate AI features to ensure user data remains on-device. "No AI" is now a selling point.

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

TikTok embeds AI shopping, one-click checkout TikTok launched an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout, aiming to keep the entire purchase path in-app.

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

New neurotech competitor goes non-invasive Bridge Neurotech has launched with $13.5M to rival Sam Altman's Merge Labs in ultrasound BCIs, aiming for a wearable device over surgical implants. Apparently, no one wants a hole in their head.

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

Apple's patent bill adds another $184 million A federal judge ordered Apple to pay Masimo an additional $184 million in interest on its $634 million patent loss, bringing the total to $818 million. The cost of infringement keeps growing. 💸

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

Trump Mobile user data spilled Trump Mobile has suffered a data breach, exposing data for over 3,600 people including names and addresses, with a hacking group claiming responsibility.

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

Iron batteries power the AI grid 🔋 Form Energy is building 100-hour iron batteries, with a 30 GWh project for a Google data center planned for 2028-2031. This long-duration storage could be key for greening AI's massive energy demands.

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

Mistral unveils a 1T-param open model Mistral AI launched its 1-trillion-parameter open-weight model, Mistral Large 4, claiming it leads rivals outside China. Weights release October 27. 🤖

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

Solar 'smile machine' scooter now on sale Otherlab's Lightfoot, a solar-powered electric scooter, is now reports officially on sale for $4,495, initially in California. It's a novel way to get around that also doubles as a conversation starter. ☀️

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

Google tightens the screws on Gemini free tier Starting October 9th, Google confirms free Gemini users will only get Flash Lite, with Flash and Pro moving to paid tiers. 💸

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

VMware users eye exits after price hikes A survey reports 90% of VMware users are exploring alternatives due to higher licensing costs post-Broadcom acquisition. Apparently, dramatic price hikes aren't a great long-term plan.

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

OneDrive cuts off older iPhones ☁️ Microsoft OneDrive is dropping support for iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, impacting iPhone XR, XS, XS Max, and 7th-gen iPad. Your vintage iPhone can still talk, just not to Microsoft's cloud.

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

Google Search Console gets AI override notice Google has updated Search Console, adding a notice for parent domains when child properties override AI generative settings. ⚙️

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

Retro game Dizzy returns with AI The Oliver Twins, creators of the classic Dizzy platformer series, announced a new game is in development using AI.

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

ICANN has opened a new application window for custom top-level domains, the first since 2012, with applications closing August 12, 2026. Expect a more fragmented, niche internet. 🤔

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

iOS Messages gets smarter controls ⚙️ iOS 27.2 beta 3 reveals new granular toggles for Suggested Actions in Messages, allowing individual disabling of contextual prompts.

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

Matic gets an FCC ban waiver, but it didn't need it Matic is the first robovac to receive an FCC ban waiver, despite its products already being approved and assembled in the US.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 13h

Apple’s October product floodgates 🍎 Apple has learned two distinct product launch windows are planned for October, covering new home tech and Macs. Good luck keeping track of all the new SKU numbers.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 14h

Apple Music's new look A new, bolder, lowercase Apple Music logo has been found in iOS 27 beta 3, with previous sightings at the Apple Music Hall and Instagram.

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

Pediatric AI needs tailored care 👶 The American Academy of Pediatrics published guidance for pediatricians on safe generative AI use, highlighting the need for tools designed for children, not just adult adaptations.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Intel Googlebooks and Android apps: some assembly required Google admits some Android apps won't run well on Intel Googlebooks, right as the new laptops launch. 🙄 That "full Play Store" promise just got an asterisk for x86 users.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Etched valuation doubles in months AI chip startup Etched is reviewing $40B-$50B investment offers just two months after its $21B round. 🤔

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Xray-core's own cert bypass flaw 🤦‍♀️ Xray-core's `pinnedPeerCertSha256` option had a certificate verification bypass vulnerability. They condemn skipping verification, then built a feature that did exactly that.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Gears E-Day makes Series S pull a RAM trick 🎮 The Coalition got Gears of War: E-Day running smoothly on Xbox Series S by strategically using its SSD as supplementary RAM. This is how you get demanding games running on the "weaker" console.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Qwen3.8 struggles with simple word math An experiment to sum numbers and return the answer in words, replicated with Qwen3.8-27B-Q4_K_M, showed it achieved only 23.57% accuracy.

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Iranian national extradited for $3.4B hacking campaign An Iranian national was extradited to the US on October 1 for an alleged $3.4 billion state-backed hacking campaign that stole 31 terabytes of data. A rare extradition like this shows some lines are still red for state actors. ⚖️

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Five O'Click Tech @five-oclick-tech.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Huawei, Qualcomm seal multi-year IP deal 🤝 Huawei and Qualcomm signed a multi-year patent agreement, cross-licensing IP for 5G, AI, and more. Some grudges just aren't worth the licensing fees.

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