WIRED Roundup: Fandom in Politics, Zuckerberg’s Illegal School, and Nepal’s Discord Revolution

WIRED | By Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger | Mon, 17 No

In today’s episode, host Zoë Schiffer is joined by senior politics editor Leah Feiger to discuss the top stories you need to know about this week—from Mark Zuckerberg’s illegal school to the repercussions behind the recent pardoning of Changpeng Zhao, Binance’s ex-CEO. Then, Zoë and Leah discuss how fandom on the internet played a key role in this year’s US election results. Articles mentioned in this episode: - Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Re...

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The 4 Things You Need for a Tech Bubble

WIRED | By Lauren Goode, Michael Calore | Mon, 17 No

Chatter about an AI bubble has been everywhere lately, and top tech companies like Google, Meta, and Microsoft have doubled down on their AI investments for 2026. But how have analysts in the past accurately identified forming tech bubbles? Hosts Michael Calore and Lauren Goode sit down with Brian Merchant, WIRED contributor and author of the newsletter Blood in the Machine, to break down the four criteria some researchers have used in the past to understand and brace for the worst. Articles men...

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Valar Atomics Says It’s the First Nuclear Startup to Achieve Criticality

WIRED | By Molly Taft | Mon, 17 No

Startup Valar Atomics said on Monday that it achieved criticality—an essential nuclear milestone—with the help of one of the country’s top nuclear laboratories. The El Segundo, California-based startup, which last week announced it had secured a $130 million funding round with backing from Palmer Luckey and Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar, claims that it is the first nuclear startup to create a critical fission reaction. It’s also, more specifically, the first company in a special Department of Energy...

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Our Favorite Compact Soundbar Is $100 Off

WIRED | By Brad Bourque | Mon, 17 No

If your current TV speakers aren't impressing you, the easiest way to upgrade your movie night is with a sound bar. Our favorite compact option, where you might have limited space or a smaller room, is the Bose Smart Soundbar. It's currently marked down to $400 at retailers like Amazon and Best Buy, a discount of at least $100. It's easy to use, small enough to squeeze into tight spots, and still has all the features you'd expect from a soundbar. Despite the tiny footprint, the Bose Smart Soundb...

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Node.js v25.2.1 (Current)

Node.js Blog | Mon, 17 No

Node.js v25.2.1 (Current) Antoine du Hamel 2025-11-17, Version 25.2.1 (Current), @aduh95 This release reverts the spec-compliant behavior of sometimes throwing on localStorage access. We received feedback that this change on an experimental API was too breaking for a semver-minor release, so we decided to push it back for Node.js 26.0.0. Commits - [ ff89b7b6c7 ] - crypto: ensure documented RSA-PSS saltLength default is used (Filip Skokan) #60662 - [ 5316b580eb ] - deps: V8: backport 2e4c5cf9b112...

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Unblock DevEx by Getting Observability Tools Out of The Way

The New Stack | By Vicki Walker | Mon, 17 No

Unblock DevEx by Getting Observability Tools Out of The Way This was originally published on Oct. 23, 2025, and has been updated with new information. Software developers’ relationship with their tools is, to say the least, complicated. When tools work well, they fade into the background, enabling flow, creativity and speed. They simplify the complex, automate the tedious and help teams deliver better code faster. But all too often, developer “solutions” are anything but. Many tools are difficul...

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Microsoft Mitigated the Largest Cloud DDoS Ever Recorded, 15.7 Tbps

Slashdot | By BeauHD | 2025-11-18

Microsoft Mitigated the Largest Cloud DDoS Ever Recorded, 15.7 Tbps (securityaffairs.com) 1 An anonymous reader quotes a report from Security Affairs: On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and mitigated a massive multi-vector attack peaking at 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 billion pps, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, aimed at a single Australian endpoint. Azure's global protection network filtered the traffic, keeping services online. The attack came from the Aisuru botnet, a Turbo Mir...

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An AI Podcasting Machine Is Churning Out 3,000 Episodes a Week

Slashdot | By BeauHD | 2025-11-17

An AI Podcasting Machine Is Churning Out 3,000 Episodes a Week (thewrap.com) 16 fjo3 shares a report from TheWrap: There are already at least 175,000 AI-generated podcast episodes on platforms like Spotify and Apple. That's thanks to Inception Point AI, a startup with just eight employees cranking out 3,000 episodes a week covering everything from localized weather reports and pollen trackers to a detailed account of Charlie Kirk's assassination and its cultural impact, to a biography series on ...

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NetChoice Sues Virginia To Block Its One-Hour Social Media Limit For Kids

Slashdot | By BeauHD | 2025-11-17

NetChoice Sues Virginia To Block Its One-Hour Social Media Limit For Kids (theverge.com) 13 NetChoice is suing Virginia to block a new law that limits kids under 16 to one hour of daily social media use unless parents approve more time, arguing the rule violates the First Amendment and introduces serious privacy risks through mandatory age-verification. The Verge reports: In addition to restricting access to legal speech, NetChoice alleges that Virginia's incoming law (SB 854) will require platf...

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Tech Giants' Cloud Power Probed As EU Weighs Inclusion In DMA

Slashdot | By BeauHD | 2025-11-17

Tech Giants' Cloud Power Probed As EU Weighs Inclusion In DMA (bloomberg.com) 7 An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft's Azure, and Alphabet's Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope of the European Union's crackdown on Big Tech as antitrust watchdogs prepare to study the platforms' market power. The European Commission wants to decide if any of the trio should face a raft of new restrictions under the bloc's Digital Markets Act (source paywalle...

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'Buy Now, Pay Later' is Expanding Fast, and That Should Worry Everyone

Slashdot | By msmash | 2025-11-17

'Buy Now, Pay Later' is Expanding Fast, and That Should Worry Everyone (techcrunch.com) 55 An anonymous reader shares a report: When Nigel Morris tells you he's worried about the economy, you listen. As industry observers know, Morris co-founded Capital One and pioneered lending to subprime borrowers, building an empire on understanding exactly how much financial stress the average American can handle. Now, as an early investor in Klarna and other buy-now-pay-later companies like Aplazo in Mexic...

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Harvard Has Almost Half a Billion Dollars in Crypto

Slashdot | By msmash | 2025-11-17

Harvard Has Almost Half a Billion Dollars in Crypto (wsj.com) 20 An anonymous reader shares a report: Harvard is ramping up its holdings in cryptocurrency. The nation's oldest university reported a $443 million investment in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust in the third quarter. The school now holds 6.8 million shares of the exchange-traded fund, up from 1.9 million in the second quarter. The digital currency amounts to a little less than 1% of the school's $57 billion endowment. Other schools ...

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Is Video Watching Bad for Kids? The Effect of Video Watching on Children's Skills

Slashdot | By msmash | 2025-11-17

Is Video Watching Bad for Kids? The Effect of Video Watching on Children's Skills (nber.org) 11 Abstract of a paper on NBER: This paper documents video consumption among school-aged children in the U.S. and explores its impact on human capital development. Video watching is common across all segments of society, yet surprisingly little is known about its developmental consequences. With a bunching identification strategy, we find that an additional hour of daily video consumption has a negative ...

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Iran Begins Cloud Seeding To Induce Rain Amid Historic Drought

Slashdot | By msmash | 2025-11-17

Iran Begins Cloud Seeding To Induce Rain Amid Historic Drought (bbc.com) 25 Authorities in Iran have sprayed clouds with chemicals to induce rain, in an attempt to combat the country's worst drought in decades. From a report: Known as cloud-seeding, the process was conducted over the Urmia lake basin on Saturday, Iran's official news agency Irna reported. Urmia is Iran's largest lake, but has largely dried out leaving a vast salt bed. Further operations will be carried out in east and west Azerb...

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AI Use in 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 7' Draws Fire From US Lawmaker

Slashdot | By msmash | 2025-11-17

AI Use in 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 7' Draws Fire From US Lawmaker (pcmag.com) 47 An anonymous reader shares a report: The use of AI in the latest Call of Duty has prompted a US lawmaker to call for regulations to prevent artificial intelligence from taking jobs away from human workers. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who represents a large swathe of Silicon Valley, took aim at Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 after buyers noticed the popular shooter contains a significant amount of AI-generated icons, poste...

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Take-Two CEO Says Consoles Aren't Going Away, But Gaming is Moving Toward PCs

Slashdot | By msmash | 2025-11-17

Take-Two CEO Says Consoles Aren't Going Away, But Gaming is Moving Toward PCs (cnbc.com) 33 Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, which operates publishing labels including GTA-maker Rockstar Games and 2K, said on Monday that although gaming consoles are not going away, the industry is moving toward PCs in the next decade. From a report: "I think it's moving towards PC and business is moving towards open rather than closed," Zelnick told CNBC's "Squawk Box." "But if you define console as...

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UK Cyber Ransom Ban Risks Collapse of Essential Services

Slashdot | By msmash | 2025-11-17

UK Cyber Ransom Ban Risks Collapse of Essential Services (ft.com) 27 The UK government has been warned that its plan to ban operators of critical national infrastructure from paying ransoms to hackers is unlikely to stop cyber attacks and could result in essential services collapsing. From a report: The proposal, announced by the Home Office in July, is designed to deter cyber criminals by making it clear any attempt to blackmail regulated companies such as hospitals, airports and telecoms group...

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Global Web Freedoms Tumble

Slashdot | By msmash | 2025-11-17

Global Web Freedoms Tumble (semafor.com) 12 Global internet freedom declined for a 15th consecutive year, according to Freedom House's annual report. Semafor: "Always grim reading," this year's is particularly sobering, Tech Policy Press noted, with the lowest-ever portion of users living in countries categorized as "free." Conditions declined in 27 of the 72 countries assessed, with those in Kenya -- where anti-corruption protests were quelled, in part, by a seven-hour internet shutdown -- dete...

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Why Hotel-Room Cancellations Disappeared

Slashdot | By msmash | 2025-11-17

Why Hotel-Room Cancellations Disappeared (msn.com) 48 Hotel cancellation policies have transformed over the past seven years. Travelers once could cancel reservations up until the day before check-in without penalty. That flexibility has largely vanished. The shift began around 2018 when third-party travel-booking sites deployed "cancel-rebook" strategies, the Atlantic writes. These platforms would monitor hotel rates after securing initial reservations. When prices dropped, the sites automatica...

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New EVALUSION ClickFix Campaign Delivers Amatera Stealer and NetSupport RAT

The Hacker News | By info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) | Mon, 17 No

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malware campaigns using the now-prevalent ClickFix social engineering tactic to deploy Amatera Stealer and NetSupport RAT. The activity, observed this month, is being tracked by eSentire under the moniker EVALUSION. First spotted in June 2025, Amatera is assessed to be an evolution of ACR (short for "AcridRain") Stealer, which was available under the malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model until sales of the malware were suspended in mid-July 2024. Amatera is ...

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How Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket booster landing impacts the commercial spaceflight market

Fast Company Technology | By The Conversation | 2025-11-17

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket successfully made its way to orbit for the second time on Nov. 13, 2025. Although the second launch is never as flashy as the first, this mission is still significant in several ways. For one, it launched a pair of NASA spacecraft named ESCAPADE, which are headed to Mars orbit to study that planet’s magnetic environment and atmosphere. The twin spacecraft will first travel to a Lagrange point, a place where the gravity between Earth, the Moon, and the Sun balances....

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The EU just fired a shot across the bow at Shein and Temu

Fast Company Technology | By Chris Stokel-Walker | 2025-11-17

Could the era of the super cheap phone case arriving from China in a week finally be ending? Thanks to a major change to European regulations, it just might. European Union finance ministers have agreed to impose customs duties on low-value parcels entering the bloc at some point next year, scrapping the long-standing “de minimis” exemption for goods under €150 (or $175). The move is seen as a way to slow the flood of cheap Chinese imports from platforms such as Shein and Temu. These goods now a...

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Here’s how YouTube became the most-watched video provider in the U.S.

Fast Company Technology | By kat-caulderwood | 2025-11-17

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Jeff Bezos to co-lead AI startup Project Prometheus, raising $6.2 billion

Fast Company Technology | By Reuters | 2025-11-17

Jeff Bezos will serve as co-chief executive officer of a new artificial intelligence startup that focuses on AI for engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles, and spacecraft, the New York Times reported on Monday. The company, called Project Prometheus, has garnered $6.2 billion in funding, partly from the Amazon founder, making it one of the most well-financed early-stage startups in the world, the report said, citing three people familiar with the company. This is the first time ...

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Why Amazon is betting on a new TV OS

Fast Company Technology | By Janko Roettgers | 2025-11-17

Black, unassuming, about the size of a pack of chewing gum: On the surface, the Fire TV 4K Select stick released in mid-October looks just like any other streaming device made by Amazon. Plug it into your TV, and you’ll be greeted by Amazon’s tried-and-true living room interface, complete with icons for popular streaming apps like Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video. And yet, the Select streaming stick is unlike any of its predecessors. That’s because the device is running Vega – a new, Linux-based...

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Claude on campus: How Anthropic is building a user base by launching AI clubs

Fast Company Technology | By Victoria Feng | 2025-11-17

With over 800 student organizations on campus, the University of Pennsylvania already seems to have a club for every interest, from investment banking to beekeeping—even cheese. Now, add AI to the mix. In September, dozens of Penn students gathered in the engineering school auditorium for the debut of the Claude Builder Club, sponsored by AI company Anthropic. Over the course of this semester, the Builder Club has plans to host a hackathon, demo night, and other opportunities to create projects ...

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TikTokers hatch plan to make memes great again

Fast Company Technology | By Eve Upton-Clark | 2025-11-17

Earlier this year, TikTokers declared the start of the Great Meme Depression of 2025. In the months since, things haven’t picked up much. As 2026 approaches, some internet users have decided to take matters into their own hands rather than risk yet another year of AI slop and brainrot humor. It’s time to take it back to 2016. The Great Meme Reset of 2026 was first proposed by TikTok creator joebro909 in a video from March, according to KnowYourMeme, in the thick of the Great Meme Depression. In ...

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AI and the production of ‘bullshit’

Fast Company Technology | By Faisal Hoque | 2025-11-17

Stories about AI-generated fabrications in the professional world have become part of the background hum of life since generative AI hit the mainstream three years ago. Invented quotes, fake figures, and citations that lead to nonexistent research have shown up in academic publications, legal briefs, government reports, and media articles. We can often understand these events as technical failures: the AI hallucinated, someone forgot to fact-check, and an embarrassing but honest mistake became a...

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AI is killing privacy. We can’t let that happen

Fast Company Technology | By Jen Caltrider | 2025-11-16

In a perfect world, my job wouldn’t exist. I’m a consumer privacy advocate, which means I spend my days fighting for something that should be automatic: your right to control and protect your own personal information. Unfortunately, we dropped the ball. In the era of social media and hyper-targeted ads, we didn’t build the right privacy infrastructure to protect ourselves. Instead, we let tech companies sell us the story that knowledge is power and data is the price. Yes, knowledge is power. But...

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Is addiction the responsibility of UX?

UX Collective | By Daley Wilhelm | Mon, 17 No

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Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO

Reddit - r/technology | By /u/AIMadeMeDoIt__ | 2025-11-17

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Age-verification laws don't keep minors away from adult sites, study suggests

Reddit - r/technology | By /u/vriska1 | 2025-11-17

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John Oliver Launches ‘Last Week Tonight’ Auction, Including an Original Bob Ross Painting, to Support Public Broadcasting

Reddit - r/technology | By /u/rezwenn | 2025-11-17

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Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices

Reddit - r/technology | By /u/Arthur_Morgan44469 | 2025-11-17

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Man who cryogenically froze his wife faces backlash after finding new love years later

Reddit - r/technology | By /u/IndicaOatmeal | 2025-11-17

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You Will Never Send Money Digitally Without a Private Company — If the GOP Gets Its Way

Reddit - r/technology | By /u/FervidBug42 | 2025-11-17

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Anthropic's CEO is uneasy with unelected tech elites deciding AI's future — including himself

Reddit - r/technology | By /u/FervidBug42 | 2025-11-17

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Microsoft just revealed how Windows 11 is evolving into an agentic OS — introduces new 'agentic workspace'

Reddit - r/technology | By /u/ZacB_ | 2025-11-17

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TP-Link Routers Could Soon Be Banned. Here's What Cybersecurity Experts Say About the Risk

Reddit - r/technology | By /u/thatirishguyyyyy | 2025-11-17

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Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America — without Tesla

Reddit - r/technology | By /u/YesNo_Maybe_ | 2025-11-17

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DOJ Issued Seizure Warrant to Starlink Over Satellite Internet Systems Used at Scam Compound

Reddit - r/technology | By /u/dan1101 | 2025-11-17

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AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives | OpenAI blocked access for the toymaker following the incidents.

Reddit - r/technology | By /u/CrouchingTiger44 | 2025-11-18

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I looked into CoreWeave and the abyss gazed back | Meet the company Nvidia is propping up

Reddit - r/technology | By /u/Hrmbee | 2025-11-17

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Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton allegedly looked to ChatGPT to figure out how to not pay that $250 million bonus

Reddit - r/technology | By /u/esporx | 2025-11-18

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Pierce Brosnan Wants to Be Doctor Fate Again, and May Get His Chance

Gizmodo | By Justin Carter | Mon, 17 No

Dwayne Johnson may not get to play Black Adam again, but someone from that movie may get to reprise their role in the new DC movie universe. During a recent interview with GQ, Pierce Brosnan said he’s more than willing to play Doctor Fate again, should the call come: “I enjoyed that, the philosphy of that character very much, and I would be open to it.” Interestingly, he then told GQ how he heard “that Fate was going to have his own show, or his own movie. I’ve heard that he’s going to be in the...

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RFK Jr.’s Buddies Are Back to Undermine Vaccines

Gizmodo | By Ed Cara | Mon, 17 No

The federal government is officially back to work, and unfortunately, so is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s influence over the country’s public health. Early next month, a panel of outside advisors assembled by Kennedy will meet once again and probably take a sledgehammer to more vaccines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently posted the draft agenda for the next meeting of its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, scheduled for December 4 and 5. Among other things, ACIP ...

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AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives

Gizmodo | By Lucas Ropek | Mon, 17 No

You might not think it, but AI has even managed to integrate itself into the toy industry, where—just as it has in the realms of education, filmmaking, and mental health—it seems to be stirring up all sorts of trouble. Case in point: This week, OpenAI blocked access for a toymaker based in Singapore after a consumer report showed that the firm’s AI-powered teddy bear had been engaging in all sorts of weird conversations with researchers. The Public Interest Research Group, a non-profit that focu...

Sentiment: {'sentiment': 'Negative', 'score': -0.2732, 'details': {'neg': 0.1, 'neu': 0.9, 'pos': 0.0, 'compound': -0.2732}}

VW and Rivian Have a Shared EV Vision, and They’re Hoping Other Companies Want In

Gizmodo | By Zac Estrada | Mon, 17 No

Can new automotive technology from an automotive giant with a troubled electric vehicle system and a startup struggling to fund its second act appeal to other companies? Rivian and Volkswagen want to find out. Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies officially launched on November 13, the result of a $5.8 billion joint venture between the two companies that was first announced as a software deal in June. The goal is electrical architecture and software destined for a future generation of EV mod...

Sentiment: {'sentiment': 'Negative', 'score': -0.0772, 'details': {'neg': 0.065, 'neu': 0.878, 'pos': 0.058, 'compound': -0.0772}}

Move Over Crypto Bros, the AI PACs Are Here to Buy the Next Election

Gizmodo | By AJ Dellinger | Mon, 17 No

The crypto community was able to help buy itself a friendly administration in the 2024 election by pouring money into political action committees, and now the AI industry looks like it is planning to follow the playbook heading into the midterms. According to CNBC, the biggest PAC in the game has already picked its first target: a Democratic congressional candidate who helped pass a bill creating guardrails for AI. The Leading the Future PAC—which counts among its backers billionaire Marc Andree...

Sentiment: {'sentiment': 'Neutral', 'score': 0.0, 'details': {'neg': 0.0, 'neu': 1.0, 'pos': 0.0, 'compound': 0.0}}

All the ‘Star Trek’ Movies Paramount Has Said It’s Trying to Make Lately

Gizmodo | By James Whitbrook | Mon, 17 No

“A new Star Trek movie is coming!” Here at io9 we’ve been telling you that quite a bit over the last few years—most recently last week, with the news that D&D: Honor Among Thieves tag team Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley were turning their focus where, it turns out, quite a few film producers have gone before. Although perhaps Star Trek‘s other friend in the ‘Star franchise’ genre has been in the spotlight the past few years for its inability to get a movie onto the big screen (that fo...

Sentiment: {'sentiment': 'Neutral', 'score': -0.0258, 'details': {'neg': 0.073, 'neu': 0.857, 'pos': 0.07, 'compound': -0.0258}}

Trump Organization Announces Tokenized Hotel Development as Crypto ‘Crime Season’ Continues

Gizmodo | By Rhett Jones | Mon, 17 No

The Trump Organization and London-based luxury real estate developer DAR Global have announced a new hotel development known as Trump International Hotel Maldives, which will apparently be tokenized on a yet-to-be-announced blockchain. According to a press release associated with the announcement, this will be the first such tokenization of a real estate project that is still in development. Crypto-related activities of Trump-affiliated companies have undergone a massive expansion over the past ...

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Timothée Chalamet Breaks Down That Iconic ‘Dune Part Two’ Speech

Gizmodo | By Germain Lussier | Mon, 17 No

He may not love it, but Timothée Chalamet is proud when people scream “Lisan al-Gaib!” to him on the streets. It’s a reference to Dune: Part Two, where Chalamet’s character, Paul Atreides, rises to power and fulfills his destiny as the godlike figure in the life of the Fremen. After the film’s release, calling Chalamet “Lisan al-Gaib!” basically became a meme, but that wouldn’t have happened if one crucial scene hadn’t come together perfectly. Just four days removed from completing principal pho...

Sentiment: {'sentiment': 'Positive', 'score': 0.6705, 'details': {'neg': 0.0, 'neu': 0.841, 'pos': 0.159, 'compound': 0.6705}}

Reading a Quantum Clock Costs More Energy Than Actually Running One

Gizmodo | By Gayoung Lee | Mon, 17 No

Quantum technologies—devices that operate according to quantum mechanical principles—promise to bring users some groundbreaking innovations in whichever context they appear. Ironically, the same principles often create complications preventing these supposedly amazing devices from really taking off. A new study, published on November 14 in Physical Review Letters, further cements this problem by demonstrating another, somewhat unexpected obstacle—the act of measurement itself. For the experiment...

Sentiment: {'sentiment': 'Positive', 'score': 0.4404, 'details': {'neg': 0.0, 'neu': 0.87, 'pos': 0.13, 'compound': 0.4404}}

A Waymo Robotaxi May Have Recorded Footage of a Deadly Shooting in San Francisco

Gizmodo | By Lucas Ropek | Mon, 17 No

A lethal shooting in San Francisco over the weekend may have been recorded by a nearby robotaxi—a possibility that suggests the ways in which America’s new autonomous vehicle cadres may soon become pivotal to law enforcement probes. The shooting in question, which took place in the city’s Mission neighborhood, left one man dead and another critically injured. The San Francisco Standard cites calls to 9-1-1 dispatchers to reveal that a Waymo had been parked nearby and may have recorded the deadly...

Sentiment: {'sentiment': 'Negative', 'score': -0.3818, 'details': {'neg': 0.115, 'neu': 0.885, 'pos': 0.0, 'compound': -0.3818}}

A New ‘Star Trek’ Comic Gives Uhura the Full Spotlight

Gizmodo | By Justin Carter | Mon, 17 No

In 2017, IDW released Star Trek: Deviations, a one-shot that explored what would’ve happened if the Romulans made first contact with Earth instead of the Vulcans. For its next alt-history outing, the Deviations line is focusing on the original Enterprise‘s comms officer and translator, Nyota Uhura. Written by Stephanie Williams (Nubia & the Amazons) and drawn by Greg Maldonado and Anthony Fowler Jr., the Threads of Destiny one-shot puts a different spin on the Original Series episode “The City o...

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Jeff Bezos’s New AI Hardware Startup Isn’t Even His Biggest Moonshot

Gizmodo | By AJ Dellinger | Mon, 17 No

Here on Earth, regulators and citizens alike are realizing that there may be downsides to going all in on the demands of AI data centers and the companies that are building them, and pushback is starting to become more prevalent. But in space, no one can hear you object to the massive energy demands and dubious economic “benefits” of these massive infrastructure projects. That’s why Jeff Bezos (fresh off of announcing his big AI hardware startup Project Prometheus) and other tech billionaires ar...

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An AI May Be Listening to Your Next Doctor’s Appointment

Gizmodo | By Margherita Bassi | Mon, 17 No

You’re at the doctor’s office, sitting on the itchy, crinkly paper on the examination bed for longer than you wanted to. Your family doctor finally knocks on your door, and you’re anxious to explain your reason for booking an appointment. But as you start speaking, the doctor is glued to his or her computer, typing furiously and rarely ever looking up. They’re taking notes as they listen, but the lack of engagement causes a disconnect. Artificial intelligence could provide a solution. Doctors ar...

Sentiment: {'sentiment': 'Positive', 'score': 0.4023, 'details': {'neg': 0.0, 'neu': 0.863, 'pos': 0.137, 'compound': 0.4023}}

‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ Is About Making Mando One of the Good Guys

Gizmodo | By James Whitbrook | Mon, 17 No

Back when The Mandalorian was first starting out, part of the intrigue—and part of its charm—was that the titular man himself was not really the kind of protagonist figure we see in Star Wars often. A flawed, compromised wanderer who was willing to play with all sides of the galaxy as long as it meant getting paid (and safeguarding the little green ward he picked up along the way), over the years, as The Mandalorian became increasingly enmeshed in a larger galactic scale, that character has slow...

Sentiment: {'sentiment': 'Neutral', 'score': 0.0, 'details': {'neg': 0.09, 'neu': 0.821, 'pos': 0.09, 'compound': 0.0}}

That Massive ‘Now You See Me 3’ Spoiler Cameo Almost Didn’t Happen

Gizmodo | By Germain Lussier | Mon, 17 No

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t performed a magic trick at the box office this weekend, taking the #1 spot over the much-hyped remake of The Running Man starring Glen Powell. It seems audiences are very much in the mood to keep seeing the Four Horsemen perform the kind of wild, Robin Hood-esque stunts this star-studded franchise is all about. And it’s likely to continue. Not only has director Ruben Fleischer already begun chipping away at a fourth film, but the film itself ends with a big, surpris...

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Peter Thiel Is Reportedly Dumping Nvidia Stock Amid AI Bubble Jitters

Gizmodo | By Ece Yildirim | Mon, 17 No

Peter Thiel is the latest investor to sell off Nvidia shares. According to regulatory filings, the billionaire’s hedge fund, Thiel Macro, has offloaded its entire stake in Nvidia. The firm has sold 537,742 shares in its third quarter, which would have been worth around $100 million, according to Reuters estimates. There are many reasons why investors might decide to sell off their stake in a company, and not all of those reasons are worth giant alarm bells. But it does pique interest when those ...

Sentiment: {'sentiment': 'Negative', 'score': -0.0516, 'details': {'neg': 0.066, 'neu': 0.934, 'pos': 0.0, 'compound': -0.0516}}

Woman Pleads Guilty to Lying About Astronaut Wife Accessing Her Bank Account From Space

Gizmodo | By Matt Novak | Mon, 17 No

Who has jurisdiction to prosecute a crime committed in space? That was the novel question raised in 2019 when a woman accused her estranged spouse, an astronaut, of accessing her bank account without permission while the astronaut was aboard the International Space Station. Now the Earth-bound woman has pleaded guilty to lying to government investigators about her astronaut wife. Summer Heather Worden approached the FTC in 2019 and accused her then-wife, astronaut Anne McClain, of guessing her p...

Sentiment: {'sentiment': 'Negative', 'score': -0.7184, 'details': {'neg': 0.115, 'neu': 0.885, 'pos': 0.0, 'compound': -0.7184}}

SpaceX to Tell NASA the Moon Will Have to Wait

Gizmodo | By Ellyn Lapointe | Mon, 17 No

SpaceX has fallen behind in developing a crewed lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis 3 mission, prompting the agency to reopen the contract to other providers. The added pressure has pushed SpaceX to revise its strategy, but the new approach still appears insufficient to meet NASA’s target date, leaked proprietary information suggests. An internal SpaceX document obtained by Politico lays out a new timeline for the Starship Human Landing System (HLS)—one that would put the Artemis 3 astronauts on the...

Sentiment: {'sentiment': 'Negative', 'score': -0.4404, 'details': {'neg': 0.106, 'neu': 0.894, 'pos': 0.0, 'compound': -0.4404}}

This Is Our Best Look at Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 4 Pro Yet

Gizmodo | By James Pero | Mon, 17 No

The Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro leaks keep coming, and in a very unorthodox fashion. The newest drip, courtesy of Android Authority, comes from a leaked animation in Samsung’s One UI 8.5 update that seems to confirm a few things about the most likely upcoming pair of wireless earbuds. If you’ve used Samsung’s last pair of Galaxy Buds 3 Pro, the first thing you’ll likely notice is that there’s a bit of a redesign. Instead of the angular blade design, the animation shows that the stem on the Galaxy ...

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Hisense’s Annual Upgrade Season Is Taking Up to $2,800 Off Its Top TVs Before Black Friday, With a Free $100 FIFA Gift Card

Gizmodo | By Zainab Falak | Mon, 17 No

There’s never been a better time to upgrade your home entertainment setup, especially if you’ve been wanting to grab a big screen that brings that cinema-like experience straight to your living room. Hisense is making a bold play ahead of Black Friday by offering massive discounts on some of its best TVs, including the 100-inch giant that rarely sees any drops. You can save up to $2,800, and if you purchase a Hisense ULED TV that’s 65 inches or larger by November 22, you’ll also get a $100 FIFA ...

Sentiment: {'sentiment': 'Positive', 'score': 0.4215, 'details': {'neg': 0.0, 'neu': 0.872, 'pos': 0.128, 'compound': 0.4215}}

How Dash uses context engineering for smarter AI

Dropbox Tech | By Sean-Michael Lewis | Mon, 17 No

When we first built Dash, it looked like most enterprise search systems: a traditional RAG pipeline that combined semantic and keyword search across indexed documents. It worked well for retrieving information and generating concise answers. But as teams began using Dash for more than just finding content—for example, asking it to interpret, summarize, and even act on what it found—we realized that retrieval alone wasn’t enough. The natural progression from “what is the status of the identity pr...

Sentiment: {'sentiment': 'Positive', 'score': 0.6872, 'details': {'neg': 0.0, 'neu': 0.706, 'pos': 0.294, 'compound': 0.6872}}

a16z-backed super PAC is targeting Alex Bores, sponsor of New York’s AI safety bill. He says bring it on.

TechCrunch | By Rebecca Bellan | Tue, 18 No

A pro-AI super PAC backed by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Greg Brockman has chosen New York Assembly member Alex Bores – and his congressional bid – as its first target. The PAC, dubbed Leading the Future, formed in August with a more than $100 million commitment to support policymakers with a light-touch – or a no-touch – approach to AI regulation. And that means going after policymakers who want to regulate AI. The super PAC has backing from a number of other prominent leaders in t...

Sentiment: {'sentiment': 'Positive', 'score': 0.3612, 'details': {'neg': 0.134, 'neu': 0.67, 'pos': 0.196, 'compound': 0.3612}}