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Vizio smart TVs are ignoring tracking opt-outs, continue to send data even when sitting idle
Posted on Tuesday November 03, 2026
For the study, researchers at Northeastern University tested 12 smart TVs from 10 manufacturers. Together, those sets run the eight operating systems behind roughly 95% of US smart TVs. Every viewing scenario – antenna, HDMI, streaming apps and more – ran 30 times with automatic content recognition (ACR) turned on....Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Borderlands is now a 100 million-copy franchise, and Gearbox isn't done yet
Posted on Tuesday November 03, 2026
Gearbox launched Borderlands 4 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows PCs on September 12, 2025. Like others in the series, it is playable solo or with up to three others. Gamers have enjoyed a solid first year of post-launch add-on content including two story packs, five bounty packs,...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
What does "Wi-Fi" stand for?
Posted on Tuesday November 03, 2026
What do the letters in "Wi-Fi" stand for? Don't Google it.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Dating in Silicon Valley now involves spreadsheets, AI analysis, and $5,000-a-month relationship coaches
Posted on Tuesday November 03, 2026
The industry's boom has drawn a wave of young, ambitious founders and engineers to San Francisco. Many say they date less because they work more, and when they do date, they treat it as a high-stakes decision. A first coffee can start to feel like a final-round interview.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Pope Leo XIV urges governments to ban lethal AI weapons, says tech must be used for common good
Posted on Tuesday November 03, 2026
The pope also made the Catholic Church's position clear on the debate over whether AI systems should be granted rights or legal personhood, saying the Vatican sees machines as tools, not sentient beings with a claim to legal rights of their own. AI is developed by human beings, he added,...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Board makers are running out of GeForce RTX 50 GPUs, so distributors are pushing old RTX 3060s instead
Posted on Tuesday November 03, 2026
Chinese supply chain outlet ChannelGate first reported the shift. According to the outlet, some manufacturers have already run out of RTX 50 stock. The ones that haven't are reportedly shipping what's left in small batches at higher prices.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Squarespace cuts 19% of jobs, CEO admits the technology behind its business has changed enormously
Posted on Tuesday November 03, 2026
Squarespace founder Anthony Casalena said in a memo announcing the cuts that the company needed smaller teams, more player-coaches, and a simplified organizational structure. About 300 workers will be let go, with the product and engineering teams most affected.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
AMD's Zen 7 "Grimlock" APUs with RDNA 5+ graphics may not arrive until 2029
Posted on Tuesday November 03, 2026
Prominent leaker Kepler_L2 recently claimed that AMD APUs featuring "RDNA 5+" iGPUs and Zen 7 CPU cores will be available in early 2029. The statement amounts to some of the earliest concrete information about Zen 7 chips for consumer devices.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Reddit tells Australian court it isn't a social media site, calls the country's under-16 ban "ill thought out" and "inept"
Posted on Tuesday November 03, 2026
Australia passed its under-16 social media law in 2024, and the restrictions took effect on December 10, 2025, making it the first country to introduce a ban that has since spread around the world.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
CentOS co-founder creates a Linux-compatible kernel in just 11 days, with AI doing almost all the coding
Posted on Tuesday November 03, 2026
Kurtzer unveiled the kernel, Ginux, on X last week. The code is on GitHub, too, under the Apache 2.0 license. As for the name, it blends Linux, GPT, and Greg. The README jokes that to keep its author's ego in check, the G officially stands for GPT.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »