Tech

CoinGecko: crypto's combined market cap rises 6% to hit $4T, recovering from a brutal weekend selloff as President Trump tries to calm US-China trade war fears (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-13 Trump China

Hollywood Demands Copyright Guardrails from Sora 2 - While Users Complain That's Less Fun (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-10-13

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt win the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on how innovation and technological progress helps economic growth (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-13 Nobel

Ofcom fines 4chan £20K under the OSA for failing to provide information on the risk of illegal content; a UK minister says the government “fully backed” Ofcom (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-13

Sources: UK security services including MI5 step up work with the country's largest companies over hacking fears and to improve UK cyber warfare preparedness (t.co)
2025-10-13

Tencent is investing in shooting games, traditionally dominated by Western companies, after the 2024 success of Delta Force, which still has 30M players daily (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-13 Tencent

A profile of eBay CEO Jamie Iannone, who said the platform was “too complacent” in 2020 and now focuses on its power users, boosting its stock by ~50% in 2025 (www.semafor.com)
2025-10-13 eBay

Parisians and BHV Marais staff protest Shein's 1,000-square-meter store, set to open November 1, as France tries to curb the company's presence in the country (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-13 France

Data center proposals are facing growing opposition from towns across the US, as residents and officials raise concerns about water and electricity use (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-10-13

Strava CEO Michael Martin says Strava plans to launch a US IPO; Sensor Tower says Strava has 50M MAUs and users spent $180M+ on Premium in the year to September (www.ft.com)
2025-10-13 IPO Sensor

Q&A with journalist Jacob Silverman on his new book Gilded Rage, the radical politics of certain tech elites, AI's impact on Silicon Valley politics, and more (www.politico.com)
2025-10-13 AI

Flatpak Doesn't Work in Ubuntu 25.10, But a Fix is Coming (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-13 Ubuntu

OpenAI's blockbuster deals with Nvidia and AMD add a new layer to its complicated ownership structure and will dilute existing shareholders like Microsoft (www.ft.com)
2025-10-13 Microsoft Nvidia AMD

Warburg Pincus agrees to acquire German industrial software company PSI for over €700M, offering €45 per share; PSI's stock closed at €33.20 on October 10 (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-13 Germany

California Will Stop Using Coal as a Power Source Next Month (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-10-13 California

Wingtech's Shanghai-listed stock plunged its daily limit of 10% after the Dutch government moved to exert control over Nexperia, which it acquired in 2018 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-13 Netherlands Shanghai

John Searle, known for “the Chinese Room” thought experiment on AI consciousness, died on Sept. 16 at 93; his UCB tenure ended over alleged sexual harassment (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-13 China AI

Russia Accused of Severing Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant's Link, as Energy Remains a 'Key Battleground' (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-13 Russia Energy Ukraine

Why GPS Fails In Cities. And What Researchers Think Could Fix It (science.slashdot.org)
2025-10-13 GPS

Russia Accused of Severing Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant's Link, as Energy Remains a 'Key Battle Ground' (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-13 Russia Energy Ukraine

AMD Amps Up Chip War - But Nvidia's Still Leading (slashdot.org)
2025-10-13 Nvidia AMD

The Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned Dutch chipmaker Nexperia under the Goods Availability Act to safeguard chip supply for European industries (www.ft.com)
2025-10-13 China Europe Netherlands

Sources: Apple glasses may run full visionOS when paired with Mac, or a lighter UI with iPhone; Apple may unveil M5 iPad, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro this week (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-13 iPhone Apple MacBook iPad

Young people in China are turning to AI chatbots like DeepSeek and Doubao for therapy to save time and money, while avoiding stigma around mental health (restofworld.org)
2025-10-13 China AI chatbot

Toxic Workplaces Are Worsening: 80% of U.S. Workers Say Their Job Hurts Mental Health (it.slashdot.org)
2025-10-13

Cobots, or robots that collaborate with humans, are bringing automation to even the smallest US factories, amid a push to bring manufacturing back to the US (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-13 Robot Manufacturing

There's No 'AI Bubble', Says Yahoo Finance Executive Editor (slashdot.org)
2025-10-13 AI Yahoo

Amazon Smart Displays Are Now Being Bombarded With Ads (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-10-13 Amazon

AI has sparked a new wave of competition in the browser market, as agentic AI browsers like Perplexity's Comet and others compete with Gemini-enhanced Chrome (fortune.com)
2025-10-13 AI Browser Chrome

How modern media consumption is converging toward a continuous flow of episodic video, across streaming providers, podcasts, and social media apps (www.derekthompson.org)
2025-10-13

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