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A California jury finds Uber not liable for a woman's alleged sexual assault by her driver, in the first trial out of 500+ consolidated lawsuits in the state (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-1 Uber California

Source: Meta is acquiring AI chip startup Rivos, as it seeks to reduce reliance on Nvidia; Rivos was reportedly seeking new funding at a $2B valuation in August (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-1 Startup AI Nvidia

What Researchers Suspect May Be Fueling Cancer Among Millennials (science.slashdot.org)
2025-10-1

A Russian YouTuber posts an unboxing of the alleged M5 iPad Pro, which looks identical to the M4 model; the same YouTuber leaked the M4 MacBook Pro in 2024 (9to5mac.com)
2025-10-1 Russia MacBook YouTuber iPad

Imgur blocks UK access after the ICO notified it of a possible fine over its handling of kids' data; the ICO calls Imgur's move a “commercial decision” (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-1 ICO

Boeing Has Started Working on a 737 MAX Replacement (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-1 Boeing

Kindle Scribe Redesign Adds Color Model and AI-powered Notebook Features (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-1 AI

Vercel, which offers cloud tools to make web and AI apps, raised $300M led by Accel and Singapore's GIC at a $9.3B valuation and considers a ~$300M tender offer (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-1 AI Singapore

Amazon launches new Fire TVs and a $40 Fire TV Stick 4K Select with a new OS called Vega and built in Alexa+ (www.tomsguide.com)
2025-10-1 Amazon

Amazon unveils the $220 Echo Studio, its high-end speaker for audiophiles, 8" and 11" Echo Show for $180 and $220, and the $100 Echo Dot Max, all with Alexa+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-1 Amazon

Google launches a new AI ransomware detection feature for Drive on desktop, trained on millions of real victim files encrypted by various ransomware strains (www.wired.com)
2025-10-1 Google AI

Amazon updates the Kindle Scribe, including a $630 Kindle Scribe Colorsoft with a larger 11-inch E Ink display, lower weight at 400g, and a 5.4mm thin body (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-1 Amazon

An interview with Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who returned to the company in April, on why he “backs the blue”, how Ring is fighting crime, Amazon, and more (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-1 Amazon Interview

Amazon's Ring unveils the $200 Outdoor Cam Pro, $250 Spotlight Cam Pro, $280 Floodlight Cam Pro with Retinal Vision, a Search Party tool to find pets, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-1 Amazon

Apple-owned Beats announces the $200 Powerbeats Fit, with a redesigned wingtip, IPX4 rating for the case, ANC, and Apple's H1 chip, available October 2 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-1 Apple

'America's Elite Universities Have Lost Their Way' (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-1 U.S.

A live blog of Amazon's fall 2025 hardware event in New York City, where new Kindles, Echos, possibly a TV, and Alexa updates are expected (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-1 Amazon New York

Swift To Build a Global Financial Blockchain (news.slashdot.org)
2025-9-30 Blockchain

Google updates AI Mode to make searching through images using vague descriptions easier and says the tool will “provide a relevant set of shoppable options” (www.theverge.com)
2025-9-30 Google AI

Analysis: US wholesale electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did in 2020 in areas located near significant data center activity (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-30

DoorDash unveils delivery robot Dot, standing 4-foot, 6-inches tall and able to carry up to 30lb of cargo at up to 20mph, and a smart scale for restaurants (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-30 Robot

Anthropic now requires users to accept new privacy terms by October 8, including choosing whether new chats and coding sessions can be used to train AI models (www.wired.com)
2025-9-30 AI

Microsoft launches a Security Store with SaaS tools and AI agents from Darktrace and others, and now lets Security Copilot users build their own AI agents (www.theverge.com)
2025-9-30 SaaS Microsoft AI

Adobe launches its Premiere video editing software on iPhone for the first time; general editing is free, but Adobe charges for credits to generate AI content (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-30 iPhone AI Adobe

Chipmaker Cerebras Systems raised a $1.1B Series G from Fidelity, Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital, and others at an $8.1B post-money valuation ahead of its planned IPO (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-30 Trump IPO

CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator says the company signed a deal to supply Meta with up to $14.2B worth of computing power, including access to Nvidia GB300 chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-30 Nvidia

Nothing unveils its Essential branding for AI products, a new app store with user-designed, AI-generated apps based on Android called Playground, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-9-30 Android AI

Eve, an AI assistant for plaintiff lawyers, raised $103M led by Spark, with a16z, Lightspeed, and Menlo participating, at a $1B valuation and has 450+ clients (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-30 AI

Spotify says founder Daniel Ek will become Executive Chairman effective January 1, 2026, replaced by CPTO Gustav Söderström and CBO Alex Norström as co-CEOs (newsroom.spotify.com)
2025-9-30 Spotify

Unit 42: suspected Chinese hackers, known as Phantom Taurus, have breached foreign ministers' email servers as part of a years-long effort targeting diplomats (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-30 China

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