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Walmart says it is not advertising on social platform X (www.reuters.com)

Walmart says it is not advertising on social platform X::Walmart said on Friday it is not advertising on social media platform X, one of the latest brands to say it has dropped the Elon Musk-owned site.

Apple's smart ring technology may not be limited to just fingers (appleinsider.com)

Apple’s smart ring technology may not be limited to just fingers::Smart rings on fingers, smart bracelets on ankles, and smart lanyards around necks — far beyond the Apple Watch and AirPods, Apple has wide-ranging plans for a new wearable.

Prominent Women in Tech Say They Don't Want to Join OpenAI's All-Male Board (www.wired.com)

After internal chaos earlier this month, OpenAI replaced the women on its board with men. As it plans to add more seats, Timnit Gebru, Sasha Luccioni, and other AI luminaries tell WIRED why they wouldn't join.

Broadcom lays off VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company (www.businessinsider.com)

Tor Project removes relays because of for-profit, risky activity (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Column: OpenAI's board had safety concerns. Big Tech obliterated them in 48 hours (www.latimes.com)

OpenAI cofounder and chief scientist says he deeply regrets participating in ousting Sam Altman (www.businessinsider.com)

OpenAI cofounder and chief scientist says he deeply regrets participating in ousting Sam Altman::Ilya Sutskever, a cofounder and the chief scientist of OpenAI, expressed regret and said he’d do everything he could to reunite the company.

A Request for This Fruit Caused a Bomb Scare in Portugal (thetakeout.com)

Apparently the word “pomegranate” gets lost in translation....

Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage (www.theregister.com)

Spinal implant allows Parkinson’s patient to walk for miles (www.engadget.com)

A Parkinson’s patient can now walk 6km (3.7 miles) thanks to an implant targeting the spinal cord. The Guardian reports that the man — 62-year-old “Marc” from Bordeaux, France — developed severe mobility impairments from the degenerative disease. “I practically could not walk anymore without falling frequently,...

In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it had three Safari browsers – not one (www.theregister.com)

Arm Acquires Minority Stake in Raspberry Pi (www.tomshardware.com)

Salt solution cools computers, boosts performance (techxplore.com)

Verified Hate Speech Accounts [on X] Are Pivoting to Palestine for Clout and Cash (www.rollingstone.com)

Highlights: [P]aid clout-chasers on X, formerly Twitter, are using the conflict to boost their profiles — and a few who have successfully pivoted to pro-Palestine content were formerly known for hate speech, extremism, and conspiracy theories....

Microsoft Windows 95 Video Guide with Jennifer Aniston & Matthew Perry | (VHS) 1995 (www.youtube.com)

Virgin Atlantic suspends its route from London to Austin because it says the city's tech boom is over (www.businessinsider.com)

Virgin Atlantic suspends its route from London to Austin because it says the city’s tech boom is over::Virgin Atlantic in a Friday statement said that in Austin “demand in the tech sector is not set to improve in the near term.”

The restaurant nearest Google (www.theverge.com)

Thai Food Near Me, Dentist Near Me, Notary Near Me, Plumber Near Me — businesses across the country picked names meant to outsmart Google Search. Does it actually work?

Supreme Court allows White House to fight social media misinformation (scrippsnews.com)

Supreme Court allows White House to fight social media misinformation::Justices said the Biden Administration could continue to pressure social media firms over misleading content while a lawsuit progresses.

Gen Z and millennials are more into gig work than ever, BofA says — but it’s not coming close to making ends meet (finance.yahoo.com)

Gen Z and millennials are more into gig work than ever, BofA says — but it’s not coming close to making ends meet::Despite taking on more side hustles, Gen Z and millennials are spending less.

Hamas' social media following has skyrocketed since its attack. America is powerless to stop it (www.cnn.com)

Apple’s cheaper Vision Pro follow-up still won’t be cheap (www.theverge.com)

Apple’s cheaper Vision Pro follow-up still won’t be cheap::A new report says Apple’s next mixed-reality headset will likely ditch the external EyeSight screen to reach a cheaper price point, along with other hardware compromises.

The FCC is expected to propose the return of Net Neutrality protections Oct 19th - Let’s hope they get it right (www.eff.org)

The FCC is expected to propose the return of Net Neutrality protections Oct 19th - Let’s hope they get it right::Network neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data that travels over their networks fairly, without discrimination in favor of particular apps, sites or services. It is a...

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