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The developers behind a hit sausage-dueling game hope Steam launch will take it furter

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Version History is live — here’s how to find it

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The AI boom is driving memory and storage shortages that may last a decade; OpenAI's Stargate has deals for 900K DRAM wafers per month, or ~40% of global output (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)

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Before Skinamarink, the director made a scarier horror short that's free online

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The best lists to keep — and the best ways to keep them

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Can tap-to-pay save public transportation?

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Hollow Knight: Silksong's story comes so close to nailing it

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PitchBook: VC investment in Asia slowed to $48.9B in the first nine months of 2025, just over half of 2024's total, amid uncertainty due to US tariff policies (Pak Yiu/Nikkei Asia)

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Bone Lake’s bizarre ending explained by the director

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How Ordos, a coal-rich northern Chinese city, has become a testing ground for self-driving trucks after turning into a ghost town due to 2012's coal price crash (Kinling Lo/Rest of World)

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A study found that by late 2024, around 24% of English-language corporate press releases and 14% of UN press releases used LLM-assisted writing (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)

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Sources: Sam Altman is on a global tour since September, including UAE and East Asia, seeking funding and urging companies like TSMC to prioritize OpenAI orders (Wall Street Journal)

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Alibaba says its mapping app Amap's destination ranking feature hit 400M users since its launch in September; Amap had a record 360M daily users on October 1 (Xinmei Shen/South China Morning Post)

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A draft proposal outlines the European Commission's "Apply AI strategy", which is set to be presented on October 7 and aims to "strengthen EU AI sovereignty" (Financial Times)

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Indonesia restores TikTok's local operating license after the company provided government-requested user activity data for August 25-30, when protests happened (Prima Wirayani/Bloomberg)

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Sources: OpenAI and Jony Ive have yet to solve key technical and software issues that could delay the company's palm-sized device, slated for release in 2026 (Financial Times)

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Since Dec. 2024, Anker has offered cash and other incentives to Eufy security camera users for donating footage, including of thefts, to train its AI systems (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

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An interview with Sam Altman and OpenAI President Greg Brockman on the tepid initial reception to GPT-5's launch, scaling, reinforcement learning, AGI, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)

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Huawei's Zurich Lab unveils SINQ, an open-source quantization method that it claims can reduce LLM memory use by 60-70% without significant quality loss (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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A look at challenges facing Tether and Circle's stablecoin duopoly, such as intermediaries like exchanges and DeFi protocols exploring their own stablecoins (Nic Carter/Murmurations II)

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