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MIT spinoff Vertical Semiconductor, which makes gallium nitride transistors that are stacked vertically for data centers, raised an $11M seed led by Playground (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Meta adds group chats to Threads with support for up to 50 followers, rolling out globally, excluding the UK and Australia, and expands DMs to the EU (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Threads now has group chats

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Kobo’s new e-reader remote lets you turn the page with the press of a button

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US cybersecurity company F5 discloses a cyberattack in August by suspected nation-state hackers that stole undisclosed BIG-IP vulnerabilities and source code (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

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AppLovin shut down Array last quarter, calling it "a test product" that wasn't "economically viable", after allegations it led to unwanted Android app installs (Bloomberg)

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Does The Outer Worlds 2 Take Into Account Any Endings From The First Game?

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Honor’s Robot Phone concept features a fold-out camera arm

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A survey of 28K+ adults in 25 countries on AI: 81% have heard a lot or a little, 34% are more concerned than excited, and 42% are equally concerned and excited (Pew Research Center)

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Apple says it will sell Vision Pro-compatible PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers for $250 from November 11 and the $130 Logitech Muse digital pen from October 22 (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

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Apple debuts its M5 chip, with a 10-core GPU, a Neural Accelerator in each core, offering 4x+ the performance of M4, and a 10-core CPU with six efficiency cores (Apple)

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Japan wants OpenAI to stop ripping off manga and anime

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CoreWeave and AI coding startup Poolside plan a 500-acre, natural gas-powered data center on a Texas ranch; sources: Poolside is raising $2B at a $14B valuation (Bradley Olson/Wall Street Journal)

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Netflix's My Hero Academia movie is taking inspiration from an unlikely show

Polygon - All

Major federation of unions calls for ‘worker-centered AI’ future

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‘Halo Fund Announces Strategic Secondary Investment in 1Password’

Daring Fireball

Critical Role's Laura Bailey wants you to know Thimble isn't the new Jester

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ROG Xbox Ally X review: solid performance, the best grips, silent cooling, and a good 120Hz display, but Windows needs more optimizing and battery life is poor (Rebecca Spear/Windows Central)

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ROG Xbox Ally review: great grips, good speakers, and Windows is easier to control with joysticks, but worse performance than the Steam Deck and a half-baked UI (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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Apple Unveils M5 Chip With Next-Generation GPU (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

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