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Oct 23, 2026

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·TechCrunch

Meta’s new stock class was partly designed to help Mark Zuckerberg pay a proposed California billionaire tax without losing control

A newly launched Meta stock class was partly engineered to help CEO Mark Zuckerberg cover California’s proposed billionaire’s tax if voters approve it. The structure is presented a...

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·TechCrunch

Warhound raises $200M to genetically engineer military and police dogs with Anduril gear

Warhound, founded by Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, has emerged from stealth with $200M to develop genetically engineered dogs for military and law enforcement uses. The original head...

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·The Verge

Spotify confirms QR code checks to verify Family Plan members live together

Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström confirmed on an earnings call that the company is using a new QR code verification method for Family Plan users, requiring members to scan the plan man...

Spotify confirms QR code checks to verify Family Plan members live together
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·The Verge

Fortune report says Microsoft’s next Xbox could cost $1,200 to $1,800 in 2028, raising launch viability doubts

Fortune reports that Microsoft insiders project the next Xbox could cost $1,200 to $1,800 when it arrives in The Verge argues that pricing would make the console difficult to sell,...

Fortune report says Microsoft’s next Xbox could cost $1,200 to $1,800 in 2028, raising launch viability doubts
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·Hugging Face Blog

Microsoft and Hugging Face use ThinkingBox database checks as RL rewards to improve Qwen3.8-27B agent reliability

Microsoft and Hugging Face released ThinkingBox-Training on GitHub and showed how ThinkingBox’s executable final-database-state checks can serve as RL rewards for agent post-traini...

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·Ars Technica

eMudhra exits global SSL/TLS certificate business after issuing eight dangerously weak intermediate credentials

India-based eMudhra said it will withdraw from the global SSL/TLS certificate business after issuing eight intermediate TLS credentials so weak that anyone could create certificate...

eMudhra exits global SSL/TLS certificate business after issuing eight dangerously weak intermediate credentials
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·Ars Technica

Leaked Mass Effect: Universe trailer shows in-engine pre-production footage from canceled BioWare project

A roughly two-minute leaked trailer offers the clearest look yet at the canceled next Mass Effect game, described in the footage as in-engine work using pre-production assets from...

Leaked Mass Effect: Universe trailer shows in-engine pre-production footage from canceled BioWare project
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