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Sep 28, 2026

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·The Verge

Apple hit with $5.7 billion in damages over haptic patents

A San Diego federal jury awarded haptics company Taction more than $5.7 billion after finding Apple infringed parts of two vibration-based tactile technology patents. Taction argue...

Apple hit with $5.7 billion in damages over haptic patents
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·TechCrunch

Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs

Blue Cross Blue Shield claims hospitals’ use of AI tools increased healthcare spending by $942 million over a two-year period. The insurer says the added costs came from AI-enabled...

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·TechCrunch

TikTok agrees to pay at least $100M in Alabama settlement

TikTok has agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million to resolve allegations that it misled users about platform safety. The settlement also addresses claims that TikTok was desig...

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·The Verge

Decap is the man behind the drums behind your favorite song

Producer Nicholas Piantedosi, known as Decap, may not be a household name, but his sounds appear on songs by Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Rodrigo, Charli XCX, Bad Bunny, BTS, and others....

Decap is the man behind the drums behind your favorite song
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·arxiv.org

DeepSeek details DSec, an elastic sandbox compute platform for scaling agentic AI training workloads

A new arXiv paper introduces DeepSeek Elastic Compute, or DSec, described as a sandbox infrastructure for effective agentic training at scale. The paper lists a large DeepSeek-led...

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·TechCrunch

Meta and YouTube say they will run ads for ‘Musk’ documentary after all

Meta and YouTube now say they will accept ads promoting Alex Gibney’s forthcoming documentary about Elon Musk. The shift follows earlier reports that several social media platforms...

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·The Verge

Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat

A group of middle schoolers apparently turned the comment section of an NPR podcast episode on Spotify into an improvised chat room. This American Life explored how they found the...

Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat
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