Tech

Apple Podcasts is generating automatic links and chapters

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Apple Podcasts will soon include automatically-generated chapters for shows in English and allow creators to add links at specific timestamps in their episodes. Timed links may also be added to episodes automatically whenever creators mention another podcast.  Creators can opt-out of both features, and chapters will only be generated when creators don’t add their own. … Read more

Your Stream Deck’s ‘device not supported’ error should fix itself if you log in

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Did your Stream Deck sprout a red “Device Not Supported” badge where a button used to be? If so, you were probably using BarRaider’s popular plug-ins, which apparently check to see if StreamDeck.exe is digitally signed — and it just so happens that Elgato’s digital signature expired yesterday (see image below). But as of 5PM … Read more

Weekly AI Startup Funding: October 26 – November 1, 2025

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AI startups raised over $1.8 billion this week across data labeling, enterprise AI infrastructure, video generation, and legal tech innovation. From Mercor’s stunning $10 billion valuation to Europe’s legal tech breakthrough, capital flowed to companies solving critical AI training bottlenecks and vertical market inefficiencies. Here are the highlights: Mercor Quintuples Valuation to $10 Billion with … Read more

The Tyranny of Algorithms

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The world seems to have been taken over by the algorithm, which dictates who becomes a winner or loser in life, not based on merit, but on predecided criteria created merely to enrich the businesses that offer the platforms for people to carry out transactions in their day-to-day lives. As technology permeates everything we do … Read more

Microsoft AI’s first in-house image generator MAI-Image-1 is now available

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Microsoft’s first in-house AI image generator, MAI-Image-1, is now available in two products, Bing Image Creator and Copilot Audio Expressions. The company announced the model in October. Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman wrote in a post on X that the text-to-image model will be “coming soon” to the EU.  Suleyman added that the model “really … Read more

Mutuum Finance (MUTM) Surpasses $18.4 Million as V1 Protocol Launch Approaches in Q4 2025

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After the recent crypto crash, investors are searching for projects that offer real value. Many tokens promise hype but lack utility. Mutuum Finance (MUTM) changes this pattern. It brings lending, staking, and a stablecoin system together under one roof. With its V1 protocol launch set for Sepolia in Q4 2025, Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is entering the spotlight … Read more

Amazon and Perplexity have kicked off the great AI web browser fight

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Amazon doesn’t want to be a part of Perplexity’s AI-powered shopping experience. In a post on Tuesday, the ecommerce giant says it has “repeatedly requested” that Perplexity stop allowing its Comet AI browser to buy products for customers, which Perplexity has responded to by accusing Amazon of “bullying.” Perplexity’s AI browser, Comet, currently offers an … Read more

Why Trump hijacked the .gov domain

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Hello and welcome to Regulator. Happy New York City mayoral election day to everyone who’s voting, watching from afar, or just here for the memes. And happy 35th day of the federal government shutdown, which, as of today, is tied for the longest shutdown in history. But let’s step back for a second, because there’s … Read more

Going From Reactive to Predictive Incident Response with AIOps

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For a long time, the traditional incident-response model has been used to deal with crises, ranging from cybersecurity attacks to hardware and network failures. But times have changed, and we are now in a dynamic environment that has multi- and hybrid clouds with continuous-deploy pipelines. Those traditional models no longer work. Today, systems generate countless events and thousands of metrics in a single sector. No wonder the reactive stance just doesn’t work anymore. … Read more

HuggingFace Chooses Arch (Router) for Omni Chat

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HuggingFace’s choice of Arch-Router highlights the shift from generic academic benchmarks to preference-aligned routing in the LLM ecosystem, as this lightweight (1.5B parameter) model allows developers to define a routing policy based on a query’s Domain and Action to consistently select the single best-performing LLM for their specific workflow needs, which is a major advantage … Read more

Building a Secure, Cost-Efficient Authentication System for Millions of Users

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When a ride-hailing app’s daily logins soared to 12 million, SMS-based authentication became unsustainably expensive. The engineering team rebuilt the system with multi-channel login options — SMS, voice, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Google — tailored by region. By keeping funnels intact, simplifying architecture, and strengthening security (6-digit codes, device fingerprinting), they reduced authentication costs dramatically, maintained … Read more

Influencers have fractured reality in Portland

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The legal fight over whether the president can send troops into Portland, Oregon, depends on whether judges believe their own eyes or their smartphones. Even before inception, the lawsuit has been dogged by a war on reality fueled by social media influencers, some of whom have direct lines to federal officials. At every turn, influencers … Read more