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Apple unveils M6 iMac with a faster chip and Wi-Fi 7

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The M6 iMac replaces the M4 model from 2024, so Apple has skipped an M5 iMac. The M6 chip adds more CPU and GPU cores and a Dual 16-core Neural Engine.

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Intel reportedly to buy quantum software firm Classiq for US$2.3 billion

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The cash-and-stock deal would be the largest in the history of quantum computing, according to reports. The previous record was US$1 billion, when IonQ bought Oxford Ionics last year.

Researcher reports unpatched Tailscale SSH flaws that could give root access

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Security researcher Erica Windisch says one hacked device on a Tailscale network could gain root access to other servers it can reach, if Tailscale SSH allows port forwarding. Her report was published on Oct 25.

Critical PHP flaws now exploited in real attacks, researchers confirm

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Two critical remote-code-execution flaws, together called PHP2Shell, have been exploited in a real attack, researchers say. Adel Karimi of Perplexity caught it on honeypots running Apache mod_php with PHP 8.4.26, and Expel's Marcus Hutchins confirmed it.

OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra, a cheaper model for everyday computer work

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Terra can look at a screen, understand it and act on it by clicking, typing and moving between apps. A company could hand it incoming invoices to type into its accounting software.

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Dozens of dinosaur footprints found in Michoacán, Mexico

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Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History confirmed around 50 fossil footprints in Apatzingán, Michoacán, left about 65 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous.

Anthropic launches Claude Duet, an AI assistant that keeps working while users are away

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Duet checks email and calendars, drafts replies and follows up on unfinished work, such as chasing unpaid invoices. Anthropic announced it on Oct 21 as a research preview for professionals and small-business owners.

OpenAI says its AI models made discoveries in mathematics, computer science and physics

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According to OpenAI, its models proved the local smoothing conjecture, a central idea in harmonic analysis, in every spatial dimension for the first time.