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Snap settles a lawsuit over teen depression and eating disorders

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Two teenagers accused Snap of designing its platform to be addictive and contributing to their depression, anxiety and eating disorders. They had already settled with Meta, TikTok and YouTube.

NASA's Swift space telescope is set to fall back to Earth

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The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory will re-enter the atmosphere uncontrolled after a robotic rescue mission failed to lift it higher. Launched in November 2004, it studied gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe.

New malware feeds stolen data to AI models to rank what its victims are worth

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A Windows infostealer called VOLTA-AUTODOXER takes passwords, cookies, payment cards, email profiles and crypto wallets, Cisco's Talos researchers report. It can then delete itself.

DeepSeek unveils a 'Super-agent' that works without waiting for prompts

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The Chinese AI company's Harness team described the design on Oct 31: an agent that keeps context across sessions and runs several complex tasks at once.

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Oracle plans to raise US$20 billion to fund its AI expansion

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Oracle plans to raise US$20 billion through bond and share sales, regulatory filings showed Monday, to pay for its AI and cloud infrastructure.

Student's dorm-built jet drone may have broken a speed record

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Georgia Tech aerospace student Tomas Salvo says his jet-powered Reaper drone reached 790 km/h while carrying a 1.2-kilogram payload, beating the previous record of about 748 km/h.

BTCPay Server urges users to shut down after Bitcoin wallet thefts

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The open-source Bitcoin payment software said it was receiving reports of attackers sweeping funds from hot wallets connected to its servers. It asked operators to shut down their servers while it investigates.

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Apple Intelligence comes to China in December with iOS 27.3

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Apple said on Oct 31 that the first Apple Intelligence features will reach users in China with iOS 27.3 in December, with testing in a developer beta from Wednesday.