On October 8, 1971, John Lennon’s album Imagine was released
John Lennon's second solo album, Imagine, came out in the UK on October 8, 1971, while in the US it was issued on September 9. Lennon recorded it with Yoko…
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RTX 5090 Buyer at Micro Center Handed a No-Export Declaration
A buyer of a prebuilt PC with an RTX 5090 said that at Micro Center he was asked for his driver's license and a signature on a declaration barring the…
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Advertising screen at a Stockholm station displayed a GRUB bootloader menu
A digital display at a station in Stockholm showed a GNU GRUB menu offering a choice between UEFI and DMS instead of advertising. It looks like the screen got stuck…
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Raspberry Pi Desktop returns to PC and Mac: Debian 13 and 64-bit
Raspberry Pi has released an updated Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC and Mac: the Debian 13 "Trixie" build has moved to 64-bit, gained a Connect client and boots from a…
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Margaret Hamilton, Who Led Apollo Software Development, Has Died
On September 30, 2026, Margaret Hamilton passed away. She headed the development of onboard software for the Apollo program and helped turn software engineering into a separate discipline. She was…
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Samsung estimated third-quarter operating profit at 107.4 trillion won
Samsung Electronics presented preliminary third-quarter results on October 8, 2026: revenue of about 195 trillion won and operating profit of about 107.4 trillion won.
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Mistral Large 4: a preview of a trillion-parameter model
Mistral AI has opened a public preview of Mistral Large 4 with a trillion parameters. The weights are promised to be released by the end of October.
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Google opens global access to the SynthID AI content detector
The SynthID Detector is now available to all users worldwide in English. It checks images, video, and audio for traces of AI generation.
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On this day: Stephenson’s Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials
On 8 October 1829, Stephenson's Rocket locomotive won the Rainhill Trials. A short chronicle line records the year, the participant and the result, without technical details.
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On This Day: Alien: Isolation was released on 7 October 2014
On 7 October 2014, Creative Assembly and Sega released the survival horror game Alien: Isolation. The story is set 15 years after the 1979 film, and the alien cannot be…
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Amazon Customer Received an Intel Core i3 Instead of a Ryzen 7 9850X3D — Twice
A Reddit user ordered a Ryzen 7 9850X3D from Amazon itself twice and both times received an Intel Core i3 3000-series in the box. The packaging had been opened from…
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Google adds native Markdown support to Docs and Drive
Files with .md and .markdown extensions can now be opened, edited, and commented on directly in Docs, while in Drive you can view the rendered version with tables and clickable…
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