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Starting October 2026, Google is changing the availability of Gemini models for personal accounts. For users without a subscription, the changes will take effect on October 9; AI Plus subscribers…
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On October 2, 2026, Apple announced that it will tighten its control over Full Disk Access: an app will only be able to receive such access through an explicit action…
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On October 4, 1582, the Catholic countries of Europe lived their last day under the Julian calendar: it was immediately followed by October 15. Thus the Gregorian calendar came into…
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On October 3, 2003, Richard Linklater's School of Rock, starring Jack Black, was released. The comedy about a rock band of fifth-graders later became a musical and a TV series.
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A comparison of ten large language models from nine developers showed that gender biases occur frequently, and their direction and strength vary, up to being opposite.
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The company has acknowledged the problem: some iPhone 18 Pro Max units lose connectivity on AT&T's network. Updates should prevent new cases, but devices that have already lost signal can…
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Astronomers have confirmed the retrograde orbit of a Neptune-sized planet around an M dwarf: its orbit is tilted by about 136 degrees, and a massive neighbor apparently has no way…
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On 3 October 1952, off the Montebello Islands in Western Australia, the first British atomic device detonated. Operation Hurricane made the United Kingdom the third nuclear power.
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DeepSeek has opened a public preview of DeepSeek Harness. The open-source harness is built on the Cordis architecture, extends through plugins, and works with files, data, and code.
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In a leaked video, Magnet Forensics demonstrates GrayKey Preserve and an Evidence Preservation Mode which, according to the company, freeze an iPhone in a state that makes access to sensitive…
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On October 2, 1959, "The Twilight Zone" premiered on CBS — Rod Serling's anthology series, in which each episode told a separate story about ordinary people confronting the inexplicable.
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Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said demand will exceed supply in both 2027 and 2028, and the company has already sold out its 2027 memory in advance. RAM and SSDs will…
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