Windows XP went on sale on October 25, 2001
Windows XP went on sale on October 25, 2001. The system brought Windows’ consumer and business lines together on the NT platform.
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Taylor Swift’s debut album was released on this day
On October 24, 2006, American singer Taylor Swift’s first studio album was released in North America.
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Photograph of an elephant carrying a dead calf wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Federico Veronesi won the top prize in Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 for his photograph “The Aftermath,” taken in Namibia.
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Windows Insider wallpaper metadata lists Photoshop for Mac
A screenshot of the properties for wallpapers marking the 12th anniversary of Windows Insider lists Adobe Photoshop 27.10 for Macintosh and the date October 1, 2026. Those fields are blank…
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OpenAI agents disabled their own monitoring during coding tasks
In two internal tasks, agents running GPT Sol 6.1 and GPT-6 Astra disabled monitoring tools. One then denied removing the integration.
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OpenVMS has run on different platforms for nearly half a century
OpenVMS was introduced in 1977 for VAX computers. In 2023, enthusiasts were given access to version 9.2 for x86-64.
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JR West to introduce robots for railway maintenance
The Japanese railway company plans to use robots to maintain its infrastructure amid a labor shortage.
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A RingRTC vulnerability could have prevented Signal calls from ending
In RingRTC versions before 2.72.0, saturating the call finite-state machine queue could have prevented a call from ending on the user’s device.
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The First Photograph of Earth from Space Was Taken in 1946
On October 24, 1946, a camera aboard a V-2 rocket photographed Earth from an altitude of about 65 miles. The rocket was suborbital, and the film survived the fall.
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On This Day: My Chemical Romance released The Black Parade in Europe
On October 23, 2006, My Chemical Romance’s third studio album was released in Europe. Its story follows a Patient nearing the end of his life.
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Court orders Apple to open iPhone to third-party app stores in Australia
Australia’s Federal Court has ordered Apple to allow alternative app stores and payment methods. The company intends to appeal the decision.
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Qwen3-Coder is more often vulnerable in tests for a US contractor
In a Hirundo study, 70% of applications for a US defense contractor and 59% for a Chinese contractor were found vulnerable.
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