Global PC shipments fell 20.1% in the third quarter of 2026
According to preliminary IDC data, global PC shipments in the third quarter of 2026 fell 20.1% year over year, to 62.7 million units. The cause lies in stockpiling and supply…
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Developer built an interactive website about the Elizabeth Holmes case
On October 8, 2026, developer bo lau presented the website theranos.world. There you can sit at Elizabeth Holmes's desk, open her MacBook, scroll through her iPhone, and run the Theranos…
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Microsoft released the Michelangelus font based on Michelangelo’s manuscripts
Microsoft has introduced the serif font Michelangelus, created after the works of Michelangelo. It was commissioned by the Vatican's Fabbrica di San Pietro for the 400th anniversary of the consecration…
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Quad9 does not block pirate sites in France and does not rule out leaving the country
Swiss DNS resolver Quad9 refuses to block 58 domains under a ruling by the Paris court. beIN Sports is seeking up to €580,000 per day in penalties, and the foundation…
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Keurig smart coffee maker generated 1 TB of traffic in 10 days on a home network
A user going by the nickname Nomad noticed that his parents' smart coffee maker had generated 1 TB of traffic in 10 days. In his opinion, this is a bug…
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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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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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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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Meta is developing CRAM: RAM compression for Linux
Meta engineers presented CRAM for Linux at the Linux Plumbers Conference. The hardware-accelerated compression preserves byte-level access to memory and is close to DRAM in speed.
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