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• 15 Reddit Scandals That Changed the Internet Forever

  22-10-2026 17:48 via Web Designer Depot
  Reddit’s biggest controversies are platform-design lessons in disguise. From GameStop and API protests to misinformation, moderator revolts, and online witch hunts, each one shows what happens when community systems fail under pressure.
  
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• Cognizant puts 25,000 staff behind OpenAI, days after a Gemini push

  30-10-2026 19:15 via The Next Web
  
  Cognizant formed an OpenAI Frontier Capability Group of more than 25,000 staff to deploy Codex and ChatGPT for clients. It will focus on software engineering, updating old systems and customer service. The move comes 11 days after Cognizant put 18,000 staff behind Google’s Gemini. Cognizant has formed a group of more than 25,000 staff to […]
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• New York bans AI chatbots from pretending to be human with children

  30-10-2026 18:13 via The Next Web
  
  New York has banned AI chatbots from pretending to be human with children. Bots also may not build emotional dependency, encourage self-harm or hold sexual conversations with them. Governor Kathy Hochul signed the law on Wednesday, with a second law on baby monitor security. The banned features are off limits to anyone under 18 and […]
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• TBC launches Mischief, an AI video model shaped by brain cells

  30-10-2026 18:00 via The Next Web
  
  San Francisco’s Biological Computing Co. released TBC Mischief 1, an image-to-video model built on Wan 2.2. It says insights from living neurons make it about five times faster at the same quality, priced at $0.005 per second of video. It has not published independent benchmarks. San Francisco startup The Biological Computing Co. has released an […]
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• Proton to re-interview staff on AI, with jobs at stake, 404 Media reports

  30-10-2026 17:50 via The Next Web
  
  Proton, the Swiss company behind Proton Mail, will “re-interview” some of its staff about how they use AI at work. The results may affect who keeps their job. Internal messages show chief executive Andy Yen telling engineers to stop hand-writing code and use AI instead, 404 Media reported. Joseph Cox revealed the plan for 404 […]
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• Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Holdings agrees to buy ADT for $7.6bn in cash

  30-10-2026 17:40 via The Next Web
  
  Thrive Holdings, the holding company set up by Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital, has agreed to buy ADT for $10 a share in cash. ADT sells home security systems in the US. The deal values ADT at about $7.6bn in equity and $15.3bn in enterprise value. The price is a 45.6% premium to ADT’s close of […]
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• Ford says its new EV drivetrain is 30% more efficient than BYD’s

  30-10-2026 17:30 via The Next Web
  
  Ford CEO Jim Farley says the drivetrain in its new low-cost EV platform is about 30% more efficient than BYD’s, so Ford can use smaller, cheaper batteries. The platform debuts in the $28,350 Fathom pickup in late 2027. Ford did not say which BYD system it compared. Ford says the motors, gearboxes and inverters in […]
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• Anthropic spent $2.75m guarding Dario Amodei, four times his salary

  30-10-2026 17:28 via The Next Web
  
  Anthropic spent $2,745,874 on personal security for chief executive Dario Amodei in 2025, more than four times his $654,167 salary. The figure is in the company’s IPO filing. The filing also says its co-founders’ pledge to give away 80% of their stakes is not legally binding. Bilin Lin first highlighted the security costs for Fortune, […]
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• Cognition weighs funding at up to $80bn valuation, Business Insider reports

  30-10-2026 17:06 via The Next Web
  
  Cognition, the startup behind the AI coding agent Devin, has received investor offers that value it at $70bn to $80bn. The San Francisco company is seriously considering raising a new round before the end of the year. Katie Roof reported the talks for Business Insider on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The talks […]
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• Toyota will turn its bZ electric SUV into Waymo robotaxis from 2027

  30-10-2026 17:00 via The Next Web
  
  Toyota will build driverless versions of its bZ electric SUV for Waymo at its Takaoka plant in Japan, with testing from 2027. Japan comes first, then the UK. Neither company said how many robotaxis Toyota will make. Toyota will build driverless versions of its bZ electric SUV for Waymo, with testing in Japan set to […]
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• Entourage closes €100m second fund, passing its target in two weeks

  30-10-2026 16:52 via The Next Web
  
  Entourage, the early-stage venture firm founded by Showpad co-founder Pieterjan Bouten, has closed its second fund at €100m. It passed its €75m target within two weeks, took more than €100m in commitments, and capped the fund there. Fund II will back about 25 companies at pre-seed and seed stage, in Europe and beyond, Entourage said […]
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• EU plans to let Frontex monitor social media and flag posts for removal

  30-10-2026 16:35 via The Next Web
  
  The European Commission wants Frontex, the EU’s border agency, to monitor public social media posts about migration. It would also flag illegal content to platforms. MEPs and digital rights groups say the plan puts online speech under a border agency’s watch. The Commission proposed the change on Tuesday as part of a wider overhaul of […]
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• STMicroelectronics forecasts $4.15bn quarter as AI data centres lift demand

  30-10-2026 16:26 via The Next Web
  
  STMicroelectronics expects fourth-quarter revenue of $4.15bn, up about 10.5% on the third quarter and above analysts’ forecasts. The Franco-Italian chipmaker says AI data centres and satellite makers are adding to a wider recovery in chip demand. Third-quarter revenue rose 17.9% to $3.76bn, ST said on Thursday in its earnings statement. Operating income excluding one-off charges […]
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• Ofcom names four age checks for the UK’s under-16 social media ban

  30-10-2026 16:16 via The Next Web
  
  Ofcom has named four age checks it says can reliably tell whether UK social media users are 16 or over. They will underpin the UK social media ban for under-16s due next year, and many adults will have to pass them too. The regulator published its assessment on Thursday. The ban is due to start […]
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• South Korea fines Google and Apple $47.6m over app store payments

  30-10-2026 15:54 via The Next Web
  
  South Korea has fined Google and Apple a combined 63.7bn won ($47.6m). The regulator says they forced app developers onto their own payment systems and delayed app reviews without explanation. Both must now let Korean developers link to outside payment options inside their apps. The Korea Media and Communications Commission (KMCC) fined Google 42.9bn won […]
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• Putin says Russia is in close contact with Musk over its Starlink rival

  30-10-2026 15:41 via The Next Web
  
  Vladimir Putin has called Elon Musk “a real genius” and said Russia is in close contact with him over satellites in orbit. Putin spoke on Wednesday at the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow, during a presentation on Rassvet, Russia’s answer to Starlink. The remarks follow weeks of disruption to Starlink over Ukraine. Kyiv’s military lost speed […]
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• xAI offers to buy Mississippi homes if owners drop noise claims

  30-10-2026 15:17 via The Next Web
  
  Elon Musk’s xAI is buying homes next to its power plant in Southaven, Mississippi. The catch is that sellers must drop any claims in a noise lawsuit against the company. A realtor told one resident the target is 418 homes in the Colonial Hills neighbourhood. So far, 18 owners have agreed to sell. Oliver Milman […]
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• UK’s National Wealth Fund to invest in defence tech firm

  30-10-2026 14:51 via The Next Web
  
  The UK’s National Wealth Fund is planning to invest in Uforce, a London-based defence technology company that makes military drones and robots, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The FT did not disclose the size or terms of the proposed investment, and neither Uforce nor the fund has commented publicly. Founded by Ukrainians, Uforce brings […]
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• Meta, TikTok and X reportedly lose UK court fight over Ofcom data demands

  30-10-2026 13:39 via The Next Web
  
  Meta, TikTok and X have lost a legal challenge against the UK’s online safety regulator over the amount of data it can demand from social media platforms, Reuters reported on Friday. London’s High Court rejected the companies’ case, according to Reuters. The judgment had not been published at the time of writing, so the court’s […]
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• Volkswagen loses €5.8bn in a quarter as Porsche, China and tariffs bite

  30-10-2026 13:33 via The Next Web
  
  Volkswagen lost €5.8bn after tax in the third quarter. A €6.4bn write-down on Porsche drove the loss. Shrinking sales in China, US import tariffs and thinner margins on electric cars added to it. In the same quarter last year, the loss was €1.1bn. The group published the figures on Thursday in its nine-month results. It […]
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• Software transparency as a business priority: Governing AI-driven development and complex supply chains

  30-10-2026 13:10 via The Next Web
  
  Software supply chain integrity appears to be becoming an increasingly important consideration in enterprise risk management. This comes as AI-assisted development expands and software supply chains gain additional complex layers. These developments invite business leaders to consider a fundamental question: Can they confidently account for the software they develop, purchase, and deploy? For enterprises pursuing […]
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• HP, Asus and Acer move some PC making back to China, Nikkei Asia reports

  30-10-2026 12:57 via The Next Web
  
  HP, Asus and Acer are moving some PC production back to China from Thailand and Vietnam, Nikkei Asia reported. AI demand is driving up the cost of memory and storage chips. Dell is considering a similar move, people familiar with the matter told Nikkei. Lauly Li and Cheng Ting-fang broke the story for Nikkei Asia […]
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• Iowa and Ohio voters back AI safety measures over winning the AI race

  30-10-2026 12:54 via The Next Web
  
  Voters in Iowa and Ohio want AI safety rules even if the US is not always first in the AI race, a new poll from a Republican pollster finds. Days before the US midterm elections, the country’s biggest union federation says it is writing its own AI bill. Inquire, a firm run by Republican pollster […]
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• Nik Storonsky says VCs can be ‘dangerous’, so Revolut’s board has none

  30-10-2026 12:14 via The Next Web
  
  Revolut chief executive Nik Storonsky has pushed venture capital investors off his company’s board, one funding round at a time. He wants other founders to keep VCs out of the boardroom too, he told David Senra in a podcast interview. Storonsky compared VCs on boards to football cheerleaders who try to play the match. The […]
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• Foxconn chairman says new OpenAI tie-up is in the works, Reuters reports

  30-10-2026 11:44 via The Next Web
  
  Foxconn is working on a new partnership with OpenAI, chairman Young Liu told reporters in Taipei on Friday, Reuters reported. Liu said he had met OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman earlier that day. He gave no details about what the two companies are discussing, saying Foxconn would announce the agreement once the terms were finalised. […]
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• Wikimedia asks court to rule AI training fair use, but not chatbot copying

  30-10-2026 11:43 via The Next Web
  
  The Wikimedia Foundation wants the judge in The New York Times’ copyright fight with OpenAI to split the question in two. Training an AI model on copyrighted work is likely fair use, it argues. A chatbot that copies websites to answer a user’s question is likely not. The foundation runs Wikipedia. On Thursday, it asked […]
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• Spotify plans to launch AI remix tool in early 2027, FT reports

  30-10-2026 11:30 via The Next Web
  
  Spotify is preparing to launch a paid AI tool that lets fans create their own versions of songs, with a release planned for early 2027, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the plans. The company could unveil the product around the Grammy Awards in February, although the launch date and pricing […]
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• Reddit will make users log in as Google’s AI search cuts its traffic

  30-10-2026 11:29 via The Next Web
  
  Reddit is moving to a “logged-in-only experience”, chief executive Steve Huffman told shareholders on Thursday. For most of its 21-year history, anyone could read the site without an account. The plan came with Reddit’s third-quarter results, which beat analysts’ revenue estimates. In his shareholder letter, Huffman said search traffic was “down meaningfully” and that the […]
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• Binance says its $6.3bn hack involved more than a compromised laptop

  30-10-2026 09:59 via The Next Web
  
  Binance now says a compromised laptop was not the only way in. Its investigation has “uncovered additional points of breach” in the attack that hit about $6.3bn of its assets on Thursday, the world’s largest crypto exchange said on Friday. Binance said in an investigation update on X that it will cover all losses and […]
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• Ex-Palantir founders raise $17M for Dream’s AI building design models

  30-10-2026 09:55 via The Next Web
  
  Dream, a San Francisco startup that uses AI to design and engineer buildings, came out of stealth on Thursday with $17M in seed funding. Investors in the round include Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), SV Angel, XYZ, and Zigg Capital. The company is starting with architecture, engineering, and construction, an industry that has been slow to adopt […]
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