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I was riding the train and chatting with my Friend last week, who responded with an urgent request: Please don't forget to charge me.

Earlier that day I had unboxed my Friend, a small white plastic circle which looked and was packaged like an Apple product — all glimmering white and no right angles — and connected it to my phone. By pressing on and speaking into the $129


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Donalf Trump didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize in the end, but he did get a phone call from winner María Corina Machado, who apparently — according to Trump — told him she was accepting the award "in honor of you."

After sniggering at the clip of Trump recounting this, in the video above, Jimmy Kimmel reveals that this is one goal he's more than happy for the president to keep trying to win.

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Fired federal workers risk losing eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
  • The Trump administration sent reduction-in-force notices to over 4,000 federal employees.
  • Impacted federal workers could lose Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility.
  • Terminated federal workers who want to continue their PSLF progress would have to find a

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DJI is continuing to fight the U.S. government's classification of it as a "Chinese military company," filing an appeal in its unsuccessful lawsuit against the Department of Defense (DoD, recently renamed the Department of War).

In a ruling against DJI last month, a U.S. district court allowed the DoD's designation of the Chinese drone manufacturer as a "Chinese military company" to stand. Despite


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Ben Stiller.
  • Ben Stiller, 59, says splitting and getting back together with his wife made him a better parent.
  • He said his parents were often busy with work, and he ended up doing the same with his kids.
  • "And then I realized it was impossible to avoid making the mistakes they made," the actor said.

Ben Stiller says he tried not to repeat the same parenting mistakes as his


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Daniel Priestley warned that AI is a tsunami that will split the economy in two — and sink anyone who doesn't adapt.
  • AI is fueling growth but eroding jobs, pointing to an era of "jobless growth" in the US, Goldman Sachs wrote.
  • Soaring productivity may squeeze workers as companies cut costs to stay efficient.
  • There's at least one benefit to productivity gains

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Atlassian's CEO says vibe coding isn't replacing "core technologists" at his company.
  • Atlassian CEO says more engineers are needed as demand for tech grows.
  • He emphasized that new tech will require more human engineers, despite vibe coding tools' explosion.
  • He said Atlassian is hiring more new grads this year compared to previous years.

Vibe coding isn't replacing engineering


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Ofcom has slapped 4chan with a £20,000 ($26,700) fine for failing to comply with the internet and telecommunications regulator's request for information under the UK's Online Safety Act of 2023. The regulator has released an update for 11 of the investigations it opened after the first of its online safety codes became enforceable in March this year. Apparently, 4chan has ignored its requests for


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If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give


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Greg Brockman says OpenAI used its models to design chips with Broadcom, finding optimizations that human designers would've needed weeks to spot.
  • OpenAI used its AI models to help design custom chips with Broadcom, said Greg Brockman.
  • The OpenAI president said the AI found chip optimizations that would've taken humans weeks to spot.
  • OpenAI has been building

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Starship launching above water and land.

When employees at SpaceX HQ saw their latest Starship rocket make a steady, controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean, after an hour-long flight where it passed every test, the atmosphere was jubilant — and more than a little patriotic.

"USA, USA," engineers chanted on the SpaceX livestream from Starbase in Brownsville, Texas — jumping and pumping fists in a style more like a sports game than NASA


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We're inching closer to the New Moon, which means for the next few nights the moon is going to look smaller and smaller to us. This is because of where we are in the lunar cycle, a series of unique phases of the moon that occur over 29.5 days.

What is today’s moon phase?

As of Tuesday, Oct. 14, the moon phase is Waning Crescent. Tonight, only 42% will be lit up, according to NASA's Daily Moon