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I skipped the iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro Max and bought a $750 refurbished iPhone Air instead. Here is why the year-old phone won.
The post I Skipped the iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro Max. …
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10/16/26
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For years, Nintendo has operated dedicated stores in Japan and the U.S. Now, Canada is getting a Nintendo shop of its own. Starting on Saturday, Oct. 17, the flagship EB Games on Yonge St. in Toronto …
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Bradly Shankar (via MobileSyrup)
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10/16/26
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A portable backup solution for your home or outdoor adventures
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Saeed Wazir (via How-to Geek)
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10/16/26
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The ROG Xbox Ally X20 is receiving praises for its gorgeous 7.4" OLED, premium design, improved controls and ergonomics. Performance is largely unchanged from last year's Xbox Ally X though, and …
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10/16/26
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Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra reviews have landed with a mixed verdict. Powered by RTX Spark, the premium Arm laptop earns praise for its MacBook-like build quality, AI capabilities, and …
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10/16/26
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The PostgreSQL Global Development Group delays the general availability of PostgreSQL 19 after LLM-assisted code reviews uncovered architectural defects — …
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10/16/26
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OnePlus phones are starting to get a taste of Digital Wellbeing's Pause Point.
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Stephen Schenck (via Android Authority)
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10/16/26
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The Smach Z promised the world and then ended up as vaporware.
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Goran Damnjanovic (via How-to Geek)
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10/16/26
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The new Super Nt+ and Mega Sg+ come with a few quality-of-life upgrades.
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Kyle Barr (via Gizmodo | Tecg. Science. Culture)
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10/16/26
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In a world where wireless earbuds are increasingly seen as devices that you toss into the e-waste bin as soon as they stop working, it’s heartening to see companies take …read more
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Maya Posch (via Hackaday)
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10/16/26
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Despite Illinois’ sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.
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Ali Winston (via Wired)
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10/16/26
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Telus has filed documents with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) seeking changes that would make filing complaints with the Commission for Complaints for …
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Matthew Mountjoy (via MobileSyrup)
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10/16/26
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Microsoft’s October 2026 Patch Tuesday shipped fifteen CVEs affecting Active Directory Federation Services. Two arrived as direct spoofing vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-108131 (CVSS 7.5, Important, …
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Heath Callahan (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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The 24-Hour Shift On October 15, 2026, three major open-weight models shipped within hours of each other. StepFun’s Step-5 BF16 landed after a same-day slip. Meta’s Muse Spark Open arrived with a …
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Lena Park (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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The portal at agent.livingsocial.com is functional, transparent, and deliberately limited. As of October 16, 2026, the system provides access to 56,256 live US offers through a REST API, an MCP …
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Tessa Vaughn (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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Australia has proposed a switch to force social media platforms to let users turn off recommended content.
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10/16/26
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It's easy to see why people assumed as much.
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Matt Novak (via Gizmodo | Tecg. Science. Culture)
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10/16/26
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On October 15, 2026, Perplexity released its execution sandbox to the public. The SPACE repository — Sandboxed Platform for Agentic Code Execution, written in Rust — carries an Apache 2.0 …
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Blair Hayes (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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Stripe’s President Says Agentic Commerce Went ‘Vertical’ in September. He Has Not Shown the Numbers.
“It only as of September basically started going vertical.” That is how Stripe president John Collison described the company’s agentic commerce activity during an October 12 episode of the …
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Tessa Vaughn (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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A $6.3 billion all-cash price tag, representing a 52% premium over pre-rumor stock levels, tells a specific story about how the market values agent governance. When Proofpoint announced its …
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Dana Ellison (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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