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Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought
In September, when Microsoft severely limited the game-streaming buffet available to Game Pass subscribers, the company said non-subscribers would soon be able to “purchase cloud playtime hours through the Xbox Store and stream eligible games they own on supported devices.” Today, Microsoft rolled out those a la carte Cloud Playtime purchases to Xbox Insiders, with prices that might be a bit galling for players who have already purchased these streamable games. The “introductory launch…
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Airbnb bans hosts from making you do the dishes
Any chores that a cleaner might do are no longer deemed reasonable requests for visitors. Airbnb is codifying some of the clean-up guests can be asked to do before leaving a property. According to a new update from the rental platform, hosts can make "requests" of visitors, but those requests "must be reasonable" under the revised policy. The examples provided said that asking guests to remove bedsheets or do loads of laundry would be…
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Enterprises keep buying software upgrades that IT thinks will make things worse
Enterprise-sized businesses spend, on average, 28 percent of their software budgets on unwanted upgrades, migrations, and licensing changes. Often, those firms’ IT heads think those changes are detrimental. Those results are according to a survey of 2,018 chief information officers and senior IT decision-makers at companies with at least 10,000 employees that Origina commissioned for its report, “The Software Tax.” About half of the respondents (1,011) are from the US, and the rest are…
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Apps & Logiciels
Apple and DOJ notify court of impasse over document cutoff in antitrust lawsuit
Apple and the Department of Justice have submitted a joint notice of impasse over how recent Apple’s documents must be to fall within the scope of discovery in their ongoing antitrust lawsuit. Here are the details. In March 2024, the Department of Justice, alongside 15 states and the District of Columbia, filed a lawsuit accusing Apple of illegally maintaining a monopoly in the smartphone market. In essence, they accuse Apple of restricting competition, limiting…
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Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3
Tesla published its third-quarter 2026 financial results this afternoon. Earlier in October, it reported its sales and deliveries for the three-month period, selling fewer cars than in the same quarter in 2025, yet it still beat analyst projections. Now we can see how those sales translate to the bottom line. Tesla brought in $28 billion in revenue in Q3, almost the same as in 2025. Automotive revenues were $20.6 billion, a 3 percent decrease…
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Meta to create a new class of shares to fund AI push
Meta says the new class of shares will also fund acquisitions and employee compensation. Meta says the new class of shares will also fund acquisitions and employee compensation. Meta says it’s issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives. As part of its third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, the company says the non-voting stock will also go toward potential acquisitions and employee compensation, with trading beginning in 2027. “The scale…
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TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know
TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their companies. It’s the latest in our long line of founder-centric events, which are smaller and more hands-on than Disrupt. For the founder looking to really get in the weeds during a one-day crash course, Founder Summit is the ideal place to…
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Meta says Muse has over 10M users, with shopping a top activity
Meta said during its third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday that its AI app Muse has been adopted by more than 10 million users, confirming estimates released earlier this week by market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. But it is how people are using it and how much they’re spending that has caught CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s attention. Zuckerberg said about 25% of people who set up Muse now use it daily, helping improve retention. He also…
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Claude Duet is Anthropic's answer to Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots
Anthropic subscribers in the US can join a waitlist to try the new agent. Anthropic is late to the party, but as of today the company has a personal agent to match the likes of Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots. As part of a new "research" preview, the company on Wednesday announced Claude Duet. "It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working even when you…
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Apps & Logiciels
Someone made a Walkman music player for the Galaxy Z Fold 8, and it works with YouTube Music
The Galaxy Z Fold 8 app turns it into a Sony Walkman using your music, YouTube Music, and even Spotify very soon. Foldables sort of walk that dichotomic line between nostalgic and futuristic. They remind us of flip phones from the 2000s, while running on an entirely different decade of tech. Naturally, a Walkman-style app is a welcome addition to something like the Galaxy Z Fold 8. One user developed an app called “Foldman”…
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Year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a $6B valuation
Year-old startup Flapping Airplanes has wowed Silicon Valley with an impressive founding team and a mission to find ways to train large models with less data. On Wednesday, the company announced it had raised a $1 billion Series A round, co-led by Index and Lux, reportedly at a $6 billion valuation. The round comes just nine months after the company launched with a $180 million seed round from GV, Sequoia, and Index. That seed…
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Cybersécurité
Government websites in the EU and Canada taken offline over PHP vulnerability
All websites using the common programming language should update to the latest security patch. One of the two major issues impacting web security this morning has had a ripple effect. In the wake of an announcement from the PHP Foundation that it was issuing a security release to patch two critical vulnerabilities, several government websites in the EU and Canada were taken offline as a preventive measure. Reuters reported that governments in the Netherlands,…
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Une IA peut-elle protéger l’utilisateur sans décider à sa place ? : maintenance et dette technique
Une IA peut-elle protéger l’utilisateur sans décider à sa place ? La protection numérique semble poursuivre un objectif évident : éviter qu’un utilisateur commette une erreur, expose des informations personnelles ou prenne une décision qu’il regrettera. Pourtant, une difficulté apparaît dès qu’un système d’intelligence artificielle intervient pour prévenir un risque. À partir de quel moment l’aide devient-elle une décision imposée ? Cette question dépasse la qualité immédiate des réponses. Elle concerne la soutenabilité des…
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New York’s first microdrama film festival searches for its audience
At Alza, the entertainment industry is trying to reinvent itself. It remains to be seen if people really want to watch vertical content on horizontal TV screens, but many filmmakers and creators were confident that their latest projects would play well at Alza — New York City’s first microdrama film festival. Founded by former Tribeca Festival chief operating officer Pete Torres, Alza, which took place October 16th through 18th, was billed as a showcase…
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Meta says it would’ve made over $22 billion if it didn’t have to pay a child safety settlement
Meta’s third-quarter earnings report shows it spent $9.89 billion paying for its settlement with US attorney generals. Meta’s third-quarter earnings report shows it spent $9.89 billion paying for its settlement with US attorney generals. Meta had to shell out $9.89 billion to pay for a chunk of the child safety settlement it reached with US attorneys general. That’s according to the company’s third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, which says Meta’s income from operations…
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IA
Claude Duet is Anthropic’s proactive AI agent answer to Muse and OpenAI’s Dots [Video]
Anthropic is today revealing Claude Duet, its new AI agent that rivals Muse, OpenAI Dots, but it’s not widely available just yet. Claude Duet is “a proactive agent” designed to use the context of your own history with Claude and connections to other resources. Anthropic says the aim is to serve “professionals and small business owners with more on their plates than they can track.” Duet will be available in a “research preview” for…
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Meta ordered to cough up $25 billion in New Mexico privacy case
The case stemmed from the nearly decade-old Cambridge Analytica scandal. If you thought Meta's self-inflicted blows from the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal were over, think again. On Wednesday, a New Mexico judge ordered the company to pay the state $25 billion in penalties, having found that the company made misleading statements about the privacy of consumers in the state. "It has been a long time coming holding Big Tech accountable," New Mexico Attorney…
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IA
Passer de l’expérimentation IA à une décision professionnelle maîtrisée
Comment savoir si une initiative d’intelligence artificielle mérite réellement d’être déployée dans l’entreprise ? Cette question concerne autant la direction générale que les responsables des systèmes d’information, des données, de la cybersécurité, de la conformité ou de la transformation. Dans IA opérationnelle !, Guy de Lussigny propose d’examiner l’IA comme un ensemble de décisions à organiser, et non comme un outil dont l’installation suffirait à produire de la valeur. Du point de vue du…
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Livres
Enquêter contre une mécanique d’effacement : comment le conflit donne sa force au quatrième tome d’Emma Lemaire
Que devient une enquête lorsque l’obstacle principal n’est pas seulement un suspect, mais tout un système capable d’orienter les apparences ? Les nuits de la promenade: Emma Lemaire - Tome 4, roman de fiction de Guy de Lussigny, construit sa présentation autour de cette question. Les événements, les personnages et les réseaux évoqués appartiennent à son univers romanesque et ne décrivent pas une affaire réelle. Sur une Côte d’Azur nocturne, le conflit naît du…
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PHP: The three letters that shut down sites all over the internet today
OpenAI is taking credit for finding the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, but now someone has to apply all these patches. OpenAI is taking credit for finding the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, but now someone has to apply all these patches. If you buy something from a link, The Verge may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Two bugs found with AI are behind major issues today for 4chan, DeviantArt, Wikipedia, and the blog where the bar around…
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Quand une liste suffit à condamner : jusqu’où croire les apparences ?
Dans une enquête, que choisit-on de croire lorsque toutes les apparences convergent vers une explication rassurante ? La Liste Rouge: Emma Lemaire – Tome 2, roman de Guy de Lussigny, place le lecteur devant ce dilemme. Son univers est entièrement fictionnel : les événements, les personnages et les technologies du récit ne constituent pas des faits d’actualité. À Nice, la mort du journaliste Édouard Varnier semble raconter une histoire cohérente, mais Emma Lemaire soupçonne…
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Transition écologique : cinq besoins professionnels révélés par une lecture critique des normes
Comment anticiper une contrainte environnementale lorsque ses effets touchent simultanément les déplacements, l’immobilier, l’énergie, la production et les obligations déclaratives ? Cette question concerne notamment les dirigeants de PME, les propriétaires, les agriculteurs et les professionnels chargés de la conformité. La fiche publique de Dictature Verte: ZFE, DPE, taxes carbone, normes européennes : enquête sur la mise sous tutelle des Français présente l’essai de Guy de Lussigny comme une analyse critique de cet ensemble.…
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ERP en difficulté : faut-il reprendre le contrôle avant de relancer la transformation ?
Lorsqu’un programme ERP accumule les tensions, la tentation consiste souvent à chercher immédiatement une nouvelle date, un nouveau plan ou une nouvelle solution technique. La présentation publique de DSI EN CRISE — Reprendre le contrôle de l’IT, des ERP et des grands programmes propose une autre lecture. Guy de Lussigny y distingue implicitement deux moments : rendre d’abord la situation gouvernable, puis relancer les transformations. Cette progression intéresse le lecteur qui découvre l’ouvrage, car…
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Apps & Logiciels
iOS 27.2 reveals Apple’s Messages app could soon get highly requested change
iOS 27.2 launches next week, and the update includes code that points to a forthcoming Messages app change: the ability to exclude muted conversations from the unread badge count. Do you belong to a very active group chat? Or are there people in your life that you prefer to keep on mute in the Messages app? If either or both is true, it might bug you that muting those conversations doesn’t impact the Messages…
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