October 11, 2026

Tech & AI

Tech & AI

Forget Meta Ray-Bans. These Dorky-Looking Virtual Display Glasses Are Way More Useful

“URGENT: Immediate Action Required” blasts into my eyeballs as I scroll through the impossibly giant email inbox looming directly in front of my face. I’m reclined way back in a chair, wearing a pair of Xreal smart glasses. Tethered to my laptop via a USB-C cord, these glasses mirror the laptop screen and project it

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Uber faces fine of nearly $1B over automated driver suspensions

The Dutch Data Protection Authority is fining Uber €825 million (around $966 million) — the second largest penalty issued so far under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, according to Reuters. The Dutch regulator was investigating complaints that Uber had deactivated driver accounts through an automated process without sufficient warning or human oversight. In a statement,

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AI Coding Agents Get Shared Channels for Review and Oversight

AI coding agents can write software surprisingly quickly. Keeping track of what they are doing is becoming the harder part. Slack has launched Slack Code, a new feature that gives AI coding agents dedicated project channels where developers and other team members can watch, guide, and review their work. The Salesforce-owned platform is effectively trying

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Today’s Hurdle hints and answers for August 22, 2026

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

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What’s the Best Kindle of 2026? (So Far)

Comparing Our Favorite Kindles What About the New Kindle Scribes? Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, Kindle Scribe (3rd Gen), and Kindle Scribe Without Front Light Kindle has three new Kindle Scribes that launched between late 2025 and June 2026. There’s now the Kindle Scribe ($500), Kindle Scribe Colorsoft ($630), and the Kindle Scribe Without Front Light

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Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?

A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation about who actually built it. The free model was released on OpenRouter on Thursday, where it was described as “a reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workload.” On X, Stripe CEO

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ChatGPT Is Suddenly Citing Reddit Far Less: Here’s What Changed

Reddit has gone from one of ChatGPT’s most visible sources to barely registering in its citations, with its share plunging in just days. A recent report from Promptwatch, an AI search and citation-tracking platform, shows that Reddit accounted for an average of 3.83% of all ChatGPT citations between July 18 and Aug. 7. That share

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The discourse about dating bi men is going around again

How we date and who we date will never not be a hot topic on social media. Oversharing our dating lives is the foundation of the internet, but it’s also the source of some of the worst takes you’ll ever hear. Because the internet is cyclical, certain ideas and expectations about sex and dating get

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Asus ROG Swift RGB Stripe OLED Review: Clarity King

I also feel it comes across in how colors present. Technically, the monitor’s results are modest for an OLED monitor: It has a color gamut that spanned 94 percent of DCI-P3 and 89 percent of AdobeRGB. That’s a tad more narrow than top QD-OLED monitors, which can hit up to 98 percent and 95 percent,

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Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors

As Harvard Business School seeks to expand its reach, it’s leaning on AI avatars to provide individual feedback. These avatars were created by a startup called HeyGen and are included in the eight-week, $699 HBS Foundry bootcamp for entrepreneurs. The program offers live sessions with instructors every week, but the AI avatars are the ones

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