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Meta has rewritten the commercial terms that bind every business, brand and publisher on its platforms, and the new wording reaches far beyond Facebook and Instagram feeds. From 30 October 2026, companies that advertise, sell or simply run a business Page will authorise Meta to send automated crawlers across the domains and pages “associated with” … Read more
OpenAI has quietly turned its ChatGPT extension for Chrome into something much closer to an autonomous assistant. In an update announced on October 15, 2026, the add-on gained the ability to read every tab a user has open and to act inside those pages — filling out forms, sending messages, downloading files and grouping a … Read more
Blending road pavement with recycled plastic packaging waste has long tempted engineers with a double promise: a destination for hard-to-recycle material and longer-lasting highways. Fresh laboratory work from a Penn State-led research team now adds evidence to that case — while also flagging a measurement problem that could complicate how such pavements are judged in … Read more
Science Corp has reported that the first patient with Stargardt disease to receive its PRIMA retinal implant has recovered a fragment of functional reading: the man, implanted in May at Sydney Eye Hospital in Australia, picked out a single letter during his first rehabilitation session and read a full word during his second. The company … Read more
Construction of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel, the submerged road and rail link designed to connect Germany and Denmark beneath the Baltic Sea, has been disrupted by a cyber incident at the contractor consortium building it, Femern Link Contractors (FLC). The project’s own Danish company, Femern A/S, confirmed the disruption on Tuesday, 13 October, while the state … Read more
Deezer is preparing to hand listeners a blunt new instrument in the escalating fight over machine-made music: a single switch that wipes fully AI-generated tracks, albums and artists out of search results. The French streaming service announced the feature on 13 October and says it will reach users worldwide before the end of 2026, converting … Read more
Google is rearranging how its AI-generated search answers point outward, pushing source links closer to the top of the response and testing a dedicated slot for authoritative pages. Hema Budaraju, vice-president of product management at Google Search, set out five updates for AI Mode and AI Overviews on 15 October, presenting them as an invitation … Read more
Intero Biosystems, a Denver startup spun out of the University of Michigan, has won the Startup Battlefield competition at Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco, taking home the $100,000 prize and the cup. It beat 19 rivals in a 20-strong finalist field drawn from the Battlefield 200, pitching a technology that could reshape how pharmaceutical companies … Read more
Microsoft says its flagship operating system now feels noticeably quicker, claiming months of under-the-hood work have made Windows 11 up to 20% more responsive. The company also insists that a reworked memory manager delivers a “meaningful difference” on machines with just 8GB of RAM — a claim that so far rests on Microsoft’s own word … Read more
Nvidia’s first RTX Spark laptops reach stores today, Friday, October 16, backed by the kind of software endorsement that often decides whether a new silicon platform sinks or swims: Adobe has reworked Photoshop, Premiere and Substance 3D to exploit the chip. The promise is a Windows notebook that runs large AI models on-device, handles professional … Read more