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DoorDash buys Instacart 🛒, Reddit requires login 👽, making agents faster ⚡

DoorDash will acquire Instacart for $17 billion. Reddit will start testing a logged-in-only experience in select non-US markets in Q4.

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OpenAI funding issues 💰, Cisco rewrites code 👨‍💻, hiring junior devs 💼

OpenAI's latest funding round received tepid interest from investors. Cisco has given Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy, a 27-year-old ex-startup founder who…

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Big Tech’s thirst for water is sparking a global resistance

In his new book “Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires,” writer Paris Marx examines how local communities are resisting the growing demand for water to cool data centers.

Rest of World · EN

The Pulse: tech companies move to open AI models

Uber, Pinterest, Stripe, Coinbase, Ramp, and AT&T are making large savings on their AI bills by dropping proprietary models and using smart model routing.

Pragmatic Engineer · EN

The New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls

The New York Times and a group of other publications have filed lawsuits against the company that makes the Brave web browser over alleged unlawful scraping to train AI and also letting users bypass their paywalls, as reported by Reuters. According to a complaint filed by the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and […]

The Verge · EN

Xbox’s former COO has ‘serious concerns’ about her abrupt departure

Xbox's former chief operating officer, Helen Chiang, suddenly left Microsoft less than two weeks ago after being promoted into the role in July. I wrote in my Notepad newsletter last week that it seemed very weird for Chiang to suddenly depart Microsoft after 21 years with a surprisingly short memo from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma. […]

The Verge · EN

One of Google’s Android partners turned 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet

Google says one of its Android manufacturing partners secretly built a backdoor in 1.3 million devices and turned them into a botnet. The company says it has now dismantled the backdoor and "cut ties" with the manufacturer, the Shenzhen, China-based Videostrong Technology Co., which has been banned from building or selling certified Android devices or […]

The Verge · EN

This $48 e-paper display can be whatever you want it to be

This DIY e-paper display works in two official ecosystems or on your own server.

Ars Technica · EN

What tech entrepreneurs can teach scientists about failure

Nature, Published online: 02 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03485-2 Start-up founders routinely talk about their failed companies. Academia could learn from them, says Mary Ryan.

Nature News · EN