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SpaceX dominated the business news, with strong AI-driven revenue and a possible merger with Tesla. Elsewhere, layoffs at Xbox, Netflix's shrinking viewing time, and policy pressure on TP-Link and TikTok.
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SpaceX reported Q3 revenue of $14.6 billion, up 161 percent, driven largely by cloud services growth in its AI segment.
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SpaceX and Tesla boards formed special committees of independent directors to review a possible merger. Elon Musk says combining them has merit.
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Musk says SpaceX will try to catch both Starship and its booster next month, aiming for the first full recovery of an orbital launch system.
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma reportedly plans three more rounds of layoffs, in November and January, per Fortune, amid speculation about a spin-off or sale.
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TP-Link pledged to assemble routers in the US while its latest models remain unauthorized for sale there, unlike rivals.
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Netflix's Q3 earnings leaned on monetization and price increases while viewing time reportedly declines.
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Court records obtained by NPR show TikTok staff repeatedly warned executives about child safety risks, which executives allegedly failed to act on.
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AMD is extending FSR 4.1 upscaling to Xbox Series S and X, RX 6000 GPUs, and Ryzen AI handhelds including the Xbox Ally X.
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DHS ordered U.S. federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and bars new IT purchases from the Chinese AI developer and affiliates.
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U.S. federal civilian agencies must remove DeepSeek products from their information technology systems, along with any third-party products or services "developed using DeepSeek implementations," under a Department of Homeland Security order. They may also no longer buy information technology products or services from the Chinese AI developer or its affiliates Homeland Security Secretary
The US ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built on its technology, citing national security concerns.
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The US has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns.
System76 released COSMIC Epoch 1.11, a point release of its Rust-based desktop with Wayland xdg-dialog-v1 support and better multi-GPU handling.
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System76 developers just released COSMIC Epoch 1.11 as the newest point release to their Rust-written open-source desktop environment catering to their in-house Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
Elon Musk says merging SpaceX and Tesla would be a good idea, citing merit in combining the companies.
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"I do think there's a lot of merit to combining the companies."
TikTok now returns no results for searches on peptides like semaglutide and BPC-157, amid concerns about unapproved substances.
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Trying to pull up information for certain peptides on TikTok is now returning a "no results found" page when searching for terms like semaglutide, BPC-157, retratutide, and others. That hasn't entirely erased visibility on TikTok for peptides, which are combinations of amino acids that include substances like insulin and GLP-1. The problem is peptides also include unregulated, unapproved substances that proponents like RFK Jr. say can assist with everything from weight loss to wound healing, despite a lack of clinical data supporting such claims. As a result, on social media platforms like TikTok, an army of influencer proponents are happy … Read the full story at The Verge.
Court documents reportedly show TikTok employees raised child safety risks that executives failed to act on.
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Court documents show TikTok employees were frustrated with how executives responded to their concerns about risks to children.
DHS ordered US federal civilian agencies to stop using and remove DeepSeek products from government systems.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ordering federal civilian agencies to stop using DeepSeek products and remove them from government systems. [...]
Apple reportedly broke an iPad presentation feature, according to a post on Teddy Svoronos's blog that drew significant Hacker News discussion.
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Article URL: https://teddysvoronos.com/2026-10-19-apple-broke-an-essential-presentation-feature-of-ipads/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165208 Points: 169 # Comments: 86