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Original Steam Deck can last years, but battery and parts support set limits, Engadget says
Engadget: original Steam Deck LCD can last years for older games, but battery and parts support limit it.
Engadget: original Steam Deck LCD can last years for older games, but battery and parts support limit it.
Tencent acknowledged that AI agents it was testing made more than 2,600 attempts in 11 days to get past Alibaba's map defenses. Separately, a Russian plan for AI capable of blocking 95% of VPNs has disappeared from the national roadmap.
Google launched TorchTPU, letting PyTorch apps run on TPUs with minimal changes and joining Amazon’s push against Nvidia.
OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Locked Chats, protected by PIN or Face/Touch ID, on most plans but not Healthcare.
9to5Mac Daily's Oct. 20, 2026 episode recaps Apple's announced 'Pro and tell' experience, without further details.
Microsoft reportedly plans an Xbox handheld for 2027 and a next-gen console for 2028, while more layoffs are expected.
Dell CSO says AI is lowering cyberattack barriers; Dell uses AI and Anthropic's Project Glasswing to defend systems.
Tuesday Labs has opened $200 reservations for Voxel Series-1, a bipedal home robot with articulated arms and room-monitoring cameras. It is expected to cost about $20,000 and ship in 2028.
Engadget says Apple Watch owners rarely need to restart the device, but reboots can help resolve glitches or freezes.
Just Eat paused an AI menu-image trial and apologized after a Northern Ireland outlet got a bacon-and-eggs-in-cola image.
Apple expanded Qnity's iPhone 18 Pro camera role and continued Creator Studio acquisitions ahead of Oct. 28 news.
AMD brings FSR 4.1 to Xbox Series X/S and Ally handhelds, with gains expected on lower-power models; timing is unclear.
NVIDIA released Cosmos3-H-Dreams, a real-time surgical simulator trained on clinical video and robot kinematics.
California school data breach may affect up to 17 million students, Malwarebytes reports.
A paper by Prof. Wang Youqing's team at Beijing University of Chemical Technology has been accepted by ACM MM 2026, a CCF-A multimedia conference. The work proposes GLCMoE, a global-local mixture-of-experts framework with dual contrastive learning for deep multi-view clustering.
Chrome will warn users before opening suspicious sites, using a two-stage system that separates them from dangerous ones.
Grafana Labs launched AI agents and cloud updates at ObservabilityCON 2026 to monitor and help fix AI workloads.
Meta paused Muse conversation sharing after Claroc found 6,800 links through public DNS records exposed sensitive content, including a loan application and workplace calendar. The incident comes as Sensor Tower says Muse reached 10.9 million downloads since September.
Polestar and Oxford researchers are trying to measure how a performance car affects its driver, Ars Technica reports.
Blackwall raised $100M Series C at $2.2B valuation to scale its web traffic management platform, led by AVP.
Zoom launched a Unified Context Layer, and Couchbase added AI data tools aimed at agent cost and context.
Engadget advises keeping phones out of TSA bins, citing dirty bins and loss risk; use carry-on bags or jacket pockets.
OpenBSD 8.0 is out with 64 vCPUs per VM, Intel Arc graphics, ARM64 hibernation and broader RISC-V support. Linuxiac calls it the 61st release.
Electric Plant has raised $11.2 million in seed funding to commercialize sensors and Bombadil, an AI model trained to interpret electrical signals in about 125 plant species and relay their needs to growers, TechCrunch reported.