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Sep 26, 2026

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·The Verge

Meta employees ordered ‘attorney/client privilege’ hats while fighting child safety disclosures

Lawyers suing Meta over alleged harms to teens say the company has applied attorney-client privilege too broadly to keep evidence from public view. A newly unsealed document shows...

Meta employees ordered ‘attorney/client privilege’ hats while fighting child safety disclosures
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·The Verge

Qualcomm’s new ‘Elite’ sound chip might finally deliver the Wi-Fi earbud dream

Qualcomm introduced Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2, its first audio chip with integrated micro-power Wi-Fi 6E for earbuds and audio glasses. The chip is designed to let devices strea...

Qualcomm’s new ‘Elite’ sound chip might finally deliver the Wi-Fi earbud dream
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·TechCrunch

Waymo is scaling fast. Here’s what the fleet data shows.

Waymo expanded its Texas fleet by 49% over the past month, according to fleet data cited in the article. The data also points to other growth hotspots, suggesting the company is ac...

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·status.gitlab.com

GitLab.com outage triggers 503 errors across website, API, CI/CD, registries, Pages, SSO, and hosted runners

GitLab reported a service disruption causing 503 errors on GitLab.com and confirmed the API was also affected. The company said it identified the cause and was seeing some recovery...

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·The Verge

Microsoft puts Brad Smith in charge of communications

Microsoft is moving its communications team out of marketing and into its Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs organization. Vice chair and president Brad Smith will oversee the...

Microsoft puts Brad Smith in charge of communications
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·koi.rest

Developer launches Koi.rest, an AI-built virtual koi pond for quiet stress relief and shared online calm

Paul, a developer managing ADHD and recent unemployment, created Koi.rest as a calming virtual koi pond after months of postponing the idea. Lacking the capacity to learn JavaScrip...

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·TechCrunch

Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting

Nexterity, founded by former ExxonMobil engineer Lindsey Elliott, is developing a remote-controlled robot that automates work on bolted flange joints in oil, gas, and petrochemical...

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