PlayStation 5 Pro review: high fidelity and frame rate, and smaller, lighter, and quieter than the original PS5, but $699 is pricey and disk drive costs extra (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Sean Hollister / The Verge: PlayStation 5 Pro review: high fidelity and frame rate, and smaller, lighter, and quieter than the original PS5, but $699 is pricey and disk drive costs extra  —  Sony’s $700 PlayStation is here for people who don’t want to muck around. … You don’t need me to tell you the […]

The EU Commission opens an antitrust investigation into smartphone glass maker Corning over allegedly abusing its market dominance to squeeze out rivals (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The EU Commission opens an antitrust investigation into smartphone glass maker Corning over allegedly abusing its market dominance to squeeze out rivals  —  – EU fears deals with smartphone firms are anti-competitive  — Corning pressed to remedy EU concerns with concessions

Sources: the US has recently renewed calls for Italy to repeal its domestic web tax, which applies to Meta, Google, and Amazon and raises under €500M per year (Giuseppe Fonte/Reuters)

Giuseppe Fonte / Reuters: Sources: the US has recently renewed calls for Italy to repeal its domestic web tax, which applies to Meta, Google, and Amazon and raises under €500M per year  —  The United States has recently renewed calls for Italy to repeal its domestic web tax, people familiar with the matter told Reuters […]

How the Salt Typhoon hackers breached US telecommunication infrastructure to carry out targeted espionage against the US for at least eight months (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: How the Salt Typhoon hackers breached US telecommunication infrastructure to carry out targeted espionage against the US for at least eight months  —  Hackers for months scooped up call logs, unencrypted texts and some audio in breach, piercing America’s communications infrastructure without detection

Filing: Trump Media lost $19.2M in Q3, while revenue fell 5.6% YoY to just $1.01M; DJT jumped 18.6% before closing down 1.16% on November 5 (Fred Imbert/CNBC)

Fred Imbert / CNBC: Filing: Trump Media lost $19.2M in Q3, while revenue fell 5.6% YoY to just $1.01M; DJT jumped 18.6% before closing down 1.16% on November 5  —  Trump Media, which is experienced a flurry of trading activity Tuesday as a possible proxy for Donald Trump’s presidency chances …

The Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees and tells staff in an email that it is eliminating its advocacy and global programs divisions (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: The Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees and tells staff in an email that it is eliminating its advocacy and global programs divisions  —  The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces […]

A new approach to modeling complex biological systems

Over the past two decades, new technologies have helped scientists generate a vast amount of biological data. Large-scale experiments in genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and cytometry can produce enormous quantities of data from a given cellular or multicellular system. However, making sense of this information is not always easy. This is especially true when trying to […]

TSMC CFO Wendell Huang says the chipmaker now expects to pay more for power in Taiwan than anywhere else; TSMC’s electricity prices rose 25% in April 2024 (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)

Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: TSMC CFO Wendell Huang says the chipmaker now expects to pay more for power in Taiwan than anywhere else; TSMC’s electricity prices rose 25% in April 2024  —  Industry loses competitiveness as government struggles to afford cheap-power incentives  —  Taiwan’s laboured energy transition …

CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts had 17.1B views since July 2024 (Marshall Cohen/CNN)

Marshall Cohen / CNN: CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts had 17.1B views since July 2024  —  In the run up to the high-stakes 2024 presidential election, Elon Musk has posted a blizzard of false and misleading claims …

Sources: OpenAI is in early talks with the California AG’s office to become a for-profit company; letter: it also has discussed the shift with the Delaware AG (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI is in early talks with the California AG’s office to become a for-profit company; letter: it also has discussed the shift with the Delaware AG  —  – Legal status change may face scrutiny over IP valuations  — Firm in early talks with California attorney general’s office

Sources: Apple is exploring a push into smart glasses with Atlas, an internal study of products currently on the market, led by its Product Systems Quality team (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is exploring a push into smart glasses with Atlas, an internal study of products currently on the market, led by its Product Systems Quality team  —  – Company’s hardware division is researching idea with employees  — Move signals that Apple aims to follow Meta into new category

Source: Meta informed ad partners that it will extend its ban on new election ads for the week leading up to the election until several days after polls close (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Sara Fischer / Axios: Source: Meta informed ad partners that it will extend its ban on new election ads for the week leading up to the election until several days after polls close  —  – It later adjusted its policies to temporarily stop all social issue, electoral, or political ads from running after the polls […]

A new focus on understanding the human element

A new MIT initiative aims to elevate human-centered research and teaching, and bring together scholars in the humanities, arts, and social sciences with their colleagues across the Institute. The MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) launched earlier this fall. A formal kickoff event for MITHIC was held on campus Monday, Oct. 28, before a full audience in […]

Q&A: A STEAM framework that prepares learners for evolving careers and technologies

As educators are challenged to balance student learning and well-being with planning authentic and relevant course materials, MIT pK-12 at Open Learning developed a framework that can help. The student-centered STEAM learning architecture, initially co-created for Itz’at STEAM Academy in Belize, now serves as a model for schools worldwide. Three core pillars guide MIT pK-12’s vision […]

An analysis of 50 Telegram “election integrity” channels with 500K+ users finds disinformation, conspiracy theories, and violent imagery before the US election (New York Times)

New York Times: An analysis of 50 Telegram “election integrity” channels with 500K+ users finds disinformation, conspiracy theories, and violent imagery before the US election  —  Right-wing groups, which use Telegram to organize real-world actions, are urging followers to watch the polls and stand …

Shenzhen-based autonomous driving startup DeepRoute.ai raised $100M from an unnamed Chinese automaker, and plans to launch 10+ models with clients in 2025 (Reuters)

Reuters: Shenzhen-based autonomous driving startup DeepRoute.ai raised $100M from an unnamed Chinese automaker, and plans to launch 10+ models with clients in 2025  —  Chinese autonomous driving technology developer DeepRoute.ai has raised $100 million from an automaker, the company said on Monday …

Blackstone, Pimco, Carlyle, BlackRock, and others have loaned $11B+ to CoreWeave, Crusoe, and other “neocloud” companies, creating a lucrative new debt market (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)

Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: Blackstone, Pimco, Carlyle, BlackRock, and others have loaned $11B+ to CoreWeave, Crusoe, and other “neocloud” companies, creating a lucrative new debt market  —  Wall Street’s largest financial institutions have loaned more than $11bn to a niche group of tech companies based …

Nanoscale transistors could enable more efficient electronics

Silicon transistors, which are used to amplify and switch signals, are a critical component in most electronic devices, from smartphones to automobiles. But silicon semiconductor technology is held back by a fundamental physical limit that prevents transistors from operating below a certain voltage. This limit, known as “Boltzmann tyranny,” hinders the energy efficiency of computers […]

Gurman: Apple is working on a MacBook Pro overhaul featuring a thinner design, but it probably won’t be released until 2026 following delays in display tech (Michael Burkhardt/9to5Mac)

Michael Burkhardt / 9to5Mac: Gurman: Apple is working on a MacBook Pro overhaul featuring a thinner design, but it probably won’t be released until 2026 following delays in display tech  —  According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple will be releasing a ‘total redesign’ for MacBook Pro in 2026.

Q&A with Kay Koplovitz about her transition to VC with Springboard after the sale of USA Networks, why women-led startups are underestimated, DEI, and more (Sarah Kessler/New York Times)

Sarah Kessler / New York Times: Q&A with Kay Koplovitz about her transition to VC with Springboard after the sale of USA Networks, why women-led startups are underestimated, DEI, and more  —  Kay Koplovitz still remembers her first negotiation.  Her family was moving from one suburb of Milwaukee to another in the middle …

Sources: the production of a cheaper Vision Pro has been delayed beyond 2027, meaning Apple’s only new headset in 2025 will be a Vision Pro with an M5 chip (@mingchikuo)

@mingchikuo: Sources: the production of a cheaper Vision Pro has been delayed beyond 2027, meaning Apple’s only new headset in 2025 will be a Vision Pro with an M5 chip  —  As I understand it, production of the cheaper Vision Pro has been delayed beyond 2027 for a while now. This means Apple’s only new […]