❤️ This weekend in #TECH

💘 iPhone prices may increase due to rising chip production costs. Reports indicate an 8–10% price adjustment starting next year.

💘 Tesla shareholders have approved a new compensation package for Elon Musk, valued at approximately $1 trillion.

💘 Apple is preparing a major satellite expansion for the iPhone, negotiating a $1B deal with Google for Gemini in Siri, and developing a new budget MacBook.

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🍏 No iPhone Air for now

Apple is pausing the iPhone Air lineup → after weaker-than-expected demand for the current model.

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👍 Perfect timing

The UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spent → £312 million upgrading its computers to Windows 10, just after Microsoft ended support for the system.

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☕️ Not quite as planned

Perplexity reportedly offered Telegram up to $350M a year for an official integration.

The bot → is available in the app now, though performance remains inconsistent: it responds to user queries, but does not reliably process commands.

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🛸 Teamwork!

ChatGPT now supports shared projects — a new feature that lets multiple people work inside the same chat. It was originally tested only with business customers, but as of October 24, it’s available to everyone.

We explain how it works →

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😄 Still patching the “unsupported”

Microsoft has released update KB5068781 → the first security patch for Windows 10 since the end of official support.

The update is part of the Extended Security Updates program, available to users with an active subnoscription.

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📱 Apple fixes the color problem it created

The iPhone 18 Pro will reportedly drop → its two-tone back for a cleaner, unified look. Apple is said to be updating the rear glass process to better match the frame’s color.

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😘 Because why not

Sony has unveiled a 27-inch gaming monitor → designed for PlayStation 5, set to hit the market in 2026.

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☕️ Starting the day with upgrades

OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.1, featuring two new models → Instant and Thinking.

The first offers greater speed and responsiveness, while the second delivers improved reasoning and consistency on complex tasks.

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🤨 We’re watching you

Google is facing a class-action lawsuit → accusing the company of using its Gemini AI assistant to secretly read users’ private Gmail messages, chats, and video calls.

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⚡️ Au revoir

French authorities have lifted the judicial restrictions → on Telegram founder Pavel Durov, granting him full freedom to leave France.

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📱 Policy update

Google has walked back its plan to make developer verification mandatory for all Android apps.

After strong pushback from the community, the company is now preparing alternative options → instead.

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🙂 Vine refuses to die

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has invested → in diVine, a new app built around the restored archive of Vine clips and a platform for posting new ones. The app has already unlocked up to 200,000 classic Vines.

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⚡️ Telegram sues Australia

Telegram has filed a lawsuit → against Australia’s eSafety regulator in the Federal Court over the country’s new age-verification law.

Earlier this year, the regulator fined the company for allegedly failing to provide timely information on its policies for handling extremist and child-abuse content.

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⛔️ Clean-up day

Telegram blocked more than half a million groups and channels in a single day — its highest figure since February 2025.

According to the report, 519,645 communities were removed on November 13 alone. For comparison, the previous record was set on February 5, when the platform took down 490,433 groups and channels.

Since the beginning of November, the total number of removed communities has reached 2.81 million, and nearly 34.9 million since the start of the year. More than 207,000 of them were linked to terrorist activity.

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😎 Bezos lands one

Blue Origin has completed its second successful New Glenn launch → and, for the first time, landed the rocket’s reusable first stage.

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❤️ This weekend in #TECH

💘 OpenAI addressed the so-called em-dash problem that users have been using to identify AI-generated text.

💘 Researchers reported that xAI’s Grokipedia relies on thousands of questionable and unreliable sources.

💘 Apple introduced a new App Store program that lowers fees for developers of mini apps.

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🍏 Magic accessories

Apple is developing new iPhone cases → with built-in touch-sensitive controls, designed to trigger system actions directly from the case.

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🧠 Bezos goes AI

Jeff Bezos has launched a new AI startup → called Project Prometheus.

The company plans to apply artificial intelligence to research, development and manufacturing across aerospace, automotive and computing industries.

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😂 Always connected

Emirates will equip → its entire fleet with Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet, offering free high-speed connectivity to all passengers regardless of cabin class.

The full rollout is expected to be completed by mid 2027.

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⚡️ The internet just went down

Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest hosting providers, is experiencing a major outage. The company has confirmed the issue and is currently investigating.

Many websites aren’t loading, including X and Spotify, and some users are reporting problems accessing ChatGPT.

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