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Squarespace, the web company that helps customers build and host their own websites, is laying off about one-fifth of its workforce, in a move that will affect hundreds of jobs. Jeff Seedman, a public relations specialist representing Squarespace, confirmed the layoffs to TechCrunch. The Verge initially reported the layoffs. “Squarespace
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What did you last record on your iPhone? A lecture, perhaps, a call with your landlord, or notes from a doctor’s appointment you wanted to remember. Whether you used Apple’s Voice Memos or a recorder app like Voice Recorder+ AI Note Taker, that audio is stored somewhere. Where
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Save $550: Best Buy has the LG Gram Max 17-inch touchscreen laptop on sale for $1,200 right now, a considerable $550 off the usual $1,750 retail price. This deal is available right now, with both shipping and in-store pickup available if your local Best Buy has stock. $1,
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Quick Heal Technologies has launched an AI-powered data privacy platform aimed at helping small businesses and mid-sized enterprises manage compliance with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act. The offering, Seqrite NOVA Data Privacy, is designed for small office/home office (SOHO) businesses, small and medium businesses (SMBs) and
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Dell Technologies expands its cybersecurity and resilience portfolio across the AI environments, identity systems and infrastructure that attackers increasingly target and organizations cannot run without. The announcement includes new AI services and PowerProtect capabilities, identity resilience and managed threat detection, and deeper integration across Dell’s storage portfolio with new
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Flexible engine-based power systems could save up to €196 billion over 20 years while sharply reducing water and land use as data centre capacity expands, according to a new study by Wärtsilä. The report, Unlock power. Unleash growth: How data centres can create tomorrow’s power system flexibility, models a
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HCLTech has launched an AI-powered operations offering for mainframe environments, combining automation and AI-driven monitoring to help enterprises manage mission-critical workloads and improve operational efficiency. Announced on November 2, 2026, the offering brings together specialised mainframe skill agents and conversational AI assistants to support system administration, observability, optimisation and operational
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Exito Media Concepts, a global leader in B2B technology events and innovation-driven business platforms, proudly announces the 51st Edition of the Digital Transformation Summit. Taking place at the Sofitel, Abu Dhabi on 4th November 2026, the summit will bring together 200+ CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, CISOs, and senior technology leaders to
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Arctic Wolf® , the cybersecurity and AI company, today released its 2026 Agentic Security Operations Report , revealing that agentic AI now resolves 60% of security investigations as security operations undergoes its most significant transformation in decades to keep pace with machine-speed threats. As threat actors increasingly leverage AI and automation to
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In Brief 11:19 AM PST · November 2, 2026 The New York Times sued Brave, the 11-year-old, privacy-focused browser company, on Monday, alleging it scraped the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to customers the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. Separately on Monday, the
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CEO Evan Spiegel was due to testify in the upcoming trial. Paul Morigi/Getty Images Snap CEO Evan Spiegel won't have to testify in a high-profile trial over social media addiction after all. Snap has settled a lawsuit brought by two teens who alleged their use of the
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Ford vowed to never sell customer driving data to third-party data brokers as part of a new privacy promise aimed at setting the automaker apart from competitors that have faced legal and regulatory blowback for sharing telematics with data brokers without authorization. As part of its new promise, Ford says
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* OpenAI could call its data centers 'AI compute campuses' * Public perception is low as energy prices rise across the US * Stargate Project is about halfway to adding 10GW by 2029 OpenAI is considering a new name for its biggest data centers as it looks to improve public perceptions
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In Brief 11:11 AM PST · November 2, 2026 Snap has reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought by two teenagers who accused the company of designing its platform to be addictive and contributing to their depression, anxiety, and eating disorders, as first reported by Reuters. The plaintiffs had previously
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With current-generation graphics cards priced beyond what most people can afford, some hardware fans are modding older cards to make them more capable, as VideoCardz reports. A popular option is the RTX 2080 Ti, which can be upgraded with 22GB of VRAM—double its original 11GB. In some early performance
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Amazon is blocking rival shopping agents, and even websites that welcome AI assistants can stop them with an ordinary CAPTCHA. Erlin Diah/Shutterstock An AI agent can take over your grocery shopping, right up until a website asks it to prove it's human. That's the problem
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Anthropic is steering Claude away from recreating specific titles, but users can still use it to make their own games. by Jay Peters Nov 2, 2026, 6:56 PM UTC Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Don't Look Up: After spending more than 20 years in space, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is now expected to undergo a "catastrophic" reentry into Earth's atmosphere. Most
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Tom Warren is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Xbox’s former chief operating officer, Helen Chiang, suddenly left Microsoft less than two weeks ago after being promoted into the role in July. I wrote
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It’s been a little over eight years since Bethesda gave gamers a brief first glimpse of the next installment in its long running Elder Scrolls franchise, tentatively titled as The Elder Scrolls VI. Since then, all fans have gotten are several status updates, but not much else. Although it
