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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said attacks on Russian data centers reduced social media bot activity. Reports noted that automated traffic linked to Yandex dropped by 94% following the strikes, though the cause of that drop is disputed.
Bumble's stock surged nearly 50% on Monday following a Wall Street Journal report that technology holding company Ithaca is in advanced talks to buy the dating app for about $1bn, with a deal possibly announced this week. The rally still leaves Bumble's market value around $580m, far below the $14bn it hit after its 2021 Nasdaq listing. Both companies have been contacted for comment.
LittleJS, a lightweight HTML5 game engine, has released its largest update yet, adding a full 3D renderer that shares the canvas with its existing 2D system. The update also includes built-in 2D and 3D level editors, a one-line particle effects library, a Three.js rendering plugin, and a reworked rendering core using batched WebGL2 sprites and instanced 3D drawing for faster performance.
Apple executives Dan Murray and Banafsheh Barabadi described to PCMag how the iPhone Duo's foldable design required new thermal engineering, including a flexible graphite pipe built into the hinge and a new 'metal over foam' material that links the A20 Pro chip to its vapor chamber. The A20 Pro, Apple's first 2nm iPhone chip, also gets a second display engine in the Duo variant to run both screens at once and support a FaceTime camera placed behind the inner display.
A tech advisory recommends that buyers of budget Android phones prioritize certain baseline specs: at least a 5.6-inch AMOLED display with 1,000 nits peak brightness, a minimum of 6GB RAM (8GB for gamers), and 128GB storage with 256GB preferred if expandable storage isn't available. It also advises checking processor age and performance reviews before purchasing to avoid sluggish performance.
Apple has launched a configurator page on apple.com letting customers save color, storage, carrier and payment details ahead of iPhone Duo preorders opening at 5 a.m. PT Friday. The foldable device, unveiled at Apple's Surprise and Shine event, features a 7.6-inch unfolded display, folds to passport size, and supports split-screen multitasking and Apple Pencil under iOS 27. Pricing ranges from $1,999 for 512GB to $3,199 for 2TB, making it Apple's most expensive iPhone yet.
SolidCraft is an open-source parametric 3D CAD application written entirely in Rust, offering sketching, constraints, and a feature timeline so models rebuild automatically when dimensions change. It runs on desktop or in-browser and includes a built-in MCP server that lets AI agents perform modeling operations directly. The project reports 75 of 76 public reference parts matching analytic or FreeCAD-computed geometry checks, with one known bug tracked.
Apple TV unveiled the trailer for 'Being Heumann,' a film directed by 'CODA' filmmaker Siân Heder dramatizing the 1977 disability rights occupation of a San Francisco federal building. The film stars Ruth Madeley, Mark Ruffalo, Dylan O'Brien and Rob Delaney, and features what Apple describes as the largest cast of disabled actors ever assembled. It opens in limited theaters November 6 before streaming on Apple TV starting November 13.
Researchers have developed a detection tool called IdeaLens that analyzes the underlying structure of ideas in a document, rather than its writing style, to judge whether the content was conceived by artificial intelligence. The system strips text down to an outline and searches for argument and flow patterns typical of AI or human reasoning. In testing described in a preprint, the tool correctly identified AI-derived ideas 91% of the time.
Eli Lilly presented early clinical data last month on brenipatide, a tirzepatide-related compound, for alcohol use disorder. Kariya Pharmaceuticals separately reported early results for KP405, a similar GLP-1 compound, in Parkinson's disease, while Baseline Therapeutics said it plans to begin a clinical trial of a GLP-1 compound for alcohol use disorder in early 2027.
Researchers examined lead levels preserved in medieval teeth from populations near mining sites, finding that exposure to lead contamination varied according to social status. The study suggests that those of lower social standing bore a disproportionate share of the toxic burden from mining activity during the period.
The journal Nature published an author correction to a previously published paper on Parkinson's disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder. The correction updates an incomplete competing interests statement, disclosing multiple authors' financial ties to companies including Neural Galaxy, Galaxy Brain Scientific, Beijing Pins Medical, Turing Medical, and others, along with patent holdings and consulting arrangements. The statement clarifies these companies had no role in the study's design, analysis, or publication decision.