Sally Rooney says Faber has stopped supplying her books in the UK because her stated support for the banned group Palestine Action could make fulfilling UK publishing contracts a criminal offence. Palestine Action was proscribed as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act last July, and Rooney had pledged to continue directing sales proceeds to the group, which remains legal in Ireland. She previously cancelled a UK trip to collect an award over fears of arrest.
A joint investigation by Senators Maggie Hassan and Marsha Blackburn into romance scams on Match Group platforms found that Tinder had not updated most of its machine-learning fraud-detection models in years, weakening its ability to catch scammers. Company data cited in the report showed nearly 1.5 million suspected scammers or bad actors on Tinder and Hinge matched with at least one user through the third quarter of 2025, with close to 500,000 going on to exchange contact information with victims.
Apple told 9to5Mac that the new Siri AI features will be exclusive to the HomePod mini 2 and Apple TV 4K (2nd generation or later), not the original HomePod mini. This came after a CNET report mistakenly claimed the S5-powered original HomePod mini would gain Siri AI compatibility via iOS 27.2 later this year; CNET has since corrected that story.
OpenAI's infrastructure lead Sachin Katti announced he is leaving the company after about a year, with his last day set for Nov. 15. He will remain as an advisor, while Uday Ruddarraju, currently OpenAI's CTO of compute, will take over leadership of the compute organization.
The FBI arrested and the Justice Department charged Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national and OpenAI product team employee since July 2025, with illegally using a device to intercept oral communications. Investigators say he hid a thumb-sized camera and microphone board inside a TV port in a restricted executive conference room, and left a second device with his wallet and ID in a printer room. OpenAI says it found the first device on September 30, alerted the FBI, and fired Alfozan before his arrest on October 9.
Microsoft has introduced the Xbox Nano Controller, a smaller version of its standard gamepad measuring just over five inches and weighing 3.5 ounces. It features a rechargeable battery, a programmable action button, and Bluetooth support for use with Xbox consoles, PCs, mobile devices, and smart TVs. Pre-orders are open now, with shipping in the US starting November 4 at $50, followed by availability in 35 more countries next month.
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana have filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging the company violated consumer protection laws by misrepresenting ChatGPT as safe for young users. The suits cite cases where families say the chatbot contributed to deaths, and accuse OpenAI of collecting data from minors without adequate safeguards. OpenAI says it has built age-specific protections into the product.
A reader survey found that most Kindle owners are unwilling to pay for Amazon's new Page-Turn Cover accessory, which lets users flip pages via buttons on the cover. Respondents cited the cost of the add-on as the main reason for passing on it despite its added convenience.
Researchers used AI protein-design tools to build new enzymes by keeping the catalytic core from two existing protease types and replacing the surrounding protein structure. The engineered enzymes can be tuned to cleave particular target proteins, and the team tested this by using them to cut proteins linked to neurological diseases.
Overdrive, an unofficial PS5 storefront offering more than 1,600 pirated PS4 and PS5 games for jailbroken consoles, has gone offline after its developer reportedly received a cease-and-desist notice from Sony. The project went viral after modder Edigax shared it on social media, but within hours of its removal, multiple forked versions appeared on GitHub, with one already listing over 1,800 titles.
Swedish outlet Aftonbladet reports that an AI agent given server access by production company Mastiff deleted an entire unaired season of reality show 'The Challenge Sverige,' with no recoverable files. Broadcaster TV4 confirmed a 'technical breakdown' pushed the premiere from November 22 to next year, but said it could not confirm AI involvement in the deletion.
YouTube Music has started displaying an "AI" label beneath track titles for songs fully or partly generated using AI, including cases where AI created major elements like vocals. Tapping the label reveals details on how AI was used in the track. YouTube says similar labels will eventually appear in the main YouTube video player as well.
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