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This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the biggest game releases of the year, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started The two biggest games of…
Windows 10’s (and prior) ability to reposition the Taskbar by dragging it with your mouse is not coming to Windows 11, Microsoft confirms.
India’s sovereign AI push is changing its job description. According to ET Government, the effort that began with building home-grown foundation models is now being judged on whether those models do useful work for Bharat, meaning citizens who use Indian languages, public services and low-cost devices. The story’s headline names a Ganesh Ram…, and the…
Disguise, the costume maker owned by JAKKS Pacific, announced a new line of Yoshi costumes on Oct. 26, 2026, five days before Halloween. The Disguise Yoshi costumes are on sale now at five named retailers, according to the company’s press release, which Nintendo also posted on its official US news page. The announcement is short.…
Ryan Noach spent 16 years at Discovery Health and ran it as chief executive from 2020 to 2024. Now he is the face of one of South Africa‘s larger recent telecom bets. A profile published on November 1, 2026 describes the former Discovery executive as built like Arnold Schwarzenegger and as the investor behind R1.6…
Samaya AI has released Samaya Sterling, a finance research agent model that activates just 3B parameters and still scores 58.9% on the company’s FrontierFinance benchmark. Claude Fable 5.1 lands at 55.9% on the same test. Samaya says Sterling answers each question for $0.61, against $6.89 for Fable 5.1, which works out to roughly 11x lower…
Binance says it has now replaced 90% of the crypto stolen in its record $6.3 billion hack, up from 80% a day earlier. CoinDesk reported the update on October 31, and outlets including the BBC, CoinMarketCap and bloomingbit picked it up as the exchange held to a plan to reopen withdrawals on Sunday, November 1,…
A federal judge in Mississippi has refused to throw out a Clean Air Act lawsuit against SpaceX’s AI arm, SpaceXAI, over gas turbines that power its Memphis-area data centers. CNBC reported the ruling on October 31, 2026, and Simply Wall St framed it as SpaceX (SPCX) losing an early bid to dismiss. The order, from…
The Binance breach dominated the week in crypto. On Oct. 29, attackers drained about $6.3 billion in client assets from the world’s largest exchange, according to Binance’s own disclosure and follow-up reporting from CNBC. Two policy events landed in the same days: the Federal Reserve held its benchmark range at 3.75% to 4.00% on a…
Apple’s first foldable is barely a week old, and the conversation has already jumped to the sequel. The iPhone Duo 2 is not announced, but reporting from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and analyst Ming-Chi Kuo points to a second-generation model aimed at 2027. The timing is awkward for Cupertino. The original Duo, priced at $1,999 for…
