Tech
- Uber and Lyft drivers in California are able to unionize under new law
- Taylor Swift Fans Furious as She’s Caught Using Sloppy AI in Video for New Album
- Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store | The Verge
- ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team | WIRED
- Waffles eat Bluesky | TechCrunch
- Mastodon is adding Bluesky-like starter packs
- Discord now says 70,000 government IDs may have leaked in provider hack
Gaming
- Developers rush to update games after serious Unity vulnerability discovered | VGC
- Metal Hellsinger studio closing as part of Funcom layoffs | Eurogamer.net
- If you buy more than two new games a year, you’re in the minority, new report reveals | Eurogamer.net
- Ubisoft reportedly cancelled Assassin’s Creed game in post-American Civil War over political concerns | Eurogamer.net
Content Creation
- Twitch streamer gives birth in front 29,000 viewers, and chat was unhinged
- ‘Wish I never got into politics,’ says Adin Ross, who livestreamed with Trump in 2024
Hardware/Software Updates
- NVIDIA reveal new driver security issues for October 2025 | GamingOnLinux
- Ubuntu 25.10 Released, Available to Download Now
Contents
Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #153 (10/23/2025)
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Tech Talk Thursdays
Tech
Amazon’s AWS outage has knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline
Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement – Ars Technica
OpenAI suspends Sora depictions of Martin Luther King Jr. following a request from his family
OpenAI reportedly asked for memorial guest list in teen suicide case
Kohler Launches $600 iPhone-Connected Toilet Camera That Monitors Your Health Through Waste Analysis – MacRumors
Windows 11 update knocks out USB mice, keyboards in recovery mode
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s annual pay jumps to $96.5 million
Gaming
Big Week For Unions At Blizzard As Hearthstone Team Also Votes ‘Yes’
Halo co-creator says he’s ‘disappointed’ he and some former colleagues weren’t credited for their work on Battlefield 6 | VGC
Ubisoft Asks Devs At Star Wars Outlaws Studio To Lay Themselves Off
Poor old PlayStation 3 – the PS5 has just overtaken its lifetime sales in the US
Content Creation
Twitch rule-breakers, rejoice: Targeted enforcement will replace blanket bans
Streamer assaulted at TwitchCon slams event security: “I think other creators should seriously consider not attending in the future”
Hardware/Software Updates
New PS5 Update Is Out Now, Does Something Unexpected – GameSpot
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