TechCrunch rounds up newer apps for tracking your reading and finding books, leaving out the Amazon-owned Goodreads. Picks include Fable, which pairs reading lists, goals and streaks with virtual book clubs and personalized recommendations.
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China added 23 AI-related technologies, including large models, agents and computing clusters, to its list of restricted exports in mid-October, so companies now need a license to sell them abroad; open-source tech is exempt. Days later, state media reported that two firms, named elsewhere as DeepSeek and MiniMax, were cleared to keep exporting. The Register's Asia roundup also covers Australian AI datacenter troubles, including a cancelled Firmus IPO.
UK grocer Tesco is moving its in-store "edge" computing from VMware to the open-source Proxmox platform, according to a job ad for a Bengaluru-based engineering head to lead the migration. The shift comes as Tesco sues VMware in a licensing dispute, claiming the company offered a 175% price increase; hearings are expected in 2027.
ICANN's CTO John Crain told The Register that work to make the DNS safe from future quantum computers is speeding up, with quantum code-breaking possibly arriving around the turn of the decade. Bigger DNSSEC keys mean bigger responses and a shift from UDP to TCP, which he said will take a few years; "I don't know if it's three years or five, but it's probably not ten."
Apple is expected to show its first OLED, touchscreen MacBook Pros at an Oct. 28 hands-on event in Los Angeles, alongside an OLED iPad mini and M6 iMac. 9to5Mac rounds up hints that the new MacBooks could add 5G cellular using Apple's C2 modem, though it's still unconfirmed.
