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Upgrade, which offers online loans and other financial services, raised $165M led by Neuberger Berman at a $7.3B valuation and is "12 to 18 months" from an IPO (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/fintech-star…

Fintech startup Upgrade valued at $7.3 billion in new funding round
Upgrade raised $165 million in a new funding round that valued the fintech startup at $7.3 billion.

Apple updates the Vision Pro with an M5 chip, rendering 10% more pixels, and a Dual Knit Band for a more comfortable fit, available on October 22 for $3,499 (Apple)
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-vision-pro-upgraded-with-th…

Apple Vision Pro upgraded with the powerful M5 chip and comfortable Dual Knit Band
Apple introduced the upgraded Apple Vision Pro, featuring the powerful M5 chip, the Dual Knit Band, and innovative features with visionOS 26.

📢 Signa-Gründer Benko teilweise schuldig gesprochen - zwei Jahre Haft
Das Landesgericht Innsbruck hat den Immobilieninvestor René Benko in einem Insolvenzprozess teilweise schuldig gesprochen. Wegen Schädigung seiner Gläubiger wurde er zu zwei Jahren Haft verurteilt.
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Signa-Gründer Benko teilweise schuldig gesprochen - zwei Jahre Haft
Das Landesgericht Innsbruck hat den Immobilieninvestor René Benko in einem Insolvenzprozess teilweise schuldig gesprochen. Wegen Schädigung seiner Gläubiger wurde er zu zwei Jahren Haft verurteilt.

🥳 New Kitten Release
• Reduces minimum Bash version requirement for installing Kitten to Bash 3.2 (was previously Bash 5 ). This removes the requirement for people on macOS to upgrade the ancient version of Bash that Apple ships with their desktop operating system. (If you’re on Linux none of this was ever an issue for you.)¹
• Updates runtime to Node 24.12.0, the latest long-term support (LTS) version.

So my Windows 10 box will no long eat updates unless I upgrade to Win11?
Guess I'll just stick to doing everything on Android. 😞

Another distro upgrade, another server not coming up after Debian bookworm -> trixie update.
As usual the box booted fine and the culprit was "predictable" network interfaces changing names again.
All of my configs refer to ens2f0 and ens2f1, while the NIC is now called enp25s0f0/1.

Just upgraded my Macs to IOS 26.2 and ... kaboom, one of the machines just went into permanent spinning rainbow disk mode with the mouse pointer trailing my movements by several seconds.
Not a promising sign.

Apple updates the iPad Pro with an M5 chip, its new C1X cellular modem, and N1 chip, for $999 for the 11-inch and $1,299 for the 13-inch, shipping October 22 (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799352/apple-ipad-pro-m5-price-release-date

Apple’s iPad Pro now has an M5 chip and some nice internal upgrades
Last year’s Pro shipped with new accessories, a new deisgn, and a new screen. The 2025 iPad Pro is mostly an internal upgrade, including the new M5 processor.

Slack is testing an AI-based version of Slackbot that acts as a personalized assistant, operating via AWS' virtual private cloud, rolling out by the end of 2025 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/797890/slack-slackbot-ai-assistant-upgrade

Slack is turning Slackbot into an AI assistant
Slack is piloting an upgraded Slackbot that will transform the tool into an AI companion that draws from your conversations, workspace, and files to provide customized assistance.

Apple to start selling Vision Pro-compatible PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers for $250 on November 11 and the $130 Logitech Muse digital pen on October 22 (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/15/apple-v

Apple Vision Pro: PlayStation VR2 Sense controller in November, Logitech Muse and standalone Dual Knit Band available to order - 9to5Mac
Apple Vision Pro is officially being upgraded from the M2 to the new M5, but existing customers don’t need an...