News 14 October 2025 - 17 October 2025

Brambles Shares Up, U.S. Pallet Outlook Still in Focus
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Brambles Shares Up, U.S. Pallet Outlook Still in Focus

Brambles shares climbed in the latest session, doing better than the weaker local market as investors watched for signs the pallet-pooling company was addressing its U.S. repair delays. Brambles ended Wednesday at A$19.36, gaining 15 cents, or 0.8%. Shares fell to A$18.81 at the session low. The CHEP owner remains down 15.8% for the year. The S&P/ASX 200 closed 0.21% lower at 8,785.10.
July 9, 2026
GrapheneOS Breaks Free from Pixel Exclusivity as Major Phone Maker Joins Forces
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GrapheneOS Breaks Free from Pixel Exclusivity as Major Phone Maker Joins Forces

GrapheneOS – widely regarded as one of the most secure, privacy-first Android distributions – is breaking free from its Google Pixel shackles. The project’s developers confirmed via social media and community forums that they’ve been working with a major smartphone maker since mid-2025 to bring GrapheneOS to that company’s devices dataconomy.com. Until now, GrapheneOS has run exclusively on Google’s own Pixel phones, making those Pixels the go-to choice for users seeking a hardened, de-Googled mobile experience. That long-standing exclusivity may finally end as soon as 2026, with GrapheneOS poised to support at least one new device from its unnamed partner’s upcoming lineup dataconomy.com dataconomy.com. This move is a potential game-changer for the privacy-focused OS. GrapheneOS has built a reputation among
October 17, 2025
Apple’s New iPhone App Is the Game‑Changing Document Scanner We’ve Been Waiting For
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Apple’s New iPhone App Is the Game‑Changing Document Scanner We’ve Been Waiting For

Apple has officially released iOS 26, and tucked inside is a surprise new app called Preview moneycontrol.com. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because Mac computers have had a Preview app for decades – in fact, it first appeared way back in 1989 on the Mac’s predecessor OS popsci.com. On macOS, Preview became the go-to utility for quickly opening images and PDFs, doing light edits, and digitally signing documents. Until now, iPhone users never had an equivalent built-in tool, relying instead on a mix of the Files app, Markup in Photos, or third-party apps to handle these chores. With iOS 26, Apple has finally brought this versatile app to its mobile devices popsci.com, instantly recognizable by the Mac-like icon that
October 17, 2025
Samsung’s One UI 8 (Android 16) Surprise: Flagships to Budget Phones Get the Big Update
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Samsung’s One UI 8 (Android 16) Surprise: Flagships to Budget Phones Get the Big Update

Samsung’s Android 16 update – delivered as One UI 8.0 – is now in full swing across a broad spectrum of Galaxy devices. The company officially kicked off the stable One UI 8 rollout on September 15, 2025 with the Galaxy S25 series 9to5google.com. Since then, Samsung has moved faster than usual, pushing Android 16 not only to its 2024 flagships but also to last year’s models and beyond. By late September, the entire Galaxy S23 lineup had started receiving One UI 8 updates in various regions 9to5google.com sammyfans.com. Even the aging Galaxy S22 series from 2022 got Android 16 in early October – albeit with a slight snag 9to5google.com sammobile.com. What’s remarkable is that Samsung isn’t stopping at premium
October 17, 2025
PayPal and Venmo Crash Leaves Millions Locked Out – Are Your Funds Safe?
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PayPal and Venmo Crash Leaves Millions Locked Out – Are Your Funds Safe?

On Thursday morning, millions of people worldwide discovered they couldn’t access PayPal or Venmo, two of the most widely used online payment platforms. Users began reporting issues around mid-morning U.S. time – roughly 11 a.m. Eastern – when both services suddenly stopped functioning properly foxbusiness.com. According to Downdetector, which monitors crowdsourced outage reports, the surge in error reports was immediate and massive techradar.com. By noon ET, nearly 10,000 users had reported PayPal problems and over 8,000 did so for Venmo, indicating a widespread failure across both apps techradar.com. People affected by the outage couldn’t log into their accounts, check their balances, view recent transactions, or send and receive payments – essentially, the core functions of the apps were unavailable techradar.com.
October 17, 2025
Google Keep Users Stunned by New Reminders Update – Google Tasks Takes Over
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Google Keep Users Stunned by New Reminders Update – Google Tasks Takes Over

For years, Google Keep and Google Tasks — two of Google’s best-known productivity apps — felt oddly disconnected despite their overlapping purpose. Google Keep is a popular note-taking app that let users set time or location reminders on notes, while Google Tasks is a to-do list manager for tasks and reminders. Many Google users have long wanted these two to work seamlessly together, and now, “thankfully, that’s now changing.” as one report put it bgr.com. Google actually confirmed in 2024 that it planned to unify its reminder systems. It announced that any reminders created in Keep would “automatically save to Google Tasks” over the coming year blog.google blog.google. This was part of a broader effort: since early 2023, Google has
October 16, 2025
Apple’s M5 Chip Surprise: MacBook Pro, iPad Pro & Vision Pro Get Massive AI Upgrades
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Apple’s M5 Chip Surprise: MacBook Pro, iPad Pro & Vision Pro Get Massive AI Upgrades

Apple’s latest silicon, the M5, is at the heart of this fall’s product refresh. Announced on October 15, 2025, the M5 is described as a faster, more efficient, and more capable system-on-chip built specifically to excel at AI and graphics tasks apple.com. It’s manufactured on an improved 3 nm process and features an advanced 10-core GPU where each core integrates a Neural Accelerator – a design that dramatically speeds up machine learning computations. Apple says the M5 delivers “over 4× the peak GPU compute performance for AI compared to M4”, and up to 45% higher overall graphics performance than the last generation apple.com macworld.com. The CPU side also sees gains: M5 uses what Apple touts as “the world’s fastest performance
October 16, 2025
Motorola’s Ultra-Thin X70 Air Takes Aim at iPhone Air and Galaxy S25 Edge with Big Battery Boost
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Motorola’s Ultra-Thin X70 Air Takes Aim at iPhone Air and Galaxy S25 Edge with Big Battery Boost

“Thin phones are in, and Motorola doesn’t want to miss out,” observed The Verge’s Dominic Preston, as brands across the industry race to shave down device thickness theverge.com. In 2025, ultra-slim smartphones have become a hot trend following the era of foldables. Apple wowed with the iPhone Air at just 5.6 mm thick, and Samsung impressed tech watchers with its Galaxy S25 Edge at 5.8 mm rbc.ua. These devices proved that high-end phones could go on a serious diet – but they also had to sacrifice battery capacity to achieve those razor-thin profiles rbc.ua rbc.ua. That’s where Motorola saw an opportunity. The company’s new Moto X70 Air is explicitly positioned to challenge those slim flagships without the usual compromises. PhoneArena,
October 16, 2025
Honor’s ‘Robot Phone’ Concept Puts a Wall‑E‑Like AI Camera in Your Pocket
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Honor’s ‘Robot Phone’ Concept Puts a Wall‑E‑Like AI Camera in Your Pocket

Smartphone maker Honor has stunned tech watchers by teasing a device it calls the “Robot Phone.” Unlike any handset on the market, this concept phone features a single camera on a mechanical arm that folds out from the back theverge.com theverge.com. Once deployed, the camera can rotate freely to face any direction, essentially giving the phone a swiveling “eye.” In Honor’s CGI teaser video, the camera even moves on its own – peeking around, tilting like a curious pet, and emitting little giggles of wonder 9to5google.com. The effect is deliberately whimsical, making the gadget feel less like a slab of electronics and more like a pocket-sized robot sidekick. Tech blog Droid-Life quipped that the device appears to have its own
October 16, 2025
Apple’s iOS 26.1 Public Beta 3 Drops – Hidden AI Tools & Colorful New Icons Revealed
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Apple’s iOS 26.1 Public Beta 3 Drops – Hidden AI Tools & Colorful New Icons Revealed

In short, iOS/iPadOS 26.1 Beta 3 is mostly a refinement update ahead of the final release – adding language support, UI polish, and the much-talked-about “background security” toggle for automatic updates macrumors.com, plus a few fun surprises. Macworld’s Roman Loyola quipped about one of the more visible changes, the new Mac SSD icon: “There are so many things wrong with this icon, but here’s my main problem: it’s inaccurate. The internal Mac SSD looks nothing like that,” he wrote, noting that Apple “can use its design savvy to make it look good” macworld.com. Meanwhile, AppleInsider editor Marko Zivkovic observed that apart from the Local Capture toggle, “most of the changes in the software update are related to in-development features or
October 15, 2025
Unbelievable Motorola Razr Deals Slash Foldable Phone Prices to All-Time Lows
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Unbelievable Motorola Razr Deals Slash Foldable Phone Prices to All-Time Lows

Motorola has been aggressively expanding its Razr foldable lineup, and retailers have matched that with steep discounts. The Razr Ultra is the top-end model, featuring a 6.9″ 1224p inner display, a full-cover 4.0″ outer AMOLED screen, a wood-accented design, IP48 water resistance, and a Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU theverge.com. A recent Verge report confirms it’s on sale for $999.99 at Amazon and Best Buy theverge.com. The Verge’s Brandt Ranj notes, “our reviewer praised its design,” and that Motorola still offers the “best software for foldables” – a big plus for user experience theverge.com. In other words, you get a flagship-quality flip phone for a much lower price than its MSRP of ~$1300. Even the mid-tier Razr+ is deeply discounted. Normally
October 15, 2025
Android Auto’s Latest Update CRIPPLES Quick Controls Feature – Drivers FURIOUS
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Android Auto’s Latest Update CRIPPLES Quick Controls Feature – Drivers FURIOUS

In early October 2025, Google expanded the rollout of Android Auto 15.2. This update contained no advertised new user features, but drivers quickly discovered that something in the release had “messed up the Quick Controls feature” in many cars sammyguru.com. The first reports surfaced around Sept. 27, 2025, when some users noticed that enabling Quick Controls no longer produced any change 9to5google.com sammyguru.com. By mid-October, tech media confirmed the issue had grown widespread. As Moneycontrol explains, this bug “appeared to have stopped working on screens where the Android Auto taskbar is displayed vertically,” right as 15.2 hit the stable channel moneycontrol.com androidheadlines.com. Originally, Android Auto’s Quick Controls was a popular multitasking aid. It was introduced years earlier as a way
October 15, 2025
Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold Explodes in Durability Test — Google’s “Most Durable” Foldable on Fire
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Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold Explodes in Durability Test — Google’s “Most Durable” Foldable on Fire

Sources: Authoritative tech coverage and official Google announcements have been used throughout blog.google theverge.com androidcentral.com notebookcheck.net blog.google. The durability quotes come from JerryRigEverything’s test video and expert commentary in The Verge and others theverge.com theverge.com notebookcheck.net. Google’s own blog details the gearless hinge, IP68 rating, and hardware improvements blog.google blog.google.
October 15, 2025
Xiaomi’s 7,500 mAh Battery Shocker: iPhone 17 Pro Max Nearly Matches Xiaomi 17 Pro Max in Test
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Xiaomi’s 7,500 mAh Battery Shocker: iPhone 17 Pro Max Nearly Matches Xiaomi 17 Pro Max in Test

Consumers expected Xiaomi’s new 7,500 mAh battery beast to blow past Apple’s latest Pro Max – but a real-world drain test delivered a surprise. YouTuber TechDroider put the Xiaomi 17 Pro Max through a rigorous battery torture test alongside the iPhone 17 Pro Max, Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, Google Pixel 10 Pro XL, last year’s Xiaomi 15 Pro, and OnePlus 13gizmochina.comnotebookcheck.net. Each device looped through power-hungry tasks until deathnotebookcheck.net. The outcome: Xiaomi’s 17 Pro Max lasted 13 hours 36 minutes, while the iPhone 17 Pro Max hit 13 hours 31 minutesnotebookcheck.net. Incredibly, Apple’s phone died only about 5 minutes earlier despite its battery being drastically smaller. This negligible gap has stunned many tech watchers. “The Xiaomi 17 Pro Max doesn’t
October 15, 2025
Nvidia’s Tiny $4K Spark PC Puts a 1-PetaFLOP AI Supercomputer on Your Desk
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Nvidia’s Tiny $4K Spark PC Puts a 1-PetaFLOP AI Supercomputer on Your Desk

For years, running cutting-edge AI models required expensive cloud instances or room-sized servers. Now Nvidia’s DGX Spark aims to put that power literally within arm’s reach. Starting this week, anyone can order the DGX Spark – a petite desktop AI computer delivering roughly one petaFLOP of performance – for $3,999theverge.comtheverge.com. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has dubbed Spark a new class of “personal AI supercomputer” meant to bring data-center-class AI “from cloud services to desktop and edge applications”nvidianews.nvidia.com. In practical terms, that means a researcher or developer could fine-tune a large language model or run a 200-billion-parameter generative AI model locally on their desk without needing a supercomputer clustertheverge.com. Despite its lofty performance, the DGX Spark is physically unassuming – about
October 14, 2025
Google’s Gemini AI Takes Over Your Calendar – No More Back‑and‑Forth on Meeting Times
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Google’s Gemini AI Takes Over Your Calendar – No More Back‑and‑Forth on Meeting Times

For anyone who’s ever suffered the tedious “When are you free to meet?” email tango, Google’s latest Workspace AI perk feels like a godsend. The new “Help me schedule” button in Gmail is essentially a personal scheduling assistant living right inside your inboxtheverge.com. It harnesses Google’s Gemini AI – the tech giant’s advanced generative AI – to handle the grunt work of meeting coordination. When you’re emailing someone about setting up a meeting, Gmail will now detect the scheduling intent and proactively offer to helptheverge.com. With one click, it scans your Google Calendar for open slots and pops up a neatly formatted list of times you could meettheverge.com. You can think of it as Gmail saying, “Don’t worry, I’ve checked
October 14, 2025
Apple Teases M5 MacBook Pro – M5-Powered iPad Pro and Vision Pro Also Expected Soon
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Apple Teases M5 MacBook Pro – M5-Powered iPad Pro and Vision Pro Also Expected Soon

Apple’s surprise teaser this week all but confirms a new M5-powered MacBook Pro is about to drop. On October 14, Apple SVP Greg Joswiak shared a brief video on X with a glowing outline of a MacBook and the words “coming soon.” In the post, Joswiak wrote “Mmmmm… something powerful is coming” – with five letter “M”s, a clear nod to the M5 namemacrumors.com. The laptop’s silhouette in the animation cleverly forms a “V” shape, which is the Roman numeral for 5macrumors.com. In short, Apple itself is cheekily signaling that the fifth-generation Apple Silicon chip will power an upcoming MacBook Pro release. This teaser aligns with recent reports that a new 14-inch MacBook Pro is imminent, likely to be the
October 14, 2025
Vivo X300 Pro’s 200MP Zeiss Camera & Snap-On Lens Aim to Replace Your DSLR – Vivo X300 Series Launch Shakes Up Mobile Photography
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Vivo X300 Pro’s 200MP Zeiss Camera & Snap-On Lens Aim to Replace Your DSLR – Vivo X300 Series Launch Shakes Up Mobile Photography

Vivo’s X300 series has officially arrived in China – and it’s making waves by taking smartphone photography to new heights. The lineup, unveiled at a high-profile Shanghai event on October 13, consists of the standard Vivo X300 and the premium Vivo X300 Protechnode.com. This launch coincides with Vivo’s 30th anniversary, and the company seized the moment to showcase cutting-edge camera tech co-developed with legendary optics brand Zeisstechnode.com. Both phones feature a triple rear camera setup with Zeiss T✻ lens coatings and advanced gimbal-like stabilization, signaling Vivo’s intent to “take smartphone cameras to the next level”ts2.tech. Camera highlights – quality and _quantity_: The X300 Pro’s camera array is particularly noteworthy. Its 50 MP Sony LYT-828 main sensor is a large 1/1.28″
October 14, 2025
DJI Mini 5 Pro vs Mini 4 Pro: Huge Upgrades in a Tiny Drone (But There’s a Catch)
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DJI Mini 5 Pro vs Mini 4 Pro: Huge Upgrades in a Tiny Drone (But There’s a Catch)

Drone enthusiasts have eagerly awaited this face-off: DJI Mini 5 Pro vs. DJI Mini 4 Pro. The Mini series has revolutionized consumer drones by packing advanced features into palm-sized quadcopters that skirt under the 250g regulatory cutoff. The Mini 4 Pro set a new benchmark for what sub-250g drones can do – photographer James Abbott called it “a superb sub-250g drone… the new benchmark for what sub-250g drones can deliver”ts2.tech. It introduced omnidirectional obstacle sensing and improved camera modes, but was seen as a mild evolution of the Mini 3 Pro. Now DJI has upped the ante with the Mini 5 Pro, officially unveiled in September 2025imaging-resource.com. It arrives with bold claims of pro-grade imaging and flight tech without tipping
October 14, 2025
Windows 10 Support Ends Today – Millions of PCs at Risk, What You Need to Know
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Windows 10 Support Ends Today – Millions of PCs at Risk, What You Need to Know

After a decade of service, Microsoft Windows 10 is reaching its official end-of-life. October 14, 2025 marks the final day that Microsoft will offer support for Windows 10. This milestone means that from now on, Microsoft will no longer issue free security updates, bug fixes, or technical support for this operating systemtomsguide.com. Windows 10 won’t suddenly stop working on existing computers; however, any new flaws or vulnerabilities discovered in the OS will remain unpatched, leaving lingering Windows 10 users increasingly exposed to cyber threatstomsguide.com. Microsoft’s own support bulletin bluntly advises users that Windows 10 is now an unsupported product. The company “recommends upgrading to Windows 11 – a more modern, secure, and efficient experience – or replacing [Windows 10 devices]
October 14, 2025
Is Your Child’s Screen Time a Hidden Crisis? The Alarming New Reality of Kids and Smartphones
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Is Your Child’s Screen Time a Hidden Crisis? The Alarming New Reality of Kids and Smartphones

Modern childhood is inseparable from screens. Smartphones, tablets, gaming devices and YouTube have woven themselves into play and learning. According to a Pew Research Center survey, nearly all parents of kids 12 or younger say their child watches TV, 68% report tablet use and 61% report smartphone use pewresearch.org. Even toddlers use screens: about 40% of parents say a child under 2 has tried interacting with a smartphone pewresearch.org. YouTube is a daily ritual for many: 85% of kids under 12 watch YouTube videos pewresearch.org. About 10% of 5–12-year-olds have tried AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini, and roughly 40% use voice assistants like Alexa or Siri pewresearch.org. Parents realize the ubiquity of tech can be a “double-edged sword.” Screens
October 14, 2025
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