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🎃 Someone could kick in your front door this Halloween

Oct 29, 2026

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10 min read

🎃 Someone could kick in your front door this Halloween

Plus: an Emmy winner charged with stalking his ex, xAI buying a neighborhood’s silence, free fixes for cracked iPhone Duos, life-size 3D calls for military families, an Airbnb “room” that was really a shed, a $795 robot hanging from your ceiling and the truth about your dog’s microchip

Oct 28, 2026

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9 min read

🛑 Do not drive this

Plus: a text that turned a plane around, the chew toy every dog owner should check, “Do Not Drive” orders from Porsche and Subaru, AI spotting cancer 475 days early, a $199 mosquito catfisher and the fix older iPhones need now

Oct 27, 2026

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9 min read

🚨 Bank’s back door

Plus: Claude’s maker going public, get free Wi-Fi on board, SpaceX eyeing 80,000 cell towers, 90-minute Instagram binges, a kung fu robot on porch patrol and unmasking a fake PDF.