A weekly tech recap highlighted Meta's GDPR data exports enabling an investigation, early Xiaomi 18 Pro benchmarks, a broad PS5 browser exploit, Google's Gemini 4 Argon claims, and OpenAI's persistent agents. The items show continued movement in device security, mobile hardware, and AI tooling.
A new GitHub tool jailbreaks PS5 consoles through the built-in browser.
OpenAI introduced dots, always-on agents that run in their own cloud VMs.
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October 15 tech stories on 9to5Mac Daily include iPhone Duo repair pricing, OpenAI allegations involving a former employee now at Apple, Apple's Safari campaign, and a reported Apple Intelligence timeline for China.
Google has officially launched the Fitbit Edge fitness tracker with a 46 percent larger display and a replaceable battery. The device targets users seeking notifications and improved tracking without full smartwatch complexity.
PlayStation will launch a Crunchyroll anime hub on PS5 in spring 2027 that links anime discovery, games, and app access. The feature expands an existing Sony-Crunchyroll partnership that already includes memberships and an upcoming Ghost of Tsushima anime series.
OpenAI released 722 mathematical manuscripts, grouped into 372 result families, produced by an unreleased internal model. The papers are on GitHub, with Lean formalizations for many but not all of them, and OpenAI warns some unformalized results could have issues.
OpenAI has updated ChatGPT with an “Intelligent UI” that generates interactive visual elements alongside text answers. The change, powered by GPT-6, reaches paid users today and free users tomorrow and affects more than a billion users.
