Market moves after the Fed rate cut — plus, two price target hikes on big-name stocks

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Techme101

Every weekday, the Investing Club releases the Homestretch; an actionable afternoon update just in time for the last hour of trading.

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Windows 11 Update Brings Customizable Start Menu and Streamlined App Discovery

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Techme101

Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Start menu redesign brings customization, Phone Link integration, and a cleaner, more connected user experience.
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AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Techme101

A new benchmark measures how well AI agents can automate economically valuable chores. Human-level AI is still some ways off.

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Box CEO Aaron Levie on how AI is changing the enterprise SaaS landscape

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Techme101

He painted a picture of a future of enterprise software where the SaaS is used for the core business workflow, and then the agents ride on top of that.

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San Francisco mayor: ‘We should be the testbed for emerging tech’

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Techme101

While San Francisco’s mayor Daniel Lurie is opening his arms to autonomous vehicles, other cities are more resistant. Boston, for instance, has considered a ban on autonomous vehicles in the city.

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How to Keep Subways and Trains Cool in an Ever Hotter World

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Techme101

As temperatures increase, trains and subways are becoming unendurable. Potential solutions include everything from cooling tunnels with water to painting rolling stock—but there’s no magic fix.

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Extropic Aims to Disrupt the Data Center Bonanza

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Techme101

A startup hopes to challenge Nvidia, AMD, and Intel with a chip that wrangles probabilities rather than ones and zeros.

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Heathrow, NatWest and Minecraft sites down amid global Microsoft outage

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Techme101

Microsoft 365 and its Azure cloud computing platform are hit with DNS issues, similar to Amazon’s recent outage.

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Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Techme101

Prosecutors confirmed Peter Williams, the former Trenchant boss, sold eight exploits to a Russian buyer. TechCrunch exclusively reported that the Trenchant division was investigating a leak of its hacking tools, after another employee was accused of involvement.

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Google to bring shuttered nuclear power plant back from the dead

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Techme101

Google is working with NextEra to reopen the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa to power the tech companies data centers.

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