If Kazaa and Napster can become a viable business, so can BitTorrent right? The popular peer-to-peer (P2P) developer has stated they will partner up with Doll Capital Management to lead a Series Aventure funding initiative worth $8.75 million dollars. The investment will help to globally commercialize their technology to turn it into a legitimate business. "While BitTorrentalready has become the de facto protocol for cooperative distribution on the Internet, DCM shares our belief that BitTorrent will become the ideal platform for both independent publishers and theworld’s leading media companies alike," said Bram Cohen, founder and CEO of BitTorrent. "We are committed to working with content creators and distributors to shape the future of mediadistribution, and to provide our users with a great product that brings their favorite videos, audio and software to their door-step." BitTorrent has more than 45 million users making itone of the largest P2P networks in the world. BitTorrent’s size has made the company a target for the RIAA and other industry organizations, but due to legalities, BitTorrent has dodged the bullet so to speak. In related news, look for Microsoft to enter theP2P market using a DRM-based technology.
Speech-to-text apps have flooded the App Store, making it easier than ever to type on our Macs with just our voice. I have previously covered one such app called TypeWhisper. However, there has been a dearth of good text-to-speech models, and most of the good ones are locked behind a subscription.
Ollama, an open-source app that lets you run local AI models on your computer, wants to change that. It works on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and your prompts are never stored or used for training.
Did you think hitting delete on your AI chatbot conversation actually makes it disappear? Georgia Tech researchers just proved that's not entirely true. They have built a forensic tool called ORISA that can dig deleted conversations from your phone and even rebuild them into a working chatbot session you can keep talking to.
How can ORISA bring deleted AI conversations back?
Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).