Daily Tech News 25 October 2025

• Tech companies have maxed out their credit cards in wild pursuit of the AI let's-not-call-it-a-bubble. (Notebook Check)
  
  Debt held by those companies has increased fourfold over the past ten years, to a total of $1.35 trillion.
  
  If the bubble bursts abruptly, the most highly leveraged of those companies - and their lenders - are going to be in a world of pain.
  
  As is the economy, meaning everyone who didn't borrow all that money and set in on fire chasing phantasms.

• It's Ruperts all the way down until it isn't: The first shape has been found that doesn't have the Rupert property. (Quanta)
  
  The Rupert property means that an object with a given 3D shape can pass through a hole bored through another object the same size and shape, but rotated so that the smallest cross section of one shape passes through the largest cross section of the other.
  
  The first shape - or at least the first convex polyhedron - has been found that does not have this property.
  
  Or rather, the second, though the article doesn't not point this out presumably because the original example is considered a degenerate solution: Spheres have the same cross-section from every angle, and therefore can only pass through a hole exactly that size.
  
  
  
• Iceland found its first mosquito. (CNN)
  
  Keep looking, guys, I'm sure you can find more.
  
  
  
• Microsoft Teams will start tracking your location and reporting you to your boss. (Tom's Guide)
  
  That seems a little goldfish-bowlish, but still. If you're getting paid to be in the office, and you're not in the office, and your boss finds out, that is rather on you, isn't it?
  
  
  
• Rivian will pay $250 million to settle a lawsuit over major price increases on its cars. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Wait, Rivian makes cars?
  
  Anyway, Rivian hiked prices by 20% to cover increasing costs, and shareholders immediately sued claiming reasonably enough that Rivian had misrepresented those costs.
  
  
  
• Automattic has filed a countersuit against WP Engine, claiming trademark abuse. (TechCrunch)
  
  WP Engine fired back, saying it merely referred to WordPress by name, adding that Matt Mullenweg's parents are very disappointed in him and he never calls except when he needs money.
  
  
  
• The Espresso Pro is an overpriced 15.6" 4k monitor aimed at Mac users. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  When even tech journalists think your price is too high, your price is too high.
  
  

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