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Owen Poole runs through today's biggest tech stories. Apple updates the 14-inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro and Vision Pro with the new M5 chip, promising greater power and performance. Microsoft officially ends support for Windows 10, but a lot of PCs are stuck with it. And Walmart shoppers will now be able to buy directly through ChatGPT.
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Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for Oct. 16.
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 Apple today updated its iMessage troubleshooting support document to add a scenario that can occur in iOS 26. If you don't activate iMessage or an eSIM when setting up a new iPhone with ?iOS 26?, it can prevent iMessage from working.
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 Apple plans to announce new products "this week," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
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The Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court's ruling that Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard did not violate antitrust laws. The Federal Trade Commission had sued to block the merger of these large gaming brands on claims that the new entity would fall afoul of antitrust laws. In the court's ruling, released today, the FTC failed to prove that Microsoft would have blocked access to popular titles such as Call of Duty on hardware owned by other gaming brands. The appeals court was also unswayed by the FTC's arguments that the deal would have lessened competition in gaming subscription services and cloud streaming.
The issue of platform-exclusive titles was one of the core tenets of the FTC's latest charge against this acquisition. However, the opinion written by Judge Daniel P. Collins observed that "all major manufacturers have engaged in this practice." And as Microsoft has been making more and more of its once-exclusive titles available on new hardware, this may mean that the competition agency will finally accept the deal as done.
The $68.7 billion deal for Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard closed in
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