• Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: a spotlight on Africa's diverse wildlife
• All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part.
• Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
• The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
• Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
• Someone got Doom in an SQL database
• Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
• Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed
• Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M
• The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship with energy
• US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
• Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
• US military ends long-running program to spot nuclear missile launches
• This startup pays NYC residents to run air conditioners on free batteries
• Cybertruck sales in free fall as Tesla reports mediocre sales for Q3
• The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI
• Rocket Report: SpaceX completes launch triple-header; Rocket Lab nets big contract
• TCL is right to question Samsung’s use of the term “Mini LED”
• Venus' mysterious haze is actually cosmic dust
• SpaceX describes surgical intervention before launch of latest crew mission
| • Sources: Schneider Electric is in advanced talks to buy US engineering software firm PTC for ~$20B, its largest acquisition; a deal could come as soon as Monday (Financial Times)
• Extracted system prompts show Meta's Muse compiles "a page for every person in the user's life", with facts, history, tips to improve relationships, and more (Wired)
• Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits; Meta backs ones making app stores, not platforms, verify ages (Owen Dahlkamp/Politico)
• In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its AI unit SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump's push to replace "artificial" intelligence with "super" (Chandni Shah/Reuters)
• DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi says his data center investment group will become SoftBank's "third-party infrastructure arm" after SoftBank's ~$4B takeover closed (Financial Times)
• Sources: John Ternus has effectively become Apple's design chief, working in the studio several times a week; OLED touch-screen MacBook Pro will be much lighter (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
• Trump announces a new Super Intelligence Force, to be led by DNI Jay Clayton, along with FTC's Andrew Ferguson, DOD's Emil Michael, and OPM's Scott Kupor (Politico)
• A profile of Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, who is the company's first senior executive from Gen Z and has succeeded in building hype for Muse (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
• Q&A with OpenAI VP of Hardware Richard Ho on its Jalapeño inference chip co-designed with Broadcom, using internal OpenAI models to design the chip, and more (Dr. Ian Cutress/More Than Moore)
• As AI automates parts of pure mathematics research, a look at formalization challenges and why human imagination remains key to deciding which questions to ask (Stephen Wolfram/Stephen Wolfram Writings)
• Google prepares to defend a £1.2B UK class action lawsuit over claims it levied "excessive" charges on Android apps downloaded from Google Play since 2015 (Financial Times)
• Toshiba plans to double HDD production capacity for AI data centers within FY2027 from its 2025 level, targeting a 30% share by storage capacity, up from ~10% (Keigo Yoshida/Nikkei Asia)
• Google freezes product flaw submissions to its OSS Vulnerability Reward Program over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports, plans an update by Q1 2027 (Etiido Uko/Tom's Hardware)
• Google says free Gemini users will be limited to the 3.5 Flash-Lite model from October 9, while Plus subscribers will be limited to 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.6 Flash (Abner Li/9to5Google)
• Sources: Walmart's Flipkart faces sagging employee morale as Indian startup rivals power ahead with IPOs; at least eight VPs and SVPs have quit in recent weeks (Moneycontrol)
| • The upcoming touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro is reportedly 'significantly lighter'
• Five iPhone 18 Pro features you'll want to try the second you unbox it
• What does V-Sync actually do to your PC's frames per second?
• A fourth RuneScape game is under development using Unreal Engine
• What causes screen tearing and how can you fix it?
• Sony digital camera model numbers explained: Bigger isn't always better
• Trump announces an AI czar for his newly created 'Super Intelligence Force'
• How to disable or restrict your iPhone's Apple Intelligence features
• Here's what you should do if only one of your AirPods is working
• Do gaming routers really make a difference?
• The pros and cons of enabling Wi-Fi calling
• How getting rid of some USB gadgets can improve your bad Wi-Fi
• Why you shouldn't sync your phone to a rental car
• Internet speeds vs. bandwidth: What's the difference?
• What is infill in 3D printing and is it necessary?
• Customizing your Samsung Galaxy phone is a bit easier with One UI 9
• How to use Android's Motion Assist feature to help with motion sickness
• How much does DDR5 RAM speed matter for gaming?
• What are amplifiers for and how important are they to your sound system's quality?
• How has Apple's Mac Studio changed over the years?
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