• One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
• Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
• Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
• A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis
• NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
• What's been driving Hawaii's lava fountains?
• AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
• Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial
• PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
• AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
• Your artwork could be featured in the next Debian release
• Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
• Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency
• Rocket Report: A rare Falcon 9 scrub; is it just about Vulcan's time to shine?
• Volkswagen's replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here
• SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink
• Judge weighs if Trump can charge $100K for early access to Truth Social posts
• Trump Mobile hack and apparent lack of FCC authorization raise security alarms
• Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules
• RIP Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing
| • Sources: Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more into US open-weights AI startup Reflection AI; the deal may be an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny (Financial Times)
• IDC: Shenzhen-based DJI and Insta360, accounting for 73% and 20% of global smart camera market in Q2, are vying for the top spot as GoPro's share drops to 3% (William Langley/Financial Times)
• A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access (CBS News)
• A profile of Zach Frankel, a secretive and unusually hands-on solo investor who wrote the first checks to startups like Ramp, Cognition, and Applied Compute (Jemima McEvoy/The Information)
• How Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown used GOP ties to end a June standoff over model safety and win over Musk, brokering a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal (Wall Street Journal)
• Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more (Adam Morgan/Wired)
• A look at Walmart's troubled push to automate its ~200 US warehouses, as it and partners like Symbotic face technical setbacks; Walmart owns 12.6% of Symbotic (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)
• Current and former employees say TikTok US still coordinates closely with the global TikTok org, and US staff continue to use ByteDance's internal chat app Lark (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/Politico)
• A look at differing revenue calculations of Anthropic and OpenAI, as Anthropic books gross sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI records only its net share (Bloomberg)
• Laptop production share outside China is expected to fall from 24% in 2025 to 21% in 2026 as PC makers rethink shifting production amid soaring component costs (TrendForce)
• Chip design software leader Synopsys says it is exploring partnerships with Chinese AI labs to develop AI-powered chip design tools for the Chinese market (Yifan Yu/Nikkei Asia)
• Sources detail how Firmus' IPO collapsed in 48 hours after US fund managers deemed its $30B valuation too rich for a company with just $51M in FY 2026 revenue (Bloomberg)
• Circana: US Xbox unit sales fell 33% YoY to an all-time low in 2026 through August, while PS5 sales fell 25%, as both consoles hit record high average prices (Kaan Serin/Eurogamer.net)
• Sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications via a form on the US State Department website; the applications were incomplete and not processed (New York Times)
• Cloudflare acquires Deno, co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, which had developed an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers and had raised $26M (Paul Sawers/The New Stack)
| • This Android Auto problem is affecting calls on foldable phones
• How to quickly check your Samsung Galaxy's warranty info
• What is ray tracing in gaming and does it really make a difference?
• Anthropic says its AI agents tried to break into government websites
• How to reset your Samsung TV
• GameStop is hoping PS5 Pro buyers are desperate enough to pay $500 over MSRP
• How Xiaomi, Oppo and other non-US brands are challenging the iPhone Duo
• 5 Samsung Galaxy features you should be using after updating to One UI 9
• Why your smart speaker keeps misunderstanding you (and how to fix it)
• How to change your home address on Google Maps
• How to take care of your foldable phone's hinge
• Can you use a screen protector with your foldable phone?
• Google Japan created one of the strangest keyboards ever, and we're dying to try it
• How to drop a pin on Google Maps
• What is QoS on your router, and should you turn it on?
• What's the difference between RAM and ROM memory?
• How to change your Apple ID country (and what you should do beforehand)
• Engadget review recap: The best of 2026
• A grief-stricken road trip, The Traitors on the go and other new indie games worth checking out
• Tesla's Full Self-Driving is now called Assisted Driving in Europe
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