• ULA's Vulcan rocket is set to return to flight on Friday the 13th
• As US ties fray, Europe plans first undersea cable link to Greenland
• Peptide peddlers cheer as RFK Jr. unilaterally grants access, overruling FDA
• Trump admin sues Utah to save Kalshi from the state's total ban on gambling
• The last, best hope for space tourism just rolled onto a runway in Arizona
• Touchscreen MacBook Pro hands-on: OLED looks great on a Mac
• Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can't use
• Amazon turns its most capable smart speaker into a smart camera, too
• Cadillac Escalade IQ review: Huge battery, huge range, huge SUV
• Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
• Florida county won’t investigate sketchy Flock cameras removed by mystery owners
• Apple announces touchscreen MacBook Pro with OLED display
• Buckle up for more body-swapping hijinks in Jumanji: Open World trailer
• A hidden ocean change near Antarctica could have global consequences
• China’s snooping around Pacific undersea cables raises risks for Big Tech
• Apple refreshes the iMac, entry-level MacBook Pro with the M6 chip
• South Carolina's measles outbreak jumped to Washington state 5 times in 2 weeks
• China's top-secret spaceplane can't hide in low-Earth orbit
• "No human at the helm": Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses
• Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity
| • Google is rolling out Gemini 4 Carbon to selected cybersecurity defenders through Fairwind at $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, rising to $4 and $20 later (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
• The personal data of 41,000+ DHS employees and contractors, including CBP and ICE agents, leaks online after hackers claim they breached DHS' Okta login system (Wired)
• Microsoft reports Q1 Xbox hardware revenue down 14% YoY, Xbox content and services revenue down 2%, and Windows OEM and Devices revenue down 22% (Tom Warren/The Verge)
• Zillow agrees to pay $212.5M to settle an investor class action over its failed Zillow Offers home-flipping venture, after SCOTUS refused to hear its appeal (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
• Sources: AI coding startup Cognition weighs a new funding round before year's end after receiving offers valuing it at $70B-$80B, up from $48B in September (Katie Roof/Business Insider)
• Seoul-based AI chip startup FuriosaAI raised a $620M Series D at a $2.9B valuation, up from $735M in 2025; South Korea's National Growth Fund contributed $280M (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
• Sources: the US DOJ has inquired about the impact of Nvidia's Hugging Face deal on AI competition, as antitrust enforcers continue to probe Nvidia's conduct (Reuters)
• Alphabet reports Q3 negative free cash flow of $9.07B, worse than expected, capex of $51.36B, vs. $55.09B est., and keeps its FY capex forecast at $195B-$205B (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
• Sources: Marvell is in advanced talks to buy data center optics maker Lumentum, whose market value is ~$83B; the deal could be announced as soon as next week (Bloomberg)
• eBay reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $3.21B, above $3.12B est., and GMV up 15% to $23.17B, above $22.32B est.; EBAY jumps 4%+ after hours (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)
• Filing: Microsoft recorded $10B in revenue from OpenAI in Q1, nearly 11% of its total quarterly revenue, and has $7.2B in outstanding receivables from OpenAI (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
• ServiceNow reports Q3 subscription revenue up 21% YoY to $3.99B, forecasts Q4 current remaining performance obligations below est.; NOW drops 15%+ after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
• Microsoft reports Q1 capex of $45.2B, up from $34.9B a year earlier and below its own $50B projection, and free cash flow of $18.6B, vs. $8.54B est. by analysts (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
• Alphabet reports Q3 YouTube ad revenue up 9% YoY to $11.2B, below estimates, and Google ad revenue up 11% to $82.01B, below $83.6B est. (Todd Spangler/Variety)
• Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $127.58B, vs. $128.22B est., Google Cloud revenue up 103% to $30.7B, vs. $28.7B est.; GOOG drops 9%+ after hours (Alphabet)
| • FCC chair wants to let prisons jam illegal cellphones
• Apple's PROLED XDR Display has a cringy name but incredible specs
• Meta weighs delaying 'alarming' new business terms as backlash grows
• The PlayStation 5 just might be Sony's final Blu-Ray player
• OpenAI now lets you text your Dot agent
• Engadget is hiring writers!
• Sony's new see-through DualSense controllers let you game like its 1999
• Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro feels both familiar and radically improved
• Here's how the touchscreen on the MacBook Pro with PROLED display works
• Apple's redesigned MacBook Pro has an OLED touchscreen, weighs just three pounds
• Fake PS5 emulators on GitHub are spreading password-stealing malware
• The Xreal Aura smartglasses are now on sale for a discounted launch price
• New York governor signs AI chatbot child safety law
• Reddit is adding a 'for you' feed for recommendations
• Audio Technica just released its first set of wireless StreamSet headphones
• FCC clears Amazon Leo to acquire mobile-satellite operator Globalstar
• Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition 2026 review: Nice, but doesn't justify the price
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