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• The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy.
• Once again, NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble from certain death
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• Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
• Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
• Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
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• Rare meteorite from Mars gives us a view into its ancient crust
• Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
• Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says
• Analysts find looming launch crisis is "more severe" than anticipated
• GM to pay $220 million after selling customer Smart Driver data
• Hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance in record crypto heist
• 2027 Nissan Rogue Hybrid: Drives like an EV, but there's no plug involved
• Review: You Can See Everything blurs the view of Elizabeth Holmes' deceit
• Rocket Report: Winter is coming for Themis; Cowboy Space adds iron to the fire
• Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says
| • How IShowSpeed became YouTube's top livestreamer with 62M+ subscribers, as his 24/7 "IRL streams" that last days mingle childlike wonder with teenage mischief (Jon Caramanica/New York Times)
• Saudi Aramco acquires a 49% stake in AI startup Humain, contributing ~$2.6B in cash in 2026 plus AI, compute, and digital assets; Saudi Arabia's PIF retains 51% (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)
• OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory "speed limits" for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as "AI compute campuses" (Axios)
• How "get-paid-to" apps like Freecash, briefly a top five App Store app in September, pay users small sums to play games and help publishers find big spenders (John Herrman/New York Magazine)
• ServiceNow confirms it acquired Israeli startup Sweep to speed up customers' migrations to its CRM, for an undisclosed price estimated at hundreds of millions (Allon Sinai/CTech)
• Analysis: candidates backing a data center moratorium could win up to 15 of 36 US governors' races on Tuesday, including in Texas, Ohio, Michigan, and New York (Shane Burke/The Information)
• A look at VC-backed glossy magazine Colossus, whose glowing profiles of Zuckerberg and other tech titans win industry praise, while Kara Swisher says it is PR (Andrew Fedorov/The San Francisco Standard)
• Binance says net outflows were $3.64B, or 2.1% of assets, in the 9.5 hours after it began restoring withdrawals; DefiLlama puts 24-hour net outflows at $4.05B (Zack Abrams/The Block)
• Google's data center energy head says space data centers cost up to 100x more than Earth-based ones, and US power supply is sufficient but permits are slow (Amir Efrati/The Information)
• A profile of White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, an ex-Peter Thiel aide who is among a handful of players steering the Trump administration's AI policy (Harry Lambert/Colossus)
• Solve: the cost of insuring against debt defaults at hyperscalers Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle has hit its highest level since 2021 (Gunjan Banerji/Wall Street Journal)
• A look at a crude campaign of cyberattacks by Russia-linked hacktivist groups that have caused physical damage in NATO-aligned countries over the past two years (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)
• Lumaril, which develops AI software for optimizing industrial production by connecting to existing control systems, raised a $66M Series A at a $400M valuation (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)
• Binance has started resuming withdrawals in phases, including for BTC and ETH, after covering 95% of the $6.3B in tokens stolen in the hack by TraderTraitor (Reuters)
• Shanghai-based NeuroXess, which is developing BCI technology for movement support, speech decoding, and control of external devices, raised a ~$105M Series B (TechNode)
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• All the leaks for the Portal prequel F-Stop have been compiled into a playable game
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• Meta reportedly built a humanoid robot prototype that can do household chores
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