• "At Home in Space" opens, caps Air and Space Museum renovation
• Why large dogs age faster than small ones, and other October research highlights
• Third person dies of bird flu since virus started jumping to livestock
• Googling "Zelda" today offers a glimpse of how search worked in 1998
• Most of our measures of a key cognitive process don't agree
• Coming in 2027: Apple’s $1,000 home robot for FaceTime and switching on lights
• Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom
• China publicly discloses plan for a lunar landing within three years
• F1 in Mexico City: Yet another Ferrari fiasco, but that’s not all
• The world has a new plan to save nature, but it still needs the money
• This $48 e-paper display can be whatever you want it to be
• Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged
• 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
• Flesh-eating screwworms spread to third state and are attacking pets
• Oh captain, our captain: Ars staff remembers Patrick Stewart
• 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
• Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren't even good
| • Sources: Huawei recently told some clients that a large share of its upcoming flagship, Ascend 960DT, will run largely on HBM made by Samsung and SK Hynix (The Information)
• Larridin, which helps companies track how AI affects employee output and identifies areas for better AI adoption, raised a $30M Series A led by Pelion Ventures (Aditi Bharade/Business Insider)
• Salesforce announces plans to acquire Cresta, a provider of AI-powered contact center automation software; source: Salesforce agreed to pay $2.7B for Cresta (The Information)
• John Ternus says Apple expects memory costs to increase into December and beyond; Apple's inventory grew to $14.54B in Q4, up 31.1% QoQ and 154.3% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
• Match Group reports Q3 revenue fell 3% YoY to $891M, below estimates, and total paying users fell 5% to 13.8M; Q4 forecast has adjusted EBITDA below estimates (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
• Trajectory, which is developing AI model post-training tools for nontechnical customers, raised a $45M Series A led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
• Anthropic S-1 claims it may "imminently meet" its RSI threshold and may fail to identify "significant acceleration" in its development until after it's occurred (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
• Brazil's largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin halts withdrawals after a breach involving $46M+ in assets, per Arkham; Tether froze 4.5M+ USDT in response (Jason Shubnell/The Block)
• Sources: institutional investors told Anthropic that its IPO valuation should be around $1.5T to $1.6T, down from estimates of $2T, citing a tech stock selloff (Wall Street Journal)
• Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, iCloud, and more, grew 10% YoY to $31.57B, vs. $31.58B est. (Loree Seitz/The Wrap)
• Apple Q4: iPhone up 17% YoY to $57.58B, vs. $56.54B est., Mac up 24% to $10.8B, iPad down 10% to $6.2B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 8% to $8.3B (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
• Apple reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $114.48B, vs. $113.39B est., China revenue up 21% to $17.5B, vs. $18.9B est., in John Ternus' first earnings report (Apple)
• Palantir reports Q3 revenue up 96% YoY to $2.31B, above $2.18B est., US commercial revenue up 148% YoY to $984M, and raises FY 2026 revenue guidance to ~$8.53B (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
• Roku reports Q3 revenue up 24% YoY to $1.5B, Platform revenue up 23% to $1.3B, ad revenue up 23% to $727.4M, and subscription revenue up 23% to $580.9M (Todd Spangler/Variety)
• Researchers say LLMs can be good at natively reading and writing neural network weights; GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to make it better at math (Rikiya Takehi)
| • This Chinese Android phone brand has launched a Harry Potter collab
• Is it actually safe to charge your iPhone at airport USB ports?
• The reason why some iPhone calls don't have a decline option, and others do
• Why it's important to never plug power strips into each other
• How to use your phone's camera to translate anything
• How long could HDDs and SSDs remain expensive?
• Casio's new keyboard lets anyone play along to songs without ever hitting a wrong note
• Your Apple AirPods' chirping noise doesn't just mean low battery
• Snap settles social media addiction lawsuit to avoid trial
• Why some websites are blocking AI agents from accessing the web
• Think twice before putting your gaming console inside a cabinet
• SpaceX is reportedly looking at buying Boost Mobile or using its cell network
• This Samsung Galaxy problem sadly still exists in 2026, but you can easily fix it
• Gemini could be poking through your emails - here's how to stop it
• One annoying problem with the iPhone Messages app has an easy fix
• What to do if your smart home devices keep disconnecting from Wi-Fi
• Nagoshi Studio, from the creator of the Yakuza series, officially shuts down
• Google's Ocarina of Time Easter egg is a link to a past when Search wasn't horrible
• The Fitbit Edge lacks a useful contactless feature
• Why it's important to use a microSD Express card with your Nintendo Switch 2
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