• Big Oil asks Supreme Court to kill climate lawsuits before trial
• OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
• Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey
• MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of
• Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap
• Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage
• Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
• Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel
• Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers by exploiting air defense gaps
• F1 in Bahrain... in Malaysia: The race needed a software update to start
• Mass quarantine issued in Russia after unexplained death of plague researcher
• AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
• Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of "mechanical" switches
• New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"
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• 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
| • Vinci, which makes software used to simulate elements of chip and other hardware design, raised $250M at a $1.5B valuation (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
• Anduril lands an up to $2.9B US Navy contract to make Virginia-class submarine components, days after Palmer Luckey was named to a DOD future weapons task force (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
• Mistral releases Mistral Large 4, dubbed "le Chonk", a 1T-parameter open-weight model for general agentic capabilities, trained on 4,000 Grace Blackwell GPUs (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)
• Uber agrees to acquire Boston-based catering platform ezCater for $2.3B in cash to help Uber Eats reach corporate clients; the deal is set to close in months (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
• UK retailer Asos' stock falls 10%+ after users got app notifications saying "we have fully compromised the Snowflake instance"; source: Asos is investigating (Financial Times)
• Anthropic's IPO prospectus: Dario Amodei made $18M in 2025, ranking in the middle of top tech executives, and President Daniela Amodei, his sister, made $16.4M (Reuters)
• Study: China is struggling to attract foreign AI talent; for every 30 Chinese AI researchers in the US in 2025, only one in China made the opposite journey (Zeyi Yang/New York Times)
• Google contracts for 3,590 MW of power from Constellation Energy in the US' largest power grid, with new nuclear energy accounting for ~25% of that supply (Laila Kearney/Reuters)
• Source: Palmer Luckey's Erebor hits $7B+ in deposits since launching in February, including $3B+ over the past quarter with 500+ new customers (Financial Times)
• Sources: the FBI removes an Accenture contractor over a breach exposing thousands of employees' data; the FBI says a contractor failed to apply a security patch (Reuters)
• Hadrian, an agentic AI offensive security service, raised $40M co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, taking its total funding to $65M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
• London- and Paris-based tokenized cash startup Spiko raised a $90M Series B at an $800M valuation, taking its total funding to $120M, and hits ~$2.7B in AUM (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)
• SignSplit, which offers infrastructure to let people digitally sign datasets, likenesses, and creative works, raised $400M from W Group at a $1B valuation (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
• Sources: Kuaishou's Kling has picked banks to lead a Hong Kong IPO aiming to raise $1B+ as soon as 2027; Kling hit a ~$15B valuation after raising $2.8B in July (Bloomberg)
• AMD CEO Lisa Su says the company plans to "substantially increase" supply in 2027 and needs "more advanced wafer capacity", as she meets Foxconn and TSMC (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
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• Spotify expands its Music Quiz trivia feature
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• Google removes free access to Gemini Flash and Pro on October 9
• Xbox Elite Controller 3 specs leak via Xbox's own Design Lab
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• Wikimedia links OpenAI agents to an outage and unauthorized activity
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