• 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
• Let's Encrypt cuts certificate lifetimes to 64 days starting February 2027
| • Sources: Dario Amodei spoke with Meta's Alexandr Wang earlier this year, hoping to source more compute; Meta declined the request (Wall Street Journal)
• In PA, FBI agents arrested a co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm specializing in ransomware negotiations, as part of the ShinyHunters investigation (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
• Sources and internal docs: TikTok cut the violations for which an advertiser could be immediately banned from 37 to 13 last fall, leading to a surge in scams (Katharine Schwab/Forbes)
• Sources: Nuvacore, a six-month-old Sequoia-backed chip startup that's designing a new central processor for data centers, is raising funds at a ~$2.5B valuation (Reuters)
• Trump admin says it's now mandating AI companies "immediately disclose incidents involving their models" and move swiftly to remedy harm from security incidents (Axios)
• Oxide Computer, which helps companies build their own clouds, raised a $445M Series D led by Eclipse at a $6B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$835M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
• A man US authorities called a "fixer", who was charged alongside Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw with smuggling restricted chips to China, pleaded guilty (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
• Sources: top execs at Anthropic, OpenAI, and others are gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt following a catastrophic AI event (Maria Curi/Axios)
• Sources: as Google prepares to roll out its Gemini 4 Argon, staff are testing a new version internally named Carbon; one staffer says it "feels like Opus 5.5" (Hugh Langley/Business Insider)
• Sources: Ramp raised about $1.85B led by Dragoneer and Thrive Capital at a $60B pre-money valuation, up from $44B in June, when it raised $750M (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
• Verizon closed down 8.75%, its worst day since 2002, while T-Mobile fell 13.27% and AT&T 9.81% after SpaceX announced a nationwide spectrum deal on Thursday (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
• Philadelphia police say Anthropic informed them on Oct. 7 that one of its models submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder via a public web form on July 18 (6abc)
• A record 42 startups became decacorns so far in 2026, beating 2021's 34; PitchBook: the average time to hit $10B dropped to 5.5 years in 2025 vs. 9.4 in 2020 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
• Vesta, which uses AI agents to automate much of the loan origination process, raised $30M led by Conversion, bringing its total funding to $85M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
• Blockchain.com seeks CFTC approval to offer event contracts and cryptocurrency derivatives in the US; it already offers some prediction markets internationally (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)
| • Google teases its new 'Fitbit Edge' wearable ahead of an October 12 reveal
• Flock Safety is reportedly planning major layoffs now that everyone hates it
• An Anthropic model submitted a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
• Bose Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar review: A great home theater option all by itself
• Intel is reportedly launching new CPUs on old sockets that support DDR4 memory
• What it's like to spend a night in a Pebble Flow EV RV
• Webb telescope detects galaxy origin of the farthest fast radio burst we've seen to date
• What to expect at Apple's 'Welcome home' event next week
• Anthropic now offers a free vulnerability-finding service for open-source software
• Netflix releases trailer for its miniseries about Sam Bankman-Fried's scandal-ridden crypto exchange
• Meta bans TikTok ads from its platforms in tit-for-tat row
• SpaceX wants to become a 'major mobile carrier' with low-band spectrum acquisition
• Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute their dismissals in open letter
• Apple reportedly plans touchscreen MacBook and iPad Mini launch for this month
• IDC: Worldwide PC shipments in Q3 fell 20 percent from last year
• Alexa Tablet vs iPad Pro: How Amazon is keeping up with Apple
• Anthropic bans 'sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior' toward its AI models
• Child safety group calls ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk
• Cyberpunk 2077 is the latest video game to get the movie treatment
• Forza Horizon 6 is coming to PS5 on January 26
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