• Disney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits
• A Chinese rocket deorbited over Minnesota and left this in a farmer's cornfield
• Review: Lanterns is a truly unique twist on the superhero genre
• DIY VR: How to build your own headset, and why you probably won't want to
• Stratospheric airship flew from US to Japan to test sky cell tower concept
• Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access
• Science says your boss should talk less in meetings
• Why BioWare's Neverwinter Nights still has thousands of active players
• OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites
• “thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops
• US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license"
• Bug turns one of the biggest fears about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses into reality
• RFK Jr. proposes FDA look the other way on unproven peptides, report says
• Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees
• Polymarket saw $600 million in election trades after the elections were over
• Tesla turns to 50-year-old stunt technology as it tries to Roadster again
• Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer
• The Surface Laptop Ultra delivers on most of Microsoft's promises
• Rocket Report: FAA eyes more Starbase traffic; India's Skyroot snares US customer
• Blue Origin is going all in on the New Glenn rocket
| • SCOTUS rejects an appeal by BMG, Sony Music, UMG, and Warner Music, upholding a decision that copyright termination rights apply globally, not just in the US (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
• Apple announces a "Pro and tell" event on October 28 10am PT in LA, where its first touchscreen MacBook, a 14" MacBook Pro with M6, and more are expected (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
• Amazon introduces TorchNeuron, an open-source tool that will allow developers to run code written in PyTorch on Amazon's Trainium chips with no rewrite (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
• AI infrastructure startup Modal says it plans to start using Nvidia's Vera CPUs for the first time for hosting agents, alongside existing Intel and AMD chips (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
• MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash, saying it delivers "a generational leap" in agentic tasks, coding, computer use, and cybersecurity, with weights due October 23 (MiniMax)
• Sources: DHS officials asked CISA to hack a voting machine to report vulnerabilities to the White House without telling the vendor; the request wasn't acted on (ProPublica)
• The US DHS orders all federal civilian agencies to remove any DeepSeek tech from their IT systems and prohibits future procurement of its products and services (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)
• Sources: US investigators pursuing ShinyHunters, which stole FBI data, identified executives at two ransomware negotiation firms who had unusually close ties (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
• Filing: US prosecutors say OpenAI suspect Abdulrahman Alfozan maintained frequent WhatsApp contact in 2025 and 2026 with an unnamed Saudi Royal Family member (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
• Source: Anthropic is preparing a model with superior intuition and reasoning that can discern unstated intentions and is better at thinking outside of the box (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
• Microsoft debuts new security tools in Microsoft 365 E7 and its Project Perception system that treat AI agents as potential insider threats via risk assessments (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
• How Democrats, who polls predict will flip at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections, are preparing to aggressively scrutinize the AI industry (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
• Researcher: a Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to target 1,200+ websites and breach 100+ entities, like Deere and SharkNinja, spending ~$5,000 in tokens (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
• Tel Aviv-based doubleAI releases a code execution model for improving GPU and CPU performance; doubleAI raised $220M, using ~50% to buy 1,000 Nvidia B300 chips (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
• Vinted faces an influx of listings suspected of containing stolen goods following widespread French riots, which targeted Sephora, Louis Vuitton, and Burberry (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
| • Fiber vs. cable internet: What's the difference between them?
• Apple is set to hold another product event on October 28
• Why your USB device keeps disconnecting (and how to fix it)
• TP-Link moves to assemble routers in the US following an import ban
• Don't throw away your old USB charging cables — Repurpose them instead
• One of the rarest GameCube consoles sells for thousands of dollars today
• What the orange light on your PlayStation 5 is actually telling you
• Don't throw away your old graphics card — here's what you can do with it
• 6 unexpected uses for your old PlayStation 3
• What's the point of the 2.5G Ethernet port on your router?
• Even Realities G2 review: Smart glasses, stupid controls
• Google Gemini 4 agents just beat Minecraft with no human intervention
• What do all the lights on your Netgear router mean, and which ones actually matter?
• What does the orange dot on your Samsung Galaxy Watch mean?
• Why you should never point a laser pointer at a security camera
• How to use Google's SynthID AI detection website
• An Xbox Series X can now run PlayStation 5 games, but there's a catch
• Starlink has two $55 plans that are wildly different — here's how
• Router and modem or gateway: What's actually in your home network?
• What is Apple's Image Playground app for and how do you use it?
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