• The Bantu expansion changed Africa. Scientists are still tracing how.
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• Ships loiter near subsea cables amid Iran's warnings to Trump
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• Chainalysis says hackers stole credentials and tokens for all of its customers
• Earth's churning mantle may have created the Great Unconformity
• Nvidia hardware worth $11.4M vanished between Oakland and Texas
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• The folks behind John Wick are back with Karōshi trailer
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• “Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update.
• Wisconsin reports measles death of a baby, first death in over 35 years
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• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang summoned by Congress over Chinese espionage concerns
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• Rocket Report: Artemis II literally tore through the atmosphere; New Glenn delay
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| • How a small, wealthy AI-safety network that organized in Signal chats grew into a coalition that beat the $100M super PAC Leading the Future in the midterms (Politico)
• Anthropic-backed AI safety super PAC Public First spent $63M+ in the 2026 midterms, and 10 of the 17 congressional candidates it backed won their elections (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
• US Treasury moves to cut crypto exchange MEXC off from the US financial system, alleging $16B+ in illicit flows, including Russian and Iranian sanctions evasion (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
• Report: SEA makes up ~50% of APAC data center capacity being built, led by Malaysia and Thailand, which paused 49 and delayed approvals of 117 projects in Sept. (Arundhati Hazra/The Guardian)
• Public records appear to show SpaceX building a "Starbase supercomputer" in TX, but Gina Hinojosa's election as governor may delay some of the data center plans (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)
• Binance says CFO Kaiser Ng is leaving to "pursue a new venture" days after a $6.3B hack, citing a six-month transition plan, and names Justin Yek as CFO (Bloomberg)
• Exponential Time Hypothesis co-proposer Russell Impagliazzo calls OpenAI's disproof "shocking news"; it could one day speed up chip design and break encryption (Cade Metz/New York Times)
• Democratic wins could slow AI investment and safeguard the US economy against a downturn by pacing it over time, as Deutsche Bank sees "shaky" projects killed (Cecile Daurat/Bloomberg)
• Chicago-based data analytics company Ocient raised a $100M Series C co-led by Boka Capital and OCA Ventures to grow its agentic AI analytics business (Paul Gillin/SiliconANGLE)
• Investigation: some Chinese companies approved by the US Commerce Department to handle Nvidia's H200 chips have empty offices and ties to firms under sanctions (New York Times)
• Nasscom President Rajesh Nambiar warns AI could make it harder for fresh Indian engineering graduates to find jobs, urging an immediate CS curriculum overhaul (Sayan Chakraborty/Nikkei Asia)
• How differences in economics, public policy, and cultural patterns could explain greater pessimism about AI in the West than in Asia and emerging economies (Gillian Tett/Financial Times)
• Global tablet shipments fell 23% YoY to 32M units in Q3 2026, their lowest level in nearly three years; Apple's iPad shipments fell 27.5% YoY to ~11.58M (Omdia)
• Censys finds 800+ publicly exposed copies of ARTEX, a Chinese-made, AI-powered, open-source penetration testing tool linked to several cyberattacks since July (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
• Shenzhen, home to tech giants and an illicit trade of smuggled chips and stolen iPhones, is clearing out its illegitimate markets ahead of the APEC summit (William Langley/Financial Times)
| • Syncing Apple Music across your devices is easier than you think
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• 10 useful iPad apps that could make your daily life easier
• Why you shouldn't remove the screen protector film on your Nintendo Switch 2
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• The disadvantages of owning smart refrigerators
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• How often should you restart your Fitbit watch?
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• Your EV's battery is big enough to run your house — here's what stops most people
• Your old iPod could be a sleeper flash drive
• There is no end in sight for the GPU supply problem
• How long should a PC processor actually last?
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