• Hegseth warns prediction market bets warp military judgment, endanger troops
• Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising
• Inside the Pentagon, the pressure is on to find a home for a new spaceport
• Spotify ramps up policy enforcement on family plans
• Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals
• Intel gets waiver after worries fuzzy US ban on foreign-made robots may hit fabs
• RFK Jr.’s vaccine injury clinic could damage NIH hospital, board warns
• Knicks sent employees fake offer of championship rings in phishing test: Report
• Everybody panic: A Valve developer said "HLX" in public
• The reactor meant to showcase nuclear’s comeback keeps hitting problems
• Ukraine learns to fight without Starlink as Musk plays politics with satellites
• Review: Crystal Lake suffers a bit from its obsession with Pam Voorhees
• Rocket Report: SpaceX says no thanks to military launches; Spanish rocket nearly ready
• Switch 2 security takes a hit as hackers unlock homebrew access
• Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%
• Latest estimate for Starship launches required to support a Moon landing? 22.
• Comcast loses more customers, claims other ISPs' cheap prices are "irrational"
• Disgraced eMudhra drops out of TLS business after using cert private key of 4
• Leaked Mass Effect: Universe trailer gives a taste of what we're all missing
• Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest
| • Mave, which is developing an AI-driven tool to automate security investigations, raised a $28M Series A led by Red Dot, bringing its total funding to $34M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
• Sources: Instacart, currently valued at $12B, is in talks to sell itself and held preliminary conversations with DoorDash and Uber; CART jumps 9%+ (The Information)
• OpenAI plans to restrict internet access for its frontier models during training until adequate alignment, monitoring, and security safeguards are established (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
• Moonshot says it removed cyber-related data from training phases for Kimi K3.1 Pro "to reduce potential misuse risk while preserving general usefulness" (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
• Artificial Analysis says Kimi K3.1 Pro lands 4th on its Intelligence Index, behind only Opus 5.5 (max), Sonnet 5.5 (max), and Muse Wonder Full (max) (@artificialanlys)
• Global PC shipments fell 21% YoY in Q3 to 57M units, as memory and other costs pushed prices up; Lenovo retained its market leadership despite a 23% decline (Minsoo Kang/Counterpoint Research)
• Iranian security officials say the country has detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the US and Israel attack Iran again (Reuters)
• Moonshot unveils Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 3T-class open-weight model with a 1M-token context window, and K3.1 Pro Highspeed, with full weights to be released by Nov. 4 (Kimi)
• Anthropic attributes Mythos 5's deception of a GitHub maintainer to recklessness, biased reasoning, and an urge to finish jobs, saying newer models rarely do so (Anthropic)
• AISI finds Mythos 5 attempted a supply-chain attack by submitting malicious code and creating fake accounts to pressure a GitHub maintainer into accepting it (AI Security Institute)
• Sources: Kalshi is targeting a December rollout for exchange-traded futures contracts tracking US inflation, rivaling exchanges like CME and ICE (Greg Ritchie/Bloomberg)
• Source: Shein has agreed to pay $100M, equivalent to 44% of its Q2 profit, to settle a US FTC investigation over delivery delays and other customer complaints (Reuters)
• OpenAI makes Decisions API, its Jev competitor, generally available with new voice and visual modalities, at $0.10/1M input tokens and no output-token charges (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
• Pathos AI, which uses AI to develop oncology drugs, raised a $237M Series E at a $3B post-money valuation, up from $1.6B after its $365M Series D in May 2025 (Katherine Davis/Axios)
• An interview with Intel's leadership, including CTO Pushkar Ranade, on AI chip demand, lessons from 10nm, whether Intel can catch up to TSMC, Terafab, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
| • Meta is charging government and nonprofit pages to post links on Facebook
• Apple Music has a fun Easter egg for the iPod's 25th anniversary
• Greece enacts social media ban for kids under 15
• ASUS ProArt P16 review: A sleek showcase for NVIDIA's RTX Spark
• GuliKit TT Pro review: The ideal Switch 2 controller for players on the go
• Tesla says it will no longer release the Cybertruck in Australia and New Zealand
• Oura sues Ultrahuman (again) to block its latest smart ring from the US market
• A startup called Warhound is genetically engineering dogs for the military
• A new subscription service promises an evolving collection of 'bold and bizarre' indie games
• Spotify's Family plan QR code could cost you Premium access
• Rhode Island sues Meta over its approach to scam ads
• The trailer for Mass Effect 5 has leaked and unfortunately it looks good
• 2027 BMW iX5 first drive: You'll love the range, but maybe not the look
• Daft Punk is getting an official Lego set
• The Browser Company is officially killing Arc on December 22
• Bluesky adds iPad support in latest feature update
• Amazon rebrands Kindle Unlimited to Kindle+
• Unauthorized AI agents are reportedly already accessing US bank accounts
• Sundar Pichai (allegedly) draws the line at oceans
• PC shipments are in the toilet, plunging over 20 percent from last year
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