• Plex now helps sell movie theater tickets
• Hegseth’s dubious low-T screening may flag up to 25 percent of the Army
• Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware
• Above the 911? Porsche previews a new mid-engined supercar.
• What did the Liberty Bell sound like? Science is on the case.
• Black Sea drone attacks enter NATO country's territorial waters for first time
• Microplastics in water aren’t inert and make damaging chemicals on their own
• Trump cancels Pentagon plans to livestream firing squad execution
• Neutron's first launch slips again amid trouble with carbon composites
• Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax”
• Singer or clanker? YouTube Music will tell you with new gen AI labeling.
• Rewilding could help vulnerable islands keep pace with rising seas
• Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security
• Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam
• Things are finally looking up for NASA's first missions to Venus in a generation
• Schools across US protest FCC plan that could disconnect kids from Internet
• Georgia man sues Flock, sheriff's office over alleged ALPR-fueled retaliation
• Software development and rules stability: Prototype racing in 2030
• Greta Gerwig channels Bowie in psychedelic The Magician's Nephew trailer
• Researchers use AI to design proteins that cut up other proteins
| • Two US officials and a Western official say the order to limit Ukraine's access to SpaceX's Starshield came from inside the White House (Reuters)
• Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria is leaving the company and will be replaced by former Disney and Fox executive Peter Rice, who starts October 26 (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
• Bluesky expands Attie, its AI tool for building custom feeds, with a "social vibe coding" feature to create sites, games, quizzes, and more on the AT Protocol (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
• Sources: some Anthropic investors discussed a ~$1.5T valuation for its IPO, down from ~$2T they had expected, after disclosures showed slowing Q3 revenue growth (Reuters)
• Experts say Meta's new terms of use will allow scraping of websites, including news sites, "associated with" business accounts on its platforms, with no opt out (Nieman Lab)
• Thoma Bravo-owned cybersecurity company Proofpoint plans to buy data security firm Varonis Systems in an all-cash deal valued at about $6.3B (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
• A US official says Trump didn't order any limitations on Ukraine's access to SpaceX's Starshield; Elon Musk said any limits are ultimately decided by POTUS (Kate Sullivan/Bloomberg)
• A researcher says modern neural networks are far more interpretable than believed, with most neurons understandable in models up to trillions of parameters (Nick Cammarata/Goodfire)
• Perplexity open sources SPACE, its AI agent sandbox, and says partners including CoreWeave, Akamai, and Crusoe agreed to offer SPACE to customers (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
• Sources: top DOJ officials halt career prosecutors' Biden-era investigation of Meta over facilitating illegal drug sales and are weighing more lenient options (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)
• Google says it has 400+ publications in its News AI pilot, which tests features like overviews; participants include Financial Times, CNN, and The Texas Tribune (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
• Two workers have been killed and another seriously injured at Intel's Kiryat Gat fab in Israel in an explosion resulting from a gas cylinder malfunctioning (CTech)
• Volvo says it will use Nvidia's Hyperion platform to launch a Level 2++ hands-free, point-to-point automated driving system by 2030 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
• Memo: Accenture has told many employees, some of whom had been spending as much as $1,000 monthly, that it will now only spend $29 a month per person on Claude (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
• Anthropic says it is giving employee-like access to METR as part of its pledge to partner with evaluators for assessment of its models and safety practices (Anthropic)
| • Withings wants new users to pay $100 a year to sync with Apple Health
• The UK may expand the BBC license fee, charging residents to watch streaming services
• NY congressman to introduce bill protecting video game ownership
• FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic following safety failures
• E Ink's new Kaleido 4 could inch us closer to the perfect color e-reader
• Riot will sunset League of Legends Classic in January 2027
• Alexa Tablet 12 Pro review: Amazon's premium tablet gets almost everything right
• Trump ballroom's biggest donors were overwelmingly tech and telecom companies
• Meta built a huge open-weight AI model for Macs, but you'll need 1TB of RAM to run it
• GuliKit TT Max review: The granddaddy of Switch 2 controllers
• Microsoft says it made Windows 11 zippier, especially on PCs with less RAM
• Opera's lightweight Air browser is back, unbothered, moisturized, in its lane
• Tesla Roadster reveal live: Updates from the launch of the next-gen sportscar
• LinkedIn is adding new tools to help people with their side hustles
• NVIDIA's RTX Spark is good for Windows, even if you don't need local AI
• Xreal's new flagship One Pro+ AR glasses offer better brightness and increased comfort
• CitizenLab details new spyware triggered by online advertising
• Bee unveils two AI note-taking devices, its first new products since being acquired by Amazon
• United will now let you check if your flight has Starlink Wi-Fi
• Adobe rebuilt Photoshop and Premiere for NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform
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