• California fights "preposterous" Trump admin demand to scrap state broadband laws
• Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
• NYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firms
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• Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too
• Another child dies of measles as CDC reportedly holds up health alert
• Google dismantles botnet secretly running on 1.3 million Android TV boxes
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• EPA throws in the towel on policing air pollution from factory farms
• Beyond screens: Mercedes-Benz's new holographic heads-up display
• "At Home in Space" opens, caps Air and Space Museum renovation
• Why large dogs age faster than small ones, and other October research highlights
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• Googling "Zelda" today offers a glimpse of how search worked in 1998
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• Coming in 2027: Apple’s $1,000 home robot for FaceTime and switching on lights
• Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom
• China publicly discloses plan for a lunar landing within three years
| • Analysis: SpaceX revises its 2027 data center capacity target up to a record ~13GW, roughly equivalent to all of Google's capacity from 1999-2026 in 1.5 years (SemiAnalysis)
• Google plans to spend $15B across 2027 and 2028 to expand its data center and cloud infrastructure in Malaysia, including building new computing hubs (Danial Azhar/Bloomberg)
• Google says it expanded voluntary exit buyouts in June to employees across Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and Switzerland to manage costs amid huge AI spending (Reuters)
• Texas elects Democrats for governor and the US Senate for the first time in decades, creating uncertainty for its booming AI data center sector and Elon Musk (Nick Wingfield/The Information)
• Tencent releases its Hy4 open-weight foundation model, which it says joins the top tier of Chinese open-weight AI for the first time, and plans a Flash version (Bloomberg)
• NBC exit poll: 56% said AI and data centers had been a "crucial or a major factor" in casting their votes for Congress, as candidates pledge to halt development (Financial Times)
• Legal shifts in Texas and Delaware leave Elon Musk's SpaceX-Tesla merger and Meta's new non-voting share plan better prepared to fend off shareholder lawsuits (Financial Times)
• A software engineer details how he went from merging eight to 20 pull requests per month to 200+ after joining AI-native creator startup Tano eight months ago (Neil Kakkar/The Pragmatic Engineer)
• Democrat James Talarico defeats Ken Paxton to win Texas's first Democratic Senate seat in 30+ years; Elon Musk spent $47M backing Paxton and attacked Talarico (Stephanie Findlay/Financial Times)
• Ohio voters approved data center bans or restrictions in at least 14 municipalities across 21 ballot measures, adding to 125 local moratoriums in the state (Sasha Rogelberg/Fortune)
• Industry experts warn that slow US power grid expansion could stifle its AI boom and give China an edge, as China builds power infrastructure faster (Martha Muir/Financial Times)
• ITjuzi: Chinese embodied AI companies raised ~$13B across 322 deals in H1 2026, up 5x YoY, as robot makers shift focus from hardware to AI (Reuters)
• Democratic gubernatorial wins in Texas, Georgia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are set to expose 50% of proposed AI data center additions to more scrutiny and pushback (Bloomberg)
• AMD projects ~$17B in Q4 revenue, above Intel's $15B to $16B projection, potentially overtaking Intel as the largest x86 processor vendor for the first time (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
• India-based EloElo, whose Story TV microdrama app has 33M+ estimated active users, raised an $80M Series C led by Hornbill Capital and NBCU at a $500M valuation (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
| • Apple Music's upcoming feature will let you record yourself doing karaoke
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time review: A masterpiece reborn
• Binance attackers used fake job interviews to pull off $6.3 billion crypto heist
• Valve just changed its Steam release rules amid a flood of AI games
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• Your desktop's front USB ports may be slowing down every device you plug into them
• Arkane and its Blade game may end up at Ubisoft as Xbox considers offers
• What made Nothing's CMF Phone 2 Pro so much cheaper than others?
• NVIDIA's controversial DLSS 5 is coming to RTX Remix to 'enhance' older games
• Here's how to adjust Apple AirPods for small ears
• Meta's Quest 2 and Quest Pro reach 'end of feature development'
• Reddit is testing in-app search ads as traffic from Google declines
• What type of battery does the Slate Truck use?
• Sonos' new voice assistant is launching in early access on November 6
• Netflix thinks AI might save you from scrolling aimlessly for something to watch
• Don't throw away your laptop's old SSDs — do this instead
• Itch.io adds a filter for games with gen AI disclosures
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• Razer unveils the Raiju V3 Pro Signature Edition PS5 controller
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