• Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce
• Worms mate in man's eyes, get plucked out right before larvae burst out
• Meet the real-life Scottish surgeon who inspired Sherlock Holmes
• Apple releases iOS and macOS 27.2 with new Siri AI features, new Music logo
• Apple reveals updated iPad mini with a bigger OLED screen for $700
• ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees
• Musk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink terms with deadly drone strikes
• Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo
• Some iPhone Duo screens are already failing
• F1 in Texas: The American race that fans love to attend
• Tesla gave up the EV crown. Now it wants to win the autonomy race.
• From impulse purchase to pocket studio: The M-Vave FM-1
• A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature
• Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that
• NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings, finally solves long-festering Orion issue
• 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
| • Sources: UK stealth AI startup 22one, which is building law enforcement tools, hit a nearly $400M valuation after raising funds from Sequoia, Lux, and others (Financial Times)
• A US federal judge orders the Trump administration to halt a ban prohibiting the Pentagon from doing business with companies lobbying for Alibaba (Peter Blumberg/Bloomberg)
• S-1: Anthropic spent ~$2.50 on compute and infrastructure for every $1 of revenue in Q1 2025, falling to under 50 cents in Q2 2026, as it seeks profitability (Financial Times)
• Sources: Broadcom CEO Hock Tan held 11th-hour talks and agreed to higher rates and loan guarantees to secure bank participation in the $63B Anthropic debt deal (Wall Street Journal)
• Nvidia and Meta expand their Muse partnership, including Meta deploying more Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs; Nvidia will invest $3B in Meta's planned equity fundraise (Wall Street Journal)
• Microsoft patches a severe flaw in its Android Authenticator app that could let untrusted apps impersonate Microsoft apps and obtain delegated account tokens (Abinaya/Cyber Security News)
• Experts: since June, $100M+ in US data center freight has been stolen; in two successful heists, robbers struck escorts protecting trucks hauling $10M+ in goods (Lisa Cavazuti/NBC News)
• China's Star 50 index of AI and chip leaders is down by 40% in under four months, losing ~$480B in market value; chipmaker CXMT is down ~25% in the past month (Reuters)
• Ahead of US midterms, ChatGPT draws images "depicting election interference or that may discourage voting" in a cartoon style, ignoring photorealism requests (Katelyn Chedraoui/CNET)
• Fitbit Edge review: notable upgrade over the Charge 6 for GPS and heart rate and Google Health app is an improvement, but lacks software polish and NFC payments (Ray Maker/DC Rainmaker)
• OpenAI announces three breakthroughs in computer science, math, and physics, including that the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a longstanding conjecture, is false (OpenAI)
• Broadcom arranges a $63B deal with BofA, Blackstone, Citi, and Morgan Stanley to finance the purchase of chips for Anthropic via a new special purpose vehicle (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
• Intel agrees to acquire Tel Aviv-based quantum computing startup Classiq; Classiq has raised more than $200M in funding and has about 130 employees (Ian King/Bloomberg)
• Anthropic's IPO outlines an unusual succession plan: confidential, ranked lists of up to 10 successors per co-founder, subject to approval from five co-founders (Anna Tong/Forbes)
• Sources: Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments startup RedotPay plans a US IPO filing by year-end and is in talks for a pre-IPO round at a $4B to $5B valuation (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
| • OpenAI announces new discoveries in mathematics, computer science and physics
• iPhone Lockdown Mode: The pros and cons of enabling Apple's security feature
• The most popular streaming platforms in the US might not be what you think
• 6+ ways you can use your PlayStation 5's USB ports
• Halide releases its first batch of updates for the iPhone Duo
• What are the leading causes of EV battery damage?
• The mistake iPhone Duo buyers can easily avoid
• Apple adds more Siri AI tools in its 27.2 system updates, out today
• Ghost of Yōtei studio Sucker Punch reportedly lays off 24 workers
• Apple responds to reports of the iPhone Duo's inner display cracking
• Your Apple TV remote has handy shortcuts most people never use
• How to use your Samsung Galaxy phone to wirelessly charge other devices
• Instagram wants you to watch 90-minute videos on your TV
• Dutch government to cut 16 percent of workforce as part of AI efficiency push
• Microsoft reportedly offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees as an attempt to trim costs
• Fitbit Edge review: Google strikes the right balance
• Here's how much it would cost to build a PC similar to the Xbox Series X
• How do apps on the HomeView work, and what does CarPlay have to do with it?
• How to set up your phone games to play on an Android Auto screen
• Roku apps keep crashing before you hit Play? Here's why
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