• New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"
• Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: a spotlight on Africa's diverse wildlife
• All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part.
• Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
• The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
• Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
• Someone got Doom in an SQL database
• Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
• Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed
• Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M
• The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship with energy
• US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
• Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
• US military ends long-running program to spot nuclear missile launches
• This startup pays NYC residents to run air conditioners on free batteries
• Cybertruck sales in free fall as Tesla reports mediocre sales for Q3
• The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI
• Rocket Report: SpaceX completes launch triple-header; Rocket Lab nets big contract
• TCL is right to question Samsung’s use of the term “Mini LED”
• Venus' mysterious haze is actually cosmic dust
| • Former Groq engineers file a lawsuit in Delaware against Groq, alleging the $20B "non-exclusive" acqui-hire deal with Nvidia in 2025 short-changed employees (Financial Times)
• OpenAI says it will begin testing a new visual ad format in ChatGPT later this month in the US, displaying clearly labeled visual ads during image generation (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
• Munich-based RobCo, which makes robotic arms and automation software, sells $40M of shares at a $1B valuation, up from ~$500M after raising $100M in January (Ben Dummett/Wall Street Journal)
• The IWF says it assessed 6,310 AI-generated images that met the legal definition of CSAM in H1 2026, up 40% over the 4,500+ images assessed in all of 2025 (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
• Huawei agrees to a multi-year patent licensing deal with Qualcomm covering AI, 5G, computing, and networking tech, its first 5G licensing deal with Qualcomm (Miyoung Kim/Reuters)
• An interview with CoreWeave Physical AI SVP Richard Ahlfeld on AI models failing real-world checks, the roles of synthetic data and physical tests, and more (Superintelligence)
• A look at China's gray market of token resellers, who use accumulated identities and USDT-funded cards to obtain Claude accounts and route them through proxies (The Information)
• A look at Alpha, an invite-only Discord server of ~30 mostly Gen Z Polymarket traders who pool research and capital and have made an estimated $40M since 2024 (Niamh Rowe/Financial Times)
• Sam Altman says he's "very uncomfortable" with attributing religious force to AI, calling it "a real safety issue", as Anthropic engages with religious leaders (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
• OKX and ICE's joint venture OKXICE is seeking SEC approval to offer tokenized shares of 63 NYSE-listed firms, as it leverages new US rules on tokenized stocks (Scott Patterson/Bloomberg)
• Sources: Firmus plans to allocate ~50% of its IPO shares to existing holders, as investor demand far exceeds the offer size in one of Australia's largest IPOs (Bloomberg)
• Sources: several Western open-weight models are set to launch this month, including Reflection AI's first model, which will rival top Chinese open-weight models (Bradley Olson/Axios)
• A look at Sean Parker's resurrection of Stability AI following Emad Mostaque's ousting, and its new focus on AI for music professionals, backed by major labels (Abram Brown/The Information)
• Change.org says it is investing $100M of its own money to rebuild its core petitions platform with AI and launches an AI copilot beta for petition creators (Dan Primack/Axios)
• Q&A with Google SVP and DeepMind Institute co-director James Manyika on AI risks and why responsibility must be shared across industry, government, and society (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)
| • Google's Fitbit Edge leaks out with a screen and Pixel 11 colors
• What are the benefits of having a second monitor?
• How did retro consoles handle graphics before modern GPUs?
• The reason the Mac mini is cheaper than a MacBook
• You should avoid using a screen protector on your MacBook — here's why
• Every Starlink Dish Available: How To Know Which Setup May Be Right For You
• When is it worth getting a sound card for your PC?
• The popular Apple features you won't be getting with the iPhone Duo
• How the iPhone Duo will improve your group selfies
• How to improve your iPhone's call quality
• The upcoming touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro is reportedly 'significantly lighter'
• Five iPhone 18 Pro features you'll want to try the second you unbox it
• What does V-Sync actually do to your PC's frames per second?
• A fourth RuneScape game is under development using Unreal Engine
• What causes screen tearing and how can you fix it?
• Sony digital camera model numbers explained: Bigger isn't always better
• Trump announces an AI czar for his newly created 'Super Intelligence Force'
• How to disable or restrict your iPhone's Apple Intelligence features
• Here's what you should do if only one of your AirPods is working
• Do gaming routers really make a difference?
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