• Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security
• Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam
• NATO may redeploy anti-drone defenses as attacks sink more Black Sea shipping
• 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
• Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room
• Legendary FPS level designer Richard "Levelord" Gray dies at 68
• Ukraine blindsided by Starlink throttling restrictions and intelligence gaps
• Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices
• The Internet’s undersea backbone is slipping into the danger zone
• OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say
• Martin Shkreli livestreamed himself violating lifetime pharma ban, FTC says
• ESA targets Anbernic emulation handhelds as "superfake" piracy enablers
• Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware
• Trump commercial railing against his enemies kept airing after court blocked it
• Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech
| • Q&A with MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle, who has been studying relationships between humans and machines since the 1970s, on her new book, AI chatbots, and more (New York Times)
• A look at L-Acoustics, whose audio platform uses machine learning to help artists like Céline Dion isolate their voices and cut through noise at live concerts (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
• Figma announces new features to define how AI agents work on its platform, including Figma Specs, a Markdown editor that lets users define their design language (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
• TSMC reports Q3 revenue up 50.9% YoY to $46.36B, net income up 68.7% to $23.7B, both above est., marking a sixth straight quarterly profit record on AI demand (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
• Chainalysis: agentic commerce on Coinbase's Base grew from ~1,500 transactions in Q2 2025 to 138M+ in Q3 2026; 87%+ of the payments were for less than 10 cents (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
• A look at Yoti, a digital ID verification app downloaded by 23M people; its revenue grew from £6.2M in 2022 to £32M+ in 2025, with the UK as its biggest market (Financial Times)
• Global smartphone shipments fell 22% YoY to 255.3M in Q3, a record quarterly drop, as Samsung and Apple gained while Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo saw deeper declines (IDC)
• Bloomberg is making its ASKB conversational AI interface available to all Terminal users, letting them integrate their own content with existing financial data (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)
• ASML expects China to account for ~20% of total sales this year, after Q3 sales there surged 109% QoQ, lifting China's share of machine sales from 14% to 23% (Xiaofei Xu/South China Morning Post)
• Asian chipmakers extend Wall Street losses as US Fed rate hike fears and AI funding worries mount; SK Hynix fell 10%+ on the KRX, while Samsung fell ~10% (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
• Sources: ByteDance is in advanced talks to buy data center ASICs from MediaTek, potentially becoming its second major customer for such chips after Google (Bloomberg)
• Sources: Anthropic told investors that distillation accounts for 5% to 7% of revenue; its rapid but slowing revenue growth could weigh on its IPO valuation (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
• Microsoft, Health-ISAC, Japanese authorities, and others disrupt a Chinese-language phishing kit ecosystem used to send 1B+ messages to 75K+ orgs this year (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
• Sources: Solidigm, SK Hynix's US unit, seeks US government approval to export US chipmaking equipment to Dalian, China, as a condition for building a US factory (Reuters)
• Letter: Democratic senators question Meta's $6.6B in federal tax credits claimed over the past two years toward costs of building "experimental" AI data centers (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
| • Iowa, Nebraska and six other states are suing OpenAI for endangering children
• Fitbit Edge vs Fitbit Air: The differences beyond a screen
• NASA explains how it's making batteries for the Moon's extreme temperatures
• Ubisoft plans to close another studio and lay off up to 122 workers
• Sony is taking on DJI with its new ECM-W5 wireless microphone kit
• Deezer will let listeners completely filter out AI music
• Xbox has a teeny new gamepad
• YouTube Music adds new labels for AI-generated content
• Epic thinks you'll love its new vibe coded game launcher
• Netflix to lay off roughly 1,000 employees in biggest round of job cuts since 2022
• 2026 standout Titanium Court is springing onto consoles and mobile on October 29
• Android will use Gemini to warn you about scammy messages
• Alibaba AI models cleared for use in Apple Intelligence in China just in time for the iPhone Duo launch
• LG adds DTS:X and Google Cast to its Sound Suite home theater system
• WhatsApp adds a guest option for joining calls without an account
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake plays even better than it looks
• Samsung Health's sleep coaching now requires just three days of data
• CMF's first portable speakers are shaped like milk cartons and pair together
• 8BitDo Ultimate 2C review: A fabulous Switch 2 controller at a fraction of the price
• Beat the iPhone Duo pre-order rush with Apple's Get Ready tool
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