• Review: 4-hour Musk documentary feels like two different films
• Prime Video unveils Blade Runner 2099 full trailer at NYCC
• One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
• Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
• Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
• A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis
• NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
• What's been driving Hawaii's lava fountains?
• AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
• Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial
• PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
• AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
• Your artwork could be featured in the next Debian release
• Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
• Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency
• Rocket Report: A rare Falcon 9 scrub; is it just about Vulcan's time to shine?
• Volkswagen's replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here
• SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink
• Judge weighs if Trump can charge $100K for early access to Truth Social posts
• Trump Mobile hack and apparent lack of FCC authorization raise security alarms
| • Sources: the US restores the UK AISI's access to the latest US models for safety testing, after ordering OpenAI and Anthropic to stop sharing models last month (Tony Diver/Telegraph)
• An interview with ex-DeepMind scientist David Silver on his startup Ineffable, building an AI "super learner" using RL as an alternative path to LLMs, and more (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)
• Sources: TSMC execs in charge of overseas operations met Texas officials and started more serious discussions in H1 2026, after talking on and off for 10+ years (Tim Culpan/Culpium)
• Sources: PCB maker Dongshan is eyeing to raise $2B to $3B in a Hong Kong listing as soon as this month; Dongshan is listed in Shenzhen with a $39B valuation (Bloomberg)
• Hardware wallet maker Ledger says the $86M+ theft from hundreds of its wallets involved devices sold by reseller CryptoBilis and confirms a "hardware implant" (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
• Sources: Bain's Bridge Data Centres is in talks to upsize an existing loan from $2.8B to ~$6.6B, in what would be one of the largest data center deals in Asia (Kari Soo Lindberg/Bloomberg)
• Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says AI companies are "starting to do phones" and asking Qualcomm to support running 100B-parameter local LLMs continuously by 2028 (Alex Heath/Sources)
• Anchorage Digital buys B2B payments automation startup Routable for an undisclosed sum; Anchorage CEO calls it its largest acquisition by team size and revenue (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
• Vitalize, an AI platform that helps hospitals manage labor and capacity in real time, raised a $31M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, with YC and others participating (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare)
• Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on the Iran school strike and AI targeting, the DOD dropping Anthropic, AI liability, effective altruism, and more (CBS News)
• Sources: Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at ~$7B; Anthropic had decided against acquiring Decart for ~$6B in September (Wall Street Journal)
• How Musk and Benioff pledged to rename SpaceXAI and AIForce, while Nadella and Nvidia adopted "super intelligence", as Silicon Valley falls in line with Trump (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
• A look at the economics of Anthropic's data center leases as analysts estimate a 245 MW site could yield ~$1.3B/mo; sources say it signed a cloud deal with IREN (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)
• Yandex says a drone strike shut down a third data center, disrupting 80+ services like Yandex Cloud and YandexGPT; users report banking and taxi app outages (Tymur Dubovyk/Kyiv Post)
• A look at Apple's smart home strategy, centered on a HomeView display hub, with a new HomePod mini, Apple TV, and second-party accessories from LG and Schneider (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
| • The pros and cons of importing foreign phones to the US
• OpenAI Dot vs. Meta Muse: How do these AI agents compare?
• Mbps Vs MB/s: What do these speeds mean?
• The reason the Xbox Series S is so much cheaper than the Series X
• Why Japan said goodbye to traditional flip phones
• Study finds many new cars share your data with third-party companies
• SpaceXAI's Grok: What's free in 2026 and what isn't?
• Is 3D printing safe to do in your bedroom or home office?
• Anbernic's next dual-screen handheld has the perfect aspect ratio for 3DS games
• The iPhone clock app has an oddity not many people know about
• Steam Frame teardown reveals one problem with its future repairs
• The meaning behind the padlock symbol in your PlayStation 5 game library
• Why strong magnets can hinder the iPhone's rear-facing camera
• Apple's smart home hub will reportedly be called HomeView
• Apple Home's new AI summaries for security cameras cost more than you'd think
• Here's how long your Google Pixel phone will get software updates
• The hidden features every Waze user should know about
• We're in the middle of a PS5 Pro shortage and GTA 6 will only make it worse
• Why it's important to backup data saved on your older thumb drives
• Here's how much the PlayStation 5 cost in 2020 vs. 2026
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