• Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged
• The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy.
• Once again, NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble from certain death
• Flesh-eating screwworms spread to third state and are attacking pets
• Oh captain, our captain: Ars staff remembers Patrick Stewart
• Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
• Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
• Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
• Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren't even good
• Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
• Rare meteorite from Mars gives us a view into its ancient crust
• Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
• Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says
• Analysts find looming launch crisis is "more severe" than anticipated
• GM to pay $220 million after selling customer Smart Driver data
• Hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance in record crypto heist
• 2027 Nissan Rogue Hybrid: Drives like an EV, but there's no plug involved
• Review: You Can See Everything blurs the view of Elizabeth Holmes' deceit
• Rocket Report: Winter is coming for Themis; Cowboy Space adds iron to the fire
• Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says
| • Sources: SpaceX is in talks with EchoStar to acquire Boost Mobile or access its network, after Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T rebuffed requests for network access (Washington Post)
• Marvell agrees to acquire optical components maker Lumentum in a $115B deal, as it seeks to rival Broadcom; Nvidia invested $2B in both Marvell and Lumentum (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
• Supermarkets across Belgium and Sweden report sudden overnight temperature spikes in fridges and freezers due to suspected hacks, mirroring French cyberattacks (Bloomberg)
• Investigation: a network of 400+ domains and apps linked to Chinese-language developers bypasses app store reviews to generate nonconsensual deepfakes and CSAM (Matt Burgess/Wired)
• British physicist and materials scientist Cyril Hilsum, widely recognized as "the father of liquid crystals" for enabling flat-panel display tech, died at 101 (Michael S. Rosenwald/New York Times)
• Ukraine says its air raid alert app was compromised late Sunday, sending false warnings of "nuclear danger"; Russia confirms a similar hack of its alerts app (Bloomberg)
• Filing: Anthropic plans to raise up to $3.5B from Japanese investors as part of its IPO, joining Australia, Canada, and parts of Europe in having direct access (Yasutaka Tamura/Bloomberg)
• Fan fiction site AO3 says it could take two to four weeks to restore service after a security incident; AO3 hosts 18M+ works and has 11M+ registered users (Bruce Gil/Gizmodo)
• A profile of UCLA professor Terence Tao, who was once enthusiastic about AI's role in math but now warns of AI destroying the field's deliberative process (Rivka Galchen/New Yorker)
• How SF's AI boom is reshaping dating: founders treat first dates as interviews, use tech terms like "conversion rate" to track dates, and pay coaches $5K/month (Emmy Martin/New York Times)
• NAND maker Kioxia's shares fell up to 15% on Monday after its cautious Q3 outlook disappointed investors, raising concerns that AI-driven growth may be slowing (Bloomberg)
• YC details multi-agent tests in games like Minecraft, where agents exhibit emergent capabilities, forming roles, hierarchies, and complex coordination patterns (YC Labs)
• Bites, whose AI tools deliver personalized training to frontline workers via WhatsApp, SMS, Slack, and other channels, raised a $40M Series A led by PeakSpan (Meir Orbach/CTech)
• The Hague-based Braid, whose API lets companies sell eSIM mobile plans under their own brand via 600+ carriers, raised a ~$38M Series A led by Octopus Ventures (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups)
• SemiAnalysis launches GDPx, an agentic capability benchmark measuring 11 domains, including chip design, cybersecurity, and RSI; Opus 5.5 tops with a 12% score (SemiAnalysis)
| • Apple is reportedly launching three new iPads early next year
• How long is a new Apple TV actually supposed to last?
• 6 Google Maps features that work better on Android Auto vs. CarPlay
• How to add and rearrange apps on your Samsung smart TV
• Android Auto could upset your work-life balance with its next update
• 10 iPad widgets you probably didn't realize existed
• AI glasses can replace your prescription glasses, but should they?
• How using one earbud more than the other can cause uneven wear and tear
• This is the right way to clean your vinyl records
• How to clean your PlayStation 5 without damaging it
• Which Samsung S Pens can be located using SmartThings Find?
• Anthropic updates Claude to stop it from recreating existing video games
• Ceramic vs Titanium Apple Watch: Which material is better for overall durability?
• How to know if a USB-C cable is waterproof
• 5 ways to get Amazon Prime for free (or way cheaper)
• How to turn on the flashlight on your Android phone without unlocking it
• Judge says xAI must face NAACP lawsuit on data center pollution
• This hidden Windows 11 menu can save you valuable time when troubleshooting
• The biggest problem with trying to directly power EVs with solar roofs
• How much would it cost to build a PC similar to the Xbox Series S?
|