• 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
• SpaceX describes surgical intervention before launch of latest crew mission
• Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data
| • A profile of Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, who is the company's first senior executive from Gen Z and has succeeded in building hype for Muse (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
• Q&A with OpenAI VP of Hardware Richard Ho on its Jalapeño inference chip co-designed with Broadcom, using internal OpenAI models to design the chip, and more (Dr. Ian Cutress/More Than Moore)
• As AI automates parts of pure mathematics research, a look at formalization challenges and why human imagination remains key to deciding which questions to ask (Stephen Wolfram/Stephen Wolfram Writings)
• Google prepares to defend a £1.2B UK class action lawsuit over claims it levied "excessive" charges on Android apps downloaded from Google Play since 2015 (Financial Times)
• Toshiba plans to double HDD production capacity for AI data centers within FY2027 from its 2025 level, targeting a 30% share by storage capacity, up from ~10% (Keigo Yoshida/Nikkei Asia)
• Google freezes product flaw submissions to its OSS Vulnerability Reward Program over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports, plans an update by Q1 2027 (Etiido Uko/Tom's Hardware)
• Google says free Gemini users will be limited to the 3.5 Flash-Lite model from October 9, while Plus subscribers will be limited to 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.6 Flash (Abner Li/9to5Google)
• Sources: Walmart's Flipkart faces sagging employee morale as Indian startup rivals power ahead with IPOs; at least eight VPs and SVPs have quit in recent weeks (Moneycontrol)
• Valley National Bancorp agrees to acquire New Jersey-based Bluevine, which provides digital banking and payments services for 175K SMBs in the US, for $340M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
• Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
• Sources: AI czar Jay Clayton to chair the WH's AI task force, called "Super Intelligence Force", to pen a report on AI's risks and opportunities within 120 days (Alex Leary/Wall Street Journal)
• David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lacks a safety-centric culture; labs must study other fields' safety approaches; time for trial and error's over (David Robinson/The Atlantic)
• Sources: ShinyHunters member Saif al-Din Khader, aka "Rey," was detained in Jordan and is cooperating to identify other hackers involved in the FBI breach (Reuters)
• YouTube says it is adjusting its Shorts recommendations to prioritize "original content" and reduce the reach of channels re-uploading others' content (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)
• OpenAI's DevDay 2026 announcements to turn ChatGPT into a place to discover, launch, and use software could potentially disrupt the traditional app store model (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
| • What is infill in 3D printing and is it necessary?
• Customizing your Samsung Galaxy phone is a bit easier with One UI 9
• How to use Android's Motion Assist feature to help with motion sickness
• How much does DDR5 RAM speed matter for gaming?
• What are amplifiers for and how important are they to your sound system's quality?
• How has Apple's Mac Studio changed over the years?
• What's the difference between battery capacity and battery life?
• Why is this the only pink MacBook available right now?
• This little-known app lets you display song lyrics on Apple CarPlay
• Why this ancient cable still connects to modern TVs with a simple adapter
• How to improve your laptop's webcam quality
• Online retailers that don't support digital wallets are losing Gen Z customers
• ICE is reportedly using a Palantir database to compile dossiers on protestors
• How to check the temperature of your PC's CPU
• Ethernet cables can do more than just improve home internet
• Capcom plans to use AI to speed up the game development process
• The original PlayStation 2 security chip has been reverse engineered
• How to customize Camera Control on your iPhone
• Former OpenAI employee says AI should be regulated like nuclear power plants
• Why Windows 11 is always using so much RAM
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