• 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
• How I kept cool with NYC's free battery program for window AC units
• 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
• Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search
• Can good design stop content creators from having sex in robotaxis?
• Marvel releases one last VisionQuest trailer
| • Reco, whose tech helps enterprises secure and govern AI agents across SaaS environments, raised a $55M Series B extension, taking its total funding to $140M (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
• Onsemi revises its Synaptics acquisition to a ~$5.7B all-cash offer, down from the ~$7B all-stock deal announced in June, after Synaptics received another bid (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
• A US judge rules an officer's use of Flock to search a car's license plate was a form of "indiscriminate mass surveillance", and violated the Fourth Amendment (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
• Supabase raised $150M led by Singapore's GIC and agrees to acquire Turso, which offers a database optimized for AI agents, for an undisclosed sum (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
• David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI's Safety Systems team and had previously led policy planning, left OpenAI last week (Stephen Council/Business Insider)
• Leaked Slack messages show OpenAI employees' pushback in June to Greg Brockman's Leading the Future ties, contributing to Brockman reneging on a $25M donation (Garrison Lovely/Semafor)
• Amazon says it has stopped using NDAs with county officials for data center projects and acknowledges community backlash is leading to data center moratoriums (Molly Taft/Wired)
• Nvidia announces a version of DGX Spark with 64 GB of unified memory for $4,999, or $1,000 more than the 128 GB version at launch (Michael Kan/PCMag)
• Apple releases an update for iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to address cellular failures; units that already lost service require hardware replacement (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
• Meta announces Muse Gadgets, providing an open source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to let users bring Muse to their hardware, like Raspberry Pi 5 (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
• Meta says it is letting go of employees it hired from AI safety startup Virtue AI four months after they joined the company, citing clashing work styles (Ashley Gold/Semafor)
• Memo: the US Army is creating an autonomous systems command, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Meridian and Agincourt robotic warfare projects (Colin Demarest/Axios)
• TypeSafe CEO Diogo Almeida says Jev is in use by ~25% of Fortune 500 companies and "we were at a trillion tokens per day about a week ago" (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
• Tavus unveils Griffin, the "first Human Interaction Model", which it says passed the "video Turing test", with 48% of users thinking it was human in live chats (@tavus)
• Apple says it is adding additional controls around "Full Disk Access" on macOS as AI agents have increased "the risks associated with this level of access" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
| • Apple acknowledges AT&T network bug on iPhone 18 Pro Max
• Lyft agrees to pay $272.5 million to settle worker classification lawsuit
• Meta wants people to build their own Muse gadgets, too
• Batomon Showdown is the hottest new auto battler on the block
• Samsung and Google are raising prices on their budget phones
• Apple sounds the alarm on AI agents and 'Full Disk Access'
• iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone 18 Pro Max: Comparing their displays and batteries
• Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra vs Apple iPad Pro: Here's how they stack up
• YouTube takes aim at clipper accounts, will prioritize original Shorts
• Soon-to-be merged Paramount and Warner Bros. will be known as Skydance going forward
• AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have officially teamed up to end coverage gaps
• Affordable alternatives to Apple's AirPods Max
• Don't let the adorable AI agents fool you
• NVIDIA's smuggling problem is getting worse
• Apple is reportedly building a smart home camera that won't record video footage of you or anyone else
• What to expect at Microsoft's Windows, Surface and AI event on October 7
• Tesla rolls out an emergency drive-away feature after Supercharger shooting
• FDA approves artificial heart valve for kids that grows as they do
• Balcony solar installations will soon be legal in America's most populous state
• New Mexico wants Meta to pay $40 billion in penalties for Cambridge Analytica scandal
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