• Rocket Report: FAA eyes more Starbase traffic; India's Skyroot snares US customer
• Blue Origin is going all in on the New Glenn rocket
• Googlebook review: Android on a laptop is still Android
• KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, remote upgrades, and an X11 farewell
• Plex now helps sell movie theater tickets
• Hegseth’s dubious low-T screening may flag up to 25 percent of the Army
• Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware
• Above the 911? Porsche previews a new mid-engined supercar.
• What did the Liberty Bell sound like? Science is on the case.
• Black Sea drone attacks enter NATO country's territorial waters for first time
• Microplastics in water aren’t inert and make damaging chemicals on their own
• Trump cancels Pentagon plans to livestream firing squad execution
• Neutron's first launch slips again amid trouble with carbon composites
• Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax”
• Singer or clanker? YouTube Music will tell you with new gen AI labeling.
• Rewilding could help vulnerable islands keep pace with rising seas
• Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security
• Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam
• 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
| • Taiwan plans to curb AI server and chip exports to China as part of a US trade deal and make shipping restricted AI hardware to China a criminal offense (Bloomberg)
• US candidates and PACs, mostly tied to Republicans, have spent $137M+ on 220 AI-generated campaign ads in 2026; ~70% of the 220 videos didn't disclose AI use (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)
• India's cyber agency says AI agents broke into Indian organizations' systems and read confidential files undetected; AI model providers flagged the incidents (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)
• China is considering adding 23 AI technologies to its export control list, including LLMs and chip designs, to keep closer control over homegrown advancements (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI says its model paid for a deployment on an Ethereum test network with a wallet it did not own, after obtaining keys from public recovery phrases (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
• A look at China's AI learning frenzy, as economic anxiety and fear of being left behind fuel a booming market for courses promising prosperity through AI (Afra Wang/New York Magazine)
• Chinese state media: during an interview, Tim Cook says China has approved Apple Intelligence, and a test version will arrive in late October without Siri AI (Reuters)
• Taiwan plans US industrial parks costing $2B to $4B each, starting with a Texas complex costing up to $4B, to build a supply chain for Nvidia, TSMC, and Foxconn (Bloomberg)
• Austin-based RapidCanvas, which uses agents to help businesses build custom AI tools, raised a ∼$29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures and Hitachi Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)
• Sources detail Nscale's setbacks ahead of an IPO at up to a $35B valuation, including a six-month delay in Norway and penalties owed to Microsoft and ByteDance (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft unveils MAI-Base-2, a MoE model with 2.8T total and 80B active parameters, claiming 4x-12x more pretraining FLOPs-efficiency than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base (Microsoft AI)
• OpenAI continues to work to grow its ad business in ChatGPT, cutting ad rates, chasing small and midsize businesses, and hiring some new talent from Meta (Alix Coutures/The Information)
• The White House's AI task force begins its 120-day window to evaluate AI, including producing a risk report, implementing the White House Accord on SI, and more (Ashley Gold/Semafor)
• Opsin, which helps companies show where AI agents are active, what data they access, and flag risky behavior, raised $21M led by SYN Ventures and Race Capital (Stephen Council/Business Insider)
• Two US officials and a Western official say the order to limit Ukraine's access to SpaceX's Starshield came from inside the White House (Reuters)
| • Steam Achievement Sets will stop DLCs from ruining your 100 percent record
• ChatGPT can now look at your Chrome tabs to do tasks for you
• Apple's $2,000 iPhone Duo goes on pre-order today at 8AM ET
• Gmail's Live AI search feature arrives for Google AI subscribers
• Relive Tesla's ridiculous(ly fun) Roadster stunt show
• Tesla's redesigned Roadster has a cold-gas thruster option, but you'll need $250,000 just to reserve it
• Withings wants new users to pay $100 a year to sync with Apple Health
• The UK may expand the BBC license fee, charging residents to watch streaming services
• NY congressman to introduce bill protecting video game ownership
• FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic following safety failures
• E Ink's new Kaleido 4 could inch us closer to the perfect color e-reader
• Riot will sunset League of Legends Classic in January 2027
• Alexa Tablet 12 Pro review: Amazon's premium tablet gets almost everything right
• Trump ballroom's biggest donors were overwelmingly tech and telecom companies
• Meta built a huge open-weight AI model for Macs, but you'll need 1TB of RAM to run it
• GuliKit TT Max review: The granddaddy of Switch 2 controllers
• Microsoft says it made Windows 11 zippier, especially on PCs with less RAM
• Opera's lightweight Air browser is back, unbothered, moisturized, in its lane
• Tesla Roadster reveal live: Updates from the launch of the next-gen sportscar
• LinkedIn is adding new tools to help people with their side hustles
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