• China’s snooping around Pacific undersea cables raises risks for Big Tech
• Apple refreshes the iMac, entry-level MacBook Pro with the M6 chip
• South Carolina's measles outbreak jumped to Washington state 5 times in 2 weeks
• China's top-secret spaceplane can't hide in low-Earth orbit
• "No human at the helm": Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses
• Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity
• Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware affects most servers on planet Earth
• Google begins certifying Registered App Stores for Android, but not in the US
• Vibe genes? Natural(ish) language comes to protein, genome design software
• Warner Bros. drops final trailer for Dune: Part Three
• Ford simplifies using your EV as a home battery with the $30K Fathom
• DeepMind unveils Genie 4 world model promising more realistic physics and humans
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• Apple iPhone Duo review: Two screens, two experiences, two thousand dollars
• Some iPhone Duo screens are already failing, Apple says only a "small number" are affected
• Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup
• US officials want Section 702 renewed before damaging court ruling goes public
• Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce
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| • Artificial Analysis launches the Intelligence Index v5, with new coding and science benchmarks, built on private datasets; Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 58 (@artificialanlys)
• Google unveils Google Multi-Party Compute (MPC), a digital-asset custody and security service in private preview, set for commercial availability in early 2027 (Aoyon Ashraf/CoinDesk)
• Samsung unveils the $229 Galaxy Buds On, its first open-fit, C-shaped cuff earbuds to compete with Sony and Bose, designed with AI's help, shipping November 6 (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
• Etsy reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $692.5M, above $668M est., net income of $853.5M after selling Depop, and gross merchandise sales up 9% YoY to $2.65B (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
• Amazon unveils the $500 Echo Show 16, the $200 Echo Time alarm, and the $200+ Alexa Photo Frame, raises smart speaker prices, and previews Alexa Home Map (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
• Meta quietly launched Waddle World, a Tamagotchi-like, AI pet-rearing game, in the Philippines in September, calling it a "daily journal disguised as a pet" (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
• Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads reports Q3 revenue up 1,774% YoY to ~$240M and a ~$7.4M net profit; Moore is building a domestic 100K-GPU cluster with JD.com (Rachel Yeo/Bloomberg)
• Sources: Anthropic's seven cofounders remain extremely influential and personally tight; Daniela Amodei, who runs operations, is seen as a good balance to Dario (Financial Times)
• A US federal grand jury indicts OpenAI engineer and Saudi national Abdulrahman "Abdul" Alfozan on a felony charge of interception of oral communications (Sarah Brager/San Francisco Chronicle)
• AI and cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security raised $400M led by Bessemer at a $3.8B valuation, up from $1.5B in January, for $830M in total funding (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)
• How the UK's Slough, a town on the borders of west London, became the largest data center hub in Europe, hosting 40+ facilities, as locals seek more benefits (Financial Times)
• Email: a hacker attack forced the FEC to temporarily take its filing system offline around 10pm ET on Monday, blocking groups from submitting reports (Dawn Kopecki/Reuters)
• Letter: Senator Elizabeth Warren asks Dario Amodei for "exhaustive responses" to four pages of questions by November 3 regarding existential risks in its S-1 (Corrie Driebusch/Wall Street Journal)
• Malaysia says it seized ~$12.11M worth of AI chips this month, as authorities close in on a syndicate suspected of smuggling through the country's main airport (Rozanna Latiff/Reuters)
• Research: professional analysts followed AI agents' randomly assigned "leans" on subjective analytical decisions 86% of the time; 77% used the agents' arguments (Anthropic)
| • FCC clears Amazon Leo to acquire mobile-satellite operator Globalstar
• Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition 2026 review: Nice, but doesn't justify the price
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• Apple's Pro and Tell event: Live updates as we wait to see a MacBook Pro with a touch screen
• All the Amazon Echo devices announced today: Echo Time, Alexa Photo Frame and more
• Amazon launches its first digital photo frame with built-in Alexa
• Amazon's new Echo Time smart alarm clock tries to make waking up less painful
• Amazon adds a glare-reducing nanomatte display to its new Echo Show 16
• The Amazon Echo Studio's new camera can check on your dog or tell you how to play 'Monopoly'
• Amazon's new Echo Dot now works as an eero Wi-Fi extender and smart home hub
• Samsung's Galaxy Buds On are its first clip-on, open-ear wireless earbuds
• The Alexa Home Map is a visual way to see and control your smart home
• Meta's Waddle World is a Tamagotchi-like AI pet app
• iOS 27.2 brings two new features to Apple's CarPlay
• Don't throw away your old Kindle — repurpose it instead
• This one missing feature from the Slate truck might be a dealbreaker for truck enthusiasts
• Discord public server messages may be soon searchable on Google, but you can opt out
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