• Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce
• Worms mate in man's eyes, get plucked out right before larvae burst out
• Meet the real-life Scottish surgeon who inspired Sherlock Holmes
• Apple releases iOS and macOS 27.2 with new Siri AI features, new Music logo
• Apple reveals updated iPad mini with a bigger OLED screen for $700
• ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees
• Musk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink terms with deadly drone strikes
• Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo
• Some iPhone Duo screens are already failing
• F1 in Texas: The American race that fans love to attend
• Tesla gave up the EV crown. Now it wants to win the autonomy race.
• From impulse purchase to pocket studio: The M-Vave FM-1
• A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature
• Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that
• NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings, finally solves long-festering Orion issue
• Hegseth warns prediction market bets warp military judgment, endanger troops
• Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising
• Inside the Pentagon, the pressure is on to find a home for a new spaceport
• Spotify ramps up policy enforcement on family plans
• Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals
| • Anduril and Qualcomm unveil BlueChip, a line of laptops designed and assembled in the US for defense and government; Anduril will begin taking orders in 2027 (Bloomberg)
• Apple updates the 24-inch iMac with an M6 chip, with up to a 12-core CPU, up to a 12-core GPU, and a dual 16-core Neural Engine, from $1,499 on November 6 (Apple)
• Apple unveils the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, with a 12-core CPU and a 12-core GPU, up to 32GB of unified memory, and Wi-Fi 7, from $1,999 on November 6 (Apple)
• The FCC warns TP-Link that three routers exceeded power limits and it may have submitted "false or incorrect information", a move that could allow further bans (Bloomberg)
• Study: non-English languages can consume far more AI tokens, with the most expensive using 1.5x-5x more than the cheapest, resulting in a "tokenizer tax" (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World)
• Sources: Trend Micro's TrendAI found Israeli adtech company Discover-Tech heavily targeted Starlink users in 100+ countries, likely to geolocate or surveil them (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
• PayPal reports Q3 revenue up 2% YoY to $8.58B, below $8.71B est., TPV up 6% to $487.14B, and raises full-year adjusted EPS guidance to ~$5.60, above $5.39 est. (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
• Hyphenate, which develops reinforcement-learning-driven AI agents to automate corporate finance tasks, raised a $45M Series A, taking its total funding to $54M (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
• Analysis: AI political groups have spent $78.5M on US federal candidates during the 2026 cycle; AI accelerationists spent $34M and safeguard-focused groups $39M (Luke Fountain/CNBC)
• Anthropic's S-1 excludes Labs co-lead Ben Mann from its "Continuing Founders" and Founder LLC; Anthropic says "it's still fair to refer to him as a co-founder" (Zara Stone/The San Francisco Standard)
• Sources: UK stealth AI startup 22one, which is building law enforcement tools, hit a nearly $400M valuation after raising funds from Sequoia, Lux, and others (Financial Times)
• A US federal judge orders the Trump administration to halt a ban prohibiting the Pentagon from doing business with companies lobbying for Alibaba (Peter Blumberg/Bloomberg)
• S-1: Anthropic spent ~$2.50 on compute and infrastructure for every $1 of revenue in Q1 2025, falling to under 50 cents in Q2 2026, as it seeks profitability (Financial Times)
• Sources: Broadcom CEO Hock Tan held 11th-hour talks and agreed to higher rates and loan guarantees to secure bank participation in the $63B Anthropic debt deal (Wall Street Journal)
• Nvidia and Meta expand their Muse partnership, including Meta deploying more Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs; Nvidia will invest $3B in Meta's planned equity fundraise (Wall Street Journal)
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• NASA plans to launch three massive rockets for the Artemis 3 crewed lunar test mission
• Acer's Predator Atlas 8 gaming handheld finally launches at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,300
• 20 Years of MacBook: How Apple shaped the laptops we use today
• Slate teams up with Smarties to add candy colors to its EV trucks
• OpenAI announces new discoveries in mathematics, computer science and physics
• iPhone Lockdown Mode: The pros and cons of enabling Apple's security feature
• The most popular streaming platforms in the US might not be what you think
• 6+ ways you can use your PlayStation 5's USB ports
• Halide releases its first batch of updates for the iPhone Duo
• What are the leading causes of EV battery damage?
• The mistake iPhone Duo buyers can easily avoid
• Apple adds more Siri AI tools in its 27.2 system updates, out today
• Ghost of Yōtei studio Sucker Punch reportedly lays off 24 workers
• Apple responds to reports of the iPhone Duo's inner display cracking
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