• "At Home in Space" opens, caps Air and Space Museum renovation
• Why large dogs age faster than small ones, and other October research highlights
• Third person dies of bird flu since virus started jumping to livestock
• Googling "Zelda" today offers a glimpse of how search worked in 1998
• Most of our measures of a key cognitive process don't agree
• Coming in 2027: Apple’s $1,000 home robot for FaceTime and switching on lights
• Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom
• China publicly discloses plan for a lunar landing within three years
• F1 in Mexico City: Yet another Ferrari fiasco, but that’s not all
• The world has a new plan to save nature, but it still needs the money
• This $48 e-paper display can be whatever you want it to be
• Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged
• The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy.
• Once again, NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble from certain death
• Flesh-eating screwworms spread to third state and are attacking pets
• Oh captain, our captain: Ars staff remembers Patrick Stewart
• Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
• Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
• Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
• Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren't even good
| • How Alex Bores' Who Decides seeks to make AI safety a standard Democratic position, like being pro-choice, in 2028, as tech-funded rivals vie for influence (David Freedlander/New York Magazine)
• OpenAI partners with Cathedral to test its security defenses and revamps its Security Bug Bounty program, including quadrupling rewards for critical findings (OpenAI)
• Sources: Nvidia verbally told cloud compute clients to sell 51%+ of their services to non-Chinese companies, imposing new limits on China's access to AI chips (Financial Times)
• Google expands Dreambeans to India, its first market outside the US, offering AI-generated visual stories from users' digital activity in 13 local languages (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
• Sources: Huawei told some clients that a large share of its upcoming flagship AI chip, Ascend 960DT, will run largely on HBM made by Samsung and SK Hynix (The Information)
• Larridin, which helps companies track how AI affects employee output and identifies areas for better AI adoption, raised a $30M Series A led by Pelion Ventures (Aditi Bharade/Business Insider)
• Salesforce plans to acquire Cresta, a provider of AI-powered contact center automation software; a source says Salesforce agreed to pay $2.7B for Cresta (The Information)
• John Ternus says Apple expects memory costs to increase into December and beyond; Apple's inventory grew to $14.54B in Q4, up 31.1% QoQ and 154.3% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
• Match Group reports Q3 revenue down 3% YoY to $891M, below est., total paying users down 5% YoY to 13.8M; Q4 forecast has adjusted EBITDA below estimates (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
• Trajectory, which is developing AI model post-training tools for nontechnical customers, raised a $45M Series A led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
• S-1: Anthropic says it may "imminently meet" its RSI threshold and may fail to identify "significant acceleration" in its development until after it's occurred (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
• Brazil's largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin halts withdrawals after a breach involving $46M+ in assets, per Arkham; Tether froze 4.5M+ USDT in response (Jason Shubnell/The Block)
• Sources: institutional investors told Anthropic that its IPO valuation should be ~$1.5T to $1.6T, down from estimates of $2T, citing the tech stock selloff (Wall Street Journal)
• Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, iCloud, and more, grew 10% YoY to $31.57B, vs. $31.58B est. (Loree Seitz/The Wrap)
• Apple Q4: iPhone up 17% YoY to $57.58B, above $56.54B est., Mac up 24% to $10.8B, iPad down 10% to $6.2B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 8% to $8.3B (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
| • Apple's latest watchOS 27 beta enables Siri Recap and Live Rewind audio features
• This Chinese Android phone brand has launched a Harry Potter collab
• Is it actually safe to charge your iPhone at airport USB ports?
• The reason why some iPhone calls don't have a decline option, and others do
• Why it's important to never plug power strips into each other
• How to use your phone's camera to translate anything
• How long could HDDs and SSDs remain expensive?
• Casio's new keyboard lets anyone play along to songs without ever hitting a wrong note
• Your Apple AirPods' chirping noise doesn't just mean low battery
• Snap settles social media addiction lawsuit to avoid trial
• Why some websites are blocking AI agents from accessing the web
• Think twice before putting your gaming console inside a cabinet
• SpaceX is reportedly looking at buying Boost Mobile or using its cell network
• This Samsung Galaxy problem sadly still exists in 2026, but you can easily fix it
• Gemini could be poking through your emails - here's how to stop it
• One annoying problem with the iPhone Messages app has an easy fix
• What to do if your smart home devices keep disconnecting from Wi-Fi
• Nagoshi Studio, from the creator of the Yakuza series, officially shuts down
• Google's Ocarina of Time Easter egg is a link to a past when Search wasn't horrible
• The Fitbit Edge lacks a useful contactless feature
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