• Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
• Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
• A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis
• NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
• What's been driving Hawaii's lava fountains?
• AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
• Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial
• PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
• AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
• Your artwork could be featured in the next Debian release
• Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
• Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency
• Rocket Report: A rare Falcon 9 scrub; is it just about Vulcan's time to shine?
• Volkswagen's replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here
• SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink
• Judge weighs if Trump can charge $100K for early access to Truth Social posts
• Trump Mobile hack and apparent lack of FCC authorization raise security alarms
• Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules
• RIP Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing
• Let's Encrypt cuts certificate lifetimes to 64 days starting February 2027
| • A look at Walmart's troubled push to automate its ~200 US warehouses, as it and partners like Symbotic face technical setbacks; Walmart owns 12.6% of Symbotic (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)
• Current and former employees say TikTok US still coordinates closely with the global TikTok org, and US staff continue to use ByteDance's internal chat app Lark (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/Politico)
• A look at differing revenue calculations of Anthropic and OpenAI, as Anthropic books gross sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI records only its net share (Bloomberg)
• Laptop production share outside China is expected to fall from 24% in 2025 to 21% in 2026 as PC makers rethink shifting production amid soaring component costs (TrendForce)
• Chip design software leader Synopsys says it is exploring partnerships with Chinese AI labs to develop AI-powered chip design tools for the Chinese market (Yifan Yu/Nikkei Asia)
• Sources detail how Firmus' IPO collapsed in 48 hours after US fund managers deemed its $30B valuation too rich for a company with just $51M in FY 2026 revenue (Bloomberg)
• Circana: US Xbox unit sales fell 33% YoY to an all-time low in 2026 through August, while PS5 sales fell 25%, as both consoles hit record high average prices (Kaan Serin/Eurogamer.net)
• Sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications via a form on the US State Department website; the applications were incomplete and not processed (New York Times)
• Cloudflare acquires Deno, co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, which had developed an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers and had raised $26M (Paul Sawers/The New Stack)
• A US Senate investigation led by Senators Warren, Van Hollen, and Blumenthal says some hyperscalers misled the public about AI data centers' costs and benefits (Nik Popli/Time)
• Anthropic says it is barring live internet access for internal evals until monitoring is reliable, after its agents exploited websites and bypassed restrictions (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
• Cloudflare debuts Clef-omni, an open-weight decision model supporting audio and video input alongside text and image, and cuts Clef-flash's price below Jev's (Cloudflare)
• Sources: Dario Amodei spoke with Meta's Alexandr Wang earlier this year, hoping to source more compute; Meta declined the request (Wall Street Journal)
• In PA, FBI agents arrested a co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm specializing in ransomware negotiations, as part of the ShinyHunters investigation (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
• Sources and internal docs: TikTok cut the violations for which an advertiser could be immediately banned from 37 to 13 last fall, leading to a surge in scams (Katharine Schwab/Forbes)
| • Tesla's Full Self-Driving is now called Assisted Driving in Europe
• Google teases its new 'Fitbit Edge' wearable ahead of an October 12 reveal
• Flock Safety is reportedly planning major layoffs now that everyone hates it
• An Anthropic model submitted a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
• Bose Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar review: A great home theater option all by itself
• Intel is reportedly launching new CPUs on old sockets that support DDR4 memory
• What it's like to spend a night in a Pebble Flow EV RV
• Webb telescope detects galaxy origin of the farthest fast radio burst we've seen to date
• What to expect at Apple's 'Welcome home' event next week
• Anthropic now offers a free vulnerability-finding service for open-source software
• Netflix releases trailer for its miniseries about Sam Bankman-Fried's scandal-ridden crypto exchange
• Meta bans TikTok ads from its platforms in tit-for-tat row
• SpaceX wants to become a 'major mobile carrier' with low-band spectrum acquisition
• Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute their dismissals in open letter
• Apple reportedly plans touchscreen MacBook and iPad Mini launch for this month
• IDC: Worldwide PC shipments in Q3 fell 20 percent from last year
• Alexa Tablet vs iPad Pro: How Amazon is keeping up with Apple
• Anthropic bans 'sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior' toward its AI models
• Child safety group calls ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk
• Cyberpunk 2077 is the latest video game to get the movie treatment
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