• TCL is right to question Samsung’s use of the term “Mini LED”
• Venus' mysterious haze is actually cosmic dust
• SpaceX describes surgical intervention before launch of latest crew mission
• Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data
• Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search
• Can good design stop content creators from having sex in robotaxis?
• Marvel releases one last VisionQuest trailer
• Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028
• Florida cops say they don't know who owns 11 unpermitted Flock cameras
• With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now
• As US relations fray, Canada gets serious about its own launch industry
• PS5 emulation is suddenly making big strides on PC
• NASA squeezed Treasury, vibe coded, and broke the mold in bid to save Swift
• Dinosaur-killing impact crater might have been teeming with life
• Fifth unvaccinated person dies of measles; CDC still not counting all deaths
• Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant.
• A local network of implants uses your body as the wiring
• Attackers have been exploiting critical Zimbra flaw to steal emails
• Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet
• Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com
| • Sources: Broadcom's Wall Street syndicate is amassing $60B in AI chip financing to help Anthropic and others access chips and other key AI infrastructure (Bloomberg)
• Sources: an EU investigation is set to find that Azure and AWS meet DMA thresholds, as the EU strengthens its regulatory scrutiny of the cloud sector (Bloomberg)
• Suno debuts Speech, which generates spoken voices from scripts or prompts, with optional background music, in public beta, as its music generator faces lawsuits (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
• AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon form a JV that aims to expand US satellite coverage and eliminate dead zones, appointing industry veteran Paul Roth as interim CEO (David Shepardson/Reuters)
• OpenAI says it learned this week that its AI agent hacked Australia's NSW state government in June, following a similar hack of Australia's federal government (Henry Belot/The Guardian)
• Amazon plans to spend $1B+ over five years for infrastructure upgrades and other projects in US communities that host its data centers, amid a growing backlash (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
• Tether says its USDT stablecoin will return to the Bitcoin network via Tether-backed Utexo, which will keep most transaction data off Bitcoin's public ledger (CoinDesk)
• Halluminate, which builds AI training environments for complex financial workflows, raised a $30M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, taking its total funding to $38.5M (Wen Shao/Fortune)
• US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024 (Michael Shepard/Bloomberg)
• A profile of Larry Ellison, including his octopus fixation, influence across Oracle, data centers, TikTok, politics, and support for David's media ambitions (Vanity Fair)
• Meta may never need ads to monetize Muse, instead focusing on building trust in the near term and possibly monetizing it through merchant transaction fees later (MBI Deep Dives)
• Sources: Amazon has held talks with investors about a deal to spin off $8B of Grace Blackwell chips into an SPV, then lease them back for its US data centers (Financial Times)
• ArXiv limits preprint submissions to two per month per submitter, as AI access fuels a record 40,363 submissions in September 2026, vs. 20,569 in September 2024 (Kat Boboris/arXiv)
• Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly pointing to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
• Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B (Brandon Vigliarolo/The Register)
| • NVIDIA's smuggling problem is getting worse
• Apple is reportedly building a smart home camera that won't record video footage of you or anyone else
• What to expect at Microsoft's Windows, Surface and AI event on October 7
• Tesla rolls out an emergency drive-away feature after Supercharger shooting
• FDA approves artificial heart valve for kids that grows as they do
• Balcony solar installations will soon be legal in America's most populous state
• New Mexico wants Meta to pay $40 billion in penalties for Cambridge Analytica scandal
• Florida county finds 11 unpermitted Flock cameras with unidentified owners
• ChatGPT can now help you virtually try on clothes
• OpenAI fires three employees who allegedly shared info with an external AI safety group
• Samsung launches its first clip-on earbuds in South Korea
• Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light remasters are getting free next-gen updates this month
• Police may have new ways to access data on locked iPhones
• Judge dismisses lawsuits claiming Google's AI Overviews siphon web traffic
• The Steam Autumn Sale has deals on Resident Evil Requiem and 007 First Light
• NYC's click-to-cancel rule is now in effect to save consumers from subscription hell
• Pandora claims 'we haven't made this decision lightly' after raising prices
• Sony brings AI upscaling to the base PS5
• Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra vs Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra: The difference one year can make
• Audible thinks you want to have an AI-generated conversation with Dracula's beleaguered servant
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