• Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
• NYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firms
• Buttons are back and storage is king when it comes to car interiors
• Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too
• Another child dies of measles as CDC reportedly holds up health alert
• Google dismantles botnet secretly running on 1.3 million Android TV boxes
• This space company is betting its future on a propellant available everywhere
• UEFI bootkit infected fully patched Windows machines. Is Microsoft to blame?
• Trump wanted to give No Kings no air. Then, Meta suspended its Instagram.
• EPA throws in the towel on policing air pollution from factory farms
• Beyond screens: Mercedes-Benz's new holographic heads-up display
• "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
| • Block reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $6.7B, above est., Cash App gross profit up 27% to $2.07B, raises its full-year profit outlook; XYZ jumps 5%+ after hours (Reuters)
• Canva says it is restructuring, which will impact 1,271 workers, or 22% of its workforce, as it merges its product, growth, and platform teams (David Swan/The Age)
• Revolut says it cut AI coding inference costs by ~90% in less than a year by making self-hosted GLM models its default over commercial tools like Claude Code (Tobias Mann/The Register)
• Super Micro reports Q1 revenue up 298% YoY to $19.95B, vs. $16.39B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; SMCI jumps 7%+ after hours (Reuters)
• AMD reports Q3 revenue up 45% YoY to $13.38B, vs. $13.09B est., Data Center revenue up 97% to $8.5B, forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; AMD jumps 7%+ after hours (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
• Sources: Ubisoft and at least two other gaming companies offered to acquire Arkane Studios from Microsoft, which is exploring options before a December deadline (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
• Anthropic releases FlashProve, an open-source prototype that cryptographically verifies an AI response came from a given model, not one that a router swapped in (Anthropic)
• OpenAI hires Jill Hazelbaker, Uber's president and chief corporate affairs officer, as its new chief corporate affairs officer, reporting to Greg Brockman (Mike Allen/Axios)
• Apple launches iOS 27.3 beta, adding Apple Intelligence in China with an Alibaba-powered content filter, and watchOS 27.3 beta, with Siri Recap and Live Rewind (Bloomberg)
• Sources: US officials have held up approval for US chipmaking equipment needed by SK Hynix to expand in China, complicating its plans for new plants in New York (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
• CrowdStrike debuts an AI kill switch in Falcon Guardian to stop internal AI agents that go rogue, and announces a Falcon Guardian integration with Claude Cowork (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
• Apple opens Siri AI to all developers, letting any app on iOS 27.3 beta and other 27.3 OS betas bring its content and actions into Siri AI by using App Intents (Apple Developer)
• How OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are trying to prevent anyone from using their AI tools to disrupt the US midterms, including Anthropic's first-ever "war room" (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)
• Sources: Meta eyes $20B+ from a potential cross-border investment-grade bond offering, its first major debt sale in six months and its debut offering in euros (Bloomberg)
• AI inference startup Fal raised $1.3B led by Bessemer at a $16B valuation, up from $8B in April; source: Fal hit $800M in annualized revenue earlier in 2026 (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
| • Meta's Quest 2 and Quest Pro reach 'end of feature development'
• Reddit is testing in-app search ads as traffic from Google declines
• What type of battery does the Slate Truck use?
• Sonos' new voice assistant is launching in early access on November 6
• Netflix thinks AI might save you from scrolling aimlessly for something to watch
• Don't throw away your laptop's old SSDs — do this instead
• Itch.io adds a filter for games with gen AI disclosures
• How to use your phone to find hidden cameras
• Razer unveils the Raiju V3 Pro Signature Edition PS5 controller
• How to make your older Android phones last longer
• Don't throw away your old AirPods — do this instead
• How to choose the right gaming monitor for you
• Google says students in schools that ban AI won't have access to Search
• The next Elder Scrolls game is officially called Sentinel
• Microsoft has listed some concrete ways that Windows 11 is getting better with 8GB of RAM
• With World of Warcraft: Forever, Blizzard had to reconnect with what made WoW great in the first place
• Go foldable or go home: All the gadgets you can own that fold
• The easiest way to turn your regular TV into a smart TV
• What does the H+ symbol mean on your Samsung phone?
• What's the meaning of the "C" on your USB-C ports?
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