• Physicists listened to electrical noise to crack a superconductor mystery
• The Bantu expansion changed Africa. Scientists are still tracing how.
• British soldier ignored order to pull his SIM card, then got blackmailed
• Doctors pull knife from man's eye that went through his brain—and he's fine now
• Ships loiter near subsea cables amid Iran's warnings to Trump
• Re-releases of Wing Commander, Ultima titles hit Steam and GOG
• Chainalysis says hackers stole credentials and tokens for all of its customers
• Earth's churning mantle may have created the Great Unconformity
• Nvidia hardware worth $11.4M vanished between Oakland and Texas
• Developer ends lucrative screensaver deal with Roku because Fox bought it
• FAA to finally ditch floppy disks in what it calls "historic" tech upgrade
• The folks behind John Wick are back with Karōshi trailer
• You know the launch market is tough when satellite companies start building rockets
• “Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update.
• Wisconsin reports measles death of a baby, first death in over 35 years
• Could potential AI clones of GTA VI force a quicker official port?
• It's a weird time to buy a laptop, but the new MacBook Pro doesn't skimp on quality
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang summoned by Congress over Chinese espionage concerns
• No more Cybertrucks; Musk moves on from the angular metallic flop
• Rocket Report: Artemis II literally tore through the atmosphere; New Glenn delay
| • Excluding Anthropic's IPO, AI companies sold or priced $300B+ of stock in 2026, with ~$100B more on tap, raising questions about how much the market can absorb (Alex Eichenstein/The Information)
• Sources: John Ternus wants more urgency in Apple's AI efforts, pushing Craig Federighi to move beyond Siri AI tweaks to agentic and other advanced capabilities (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
• Sources: Anthropic bought commitments for 1.7GW of gas-fired generators from equipment supplier OnePWR for $3.4B, the largest known such purchase by an AI lab (Martha Muir/Financial Times)
• Inside Inner Mongolia, China's fastest-growing AI data center region, where construction is accelerating with low building cost and no public backlash (SemiAnalysis)
• Major environmental groups are embracing AI to analyze climate data, track forest fires, and more, even as they warn of the environmental impact of data centers (Valerie Volcovici/Reuters)
• Internal documents leaked by Cisco workers angry over the company's ties to Israel's military show how it expanded its business as the war in Gaza dragged on (Alice Speri/The Guardian)
• The crypto industry is bracing for a reckoning after Democrats won the US midterms and vowed to investigate the Trump family and its ties to the industry (Financial Times)
• Nous Research unveils Arete-27B, a post-trained Qwen3.8-27B model that reinforces Western values, saying the underlying Chinese model's bias layer is shallow (Nous Research)
• Beijing-based GenRobot AI, which develops equipment and software for collecting human demonstrations that can be used to train robots, raised a $100M Series A+ (TechNode)
• Filings: Apple saved $2.7B in taxes this year by routing up to $50B in profits through Singapore, exceeding the $2.6B in tax savings it achieved via Ireland (Financial Times)
• How a small, wealthy AI-safety network that organized in Signal chats grew into a coalition that beat the $100M super PAC Leading the Future in the midterms (Politico)
• Anthropic-backed AI safety super PAC Public First spent $63M+ in the 2026 midterms, and 10 of the 17 congressional candidates it backed won their elections (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
• US Treasury moves to cut crypto exchange MEXC off from the US financial system, alleging $16B+ in illicit flows, including Russian and Iranian sanctions evasion (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
• Report: SEA makes up ~50% of APAC data center capacity being built, led by Malaysia and Thailand, which paused 49 and delayed approvals of 117 projects in Sept. (Arundhati Hazra/The Guardian)
• Public records appear to show SpaceX building a "Starbase supercomputer" in TX, but Gina Hinojosa's election as governor may delay some of the data center plans (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)
| • Apple's new MacBook Pro tops out at $15K – here's what that gets you
• UK has no plans to slow down AI data center construction
• Building a smart home across different brands? Here's what you should know
• The pros and cons of using your laptop with the lid closed
• How much Netflix cost in 2007 vs. 2026
• The reason why some USB ports are teal
• 5 unexpected uses for your old smartwatch
• How much did an iPhone cost in 2007 vs. 2026? The gap is smaller than you think
• How long can you expect your Apple AirPods to last?
• AI music can be difficult to detect, but there are some telltale signs
• You can attach your Fitbit Air to almost any old-school watch
• Can PC coolant expire? Here's how long it can last
• These experimental EV batteries can eject themselves during a fire
• Pro Gamers typically don't use OLED monitors, but you most definitely can
• How to set up Google Authenticator on a new phone
• Your digital game library is yours, until it's not
• The pros and cons of buying refurbished laptops
• The game reverse engineering community is the latest casualty of AI
• How to reset your Vizio TV back to factory settings
• Can a hacker really do anything with your IP address?
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