• Windows 11 gets right-click menu improvements as PC revenue slides
• Pentagon IG refuses to investigate Starlink/Starshield slowdown in Ukraine
• Trump declares robot imports a national security threat
• Trump ignored intel on China’s Nvidia spy to protect company’s stock, report says
• Turning a solar power system into its own backup
• Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws
• Google admits AI search makes less money, but it's fixing that with more ads
• Massive leak exposes 41,000 DHS workers and undercover ICE agents
• SpaceX no longer needs NASA, and that's a problem for America's space agency
• ULA's Vulcan rocket is set to return to flight on Friday the 13th
• As US ties fray, Europe plans first undersea cable link to Greenland
• Peptide peddlers cheer as RFK Jr. unilaterally grants access, overruling FDA
• The last, best hope for space tourism just rolled onto a runway in Arizona
• Touchscreen MacBook Pro hands-on: OLED looks great on a Mac
• Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can't use
• Amazon turns its most capable smart speaker into a smart camera, too
• Cadillac Escalade IQ review: Huge battery, huge range, huge SUV
• Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
• Florida county won’t investigate sketchy Flock cameras removed by mystery owners
• Apple announces touchscreen MacBook Pro with OLED display
| • Coinbase reports Q3 revenue down 35% YoY to $1.22B, in line with est., and net income up 66% to $719M, its first profit in a year, on unrealized crypto gains (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
• Roblox reports Q3 bookings down 12% YoY to $1.7B, vs. $1.63B est., and DAUs down 9% to 138M, vs. 145.8M est.; RBLX drops 16%+ after hours (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
• Sources: Instagram is offering select creators $50K to $500K to cross-post their long-form YouTube content to its new "Features" product (Business Insider)
• Amazon reports Q3 AWS revenue up 39% YoY to $45.98B, above $45.29B est., and AWS operating income up 55% to $17.77B, above $16.97B est. (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
• Sources: Google, Meta, and other tech companies are resisting broad ICE demands for user data as they face future Democratic-led congressional investigations (Wall Street Journal)
• Symbotic says Walmart has committed an additional $6B over several years to deploy Symbotic's supply-chain automation technology across its distribution network (Sanskriti Shekhar/Reuters)
• Reddit reports Q3 revenue up 53% YoY to $895M, vs. $878M est., DAUq up 12% to 130.3M, below est., forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; RDDT drops 17%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
• Amazon spent $77B+ on property and equipment in Q3, leading to a free cash outflow of $42.4B; Amazon said in July that it would likely spend $220B in 2026 capex (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
• Intel reports Q3 revenue up 21% YoY to $16.5B, vs. $16.5B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted EPS below estimates; INTC drops 16%+ after hours (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
• Reddit plans to require users to log in to fully access the site in response to AI scraping and will test it in select markets outside the US this quarter (Sara Fischer/Axios)
• Amazon reports Q3 ad revenue up 11% YoY to $19.64B, vs. $20.82B est., and subscription services revenue up 11% YoY to $14B (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
• Amazon reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $201.9B, net income down 2% to $20.7B, and operating income up 61% to $28.1B; AMZN drops 8%+ after hours (Amazon)
• Source: Anthropic is "Customer B" cited by SpaceX in a filing as its single largest customer accounting for 34.5% of Q3 revenue, surpassing the US government (Bloomberg)
• Sources: an Accenture staffer's Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months and appears to have sent info to a third-party site before it was identified (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)
• Utah files 14 criminal charges against Kalshi and its co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara for allegedly breaking Utah's gambling laws (Andy Larsen/Salt Lake Tribune)
| • VRChat says it's not adding AI labels despite user survey showing people want that
• Fan fiction website AO3 is down, and it could take weeks to recover
• Reddit will force users to log in as AI is killing search traffic
• Google fixes an annoying Photos bug that hid edited images from other apps
• Google brings AI Mode advertisements to more countries
• Popcorn bucket innovation is at an all-time low and the Dune: Part Three 'Double Sandworm' is proof
• Hacker may have stolen millions in a malware attack against online poker players
• Netflix is making a live-action PUBG show written and directed by Donald Glover
• Don't expect more Assassin's Creed remakes anytime soon
• NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang may have been the target of a Chinese government spy
• Meta will now alert parents if teens 'repeatedly' search for self-harm content on Facebook
• ThermoWorks debuts shorter version of its RFX Meat wireless probe for small cuts
• FromSoftware delays The Duskbloods until 2027
• DoorDash acquires Instacart in $17 billion delivery service merger
• EasySMX S10 Lite review: A Switch 2 fidget toy with a weird removable faceplate
• Apple and Google fined in South Korea over app store violations
• Google's Gemini 4 Carbon promises 'significant leap' in AI coding and cybersecurity
• Hackers leaked details of more than 41,000 Homeland Security personnel
• FCC chair wants to let prisons jam illegal cellphones
• Apple's PROLED XDR Display has a cringy name but incredible specs
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