• Inside Amazon’s robotic arms race and what it means for the future of human work
• Review: 4-hour Musk documentary feels like two different films
• Prime Video unveils Blade Runner 2099 full trailer at NYCC
• One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
• 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
| • AI is supercharging a ~$442B scam economy that is bigger than the global cocaine trade, as the Chinese scam industry spreads beyond Asia's fortified compounds (Bloomberg)
• Cyberattacks on Sunday night targeted Danfoss-managed refrigeration systems across hundreds of French supermarkets, heating them to 50°C for roughly six hours (Jenny Che/Bloomberg)
• Googlebooks hands-on: a rocky start, with severe connectivity, file-sharing, and software stability issues; core productivity software lacks full desktop parity (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
• Global smartphone shipments fell 20% YoY in Q3 to a 14-year low amid memory shortages; Apple's share crossed 20% for the first time in any Q3, reaching 22% (Counterpoint Research)
• Analysis: constructing and equipping a 1GW AI data center in Abilene, Texas, could cost ~$30B, including $17B on chips, $3B on power, and $2.4B on construction (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
• A profile of Microsoft EVP of Copilot Charles Lamanna, a potential Satya Nadella successor; a source says Microsoft is on track to pay Anthropic $2B+ per year (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
• Google says Health Guardian is launching later in October on the Fitbit Air and Edge for Google Health Premium users, and expands automatic activity tracking (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
• Microsoft unveils its third-gen in-house AI chip, the Maia 300, built on TSMC's N2P process node and aimed at serving as its "primary AI inference system" (Tom Warren/The Verge)
• Google unveils the $180 Fitbit Edge, featuring an oval, 1.34" display and shipping October 27, replacing the Fitbit Charge 6 and discontinuing the Charge line (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
• Elon Musk contributed $276M+ since July to Republican entities, including $158M to the Senate Leadership Fund; sources: he is taking a more hands-off approach (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
• Speaking in Singapore, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan warn that access to capital and rising borrowing costs could become AI's main bottleneck (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
• Sources: DeepSeek agrees to lead robotic AI startup Winverse AI's seed funding round of tens of millions of dollars, valuing the startup at ~$400M post-money (Bloomberg)
• Broadcom CEO Hock Tan criticizes speculative AI investing, comparing uninformed investors to casino gamblers and questioning the long-term economics of AI labs (Gao Yuan/Bloomberg)
• Quantum computing company IonQ agrees to buy Elisity, which helps stop cyberattacks and ransomware from spreading, in an all-stock deal valued at up to $1.3B (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
• Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for global safety regulations for AI, arguing that milk and washing machines currently face more stringent safety standards (Mitchell Labiak/BBC)
| • No Man's Sky is coming to iPhone and iPad as the App Store celebrates Indie Games Week
• The tech behind your car's adaptive cruise control
• How long can you expect an Amazon Kindle to last?
• Google's sleek new Fitbit Edge is packed with health features and a replaceable battery
• Google teams up with menstrual health tracker Flo to develop new wellness hardware and sync apps
• Google brings Health Guardian to the Fitbit Air and Edge, and expands automatic activity tracking
• What you can do when your Ethernet cable gets stuck
• How is Microsoft's Magnetic Connect different from Apple's MagSafe for MacBooks?
• 8BitDo Ultimate 2 review: The best Switch 2 controller out there
• WhatsApp users may soon be able to schedule messages
• Microsoft's president says AI is less regulated than a carton of milk
• The pros and cons of importing foreign phones to the US
• OpenAI Dot vs. Meta Muse: How do these AI agents compare?
• Mbps Vs MB/s: What do these speeds mean?
• The reason the Xbox Series S is so much cheaper than the Series X
• Why Japan said goodbye to traditional flip phones
• Study finds many new cars share your data with third-party companies
• SpaceXAI's Grok: What's free in 2026 and what isn't?
• Is 3D printing safe to do in your bedroom or home office?
• Anbernic's next dual-screen handheld has the perfect aspect ratio for 3DS games
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