• 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
• Trump admin sues Utah to save Kalshi from the state's total ban on gambling
• 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
• Buckle up for more body-swapping hijinks in Jumanji: Open World trailer
• A hidden ocean change near Antarctica could have global consequences
• China’s snooping around Pacific undersea cables raises risks for Big Tech
• Apple refreshes the iMac, entry-level MacBook Pro with the M6 chip
• South Carolina's measles outbreak jumped to Washington state 5 times in 2 weeks
• China's top-secret spaceplane can't hide in low-Earth orbit
• "No human at the helm": Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses
• Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity
| • How Maynard v. Snapchat, a 2016 lawsuit linked to a car crash involving Snapchat's speed filter, sparked social media's legal reckoning over user safety (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)
• STMicro reports Q3 revenue up 17.9% YoY to $3.76B, operating income up 98% YoY to $429M, vs. $400.5M est., and forecasts $4.15B in Q4 revenue, vs. $4.10B est. (Reuters)
• A profile of Tencent Cloud CEO Dowson Tong, who is shifting Tencent's AI focus toward businesses and betting on its Claude Cowork-style assistant WorkBuddy (Bloomberg)
• Bluesky blocks links to a leaked archive containing personal data of 41,000+ DHS employees and contractors, saying it was "shared without their authorization" (Wired)
• National Student Clearinghouse: US computer science enrollment fell 12%+ for undergrads and 10%+ for grad students this fall, as AI reduces coding jobs (Elizabeth Rembert/Bloomberg)
• Google announces the expansion of ads in AI Mode into international markets, as growth in its core search advertising business slows (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
• Samsung shares fall as much as 6.6% as a lack of a new shareholder return plan, higher capex, and its chip unit's profit miss weigh on investor sentiment (Bloomberg)
• Samsung expects capex to rise ~60% to ~$63B this year, with HBM capacity sold out through 2027 and 10 long-term supply deals secured with key customers (Bloomberg)
• Google's search revenue rose 12% YoY to $63.25B in Q3 2026, down from 14.5% in Q3 2025, with Google attributing the slowdown to "lower monetization" in AI Mode (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
• DoorDash moves its Q3 earnings release from November 4 to before the market opens on October 29, amid reports of an imminent ~$17B deal to acquire Instacart (Ville Heiskanen/Bloomberg)
• Fragment, which uses AI to resolve purchasing and payment issues across manufacturing datasets, emerges from stealth with $56M from 8VC and others (Chris Metinko/Axios)
• How surging demand from AI hyperscalers has quintupled flash memory prices and shifted market and negotiating power from Apple to suppliers like Kioxia (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)
• Samsung reports Q3 revenue up 127% YoY to a record ~$146.3B and a record operating profit up 783% to ~$80.5B, both roughly in line with estimates (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
• Google is rolling out Gemini 4 Carbon to selected cybersecurity defenders through Fairwind at $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, rising to $4 and $20 later (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
• The personal data of 41,000+ DHS employees and contractors, including CBP and ICE agents, leaks online after hackers claim they breached DHS' Okta login system (Wired)
| • 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
• Meta weighs delaying 'alarming' new business terms as backlash grows
• The PlayStation 5 just might be Sony's final Blu-Ray player
• OpenAI now lets you text your Dot agent
• Engadget is hiring writers!
• Sony's new see-through DualSense controllers let you game like its 1999
• Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro feels both familiar and radically improved
• Here's how the touchscreen on the MacBook Pro with PROLED display works
• Apple's redesigned MacBook Pro has an OLED touchscreen, weighs just three pounds
• Fake PS5 emulators on GitHub are spreading password-stealing malware
• The Xreal Aura smartglasses are now on sale for a discounted launch price
• New York governor signs AI chatbot child safety law
• Reddit is adding a 'for you' feed for recommendations
• Audio Technica just released its first set of wireless StreamSet headphones
• FCC clears Amazon Leo to acquire mobile-satellite operator Globalstar
• Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition 2026 review: Nice, but doesn't justify the price
• Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition (2026) review: Updated in all the right places
• Apple Pro and Tell event: Live updates as we wait to see a MacBook Pro with a touch screen
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