• ESA targets Anbernic emulation handhelds as "superfake" piracy enablers
• Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware
• Trump commercial railing against his enemies kept airing after court blocked it
• Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech
• Skydance’s Discovery+ prices increase by up to 20 percent
• The Paris Auto Show is full of interesting cars Americans can’t have
• Google wants to host your personal vibe-coded apps in the Play Store
• Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay
• Apple’s first smart display is the 7-inch HomeView for $299
• They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went even worse than you think.
• High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers pump venom
• 39-year-old unvaccinated woman becomes 6th measles death in Pennsylvania
• Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model
• After a 10-year redemption arc, No Man's Sky is coming to the iPhone and iPad
• WHO report on Russian lab worker death highlights "key uncertainty"
• Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police
• Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine
• Long-lost horror gaming cult classic P.T. gets a much-needed PC port
• F1 in Singapore: There's a new fastest car now
• Google announces the Fitbit Edge, a middle ground between Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit Air
| • A look at OpenAI's safety concerns over loop transformers before shipping its next major model; Microsoft accidentally confirmed GPT-6.1 Sol uses the technique (The Information)
• Apple v. OpenAI: a US judge partly grants Apple's motion for expedited discovery, ordering OpenAI to hand over forensic images of devices and other documents (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)
• The FBI says it worked with CrowdStrike to dismantle 40+ laptop farms across Texas used to help North Koreans get remote US tech jobs under stolen identities (Dustin Volz/New York Times)
• Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs, a small team to test emerging ideas, citing recent game ports and mashups, many of them built with AI tools (Jon Hicks/GamesIndustry.biz)
• Federal prosecutors say a Saudi national was arrested over bugging an OpenAI executive conference room; OpenAI found the audio recorder around September 30 (The San Francisco Standard)
• OpenAI says the FBI arrested one of its staffers after the company found a hidden recording device in its offices and used its models to understand the device (@openainewsroom)
• Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition has received investment offers that would value it at $30B+, up from $15B in June (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
• Anthropic details Scion, a git replacement for its monorepo, built by seven engineers with Claude in five months, as daily merges rose from 2.5K in May to 30K+ (Anthropic)
• A Delaware jury awards Qualcomm $2 in nominal damages after finding Arm breached its architectural license agreement and sought to disrupt Qualcomm's business (Tom Hals/Reuters)
• Sources: Decagon, which offers AI customer service agents and was last valued at $4.5B, hired a bank and is in early talks with buyers, including ServiceNow (Katie Roof/Business Insider)
• Pluto Security, which monitors AI agents and vibe-coded apps, exits stealth with $42M, including a $34M Series A, and says it has hit $2M+ in ARR since April (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
• Google says users with a standard account can now build personal Android apps for free in AI Studio and will be able to share them with friends in coming months (Artie Beaty/ZDNET)
• Meta expands its AI-powered "Your Algorithm" feature from Instagram to Facebook and Facebook Reels and says it is using LLMs more in its ranking systems (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
• Meta says hackers stole some code and personal data of roughly 1,500 people, most of them employees in the US, after compromising some of its GitHub repos (Eduard Kovacs/SecurityWeek)
• Apple says HomeView's facial recognition works only if users have a "registered personal device" with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI on the same Wi-Fi network (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
| • Are Chromebooks still worth buying after the Googlebooks release?
• 5 clever ways Gemini can automate everyday tasks
• OpenAI says it found a 'sophisticated recording device' hidden in its offices
• What is NVIDIA DLSS and how does it work?
• Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2 hands-on: A look at the audio updates and Siri AI
• Ryan Coogler's X-Files reboot gets a full series order from Hulu
• Don't like your Facebook feed? Meta wants to know what you want to see instead
• How the iPhone Duo's camera is different from the iPhone 18 Pro's
• Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses review: No camera, no problem
• GTA 6 is reportedly coming to PC in early 2027
• Google will let you distribute vibe-coded Android apps with just a Google account
• Netflix will broadcast the 2030 FIFA World Cup in Spain and Andorra
• Here's why your phone's proximity sensors are so important
• Apple HomePod mini 2 vs. Apple HomePod mini: What do you get for the $50 increase?
• Is AppleCare actually worth it for the Apple Watch SE?
• Discovery+ gets a price bump just a week after the Skydance merger
• Google's Gemini 4 Argon is now available in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search
• iPhone Duo vs Xiaomi 18 Fold: How these foldables stack up
• Some older Apple TV models are also getting Siri AI
• Apple's iPhone market share rose despite a downturn in smartphone shipments
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