• A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature
• Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that
• NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings, finally solves long-festering Orion issue
• Hegseth warns prediction market bets warp military judgment, endanger troops
• Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising
• Inside the Pentagon, the pressure is on to find a home for a new spaceport
• Spotify ramps up policy enforcement on family plans
• Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals
• Intel gets waiver after worries fuzzy US ban on foreign-made robots may hit fabs
• RFK Jr.’s vaccine injury clinic could damage NIH hospital, board warns
• Knicks sent employees fake offer of championship rings in phishing test: Report
• Everybody panic: A Valve developer said "HLX" in public
• The reactor meant to showcase nuclear’s comeback keeps hitting problems
• Ukraine learns to fight without Starlink as Musk plays politics with satellites
• Review: Crystal Lake suffers a bit from its obsession with Pam Voorhees
• Rocket Report: SpaceX says no thanks to military launches; Spanish rocket nearly ready
• Switch 2 security takes a hit as hackers unlock homebrew access
• Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%
• Latest estimate for Starship launches required to support a Moon landing? 22.
• Comcast loses more customers, claims other ISPs' cheap prices are "irrational"
| • Inside Meta's law enforcement outreach team, which uses AI and human reviewers to analyze social media posts, aiming to prevent threats like school shootings (Rachel Monroe/New Yorker)
• A look at OpenAI's Project Daybreak, which lets vetted partners use its top hacking models to find and fix vulnerabilities and helped uncover PHP2Shell RCE bugs (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
• The PHP Foundation, which coordinated fixes for two critical PHP flaws, operates on a shoestring budget with one full-time staff member and 14 contractors (Toby Sterling/Reuters)
• Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it could use data shared via Personal Intelligence from connected apps, including Gmail and Photos, to target ads (Shimul Sood/Android Authority)
• Andy Jassy says AWS capacity for 2027 is "largely sold out" and a "good chunk" of 2028 capacity is also sold, though AWS reserves some capacity for on-demand (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
• The UK plans to invest £100M to create the AI Biosecurity Lab to boost defenses against biological threats, supported by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind (Liv McMahon/BBC)
• OpenAI says it built an "offline world" from cached web content to train isolated frontier models to browse, search for information, and use web apps (OpenAI)
• Utopai, an AI film studio that says it has more than 20 projects in the works, raised $60M at a $1B valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information)
• Memo: Helen Chiang, Xbox's first COO, is leaving Microsoft on October 23, just months after the role was created; she spent 21 years at the company (Tom Warren/The Verge)
• Mave, which is developing an AI-driven tool to automate security investigations, raised a $28M Series A led by Red Dot, bringing its total funding to $34M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
• Sources: Instacart, currently valued at $12B, is in talks to sell itself and held preliminary conversations with DoorDash and Uber; CART jumps 9%+ (The Information)
• OpenAI plans to restrict internet access for its frontier models during training until adequate alignment, monitoring, and security safeguards are established (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
• Moonshot says it removed cyber-related data from training phases for Kimi K3.1 Pro "to reduce potential misuse risk while preserving general usefulness" (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
• Artificial Analysis says Kimi K3.1 Pro lands 4th on its Intelligence Index, behind only Opus 5.5 (max), Sonnet 5.5 (max), and Muse Wonder Full (max) (@artificialanlys)
• Global PC shipments fell 21% YoY in Q3 to 57M units, as memory and other costs pushed prices up; Lenovo retained its market leadership despite a 23% decline (Minsoo Kang/Counterpoint Research)
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• How to improve your PC's airflow for better cooling
• How long is too long for an HDMI cable?
• 'Father of the PlayStation' Ken Kutaragi sides with Sony on the physical discs debate
• Engadget review recap: iPhone Duo, Rivian R2 and more
• Peak on consoles, hockey roguelites and other new indie games worth checking out
• Meta is delaying its controversial new business terms amid scraping concerns
• OpenAI says it's cutting off internet access for frontier model training
• Meta is charging government and nonprofit pages to post links on Facebook
• Apple Music has a fun Easter egg for the iPod's 25th anniversary
• Greece enacts social media ban for kids under 15
• ASUS ProArt P16 review: A sleek showcase for NVIDIA's RTX Spark
• GuliKit TT Pro review: The ideal Switch 2 controller for players on the go
• Tesla says it will no longer release the Cybertruck in Australia and New Zealand
• Oura sues Ultrahuman (again) to block its latest smart ring from the US market
• A startup called Warhound is genetically engineering dogs for the military
• A new subscription service promises an evolving collection of 'bold and bizarre' indie games
• Spotify's Family plan QR code could cost you Premium access
• Rhode Island sues Meta over its approach to scam ads
• The trailer for Mass Effect 5 has leaked and unfortunately it looks good
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