• PS5 emulation is suddenly making big strides on PC
• NASA squeezed Treasury, vibe coded, and broke the mold in bid to save Swift
• Dinosaur-killing impact crater might have been teeming with life
• Fifth unvaccinated person dies of measles; CDC still not counting all deaths
• Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant.
• A local network of implants uses your body as the wiring
• Attackers have been exploiting critical Zimbra flaw to steal emails
• Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet
• Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com
• RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the "tyranny" of medical facts, expertise
• The Disney protests were a wake-up call about the risks of streaming mergers
• Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves
• "An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack
• So what's happening with Russia's new, long-delayed crewed spacecraft?
• Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling
• Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins
• The PS5 hacking scene just took a big leap forward
• Discord gives more advertisers more tools to target its users
• What butterfly wings have in common with barbershop poles
• BMW reveals US 3 series pricing: The EV carries a hefty premium
| • IPO prospectus: Broadcom agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42B via convertible notes that could help finance Anthropic's $125.2B, five-year TPU lease commitment (Reuters)
• Amazon updates the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Colorsoft with new colors and up to 32GB of storage, and unveils the $35 Kindle Click page-turning remote (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)
• A profile of Nubank founder David Vélez, who graduated from Stanford, worked at Sequoia, and moved to Brazil to start the bank in 2013, as Nubank enters the US (Gabi Marques/Colossus)
• Micron filed a US lawsuit accusing Chinese memory maker YMTC of systematically poaching key engineers and then using the engineers' patents to sue Micron (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
• Armadin, started by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to build AI cybersecurity agents, raised a $255.5M Series B led by a16z and Accel at a $2.5B valuation (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
• After a four-month US prison sentence, Changpeng Zhao is now living a gilded life in Abu Dhabi; he retains majority ownership of Binance and a $10B+ net worth (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)
• Sources: EU regulators are questioning Binance over its use of a legal exemption to continue serving customers in the region despite failing to secure a license (Financial Times)
• An interview with Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd, who says the US spyware maker lacks visibility into customer targeting data and has no "kill switch" (Kim Zetter/Wired)
• Google partners with talent agency Range Media to launch 100 Zeros, a rotating fund designed to shape positive onscreen depictions of tech and test AI tools (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
• Dell, Jera, and UK-based Rhaelm partner to build a $15B, 400MW off-grid AI data center and gas power plant near Tokyo, set to begin operations around 2028 (Financial Times)
• Huawei plans moderate smartphone price increases to counter an average $200 per-unit cost hike driven by rising memory component costs, and unveils new handsets (Bloomberg)
• A profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who insists that "Xbox is not for sale" despite mass layoffs and divested studios since inheriting the flailing division (Zachary Small/New York Times)
• SemiAnalysis estimates ~90% of Anthropic's business comes from agentic AI, while sources say nearly 25% of its revenue in 2025 came from just two clients (Financial Times)
• A profile of Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, who has overseen revenue growth from $2.27B in FY 2018 to $11.48B in FY 2026, as AI reshapes cybersecurity (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
• Anthropic says Claude for Government is now generally available to federal and state agencies, with Claude Code CLI and Claude for Microsoft 365 in early access (Claude)
| • Amazon introduces new Kindle Paperwhite, Colorsoft and entry-level models
• HP's Omnibook 5 features an OLED screen and costs $699
• Neurable launches its newest brain-scanning headphones
• Amazon's latest Kindle accessories bring physical buttons back to its ereaders
• Neon will make a truly open-source SCP movie after A24 controversy
• Google's first Gemini 4 model is 'Argon'
• California's new law bans companies from relying on AI to fire workers
• Apple TV is down
• How to watch NASA's Crew-13 launch
• Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey will advise the government on the future of warfare
• Fujifilm's Instax Pal 2 can plug directly into your smartphone to transfer images
• Breville's new $600 coffee machine makes pour-overs from scratch
• Reddit imposes new restrictions on Old Reddit
• An Analogue Pocket restock is coming October 2
• Tinder now offers group hangouts as an alternative to one-on-one dates
• Xbox's disc-to-digital feature is now available for everyone
• Freckle's smartphone aims to get kids back outside on their own
• Affordable alternatives to DJI's Osmo Pocket 4
• Nintendo's Mario Kart Tour mobile game is officially dead
• DoorDash drone deliveries are first coming to northern California with Chipotle and Popeyes on board
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