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BBC

  1. US removes all bombers from RAF Fairford base
  2. Green Party members back 'Zionism is racism' motion
  3. I'm a classic old school Conservative, says Kemi Badenoch
  4. Watch: What we know about Russian strikes on Kyiv bridges
  5. British Museum announces changes to ease Bayeux Tapestry queues
  6. Yemen's government announces all-out war to reclaim land from Houthis
  7. Christa Pike's prognosis still unclear after failed execution, lawyer says
  8. Glastonbury 2027 tickets sell out in 42 minutes
  9. Courts backlog will fall despite scrapping of jury trial plan, minister says
  10. US Marine arrested over murder of woman in Okinawa, Japan
  11. France to close up to 500 schools on Monday over student protests
  12. Wales' Elfyn Evans wins his first World Rally Championship
  13. Why Canada is preparing for an unlikely US invasion
  14. The Celebrity Traitors connections that might surprise you
  15. What to know about Brazil's election as Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro face off
  16. Gentle parenting, helicopter or snowplough – is there really a best way to be a parent?
  17. Daughter of MP murdered five years ago tells BBC politicians still at risk
  18. Australia investigating Flydubai co-pilot's links to country
  19. Kyiv bridge hit in further Russian drone attack as German chancellor makes surprise visit
  20. Hamilton bemused after glitch turns F1 into 'Lego race'
  21. Medieval leprosy hospital uncovered in Lincoln
  22. BBC News app
  23. Are The Public Ready To Vote Tory Again?
  24. Hamilton bemused after glitch turns F1 into 'Lego race'
  25. Humphries wins Grand Prix to end barren spell
  26. Arsenal 10 points off WSL leaders - is Slegers' job at risk?
  27. 'Money-grab' or celebration? NFL kicks off London series

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. The upcoming touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro is reportedly 'significantly lighter'
  2. Five iPhone 18 Pro features you'll want to try the second you unbox it
  3. What does V-Sync actually do to your PC's frames per second?
  4. A fourth RuneScape game is under development using Unreal Engine
  5. What causes screen tearing and how can you fix it?
  6. Sony digital camera model numbers explained: Bigger isn't always better
  7. Trump announces an AI czar for his newly created 'Super Intelligence Force'
  8. How to disable or restrict your iPhone's Apple Intelligence features
  9. Here's what you should do if only one of your AirPods is working
  10. Do gaming routers really make a difference?
  11. The pros and cons of enabling Wi-Fi calling
  12. How getting rid of some USB gadgets can improve your bad Wi-Fi
  13. Why you shouldn't sync your phone to a rental car
  14. Internet speeds vs. bandwidth: What's the difference?
  15. What is infill in 3D printing and is it necessary?
  16. Customizing your Samsung Galaxy phone is a bit easier with One UI 9
  17. How to use Android's Motion Assist feature to help with motion sickness
  18. How much does DDR5 RAM speed matter for gaming?
  19. What are amplifiers for and how important are they to your sound system's quality?
  20. How has Apple's Mac Studio changed over the years?

Pinboard

The Next Web

  1. Musk says Tesla’s robotaxis still cannot reliably see pets at night
  2. China wants solid-state batteries in use by 2030, and CATL rates them four out of nine
  3. SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son says superintelligence in the wrong hands could be “super dangerous”
  4. Trump names four officials to lead his Super Intelligence Force
  5. Zelensky asked Trump to block Russia’s Starlink rival, FT reports
  6. AI may cost us our ability to listen, oral historian warns in the Guardian
  7. US charges California man with smuggling $300mn of AI servers to China
  8. RBI chief says the next financial crisis may start with a cyberattack
  9. OpenAI safety staffer quits, says AI labs should run like nuclear plants
  10. Bessent says AI alarmism without solutions is not leadership

Smashing Magazine

  1. Under Autumn’s Spell (October 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  2. Stop Treating CSS Container Queries Like Traditional Media Queries
  3. Building A UX ROI Case That Survives The Boardroom
  4. The Death Of The Button: Why The Best Interface Is No Interface
  5. The Many Faces Of September (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  6. Rethinking Data Visualisation: A UX Approach To Dashboards That Actually Drives Decisions
  7. Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing
  8. Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animations
  9. New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling
  10. Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie
  11. How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript
  12. Small Joys And Big Adventures (August 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  13. The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI
  14. Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era
  15. Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs
  16. When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread
  17. No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
  18. From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction
  19. Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion
  20. Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas
  21. Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations
  22. Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface
  23. Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature
  24. Snapshots Of Summer (July 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  25. Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
  26. The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity
  27. The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research
  28. How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready
  29. June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  30. Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`
  31. Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It)
  32. Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
  33. Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With `sibling-index()` And `sibling-count()`
  34. Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI
  35. Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2)
  36. The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development
  37. Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools
  38. Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content
  39. A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  40. The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams

Wirecutter

  1. The Very Best October Prime Day Deals We’ve Already Found (Including Discounts You Won't See Anywhere Else)
  2. The 24 Best Gifts for Husbands (That Are Great for Anyone)
  3. The Best Bean Bag Chairs
  4. 21 Ways to Give the Gift of Luxury Without Spending a Fortune
  5. The Best Two-Player Board Games
  6. The Best Cotton Sheets
  7. 11 Spooky Video Games We Love for Halloween
  8. The Best Bath Towel
  9. The Best Jewelry Boxes and Organizers
  10. The Best GPS Running Watches

Sweethome

  1. The Best Bean Bag Chairs
  2. The Best Cotton Sheets
  3. The Best Bath Towel
  4. The Best Jewelry Boxes and Organizers
  5. The Best Label Makers
  6. 11 Things You Might Be Cleaning Wrong — and What To Do Instead
  7. The Best Cordless Stick Vacuum
  8. The Best Digital Photo Frame
  9. Every Space Deserves a Warm Glow. This Little Iconic Lamp Delivers.
  10. The Best Power Outage Tools and Supplies

Hacker News

  1. Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
  2. Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
  3. Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
  4. Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video]
  5. A map of every lighthouse
  6. 'Neanderthals Among Us' review
  7. I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around
  8. Results from the ASIC puzzle
  9. Show HN: Build with Python – a beginner course where your code draws
  10. Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash
  11. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
  12. How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video]
  13. A man who listens to whales
  14. Page Table Memory Consumption
  15. Declaring a bird extinct: The median wait is 36 years after the last sighting
  16. Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS
  17. Incentives in Academic Research
  18. The evolution of effective altruism
  19. All I wanted was a custom domain email
  20. Bill Draper has died
  21. A Minsky machine in ncurses terminfo
  22. Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
  23. Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline
  24. The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux
  25. What is going on with ceiling fans
  26. cp: -r or -R?
  27. Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
  28. Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
  29. Fog-Bank: Archiving the oldest webcam feed
  30. Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast

Ars Technica

  1. Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: a spotlight on Africa's diverse wildlife
  2. All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part.
  3. Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
  4. The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
  5. Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
  6. Someone got Doom in an SQL database
  7. Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
  8. Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed
  9. Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M
  10. The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship with energy
  11. US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
  12. Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
  13. US military ends long-running program to spot nuclear missile launches
  14. This startup pays NYC residents to run air conditioners on free batteries
  15. Cybertruck sales in free fall as Tesla reports mediocre sales for Q3
  16. The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI
  17. Rocket Report: SpaceX completes launch triple-header; Rocket Lab nets big contract
  18. TCL is right to question Samsung’s use of the term “Mini LED”
  19. Venus' mysterious haze is actually cosmic dust
  20. SpaceX describes surgical intervention before launch of latest crew mission

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

BoingBoing

  1. You're not using Claude to its full potential — this $15 E-Degree can help
  2. One and done—get 10TB of cloud storage for a one-time $359.99 payment
  3. Give your PC a makeover with MS Office Pro Plus 2019 and Windows 11 Pro for just $26
  4. Get professional coding tools and AI assistance for just $30 with this Microsoft deal
  5. Quantified Self cofounder Gary Wolf brings his new book to Los Angeles
  6. Rob Ullman drew a 48-page comic about his single day in Zion National Park
  7. Jared Kushner vows to someday argue with the press
  8. Doom ported to Commodore 64
  9. Manage your PDFs with ease for life with this $80 Mac PDF Editor 
  10. New camera database has 1482 entries and it hasn't even gotten to "B"
  11. Does Olivia Dean's "I've Seen It" copy Bill Withers' "Just The Two Of Us?"
  12. The most exciting thing about Amazon's 2026 Kindle refresh is a clicker
  13. Glass eyes, death masks, and human skulls: browse a weird auction's results
  14. Trump's Kennedy Center is apparently fencing the Steinways
  15. First-time U.S. passport applicants will soon be able to apply online
  16. Man exonerated by dashcam
  17. Ad for Huel meal replacement shakes banned in UK
  18. Mandelnaut: an atlas of beautiful fractals
  19. Pay $70 and get $150 in travel data with this lifetime eSIM
  20. Man charged with child rape set to become Louisiana police chief
  21. Japan court rules actors have right to their own voices
  22. Instax Pal 2: fun but pricey pocket toy camera
  23. RAM shortage to last two more years, say top manufacturers
  24. 11 mystery Flock cameras identified in Florida county
  25. Book of Shapes: customizable SVG patterns for print and web
  26. Trump keeps trying to label Texas' meat-eating Talarico a "vagan"
  27. France discovers the dubious pleasures of AI detection
  28. Sir Clive Sinclair on AI, from 2006
  29. Get Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus for $50 for life
  30. Grandpa Pudding Brains demonstrates the little "steering-wheels" airplanes "used to have"

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (9-28-26 to 10-2-26)
  2. Translucent Leather Wallets
  3. In an Industrial Space, a Freestanding Bedroom Structure as Home-Within-a-Home
  4. These Ignition Button Covers for Cars Will Surely Fill the Hole in Your Life
  5. Hell in a Handbasket: An Add-On Reading Screen for Your Phone So You Don't Have to Develop Willpower
  6. UTV Decks: How to Transport a UTV Without a Trailer
  7. "A Design Wonderland:" The X-D-E-P-O-T, a Repository of Good Design
  8. London Design Festival 2026
  9. Strutt's Chief Designer Covers the Development of Their Powered Wheelchair Battery
  10. The Unusual Joinery in Abuse Studio's 1000L Furniture
  11. LDF 2026: Design collectives
  12. Meta's Radically Thinner, More Lightweight VR Glasses
  13. AI Has Changed What Makes a Great Designer
  14. Titan Straps: Fast, Tough Tie-Down Straps Invented for a Bikerafting Trip
  15. A "Mirror" Made Out of Motorized Penguins

CNET

Reddit

The Verge

  1. The new Fitbit Edge leaks
  2. Prick’s theatrical industrial punk is perfect for spooky season
  3. The best early October Prime Day deals happening now
  4. NJ’s former Lt Gov is using AI to say he’s innocent of sexual harassment
  5. An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
  6. This toolless modular lever-action wallet is the coolest I’ve stuck to my phone
  7. The AirPods Pro 3 are a fantastic deal at $179
  8. The MacBook Air M5 is $200 off for the first time in months
  9. The iPad Mini is slightly cheaper again during Prime Day
  10. The forgotten Chromebook that started it all

Wired

  1. 15 Best Office Chairs of 2026—We Tested 70 to Pick Them
  2. The Best Gifts Under $25 for Everyone on Your List (2026)
  3. The Best Online Gift Cards and Digital Gift Ideas (2026)
  4. Meta Glasses Nova (Gen 3) Review: Not Much New
  5. Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break
  6. Keurig Alta First-Look: No More Plastic K-Cups
  7. Elusive ‘Geoneutrinos’ Are Building a New Map of Earth’s Volatile Interior
  8. The Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100 Price Hike
  9. Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
  10. How to Collect CDs
  11. The Best E-Readers That Aren't a Kindle (2026): Kobo, Boox
  12. Best Mosquito Repellents for Your Yard: What Works and What Doesn’t (2026)
  13. A Decade-Long Experiment Is Unlocking the Mysteries of the Ocean’s ‘Deep Reefs’
  14. 50% Off DoorDash Promo Code | October 2026
  15. Surfshark Promo Codes: 87% Off | October 2026
  16. Klook Promo Code: 25% Off October 2026
  17. Hoka Coupon Codes: 30% Off in October 2026
  18. 20% Off Brooks Promo Code | October 2026
  19. Chewy Promo Codes: $20 Off October 2026
  20. ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

LifeHacker

  1. The Top 10 TV Series Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  2. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  3. Apple Wants to Make It Harder to Run Agentic AI on Your Mac
  4. Changing This Setting May Extend Your Battery Life on iOS 27
  5. Why I Think the Apple Watch Series 12 Is Worth the Upgrade
  6. October Prime Day 2026 Live Blog: The Best Deals on Headphones, TVs, Fitness Tech, and More
  7. Four Major Issues Are Plaguing the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max
  8. 15 Hacks Every Opera Browser User Should Know
  9. These DeWalt Cordless Power Tools Are up to 40% Off at Lowe's Right Now
  10. The Top 10 Movies Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  11. These Are the Best Bluetooth Speaker Deals for October Prime Day
  12. This TP-Link Wi-Fi 7 Router Is 32% Off for October Prime Day
  13. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  14. The Best Deals on Anker Tech During the October Prime Day Sale
  15. These Are the Best Laptop Deals From the October Prime Day Sale
  16. 10 Apple 'Photos' Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
  17. Why You Shouldn't Expect a Tiny Kindle Any Time Soon
  18. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in October
  19. The Best Deals on Fitness Equipment From the October Prime Day Sale
  20. The Best Outdoor Home Maintenance Tools on Sale for October Prime Day
  21. I Tried the Pixel Watch's New 'Health Guardian,' and I'm Not Convinced It's Useful
  22. 10 Shows Like 'Crew Girl' You Should Watch Next
  23. You Could Lose Your Access to 'Old Reddit' Forever, but There's a Workaround
  24. Amazon Just Released New Kindles, but I'm More Excited About the Accessories
  25. The Kindle Kids Is Nearly $60 Off for October Prime Day
  26. These Are the Best Cordless Power Tools on Sale at Home Depot, Ahead of October Prime Day
  27. These Are the Best October Prime Day Deals on Specialty Tools for DIY
  28. These Are the Best October Prime Day Deals on Power Banks
  29. This Eero Max Wifi Mesh System Is $350 Off for October Prime Day
  30. These Are the Best October Prime Day Deals on Smart Home Tech
  31. 10 Hacks Every 'YNAB' User Should Know
  32. The Best Deals on Sony Tech During October Prime Day
  33. This Credit Card-Sized E-Reader Has a Front Light and a Touchscreen, and It's 15% Off for October Prime Day
  34. How to Sign up for Amazon's ‘Invite-Only’ Deals During October Prime Day
  35. This Compact Sony Soundbar Is Under $100 in an October Prime Day Sale
  36. One Tech Brand Will Get the Biggest Discounts During October Prime Day
  37. 10 'One UI 9' Hacks Every Samsung Galaxy User Should Know
  38. Three Reasons Not to Use ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ During the Amazon Prime Day Sale
  39. Is the Treadmill or Your Watch More Accurate on How Far You've Run?
  40. How Often You Need to Order From Amazon to Cover the Cost of Prime
  41. These Are the Best Deals on Apple Products From the October Prime Day Sale
  42. If You Loved 'Furious,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  43. Your Mac Should Be Doing More of the Work. Here's How MacPaw Helps
  44. These Are the Best October Prime Day Deals on Cordless Power Tools
  45. This Versatile Multi-Port Charger Is on Sale for Under $100 Right Now
  46. These Top-Rated TVs Are up to 41% Off for October Prime Day
  47. 10 Spotlight Search Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
  48. The Best Deals on Tablets and iPads From the October Prime Day Sale
  49. The US Government Just Launched an AI Chatbot
  50. These Are the Best October Prime Day Deals on Smartwatches
  51. ‘Aura Battle,’ ‘Tylenol Baby,’ and Other Gen Z and Gen Alpha Slang You Might Need Help Decoding
  52. OpenAI Just Announced 'Dots,' a New Type of Personalized AI Agent
  53. 10 Shows Like 'Lioness' You Should Watch Next
  54. 10 Hacks Every Canva User Should Know
  55. Spotify and Claude Are Both Down
  56. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is Viking Rap?
  57. These Are the Best Headphones on Sale Right Now for October Prime Day
  58. This Blink Floodlight Camera Is 60% Off for October Prime Day
  59. These Fire TV Soundbars Are up to 42% Off for October Prime Day
  60. These Kindle Scribes Are 21% Off for October Prime Day
  61. This 65-Inch Sony OLED TV Is $800 Off During the October Prime Day Sale
  62. These Are the Best Tech Gifts Under $50
  63. 10 Security Hacks Every Local AI User Should Know
  64. Sam's Club Has Some Great Tech Deals to Compete With October Prime Day
  65. This Hanging Dryer Finally Solved My Smelly Shoe Problem
  66. If Your iPhone 18 Pro Is Randomly Rebooting, There's a Fix
  67. If You Love 'American Horror Story,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  68. These Are the Best October Prime Day Deals on Tools
  69. The Boox Picco Is a Contender for My New Favorite Tiny E-Reader
  70. These Are the Best October Prime Day Deals on DeWalt Cordless Tools
  71. This Blink 2K+ Doorbell and Five-Camera Bundle Is 71% Off for October Prime Day
  72. This 65-Inch Samsung Mini-LED TV Is at Its Lowest Price Ever for October Prime Day
  73. This Philips Smart Door Lock With Handle Is 26% Off for October Prime Day
  74. This Highly Rated TCL Mini-LED TV Is 32% Off for October Prime Day
  75. Five Game-Changing Features on Garmin's Fenix 9 Pro
  76. Everything You Need to Know About the October Prime Day Sale
  77. This Massive Paper-Like TCL Tablet Is 26% Off for October Prime Day
  78. I Taped a Fitbit to My Arm for a Week, and I Admit It's a Good Hack
  79. This Credit Card-Sized E-Reader Is 15% Off in Amazon's October Prime Day Sale
  80. I Tried Google’s New Image Editor, and It Could Replace Canva and Photoshop
  81. Five Ad Blocker Hacks Every Android User Should Know
  82. I Tried Snap Specs, and They Could Be the Future of Smart Glasses
  83. This Foldable Anker Charger Is 34% Off for October Prime Day
  84. This Tiny Clip-On Bluetooth Speaker Is $30 Off for October Prime Day
  85. This Pixel Watch 4 Is $120 Off for October Prime Day
  86. The GoPro Lit Hero Is $65 Off in This Early October Prime Day Sale
  87. What's New on Netflix in October 2026
  88. I Tested the Apple Watch's New Heart Rate Sensor to See If It's Really Better Than Garmin's
  89. The Best Amazon Prime Benefits You Probably Don't Know About
  90. These Are the Biggest Announcements From Meta Connect 2026
  91. These Are the Best Price-Tracking Tools I Use As a Deals Writer
  92. 10 Shows Like 'American Horror Story' You Should Watch Next
  93. The Best Power Tools to Gift Your Favorite DIYer
  94. I Tried Siri AI on My New Apple Watch, and I'm Frustrated
  95. How Garmin's New 'Epic' Feature Helps Me See the Bigger Picture of My Training
  96. Apple Has a Fix for Your New Apple Watch's Restart Bug
  97. Apple Intelligence Is Taking Up Way More Storage Than Apple Promised on These Devices
  98. 10 uBlock Origin Hacks Everyone Should Know
  99. Why You Probably Won't Have to Verify Your Age With Discord After All
  100. Have Deletion Anxiety? The Anti-Minimalist’s Guide to Essential Mac Maintenance

The Onion

The Register

TechMeme

  1. Sources: Anthropic's stock match of employee charity gifts hit $660M+ in the six months through March, likely to reach billions post-IPO, diluting shareholders (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
  2. Sources: Schneider Electric is in advanced talks to buy US engineering software firm PTC for ~$20B, its largest acquisition; a deal could come as soon as Monday (Financial Times)
  3. Extracted system prompts show Meta's Muse compiles "a page for every person in the user's life", with facts, history, tips to improve relationships, and more (Wired)
  4. Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits; Meta backs ones making app stores, not platforms, verify ages (Owen Dahlkamp/Politico)
  5. In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its AI unit SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump's push to replace "artificial" intelligence with "super" (Chandni Shah/Reuters)
  6. DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi says his data center investment group will become SoftBank's "third-party infrastructure arm" after SoftBank's ~$4B takeover closed (Financial Times)
  7. Sources: John Ternus has effectively become Apple's design chief, working in the studio several times a week; OLED touch-screen MacBook Pro will be much lighter (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
  8. Trump announces a new Super Intelligence Force, to be led by DNI Jay Clayton, along with FTC's Andrew Ferguson, DOD's Emil Michael, and OPM's Scott Kupor (Politico)
  9. A profile of Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, who is the company's first senior executive from Gen Z and has succeeded in building hype for Muse (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
  10. Q&A with OpenAI VP of Hardware Richard Ho on its Jalapeño inference chip co-designed with Broadcom, using internal OpenAI models to design the chip, and more (Dr. Ian Cutress/More Than Moore)
  11. As AI automates parts of pure mathematics research, a look at formalization challenges and why human imagination remains key to deciding which questions to ask (Stephen Wolfram/Stephen Wolfram Writings)
  12. Google prepares to defend a £1.2B UK class action lawsuit over claims it levied "excessive" charges on Android apps downloaded from Google Play since 2015 (Financial Times)
  13. Toshiba plans to double HDD production capacity for AI data centers within FY2027 from its 2025 level, targeting a 30% share by storage capacity, up from ~10% (Keigo Yoshida/Nikkei Asia)
  14. Google freezes product flaw submissions to its OSS Vulnerability Reward Program over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports, plans an update by Q1 2027 (Etiido Uko/Tom's Hardware)
  15. Google says free Gemini users will be limited to the 3.5 Flash-Lite model from October 9, while Plus subscribers will be limited to 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.6 Flash (Abner Li/9to5Google)