BBC
- Man dies after tiger attack at wildlife park
- 'Time for Ukraine to get new president,' says Trump after Zelensky condemns diesel deal
- US murderer Christa Pike discharged from hospital 10 days after failed execution
- Sara Sharif's grandfather granted guardianship of her siblings in Pakistan
- King warns malicious online actors are evolving tactics
- Expedition hopes to find aviator Amelia Earhart's plane on remote island
- Northern Lights stun UK down to England's south coast
- Ashe was too scared to cancel her wedding, then her story became a hit song
- I couldn't access my family's medical history - not knowing was terrifying
- Public executions in the US stopped nearly a century ago, why are they resuming now?
- Afrobeats singer Ayra Starr on making history at her NFL half-time show in London
- Boots has a new owner: Three ways it could affect you
- Russian glide bomb attack on Zaporizhzhia kills at least 15 people including three children
- Four dead and thousands without power after Hurricane Isaias lashes US
- Nobel peace laureate says US sanctions on ICC 'unacceptable'
- Worker paralysed in 30ft fall from pylon gets £10m payout
- Ceremony marks return home of kiwi feather cloak
- Several injured in attack on airport in Saudi capital Riyadh
- Green Party MP wants to make sure it is 'not vulnerable to extremists'
- 'My donated Brummie accent gives me confidence'
- We're saving £100 a month for our kids but they won't get it until they're 57
- Scotland's 'Chornobyl' housing scheme takes starring role in new horror film
- How student went from YouTube to Bake Off
- BBC News app
- Does Zack Polanski Face A Leadership Crisis?
- Brad Pitt stars as a tank commander on a dangerous mission in WWII
- Boos, anguish & fading belief -'worrying day' for under-pressure Carrick
- The rock behind Chelsea's entertainers: Midfield duo key for Blues
- Verstappen building major momentum as 'no-one very happy' at McLaren
- Hincapie injury adds to Arsenal issues after Guimaraes rescue act
- 'I kissed Rodrigo and said thanks' - De Zerbi 'liked' Spurs red card
- Northampton outgun Bath in 119-point thriller
- Timely recognition or long overdue? How Gross is proving all-time bargain
Bitcoin
Engadget
- This Android Auto problem is affecting calls on foldable phones
- How to quickly check your Samsung Galaxy's warranty info
- What is ray tracing in gaming and does it really make a difference?
- Anthropic says its AI agents tried to break into government websites
- How to reset your Samsung TV
- GameStop is hoping PS5 Pro buyers are desperate enough to pay $500 over MSRP
- How Xiaomi, Oppo and other non-US brands are challenging the iPhone Duo
- 5 Samsung Galaxy features you should be using after updating to One UI 9
- Why your smart speaker keeps misunderstanding you (and how to fix it)
- How to change your home address on Google Maps
- How to take care of your foldable phone's hinge
- Can you use a screen protector with your foldable phone?
- Google Japan created one of the strangest keyboards ever, and we're dying to try it
- How to drop a pin on Google Maps
- What is QoS on your router, and should you turn it on?
- What's the difference between RAM and ROM memory?
- How to change your Apple ID country (and what you should do beforehand)
- Engadget review recap: The best of 2026
- A grief-stricken road trip, The Traitors on the go and other new indie games worth checking out
- Tesla's Full Self-Driving is now called Assisted Driving in Europe
Pinboard
The Next Web
- Turkey’s social media ban for under-15s starts on 1 November
- Trump’s AI liability push leaves rogue-agent blame unclear, Bloomberg says
- UK can’t rely on AI that could be switched off, Turing chief tells Guardian
- EIF’s incoming chief says Europe’s Tech Champions funds hold 15 unicorns
- Vittorio Colao defends copyright rules and the DSA in Europe’s AI debate
- Nvidia’s comms chief leaves after four months, Business Insider reports
- Salesforce renames AIForce to SIForce as Trump’s AI rebrand spreads
- Ramp hits $60bn valuation in $1.85bn round, Bloomberg reports
- Law firm Quinn Emanuel maps how AI data centre debt could unravel
- Cirrus Logic made rival bid for Synaptics, Bloomberg reports
Smashing Magazine
- A Practical Guide To Naming Things
- Under Autumn’s Spell (October 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- Stop Treating CSS Container Queries Like Traditional Media Queries
- Building A UX ROI Case That Survives The Boardroom
- The Death Of The Button: Why The Best Interface Is No Interface
- The Many Faces Of September (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- Rethinking Data Visualisation: A UX Approach To Dashboards That Actually Drives Decisions
- Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing
- Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animations
- New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling
- Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie
- How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript
- Small Joys And Big Adventures (August 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI
- Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era
- Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs
- When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread
- No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
- From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction
- Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion
- Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas
- Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations
- Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface
- Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature
- Snapshots Of Summer (July 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
- The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity
- The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research
- How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready
- June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`
- Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It)
- Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
- Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With `sibling-index()` And `sibling-count()`
- Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI
- Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2)
- The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development
- Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools
- Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content
- A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
Wirecutter
Sweethome
Hacker News
- 2D Vehicles
- Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster
- Knuth reward check
- Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation
- The Lightbulb Computer
- Nix wrote half of my debugger
- Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier
- Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI
- Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0
- Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry
- Grieving the loss of details
- How strong is the strong interaction?
- REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
- OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller
- Triple-A Minesweeper
- Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction
- Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen
- Bitwarden Dual License Model
- Unikernels were hard. key word: were
- How Protein Took over the World
- I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
- Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots
- 50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC
- Chip-hex:cost-benefit, energy efficiency and hexagonal
- Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)
- Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years
- Takeshi's Castle
- `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach
- PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial
- Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text
Ars Technica
- One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
- Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
- Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
- A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis
- NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
- What's been driving Hawaii's lava fountains?
- AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
- Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial
- PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
- AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
- Your artwork could be featured in the next Debian release
- Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
- Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency
- Rocket Report: A rare Falcon 9 scrub; is it just about Vulcan's time to shine?
- Volkswagen's replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here
- SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink
- Judge weighs if Trump can charge $100K for early access to Truth Social posts
- Trump Mobile hack and apparent lack of FCC authorization raise security alarms
- Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules
- RIP Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing
Digg
New Scientist
Slashdot
- Claude Sent Police a Fake Murder Tip. White House Mandates AI Companies Report Security Incidents
- OpenAI Disrupts Two AI-Enabled 'False Front' Influence Operations That Included Seven Fake Journalists
- Another Woman Sues Flock For Mistaken Crime Accusation By Police - and for Surveillance
- Meta Developing Compressed RAM 'CRAM' For Linux: Better Than ZRAM and Zswap?
- First Thorium Nuclear Clocks Begin to Tick
- AI Surveillance Startup Flock To Cut Several Hundred Jobs Amid Backlash, Sources Say
- Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties In France
- A 1960 Paper Published In Science Predicts World Will End Next Month
- Apollo Software Pioneer Margaret Hamilton Dies at 90
- US Bars Microsoft, Adobe, and Major IT Firms From Green Card Program
- Emmy Awards Leave Broadcast TV For Prime Video
- Female AI Agents 'Paid' Less Than Males, Study Finds
- Chrome 155 Ships Decoding Support For JPEG XL
- OpenAI Unleashes Hundreds More Math Results Upon a Field Already In Shock
- Campus Censorship Wars, 25 Years After a Slashdot Q&A
BoingBoing
- Windows 11 Pro: Access advanced professional tools for $8
- This Loom alternative lets you record and share your screen instantly for $25
- Vectorbeam Doom
- Get lifetime access to all Babbel language lessons with this exclusive offer
- The splootin' squirrels of SoCal are keepin' cool
- Sunny, 80 degrees, and Newport Beach is flooding
- Maybe Trump's taxpayer-funded ads are a public service after all
- New Mexico pipeline explodes, launches 100-foot flames and starts a wildfire
- Tom the Dancing Bug: Mark Zuckerberg presents "A.I. and U!"
- Stolen Renoirs recovered in France; six suspects in custody
- Trump admits he deliberately misnames Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed
- A theatrical morning with Nancy's Ernie Bushmiller
- Cyberpunk 2077 to get a live-action adaptation
- Classic puzzle game Machinarium is getting a surprise sequel
- Save up to $500 per flight with Matt's Flights Premium Plan for $40 for life
- An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem
- Pentagon to publicly livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan
- The FBI's online gallery of stolen art
- You can now play P.T. natively on PC, no remake required
- Trump resorts to misnaming Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed
- This 100TB cloud storage sticks with you for life, and it just went on sale
- Golden statue of Donald Trump unveiled at European Parliament
- Jeff Bezos explains AI by comparing it to other things people don't want
- Collection of classic PC demos in the browser
- "A missile into San Diego or Los Angeles," Trump again describes the danger he brought home
- JD Vance defines socialism with bigotry, not economics or socialism
- This game turns job hunting into the Oregon Trail
- Wired and Neal.fun team up to spend Elon's trillion dollars
- Your monitors may take up more space than this tiny Lenovo PC
- Time to lock in! Get MS Office Professional Plus for 93% off
Core77
- Core77 Weekly Roundup (10-5-26 to 10-9-26)
- Researchers Develop a Tire Prototype with Replaceable Treads
- Red Bull's Hilarious Flugtag DIY Flying Machine Competition
- A Handmade Iron Pourover Coffee Rig
- Inkaren's Corner-Bound Notebooks
- BMW Unveils Radical New 3 Series Cockpit
- This In-Flight Cocooning Blanket
- An Industrial Design Classic: Richard Sapper's Telefunken Match
- Ettore Sottsass's Convention-Bucking Valigia Desk Lamp
- User Feedback Yields a Useful Study Object Made of Brass
- A Bauhausian Take on the Coat Rack
- A Simple, Versatile, "Handy" Mobile Furniture Piece
- Industrial Designer Eduardo Blanco's Cartesian Pencil Holders
- A Super-Easy-to-Install Add-On Clip for Swiss Army Knives
- The Tuff Jug Ripper Cap Solves a Tricky Fueling Situation
CNET
The Verge
- DistroKid has been quietly taking down songs in response to UMG lawsuit
- Ledger wallet tampering suspected after reports of crypto thefts
- K-pop star Sunmi loves Notion and ear cleaning videos
- Anthropic is cutting off its internal evaluations from the internet
- Will Warner Bros. kill Skydance — or will David Ellison kill Warner Bros?
- LG’s RGB LED TV is good for certain situations, but an OLED is better
- AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
- The techlash has gone Hollywood
- The Telo MT1 is a big truck trapped in a tiny truck’s body
- The director of Fjord takes the ‘risky position’ of moderator
Wired
- AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
- Best Lego Gifts for Brick Builders (2026): Smart Bricks, Video Games, and More
- The Best Smart Scales for Tracking Weight and Body Composition (2026)
- Humans Watched This Supernova Explode Nearly a Millennium Ago. Now You Can See It in High Definition
- How This Tiny Startup Built the World’s Safest Bike Helmet
- LG Promo Codes and Coupons for October 2026
- 30% Off Canon Promo Codes | October 2026
- Disney Plus Discount Codes: 52% Off October 2026
- Home Depot Promo Codes: 30% Off in October 2026
- Altra Running Promo Codes: 10% Off October 2026
- eBay Coupons: 20% Off in October 2026
- Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Becomes ‘Assisted Driving’ in Europe
- Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
- NASA Just Made Nearly 1 TB of Artemis II Data Available to the Public
- The DOJ Is Weighing Perjury Charges Against Cassidy Hutchinson
- I’m Still Convinced the iPod Was the Perfect Gadget
- Dunking on Dating App Profiles Is Content Gold. People Are Getting Sick of It
- The Best Mac Desktop to Buy (2026): Mac Mini, Mac Studio, or iMac?
- Best Battery-Powered Leaf Blowers (2026): Tested for Power, Battery Life, and Noise
- Even ‘Law & Order’ Is Terrified of AI
LifeHacker
- Five New Features Coming to Your iPhone in iOS 27.2
- There's Now a Better Way to Turn Off AI 'Insights' in the Google Health App
- I Tried the At-Home Flu Vaccine, and It Was Great
- I Tested Google’s New AI Image Detector, and It’s Difficult (but Not Impossible) to Trick
- 10 Shows Like 'Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story' You Should Watch Next
- You Can Use Your iPhone As an ID in These 16 States
- Roku's Pro Series OLED TV Is $400 Off Right Now
- This Anker Portable Projector (With Google TV) Is $100 Off Right Now
- This DeWalt Drill and Driver Combo Is Still 38% Off After Prime Day
- This DeWalt 192-Piece Tool Set Is Still 32% Off After October Prime Day
- The Best Deals on Power Banks Still Available After October Prime Day
- My Favorite JBL Headphones Are Still 60% Off After October Prime Day
- The Best Bluetooth Speakers Still on Sale for Under $50 After October Prime Day
- This 32-Inch Roku LED TV is Still Under $100 After October Prime Day
- This Samsung Galaxy Tablet Is $70 Off After October Prime Day
- Your Mac Should Be Doing More of the Work. Here's How MacPaw Helps
- We Now Know When Apple Will Host Its Next Big Tech Event
- These Are the Best Deals You Can Still Get on Smartwatches After October Prime Day
- These Fitness Tracker Deals Are Still Live After October Prime Day
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- The Best Fitness Equipment Deals Still Live After October Prime Day
- You Can Still Save 19% on the Galaxy Z Fold Ultra After October Prime Day
- The Entire Samsung Galaxy S26 Lineup Is Still on Sale After October Prime Day
- Apple's Latest Mac Mini Is Still at Its Lowest Price Ever After October Prime Day
- The Best Apple Watch for Most People Is Still on Sale After October Prime Day
- The AirPods Pro 3 Are Still $70 Off After October Prime Day
- Apple's AirPods Max 2 Are Still 22% Off After October Prime Day
- You Can Still Save $160 on Apple's Latest MacBook Pro After October Prime Day
- You Can Get a MacBook Air for What It Cost Before the RAM Crisis
- These Are the Best Laptop Deals Still Live After October Prime Day
- These Are the Best Deals on Apple Tech After the October Prime Day Sale
- This Last-Minute October Prime Day Deal Gets You the Sonos Arc Ultra for $200 Off
- This Rugged Bose Bluetooth Speaker Is Still 30% Off in This Last-Minute October Prime Day Deal
- This Tiny E-Reader Has a Front Light and Touchscreen, and It's Even Cheaper After October Prime Day
- Bose's New Dolby Atmos Soundbar Is $255 Off in This Last-Minute October Prime Day Deal
- This Is the Beginner Tool Set I Gift to Everyone, and It's Still 20% Off Before October Prime Day Ends
- These Are the Best Last-Minute Deals on Bluetooth Speakers Before October Prime Day Ends Tonight
- These Are the Best Last-Minute Deals on Smart Home Tech Before October Prime Day Ends Tonight
- These Are the Best Last-Minute October Prime Day Deals on Home Improvement Tools
- These Are the Best Last-Minute Deals on DIY Specialty Tools Before October Prime Day Ends, up to 40% Off
- The Best Last-Minute Deals on Outdoor Home Maintenance Power Tools Before October Prime Day Ends Tonight
- These DeWalt Cordless Power Tools Are Still up to 40% Off at Lowe's Right Now
- These Are the Best Last-Minute Deals on DeWalt Cordless Tools Before October Prime Day Ends Tonight
- The Best Last-Minute Deals on Shokz Running Headphones Before October Prime Day Ends, up to $90 Off
- This Gemini-Powered Google Pixel Watch 5 Is $85 Off Before October Prime Day Ends Tonight
- The Best Last-Minute Deals on Samsung Tech Before October Prime Day Ends
- This 25W Anker Wireless Charger Is Nearly $100 Off Until October Prime Day Ends Tonight
- This Last-Minute Prime Day Deals Makes Samsung’s Rotating-Bezel Galaxy Watch 8 Classic Is $160 Off
- These Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Are $80 Off Until October Prime Day Ends Tonight
- This 12-Piece SimpliSafe Home Security Kit Is Nearly $180 Off Until October Prime Day Ends Tonight
- This Retro Handheld Game Console Is a Great Last-Minute Deal for October Prime Day
- My Favorite Adjustable Dumbbells and Weight Bench Are Both on Sale Until October Prime Day Ends Tonight
- October Prime Day 2026 Live Blog: The Best Deals on Headphones, TVs, Fitness Tech, and More
- This Massive Paper-Like TCL Tablet Is 30% Off Until October Prime Day Ends Tonight
- These Kindle Scribes Are a Great Last-Minute Prime Day Buy at 21% Off
- These Essential Tools Are on Sale for up to 34% Off Until October Prime Day Ends Tonight
- This Tiny Clip-On Bluetooth Speaker Is Under $50 Before October Prime Day Ends Tonight
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- These Are the Best Last-Minute Deals on Headphones From the October Prime Day Sale
- The Best Last-Minute Deals on Sony Tech During October Prime Day
- These Are the Best Last-Minute October Prime Day Deals on Kindles and E-Readers
- These Credit Card-Sized E-Readers Are up to 21% Off Until October Prime Day Ends Tonight
- Get 67% Off These JBL Noise-Cancelling Earbuds Before October Prime Day Ends
- The Best Last-Minute Deals on Tablets and iPads During October Prime Day
- Don't Miss These Last-Minute October Prime Day Deals on Anker Tech
- 10 Shows Like 'Carrie' You Should Watch Next
- Amazon's New 'About You' Page Lists Everything It Knows About You
- Ring Designed a Keyless Smart Lock That Can Still Open When the Battery Dies
- The Marshall Emberton III Bluetooth Speaker Is Just $99 for October Prime Day
- This Amazon Fire TV Stick Is Just $38 Right Now for October Prime Day
- This TP-Link Wi-Fi 7 Router Is 40% Off for October Prime Day
- This Highly Rated TCL Mini-LED TV Is 57% Off for October Prime Day
- This Lightweight Titanium Hammer Is 20% Off for October Prime Day
- The GoPro Lit Hero Is 33% Off for October Prime Day
- 10 Hacks Every Plex User Should Know
- This Compact Sony Soundbar Is Under $100 for October Prime Day
- The Kindle Kids Is Only $123 for October Prime Day
- This Eero Max Wifi Mesh System Is $350 Off for October Prime Day
- Peloton Equipment Is up to $1,000 Off During the October Prime Day Sale
- The Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 Are $70 Off for October Prime Day
- This Battery-Powered Blink Video Doorbell Is 55% Off for October Prime Day
- My Favorite Set of Adjustable Dumbbells Is $60 Off for October Prime Day
- 10 Shows Like 'Reasonable Doubt' You Should Watch Next
- This Philips Smart Door Lock With Handle Is Just $100 for October Prime Day
- This Is the Massage Gun I'm Buying During the October Prime Day Sale
- This 65-Inch Samsung Mini-LED TV Is at Its Lowest Price Ever for October Prime Day
- These Top-Rated TVs Are up to 53% Off for October Prime Day
- The Best Budget Treadmill Is Even Cheaper During Amazon's October Prime Day Sale
- This Foldable Anker Charger Is 34% Off for October Prime Day
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- The Best Fitness Trackers to Give As Gifts
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- The Best October Prime Day Deals on Home Security From Eufy, Blink, Yale, and More
- These Are the Best Cordless Power Tools on Sale at Home Depot During October Prime Day
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The Onion
The Register
TechMeme
- "Super Intelligence systems" are black boxes that shouldn't be trusted by companies, and strong deterministic systems are needed around their deployment (Satya Nadella/@satyanadella)
- Hundreds of AI-decompiled or vibe-coded clones of games appeared in recent weeks, ported to run in browsers; some big titles like GTA: Vice City, Halo play well (Lewis Parker/Kotaku)
- Sources: Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more into US open-weights AI startup Reflection AI; the deal may be an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny (Financial Times)
- IDC: Shenzhen-based DJI and Insta360, accounting for 73% and 20% of global smart camera market in Q2, are vying for the top spot as GoPro's share drops to 3% (William Langley/Financial Times)
- A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access (CBS News)
- A profile of Zach Frankel, a secretive and unusually hands-on solo investor who wrote the first checks to startups like Ramp, Cognition, and Applied Compute (Jemima McEvoy/The Information)
- How Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown used GOP ties to end a June standoff over model safety and win over Musk, brokering a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal (Wall Street Journal)
- Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more (Adam Morgan/Wired)
- A look at Walmart's troubled push to automate its ~200 US warehouses, as it and partners like Symbotic face technical setbacks; Walmart owns 12.6% of Symbotic (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)
- Current and former employees say TikTok US still coordinates closely with the global TikTok org, and US staff continue to use ByteDance's internal chat app Lark (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/Politico)
- A look at differing revenue calculations of Anthropic and OpenAI, as Anthropic books gross sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI records only its net share (Bloomberg)
- Laptop production share outside China is expected to fall from 24% in 2025 to 21% in 2026 as PC makers rethink shifting production amid soaring component costs (TrendForce)
- Chip design software leader Synopsys says it is exploring partnerships with Chinese AI labs to develop AI-powered chip design tools for the Chinese market (Yifan Yu/Nikkei Asia)
- Sources detail how Firmus' IPO collapsed in 48 hours after US fund managers deemed its $30B valuation too rich for a company with just $51M in FY 2026 revenue (Bloomberg)
- Circana: US Xbox unit sales fell 33% YoY to an all-time low in 2026 through August, while PS5 sales fell 25%, as both consoles hit record high average prices (Kaan Serin/Eurogamer.net)