AI
Texas Wants Outside Approval for OpenAI's Next Models
Ken Paxton wants a court-approved evaluator to clear OpenAI's next releases, as he contests a close Senate race and Trump promotes AI development.
Technology
iPhone Duo Screens Are Cracking in the Same Spot
AI
Kimi K3.1 Pro: 33% Cheaper per Token, Not per Task
Technology
PHP2Shell: NSA Says Update PHP or Take Systems Offline
Technology
SpaceX Bought the Airwaves. It Still Needs a Phone Network.
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Automotive
Tesla's Roadster Leaps a Semi, With No Driver and No Price
Nearly nine years after its debut, Tesla's Roadster flipped on SpaceX thrusters with no one aboard. Production is set for 2028; delivery isn't promised.
AI
Gemini 4 Argon Ships With a 1M Context and a Dec. 1 Bill
Google's Gemini 4 Argon ties GPT-6 Astra on the Intelligence Index with a unified 1M window, while a 62K-token output habit and a Dec. 1 price hike loom.
Technology
Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday: 1,413 Flaws, 3 Zero-Days
Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 1,413 flaws, a record, with one exploited Windows Shell zero-day that CISA wants patched in three days. It is also the last update for Windows Server 2012, Exchange 2016 and 2019, and Office 2021.
AI
Muse Wonder and Wonder Full Put Meta Back at the Frontier
Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on October 12. Full ties for second on Artificial Analysis at max effort, but only Muse Code subscribers can use it.
Geopolitics
A Diesel Deal With Putin, Then a Call to Replace Zelensky
After a Trump-Putin call, Treasury licensed Russian diesel sales. A day later Trump said Ukraine needs a new president. Then he declared an energy truce.
Technology
The Memory Squeeze Hits Demand: iPhone 18 Pro Orders Cut, PCs Down 20%
Apple reportedly cut iPhone 18 Pro part orders at least 15%, and PC shipments fell over 20%. Memory costs are now shrinking sales, not just raising prices.
AI
Claude Haiku 5.5: Ten Times Cheaper, Until Prompts Pass 100K Tokens
Anthropic's small model costs a tenth as much per token as Haiku 4.5 on prompts up to 100K tokens. Effort settings and token counts set the real bill.
AI
Did iOS 27 Break ChatGPT Voice Mode with Apple CarPlay?
Since upgrading to iOS 27, incoming texts end my ChatGPT Voice sessions in CarPlay. Here's what happens and what I've checked.
Technology
Pentagon Breach: 3 Million Records, Nine Months, No Encryption
A DMDC file-sharing server held unencrypted Social Security numbers that intruders read from October to July. Letters came in September. Nobody has said who.
AI
Meta Hires MongoDB's CEO to Sell Muse to Business. No Prices Yet.
Meta named a third business pillar and hired MongoDB's CEO to run it. Four products, no pricing, no customers, and a trust question shaped like Workplace.