- Intel gets waiver after worries fuzzy US ban on foreign-made robots may hit fabs
ars-technica· 23-oct
Company says foreign-made robotic vehicles are crucial to US chip production.
- Spotify ramps up policy enforcement on family plans
ars-technica· 23-oct
If you share Spotify sub with family, you may need to scan QR code to prove it.
- Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising
ars-technica· 23-oct
Turning on Personal Intelligence gives the company more data for ad targeting.
- RFK Jr.’s vaccine injury clinic could damage NIH hospital, board warns
ars-technica· 23-oct
"Trust is slow to build and quick to lose," board chair Jack Leslie said.
- A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature
ars-technica· 24-oct
A new model suggests Mars may host ice-forming physics never directly observed before.
- Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals
ars-technica· 23-oct
Birds' compact nervous system seems to help them handle tasks very quickly.
- Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that
ars-technica· 24-oct
The tiny remains of the Laurentide Ice Sheet began getting somewhat less tiny.
- NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings, finally solves long-festering Orion issue
ars-technica· 23-oct
"We have the mandate, we have the resources, and the support from our stakeholders."
- Inside the Pentagon, the pressure is on to find a home for a new spaceport
ars-technica· 23-oct
Space Force considering options: public-private, federal installation, state land.
- Hegseth warns prediction market bets warp military judgment, endanger troops
ars-technica· 23-oct
Pentagon memo: Insider trading gives US enemies key intel on military operations.
- We can do impossible things
mit-tech-review· 21-oct
I’d wager everyone has a rehearsed response to what’s absolutely one of the world’s worst interview questions: “What’s your biggest weakness?” Whenever I’ve gotten it, I take a slow—even pensive—breath and rattle off my line: “I say no to myself too much.” I won’t lie. It’s a bit shameless—a definite humblebrag. I’m a systems thinker:…
- The Download: introducing the Impossible issue
mit-tech-review· 21-oct
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Impossible issue We wanted our last print edition of 2026 to include a slate of stories that check in on impossible ideas. Why? Because it’s fun to dream about…
- The Foundations of Scalable AI
mit-tech-review· 22-oct
A scalable AI system requires a strong foundation. Data, engineering, platforms, operating models, and governance must converge to work as one. This session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Future conference explores what it takes to build that foundation in a highly regulated environment and how a responsible, trustworthy implementation can turn emerging capabilities, including agentic…
- Designing an AI serving harness built to last
mit-tech-review· 22-oct
The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build around it. That’s an important shift. For the past several years, much of the AI conversation has centered on model capability: bigger models, better reasoning, larger context windows, higher benchmark scores. Those advances have…
- Making the case for context-aware AI
mit-tech-review· 22-oct
Enterprise AI can generate recommendations, automate tasks, and help organizations make decisions faster. But without an understanding of how a business actually operates, even powerful models can miss the constraints and relationships that determine whether a decision is the right one. As companies look to move AI from experimentation into everyday operations, the challenge ahead…
- AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind
mit-tech-review· 22-oct
Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of power—and a waitlist for silicon. But that picture leaves something out: Data storage costs. What happens to data after a model responds? Much of the back-end data that’s generated—from billions of daily prompts, images, and videos—needs…
- Three things you should know about permafrost
mit-tech-review· 22-oct
How much do you know about permafrost? Maybe, like me, you’ve been aware that this layer of frozen soil is thawing, that it’s important in the global puzzle of climate change … and that’s about the extent of it. The great news for both of us is that my colleague James Temple just published two…
- The Download: computing’s next leap and permafrost’s climate threat
mit-tech-review· 22-oct
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How far can we push computing? On a December evening in 1959, the physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture called “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” There is no physical…
- In the biotech world, you can’t see everything
mit-tech-review· 23-oct
Earlier this week, I attended a screening of You Can See Everything, the buzzy new documentary about the disgraced former biotech CEO Elizabeth Holmes. I went in not really knowing what to expect. I’d avoided spoilers (and won’t be giving anything away here, either!). I was wondering what new information this film could reveal, given…
- The Download: testing six tech promises and biotech’s blind spots
mit-tech-review· 23-oct
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Are we there yet? A reality check on six big tech promises Some seemingly impossible feats are too good to give up on. Decoding a pet’s yowls and yips? Absolutely. Scrubbing…
- Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell
techcrunch· 23-oct
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
- OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”
techcrunch· 23-oct
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
- Startups don’t need to go viral to win customers
techcrunch· 23-oct
At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not just gain an early following but keep one.
- VCs, Superhuman Mail founder share red flags about product-market fit
techcrunch· 23-oct
Top investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures, along with Rahul Vohra, the founder of Superhuman Mail, share the do's and don'ts for building hit products.
- Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
techcrunch· 24-oct
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
- Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human
techcrunch· 24-oct
Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max
- Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
techcrunch· 24-oct
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
- PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet
techcrunch· 24-oct
Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it's unlikely to be the last major software scare.
- The Boox Palma 2 Pro finally got me to stop reading on my phone
techcrunch· 24-oct
The $400 Boox Palma 2 Pro is a smartphone-sized e-reader designed for people who want to read books, articles, and documents on a small E Ink display.
- These clever apps show off the iPhone Duo’s potential
techcrunch· 24-oct
From retro cassette players and virtual notebooks to flight trackers and even a digital toaster, developers are finding creative ways to take advantage of Apple's first foldable iPhone.
- OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access
the-verge· 23-oct
OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed and cached web content "without risk of affecting external systems." OpenAI paused training its frontier AI models in September, after disclosing several incidents in which its AI agents broke out of their testing environments to hack third-party companies and government agencies, or swarm obscure websites. On October 1st, OpenAI resumed reinforcement learning training and internal inference with tighte … Read the full story at The Verge.
- Fielded is obsessed with scammers and unhinged Japanese cyberpunk
the-verge· 24-oct
Lindsay Powell, who releases records under the name Fielded, has spent most of her career subverting expectations and genre conventions. According to their Bandcamp page, Fielded started as an experimental noise project before growing into something closer to R&B. But from moment one, her take on the genre was restless, relentlessly playing with what R&B even means. Her first album, Ninety-Thirty-Thirty, includes songs heavily indebted to '80s synth-pop and features multiple saxophone solos. Boy Angel is a quirky electronic exploration with huge saw-wave synths, jittery percussion, and sky-high vocal stacks. While 2020's Demisexual Lovelace … Read the full story at The Verge.
- Laika has spent 20 years building up to Wildwood
the-verge· 24-oct
Across several decades in Hollywood, Caleb Deschanel has seen a lot. He served as cinematographer on films like The Passion of the Christ and The Patriot, worked on sequences in The Godfather and Titanic, and directed a few episodes of Twin Peaks. Even still, nothing could quite prepare him for his first stop-motion project: working as the cinematographer on Wildwood, the latest release from Coraline studio Laika. While he knew that stop-motion was a long and involved process, he was still surprised by just how much work went into these movies. "When I started I thought it was one thing, and then I quickly found out that it was another thing … Read the full story at The Verge.
- Lee Chang Dong ponders the ethics of the camera
the-verge· 24-oct
Lee Chang Dong's seventh feature film, Possible Love, is inspired by true events from 2009, when a Korean conglomerate fired a third of its staff - 2,600 employees - after which many died by suicide. Possible Love is the latest in a long line of Lee movies that engage with themes of class or labor or religion or compressed modernity, that uniquely Korean affliction, without feeling didactic. A different kind of movie would have captured the heat of that labor struggle. Possible Love picks up with the characters in the aftermath, a murkier time that defies easy understanding. The film opens with an epigraph: "Thou shall not covet." What foll … Read the full story at The Verge.
- LG’s brilliant C6 OLED TV is already $400 off ahead of Black Friday
the-verge· 24-oct
LG’s C6 OLED TV is on sale in multiple sizes starting at $999.99 ($300 off). | Image: LG Black Friday is still over a month away, but if you’re hoping to upgrade your TV, you don’t need to wait until November. LG has already kicked off its early Black Friday sale, letting you save on the LG C6 and various soundbars through November 1st. Right now, for instance, you can snag a 55-inch C6 for an all-time low of $999.99 ($400 off), with Amazon and Best Buy matching said price. Other sizes are also discounted, including the 65-inch model, which is on sale for $1,399.99 ($300 off) from Amazon, Best Buy, and LG. If you purchase direct, you’ll also get a free Xbox Wireless Controller and a complimentary wall mount. LG C6 OLED TV Where to Buy: $1399.99 $999.99 at Amazon (55-inch) $1699.99 $1399.9…
- Xbox’s first chief operating officer is out after just a few months
the-verge· 23-oct
Xbox's first chief operating officer (COO) is leaving after the new role was created just a few months ago. Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft today, according to an internal Xbox memo seen by The Verge. Chiang has been at Microsoft for 21 years, serving as the head of Minecraft before being promoted to Xbox chief operating officer in July. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced Chiang's departure in a surprisingly short memo today. "Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft today. I'm grateful for her years of service and wish her well," said Sharma. As Chiang is departing today, her immediate responsibilities are being split up between other Xbox leaders … Read the full story at The Verge.
- I hope Apple’s touchscreen MacBook takes some lessons from this Lenovo laptop
the-verge· 24-oct
The Lenovo Yoga 9n is a pricey workstation laptop, but being a 2-in-1 also makes it fun. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge It looks like the long-rumored touchscreen MacBook might actually get announced next week, and after using the Lenovo Yoga 9n for our testing of Nvidia's RTX Spark platform, it got me thinking: this is a lot of what I want from a touchscreen MacBook. Like the Apple silicon in modern MacBook Pros, RTX Spark is an Arm-based processor with a beefy integrated GPU and lots of unified memory. And the Yoga is the most fun RTX Spark laptop so far because it's a 16-inch 2-in-1 convertible with a stylus. Its Nvidia-powered compatriots also have touchscreens, like most Windows laptops, but they're conventional clamshell designs. The Lenovo Yoga d … Read the full story…
- Abandoned Popcorn Time apps had to be disabled to prevent a zombie army
the-verge· 23-oct
Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows? Development of the MPAA's least-favorite app of the 2010s has been abandoned for years, but the "Netflix of Piracy" software is still installed on millions of devices that are just waiting to join a bot army. Researchers at Eye Security found the updater for a Popcorn Time fork called "Time4Popcorn" still running on tons of Windows, macOS, and Android devices located around the world, phoning home to now-abandoned web domains over unencrypted HTTP and running an outdated, insecure version of Chrome. Eye Security's Niels Teus … Read the full story at The Verge.
- It’s time to find a new browser
the-verge· 24-oct
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 149, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy It Actually Feels Like Fall Now At Least In My Neighborhood), and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Demis Hassabis and computer chips and permafrost, enjoying the first episodes of Machine Gods, filming the next season of Version History (pet season!), seeing You Can See Everything and then reading and listening to absolutely everything about it, painstakingly updating all the stuff in my 1Password, making tiny documents with Tiny Little O … Read the full story at The Verge.
- What to expect from Apple’s ‘Pro and tell’ event
the-verge· 24-oct
It feels like Apple's Welcome Home event just happened. And the iPhone Duo announcement isn't all that far in our rearview mirror, either. Yet, the company is back with another launch, focused on the MacBook Pro, it looks like. Its "Pro and tell" event is scheduled for October 28th at 1PM ET in Los Angeles. While obviously nothing is confirmed yet, it sure seems like we're finally going to get that long-rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro. Beyond that? There could be an OLED update for the iPad Mini, plus M6 updates across other devices, following the M6 debut with the Mac Mini in August. A touchscreen MacBook Pro A MacBook Pro with an OLED t … Read the full story at The Verge.