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Researchers used $800 of off-the-shelf hardware to collect data sent by satellites unencrypted, like T-Mobile users' calls and texts and some US military comms — With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users' calls …
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Nvidia says it will begin selling the DGX Spark mini PC, with DGX OS, for AI developers on October 15 on Nvidia.com and select third-party retailers for $3,999 — (PCMag/Michael Kan) … It's not a consumer desktop, but Nvidia's foray into an AI developer-focused mini PC is finally ready to launch.
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia says it is donating its Vera Rubin NVL144 server rack architecture to the Open Compute Project and working with 70+ partners on “gigawatt AI factories” — Nvidia Corp. took to the stage at the 2025 OCP Global Summit in San Jose today to talk about how it's collaborating … | Financial Times: |
Court filings: the Dutch government seized Nexperia after the US said it would remain on its export control list if Chinese CEO Zhang Xuezheng stayed in charge — Takeover of Nexperia plunges Netherlands into US-China tech war — Andy Bounds in Horsens, Denmark, Ben Hall in London and Ryan McMorrow in Beijing
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| Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: |
Nexperia says China has banned it from exporting China-made products, as Beijing retaliates after the Dutch government took over the Wingtech-owned chipmaker — Chipmaker Nexperia says it's been banned from exporting products it makes in China as Beijing hits back at the Dutch government for taking over the management of the company.
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Instagram overhauls the app for teen users with age-gating, like showing age-appropriate content to Teen Accounts by default, “guided by PG-13 movie ratings” — After outrage over teens' well-being on Instagram erupted, the company said it would adopt the film industry's approach … | Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI's massive deals show that Sam Altman is selling a vision of a world-changing product and using world-changing financial engineering to try to raise $1T+ — Also crypto liquidations, inverse levered ETFs, stock buybacks and trade secrets. — OpenAI — The essence of finance is time travel.
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils MAI-Image-1, its first text-to-image AI model developed in house, and says it excels at photorealistic imagery, like lighting and landscapes — The model has already secured a spot in the top 10 of LMArena. … Microsoft AI just announced its first text-to-image generator … | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung projects Q3 operating profit up 32% YoY to ~$8.47B, vs. ~$6.8B est., its biggest quarterly profit in over three years, as AI development accelerates — Samsung Electronics Co. reported its biggest quarterly profit in more than three years in a sign of healthy AI chip demand … | CNBC: |
Oracle plans to deploy 50K AMD Instinct MI450 chips, announced in June, starting in H2 2026; the Instinct MI450 is AMD's first chip for rack-sized systems — Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on Tuesday announced that it will deploy 50,000 Advanced Micro Devices graphics processors starting in the second half of 2026.
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 243, which mandates safety protocols for AI chatbot companions, the first US state law to regulate such AI chatbots — California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a landmark bill on Monday that regulates AI companion chatbots, making it the first state …
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| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
The UK's NCSC dealt with a record 204 “nationally significant” cyberattacks in the year to August, up 89% YoY, and “highly significant” cyberattacks rose by 50% — People should plan for potential cyber-attacks by going back to pen and paper, according to the latest advice.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail “Pixnapping”, a new covert attack to steal 2FA codes and other private data on Android; Google's September patch only partially mitigates it — Android devices are vulnerable to a new attack that can covertly steal 2FA codes, location timelines, and other private data in less than 30 seconds.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Oura raised $900M led by Fidelity at an “approximately” $11B valuation, up from $5.2B after raising $200M in December 2024, and has sold 5.5M smart rings total — Finnish health tech company Oura has raised $900 million in fresh funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company …
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| Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: |
Bhutan announces that it is migrating its national ID system for roughly 800,000 residents from Polygon to Ethereum, with completion expected by Q1 2026 — The Kingdom of Bhutan has tapped Ethereum to store the national identities of its roughly 800,000 citizens, leveraging the network's immutability and decentralization.| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Meta brings back job listings on Facebook, available for mobile users in the US via a dedicated Jobs tab in Marketplace, and across Groups and Pages — As AI reshapes the jobs market, Facebook is reviving its jobs board to help “young adults” find local entry-level work.| Michael Schneider / Variety: |
TiVo confirms that it exited the hardware business on October 1 when it stopped selling DVRs, but says it will continue to offer support for the products — The TiVo box, which sat at the cutting edge of television's early 2000s time-shifting viewer revolution, is no more.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the EU considers forcing Chinese companies seeking access to digital markets to hand over tech to European companies if they want to operate locally — The European Union is considering forcing Chinese firms to hand over technology to European companies if they want to operate locally … | Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
Salesforce expands its partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to embed their AI models into Agentforce 360, including letting customers access it in ChatGPT — Salesforce expanded partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to embed their large language models into Agentforce 360.
More: Reuters, CNBC, Anthropic, Analytics India Magazine, DigiTimes, and TechCrunch
| Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: |
Google plans to invest $9B in South Carolina through 2027 to scale up its Berkeley County data center campus and support building two sites in Dorchester County — Investment will also go toward supporting construction, energy affordability, workforce training programs in South Carolina
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
JPMorgan Chase launches a decade-long plan to invest $10B in industries critical for national security, including “frontier” tech like AI and quantum computing — JPMorgan Chase on Monday said it is launching a decade-long plan to help finance and take direct stakes in companies it considers crucial to U.S. interests.
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