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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.
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 …
Wired:
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 …
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
The US DOJ seizes ~$15B in bitcoin from Prince Holding's “pig butchering” operation in Cambodia, in the DOJ's largest ever forfeiture; the founder is at large  —  The Department of Justice has seized about $15 billion worth of bitcoin held by a man who oversaw a massive …
David Ingram / NBC News:
Instagram overhauls Teen Accounts to align with PG-13 movie rating standards, block them from seeing accounts that share sexualized content, and more  —  After outrage over teens' well-being on Instagram erupted, the company said it would adopt the film industry's approach to content and aim to give teens a PG-13 experience.
Jaewon Kang / Bloomberg:
Walmart partners with OpenAI to let shoppers browse and purchase its products on ChatGPT, including apparel, entertainment, packaged food, and third-party goods  —  Walmart Inc. is teaming up with OpenAI to enable shoppers to browse and purchase its products on ChatGPT, the retailer's latest push to incorporate artificial intelligence.
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.
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
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
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.
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Broadcom's stock closed up 9.88% after the announcement of its OpenAI custom chip deal on October 13; AVGO is up 50%+ in 2025 after more than doubling in 2024
Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph:
Bhutan says it's migrating its national ID system for its nearly 800K residents from Polygon to Ethereum; the Ethereum Foundation says it will finish 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.
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Google plans to invest $15B in India through 2030 to set up a 1GW data center and AI hub in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh; Google employs 14K in India  —  Google is making a $15 billion investment to set up a 1-gigawatt data center and AI hub in India, even as the Indian government pushes …
CNBC:
Oracle plans to deploy 50K AMD Instinct MI450 chips, announced in June, starting in H2 2026; the Instinct MI450 is AMD's first AI 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.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Oura raised $900M led by Fidelity at an “approximately” $11B valuation, up from $5.2B after raising $200M in December, and says it has sold 5.5M+ smart rings  —  Finnish health tech company Oura has raised $900 million in fresh funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company …
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 …
Joe Tidy / BBC:
The UK's NCSC dealt with a record 204 “nationally significant” cyberattacks in the year to August, up 89% YoY, with “highly significant” cyberattacks up 50% YoY  —  People should plan for potential cyber-attacks by going back to pen and paper, according to the latest advice.
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
Handshake CEO Garrett Lord says the startup hit $100M in ARR in eight months after a “refounding” to focus on AI, and forecasts $300M in ARR by end of 2025  —  Garrett Lord's refocus of his 11-year-old startup around its fast-growing ($100M in ARR) AI business includes a layoff affecting 15% of its employee base.
More: Handshake
Rhitu Chatterjee / NPR:
A study of 6,554 children aged 9 to 10: social media users score lower on reading, vocabulary, and memory tests two years later than those with little or no use  —  Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared …

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Natalie Korach / @nataliekorach:
Sources: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray spiked a story prepared by the newspaper's media desk covering the historic layoffs

The Guardian:
The UK raises the TV license fee, the BBC's main funding source, from £174.50 to £180 a year from April 1, saying it gives the BBC a “stable financial footing”

Adam Jacobson / Radio & Television Business Report:
SiriusXM reported Q4 net income of $99M vs. $287M a year ago, rev. of $2.19B vs. $2.17B est., and “robust” guidance including an in-car audio focus; SIRI up 9%

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Tyler Katzenberger / Politico:
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 771, which would've fined social media companies up to $1M if their algorithms promoted violent or extremist content
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Meta brings back job listings on Facebook after removing them in 2023, available on mobile in the US via a Jobs tab in Marketplace, and across Groups and Pages
Saeed Azhar / Reuters:
Goldman Sachs agrees to acquire multi-stage investment firm Industry Ventures, which has $7B in AUM, for $665M in cash and equity plus $300M tied to performance
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Google updates Search to group paid results into a collapsible section with a single, larger sticky “Sponsored” label at the top and a hide button at the bottom
Hugh Son / CNBC:
JPMorgan Chase launches a decade-long plan to invest up to $10B in industries critical for US national security, including tech like AI and quantum computing
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