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Open AI
On Friday, OpenAI said that it will train its models using cached copies and simulated versions of the internet instead of the live web because the models are too unpredictable to be trusted with live internet access. The frontier lab announced its new policy two weeks after its rival, Anthropic, began limiting its newest and, in theory, most capable models from accessing the live internet.
Pokemon
Starting today, you can receive Spewpa as a Mystery Gift in Pokémon Legends: Z-A to celebrate the release of Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Mega Dimension. Spewpa is known for evolving into Vivillon with a variety of different patterns depending on the climate and topography of the environment it was born in, but this Spewpa can evolve into one of 16 different patterns at random.
Dino
The new species, Paludohadros proudlovii, belonged to the iguanodontians, a group of plant-eating dinosaurs known for the spikes on their thumbs. The animal lived in the swampy lowlands of what is now Surrey, southern England, during the Early Cretaceous, around 125 million years ago. “Iguanodontia was one of the first dinosaur groups to be named and is one of the most diverse and widespread ornithischian clades, with fossils known from the Middle Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous,” said lead author Ricardo Sacamoto.
TV's
The latest use case for AI? Dumbing down your smart TV to get rid of the bloat. A number of developers and vibe coders have recently been sharing solutions for “vibe-coding” your TV to get rid of sponsored ads, speed up the app launcher, redesign the home screen, disable tracking features, and more. One such solution, called “dumbtv,” describes its mission on its GitHub page thus: “Your TV should do what you paid for: your apps, your HDMI inputs, and nothing else. No ads from the TV itself, no watch tracking, no update you did not ask for.”
Space
Portal Space Systems has reached Earth orbit for the second time this year, successfully launching the startup’s first free-flying spacecraft, Starburst-1, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Portal’s Starburst-1 lifted off Tuesday at 7:04 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station... Within hours of deployment, the Bothell, Wash.-based company reported that the desk-sized craft had established ground communications, stabilized itself, and successfully deployed its solar array to become power positive.
Apple App Store
The orders follow the court's August 2025 finding that Apple misused its market power by restricting app distribution and payment options. They cover users whose Apple Account region is Australia, with Apple Developer Program members worldwide able to participate. Apple must let users find, download, install, and update apps through competing marketplaces and websites without charging for access or obstructing their use.
Pinball
It’s October in the Midwest, which means it’s time for the pinball world to descend on a convention center in Chicagoland for the annual Pinball Expo. Once thought to be an entertainment sector slowly bleeding out, pinball has come back in a big way in recent years. I visited one of Chicago’s last old-school manufacturers before heading down the road to see what’s new in the silver-ball universe.
Norway
Norway's planned social media ban for children will include provisions targeting "harmful platforms", the government said on Monday, naming messaging and gaming services Roblox, Snapchat and TikTok among those affected. The Nordic country said in April it would present a bill in parliament by the end of the year to ban children from using social media until they turn 16, making technology companies responsible for age verification. It did not name any platforms at the time.
Fake Chrome
Bogus Chrome app listed on the Play Store has over 100,000 installs. Recently, another app slipped through Google's protective scanning and ended up with a listing in the Play Store. Reddit subscriber nikhilchacko posted on the platform about a fake Google Chrome app. The Reddit post included a screenshot showing the actual Play Store listing for the fake app, which was located right above the listing for the real Chrome app.
Agent
An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false homicide tip to a Philadelphia police website, among a string of incidents the AI company disclosed on Friday detailing Claude models' unsanctioned manipulation of some government websites. It is the first known instance in which a rogue AI appears to have tried to communicate a bogus tip to authorities, despite instructions not to create accounts or submit anything destructive, while not explicitly barred from submitting forms.
Walmart
Walmart looks like it might beat Amazon to the skies over the Seattle area as the retail giant announced this week that it plans to bring automated drone delivery to the region in 2027. The move is part of a broader nationwide push by Walmart and drone operator Wing, to scale across nearly 20 U.S. metropolitan areas. By adding Seattle and Denver in its latest expansion push, the partnership aims to eventually offer 30-minute aerial delivery from more than 270 Walmart stores coast-to-coast, reaching over 40 million potential customers.
Mars
If you thought sunrises on Earth were beautiful, wait until you see one on our planetary neighbor. One of NASA's rovers recently captured a stunning sight of dawn on Mars with illuminated cliffs in the distance. The U.S. space agency has a fleet of spacecraft both on the ground and orbiting the red planet that have returned plenty of striking imagery. But the new photo, courtesy of the iconic Curiosity rover, has now become the most detailed image of the Martian wind-carved cliffs ever captured, according to NASA.
Planets
Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers are investigating turbulent planetary systems in which worlds violently collide. This investigation could shed light on the hypothetical collision between Earth and a Mars-sized planetary body called Theia, which is thought to have spilled matter around our planet that coalesced to forge the moon billions of years ago.
Apple
As Apple brings more AI to the iPhone, the technology is getting harder to avoid. While there's no longer a single switch to shut down Apple Intelligence system-wide, you can still turn off many AI features in iOS 27. You just have to do a little more digging. These instructions are for Apple Intelligence-capable iPhones (iPhone 15 Pro or newer or iPhone 16 or newer) running iOS 27. If you're still on iOS 26, the simpler universal shut-off switch is still there: open Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri, and turn off Apple Intelligence.
Glasses
A few days ago, I crossed paths with an Amazon delivery driver who was wearing some odd-looking glasses... After Wednesday’s news, my curiosity has evolved into concern. In a Bloomberg opinion piece, reporter Dave Lee shared his thoughts on the new AI smart glasses based on an interview with Amazon executive Viraj Chatterjee, who is spearheading the rollout. According to the report, Amazon aims to have 5,000 drivers wearing the glasses by the end of 2026, expanding to more than 20,000 by the end of 2027.
Cyber Tracking
It’s been estimated that about 50 million people worldwide use apps to track their menstrual cycles, associated mental and physical symptoms, fertility and pregnancy. However, a new analysis published in the peer-reviewed medical journal The BMJ on Wednesday argues that the risks associated with these apps and other digital cycle-tracking tools on the femtech market do more harm than good.
Agents
OpenAI said Friday that some of its AI agents went rogue and probed US government websites this summer- the latest revelation of the artificial intelligence company’s technology. The New York Times first reported that the AI agents went rogue and attempted to gain access to the Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to security researchers at AI research lab Transluce.
Gemini
Gemini’s new feature is intentionally limited when it’s time to close the deal. It’s designed not to make any payments or share a credit card number, though it can share your name and contact information. That means, for many tasks you may want Gemini to handle, you’ll have to follow along with a transcript or listen in to the call, then use the “take over” option to sub in for the AI and provide sensitive data. This limits how much time the call-for-me feature can really save.
Xbox Ads
Microsoft filed a patent called 'contextually aware management of interactive software application access,' which describes a process of pausing your game at the operating system level and presenting 'audiovisual promoted content' (in other words, an ad), which would then grant you a credit once it's over. That credit, at least in the way it's presented in the patent documentation, would grant you access to the game for a limited amount of time, from 15 minutes to an hour.
Nintendo
Nintendo is warning about a security flaw in the first-gen Switch console related to the feature that lets you send game screenshots to a smartphone. It turns out you can hack the function to run malicious computer code or leak console data. Nintendo has issued a security advisory about the vulnerability. It involves the Send to Smartphone function, which displays a QR code on the handheld that a smartphone can scan to initiate the wireless transfer of a game screenshot or in-game footage.
Robot Ambulance
Tokyo’s streets could soon see a new kind of ambulance, one built not for humans but for humanoid robots. Japanese IT giant GMO Internet Group revealed a van designed to carry engineers, repair equipment, replacement parts and a spare humanoid robot to a site. “The humanoid 'ambulance' carries the replacement humanoid to the site and replaces it with the damaged humanoid,” said Shota Takizawa, an engineer at GMO Air.
Farmers
Some 17% of the world's farmers now use generative AI in farm-related tasks, making it one of the fastest-growing technologies in agriculture, McKinsey said in its Global Farmer Insights 2026 report, published Tuesday. The AI adoption follows a multiyear farm slump that crimped spending amid rising costs for agricultural inputs. Costs for labor, land, equipment, financing and fertilizer have remained elevated and volatile since farmer profitability last peaked in 2021-22, according to David Fiocco, senior partner at McKinsey.
iPhone Controller
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple is developing two game controllers for the iPhone and will likely sell them under the Beats brand. Rumors that Apple might enter the game controller business have circulated for some time. But last week, MacRumors reported finding two references in macOS 26.7’s code to two game controllers identified as first-party devices.
Hackers
ClickFix attackers are capitalizing on this fatigue. Typically, attacks begin with a simple CAPTCHA image, often masquerading as one from Cloudflare. After engaging with the box, the user sees a line of text, often obscured in a way to mask any malicious commands. Then the user is instructed to copy the text and paste it into the Windows Run, PowerShell, or macOS terminal and click Enter.
Toronto
Toronto, Canada — Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist, took a leap in the 1980s — leaving a well-funded post at Carnegie Mellon University to pursue a little-studied area of machine learning research at the University of Toronto. Four decades later, Hinton and that research paved the way for how modern AI systems function, all while changing the face of the Canadian city. Silicon Valley is the beating heart of the tech industry, but a thriving AI ecosystem has developed around Hinton in Toronto.
SpaceX
On July 24, Starship 40 launched from the SpaceX Starbase in southern Texas, and during its quick 65-minute flight it deployed 20 Starlink V3 satellites. It was a successful test of the craft’s payload deployment system, which SpaceX hopes will one day be reusable. Unlike its predecessors, Starship 40 managed to survive its splash landing in the Indian Ocean. While it’s not fit for reuse, engineers can study it to improve future missions and ship designs. The downside? Getting it back to Texas is no small feat.
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