POLICY
Chat Control Passed Despite a Majority of MEPs Voting Against It
314 MEPs voted to reject, 276 to keep it, and the rejection lost on a threshold. What the CSAR actually proposes, why…
POLICY
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Cinemas, Courts, and Burning Man Just Wrote Smart Glasses Policy Because Nobody Else Would
UK cinemas, English and Welsh courts, Burning Man, and now retail employers are all writing their own smart glasses policies this week,…
AI
Apple Killed Vision Pro’s Gaming Team This Week
Apple announced over 200 job cuts affecting its Siri and Vision Pro teams, signaling a strategic restructure linked to leadership changes. While…
DEEP TECH
Brookhaven Sent Entangled Photons Twenty-One Kilometers Through Open Air
Eden Figueroa's team successfully transmitted quantum states and entangled photon pairs over a 21-kilometer free-space link at Stony Brook University, tackling challenges…
CHIPS & AI
Apple’s M6 Chip Is Its First 2 Nanometer Part, and It Shipped in the Cheap Mac First
Apple introduced its M6 chip, a 2-nanometer component, in the new $899 Mac mini, marking a surprising launch sequence. The chip features…
AI
Anthropic Hired the Person Who Built Google’s TPU Program
Seven. That’s how many generations of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit Amir Salek shipped before he left in 2022, and it matters more…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Nothing OS 5.0’s Open Beta Doesn’t Include the Redesign It’s Named For
Nothing OS 5.0 lands on Android 17 with the Geist typeface, a frosted software material, a wallpaper-driven colour engine and read-only MCP…
CHIPS & AI
Samsung Says Its 2nm Exynos Beats Qualcomm’s Next Flagship
Samsung's upcoming Exynos 2700 reportedly outperforms Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 in several benchmarks, notably in multi-core CPU performance. This enhancement…
CHIPS & AI
The Xring O3 Has No Efficiency Cores. Xiaomi Says Daily Power Draw Fell 25% Anyway.
Xiaomi launched three chips at once: the Xring O3 with a ten-core all-big-core CPU and no efficiency cores, an O100 AI accelerator…
DEEP TECH
Europe’s New “Made in EU” Law Never Mentions Software
The EU's Industrial Accelerator Act mandates that by January 2029, various products, including buildings and vehicles, must contain a certain percentage of…
AI
CME Will Turn GPU Rental Prices Into a Futures Market on October 5
CME Group is launching two futures contracts on October 5 that will allow trading of Nvidia GPU rental prices, reflecting their high…
CHIPS & AI
Google Put Post-Quantum Crypto in the Pixel 11’s Boot ROM
Google shipped post-quantum cryptography into the Pixel 11's secure boot chain via a new Titan M3 coprocessor, and every writeup has tied…
GAMING
Horizon Hunters Gathering Joins Sony’s Pile of Buried Live-Service Bets
Guerrilla's Horizon Hunters Gathering underwent negative beta testing, leading Sony to redesign it from a live-service game to a co-op mode. Despite…
AI
The Legal Side Door for Nvidia’s Best Chips Runs Through Thailand
In July, Moonshot AI faced accusations of misusing Nvidia chips, but it only rented compute from Thailand, exploiting a loophole in U.S.…
AI
Qwen3.8 Max Is Now Open Weights, and Alibaba Beat Meta to the Laptop Model
Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8 Max's weights and released Qwen3.8-27B, a laptop-optimized model claiming to match larger models' performance. This development responds to…