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AI

Announcing AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered intelligence to optimize your cloud environment (preview)

Source: AWS News Blog ·01 Oct, 20:04 UTC

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Bitcoin & Crypto

SEC Proposal Would Address How Investment Advisers and Funds Can Custody Crypto Assets Under the Federal Securities Laws

Source: US Securities and Exchange Commission ·01 Oct, 16:16 UTC

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AI

Serve live, governed data in AI-built apps with Amazon Quick

Source: AWS Machine Learning Blog ·01 Oct, 19:49 UTC

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Startups & Business

SEC’s Division of Examinations Announces New Exam Handbook

Source: US Securities and Exchange Commission ·01 Oct, 15:03 UTC

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AI

Uplifting conversion across the acquisition funnel with personalization using contextual bandits on AWS

Source: AWS Machine Learning Blog ·01 Oct, 16:51 UTC

Latest

The newest developments as they happen

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Bitcoin & Crypto SINGLE SOURCE

SEC Proposes Rules to Clear Up How Advisers and Funds Can Hold Crypto

Source: Decrypt ·01 Oct, 20:46 UTC

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Science & Space SINGLE SOURCE

Machine learning detects bacterial invasion and DNA damage in human cells

Source: Phys.org ·01 Oct, 20:30 UTC

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Science & Space SINGLE SOURCE

NASA's Hubble Marks its 200,000th Orbit by Watching Lensed Supernova

Source: Universe Today ·01 Oct, 20:29 UTC

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Bitcoin & Crypto DEVELOPING

U.S. SEC maps out crypto custody in new proposal that furthers its digital assets agenda

Source: CoinDesk ·01 Oct, 20:20 UTC

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Science & Space SINGLE SOURCE

Learning math goes (slightly) better with AI, but human teacher plays a key role

Source: Phys.org ·01 Oct, 20:20 UTC

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Cybersecurity SINGLE SOURCE

Armadin nabs $255.5M to detect security flaws with AI agent swarms

Source: SiliconANGLE ·01 Oct, 20:15 UTC

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Bitcoin & Crypto SINGLE SOURCE

Jack Dorsey’s Block Launches Campaign To Get People Spending Bitcoin

Source: Bitcoin Magazine ·01 Oct, 20:15 UTC

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Chips & Hardware DEVELOPING

Mesa Drops Its Poorly Maintained & Rarely Used Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver

Source: Phoronix ·01 Oct, 20:00 UTC

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AI SINGLE SOURCE

IBM allows on-prem deployment of its Bob agentic development platform

Source: SiliconANGLE ·01 Oct, 19:49 UTC

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Technology SINGLE SOURCE

Google’s new Guided Vision feature can help you read the fine print

Source: The Verge ·01 Oct, 19:47 UTC

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Cybersecurity DEVELOPING

Microsoft says attackers are ahead in the early AI race

Source: BleepingComputer ·01 Oct, 19:32 UTC

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Chips & Hardware DEVELOPING

Ubuntu 26.10 Beta Released With Linux 7.3 Kernel, GNOME 51 Desktop

Source: Phoronix ·01 Oct, 19:26 UTC

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Bitcoin & Crypto INDEPENDENT REPORTS

Minecraft, Candy Crush Among 11 Games in EU Virtual Currency Crackdown
Source: Silicon Republic + 1 more ·01 Oct, 07:46 UTC
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Chips & Hardware INDEPENDENT REPORTS

Gears of War: E-Day PC graphics performance tested
Source: Tom's Hardware + 1 more ·01 Oct, 13:00 UTC
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Bitcoin & Crypto INDEPENDENT REPORTS

NEAR Intents hit by $3.8 million exploit as crypto's rough year of hacks continues
Source: CoinDesk + 2 more ·01 Oct, 14:18 UTC
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Startups & Business INDEPENDENT REPORTS

Foundational secures £8.2M pre-seed as it emerges from stealth
Source: Tech.eu + 1 more ·01 Oct, 07:00 UTC
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AI SINGLE SOURCE

NetApp’s ‘sleeping giant’ moment as AI brings new data buyers
Source: SiliconANGLE ·01 Oct, 19:43 UTC

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AI SINGLE SOURCE

NetApp and Nvidia rethink storage for AI factories

Source: SiliconANGLE ·01 Oct, 18:46 UTC

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AI

Build agent memory with NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit and Amazon S3 Vectors

Source: AWS Machine Learning Blog ·01 Oct, 17:34 UTC

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AI

Building ambient agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: From event-driven signals to human-in-the-loop workflows

Source: AWS Machine Learning Blog ·01 Oct, 16:40 UTC

Technology

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Technology SINGLE SOURCE

Android Central ‘will continue’ despite laying off its staff

Source: The Verge ·01 Oct, 19:20 UTC

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Technology

Introducing Workers KV Instant — powered by Quicksilver

Source: Cloudflare Blog ·01 Oct, 13:00 UTC

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Technology

Announcing Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

Source: Cloudflare Blog ·01 Oct, 13:00 UTC

Bitcoin & Crypto

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Bitcoin & Crypto SINGLE SOURCE

Peter Todd Joins MARA to Lead Private queue of pending transactions Slipstream

Source: Bitcoin Magazine ·01 Oct, 18:01 UTC

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Bitcoin & Crypto SINGLE SOURCE

MetaMask unstakes $1.4B of ETH after validator rewards stolen

Source: Protos ·01 Oct, 13:29 UTC

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Bitcoin & Crypto SINGLE SOURCE

Bitcoin’s Institutional Era Has Arrived | Robinhood VP of Crypto Institutions Nicola White

Source: Bitcoin Magazine ·01 Oct, 00:52 UTC

Cybersecurity

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Cybersecurity SINGLE SOURCE

OpenAI software attempted to secretly scrape data from dozens of prominent websites

Source: The Record ·01 Oct, 19:25 UTC

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Cybersecurity DEVELOPING

Microsoft enables Windows settings backup by default for orgs

Source: BleepingComputer ·01 Oct, 11:14 UTC

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Cybersecurity

Johnson Controls EasyIO Neo Series EC and CW Controllers

Source: CISA Advisories ·01 Oct, 12:00 UTC

Chips & Hardware

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Chips & Hardware SINGLE SOURCE

Qualcomm Doubles Down on Agentic AI at Snapdragon Summit 2026

Source: EE Times ·01 Oct, 17:31 UTC

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Chips & Hardware SINGLE SOURCE

First Intel Panther Lake mini PC cooled with solid-state AirJet tech operates at less than 21 dBA

Source: Tom's Hardware ·01 Oct, 15:27 UTC

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Chips & Hardware SINGLE SOURCE

Nvidia launches Open Agent Safety Platform to physically restrain rogue AI agents

Source: Tom's Hardware ·01 Oct, 14:30 UTC

Robotics

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Robotics SINGLE SOURCE

Boston Dynamics drops pinkie on new humanoid hand

Source: The Robot Report ·01 Oct, 17:52 UTC

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Robotics SINGLE SOURCE

Fiatlux: A Long-Horizon Benchmark for Humanoid Ladder Climbing and Light-Bulb Replacement

Source: arXiv Robotics (cs.RO) ·01 Oct, 04:00 UTC

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Robotics SINGLE SOURCE

New robot falls like a maple seed then sails like a boat once it hits water

Source: Tech Xplore Robotics ·01 Oct, 16:00 UTC

Startups & Business

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Startups & Business DEVELOPING

Google thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,600 times before space data centers get off the ground

Source: TechCrunch ·01 Oct, 19:18 UTC

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Startups & Business DEVELOPING

Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web

Source: TechCrunch ·01 Oct, 16:49 UTC

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Startups & Business SINGLE SOURCE

Longtime Microsoft research leader Peter Lee and former LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky to depart

Source: GeekWire ·01 Oct, 16:35 UTC

Science & Space

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Science & Space DEVELOPING

SpaceX launches 4 astronauts on a fast track to the International Space Station

Source: Phys.org ·01 Oct, 16:52 UTC

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Science & Space DEVELOPING

Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites

Source: TechCrunch ·01 Oct, 12:00 UTC

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Science & Space SINGLE SOURCE

NASA squeezed Treasury, vibe coded, and broke the mold in bid to save Swift

Source: Ars Technica ·01 Oct, 11:15 UTC