AI
Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India

The limited test covers select products and users, with a broader rollout planned for later in October.
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AI

The limited test covers select products and users, with a broader rollout planned for later in October.
Chips & Hardware
The introduction of the ATmega32U4 microcontroller, with its integrated USB controller, made a lot of hardware tasks much simpler than they were before.
Technology

Haptics tech company Taction sued Apple in 2021, alleging it infringed two of its patents. Now a federal jury in San Diego has awarded Taction over $5.7 billion in damages. It found that Apple had infringed on two claims in one patent and one in the other.
Technology
Middle schoolers, likely blocked from other apps and social networks, apparently turned the Spotify comment section under an episode of NPR's Wild Card into an impromptu group chat.
Technology
The 500-mile Semi arrives as charging gaps still limit electric trucking.
Bitcoin & Crypto
Bitcoin Magazine Grant Cardone: Real Estate “Armageddon” Is Here – Why BITCOIN is the Hedge Grant Cardone explains how a massive shift in commercial real estate created the perfect opportunity to aggressively accumulate and store wealth in Bitcoin.
Bitcoin & Crypto
Austrian economist Per Bylund, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, joins Spencer Nichols to explain why AI is a statistical engine that improves efficiency but can’t imagine the future.
Bitcoin & Crypto
Google Vids now lets any Google account holder generate free HD AI video using Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, with new scene, timing, and watermark controls.
Cybersecurity
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 appears to be changing how it writes, with new analysis showing fewer obvious AI writing patterns, shorter sentences, and simpler wording compared with Opus 5.
Cybersecurity
OpenAI says its AI agents (AI that carries out multi-step tasks rather than answering one question) uploaded user-provided images to third-party image-hosting services while carrying out research and evaluation tasks.
Chips & Hardware
Queued this week into the slab/for-next Git branch ahead of next month's Linux 7.4 merge window is a memory management change for refilling pre-filled sheaves from the barn.
Chips & Hardware
Modder releases GTA2 RTX Remix, a mod that adds path tracing and a dynamic time of day to the 27-year-old Grand Theft Auto 2.
Science & Space
The insect pest, whose caterpillars feed on these plants, is found in Asia and Oceania. This approach to identifying previously unknown molecules opens up new possibilities for identifying pheromones in other species.
Science & Space
Artemis II astronauts Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman are transitioning to emeritus status at NASA after their historic journey around the Moon earlier this year.
Science & Space
AI

The decision was made after a model being tested within a sandbox exploited a loophole to gain internet access. As reports of OpenAI's models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models.

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