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Record-breaking El Niño Conditions May Linger for 6 Straight Months

Gizmodo - Oct 07, 2026 3:34pm EDT

Apollo, banks in talks to finance SpaceX's $40 billion Nvidia GPU purchase

Since SpaceX's record-breaking IPO in June, rates have sold off, and yields on its bonds have risen, along with other AI-related bonds.

CNBC - Oct 07, 2026 2:50pm EDT

Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative

Email and calendars move in-house in 2027, with European open source tools to follow

Register UK - Oct 07, 2026 2:32pm EDT

Starlink's plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing

Hang on. How about not chucking tens of thousands more satellites into space?

Register UK - Oct 07, 2026 12:30pm EDT

Amazon Hits Apple Hard, MacBook Air 13-Inch 512GB Gets Dumped Back-to-Back on Prime Day

Gizmodo - Oct 07, 2026 11:54am EDT

No PC and No Console Required, Meta's Quest 3S VR Headset Is Being Dumped on Amazon

Gizmodo - Oct 07, 2026 11:40am EDT

Treasury Secretary Bessent Seeks To Calm AI Concerns, Acknowledges Need To 'Prepare For Every Occasion'.

Scott Bessent addressed rising calls for AI regulation and criticized AI "alarmism", but conceded that "safe" development and greater U.S.-China cooperation was desirable.

International Business Times - Oct 07, 2026 11:39am EDT

Europe's mobile operators sell fewer phones but gain share as budget market shrivels

Contract purchases hold up better than independent retail sales, with Apple overtaking Samsung in the carrier channel

Register UK - Oct 07, 2026 11:11am EDT

'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics

Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space.

BBC News - Oct 07, 2026 10:54am EDT

Harvard resisted Trump's pressure. It also made reforms on antisemitism, free speech. Amid a slew of lawsuits and investigations over antisemitism on campus, Harvard University leadership has leaned in to promoting free speech and bridging ideological and cultural divides. By - Cameron Pugh - / 8 min

Christian Science Monitor - Oct 07, 2026 9:31am EDT

The Flagship Hypershell X Series Exoskeletons Are All 15% Off in the Amazon Prime Day Sale—Save up to $300 on Staying Active and Connected

Gizmodo - Oct 07, 2026 8:10am EDT

What is AI model distillation, and why is it so hard to stop?

Anthropic and OpenAI accused Chinese AI developers of mining their models’ answers to train cheaper copycats. Here’s how distillation works and why it’s so hard to stop

Scientific American - Oct 07, 2026 7:10am EDT

Xbox bets on Gears of War: E-Day in battle of gaming giants

Unlike other flagship titles, E-Day will only be available on Xbox at a time of rising console costs.

BBC News - Oct 07, 2026 7:00am EDT

Microsoft, Nvidia CEOs to Unveil New AI Laptop at San Francisco Event

Deccan Chronicle - Oct 07, 2026 6:50am EDT

Rogue AI or human error? The real story behind the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident

Behind the headlines about AI agents lies a deeper debate over accountability, safety and control.

Scientific American - Oct 07, 2026 6:11am EDT

Thales Chief Says Halting AI Tech Not The answer; Our Control Safeguards Key

Deccan Chronicle - Oct 07, 2026 6:05am EDT

Why AI is both the hope and the hazard for world leaders, according to IMF chief Georgieva

Kristalina Georgieva warns that the technology lifting growth hopes is also pushing up inflation and yields, just as public debt levels rose.

CNBC - Oct 07, 2026 5:40am EDT

Roboticists showcase tiny, frog-like robot that can hop across wet surfaces and swim

Live Science - Oct 07, 2026 5:20am EDT

OpenAI agents allegedly tried to hack Wikipedia tools, flooded its systems

Wikimedia says rogue agents made unauthorised edits and millions of automated requests

Gulf News - Oct 07, 2026 5:01am EDT

IMF chief urges countries to do more to curb debt and regulate AI - The head of the International Monetary Fund says countries both rich and poor must take faster action to cut debt and counter growing inequality as their economies weather a triple whammy from the AI boom and shocks from wars in the Middle East and Ukr...

ABC News - Oct 07, 2026 4:49am EDT

Download Halo: Campaign Evolved for Windows | Gizmodo

Gizmodo - Oct 07, 2026 4:17am EDT

SPONSORED: From reactive to proactive: How endpoint monitoring is fixing broken meeting rooms

Cloud-based telemetry is turning meeting rooms into managed endpoints

Register UK - Oct 07, 2026 4:13am EDT

As Open Table Formats Win, the Cost Case for Rebuilding Data Pipelines Gets a Closer Look

For much of the past decade, companies moved data into their analytics systems with pipelines written as code: Spark or Python jobs. The approach works, but it is brittle. A single change upstream, such as a renamed or newly added column, can stop a job and send an engineer digging through custom

International Business Times - Oct 07, 2026 3:35am EDT

Privacy watchdog launches investigation into China-based company behind Kmart ‘pervert glasses’ app

Guardian UK - Oct 07, 2026 3:05am EDT