The news of Friday 02 October 2026

Hardware 171 stories

1. Partial Win11 User Feedback Installes Microsoft, an optional update in September and multiple MP3 files playing at the same time trigger crash
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:56 UTC Translated from zh-cn
2. Benz will significantly reduce the size of the vehicle. EQE, Maebah, EQS 680 SUV, etc., are about to shut down.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:53 UTC Translated from zh-cn
3. California Cracks Down on Robotaxis That Block First Responders
   Gizmodo 23:49 UTC

   A new state law imposes fines and new emergency-response requirements on autonomous vehicle companies.

4. Apple tightens MacOS 27 until full disk access reduces AI HYM risk
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:47 UTC Translated from zh-cn
5. First-generation M3 on the market, 40 years ago, BMW M came up with millions of down-line milestones.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:29 UTC Translated from zh-cn
6. AT&T REPUCTION 18 Pro Max INSTRIA
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:20 UTC Translated from Vietnamese

Semiconductors 93 stories

1. Tracing Hardware Design From Physical Devices to RTL (Infineon, TU Munich)
   Semiconductor Engineering 22:46 UTC

   Researchers at Infineon Technologies and Technical University of Munich published a technical paper titled “From Physical Devices to RTL Models: Abstraction and Validation in Hardware Engineering.” Abstract: “This paper introduces the…

2. Japan's TEPCO to counter 'capacity squatters' in AI data center boom
   Nikkei Asia 22:17 UTC
3. Once in decline, Japan's hard-drive suppliers ride soaring AI demand
   Nikkei Asia 22:17 UTC
4. Student Body President: Stephen Schwarzman (3)
   Nikkei Asia 22:17 UTC
5. Scandal-hit Nidec's new CEO long praised by founder Nagamori
   Nikkei Asia 21:16 UTC
6. Young Indians flock to EU as immigration curbs bite in US, UK
   Nikkei Asia 21:16 UTC

Software Engineering 52 stories

1. I got targeted: Trying to get your credentials via a git post-checkout hook
   lobste.rs 22:19 UTC

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2. Lobsters Interview with Sjamaan
   lobste.rs 22:01 UTC

   Our dear @sjamaan ( website ) is a CHICKEN scheme maintainer and professional Clojure developer. We got to know each other on IRC over a few months and discussed: CHICKEN Scheme and its 6.0.0 release Scheme's community and standardization…

3. Zig 0.17.0 Release Notes
   lobste.rs 21:10 UTC

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4. Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model
   Hacker News Front Page 21:06 UTC

   Article URL: https://blog.sshh.io/p/the-harness-is-the-company Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938616 Points: 115 # Comments: 84

5. Respecting your users' dread of the clankers
   lobste.rs 21:03 UTC

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6. Zig v0.17.0
   Hacker News Front Page 20:56 UTC

   Article URL: https://ziglang.org/download/0.17.0/release-notes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938521 Points: 137 # Comments: 66

Tech Market & VC 50 stories

1. Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music
   TechCrunch 21:09 UTC

   Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.

2. The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Almost All About AI
   Crunchbase News 18:24 UTC

   Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out T he Crunchbase Megadeals Board . This is a weekly feature that runs down the…

3. Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents
   TechCrunch 18:11 UTC

   Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.

4. CEO Interview: Andromeda Surgical
   CB Insights 17:56 UTC

   Nicholas Damiano , CEO of Andromeda Surgical , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? The global surgical procedures…

5. It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House)
   TechCrunch 17:48 UTC

   This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed…

6. Executive Interview: Quantum XChange
   CB Insights 17:19 UTC

   Antonio Sanchez , Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of Quantum XChange , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Quantum…

Artificial Intelligence 45 stories

1. Plyto, the first brand ‘Bogle’ will lead the global interpreter market... “I will continue to grow”
   AI Times (Korea) 18:20 UTC Translated from Korean
2. Amazon, AI agent-only open source decision-making model ‘Send Desaer 2B’ released
   AI Times (Korea) 18:16 UTC Translated from Korean
3. Google Deep Mind Reveals Watermark Technology for Protein and Full Tracking AI
   AI Times (Korea) 18:06 UTC Translated from Korean
4. "There is no need for five fingers". . Boston Dynamics, Four Finger Robot Hand Public
   AI Times (Korea) 17:58 UTC Translated from Korean
5. [AI Model New] 6 types of MS voice recognition ‘MAI-Transk LIVE-2-Streeming’
   AI Times (Korea) 17:55 UTC Translated from Korean
6. Google “I need to launch at least 1800 times the Starship to realize the share data center”
   AI Times (Korea) 17:35 UTC Translated from Korean

Energy & Green Tech 42 stories

1. Kia sweetens EV deals with up to $10,000 off
   Electrek 21:06 UTC

   With the new EV3 now arriving at dealerships, Kia is throwing some extra savings into the mix with up to $10,000 off in customer cash on select EVs. more…

2. US Senate Proposes New Permitting Framework. Should It Become Law?
   CleanTechnica 20:43 UTC

   Sheldon Whitehouse is my favorite member of Congress. The junior senator from Rhode Island is smart, articulate, and determined. This week, he was instrumental in getting a bill before the Senate that will radically alter how permitting…

3. Ford backs a big new solar farm for its Michigan factories
   Electrek 19:52 UTC

   Detroit-based energy company DTE Energy has completed construction of a 100-megawatt (MW) solar farm near Coldwater, Michigan, that will help Ford power its home-state factories with cleaner electricity. more…

4. Jeep’s off-road electric SUV managed just 160 miles in a real-world highway range test
   Electrek 19:30 UTC

   The Jeep Recon EV has removable doors and packs 670 horsepower combined, but it’s less efficient than advertised. more…

5. Podcast: Tesla Roadster delay, EV deliveries, battery swap comes back, and more
   Electrek 19:20 UTC

   In the Electrek Podcast , we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss the Tesla Roadster delay, EV deliveries in the US, battery swap coming back, and more. more…

6. The world’s tallest wind turbine just reached 1,197 feet
   Electrek 18:21 UTC

   The world’s tallest wind turbine has reached its full height in Germany, and its developer says the extra altitude could roughly double its electricity output. more…

Cybersecurity 28 stories

1. Friday Squid Blogging: EU is Trying to Fight Unregulated Squid Fishing
   Schneier on Security 21:02 UTC

   The EU is recommending import controls to combat unregulated squid fishing in the Southwest Atlantic. I’m not optimistic. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered…

2. iPhone 18 Pro Max stuck in SOS mode? Try AT＆T’s urgent fix ASAP
   ZDNet Security 19:40 UTC

   Some iPhone 18 Pro Max phones on AT&T are stuck in SOS mode. Two updates can prevent it, but affected phones need replacing.

3. Frontline Education breach exposes school district employee data
   BleepingComputer 19:01 UTC

   Frontline Education is notifying school districts of a data breach after attackers exploited a vulnerability in third-party software to gain unauthorized access to its systems and steal employee information, including Social Security…

4. Warlock ransomware breach SharePoint in water, telecom operator attacks
   BleepingComputer 18:33 UTC

   The China-linked ransomware group Warlock targeted a water utility, a telecom provider, a regional government body, and a university by exploiting SharePoint vulnerabilities to gain initial access. [...]

5. This new ChatGPT scam tricks you into installing malware – how to spot the trap
   ZDNet Security 18:18 UTC

   This authentic-looking scam starts with a sponsored Google link – and it’s catching people off-guard.

6. The legal questions raised by agentic AI hacks
   CyberScoop Asia 17:47 UTC

   As AI agents escaping testing sandboxes and hacking organizations have gone from unprecedented to seemingly routine in a matter of weeks, policymakers, regulators and cybersecurity attorneys largely agree on one thing: Something must be…

Geopolitics & Policy 25 stories

1. Trump expected to name Jay Clayton as AI tsar
   South China Morning Post Tech 22:41 UTC

   US ⁠President Donald Trump is expected to name Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to be his top adviser on AI, a position the president has called “AI tsar” in ‌the past, according to a source familiar with the decision. Clayton…

2. King Charles to acknowledge ‘darkest days’ of colonial rule on Caribbean tour
   South China Morning Post Tech 18:11 UTC

   King Charles will acknowledge the “darkest days” of colonial rule and slavery while touring Caribbean countries on a visit beginning this month, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said on Friday. The king will first visit the Bahamas and Guyana…

3. New York governor attacks handling of Cornell gang rape case, appoints special prosecutor
   South China Morning Post Tech 17:10 UTC

   New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday faulted police and prosecutors for failing to fully investigate an alleged gang rape in 2024 at Cornell University, saying she was “deeply disturbed” by how the incident was handled. Hochul was…

4. China has cracked down on AI relationships. Is it ahead of the game?
   CSET Georgetown 16:57 UTC

   CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in an article published by BBC . The article examines China’s new regulations on AI companions and the country’s efforts to address concerns around emotional dependency, child safety, and the…

5. What America and China Fear Most About AI
   CSET Georgetown 16:44 UTC

   CSET’s Helen Toner joined Foreign Affairs for a discussion with Kyle Chan on U.S.-China competition and cooperation in artificial intelligence. To listen to the full interview, visit Foreign Affairs . The post What America and China Fear…

6. US Allied Shipbuilding Gains Momentum, But Ambitions May Collide
   The Diplomat Tech 14:56 UTC

   Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. appear to have given little thought to which country should build what, or who controls the key technologies that every shipyard depends on.

Quant Finance 22 stories

1. Payments Canada approves new members
   Finextra 19:55 UTC

   Payments Canada announced today the approval of six new members: Bounce Finance Inc. (“Bounce Pay”), Everlink Payment Services ULC (“FIS Everlink”), Nium Canada Corporation (“Nium”), Pesapeer Incorporated (“Pesa”), Remitly Canada, Inc…

2. Banks Have a New Single Point of Failure: Their AI Provider
   Finextra 17:32 UTC

   Author: A finextra community member

3. Drift opens exploit recovery claims with initial payouts of just over 1% of user losses
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 17:10 UTC

   DFX holders can cash out now or wait for more funding, with no firm timeline for full repayment.

4. Paradigm-backed Layer 2 Blast to wind down network as costs exceed revenue
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 16:54 UTC

   Ethereum L2 Blast is winding down after costs outpaced revenue. Users have until Oct. 26 to withdraw via the app.

5. Nayax completes acquisition of smart parking company IPS Group
   Finextra 15:58 UTC

   Nayax Ltd. (Nasdaq: NYAX; TASE: NYAX), a global commerce enablement, payments, and loyalty platform designed to help merchants scale their business, today announced it has completed its acquisition of IPS Group, Inc. ("IPS"), a leading…

6. What Really Drives the Asset Growth Anomaly? New Evidence Points to Mispricing, Not Risk
   Alpha Architect 15:24 UTC

   One of the most well-documented patterns in the cross-section of stock returns is that firms with high asset growth subsequently underperform firms with low asset growth. This “asset growth anomaly” is so well established that it now sits…

Biotech & Medtech 18 stories

1. Debunked Episode 30: ACCESS Tries to Succeed Where VBC Fails, AI, and UnitedHealth Gets the Last Week Tonight Treatment
   MedCity News 21:30 UTC

   Debunked Podcast co-hosts Arundhati Parmar and Samir Batra discussed the merits of the CMS ACCESS Model (Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions) and how it can offer a path to advance value-based care goals. The post…

2. Parakeet Health Secures $10M for Conversational Agentic Platform
   MedCity News 20:43 UTC

   The Series A round was led by Canvas Ventures, with participation from Blank Space Ventures, StoryHouse Ventures and HMC INQ. The post Parakeet Health Secures $10M for Conversational Agentic Platform appeared first on MedCity News .

3. NIH rolling out streamlined website to help public find information more easily
   STAT News 19:59 UTC

   Finding information from the National Institutes of Health about human health, disease, and biomedical research is about to look a lot different. On Monday, the NIH will unveil a new version of its website that shifts attention away from…

4. Pfizer Pill’s Phase 3 Data in Vitiligo Pave Way for FDA, EMA Submissions
   MedCity News 17:47 UTC

   Pfizer’s Litfulo significantly improved skin pigment measures in two pivotal studies in vitiligo, results that were presented during the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology annual meeting. If Pfizer’s daily pill is approved, it…

5. What it’s like to wait for the call from the Nobel Prize committee
   STAT News 16:07 UTC

   Some 20 years ago, Mary-Claire King was asked to hold a seminar at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. The invite, the geneticist soon learned, was code for: You are being considered for a Nobel Prize. She traveled to Sweden, held the…

6. This week in charts: Kodiak’s big comeback and Hengrui’s dealmaking
   BioPharma Dive 15:00 UTC

   The latest installment in BioPharma Dive’s data visualization series features a closer look at Kodiak’s stock performance and Hengrui's ties with U.S. and European drugmakers.

Cloud & Infrastructure 18 stories

1. AI21 achieves an 83% reduction in time-to-start for AI workloads with AI Hypercomputer
   Google Cloud Blog 19:00 UTC

   Editor’s note : AI21 Labs is a leading global AI lab with a long track record of building foundation models, most notably the Jamba family, and today focuses on specialized LLMs and agent optimization technology. By adopting Google Cloud…

2. GitHub’s advice for its new Copilot feature is to try something else first
   The New Stack 18:25 UTC

   GitHub launched computer use in public preview on Thursday , giving Copilot CLI and its desktop app the ability to operate applications on macOS and Windows. Agents can read app content and click, type, scroll, and drag, including in…

3. What Kubernetes’ “monolith” lesson means for AI agent harnesses
   The New Stack 16:31 UTC

   Welcome to another edition of Road to KubeCon , your source for everything Kubernetes and cloud-native as we count down the days to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA , happening November 9-12 in Salt Lake City, Utah. This week, we take a look at…

4. Streamline: custom video pipelines with Cloudflare Stream and Workers
   Cloudflare Blog 16:13 UTC

   Cloudflare Stream is a powerful broadcasting platform that, for many of our customers, just works. But what if you wanted to render dynamic annotations on a livestream or create an alternate version of a hosted video with burned-in…

5. Announcing Spanner queues: Transactional messaging for agentic workloads and beyond
   Google Cloud Blog 16:00 UTC

   AI agents don't just answer queries — they can autonomously issue refunds, manage inventory, execute multi-step handoffs, and orchestrate sub-agents, to name but a few complex agentic workflows. That frequently requires the agents to…

6. GKE CPU startup boost: Accelerate app starts without over-provisioning
   Google Cloud Blog 16:00 UTC

   Whether you’re launching microservices in response to sudden traffic spikes, deploying new software releases, or scaling up application replicas, pod startup time is critical to maintaining a fast, responsive user experience for…

Space & Aerospace 10 stories

1. NASA Astronaut Christina Koch to Join NFL Fans in Philadelphia
   NASA News 19:54 UTC

   NASA astronaut Christina Koch is seen during an event to award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the Artemis II crew, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA/John Kraus As part of NASA’s…

2. Heading Home: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Concludes Station Science Mission
   NASA News 19:30 UTC

   5 Min Read Heading Home: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Concludes Station Science Mission </div

3. NASA’s DAVINCI Probe Can Stand the Heat
   NASA News 19:00 UTC

   An engineering model of NASA’s DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) descent probe passed a key test that ran from Aug. 28 to Sept. 10, showing it can survive the extreme temperatures of…

4. The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship to energy
   Ars Technica Space 18:56 UTC

   One argument that often comes up about climate change is that fossil fuels are good because they powered economic growth that has left most people better off overall. And, to an extent, that has been true, but it's also an extremely…

5. Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
   Ars Technica Space 18:17 UTC

   It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that nearly slipped through the cracks. September’s list…

6. La NASA abre solicitudes para próxima promoción de directores de vuelo
   NASA News 16:36 UTC

   El equipo de control de vuelo de Artemis II, en la Sala Blanca de Control de Vuelo del centro de control de misiones del Centro Espacial Johnson de la NASA, en Houston, el 10 de abril de 2026, durante el amerizaje y la recuperación de la…

Quantum Computing 9 stories

1. Quantum in Business Conference Highlights Commercial Quantum Applications
   The Quantum Insider 16:02 UTC

   Insider Brief EPB Quantum’s Quantum in Business conference in Chattanooga brought together more than 450 business leaders, researchers, technology innovators and public officials to discuss commercial quantum applications. IonQ and EPB…

2. QEst Hack Invites Participants to Test Quantum Algorithms on Real Business Problems
   The Quantum Insider 15:56 UTC

   Insider Brief Metrosert is inviting companies, students, researchers and other participants from the Nordic and Baltic countries to apply for QEst Hack 2026 in Tallinn from November 11–13. Five companies will bring real business problems…

3. New Method Generates Photons That Are Virtually Indistinguishable
   The Quantum Insider 15:28 UTC

   Insider Brief Researchers improved the similarity of photons generated by semiconductor quantum dots, advancing light sources for quantum communication and information processing. An optical cavity controlled and accelerated photon…

4. US Department of Energy Releases National Quantum Roadmap Establishing 2028 Fault-Tolerance Milestones
   Quantum Computing Report 11:43 UTC

   The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released its National Quantum Roadmap, aiming for error-corrected quantum computing by 2028. This strategy shifts focus from qubit counts to demonstrated scientific utility, with a three-phphased…

5. Fermilab SQMS Center Identifies Microscopic Origins of Qubit Performance Variance Across Superconducting Transmons
   Quantum Computing Report 11:22 UTC

   Researchers at Fermilab's SQMS Center and collaborators identified microscopic material defects causing performance variations in superconducting qubits. Their study found that nanoscale fabrication geometries, surface oxides, and energy…

6. SQC and Schneider Electric Advance Quantum-Enhanced Energy Forecasting
   The Quantum Insider 11:17 UTC

   Insider Brief Silicon Quantum Computing and Schneider Electric advanced to Stage 2 of Australia’s Critical Technologies Challenge Program with A$3.6 million in funding to expand their quantum-enhanced energy forecasting work with UNSW…

Robotics & Automation 7 stories

1. Inside Omron’s next-generation LD mobile robots
   The Robot Report 23:01 UTC

   The Robot Report Podcast · Inside Omron’s Next-Generation LD Mobile Robots Miguel Garcés Moreno, PMM, mobile robots, OMRON In Episode 264 of The Robot Report Podcast, we interview Miguel Garcés Moreno , product marketing manager for…

2. Inside Omron’s next-generation LD mobile robots
   Robotics Business Review 23:01 UTC

   The Robot Report Podcast · Inside Omron’s Next-Generation LD Mobile Robots Miguel Garcés Moreno, PMM, mobile robots, OMRON In Episode 264 of The Robot Report Podcast, we interview Miguel Garcés Moreno , product marketing manager for…

3. Eli Lilly, Purdue to share field learnings on human robot interaction at RoboBusiness
   The Robot Report 21:12 UTC

   https://www.therobotreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/lilly-physical-ai.mp4 Human-robot interaction is one of the biggest unlocks left in industrial automation to enable stronger safety, but most HRI research happens on university…

4. Eli Lilly, Purdue to share field learnings on human robot interaction at RoboBusiness
   Robotics Business Review 21:12 UTC

   https://www.therobotreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/lilly-physical-ai.mp4 Human-robot interaction is one of the biggest unlocks left in industrial automation to enable stronger safety, but most HRI research happens on university…

5. Runway introduces Praxis-1 world action model for robotics
   Robotics Business Review 18:32 UTC

   Runway said it is testing Praxis-1 on a variety of embodiments and environments to identify and close potential gaps before moving to general availability. | Source: Runway Runway AI Inc. this week introduced Praxis-1, an open-weight world…

6. Runway introduces Praxis-1 world action model for robotics
   The Robot Report 18:32 UTC

   Runway said it is testing Praxis-1 on a variety of embodiments and environments to identify and close potential gaps before moving to general availability. | Source: Runway Runway AI Inc. this week introduced Praxis-1, an open-weight world…