The news of Friday 09 October 2026

Hardware 194 stories

1. Apple TV 4K is included in the "old" product, and the fourth generation is expected next week.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:58 UTC Translated from zh-cn
2. Porsche Delivery in 1-9 months 1785 000 vehicles decreased by 16% and the Chinese market by 33%.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:52 UTC Translated from zh-cn
3. 2026 See you next week at the Paris Car Fair. China has a record one-third brand.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:48 UTC Translated from zh-cn
4. Apple Home Apply new feature: iPhone Near the doorbell, vibrator Island preview video
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:43 UTC Translated from zh-cn
5. Gulman Exploding Apple iPhone Duo Collapse Screen Phone "Unique Eggs": The first turn-on displays custom users First Name
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:28 UTC Translated from zh-cn
6. Win11 Collapse: Microsoft Drive Quality Initiative, Intel GPU Drive Lead Fit 26H2
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:22 UTC Translated from zh-cn

Semiconductors 59 stories

1. Japan's Nakatsugawa aims to attract more visitors to 'Samurai Road'
   Nikkei Asia 23:29 UTC
2. Cambodian rice farmers help to conserve threatened cranes
   Nikkei Asia 23:29 UTC
3. Tropicana: Stephen Schwarzman (10)
   Nikkei Asia 22:28 UTC
4. Japan food tax cut gets cabinet approval with key questions unanswered
   Nikkei Asia 22:28 UTC
5. Japan PM faces calls for immigration cap as she weighs policy on foreigners
   Nikkei Asia 21:27 UTC
6. Beijing wields pop culture to court Malaysian Chinese
   Nikkei Asia 21:27 UTC

Software Engineering 58 stories

1. Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants
   Hacker News Front Page 23:53 UTC

   Article URL: https://www.broadinstitute.org/news/clinical-trial-prion-disease-drug-candidate-begins-enrolling-participants Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50028027 Points: 128 # Comments: 31

2. Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice
   Hacker News Front Page 23:28 UTC

   Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1055211/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50027853 Points: 125 # Comments: 35

3. Lifeguard: A static analyzer for Python lazy imports compatibility
   lobste.rs 21:44 UTC

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4. The importance of communities around software
   lobste.rs 21:27 UTC

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5. Cloudflare shutting down Deno is news, not just PR
   lobste.rs 21:20 UTC

   Requesting the currently-removed post for https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare be restored. Thread: https://lobste.rs/s/8hauxs/deno_is_joining_cloudflare My reasoning: It isn't just PR, but significant tech news that Cloudflare is buying up…

6. YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops
   Hacker News Front Page 21:06 UTC

   Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/youtuber-says-cops-paid-him-a-visit-after-he-built-flock-style-camera-to-track-cops-2000824306 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50026555 Points: 599 # Comments: 325

Tech Market & VC 57 stories

1. Long live the mechanical keyboard
   TechCrunch 22:08 UTC

   Keychron made a name for itself after launching on Kickstarter in 2017. Today, it offers the value K2 model as well as a variety of other versions, including one with an all-wood body.

2. Agentic AI just got very real
   Fast Company Tech 22:00 UTC

   Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company ’s Plugged In . In recent years, being gobsmacked by AI’s ever-expanding capabilities has become my new normal. More importantly, I’ve found the technology increasingly essential to my own…

3. The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch
   TechCrunch 21:41 UTC

   What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafe’s claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.

4. OpenAI fires 3 safety researchers after dispute over AI risks
   Fast Company Tech 19:59 UTC

   OpenAI said on Friday that it fired three safety researchers for a “breach of trust,” defending the dismissals after the trio accused the company of putting its corporate interests before safety as the reason for removing them. The ChatGPT…

5. An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
   TechCrunch 19:36 UTC

   Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.

6. Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines used at many data centers
   TechCrunch 18:57 UTC

   Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines as the data center boom pushes prices up.

Energy & Green Tech 37 stories

1. Trump EPA Extends Emissions Reporting Deadline for Big Polluters
   CleanTechnica 23:24 UTC

   Washington, D.C. — Today, Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency announced it would once again extend the deadline for Big Polluters to report how much greenhouse gases their power plants are emitting. The deadline, originally in…

2. Members of the Alliance for Electric School Buses Applaud Bipartisan Federal Legislation to Reauthorize the Successful ＆ Popular Clean School Bus Program
   CleanTechnica 23:20 UTC

   Electric School Buses Reduce Pollution, Lower Costs, and Improve Student Wellbeing WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, members of the Alliance for Electric School Buses (AESB) applaud Representatives Jahana Hayes (CT-05), Buddy Carter (GA-1), and…

3. Hyundai is offering a 10% discount on the IONIQ 5 and IONIQ 9 EVs
   Electrek 21:06 UTC

   Hyundai’s electric SUVs are even more tempting this month with a 10% discount, or up to $7,000 in total savings. more…

4. Americans want 300 miles of EV range – but most say 75 or less covers their day
   Electrek 20:30 UTC

   Most Americans say 75 miles of range would be more than enough for their daily drive, but when it comes to choosing an EV, a fair number want a much bigger cushion. more…

5. Podcast: Tesla goes V2H, Kia EV3 first drive, Jaguar Type 01, and more
   Electrek 19:39 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 Tesla finally launching V2H, our Kia EV3 first drive, Jaguar Type 01, and more. more…

6. BMW iX5 spotted ahead of US launch, sporting its new Double-X headlights
   Electrek 19:12 UTC

   You can’t miss BMW’s new “Double-X” lights, which debut on the all-electric iX5 and X5. The new iX5 was spotted testing ahead of its upcoming US launch, giving us a look at the new lighting signature in real life. more…

Artificial Intelligence 34 stories

1. Antropic 'Callenges', the first ultraviolet full sky map of humanity
   AI Times (Korea) 21:36 UTC Translated from Korean
2. OpenAI, Researcher Hazardous Disasters..."Safe Raised Non-Security Violation"
   AI Times (Korea) 20:58 UTC Translated from Korean
3. SpaceX, Wireless Communication...Mi·Europe Communications Co., Ltd.
   AI Times (Korea) 20:22 UTC Translated from Korean
4. Data Center Professional Pourman, Australia IPO Retractable...'Nvidia Hug's also
   AI Times (Korea) 19:28 UTC Translated from Korean
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   AI Times (Korea) 18:00 UTC Translated from Korean
6. Apple released the first touchscreen MacBook... Professional Market Summary With M6 Chip
   AI Times (Korea) 17:49 UTC Translated from Korean

Cybersecurity 33 stories

1. OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers in Dispute Over AI Risks
   SecurityWeek 21:07 UTC

   The ChatGPT maker said the researchers "violated clear policies on handling sensitive information.” The post OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers in Dispute Over AI Risks appeared first on SecurityWeek .

2. Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks
   BleepingComputer 20:31 UTC

   Hackers are abusing legitimate Bing search-result redirects as click URLs in Google search ads to direct users to fake Claude installers that deliver ClickFix attacks. [...]

3. Friday Squid Blogging: I Caught a Squid
   Schneier on Security 20:24 UTC

   On Wednesday I spent a day fishing, on a small boat out of Gloucester, MA. We caught many cod (none of which we could keep), and a bunch of hake and mackerel (all of which we could keep). And…I caught a squid! Near as I can tell, it’s a…

4. Credential-Stealing GitHub Actions Workflows Planted in Tens of Thousands of Repositories
   The Hacker News 19:14 UTC

   Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories. "Using the account of…

5. 4 ways Amazon’s new Alexa tablets eclipse the Fire line – starting with Google Play
   ZDNet Security 19:10 UTC

   Amazon just upped its game with new Android tablets for entertainment and work.

6. ‘I use AI to do the things that I’m bad at’: Linus Torvalds on why it works for him
   ZDNet Security 17:53 UTC

   The Linux creator calls vibe coding ‘a wonderful way to find joy in programming,’ but not for running Linux development. (Finding bugs is OK.)

Quant Finance 33 stories

1. The debugging tax: why agent budgets blow up on closed APIs—and what open models change
   Finextra 20:34 UTC

   Author: A finextra community member

2. Former FTX COO says Netflix’s ‘Altruists’ trailer ‘made me physically throw up’
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 18:51 UTC

   Former FTX COO Constance Wang says Netflix's "The Altruists" misrepresents FTX's collapse and turns it into a love story.

3. Beyond UPI and Chatbots: The Infrastructure Re-Engineering Reshaping US, UK, and India Fintech
   Finextra 16:40 UTC

   Author: A finextra community member

4. CRE's AI ambition is running ahead of its data plumbing
   Finextra 16:09 UTC

   Author: A finextra community member

5. Blockchain.com seeks CFTC greenlight for US prediction markets, crypto derivatives trading: CNBC
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 16:05 UTC

   Blockchain.com has applied for DCM and FCM licenses to offer ahead of a planned $500 million IPO.

6. Ledger investigates wallet drains involving CryptoBilis buyers; estimate tops $86 million in losses
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 14:52 UTC

   Ledger said it is investigating reports of fund losses from users in Southeast Asia who bought its products from reseller CryptoBilis.

Geopolitics & Policy 31 stories

1. Trump picks Truth Social’s Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary
   South China Morning Post Tech 22:37 UTC

   US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he has appointed Katie Zacharia, a communications adviser for his Truth Social platform, to serve as White House press secretary following Karoline Leavitt’s departure in August. He said…

2. Panama rocked by 2 powerful earthquakes, multiple aftershocks
   South China Morning Post Tech 22:10 UTC

   Two powerful 7.7 and 6.6 magnitude earthquakes and a series of aftershocks struck Panama on Friday afternoon, collapsing buildings near the epicentre and prompting evacuations across the country, the US Geological Survey said. The earlier…

3. The EU is its own worst enemy
   South China Morning Post Tech 21:30 UTC

   Another day, another hardline statement from the European Union. This week, the European Parliament voted by a landslide for a significantly tougher China position, despite long-standing Beijing lobbying. The report labels China a…

4. Trump says US to get diesel from Russia in stunning bid to ease prices
   South China Morning Post Tech 19:23 UTC

   President Donald Trump said that he has struck a deal to obtain diesel from Russia, a stunning reversal of years of US pressure on Moscow over its war with Ukraine and an attempt to address high fuel prices ahead of the US midterm…

5. Why Afghanistan’s Neighbors Have Not Backed Pakistan’s Strikes on the Taliban
   The Diplomat Tech 18:48 UTC

   China, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan are less exposed to the impact of cross-border terrorism – and less willing to risk smooth relations with Kabul over the issue.

6. Shows of Strength and Signs of Strain
   War on the Rocks 17:34 UTC

   Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranIn late September, U.S. and Iranian negotiators…

Quantum Computing 18 stories

1. Podcast with Harry Kumar, Co-founder, Director ＆ CCO of Moth Quantum
   Quantum Computing Report 22:15 UTC

   Interview with Harry Kumar, co-founder, director, and Chief Creative Officer of Moth Quantum. Moth is the company behind Quantum Backrooms, a browser game whose maze is generated on real quantum hardware. The post Podcast with Harry Kumar…

2. University of Auckland, NIST, and UMD Demonstrate Octave-Spanning Chip-Scale Microcomb in Nature
   Quantum Computing Report 18:50 UTC

   Researchers from the University of Auckland, NIST, UMD, and UC Santa Barbara have developed a chip-integrated optical frequency comb that addresses long-standing stability and control issues in microcomb metrology. They achieved this by…

3. Tuning a quantum computer: what a violin teaches us about qubit calibration
   The Quantum Insider 18:46 UTC

   Insider brief A new episode of The Quantum Kid’s Kai Asks series uses a violin to explain qubit calibration, featuring Kristina Callaghan, Quantum Education & Workforce Development Program Manager at Quantum Machines. Because of tiny…

4. Arqit Quantum Inc. Reports Select Preliminary FY 2026 Financial Results: Annual Revenue Tops $975K, NATO Contract Win, and Cash Position Reaches $51M
   Quantum Computing Report 18:31 UTC

   Arqit Quantum Inc. reported strong preliminary financial results for FY 2026, with annual revenue estimated between $975,000 and $1,000,000, an 84% to 89% increase from FY 2025. The company also secured a NATO contract and ended the fiscal…

5. Quantinuum and HQS Simulate 21-Spin NMR Spectrum on 42 Qubits With 1,400+ Two-Qubit Gate Circuits
   Quantum Computing Report 17:08 UTC

   Quantinuum and HQS Quantum Simulations successfully simulated a 21-spin NMR spectrum on Quantinuum's 42-qubit quantum computer, the H2-1. This simulation, which modeled 1,2-di-tert-butyl-diphosphane, demonstrated the viability of deep…

6. Fujitsu Partners with State of New Mexico to Establish Quantum Computing R＆D Center
   Quantum Computing Report 16:22 UTC

   Fujitsu is partnering with the State of New Mexico to establish a quantum computing R&D center, focusing on hardware, software, and algorithm design. This collaboration expands on existing research with New Mexico universities and…

Biotech & Medtech 17 stories

1. STAT+: Biotech leader, leading lab leak theorist no longer in consideration for top infectious disease role
   STAT News 21:03 UTC

   An early advocate for the theory that the Covid-19 virus was engineered in and leaked from a lab in China is no longer the leading choice to be America’s top infectious disease expert, a source with knowledge of the decision told STAT…

2. STAT+: Hospitals sue – again – to halt Trump administration’s 340B rebate pilot
   STAT News 20:27 UTC

   The American Hospital Association is once again suing the Trump administration over its plan to test revamping a federal drug discount program into one that provides after-the-fact rebates instead of upfront discounts for certain drugs…

3. TRrexBio’s IPO Bags $116M to Bring the Immune System Back Into Balance
   MedCity News 18:26 UTC

   Eli Lilly-partnered TRexBio will apply the IPO proceeds toward clinical development of molecules designed to activate regulatory T cells to mediate immune responses and inflammation. Meanwhile, Retension Pharmaceuticals will use its IPO…

4. STAT+: Pharma’s free lunches for doctors boost inappropriate prescribing, analysis finds
   STAT News 16:33 UTC

   The gifts and payments that doctors receive from drugmakers increased inappropriate prescribing and the number of prescriptions written, likely leading to rising health care costs, according to a Cochrane review of dozens of previous…

5. STAT+: Medicare Advantage star ratings trigger new bonuses, and uncertainty
   STAT News 15:55 UTC

   The federal government has released new quality ratings for Medicare Advantage insurers for 2027, with Humana emerging as the biggest winner. But deep uncertainty remains around Medicare Advantage quality measures, which come with tens of…

6. STAT+: Life Biosciences share glaucoma study updates for its cellular reprogramming drug
   STAT News 15:41 UTC

   Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. This is the Readout. Please read it. And don’t miss us too much Monday, when the newsletter will be paused for the…

Cloud & Infrastructure 8 stories

1. Kubernetes on cgroup v1 is dead. Here’s what comes next.
   The New Stack 20:15 UTC

   Welcome back to another edition of Road to KubeCon , where we’re tracking the latest movements in the cloud-native ecosystem as we prepare for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 , happening November 9-12 in Salt Lake City, Utah…

2. Cloudflare acquires Node.js creator’s startup that copied its serverless playbook
   The New Stack 18:52 UTC

   Cloudflare is buying the startup co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl , a longtime competitor that recently built its own open-source version of Cloudflare’s serverless computing platform. The company announced on Friday that the entire…

3. Introducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash
   Cloudflare Blog 18:27 UTC

   Following last week’s release of Clef and Clef-flash , Cloudflare’s open-weight decision models, we decided to bring forth more gifts. Today, we’re releasing Clef-omni, which takes in audio and video input alongside text and image. We also…

4. Modernizing Unstructured Data Workflows: Alteryx Live Query meets Google Cloud BigQuery
   Google Cloud Blog 16:00 UTC

   Alteryx One Live Query and Google Cloud BigQuery redefine how enterprises handle complex, unstructured data at scale by reducing reliance on disconnected tools, minimizing data movement, and enabling warehouse-native execution. Live Query…

5. Amazon ECS now auto-repairs failing GPUs and instances. Here’s why it matters for SREs.
   The New Stack 13:00 UTC

   Running applications in production means maintaining an “always-on” posture through disruptions. Infrastructure fails; dependencies slow down, and networks partition, not as rare exceptions but as a normal condition of running at scale…

6. Introducing on-demand CPU and memory profiling with flamegraphs for Workers and Durable Objects
   Cloudflare Blog 13:00 UTC

   Understanding why an application is using more resources than expected, whether that is CPU or memory, can be challenging. Logs and aggregate metrics can only get you so far. Thankfully there is a better way: CPU or memory profiling can…

Space & Aerospace 7 stories

1. Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
   Ars Technica Space 22:34 UTC

   The Stone Age owes its name to tools that survived to our time. The material early humans worked with most, though, was probably wood because it is so much easier to process. Unfortunately, we know very little about Paleolithic woodwork…

2. What's been driving Hawaii's lava fountains?
   Ars Technica Space 21:05 UTC

   In most cases, hotspot-driven volcanism is relatively sedate, with lava flowing down mountainsides slowly enough that people can walk out of its way. But in a number of locations—Mount Etna, Hawaii, Iceland—lava gets expelled in dramatic…

3. AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
   Ars Technica Space 18:44 UTC

   Credit: Nguyen Nam Nhat. Last month we covered the winner of Nikon's Small World in Motion video: Ning Xu of Tsinghua University in China, whose video captured tiny cilia beating in the airways of a child with a rare respiratory disorder…

4. NASA Seeks US Industry Plans for Commercial Space Stations
   NASA News 18:11 UTC

   Credit: NASA NASA is advancing American leadership in space by taking the next step toward a future where commercial space stations lead the way in low Earth orbit. On Friday, the agency released its final Request for Proposals inviting…

5. NASA Demonstrates Next-Generation Heat Shield Technologies
   NASA News 16:59 UTC

   4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A KREPE-3 capsule floats inside the Northrup Grumman Cygnus XL 24 cargo spacecraft on October 7. Inside the capsule is a 3-D printed heat shield designed by…

6. Ship 40 Returns Home as Ship 42 gets more Cryo Proof Testing
   NASASpaceFlight 14:36 UTC

   Ship 42 for Flight 15 has headed back out to Massey’s for more cryo-proof testing as SpaceX speeds up overall vehicle production. And after 75 days at sea, Ship 40 from Flight 13 has returned home to Texas and is slated to return to the…

Robotics & Automation 7 stories

1. Why humanoid robot demos still fail the generalization test
   The Robot Report 19:28 UTC

   The Robot Report Podcast · Why humanoid robot demos still fail the generalization test Jeanine Sinanan-Singh, director of GenAI research at Appen. In Episode 265 of The Robot Report Podcast, our guest is Jeanine Sinanan-Singh, director of…

2. Why humanoid robot demos still fail the generalization test
   Robotics Business Review 19:28 UTC

   The Robot Report Podcast · Why humanoid robot demos still fail the generalization test Jeanine Sinanan-Singh, director of GenAI research at Appen. In Episode 265 of The Robot Report Podcast, our guest is Jeanine Sinanan-Singh, director of…

3. Boston Dynamics gives more insight into its redesigned humanoid hand
   Robotics Business Review 16:59 UTC

   Boston Dynamics said its new hand is still capable of handling over 100 lb. | Source: Boston Dynamics Last week, Boston Dynamics Inc. gave a look at its new humanoid robot hand. The four-fingered hand has 13 degrees of freedom, or DoF, and…

4. Boston Dynamics gives more insight into its redesigned humanoid hand
   The Robot Report 16:59 UTC

   Boston Dynamics said its new hand is still capable of handling over 100 lb. | Source: Boston Dynamics Last week, Boston Dynamics Inc. gave a look at its new humanoid robot hand. The four-fingered hand has 13 degrees of freedom, or DoF, and…

5. Video Friday: Robot Decommissioning Takes a Fun Turn
   IEEE Spectrum Robotics 15:30 UTC

   Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for…

6. Groceryshop 2026 shows that retail robots are ready to scale, use AI
   Robotics Business Review 12:25 UTC

   Groceryshop 2026 provided an opportunity to assess the state of retail robotics. Source: Georges Mirza It has been more than a decade since I first helped to bring robots to live retail center stores. Long gone are retailers’ concerns…