Tech Business
Microsoft Azure leadership reorganization ties to Maia AI chips
Arun Ulag now oversees Azure's core business as Microsoft bets that its own Maia 300 chips will run Copilot from 2027, and reports point to cost cuts too.
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Science & Space
Spider Crater Landsat image reveals 13 by 11 km oval with legs
A new Landsat 9 view shows why Western Australia's Spider Crater looks like a giant arachnid, and how geologists proved a meteorite made it.
Gaming
Street Fighter 6 welcomes Arjun as a new fighter with fresh arcade content
Arjun, a framed Indian police officer who fights with breath and pillars of earth, is live in Street Fighter 6. Here is how to unlock him and what else arrived.
Phones & Gadgets
Beats Pikachu Pill speaker revives the Pill with Pikachu styling
The Pokémon x Beats Pill put Pikachu and Mimikyu on Apple's portable speaker for $149.99, but only shoppers in the US, UK and China could buy it.
Tech Policy
US Army counter-drone contracts award $4.15B to 10 firms
The $4.15 billion is a spending ceiling, not a check. Ten firms can now sell radars, smart rifle scopes and robotic gun mounts to protect US bases from cheap drones.
AI
NVIDIA RTX Spark launch events bring live demos to six cities
NVIDIA marked the October 16 arrival of RTX Spark laptops with hands-on parties in six cities, and Jensen Huang turned up in Berlin with signed laptops.
AI
Muse Wonder AI models add memory to follow your preferences
Meta's new Muse Wonder and Wonder Full models remember context between chats and keep working when a first attempt fails, and independent tests put Meta near the top.
Security & Privacy
Grok Lego order leak exposes buyer payment and contact data
Musk's own screenshot of a Grok-placed Lego order showed addresses, card digits and an order number, and X users then used Lego's chatbot to meddle with it.
AI
Meta Muse Wonder adds Active Memory to keep AI agents on task
Meta's Muse Wonder models now sit near the top of independent AI rankings. Here is what Active Memory and Active Focus do, what they cost and who can use them.
Gaming
PS5 jailbreaking AI speeds up hacks that run PS2 and PS3 games
AI coding tools are speeding up PS5 hacks and game decompilation. Sony has answered with two firmware updates in October, and GTA 6 is raising the stakes.
Internet & Social
Yandex outage bot activity likely shows its own crawlers
A viral Cloudflare chart seemed to show Russian bots vanishing when Yandex went dark. The traffic was mostly Yandex's own automated web crawlers.
Security & Privacy
Danfoss refrigeration controllers led to mass defrost in France
Hackers used old Danfoss refrigeration controllers to switch on defrost cycles overnight, spoiling food in hundreds of French supermarkets.