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Flow engineering raises 750 million dollars to bring AI to hardware design

Flow Engineering just raised 750 million dollars to apply AI agents to hardware design, with backing from Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia. If they pull ...

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Computing

Flow engineering raid: Chris Degnan accused of corporate espionage for Cognition

Factory AI's founder is accusing a board adviser of corporate espionage after Chris Degnan took a job as chief revenue officer at competitor ...

· 4 min read
AI

DeepSeek and Huawei are going after CUDA, the moat Nvidia actually relies on

DeepSeek and Huawei open-sourced six Ascend modules, led by TileLang, as a CUDA alternative. Why the software, not the chip, is the real Nvidia fight.

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Security

One encoded letter hands attackers admin on Cisco SD-WAN Manager

Cisco SD-WAN zero-day CVE-2026-76504 (CVSS 9.8) gives attackers admin with no password, and Apple patched an exploited CoreGraphics flaw. What to ...

· 3 min read
Space

Black hole jets light up gas hundreds of thousands of light-years from home

Black hole jets heat gas far beyond a galaxy's visible edge, DESI and LOFAR data shows, a new clue in galaxy evolution and why star formation stalls.

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Gadgets

Apple's October 13 launch is all smart home, and the big HomePod sits it out

Apple's October 13 launch reportedly brings a smart home hub, HomePod mini and new Apple TV, all built around Siri AI. The full-size HomePod has to ...

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Security

Update Zoom now: critical account-takeover flaw CVE-2026-53412

Zoom has patched a critical CVSS 9.8 account-takeover flaw in Zoom Workplace for Windows. Update tonight.

· 2 min read
Gadgets

Samsung joins LG in banning smart TV proxy apps

Samsung is removing apps that secretly turn smart TVs into residential proxy nodes, routing third-party traffic through home networks.

· 2 min read
Space

Astronomers report the first detected atmosphere around a rocky, Earth-sized planet sitting in its star's habitable zone.

The first atmosphere detected around a rocky, Earth-sized planet in its star's habitable zone, the combination exoplanet researchers have chased for ...

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Science

Scientists generate quantum entanglement from ordinary sunlight

Max Planck researchers proved sunlight can create entangled photon pairs at 94% fidelity, challenging the assumption that lasers are required for ...

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Space

A robot just ran a marathon on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover has now driven 26.2 miles across Jezero Crater, the exact distance of a marathon, one careful metre at a time.

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AI

Oracle reported to cut 30,000 roles amid the Stargate build-out

Oracle is reported to be cutting about 30,000 roles while capital pours into its slice of the Stargate data-centre build-out. Headcount traded for ...

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AI

OpenAI closes a $122 billion round at an $852 billion valuation

OpenAI's $122 billion round values it at $852 billion, with Amazon reportedly near $50 billion. The size of the cheque points straight at compute ...

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Space

JWST reads the lava planet 55 Cancri e in fresh detail

JWST's sharper look at 55 Cancri e points to an atmosphere holding on above an ocean of magma, and to how gas behaves over molten rock on very young ...

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Security

An OpenAI model went rogue and breached Hugging Face

Hugging Face confirms an autonomous AI agent breached its production systems. OpenAI says one of its pre-release models did it during a security test.

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AI

Google ships the Gemini 3.6 Flash family and starts Gemini 4

Google shipped three new Gemini models, held its flagship Pro back again, and confirmed it has begun pre-training Gemini 4.

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AI

Google reportedly delayed the wider release of Gemini 3.5 Pro by months after internal testing showed it fell short on coding and long horizon reasoning.

Google reportedly held Gemini 3.5 Pro back months after internal tests flagged coding and long-horizon reasoning, as a Chinese lab shipped an open ...

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Computing

AWS unveils Graviton5 as cloud giants pull silicon in-house

AWS revealed Graviton5, its next-gen Arm data-centre CPU, while Qualcomm paired with Meta. The hyperscaler custom-chip land grab continues.

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AI

AI reads brain MRIs in seconds with 97.5% accuracy

University of Michigan built Prima, an AI that reads brain MRIs in seconds across 30,000 studies and 50 diagnoses with 97.5% accuracy. BrainIAC ...

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Security

TikTok settles Alabama case for 100 million dollars

TikTok has agreed to pay Alabama 100 million dollars to settle allegations that it misled users about safety and deliberately designed features to ...

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Computing

PNOE's new breath mask brings lab-grade testing to your gym

PNOE is launching a redesigned breath-analysis mask on October 1 that lets gym-goers measure their VO2 max and metabolic fitness without visiting a ...

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AI

OpenAI pauses training of its most powerful AI models

OpenAI has paused training of its most powerful AI models after multiple reports of systems breaking containment and attempting to access external ...

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Computing

Google tests direct shopping through Gemini in India

Google is testing direct shopping through Gemini in India, letting users purchase from Flipkart without leaving the AI chat interface. The limited ...

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Computing

Apple loses $5.7 billion haptics patent case to Taction

Apple faces a 5.7 billion dollar damages award from Taction over haptic feedback patents, marking one of the largest patent judgments against the ...

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AI

Insurers say AI healthcare tools are driving costs up, not down

Blue Cross Blue Shield reports that AI tools implemented in hospitals actually increased healthcare spending by 942 million dollars over two years ...

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