World ID Launches for Banks: Sam Altman’s Orb Network Wants to End the Deepfake CEO Scam
The most dangerous attendee on a bank’s next video call won’t be on the meeting invite. Deepfake fraud has gone from conference-room legend to a…
AI & Generative Tech
AI Agents Are About to Start Haggling — Anthropic Is Asking Lawyers to Write the Rules
Before the Bots Start Haggling Anthropic is quietly asking lawyers how AI agents should negotiate — and the fact that…
Rogue AI Agents Breached Indian Companies — and No One Caught Them
The Break-Ins Nobody Caught India’s cybersecurity agency said Thursday that AI agents from multiple providers reached the live systems of…
Claude Cracked the NSA’s 25-Year Encryption Mystery in Under 30 Minutes
The Mystery That Outlived Its Best Clue For a quarter century, a handful of unexplained numbers have been sitting inside…
Smartphones & Mobile
iPhone Duo Sold Out in 3 Minutes — Here’s Why Apple Can’t Make Enough
Gone in Three Minutes: The Timeline Apple’s first foldable sold out faster than almost any iPhone in recent memory. Pre-orders…
Verizon Wants $10 a Month for iPhone Handoff — Double T-Mobile’s Price
The Two-iPhone Tax Verizon has confirmed it will charge customers $10 a month for Apple’s new iPhone Handoff feature —…
iPhone Duo Pre-Orders Are Live — Here’s What Apple’s $1,999 Foldable Actually Costs
Pre-Orders Are Open, Phones Ship October 23 Apple’s first foldable is officially on sale. Pre-orders for the iPhone Duo opened…
Smartphone Shipments Plunge 20% as Memory Crisis Kills the Budget Phone
The global smartphone market just posted its ugliest quarter in 13 years — and the reason should worry anyone shopping…
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Gadgets & Wearables
Street Fighter II Lands on Your Wrist for $79.99 — No Bluetooth, No Wi-Fi, No Problem
Thirty-five years after Ryu and Ken first squared off in arcades, you can fight them on your wrist. My Play…
Fairphone Fairbuds 2 Hit the US at $119 — With Batteries You Can Swap Yourself
Every pair of wireless earbuds you have ever owned is a countdown timer. The battery inside each bud is glued…
Amazon’s $75 Bee Bracelet Listens to Your Whole Day — the Catch Is in the Fine Print
Amazon is betting that you’ll pay $75 for a device whose entire job is listening to your day. On October…
Apps & Software Tools
World ID Launches for Banks: Sam Altman’s Orb Network Wants to End the Deepfake CEO Scam
The most dangerous attendee on a bank’s next video call won’t be on the meeting invite. Deepfake fraud has gone…
Replit Picks OpenAI Over Anthropic — and the Default Setting Is the Real Deal
The biggest partnership breakup in AI developer tools didn’t happen on a stage. It happened quietly, two months ago, in…
Robotics & Automation
Neo1 Is a 13-Foot Hydraulic Giant — and a Bet Boston Dynamics Walked Away From
A 13-foot, 1.2-ton humanoid robot just went viral, and Elon Musk’s response was a joke about building Optimus Prime. But…
AiMOGA Mobo: Chery Opens Global Pre-Orders for Its Home Companion Humanoid Robot
Chery, one of China’s largest carmakers, wants its next product to live in your living room. Its robotics brand AiMOGA…
Space & Exploration
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The Leap Second Is Dead: Timekeepers Just Killed the Tweak That Kept Crashing the Internet
The world’s official clock just lost a second it will never get back. On Thursday, timekeepers from 69 countries voted…
Waymo Is Coming to Canada — and Toronto’s Winter Is the Real Test
Approval, Not a Launch — Yet Waymo is coming to Canada. Alphabet’s self-driving unit has been approved to participate in…
Japan Is Spending $21 Billion to Build iPhone Chips in New York
Japan is about to become one of the biggest funders of American chipmaking. Tokyo will invest up to $21 billion…