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Linux developer Justin Schroeder shared a photo of an older Intel MacBook pointing its webcam at a mirror reflecting its own screen, letting an AI coding agent visually monitor its progress while tuning AMD Radeon GPU support for the Omarchy Linux distribution. Omarchy is built as an 'agent-first' OS with tools designed to let AI agents install, configure and debug the system autonomously.
AI chipmaker Positron secured $875 million in new funding, backers including NEA, Atreides Management, and Jim Clark, valuing the startup at $5 billion. The company designs specialized chips aimed at running AI models quickly, positioning itself against dominant GPU providers as demand for inference-focused hardware grows.
Defense tech startup Mach Industries raised $600 million in a Series C extension, pushing its valuation to $3.7 billion just three months after a $300 million round valued it at $1.8 billion. Backers in both rounds include Ribbit Capital, Infinite Capital, Bedrock Capital and Sequoia. The company makes unmanned military vehicles, including VTOL drones, long-range strike systems and counter-drone tech, from its Huntington Beach, California facility.
The piece revisits CSS tools built for foldable devices, prompted by Google's Pixel Fold launch. It details media queries like horizontal-viewport-segments and vertical-viewport-segments, plus environment variables that report each screen segment's width, height and position so layouts can adapt automatically to different hinge geometries.
A coalition of European founders and VCs published an open letter urging EU lawmakers to preserve key features of the proposed 'EU Inc' company statute, which would allow startups to incorporate once and operate across the bloc. They warn that national lobbies, including Germany's notary association, are pushing changes that could weaken the framework before final negotiations conclude.
GreyNoise reports that a likely Russian-speaking threat actor deployed hundreds of AI agents using OpenAI's Codex and DeepSeek models to build and launch exploits against two PaperCut NG/MF vulnerabilities. The campaign, which began August 31, compromised at least 440 servers across 395 organizations in 48 countries, mostly in education, with credentials stolen from 280 victims and admin access gained at 12 organizations.
Apple has launched the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone, arriving years after Samsung pioneered the category. The device features a near-invisible crease, a durable hinge, an under-screen front camera, and software tailored to multiple folding positions. It also introduces interaction ideas like dragging subjects directly between apps and an automatic self-timer that waits for stillness before shooting.
ASML has partnered with Intel, Samsung, and TSMC to accelerate industry adoption of larger 6×12-inch photomasks, a change needed to fully exploit High-NA EUV lithography. The larger reticle size would let chipmakers print large dies in a single exposure rather than stitching together smaller patterned sections, addressing a field-size limitation created by High-NA's anamorphic optics.
Odin Space is selling adhesive vibration sensor strips that satellites can use to detect and measure debris impacts, addressing the mystery behind many small-satellite failures. Meanwhile, Atlanta-area company Atomic-6 is working on lighter alternative shielding to replace or improve upon traditional aluminum panels and Whipple shields used to protect spacecraft from high-speed debris strikes.
Developer Mayuki used Claude to vibe-code ReProgman, a lightweight clone of the classic Windows 3.1 Program Manager shell that ran until Windows 95 replaced it in the mid-1990s. The 12-16MB tool requires no installation, runs on both Windows 11 and Apple Silicon Macs via .NET SDK 10.0+, and has been published on GitHub under the MIT license.
Reflective, a nonprofit funding solar geoengineering studies, published a research roadmap for stratospheric aerosol injection outlining what scientific work is still needed before governments could make informed deployment decisions. The plan estimates coordinated research would take about a decade and cost roughly $370 million, versus 20 years and nearly $1.4 billion if uncoordinated, and it recommends conducting outdoor experiments releasing sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere.
Walmart is offering the MSI Cyborg 15 gaming laptop for $1,049, a $250 discount from its regular price. The machine pairs an Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU with 8GB VRAM and DLSS multi-frame generation with an eight-core Intel Core 5 210H processor, 16GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, and a 512GB Gen 4 SSD. It also features a 15.6-inch 1080p IPS display with a 144Hz refresh rate.