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Global sales data show gasoline-only vehicles have fallen under 50% of new car sales worldwide for the first time, according to reporting on the milestone. The shift reflects growing shares of electric and hybrid vehicles in the global new-car market.
Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder, led by Carson Bruns, created a tattoo ink system called PhotoTat that uses photochromic dyes in protective nanoparticles to appear or vanish depending on light exposure. A UV LED activates the colors within seconds, and they fade under bright sunlight, while the pigment itself stays permanently embedded in the skin. The research was published October 9 in the journal Matter & Light.
Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to 'The Social Network' debuted to an estimated $5.5 million at the domestic box office this weekend, falling short of the studio's own projection of $7-8 million. The film depicts whistleblower Frances Haugen's leak of internal Facebook documents, in contrast to the earlier film's $22 million opening and $97 million domestic total.
A writer for GoKawiil recounts buying an obscure vinyl record, 'Christ Liveth In Me' by the Toftwood Male Voice Choir, on March 11, 2017, as part of a long-running habit of collecting rare and unusual vinyl and vintage equipment. The purchase, made during a broader search for 1950s-60s demonstration and sound-effects records, turned into a personal investigation to trace the choir's origins and history.
Amazon is reportedly negotiating to acquire Decart, a San Francisco-based AI startup, in a deal valued at roughly $7 billion. Decart builds software that helps developers switch between different AI chips, according to the report.
Andrej Karpathy argues that public understanding of large language models' capabilities is diverging sharply rather than converging. He outlines a rough tier system: roughly 75% of people have barely used LLMs, 20% use free chatbots casually, about 0.2% of professionals in coding and math see agents completing weeks of work in a prompt, and an estimated 5,000 people with internal access to frontier systems are reportedly seeing swarms of agents handle multi-week software projects, cyberattacks and research-level math.
Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' will return to theaters again later this month, following a limited run in July that was not a one-time event. The film is now set to screen in theaters on an ongoing, regular basis going forward.
The film 'The Social Reckoning' debuted with a $5.5 million opening weekend, a figure characterized as a disappointing result. No further box office or production details were provided in the available report.
The Onion has published a call for readers to sell back specific print issues missing from its archive, spanning volumes from 1988 through 2013. The satirical outlet asks potential sellers to identify their issues by volume and issue number and submit details via a Google Form, after which an archivist will follow up on promising collections.
A write-up on NixOS describes how generic SBOM-based vulnerability scans flag CVEs in dependencies even when the vulnerable code path isn't actually used, creating noise for maintainers and security teams. It argues that VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange) documents, which state whether a product is truly exposed to a given CVE, can be generated and applied effectively within Nix's build system to filter out irrelevant findings.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that startups most often waste money not through bad hires or launches but by building products without real validation of customer demand. The piece lays out five principles for product teams, starting with treating internal processes like a product to be prototyped and tested with a small cross-functional group before scaling up.
TechCrunch's Disrupt 2026 conference begins in two days, running October 13-15 at Moscone West. Organizers expect more than 10,000 attendees, over 250 speakers across 200+ sessions, and 300+ startups exhibiting, including the 200 companies selected for Startup Battlefield.