The trucking industry faces mounting safety concerns, including over 5,000 annual fatalities and a $604 million liability verdict against broker C.H. Robinson following a Supreme Court ruling allowing brokers to be sued for carrier accidents. Simultaneously, a crackdown on non-domiciled commercial driver's licenses and new English proficiency rules has tightened the labor market, raising wages and spot rates. Against this backdrop, autonomous trucking firms Aurora, Kodiak, and Waabi say their technology is ready for commercial scaling.
Eurydice is a new tool that converts Rust programs into C code while preserving the original code's structure, rather than optimizing or obscuring it. Started in 2023, it is part of the Aeneas formal-verification project maintained by researchers at Inria and Microsoft, and has already been used to translate post-quantum-cryptography routines from Rust into C.
Mike Flanagan debuted the first trailer for his upcoming film 'The Exorcist: Martyrs' at a Blumhouse panel during New York Comic Con, calling it the scariest movie he's made. The film stars Scarlett Johansson as an NYPD detective hunting a serial killer named Father Sunday, played by John Leguizamo, with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Laurence Fishburne, Sasha Calle and Jacobi Jupe also appearing.
TrendForce's latest industry report projects global notebook shipments will fall in 2027, with the decline ranging from low- to high-single-digit percentages depending on how brands handle rising component costs. The firm notes that CPU, DRAM, and SSD costs made up 68% of the bill of materials for a $900 mainstream notebook in Q3 2026, and that 2026 shipments were propped up by early purchasing and pulled-forward replacement demand that is unlikely to repeat.
Prime Labs has released a Rust rewrite of its Prime Agent coding tool, which it says has been downloaded over 300,000 times and processed more than 8 trillion tokens since its August launch. The company says the rewrite was carried out over two weeks by a swarm of more than 2,000 AI subagents running across over 10,000 Prime Sandboxes, consuming over 200 billion tokens via its Prime Inference GLM-5.3 endpoint.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that traditional workplaces have long rewarded people who can package ideas into tidy, linear output rather than those who generate the most original thinking. The author, a software company builder, cites a UCSF study finding 29% of surveyed entrepreneurs reported ADHD, versus a CDC estimate of 6% among US adults, to argue many fast, associative thinkers gravitated to founding companies because traditional corporate structures penalized their style of thinking. The piece contends AI tools that handle structuring, summarizing and formatting could now let these people's ideas be recognized without needing to master conventional presentation skills.
The Atari Falcon030, Atari Corporation's last computer, launched in late 1992 with a 68030 CPU and 56000 DSP before being discontinued in 1993 when Atari shifted focus to the Jaguar console. Atari also built but never released Falcon040 prototypes in a 'microbox' case, and in 1995 music company C-Lab acquired the Falcon design to produce studio-oriented Mk I and Mk II versions. The source is a personal collection page cataloguing original Falcon hardware and software, not for sale but open to trades.
Anthropic announced a policy change barring users from engaging in sustained, needless abusive or cruel behavior toward its Claude models, while still permitting frustration, pushback, dark creative themes and research testing. In extreme, last-resort cases, Claude will end the conversation rather than continue engaging. The company said it is uncertain whether AI models can experience harm but is studying model welfare as part of its research.
Archaeologists cataloged 597 wooden remains found at Abric Romaní near Barcelona, dating between 62,000 and 40,000 years ago, published in Science Advances. Mineral-rich water had coated the wood in a limestone-like crust, preserving mold impressions after the wood itself rotted away, revealing spears, digging sticks, bark trays, shelter parts and an unusual club.
Mike Flanagan's new Stephen King series has debuted on Prime Video, and alongside it he has teased an upcoming trailer for his next project, 'Exorcist: Martyrs.' Details on the trailer's content and release timing were not specified.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that customers who buy the iPhone Duo at a US Apple Store will see a personalized greeting with their name when they first turn on the device. The feature, exclusive to the iPhone Duo, will support English and Spanish and launch alongside the device on October 23, with pre-orders starting October 16.
Google posted teaser images on Instagram and X confirming the name of its upcoming 'Fitbit Edge' fitness tracker, with a reveal date set for October 12. The device had previously leaked via marketing materials and reports from Android Headlines and Dealabs, which detailed its design, battery life, and possible European pricing around €179.
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