FlyTrex has created a role called remote pilot in command (RPIC), where staff like Trevor Wischnewsky monitor fleets of delivery drones and coordinate airspace with competitors such as Zipline, Amazon, and Alphabet's Wing operating over Dallas. The job requires FAA drone pilot certification and a weeks-long FAA-approved training course, and involves overseeing deliveries using GPS, lasers, and sensor data from an operations center.
Companies building AI chatbots now train their systems to decline large categories of harmful requests, from self-harm instructions to bioweapon guidance, using layered filters and reward-based exercises where other AI models evaluate refusals. Former OpenAI safety staffer Steven Adler and Harvard researcher Ryan McBain note that early chatbots readily answered dangerous questions, and current refusal systems still break down, sometimes with violent consequences. Companies themselves report that newer models rival skilled human hackers at breaching networks and can be as effective as professional propagandists at spreading misinformation.
A wave of films debuting this fall dramatizes recent tech scandals, including Aaron Sorkin's 'The Social Reckoning' about Facebook's internal turmoil, featuring Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg, and Alex Gibney's four-hour documentary 'Musk' on Elon Musk. The Sorkin film draws on leaked documents from whistleblower Frances Haugen and opens October 9, while the Musk documentary premieres October 16.
CarGurus data shows some used 2026 Toyota RAV4s listing for $3,000 to $6,000 more than new dealership prices, as Toyota's shift to an all-hybrid lineup has left supply unable to meet demand. Hybrid sales broadly are surging, with Toyota reporting a 29 percent jump and Kia's more than doubling in the third quarter of 2026, while Cox Automotive data shows nearly one in six new US cars sold is now a hybrid.
INIU has introduced the Outdoor Rugged 10000 power bank, designed to withstand rain, dust, and rough terrain during activities like hiking, camping, beach outings, and road trips. The device is positioned as a charging solution built to endure outdoor conditions that typical power banks may not handle well.
Vice President JD Vance announced that the Labor Department has suspended Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, HCL Technologies and Capgemini from the PERM program, which sponsors foreign workers for employment-based green cards. Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said the agency will stop accepting new PERM applications and halt processing pending ones from these companies, though H-1B visas and existing visa holders are unaffected. Vance accused Microsoft of laying off 6,000 American workers last year while securing thousands of H-1B approvals and green cards, while Microsoft said most of its H-1B filings were for existing employees, not new hires.
OnePlus has confirmed via official teasers that the upcoming OnePlus 16 will feature a 185Hz BOE X4 display panel and a 9,000mAh battery. The announcement indicates the device will launch first in China, with no confirmation of US availability for these configurations.
Security researcher Ryan Dewhurst told BleepingComputer that his Previdian honeypots detected exploitation attempts against CVE-2026-102255, a maximum-severity SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerability patched three days earlier. The flaw affects the Appliance WorkPlace interface on SMA1000 6210, 7210 and 8200v models, letting unauthenticated attackers reach internal functionality via a crafted request to the appliance's internal CouchDB service. Shadowserver counts over 400 SMA1000 appliances still exposed online, though it's unclear how many remain unpatched.
SpaceX announced a deal to acquire all of Grain Management's nationwide 800 MHz low-band spectrum licenses, covering up to 14 megahertz of paired spectrum, pending FCC approval. The company says this follows its earlier acquisition of spectrum from EchoStar and will let Starlink Mobile signals penetrate walls and other obstacles, something its satellite-only service cannot currently do well indoors.
Jasmine Wang, Mikita Balesni and Tomek Korbak, three OpenAI safety researchers dismissed last week for allegedly sharing sensitive company information with an external AI safety organization, have published an open letter disputing the firings. They say they acted within OpenAI's mission and existing norms, deny being the source of a recent report on OpenAI's architecture, and state their external contacts were coordinated with board members and executives.
The Financial Times reported that internal memos OpenAI sent investors in late September projected annualized revenue approaching $50 billion, roughly $20 billion below an earlier $70 billion figure that had previously circulated among investors. OpenAI had not disputed the higher $70 billion estimate before the new figure emerged. News of the revised forecast coincided with a 1.25% drop in the Nasdaq and nearly 3% decline in Nvidia shares on Thursday.
A developer measured Git repository size changes using du and dc, finding an empty .git directory takes about 64KB, while adding 250 tiny files and committing them added roughly 47KB. A single-character edit to one file followed by a commit added about 17KB to the repository, despite the actual content change being only a few bytes.
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