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At the Microelectronics 26 forum in Sochi, Russian chip designers demonstrated homegrown processors by running classic video games on them. Baikal Electronics showed its BE-U1000 RISC-V microcontroller powering a business-card-sized console and an NES-styled device called Ushka, while Elvis displayed its Hypercom-U Arm-based SoC and MCST showed Elbrus-powered gaming PCs.
A Government Accountability Office report released in late September found that several federal agencies, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, did not fully cooperate with investigators examining what data and systems Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency accessed. The CFPB disputed the findings, calling the report biased and misleading, while Democratic lawmakers are preparing to intensify oversight efforts if they regain control of Congress.
At X's Takeover event, Elon Musk told attendees he has experienced what he called 'cyber psychosis' or 'AI/SI psychosis' roughly half a dozen times in 2025. He described the episodes casually, using 'SI' to mean superintelligence, a term recently promoted by a Trump executive order renaming artificial intelligence.
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet said planned equipment supply for 2027 and 2028 will fall short of customer demand, even after a previously forecast 30% capacity increase by 2028. The company is exploring ways to expand capacity further, and some customers are already discussing orders stretching into 2029 and 2030. Separately, Samsung and TSMC committed in the third quarter to adopting ASML's High NA EUV lithography machines.
Walmart has discounted the Asus ROG Strix G16 (2025) gaming laptop by $600, bringing it down from $1,999 to $1,399. The 16-inch laptop features an AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX processor, Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU with 8GB VRAM, 16GB DDR5 RAM, a 1TB Gen 4 SSD, and a 165Hz FHD+ display.
Ash Saulsbury, who previously worked on Meta's smart-glasses technology, is building Awear AI, a platform designed to let wearers carry their AI assistant's learned preferences and memories across different devices and brands. The effort targets a market where Meta and Google currently tie their AI assistants tightly to their own glasses hardware and services.
Security researchers at Citizen Lab and Confiant say Discover-Tech, an Israeli ad tech company, helped deliver spyware through online ads that required no user interaction to infect devices. The report links Discover-Tech's 'Controlium' platform to Candiru, a blacklisted Israeli spyware maker, and says at least 45 Al Jazeera devices were targeted in 2024 and 2025. Google, Beeswax, and IAB Europe have since removed or suspended Discover-Tech from their platforms.
According to the Wall Street Journal, YouTube is negotiating with publishers and could launch an audiobooks feature as early as next year. The report says YouTube has discussed bundling the feature into its $16-a-month ad-free Premium subscription, though pricing and whether individual books would be sold remain unsettled. YouTube has not confirmed the plans.
Apple's product page now allows customers to select color, storage, carrier and trade-in options for the $1,999 iPhone Duo foldable before preorders officially open at 8am ET on October 16th. Shoppers who complete these selections will only need to confirm checkout once ordering begins, rather than configuring everything from scratch.
A verified Instagram fan account with over a million followers posted an AI-generated photo of actress Mia Goth wearing a shirt mocking her ex Shia LaBeouf, shortly after her divorce filing became public. The image gained nearly 500,000 likes before being identified as fake, and Google's AI Overview repeated the fabricated narrative as fact when users searched for the story.
Intruder, the company behind an AI-driven pentesting tool, reports that early attempts to assign AI agents strict, narrowly defined vulnerability-hunting tasks caused them to miss issues outside their assigned scope or misclassify findings. Giving agents no structure at all also failed, as unguided agents couldn't properly manage large applications despite occasionally finding interesting issues. The company says it settled on a middle ground: broad roles with freedom to explore, paired with guardrails to prevent damage.
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