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A Reddit thread alleges that Meta's smart glasses have captured audio of conversations even when users did not say the required 'Hey Meta' wake phrase. The claims suggest the device's microphone may activate recording unintentionally, raising privacy concerns among users.
OpenCode has launched version 2.0, described as a significant overhaul of the platform built using data from millions of daily users. The update includes a range of new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes, with several user-facing changes highlighted as particularly impactful.
NASA has accelerated its DAVINCI atmospheric probe mission to Venus, now set for a December 2030 launch, a year earlier than previously scheduled. Its sister mission, the VERITAS orbiter, is slated to launch in November 2032, while ESA's EnVision orbiter is also planned for 2032, and Rocket Lab hopes to send a privately funded cloud-sampling probe as early as next year.
Chick-fil-A CEO Andrew Cathy gave his first-ever broadcast interview to NBC's Today show, speaking with host Craig Melvin. When Melvin pressed him on the company's position regarding LGBTQ+ rights, Cathy repeatedly avoided giving a direct answer.
An opinion article contends that economic growth is the key to resolving America's debt burden and maintaining its lead in artificial intelligence development. The author argues this growth depends on attracting new categories of investors and expanding the pool of available capital.
A former Meta engineer who helped build the Mononoke source control system says Anthropic's new version control tool, Scion, uses a 'derived data' concept nearly identical to one he described in 2022 writeups of Mononoke. He notes Anthropic credited Meta's Sapling tool only for general lessons and did not mention Mononoke at all.
In an Entrepreneur opinion piece, Jotform founder Aytekin Tank argues that conventional networking events feel transactional and uncomfortable, especially for introverts. He suggests that genuine, lasting professional relationships instead grow from authentic interests, casual check-ins and small gestures like sharing an article or congratulating a colleague.
Bumble has added a feature called Handles, giving users searchable usernames similar to those on social media platforms. The feature lets people look up a specific person on the app directly if they already know that person's username, rather than relying solely on the app's matching algorithm.
A former Senate staffer recalls the 2001 anthrax-laced letter sent to a Senate office, one of several such mailings that killed five people and sickened more than a dozen others in the weeks after 9/11. The op-ed reflects on that anniversary and questions whether the U.S. is better prepared for a biological attack today.
Following reported Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex facilities between October 7-11, traffic on Yandex's two autonomous systems collapsed by up to 99%. Cloudflare's analysis found the drop on Yandex Search mostly reflected legitimate search crawlers going offline, while on Yandex.Cloud, malicious automated traffic such as vulnerability scanning largely relocated to other hosting providers rather than disappearing.
At TechCrunch's Disrupt 2026 conference, Flock CEO Garrett Langley said the company has never ended a contract with a police department over misuse of its license plate reader systems, despite numerous reports of officers abusing database access to stalk people. Langley said Flock would cut off a customer that knowingly broke the law, but has so far judged individual officer misconduct cases as not warranting termination of the underlying agency's access.
Anduril is letting employees sell shares through a tender offer priced at $94.80 each, implying a roughly $90 billion valuation, CNBC confirmed after an initial Bloomberg report. The offer opened October 13, closes November 9, is capped at $1.3 billion, and is open to employees in 16 countries.