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Jim Cramer said on CNBC's Mad Money that slowing activity in housing, IPOs and M&A is freezing out gains across several market sectors. He cited mortgage rates near 7.5%, 52-week lows for Home Depot, Lowe's and Whirlpool, and postponed IPOs from Oura and Inspire Brands as evidence, along with roughly 12% September declines in Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs shares.
Google introduced Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier AI model it says tops or ties rivals GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on 13 of 18 disclosed benchmark categories. The model is initially limited to trusted cyber-defense partners and select pre-release testers, with wider rollout planned later. Google also says Argon supports up to 1 million output tokens, a sharp jump from the prior 64,000-token limit.
Edison Design Group has published its EDG C/C++ compiler front end as an open source project on GitHub, including a C-generating back end, a C++-generating back end, a prelinker, a runtime support library, and related development tools. The project also ships documentation and guides covering building the compiler, contributing changes, and setting up a development environment.
Apple's System Status page listed eight active issues Tuesday evening, including Apple TV, App Store, Fitness+, Apple Music, Mac App Store and Subscription Purchase. Apple attributed most disruptions beginning around 4:22 p.m. ET to routine maintenance, though Apple TV's outage at 4:43 p.m. ET was described as scheduled maintenance that could leave the service unavailable. Some apps also briefly showed internal localization text instead of normal interface labels shortly before the outages began.
Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt publicly accused former special counsel Jack Smith of perjury in a viral exchange, but his version of events and underlying facts have been disputed. Schmitt has not acknowledged any errors in his account despite the discrepancies being pointed out.
A new analysis of FBI data by Incogni found that 72% of elder fraud cases in 2024 were enabled by victims' personal information being exposed online, resulting in $4.2 billion in losses. The report details how scammers use publicly available data, family chat groups, and SIM-swapping techniques to impersonate relatives and bypass two-factor authentication.
The Department of Defense has launched Project Meridian, an initiative described by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a study of future battlefields meant to identify weapons and technologies the military will need and propose ways to develop and field them. The effort will be led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich, none of whom have served in the US military.
EVgo has announced a new 750-kilowatt fast-charging system that could recharge compatible EVs in about 10 minutes, with full deployment expected in 2027. The stations will use Tesla's North American Charging Standard, letting NACS-equipped vehicles charge without an adapter, while CCS-plug EVs will still need one.
56k.rip is a browser-based simulation of using the internet in 1996, including the dial-up handshake sound, a choice of 14.4, 28.8 or 56k connection speeds, and a recreated period web of pages like classifieds, a webring and a weather report. Page load times genuinely vary by the chosen connection speed, with images rendering line by line and downloads often failing, mimicking real dial-up behavior. The experience runs entirely client-side with no accounts or stored data, using synthesized sound effects and procedurally generated web-safe-palette graphics, aside from a recorded real modem handshake credited on the site.
GoKawiil outlines how its Groundrun hardware-in-the-loop system can automate testing of Wi-Fi commissioning on ESP32-C6 devices. The setup connects an ESP32-C6 devboard and an Android phone via USB to the Groundrun rig, enabling tests of multiple Wi-Fi setup methods including Bluetooth, Soft AP, captive portal, and Espressif's SmartConfig (ESPTouch v2).
Fujifilm has unveiled the Instax Pal 2, a compact digital camera that builds on the original Pal by adding tactile controls, downloadable color filters and a horizontal, Charmera-like design. It packs a 1/3.06-inch CMOS sensor that shoots either 10MP or 1MP images, an f/2.2 aperture and LED flash, and lets users transfer photos to a phone via a built-in USB-C port or Bluetooth.
Newly declassified documents detail a secretive US Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office program that launched small 'hitchhiker' satellites—codenamed URSALA, RAQUEL, FARRAH, GLORIA and CARRIE—starting in 1963. These suitcase-sized satellites rode alongside larger spacecraft, including the HEXAGON photo-reconnaissance satellites, and spun in orbit to collect electronic intelligence such as radar signals. Details about the program, including previously secret space shuttle payloads, have only been released in the past two months.