Vivo is rolling out its X Fold 6 foldable outside China after debuting it domestically in June. The phone keeps a traditional tall, narrow foldable shape with a 6.51-inch 20:9 cover screen and 8.02-inch inner display, but pairs it with a large 1/1.4-inch 200-megapixel main sensor, 50-megapixel telephoto and ultrawide cameras, a 6,900mAh battery, and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chip. Vivo has not yet disclosed pricing or which markets will get the device.
In an interview with The New York Times, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma stated plainly that 'Xbox is not for sale,' adding that Microsoft will pursue whatever partnerships or operating model changes are needed for long-term success. The comments follow a summer of heavy layoffs across Xbox, including the closure of Ninja Theory, the divestment of Double Fine, and the shutdown of Halo Studios with the franchise handed to Call of Duty's team.
Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said the company's first external capital raise has not yet closed and has attracted strong investor demand, calling it "oversubscribed." He spoke at a Washington tech summit, days after the Wall Street Journal reported the company had already raised $10 billion at a $140 billion valuation, with Jeff Bezos contributing $2 billion to the round. Limp did not confirm those figures or say how much Bezos has invested in total since founding the company in 2000.
Analysis of 2016 rock core samples from the Chicxulub impact crater shows that the asteroid strike 66 million years ago created a hydrothermal system beneath the Yucatan Peninsula that persisted for about 8 million years, four times longer than previous estimates of 2 million years. Researchers led by geologist Annemarie Pickersgill of the University of Glasgow found the impact melted rock as deep as 35 km, which became porous and allowed heated seawater to circulate for millions of years.
Pennsylvania's health department confirmed a fifth death from measles, an unvaccinated Lancaster County resident, as the state's outbreak grew to 943 cases across 39 counties. At least 176 people have been hospitalized, with 119 new cases reported in the past week alone. All five deaths this year—two infants, an 18-year-old, a 40-year-old woman, and this latest case—were unvaccinated, and no measles deaths had occurred in the state in the previous 35 years.
A new McKinsey report estimates that artificial intelligence and automation could displace roughly 11 million US workers, about 7% of the country's workforce, forcing them to change professions by 2035. The report suggests AI may ultimately create more jobs than it eliminates, even as it drives what it calls a historic workforce transformation.
OpenAI and Anthropic have been widely using the title 'member of technical staff' for employees, a term that was previously obscure in the tech industry. The designation is now appearing more frequently on hiring boards and LinkedIn profiles as other AI companies adopt similar language.
At a White House event on Tuesday, several technology executives, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, privately criticized Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for his repeated public warnings about the risks posed by advanced AI systems. The pushback reportedly took place among industry leaders gathered for the event rather than in public remarks.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple plans to announce a new AI-powered smart-home hub on October 13, featuring a 6-inch rounded screen, a FaceTime camera, and voice and facial recognition to identify individual family members and show their personalized calendar, notes and apps. Alongside it, Apple is expected to refresh the HomePod mini and Apple TV with newer processors for Siri AI tasks, and add new HomePod mini colors including pink and green; a wall-mounted screen-only version is also reportedly planned.
Security researchers have identified a campaign in which threat actors create malicious custom GPTs within ChatGPT and abuse legitimate OpenAI and Google domains to lure victims. The technique follows a ClickFix-style approach, tricking users into executing steps that ultimately deliver a remote access trojan (RAT) to their systems.
Google has begun rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, describing it as its most capable AI model yet. Access currently is limited to a small group of testers focused on cybersecurity defense, with plans to later expand availability to Google AI Ultra subscribers. Google released benchmark data showing strong performance across coding, legal reasoning, and business/economic tasks.
A searchable database named PLDB has compiled titles and abstracts from programming languages conference papers dating back to the first POPL in 1973 through this year's proceedings, totaling 33,580 entries. The collection supports structured search queries, including filters by author name, exact title terms, and topic keywords such as gradual typing, separation logic, effect handlers, and egraphs.
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