Leaker Digital Chat Station claims a major Chinese smartphone brand, likely Xiaomi, is testing steel-shell battery casings combined with stacked-cell manufacturing to boost energy density. The approach mirrors Apple's shift to rigid metal battery enclosures, seen in the iPhone 16 Pro and reportedly continuing in the iPhone 18 Pro Max, which is said to have a rated capacity around 5,391mAh. The goal, per the leak, is flagship phones with 9,000mAh to 10,000mAh batteries.
In an interview with the New York Times' Ezra Klein, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI companies that release models they cannot control should expect civil or criminal liability. He argued that if a lab believes its AI cannot be safely contained, the appropriate response is to withhold the product rather than ship it and risk harm.
CNET's John Carlsen tested the Ninja CrushBoss, a countertop appliance that pairs a 1,850-watt base motor with a 72-ounce blender pitcher, a 64-ounce food processor bowl and a 26-ounce smoothie tumbler. The device includes new PrecisionDice and MultiBlade Disc attachments and automatically adjusts preset programs depending on which vessel is attached, alongside PrepIQ and SmoothSense sensing features.
Ninja's new CrushBoss is a countertop system built around a 1,850-watt base motor that powers three interchangeable vessels: a 72-ounce blender pitcher, a 64-ounce food processor bowl and a 26-ounce smoothie tumbler. The food processor bowl works with new PrecisionDice and MultiBlade Disc attachments, and the device uses automatic presets plus sensor-based features called PrepIQ and SmoothSense that adjust to what's inside.
Raspberry Pi Holdings reported revenue of $256.9 million for the six months ending June 30, a 90% increase, with adjusted EBITDA more than doubling to $40.3 million and pre-tax profit up 216% to $19.6 million. Unit shipments rose 17% to 4.2 million and the order backlog doubled to 2.6 million units, driving the company's stock up more than 30% over the past week.
Tesla is manufacturing 'several hundred' Optimus robots per week after converting Model S and Model X lines for production, according to The Information. The report cites manual assembly bottlenecks, including hands and forearms with over 100 screws and small components that require workers to fit by hand, as key obstacles to scaling output.
A new opinion piece contends that programming languages are treated as fixed, sacred artifacts, forcing developers to build workaround build systems and conventions instead of directly modifying their languages. It cites Raymond Chen's 2005 blog post opposing 'flow-control macros,' which warned that such customizations obscure code semantics and complicate debugging, as an example of the resistance to language malleability.
Following Australia's under-16 social media ban, which restricted 4.7 million accounts but still left one in five teens using TikTok or Snapchat two months later, other governments are adopting similar measures. Indonesia's child safety framework took effect in March, the UK has proposed a ban plus overnight curfews for 16- and 17-year-olds, and the European Commission introduced the EU KIDS Act on 17 September, which would bar under-13s from social media and set 15 as the age for independent account creation.
Tom's Hardware's review of the Gamemax RGB PRO 750G, a 750W ATX 3.1/PCIe 5.1 modular power supply, found 90.8% average efficiency at 230 VAC and good ripple performance from its Sohoo-made platform. However, at $105 it costs more than comparable units like the MSI MAG A750GL and Corsair RM750e, despite offering what the review calls a mediocre overall package aside from its RGB lighting.
XMG, maker of gaming laptops and Schenker workstations, said DDR5 SO-DIMM memory prices have risen sixfold since July 2025, prompting it to raise laptop prices by €100 to €300 depending on the model. The company attributed the hikes to rising costs across RAM, SSDs, PCBs, CPUs and GPUs, worsened by higher shipping and insurance costs linked to the Middle East conflict affecting Red Sea and Suez Canal freight routes.
On a Thursday earnings call, Costco CEO Ron Vachris said the company has returned tariff-related cost savings to members by lowering prices on both food and non-food items. The update came as part of Costco's fourth-quarter earnings report.
After users discovered yesterday that Meta's Muse AI chatbot would reveal its underlying filesystem when prompted, Meta executives clarified this was deliberate design rather than a leak. Meta Superintelligence Labs' David Singleton said each Muse session runs on a genuine cloud-based Linux virtual machine users can operate freely, and the product now offers a clickable file browser with root access instead of yesterday's more limited text-file download.
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