Micron's labor union at its Taoyuan facility in Taiwan plans a one-day work stoppage on October 22 over unresolved demands for a clear bonus proposal and a transparent profit-sharing formula. Talks broke down in September, leading workers to approve the strike in early October, though the union says the action is meant to force a deal rather than end negotiations. Separately, a union at Micron's larger Taichung site is set to meet management for mediation the same day but has not authorized a strike.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-21
Tolan, which makes an AI companion app aimed at helping users manage tasks, relationships and emotions, has raised $30 million from investors including Union Square Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Homebrew. The round doubles Tolan's total funding and pushes its valuation above the previous $120 million mark, though the company has not disclosed the new figure. Tolan says it has over 250,000 active users who have logged more than 70 million conversations, with annual recurring revenue in the double-digit millions.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-19
Mozilla says it met with Microsoft to discuss concerns from its 87-page report on how Windows pushes Edge, but found the company unresponsive. Mozilla counsel Kush Amlani points to post-update prompts that set Edge as default and Start menu links that open in Edge outside Europe, contrasting this with EU versions of Windows where such defaults respect user choice due to local law.
tech.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-19
Court documents from a legal dispute between Amazon and a Canadian union reveal the company uses an internal AI system called Atlas to assign warehouses, including ones in the UK, a risk score for potential unionisation or other labour disruptions. The tool reportedly analyses hundreds of data points, including social media posts, internal survey responses and past industrial action, to produce a score between 100 and 900, with higher scores considered 'better' for management.
opendemocracy.net
· 2026-10-17
Backup cameras activate only when a vehicle shifts into reverse, giving a wide-angle view behind the car to help with parking and avoiding obstacles. Since May 2018 the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has required these on new vehicles, with a similar EU rule starting in 2022. Rearview cameras, by contrast, run continuously and use a narrower lens closer to normal vision, and are not required by either mandate.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-13
Tesla has rebranded its advanced driver-assistance system as Tesla Assisted Driving (TAD) on its European sales website, replacing the Full Self-Driving (Supervised) label. The change followed talks with Germany's Transport Ministry, whose minister Steffen Bilger had called the original name misleading and now says he'll push the EU to approve the feature for public roads by year's end.
wired.com
· 2026-10-09
Tesla has changed the name of its advanced driver-assistance software from 'Full Self-Driving (Supervised)' to 'Tesla Assisted Driving' on its websites and apps in European countries including Germany, Spain and the UK. The change follows talks with Germany's transport ministry, and comes as German transport minister Steffen Bilger said he would back EU-wide approval of the system under its new name.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-09
Oleg Korniev, a 42-year-old Ukrainian-Russian dual citizen, pleaded guilty to running Your Mule Cashout (YMCO), a money laundering operation active since 2007 that recruited over 15,000 U.S. money mules. He admitted to money laundering, aggravated identity theft, and multiple conspiracy charges tied to processing more than $10 million stolen from over 750 U.S. bank accounts across 35 banks. Four other YMCO members were previously extradited and sentenced to 37-63 months in prison, each ordered to pay over $9.1 million in restitution.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-09
OpenAI announced it will embed an invisible digital watermark into text and code produced within the European Union, complying with recent EU AI transparency regulations. The watermarking system, called textGrain, adds statistical signals to the output, which can be detected by specialized software, though with varying success rates. Initially, the feature will be available as an opt-in for select models and limited to approved researchers and organizations in the EU.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-05
An Entrepreneur contributor opinion piece argues that AI companies defaulting to English-first product design are overlooking a vast multilingual user base. The piece cites ITU data showing 2.2 billion people remained offline in 2025, mostly in low- and middle-income countries, and warns that simply bolting translation onto English-trained models produces uneven results across languages.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-03
Google has filed appeals with the EU's General Court challenging binding instructions issued under the bloc's rules, which required it to open up Android to rivals and share search data with competing search engines. The company confirmed the appeals target obligations tied to interoperability and data-access requirements imposed by EU regulators.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-29
The International Astronomical Union has officially approved asteroid (14331) Alyankovic, honoring musical satirist 'Weird Al' Yankovic, alongside another asteroid named for Tom Lehrer, the mathematician and satirical songwriter who died last year at 97. The naming effort was led by planetary scientist Allison McGraw with support from several scientists including astrophysicist Steve Desch, Smithsonian curator Tim McCoy, and Spacewatch program leader Melissa Brucker.
science.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-25
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