General Tech
The Wyze BodyScan smart scale redefines what is possible at a budget price point
The Wyze BodyScan offers an impressive set of features for the price. Unfortunately, it’s let down by the build quality.
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The Unusual Item I Use to Degrease a Pan Before Washing It
Keep oil out of the kitchen sink with this nifty trick.
Software
Chainguard Launches Secure Workspaces and Checks for AI Coding Agents
Software supply chain security company Chainguard has announced two beta products for running and testing code written by developers and AI agents.
Software
Article: Cryptographic Foundation of Mobile ID Systems: An ISO/IEC 18013-5 Enterprise Architecture Blueprint
This article provides a framework for asking the right architectural questions before an enterprise commits to an mDL provider or library.
General Tech
Egypt’s Climate-Resilient ‘Super Corals’ Are Starting to Feel the Heat
Scientists can’t agree why reefs in the Red Sea have long been immune to bleaching. The answer could be the key to saving these tough corals as climate change begins taking its toll.
Artificial Intelligence
AI adoption has a talent problem - here’s how to solve it
Why human judgement and AI-native talent will determine which businesses turn adoption into advantage.
Artificial Intelligence
India says AI agents under testing broke into firms’ live systems
AI agents being tested by AI firms broke into the live systems of several Indian companies and read private records, India’s cyber agency says. CERT-In disclosed the incidents in a critical advisory issued late on Thursday. The agency did not name the AI firms or the companies hit.
Mobile
WhatsApp is working on a better way to ask “Where are you?”
A dedicated location request card could take some hassle out of arranging meetups.
Software
Faraday Future unveils a $2,490 humanoid robot for developers and schools
Faraday Future and FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem launched two humanoid robots on 15 October: the $2,490 FF Nova for developers and schools, and the $299 FF Nova Mini for children. Nova’s first 100 units are invitation-only.
Software
Microsoft: October Windows update may break Smart App Control
Microsoft says some users may have trouble turning on Smart App Control after installing this month’s KB5127648 Windows 11 security update.
Mobile
WhatsApp could make stickers more fun with an audio upgrade
It’s also working on changes to the compose box in chats.
General Tech
Tesla’s new Roadster can do a barrel roll, climb walls and hit 230mph
After nearly a decade of delays, Tesla has finally shown off its new Roadster, complete with rocket thrusters, a wild suction system and a claimed 0-60 mph time of under a second.
Gaming
Controversial Battlefield 6 XP changes have been reversed, with Battlefield Studios saying they were “unintended”
Season 5 launched in Battlefield 6 this week as planned, and though most of the new additions - new maps, weapons and vehicles, and gameplay changes - were well received, the season began on a low note due to accusations of generative AI use and because of a major hit to XP gain.
Artificial Intelligence
Gmail’s Live AI search feature arrives for Google AI subscribers
Gmail’s search can be frustrating and basic, but Google is finally smartening it up for AI plan subscribers.
Mobile
Honor Win2 shows up on Geekbench confirming its chipset
Honor is set to unveil the Win2 series on October 21, and a tipster on X has now shared what look like its first Geekbench runs. The listings use the model number BRM-AN00 and put the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 at the helm, paired with 16GB of RAM in the specific prototype in question.
Software
Open source sovereignty gets down to the boring business of making it work
Migration targets, security rules, and management metrics take center stage at this year’s event
Mobile
Withings is paywalling third-party syncing, and users are rightfully mad about it
New accounts now require a Withings Plus subscription to auto-sync health metrics to Apple Health and Google Health Connect.
General Tech
Rakuten raises record ¥400B from bond sale driven by retail investors
Rakuten priced ¥400B ($2.5B) of yen bonds on Friday, its largest yen bond sale, with ¥360B going to retail investors. The 5.5-year debt carries a 4.37% coupon. Japanese companies have sold about ¥3.2T of retail bonds this year, already above 2025’s record.
Gaming
CD Projekt is in “a really dangerous place”, says Anthem’s executive producer, pointing to ballooning costs of making games of that scope and quality
“The triple-A industry has become over-specialised, specialised to the point of hyper-fragility,” Mark Darrah states in a foreboding interview found deep in the pages of the Summer Eternal Anthology, recently covered by Edwin.
Mobile
Blame Snapdragon: An Exynos-powered Galaxy S27 Ultra is now more likely than ever
Samsung reportedly found Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 running too hot in internal testing.
Startups
Stockholm startup Matters raises $5m pre-seed to build an AI-native bank
Matters, a Stockholm startup building an AI-powered consumer bank, has raised $5m in pre-seed funding as it comes out of stealth. Swedish angel investor Jakob Johansson led the round. Per Österström founded the company in April.
Artificial Intelligence
Why would your AI agent rather guess than look?
Try asking an AI assistant what a mid-range hotel in Lisbon costs for next weekend. You’ll get a number, usually stated with complete confidence. And if you then ask where it came from, the explanation gets vague fast. Sometimes the agent really did check a booking site a few seconds earlier.
Gaming
The 10 Best Low Fantasy Books
From Neil Gaiman to Haruki Murakami, these are the most fascinating low fantasy books that treat the ordinary as something extarordinary.
General Tech
Tesla unveils thruster-equipped Roadster, with production set for 2028
Tesla revealed its second-generation Roadster on 15 October at a SpaceX site in McGregor, Texas. The car uses cold-gas thrusters built with SpaceX to jump, flip, and land. Reservations cost $50,000 or $250,000 depending on the version, and Musk says production starts in 2028.
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