1. Scientist pleaded guilty to smuggling Fusarium graminearum into US. But what is it?

2. Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic

3. Blue Origin caps second heavy-lift launch with first offshore landing

4. Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous

5. Rocket Report: Blue Origin’s stunning success; vive le Baguette One!

6. US spy satellites built by SpaceX send signals in the “wrong direction”

7. This flu season looks grim as H3N2 emerges with mutations

8. Google claims win for everyone as text scammers lost their cloud server

9. Are you ready for a 1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.

10. Tiny chips hitch a ride on immune cells to sites of inflammation

11. What if the aliens come and we just can’t communicate?

12. Civil war is brewing in the wasteland in Fallout S2 trailer

13. After years of saying no, Tesla reportedly adding Apple CarPlay to its cars

14. Google will let Android power users bypass upcoming sideloading restrictions

15. Valve says it’s still waiting for better chips to power Steam Deck 2

16. Tracking the winds that have turned Mars into a planet of dust

17. Waymo to roll out driverless taxis on highways in three US cities

18. What would a “simplified” Starship plan for the Moon actually look like?

19. Google is rolling out conversational shopping—and ads—in AI Mode search

20. OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1’s eight new personalities

21. With another record broken, the world’s busiest spaceport keeps getting busier

22. Microsoft releases update-fixing update for update-eligible Windows 10 PCs

23. An explosion 92 million miles away just grounded Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket

24. Alien Earth and series creator Noah Hawley will return for season 2

25. Audi goes full minimalism for its first-ever Formula 1 livery

26. Quantum computing tech keeps edging forward

27. Nintendo drops official trailer for Super Mario Galaxy Movie

28. OpenAI slams court order that lets NYT read 20 million complete user chats

29. Valve rejoins the VR hardware wars with standalone Steam Frame

30. Steam Deck minus the screen: Valve announces new Steam Machine, Controller hardware

31. Corals survived past climate changes by retreating to the deeps

32. Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup

33. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die trailer ushers in AI apocalypse

34. Review: New Framework Laptop 16 takes a fresh stab at the upgradeable laptop GPU

35. Formula with “cleanest ingredients” recalled after 15 babies get botulism

36. Original Mac calculator design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutes

37. Google vows to stop scam E-Z Pass and USPS texts plaguing Americans

38. The Mac calculator’s original design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for ten minutes

39. Google says new cloud-based “Private AI Compute” is just as secure as local processing

40. Ryanair tries forcing app downloads by eliminating paper boarding passes

41. Reddit mod jailed for sharing movie sex scenes in rare “moral rights” verdict

42. US states could lose 21 billion of broadband grants after Trump overhaul

43. Google announces even more AI in Photos app, powered by Nano Banana

44. Lawyers keep giving weak-sauce excuses for fake AI citations in court docs

45. Pirelli’s Cyber Tire might become highway agencies’ newest assistant

46. ClickFix may be the biggest security threat your family has never heard of

47. Neutron rocket’s debut slips into mid-2026 as company seeks success from the start

48. Intuitive Machines—known for its Moon landers—will become a military contractor

49. Researchers isolate memorization from reasoning in AI neural networks

50. Canada fought measles and measles won; virus now endemic after 1998 elimination

51. Apple TV execs dismiss introducing an ad tier, buying Warner Bros. Discovery

52. New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games

53. Runaway black hole mergers may have built supermassive black holes

54. The Running Man’s final trailer amps up the high-octane action

55. F1 in Brazil: That’s what generational talent looks like

56. NASA is kind of a mess: Here are the top priorities for a new administrator

57. Here’s how orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA’s next Mars mission

58. Blue Origin will ‘move heaven and Earth’ to help NASA reach the Moon faster, CEO says

59. James Watson, who helped unravel DNA’s double-helix, has died

60. Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence

61. Commercial spyware “Landfall” ran rampant on Samsung phones for almost a year

62. The government shutdown is starting to have cosmic consequences

63. Higher prices, simpler streaming expected if HBO Max folds into Paramount

64. FBI orders domain registrar to reveal who runs mysterious Archive.is site

65. Questions swirl after Trump’s GLP-1 pricing deal announcement

66. Oddest ChatGPT leaks yet: Cringey chat logs found in Google analytics tool

67. With Skigill, the classic RPG skill tree becomes a crowded battlefield

68. Ford says “no exact date” to restart F-150 Lightning production

69. 10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world

70. Mark Zuckerberg’s illegal school drove his neighbors crazy

71. Rocket Report: Canada invests in sovereign launch; India flexes rocket muscles

72. How to trade your 214,000 cybersecurity job for a jail cell

73. Next-generation black hole imaging may help us understand gravity better

74. Wipers from Russia’s most cut-throat hackers rain destruction on Ukraine

75. Elon Musk wins 1 trillion Tesla pay vote despite “part-time CEO” criticism

76. Gemini Deep Research comes to Google Finance, backed by prediction market data

77. AT&T falsely promised “everyone” a free iPhone, ad-industry board rules

78. Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI

79. “It’s only a matter of time before people die”: Trump cuts hit food inspections

80. After Russian spaceport firm fails to pay bills, electric company turns the lights off

81. Lego boldly goes into the Star Trek universe with 400, 3,600-piece Enterprise-D

82. Google plans secret AI military outpost on tiny island overrun by crabs

83. Musk and Trump both went to Penn—now hacked by someone sympathetic to their cause

84. 83-year-old man married 50 years nearly stumps doctors with surprise STI

85. 5 AI-developed malware families analyzed by Google fail to work and are easily detected

86. DHS offers “disturbing new excuses” to seize kids’ biometric data, expert says

87. New quantum hardware puts the mechanics in quantum mechanics

88. YouTube TV’s Disney blackout reminds users that they don’t own what they stream

89. Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras

90. If you want to satiate AI’s hunger for power, Google suggests going to space

91. How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2

92. Google settlement with Epic caps Play Store fees, boosts other Android app stores

93. Tesla’s European and Chinese customers are staying away in droves

94. Why being too attractive can hurt fitness influencers

95. So long, Assistant—Gemini is taking over Google Maps

96. FDA described as “clown show” amid latest scandal; top drug regulator is out

97. “So much more menacing”: Formula E’s new Gen4 car breaks cover

98. Space junk may have struck a Chinese crew ship in low-Earth orbit

99. In a stunning comeback, Jared Isaacman is renominated to lead NASA

100. FDA described as a “clown show” amid latest scandal; top drug regulator is out

101. Google’s new hurricane model was breathtakingly good this season

102. HDR10 Advanced joins Dolby Vision 2 in trying to make you like motion smoothing

103. US gives local police a face-scanning app similar to one used by ICE agents

104. Meet Project Suncatcher, Google’s plan to put AI data centers in space

105. Some stinkbugs’ legs carry a mobile fungal garden

106. Dune driving with Mercedes-Benz as it tests off-road systems

107. Apple releases iOS 26.1, macOS 26.1, other updates with Liquid Glass controls and more

108. A commercial space station startup now has a foothold in space

109. Real humans don’t stream Drake songs 23 hours a day, rapper suing Spotify says

110. AMD says that it’s not pulling driver support for older Radeon GPUs afterall

111. LLMs show a “highly unreliable” capacity to describe their own internal processes

112. Trump on why he pardoned Binance CEO: “Are you ready? I don’t know who he is.”

113. Google removes Gemma models from AI Studio after GOP senator’s complaint

114. OpenAI signs massive AI compute deal with Amazon

115. Capitol Hill is abuzz with talk of the “Athena” plan for NASA

116. Disruption to science will last longer than the US government shutdown

117. Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost

118. Inside the marketplace for vaccine medical exemptions

119. YouTube denies AI was involved with odd removals of tech tutorials

120. Neural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethane

121. Cursor introduces its coding model alongside multi-agent interface

122. Two Windows vulnerabilities, one a 0-day, are under active exploitation

123. FCC to rescind ruling that said ISPs are required to secure their networks

124. Measles outbreak investigation in Utah blocked by patient who refuses to talk

125. New Glenn rocket has clear path to launch after test-firing at Cape Canaveral

126. Sam Altman wants a refund for his 50,000 Tesla Roadster deposit

127. AT&T sues ad industry watchdog instead of pulling ads that slam T-Mobile

128. 2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9: American car-buyer tastes meet Korean EV tech

129. Elon Musk on data centers in orbit: “SpaceX will be doing this”

130. Windows 11 Task Manager bug makes the app’s “close” button do the exact opposite

131. Trump’s swift demolition of East Wing may have launched asbestos plumes

132. Wear marks suggest Neanderthals made ocher crayons

133. NASA test flight seeks to help bring commercial supersonic travel back

134. SpaceX teases simplified Starship as alarms sound over Moon landing delays

135. “Unexpectedly, a deer briefly entered the family room”: Living with Gemini Home

136. Rocket Report: SpaceX surpasses shuttle launch total; Skyroot has big ambitions

137. Calley Means is out of the White House; Casey Means misses Senate hearing

138. Man finally released a month after absurd arrest for reposting Trump meme

139. Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking

140. Caught cheating in class, college students “apologized” using AI—and profs called them out

141. Affinity’s image-editing apps go “freemium” in first major post-Canva update

142. Netflix drops a doozy of a trailer for Stranger Things S5

143. Trump admin demands states exempt ISPs from net neutrality and price laws

144. ChatGPT maker reportedly eyes 1 trillion IPO despite major quarterly losses

145. Disney gets HDR10 via “over 1,000” Hulu titles

146. New study settles 40-year debate: Nanotyrannus is a new species

147. Google makes first Play Store changes after losing Epic Games antitrust case

148. After teen death lawsuits, Character.AI will restrict chats for under-18 users

149. TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale

150. Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US

151. An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit

152. GM lays off 1,700 workers making EVs and batteries in Michigan, Tennessee

153. Halloween film fest: 15 classic ghost stories

154. Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use”

155. Space station astronauts eager to open “golden treasure box” from Japan

156. NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86,000 times

157. Trump health official ousted after allegedly giving himself a fake title

158. FCC Republicans force prisoners and families to pay more for phone calls

159. ICE’s forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, lawmakers say

160. TV-focused YouTube update brings AI upscaling, shopping QR codes

161. Fermentation is key to coffee beans gleaned from civet feces

162. Nvidia hits record 5 trillion mark as CEO dismisses AI bubble concerns

163. Man accidentally gets leech up his nose. It took 20 days to figure it out.

164. New physical attacks are quickly diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel

165. Republican plan would make deanonymization of census data trivial

166. NASA races to keep Artemis II on schedule, even when workers aren’t being paid

167. Mazda shows a rotary hybrid concept for Tokyo with evolved design language

168. Westinghouse is claiming a nuclear deal would see 80B of new reactors

169. OpenAI data suggests 1 million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT weekly

170. If things in America weren’t stupid enough, Texas is suing Tylenol maker

171. An autonomous car for consumers? Lucid says it’s happening.

172. Senators move to keep Big Tech’s creepy companion bots away from kids

173. Samsung makes ads on 3,499 smart fridges official with upcoming software update

174. Melissa strikes Jamaica, tied as most powerful Atlantic storm to come ashore

175. Python plan to boost software security foiled by Trump admin’s anti-DEI rules

176. Here’s how Slate Auto plans to handle repairs to its electric trucks

177. Australia’s social media ban is “problematic,” but platforms will comply anyway

178. AMD shores up its budget laptop CPUs by renaming more years-old silicon

179. Expert panel will determine AGI arrival in new Microsoft-OpenAI agreement

180. Trump’s UCLA deal: Pay us 1B, and we can still cut your grants again

181. Trump and Republicans join Big Oil’s push to shut down climate liability efforts

182. Porsche’s 2026 911 Turbo S is a ballistic, twin-turbo, 701-horsepower monster

183. AI-powered search engines rely on “less popular” sources, researchers find

184. AT&T ad congratulating itself for its ethics violated an ad-industry rule

185. 25 years, one website: ISS in Real Time captures quarter-century on space station

186. F1 in Mexico City: We have a new championship leader

187. Why imperfection could be key to Turing patterns in nature

188. Melissa set to be the strongest hurricane to ever strike Jamaica

189. AI-generated receipts make submitting fake expenses easier

190. 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.

191. Whale and dolphin migrations are being disrupted by climate change

192. Are you the asshole? Of course not!—quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem

193. A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

194. Man takes herbal pain quackery, nearly dies, spends months in hospital

195. DNA and jolts of electricity get people to make optimal antibodies

196. The Android-powered Boox Palma 2 Pro fits in your pocket, but it’s not a phone

197. Tech billionaires are now shaping the militarization of American cities

198. Tesla’s “Mad Max” mode is now under federal scrutiny

199. EU accuses Meta of violating content rules in move that could anger Trump

200. Microsoft’s Mico heightens the risks of parasocial LLM relationships

201. Rivian is settling 250 million lawsuit to focus on next year’s R2 EV

202. Bats eat the birds they pluck from the sky while on the wing

203. DNA analysis reveals likely pathogens that killed Napoleon’s army

204. This browser claims “perfect privacies protection,” but it acts like malware

205. Satellite shows what’s really happening at the East Wing of the White House

206. Rocket Report: China tests Falcon 9 lookalike; NASA’s Moon rocket fully stacked

207. With new acquisition, OpenAI signals plans to integrate deeper into the OS

208. Lawsuit: Reddit caught Perplexity “red-handed” stealing data from Google results

209. Researchers show that training on “junk data” can lead to LLM “brain rot”

210. Dinosaurs may have flourished right up to when the asteroid hit

211. An NIH director joins MAHA, gets replaced by JD Vance’s close friend

212. Microsoft makes Copilot “human-centered” with a ‘90s-style animated assistant

213. The first people to set foot in Australia were fossil hunters

214. Valve upends the CS2 item marketplace with new “trade up” update

215. Great hybrid V6, lousy HMI: Three days with a Ferrari 296 GTB

216. Trump eyes government control of quantum computing firms with Intel-like deals

217. Reports suggest Apple is already pulling back on the iPhone Air

218. An outcast faces a deadly alien world in Predator: Badlands trailer

219. Porsche does U-turn on electric vehicles, will focus on gas engines

220. Texas lawmakers double down on Discovery, call for DOJ investigation into Smithsonian

221. California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime

222. We let OpenAI’s “Agent Mode” surf the web for us—here’s what happened

223. Cache poisoning vulnerabilities found in 2 DNS resolving apps

224. Tesla profits fall 37% in Q3 despite healthy sales

225. This may be the most bonkers tech job listing I’ve ever seen

226. General Motors will integrate AI into its cars, plus new hands-free assist

227. Health plan enrollment period is set to be horrifying for everyone this year

228. When sycophancy and bias meet medicine

229. SpaceX disables 2,500 Starlink terminals allegedly used by Asian scam centers

230. Samsung Galaxy XR is the first Android XR headset, now on sale for 1,800

231. AWS outage reminds us why 2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea

232. Google has a useful quantum algorithm that outperforms a supercomputer

233. Jaguar Land Rover looking at 2.5 billion price tag from crippling cyberattack

234. FDA slows down on drug reviews, approvals amid Trump admin chaos

235. It’s troll vs. troll in Netflix’s Troll 2 trailer

236. Elon Musk just declared war on NASA’s acting administrator, apparently

237. Upcoming iOS and macOS 26.1 update will let you fog up your Liquid Glass

238. OpenAI looks for its “Google Chrome” moment with new Atlas web browser

239. YouTube’s likeness detection has arrived to help stop AI doppelgängers

240. Satellite operators will soon join airlines in using Starlink in-flight Wi-Fi

241. “Butt breathing” might soon be a real medical treatment

242. Cards Against Humanity lawsuit forced SpaceX to vacate land on US/Mexico border

243. M5 iPad Pro tested: Stop me if you’ve heard this one before

244. Warner Bros. Discovery raises HBO Max prices as it puts itself up for sale

245. MacBook Pro: Apple’s most awkward laptop is the first to show off Apple M5

246. Google Fi is getting enhanced web calls and messaging, AI bill summaries

247. Amazon’s DNS problem knocked out half the web, likely costing billions

248. Even with protections, wolves still fear humans

249. Big Tech may fall short of green energy targets due to proposed rule changes

250. It wasn’t space debris that struck a United Airlines plane—it was a weather balloon

251. NSO permanently barred from targeting WhatsApp users with Pegasus spyware

252. NASA’s acting leader seeks to keep his job with new lunar lander announcement

253. Claude Code gets a web version—but it’s the new sandboxing that really matters

254. Google reportedly searching for 15 Pixel “Superfans” to test unreleased phones

255. Breaking down rare earth element magnets for recycling

256. Do animals fall for optical illusions? It’s complicated.

257. SpaceX launches 10,000th Starlink satellite, with no sign of slowing down

258. Musk’s 1 trillion Tesla pay plan draws some protest ahead of likely approval

259. F1 in Texas: Well, now the championship is exciting again

260. Anti-vaccine activists want to go nationwide after Idaho law passes

261. Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?

262. Something from ‘space’ may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah

263. Roberta Williams’ The Colonel’s Bequest was a different type of adventure game

264. With deadline looming, 4 of 9 universities reject Trump’s “compact” to remake higher ed

265. Vaginal condition treatment update: Men should get treated, too

266. Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement

267. Dead Ends is a fun, macabre medical history for kids

268. Big Tech sues Texas, says age-verification law is “broad censorship regime”

269. Teen sues to destroy the nudify app that left her in constant fear

270. NASA’s next Moonship reaches last stop before launch pad

271. 12 years of HDD analysis brings insight to the bathtub curve’s reliability

272. Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution

273. Apple pays 750 million for US Formula 1 streaming coverage

274. 3 years, 4 championships, but 0 Le Mans wins: Assessing the Porsche 963

275. Teachers get an F on AI-generated lesson plans

276. Rocket Report: China launches with no advance warning; Europe’s drone ship

277. Yes, everything online sucks now—but it doesn’t have to

278. RFK Jr.’s MAHA wants to make chemtrail conspiracy theories great again

279. Microsoft’s vision for AI PCs looks a lot like another crack at Cortana

280. Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains

281. Ars Live recap: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron weighs in.

282. OnePlus unveils OxygenOS 16 update with deep Gemini integration

283. Sony tells SCOTUS that people accused of piracy aren’t “innocent grandmothers”

284. Apple TV and Peacock bundle starts at 15/month, available on Oct. 20

285. Open source GZDoom community splinters after creator inserts AI-generated code

286. OpenAI thinks Elon Musk funded its biggest critics—who also hate Musk

287. SpaceX has plans to launch Falcon Heavy from California—if anyone wants it to

288. Antarctica is starting to look a lot like Greenland—and that isn’t good

289. Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews

290. Army general says he’s using AI to improve “decision-making”

291. Rice weevil on a grain of rice wins 2025 Nikon Small World contest

292. Once unthinkable, NASA and Lockheed now consider launching Orion on other rockets

293. Breach of F5 requires “emergency action” from BIG-IP users, feds warn

294. CDC tormented: HR workers summoned from furlough to lay off themselves, others

295. Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 matches May’s frontier model at fraction of cost

296. ISPs angry about California law that lets renters opt out of forced payments

297. US demand grows for Chinese cars despite privacy and security fears

298. Google’s AI videos get a big upgrade with Veo 3.1

299. ChatGPT erotica coming soon with age verification, CEO says

300. Apple unveils M5 update for the 11- and 13-inch iPad Pros