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SPACEX MAKES BIG PLAY TO BECOME A WIRELESS CARRIER

SpaceX will pay investment firm Grain Management about $8 billion in cash for US cellular spectrum licenses. The licenses will be for the 800-megahertz band, which is tailored for wireless service from cellphone towers rather than satellites. SpaceX says the new spectrum will help cover places satellite links can't reach. SpaceX still needs some terrestrial infrastructure to use the spectrum for mobile coverage.

APPLE SET TO DEBUT TOUCH-SCREEN MACBOOK AND NEW IPAD MINI IN LATE OCTOBER

Apple plans to introduce a touch-screen MacBook and a new iPad mini on or around October 27. The launch will include an online video presentation and an in-person component for the press. Apple will also hold an event next week to introduce its first smart home hub with a display, a new HomePod mini, and an updated Apple TV set-top box. It plans to introduce a home ecosystem that will include accessories from LG and Schneider Electric.

THE START-UP THAT WANTS TO BUILD ‘MICROROBOTS' WITH AI

Atomic Machines is building AI technology that can discover new ways of designing extremely small devices. It is building an automated manufacturing system that turns computer code into a physical device. The company aims to revamp the field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), tiny devices made of both electrical and mechanical components. These devices are traditionally manufactured like computer chips, but this limits the possibilities of the technology to the physical properties of a semiconductor.

AMAZON BUILDS 1,000TH SATELLITE, WILL LAUNCH SPACE INTERNET SERVICE BY END OF YEAR

Amazon's Leo project is nearing several critical milestones. The company recently manufactured its 1,000th satellite and has reached the point where it can build a handful of satellites every day. The Vulcan's upcoming return-to-flight mission will carry Amazon Leo satellites, and another Vulcan rocket is currently being prepared to launch this year with more Amazon satellites. The company is just weeks away from offering a commercial space broadband service for the first time.

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FIRST LOOK AT CLAUDE CODE MODS (SPOILER: YES, USE ONE NOW!)

You can now add panes, commands, and tool call rules to Claude Code with Mods. A mod is a plugin that changes how Claude Code looks and behaves. They can be used to add custom features to Claude Code. Mods run inside Claude Code, so they can do things that hooks, skills, status lines, and MCP servers can't, like redraw Claude Code's own interface, step into a tool call or request, and share data between hooks.

BOOTSTRAP 6 ALPHA

Bootstrap 6 features a major overhaul to the project that modernizes it from the ground up with the Sass module system, support for more native browser APIs and elements, ESM-only JavaScript plugins, and a slew of new CSS standards. Alpha 1 is on npm and jsDelivr right now. Bootstrap 6 requires Chrome and Edge 130, Firefox 132, and Safari 18. Bootstrap 5 remains available and supported.

PRODUCT MANAGER, APPLIED AI AT TLDR ($225K BASE + $60K BONUS, FULLY REMOTE)

TLDR is hiring its first PM to help build the agent-first operating layer used across the company. We’re looking for a builder who has shipped real products/systems with LLMs. Click here to learn more [17].

THE STATE OF AI REPORT 2026

Agents are now doing valuable work in software and science. Physical AI is learning how to act in the world, and access and control are becoming more essential. The frontier is now a three-lab race between Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. Anthropic leads on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, while Google leads on Arena's ranking of the answers people prefer.

ABSTRACT WARFARE: HOW TSMC MADE ITS OWN MARKET

The most important tech companies are much larger than their original markets. They not only expand their market, but make their own markets as well. These companies achieve this by attacking the abstractions their industry is built on. They change what it takes to participate in the industry and create shared infrastructure out of their competitors' businesses. This allows an ecosystem of new companies to form that both win in the market and are dependent on them.

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AN EMPIRICAL AGENDA FOR AI

How AI will transform society will depend on how businesses reorganize, markets adjust, and workers respond.

XBOX EXPANDS MOVIE, TV AMBITIONS WITH NEW DIVISION

Xbox's entertainment division will grow Xbox's footprint in film, TV, products, events, and theme parks.

100+ REACTIONS TO 100+ SOLUTIONS

This post presents a snapshot of the mathematical community's gut feelings regarding OpenAI's announcement on October 6.

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zerobrew brings uv-style architecture to Homebrew packages on macOS and Linux.

ICANN REVEALS BIDS FOR NEW TOP-LEVEL DOMAINS

String Confirmation Day will be on November 17.

US SUSPENDING PERMANENT RESIDENCY PROGRAMME FOR MICROSOFT AND CAPGEMINI, OFFICIALS SAY

Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini are being suspended from PERM, the labour certification employers need before sponsoring a worker for permanent residency.

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APPLE TO LAUNCH DOORBELL, LOCK, THERMOSTAT DEVELOPED WITH LG

Apple plans to launch several devices developed through a partnership with LG as part of an ecosystem of devices that work with its new smart home hub. These include a doorbell, thermostat, an upgraded HomePod mini, and a fresh TV set-top box. The products, set to launch on October 13, will carry the LG brand. Most of the devices will include support for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Thread, and Matter.

OPENAI RELEASES FINDINGS ON 377 MATH PROBLEMS, FURTHER ROILING FIELD

OpenAI released hundreds of new findings spanning a wide range of topics including algebra, number theory, theoretical computer science, mathematical logic, and topology. These were solved with an internal model that has not been released publicly. There is debate on whether OpenAI's systems were employing creative thinking or simply completing the final steps of a proof after borrowing ideas from human mathematicians' work. OpenAI has provided summaries of how its models came up with the solution for 10 of the problems.

ANDURIL'S BIG WEEK: ARSENAL-2, NGC2, AND A $6.6B BET ON THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN SHIPBUILDING

Anduril recently announced that it was awarded a contract worth up to $1.8 billion over five years to scale Lattice across the Army's Next-Generation Command and Control effort. The company plans to build the second of its Arsenal mega-factories in Baltimore. The mega-factory will be shipbuilding-focused and will, when operations begin in 2030, span over 2 million square feet of manufacturing space. The facility will be backed by $6.6 billion across both private investment and up to $2.9 billion through a submarine production contract with the US Navy.

A NEW TREND IN NUCLEAR ENERGY: SQUEEZING MORE POWER OUT OF OLD PLANTS

Building nuclear power plants takes a long time, so some companies are looking to upgrade older reactors to squeeze even more power out of them instead. These types of upgrades can cost billions and require approval by regulators, but they can often be completed in five years or less at a fraction of the cost of building a new plant from scratch. Many tech giants are eager to pay for these upgrades to power AI. Increasing production from existing nuclear plants will add an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 megawatts of electric capacity to US grids.

PRODUCT MANAGER, APPLIED AI AT TLDR ($225K BASE + $60K BONUS, FULLY REMOTE)

TLDR is hiring its first PM to help build the agent-first operating layer used across the company. We're looking for a builder who has shipped real products/systems with LLMs. Click here to learn more [12].

THE STATE OF THE TECH INDUSTRY IN 2026

The speed of change in the tech industry has never been this large-scale or fast. Practically nobody writes code by hand anymore. Assumptions about code output have broken, code reviews have become theatrical, and quality and reliability are down. Teams are still important, as is planning. Engineers will likely stop reading code altogether as companies start building a new type of AI infrastructure.

DECISIONS

OpenAI's Decisions API turns text and images into decisions that applications can use. It evaluates text, images, or both and returns typed answers 10 times faster than the Responses API. The Decisions API returns a probability that a condition is true, a choice from a fixed set, or a score against a rubric. These answers can be used to classify content, route requests, and prioritize work in an application.

HOW TO KEEP LEARNING IN THE AGE OF LLMS

We used to learn things by doing something wrong first and then taking a lesson out of it. LLMs make everything so fast that we don't want to spend time doing the wrong things, even though it's more beneficial in the long run. The struggle is how the brain actually learns new things. Use AI to help you think through problems rather than just giving you the answer.

THE DECISION MODEL GOLD RUSH

Decision models return a choice, a score, or a yes-or-no with a confidence number stapled on. Within a day of launch, TypeSafe's Jev decision model had been wired into 13% of Vercel's paid AI Gateway customer workflows, and within three days, Cloudflare, LangChain, and Langfuse had shipped integrations for it. It took competitors about two weeks to show up. The field is evolving quickly - this post looks at the criteria and nuances of using decision models in production to help readers decide which model to use.

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AN APPLICATION IN LISP YOU GROW BY TALKING TO IT

Jiti is a small kernel for growing a running Lisp application through conversation with an LLM - users ask for a capability, the model writes Lisp, and the application permanently acquires that capability until the user asks for that capability to be removed.

STACK OVERFLOW DEVELOPER SURVEY 2026

The Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026 asked developers and technologists about everything from how they're using AI to how happy they are at work to where they're learning new skills.

SHIPPING JPEG XL IN CHROME

JPEG XL offers 30% to 50% better compression than JPEG, lossless compression, built-in HDR support, lossless JPEG transcoding, and more.

THE KEYS TO THE INTERNET CHANGE ON OCTOBER 11. ARE YOU READY?

The DNS root is scheduled to change its key-signing key for the second time ever on October 11.

WHAT IS CODEMODE

Codemode is a way for LLMs to express and orchestrate complex operations on the harness side, but not the execution environment side.

A TERMINAL PROTOCOL FOR PROGRAM STATUS (OSC 7501)

OSC 7501 is a specification for a terminal escape sequence that lets any program tell the terminal whether it's idling, working, waiting on the user, finished, or failed, and why.

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APPLE INVITES DEVELOPERS TO SUBMIT IPHONE DUO-READY APPS TO THE APP STORE

Apple is now accepting submissions of iPhone Duo-optimized apps and games. Xcode 27.1 Release Candidate 1 features support for building and testing apps and games for the iPhone Duo. Developers can now submit iPhone Duo-optimized apps and games in App Store Connect. App Store product pages will display a badge to let people know apps are optimized for the iPhone Duo. Recompiling existing apps with Xcode 27.1 adds development support for iPhone Duo.

PREVIEW, EDIT, AND COLLABORATE ON MARKDOWN (.MD) FILES NATIVELY ACROSS DRIVE AND DOCS

Google Docs now supports Markdown files. Google Drive now renders Markdown previews. The new features are available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts. They will be gradually rolled out over the next two weeks.

CONTROLLING THE BRAIN WITH LIGHT EARNS A PHYSIOLOGY NOBEL

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their contributions to the field of optogenetics. Optogenetics involves using light to alter the behavior of nerve cells marked by the activity of individual genes. It allows researchers to activate or shut down neurons in an otherwise intact brain. The technique has revolutionized scientists' ability to understand what different populations of nerve cells are doing.

A NEW CROP OF SOLAR PANELS IS THE US' BEST HOPE OF CATCHING CHINA

Tandem solar is a new technology that adds second and third layers of material on solar panels to convert more of the Sun's radiance into electricity. Several companies plan to start selling panels commercially soon. The panels can generate 25% more energy than current available devices. Successful adoption of the technology will allow the world to meet the rapidly rising demand for electricity with less land and roof area.

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