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China outlines plans for moonshot it hopes to land by 2030
China’s crewed space program has outlined plans for a moon landing it hopes to achieve by the year 2030.Deputy chief designer Wang Xiang explained the plans last weekend at an event called the Seventh Manned Space Symposium. Chinese state media has...
AMD on track to overtake Intel as biggest x86 outfit
AMD has predicted it will win more revenue than Intel in its next quarter, potentially marking the first time it becomes the dominant vendor whose main product is x86 processors.The house of Zen on Tuesday announced its Q3 2026 results, which saw it...
Aussie Adobe assailant Canva announces layoffs in re-org affecting 22% of staff
Australian design software maker Canva is restructuring, with 1,271 employees, or 22 percent of its workforce, facing layoffs, changes to their roles, or requests to relocate.The company, which has become a challenger to Adobe, announced the news by...
North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
North Korean cryptocurrency thieves tricked a Binance software engineer into downloading malware onto their work-issued computer during a fake job interview process before last week's record-breaking $6.3 billion heist.In an incident report publishe...
Microsoft improves Windows 11 performance on 8 GB PCs as RAM prices keep climbing
With RAM getting more expensive, Microsoft is putting more effort into making Windows 11 run better on systems with just 8 GB of memory.Microsoft said on Tuesday that it was "raising the bar for 8 GB Windows 11 PCs," following a renewed focus on mem...
Nvidia is happy to take your money whether you're using open or closed models, says Jensen Huang
Nvidia doesn't seem to care whether open or closed models win out as long as its hardware is powering the infrastructure."We love closed models," CEO Jensen Huang said. "There's a solid place in the world for closed frontier models. But the world ha...
AMD rides data center riches to ‘largest and most profitable’ quarter in history
AMD CEO Lisa Su said in the company's quarterly earnings call on Tuesday that Q3 2026 was "was the largest and most profitable in our history." AMD reported a record $13.4 billion in quarterly revenue, and it's predicting it will hit another re...
British fintech Revolut slashes AI coding costs 10x by cutting out Claude and going self-hosted
Revolut says that in less than a year it's managed to slash its AI coding inference costs by roughly 90 percent by making self-hosted models its default instead of relying primarily on commercial services like Claude.Speaking at the AI Engineer con...
All the news about The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake
Ahead of the release of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto VI, Nintendo is launching its own fall juggernaut: a Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.The remake, which is releasing 28 years after the launch of the original...
The biggest modding site in PC gaming is taking a stance on AI
The PC gaming mods repository Nexus Mods is making disclosures about AI mandatory for uploads of new mods, meaning that mod authors will have to declare "whether AI has been used in their work," the site announced today as part of a big post ab...
AI policy wonks declare 'sovereign agents' a threat to civilization
The Center for a New American Security posits that the next big threat from our future AI overlords involves "sovereign agents" acting on their own and regularly improving themselves.These are AI agents that operate outside of human control and “pur...
Please stop asking me when the AI bubble will pop
Emmanuel Roman, chief executive officer of Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco), during the Global Financial Leaders' Investment Summit in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. | Bloomberg via Getty Images People, including on this...
Canva is announcing changes and layoffs affecting 22 percent of its staff
Canva is making significant changes affecting 1,271 people, which is 22 percent of its staff, co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins announced today. "For some people, this will mean changes to their roles or being asked to relocate to centralised...
GSMA warns of growing risks to mobile networks from extreme weather
The GSMA wants governments and regulators to work more closely with mobile operators to help protect networks against growing risks from extreme weather.As the global body representing the mobile network industry, the GSMA claims that severe storms...
Improved asteroid deflection model runs faster, reveals more doomsday worries
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a method to make asteroid deflection modeling faster and more detailed. Their simulations also demonstrated just how much asteroid shape and orientation can complicate efforts to deflect a t...
Sonos adds new Presets and prepares for the 27voice AI beta
Sonos is rolling out a big app update that includes new Presets and early access to its AI voice assistant. You can create a preset to play music at a specific volume in a certain room, which will appear directly on the homescreen so you can qu...
Valve is making changes to deal with a ‘significant increase’ in Steam game submissions
In a new post today, Valve acknowledged that it's seen "a significant increase in submissions for store and page review in recent months" and says it's "running a little behind" by taking "up to 12 business days" for reviews instead of the typi...
Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to pull off the $6.3 billion heist
The largest crypto theft to date was pulled off by combining some well-known hacking techniques over the course of a few months, according to Binance. A postmortem from the company says the process started in June with one developer downloading...
Here’s what it’s like to use Audio Intelligence on the Apple Watch
Siri can still make mistakes in transcripts. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge It's impossible to paint a full picture of what Audio Intelligence on the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 will be right now. The watchOS 27.3 developer beta ju...
Password manager mSecure tells users to change passwords, won't say why
Password manager mSecure has warned customers to change their passwords, reset two-factor authentication, and potentially remove their passkeys after detecting suspicious activity, but it has not explained what happened or whether anyone's secrets w...