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Will we “lose public key cryptography” by EoY 2028? A small Manifold market is suddenly one of the busiest offbeat contracts on the platform. The market sits at a 10% implied chance of YES as of October 09, 2026, yet roughly 29% of its all-time volume changed hands in a single day. The spark was…
C has run the world’s infrastructure since 1972. Rust showed up determined to take its job, one memory-safety bug at a time. In October 2026, that fight has stopped being theoretical. Google now ships roughly 5 million lines of Rust inside Android, the Linux kernel accepts Rust drivers in its mainline tree, and Rust just…
The UK’s data protection regulator just put a number on something that has been mostly theoretical until now: what it actually takes to get OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Anthropic, Cohere, DeepSeek, and Stability AI to change how they handle personal data inside their AI models. On October 8, 2026, the Information Commissioner’s Office…
The administrator overseeing Cash App’s $15 million data breach settlement confirmed on September 28, 2026, that payments to approved claimants would go out during October, according to OpenClassActions. For the roughly 40,380 Cash App users whose claims survived a two-year review process, the payments landing in Venmo balances, Zelle transfers, prepaid cards and paper checks…
Steam is on pace to close out 2026 north of $20 billion in annual revenue, a milestone no single PC game storefront has ever hit, according to estimates from games market analytics firm Alinea Analytics reported by PC Gamer. The platform just logged its best September on record, and the nine-month running total already outpaces…
Rockstar Games pulled back the curtain on six Grand Theft Auto VI radio stations on October 8, 2026, giving players their first confirmed look at the soundtrack that will fill Jason and Lucia’s car rides through Leonida. The reveal, reported by Paste Magazine and Kotaku, names the stations as Cocoteo FM, Back Country Radio, AfroBank…
Tesla is dropping the “Full Self-Driving” name across its European websites, replacing it with “Tesla Assisted Driving” after regulators raised concerns that the original branding could mislead drivers into believing their vehicles can operate without human supervision, Reuters reported. The […] The post Tesla drops ‘Full Self-Driving’ name in Europe, rebrands FSD as ‘Tesla Assisted…
Today’s startup funding news reveals a growing divide in where investors are putting their money. Some are backing companies building the infrastructure needed to support AI, while others are betting on startups that combine technology with specialized data, real-world expertise, […] The post Startup Funding News Today, October 9, 2026: Arena, BloomX, Ocean, Scanntech, &…
Nvidia-backed Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus has abruptly canceled its planned $5 billion initial public offering, just days after signaling strong investor demand for what would have been one of Australia’s largest-ever stock market debuts. The sudden reversal comes as […] The post Nvidia-backed AI startup Firmus abruptly cancels $5 billion IPO as investors question…
Tom Brown is leveraging his Republican ties and business savvy to win over Washington and secure the computing power Anthropic needs.
