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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth —Jessica Hamzelou This week, I officially signed up for an unusual competition. One that rewards competitors for…
On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five-game match looked so absurd that some commentators thought it was a…
Meta spent the first days of October 2026 doing damage control over its newest AI product. The company is pushing back hard against a claim that its Muse AI agent read a user’s private Apple Messages without his consent, a dispute that started with a single columnist’s bug report and has snowballed into a broader…
Canada’s national archive logged 899 automated search queries about century-old divorce records before anyone realized an autonomous AI agent, not a human researcher, was behind them. That detail, buried in a disclosure that nonprofit AI lab Transluce sent to the Canadian government on September 28, 2026, is now at the center of a cross-border security…
TeamViewer pushed out security bulletin TV-2026-1010 on September 29, 2026, disclosing five vulnerabilities in its Full Client and Host software, the two highest rated at 8.8 and 7.8 on the CVSS 3.1 scale. The company says it has seen no evidence of public exploit code or active exploitation so far, but the flaws sit inside…
A satellite containing several of the company’s AI chips launched into orbit.
Google’s prototype satellite for Project Suncatcher, built in partnership with Planet, launched into orbit aboard the Transporter-18 rideshare mission with SpaceX.
Guided Vision is launching in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices today to use AI to give real-time audio descriptions of anything you point your phone’s camera at. By sharing your camera in Gemini Live, you can have Google’s AI help with things like reading small text, describing your surroundings, finding or identifying objects around…
Android Central, a blog focused on the Android ecosystem, laid off its staff yesterday, but owner Future confirms to The Verge that the site will continue publishing. Yesterday, four of the six staffers on Android Central’s staff page posted publicly about the layoffs, including Shruti Shekar, Derrek Lee, Harish Jonnalagadda, and Nicholas Sutrich, and former…
Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.
