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Musk Calls for Chip Engineers to Join Tesla, SpaceX [2026]

Elon Musk used a short social media post on October 11, 2026, to put out a direct call for help: if you design or build chips for a living, he wants you at SpaceX or Tesla. The message landed amid a broader industry scramble for silicon talent, and it has already been picked up by…

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Pokémon UNITE on PC: BlueStacks Setup in 13 Steps [2026]

Pokémon UNITE never got a native PC client. The five-on-five MOBA from TiMi Studio Group, Nintendo, and The Pokémon Company ships on Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android, and that’s it. If your mouse and keyboard setup is where you actually want to play, the only route in is an Android emulator, and as of October…

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NBA Smart Ball Chip Hits 1 Gram, Eyes 2027 Debut [2026]

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said on October 11, 2026 that the league could begin using a Bluetooth-chipped “smart ball” for officiating as soon as 2027, a disclosure first reported by CNBC and quickly picked up by outlets including RiverBender, Simply Wall Street, and The News International. The chip, built into a Wilson-developed basketball, weighs roughly…

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Upper Mount Bethel’s 3-1 Vote Sets Data Center Rules [2026]

A Lehigh Valley township is reconsidering how much say a developer should get in writing the very zoning rules meant to regulate it. After receiving a second data center proposal this year, the township’s board is weighing a memorandum of understanding with the developer, Slate Belt Holdings, that would let the company help shape a…

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GPT Image 2.5 API Setup: 13 Steps, $30/M Tokens [2026]

OpenAI shipped GPT Image 2.5 on September 8, 2026, splitting its image model into two distinct variants, Flare and Sunburst, each tuned for a different job. If you’ve been calling the old gpt-image-2 endpoint and wondering why your editing requests feel sluggish or your output quality has plateaued, this tutorial walks through the full setup:…

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Huawei Mate 90 Starts at $895 With Kirin 9030 Chip [2026]

Huawei pulled back the curtain on its autumn flagship on October 1, 2026, launching the Mate 90 series at an event in Shanghai and, once again, putting a homegrown Kirin chip at the center of the pitch. The standard Mate 90 ships with the new Kirin 9030 processor, a 6.75-inch flat OLED display and a…

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Technology

Starship Ship 40 Back in Texas After 75 Days at Sea [2026]

A 171-foot steel rocket that spent 24 days bobbing in the Indian Ocean is finally home. SpaceX’s recovered Starship, known internally as Ship 40, arrived at the Port of Brownsville on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, closing out a 75-day odyssey that started with a July 24 launch from Starbase and ended with the first intact…

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Meta AI vs Grok vs Character.AI: 1.2B Users to 45M [2026]

Three AI chatbot apps are pulling ahead of the pack in late 2026, and none of them is the one most headlines focus on. While GPT and Gemini fight over API benchmarks, the real battle for daily attention is happening inside apps people already have open: Meta AI riding shotgun in WhatsApp and Instagram, Grok…

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Corsair TC100 vs Titan Evo vs Embody: $1,795 Gap [2026]

Gaming chairs stopped being a punchline somewhere around 2024, and by October 2026 the category splits into three distinct tiers that rarely get compared head to head. Corsair’s TC100 RELAXED sits at the budget end near $200, Secretlab’s TITAN Evo anchors the mid-premium tier from $579, and the Herman Miller x Logitech G Embody Gaming…

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Cyber Security

Discord Bot Breach Exposes 28 Million Accounts [2026]

A Discord moderation bot used to screen new members in more than 600,000 gaming communities has leaked data tied to an estimated 28 million accounts, making it one of the largest third-party breaches to hit the Discord ecosystem since the platform’s own 2023 support-desk incident. The bot, called Double Counter, disclosed on October 4, 2026,…

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