Xona Space Systems is preparing to launch six satellites this month to begin beta-testing Pulsar, a commercial navigation and timing service that promises centimeter-level precision and stronger signals than GPS.
IKEA's new Stengrönska alarm clock adds a wireless phone charger, temperature and humidity readings and three alarms. It is on sale only in Japan and China for now, priced at ¥4,999 in Japan.
Volkswagen has introduced the ID. Tiguan as the replacement for the ID.4, after nearly a million ID.4 and ID.5 sales worldwide. The new electric crossover uses the MEB+ platform and offers up to 600 km of WLTP range.
Large Language Models · Companies · Policy & Regulation
President Trump said the U.S. will not attack Iran before the Nov. 3 midterms. An ICE officer shot a Dominican immigrant in New York City, and Hurricane Isaias is set to hit the northern Gulf Coast. Ukraine also launched Operation Vivaldi using drones and unmanned land robots.
An article in TechRadar says enterprise identity checks should not end at login, urging continuous behavioral and device monitoring to detect session hijacking and account takeover.
Retail investors are borrowing more to buy stocks, with Robinhood's margin book at a record $21.6 billion in the second quarter. A Houston investor's Tesla trades show the potential gains and risks.
IBM's Jamie Thomas told the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit that about 66,000 unique vulnerability disclosures are expected in 2026, four times the level of seven years ago, while AI floods maintainers with duplicate and bogus reports.
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Credo Technology has moved from eight years of DSP work into optical modules and silicon photonics, pushing its ZeroFlap line from 800G to 1.6T and combining its Cardinal DSP, Kfir200 PIC and PILOT diagnostics, according to Leiphone.
Google's Playground experiment can turn ordinary-language prompts into playable browser games, a TechRadar hands-on report says, though the results impressed more as prototypes than as finished games.
TRAE has merged TraeCode and TraeWork into a single platform featuring Agent and IDE modes, multi-agent workflows, shared artifacts, templates and Feishu/WeChat access, QuantumBit reported.
A McKinsey survey cited by TechRadar finds 88% of organizations use AI in at least one function but only 7% have scaled it across the enterprise, as fragmented marketing data stalls pilots.
At the Open Source Summit in Prague, Linux founder Linus Torvalds said AI can lower barriers for new programmers but should be used cautiously for serious work, while AI-generated security reports strain maintainers.
BMW has unveiled the all-electric iX4, reviving its X4 coupe SUV line on the Neue Klasse platform with up to 828 km WLTP range and European prices starting at 70,900 euros.
Li Auto revealed the new i6 with flagship features, a 96 kWh 5C battery and the self-developed Mach M100 chip. The five-seat SUV will debut in Europe on Oct. 12 and launch on Oct. 28.
After OpenAI released more than 700 mathematics manuscripts, the Human Mathematics Association urged mathematicians to stop working with the company, setting off a dispute over how AI-generated results are verified and credited.