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🚀 Google's Gemma 4 Writes a Haiku From Orbit Google engineers tested an AI model running aboard a satellite. For its first task, Gemma 4 generated a haiku about being in space. 💻 Google's experimental data center in orbit, Suncatcher M1, carries four Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). Still, it generates only up to 1 kW of power: enough to run just one chip at a time, for about 20 minutes. The satellite launched on October 1. Engineers spent the next three weeks testing out the satellite's subsy…

✖️ Smart Glasses at Korean Exams Could Lead to Prison In South Korea, the Ministry of Education has banned smart glasses during exams. Even attempting to bring them in may result in offenders being referred to the police and facing criminal charges. Using smart glasses will be treated as a deliberate disruption of a national exam and classified as obstruction of official duties and interference with government operations — offenses punishable by up to five years in prison.

✈️ Anthropic Drops Coding Tasks From Interviews Anthropic is dropping live coding from interviews. Claude is better at programming anyway, explains Felix Rieseberg, one of the startup's team leads. According to him, knowledge of frameworks and libraries, which used to be an advantage, is now valued less than initiative and the fresh perspective of newcomers. That is why he looks through CV and portfolios for small prototypes that show taste, empathy, and sound thinking. What matters more for …

🔥 14 Marketing Skills for Claude Turn Claude into a professional marketer. A set of 14 skills has been published on GitHub that teach the agent to ✅ Research competitors. ✅ Write briefs. ✅ Build content plans. ✅ Write scripts and newsletters. ✅ Edit videos. ✅ Publish everything across different platforms. ➡ It installs in two commands. Instructions and a detailed description are here.

⚡️ Apple Releases Its First Touchscreen MacBook With a PROLED Display It comes with a choice of M5 Pro or M5 Max inside. The 14-inch M5 Pro version costs $2,899, $400 more than the regular M5 Pro MacBook Pro. But the best part is that the glowing Apple logo is back on the lid! Do you need a touchscreen on a laptop? ❤️ — Yes, absolutely 🔥— No, it's useless

💡 AI Has Been Into a Screwdriver The Arrowspace S1 uses a camera to recognize which bit a particular screw needs and sets the optimal speed. The right bit then lights up right in the case (just to make sure there's no mix-up). All that's left for the human is to insert the bit and bring the screwdriver to the screw. The Kickstarter campaign has raised $124K so far, more than 10 times its original goal. The "miracle tool" costs $129.

🌐 Highway Thieves Make Off With $100 Million in GPUs Thieves in the U.S. have already stolen graphics cards worth more than $100 million. Since June, thieves have carried out more than twenty heists of high-tech data center equipment in California, Texas, and Utah, and at least some of the stolen hardware is reportedly being smuggled into China. The two biggest robberies could have come straight out of a Fast & Furious movie. In one, a car slammed into a police vehicle escorting a truck full o…

✈️ Three in Four European Pilots Have Fallen Asleep Mid-Flight Three in four pilots have fallen asleep in the cockpit during a flight, according to a European Cockpit Association survey of 7,200 captains and first officers. The report refers to "microsleep," brief lapses a person may not even notice. The culprit is bureaucracy at smaller airlines and low-cost carriers. More than 80% of budget-airline pilots believe their employers fail to manage fatigue, and almost half fear being penalized fo…

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❤ A pup dressed as a data center stole the show at Bark Bash, a doggy Halloween event in Virginia. The event takes place in Ashburn, Loudoun County, as close as you can get to America's data center capital. More than 200 data centers are already up and running or under construction in the county, and local officials expect them to bring in over $1.3 billion in 2027 — 40% of the local budget.

💼 Bill Gates Proposes Reserving Certain Professions for Humans In an interview with The Verge, Gates said that within roughly 20 years, AI and humanoid robots will eliminate shortages of goods and services worldwide. Androids will build cheap housing and perform surgery, and in poor countries where children are malnourished and many people never see a doctor in their entire lives, AI will help defeat disease and hunger. But in the end, people will have nothing left to do — because beyond the p…

🎧 OnKey Launches Free AI Vocal Coach for Mac It shows you in real time when you're singing off-key. Play a track on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube. The AI breaks the vocals down into notes and listens to your voice through the microphone. The screen displays the melody alongside your pitch, and once the song ends, you get a score and a line-by-line breakdown. Requires a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later). ➡️ Download it here.

✏️ Ideogram Launches AI Vector Editor Ideogram's new model generates SVG images and lets you edit specific elements without losing consistency, even after multiple edits. You can also turn regular images into vectors with AI and refine their shapes and colors. ➡️ Try it here.

🇮🇹 Switch 2 Jailbroken on Latest Firmware Developer pepsipu built a software-only, tethered jailbreak for the Nintendo Switch 2 running the latest firmware, 23.0.1. It lets users run their own code with the privileges of ordinary system modules and the file-system module, which is enough to mod games and dig into the console's internals. He showed it off by adding new characters to Mario Kart World. The AI agent Codex helped find the way in: a 32-bit integer overflow in the BASIC interpreter …

🤖 Unitree Revealed the H2-X Bodyguard Robot It was specially designed for security. The android knows kung fu, can dent a car with a single punch, and is capable of lifting a light vehicle. It looks like robot fighting will hit a whole new level soon.

📱 Hello, Laggy Android Chinese manufacturers are reportedly preparing to cut RAM in their new smartphones. According to an insider, most budget phones will come with 4 GB of RAM, with 6 GB reserved for the top-tier models. The mid-range segment is getting cuts too: 8 GB instead of 12 GB. Some brands have even started buying used smartphones to desolder memory chips from older devices. Do you have enough RAM in your smartphone? ❤️ — Yes! 🔥 — No...

🚀 Japan Launches Mission to Bring Back a Piece of Martian Moon Phobos Japan has launched a mission to bring soil back to Earth from Phobos, a moon of Mars, for the first time. The MMX probe is expected to return about 10 grams of samples in 2031. The spacecraft will arrive at Mars in August 2027 and will spend several years studying Phobos and the second moon, Deimos. In 2029, a mini-rover will land on Phobos. It will examine the surface, choose a landing spot, and collect soil.

💸 Vienna Gets a Monument to Satoshi Nakamoto The sculpture depicts a seated hacker with a laptop and is made of 61 thin stainless steel layers. From the side, it is clearly visible, but head-on it almost disappears, symbolizing the anonymity of Bitcoin's creator. The hacker stereotype is deliberate: it pays tribute to the developers who built Bitcoin's global ecosystem. The project began as street art by Italian artist Valentina Picozzi, who has been working with Bitcoin as a theme since 2012…