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The Federal Aviation Administration issued its launch authorization for SpaceX's Starship Flight 14 late Saturday, confirming the mission remains on track for liftoff Monday morning — Starship's first genuine attempt to reach orbit after 13 prior test flights.
Meta's new cable will run roughly 7,000 kilometers between the United States and France, doubling the capacity of today's fastest transoceanic systems using multi-core fiber technology never before deployed at this distance. It's expected to enter service in 2029.
A team from the University of Chicago, Harvard, Stony Brook, and Quantinuum showed that non-Abelian anyons — long considered a theoretical 'dark horse' for quantum computing — can execute a complete set of operations on a real 54-qubit processor, published this month in Nature.
Two GitHub Actions disabled during the May 2026 Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack were silently re-enabled on September 16. Their malicious release tags were never cleaned up, meaning any workflow referencing them ran the credential-stealing payload for over a week before GitHub disabled them again.
For the first time in its history, GrapheneOS will run on a phone that isn't a Google Pixel. The Motorola Signature 27, powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, will ship with pre-installed support for the privacy-hardened Android variant.
Precision Neuroscience closed an oversubscribed $250M Series D led by Pershing Square for its removable Layer 7 brain-computer interface — already used in 100+ patient procedures across 18 hospitals, unlike Neuralink's permanent implants.
A D.C. Circuit appeals court ruled 2-1 that the Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic as a 'supply chain risk' over its refusal to enable autonomous weapons and surveillance uses of Claude — splitting with a California judge who called the same designation illegal a month earlier.
TikTok agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million and roll out teen safety features — a 2-hour daily cap, midnight-to-6am blackout, and private-by-default accounts — settling a youth mental health suit days before trial.
The Surface Pro 12" starts at $1,149 and the Surface Laptop 13" at $1,199, both with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Plus delivering 60% faster graphics and 95% faster on-device AI. On sale October 13.
Bitget says attackers compromised a backend wallet system on September 24, making off with $351.6 million in ETH, XRP, BNB, AVAX, and stablecoins — the largest crypto heist of 2026.
Akamai will provide distributed cloud infrastructure to handle Anthropic's growing compute workloads, while Anthropic receives warrants for roughly 5% of Akamai's stock, tied to how much of the expanded deal it eventually commits to.
A prototype satellite carrying four Tensor Processing Units launches October 1st aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, testing whether solar-powered orbital data centers could one day scale AI compute beyond what Earth's grid can support.