Silicon Roundabout
Get in the bin! UK Space Agency wants public to name its debris removal mission
The UK Space Agency needs a name for its Active Debris Removal Mission and has decided that the great British public are the people for the job. The agency confirmed the operation earlier this week and selected ClearSpace UK to lead it. The plan is...
Open-weight models win hearts, minds, and wallets
Open-weight models more than quadrupled their share of spending through Vercel's AI Gateway between June and September, when they processed more than seven in 10 tokens. "In August, open-weight models processed the majority of AI Gateway token volum...
Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price
Nvidia's RTX Spark partner systems are here, and spec-for-spec they've got all the ingredients for a hit: a potent CPU, blisteringly fast integrated graphics, and up to 128 GB of unified memory in a lightweight, ultra-premium package that's ready to...
Node.js creator ditches Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers
Node.js creator Ryan Dahl is sacrificing a battle to win the war … for server-side computing and allowing Node-replacement Deno to fall by the wayside. Last week, Cloudflare announced that it had purchased Dahl’s company Deno, which was built around...
Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model training
Businesses using Facebook commercially may want to think twice about what information they share online. At the end of the month, Meta plans to introduce terms that would authorize it to collect content from websites associated with its business cus...
All the news about the iPhone Duo
Apple has finally announced its long-rumored foldable: the iPhone Duo.The new phone has a 5.4-inch outer display and a 7.6-inch inner display, a “nano‑texture” finish on the inner screen, and barely any visible crease. Instead of Face ID, it us...
Apple’s updated App Store rules go after ‘nudify’ AI apps
Apple's App Store rules now more explicitly ban so-called "nudify" apps that generate intimate images of people without their consent using AI tools.The rule changes follow significant criticism toward Apple after X users used Grok earlier this...
Ubuntu Stonking Stingray swims into spotlight with pre-release kernel
The latest interim release of Ubuntu is here, complete with kernel 7.3 – even though it isn't officially out yet. It also includes a new speech-to-text system that is intriguing but not fully useful. Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" arrived on time....
New online tool will check lawyers' sloppy AI-written briefs since they can't seem to be bothered
For lawyers who love to use AI to write legal briefs, there's just one problem: bots hallucinate and make things up. Fortunately, a new tool, CiteProof, promises to crawl over briefs and filings for fabricated case citations and misquoted court opin...
Networking problems after the October 2026 Windows update? NTLM might be to blame
The October 2026 Windows security update may break networking for some customers who are still clinging to long-deprecated NTLMv1 security. A seemingly minor change in the update could have major implications for administrators and enterprises that...
NTT Global Data Centers weighs the price tag of not building fast enough
The next 200-megawatt data center permitted in your county probably won't look like the buildings you remember from a decade ago. It will occupy the footprint of two or three football fields and draw more power than most nearby industrial parks comb...
We can finally hear some of Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon A Time in Shaolin album
Wu-Tang Clan member Method Man, who got to hear the album for the first time thanks to Pablo Torre Finds Out. | Getty Images Wu-Tang's Once Upon A Time in Shaolin album has, for the most part, been extremely difficult to listen to, but you can...
Tesla driver says he was asleep and using FSD when he crashed into highway patrol cars
After this horrific crash involving a Tesla driver who said he was asleep and using the driver assist mode, the California Highway Patrol warns that "Despite its name, full self-driving is not fully autonomous. Technology does not relieve drive...
Uncle Scam Wants You … to cough up your cash and personal data, FBI warns ahead of midterms
The FBI is once again warning US citizens to be on the lookout for the scams that are so often rife around election season. With November’s midterms fast approaching, the FBI said scammers are known to use the names, imagery, and slogans of high-pro...
Attack on BAE-managed system disrupts US bankruptcy courts
The US' bankruptcy courts are currently down owing to what officials are calling a “cybersecurity incident.” The Administrative Office of the US Courts said the websites and systems that support the Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC), which manages el...
British watchdog seeks tougher terms around Microsoft's dominance of business software
The UK's competition watchdog wants to designate Microsoft with strategic market status (SMS) in business software, allowing the regulator it to intervene to level the playing field, and says it is considering other areas for investigation. Regulato...
Why Apple is finally making its own smart home devices
Apple’s Home Collection, codeveloped with partners, is part of the company’s first major push into the smart home category. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge For more than a decade, Apple has told other companies to build smart ho...
Want your AI chats to stay private? Brave TEEs up end-to-end encryption
Brave Software has set up a secure space so those using its browser can converse with the company's AI assistant in private. At a time when AI agents like Meta's Muse ask for extensive access to personal information, and AI companies repurpose conve...
Capita set to miss legal deadline on 93,000 civil servants' pension fixes, claims union
Capita is set to leave 93,000 pension cases waiting for legally required corrections after its disastrous takeover of the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS), according to the UK’s largest civil service union. The outsourcing biz took over the schem...
Microsoft bringing Defender to Linux desktops. Repeat: Microsoft bringing Defender to Linux desktops
It might not be the Year of the Linux Desktop yet, but it could be the Year of Corporate Compliance on the Linux Desktop as Microsoft releases Defender for Linux Workstations. The product is an extension of Microsoft's existing Defender for Endpoint...