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Wing, Alphabet’s drone-delivery subsidiary, and Walmart will launch aerial delivery across the Denver and Seattle metropolitan areas in 2027, extending what the pair calls the largest residential drone delivery footprint in the United States. The build-out targets more than 270 Walmart stores and roughly 40 million customers once complete. Two new metros: Denver and Seattle … Read more
Independent security researchers say they spent a week tracking a fleet of autonomous AI agents apparently running on Tencent‘s cloud infrastructure while repeatedly querying Amap, the mapping and navigation service operated by Tencent’s domestic rival, Alibaba. The preliminary findings, published on 4 October 2026, describe hundreds of parallel queries aimed at a very narrow slice … Read more
Slovenia’s national domain registry counted 20,276 new .si registrations in the 24 hours to Monday afternoon, a burst of activity that turned an obscure European country-code extension into one of the year’s most traded digital assets. The trigger came from Washington: .si maps neatly onto “Super Intelligence,” the label President Donald Trump has told US … Read more
The Sahel holds more water beneath its soil than it did decades ago, and satellites confirm it. What they do not confirm is the explanation powering a viral video: that the crescent-shaped pits farmers dig across the region — the so-called half-moons — are responsible, or that those pits “create rain.” None of the sources … Read more
Apple has confirmed it will tighten one of macOS’s most powerful privacy permissions, announcing new controls around Full Disk Access (FDA) in a post on its developer news site in early October. Going forward, granting an application sweeping access to a Mac’s files, mail, messages and browsing history will require what the company calls “very … Read more
OpenAI is pushing advertising deeper into ChatGPT with a new visual ad format that appears while users generate images, turning the assistant’s most visual surface into a commercial one. Testing begins later this month in the United States with an initial group of advertisers, and no global rollout date has been confirmed. A new ad … Read more
Denmark’s government confirmed on 5 October that its Central Person Register (CPR) — the identity database at the heart of the country’s highly digitised public sector — was compromised and most of its contents stolen. Officials have labelled it the most serious cyber incident in Danish history. Depending on the figure cited, between 8 million … Read more
Amazon Web Services has quietly retired one of the most criticised tools in its data center playbook: the nondisclosure agreement. AWS chief executive Matt Garman confirmed the shift in a single line buried inside a long blog post defending the company’s infrastructure buildout, stating that Amazon no longer uses NDAs with the government agencies it … Read more
David Robinson, the OpenAI staffer who led transparency work inside the company’s safety team and helped write the safety reports published alongside each major model launch, has resigned after three and a half years — and he is not going quietly. In an essay for The Atlantic, Robinson argues that OpenAI’s culture is broken, that … Read more
An autonomous agent powered by OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra has cleared the orc starting zone in World of Warcraft in roughly 40 minutes without a single death — and without ever seeing the game. According to the developer behind the open-source agent-wow project, the model received no screenshots, no video feed and no rendered frames. It … Read more