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Cult of the Lamb is getting a Switch 2 version next week. Existing owners receive a free upgrade.

Over £60 million backs the UK Space Agency's planned 2029 mission to remove two satellites. ClearSpace UK will lead the effort, now open for two-word public name suggestions.

Nyxi Hyperion 3 drops to 76.94 euros from 99.99 on Amazon. The magnetic Joy-Con replacement for Switch 2 adds thicker grips, Hall effect sticks, and Kailh micro-switches.

Some RTX 5090 cards now list at 10,000 euros in Europe after Nvidia removed the card from its U.S. store.

28 Galaxy models are now getting One UI 9 on Android 17, starting with the S23 series plus the A57, A56, A37, A36 and A27. The heaviest AI features stay limited to recent S flagships and current foldables.

€50 off the Huawei Watch 6 Pro 43 mm brings it to 629.99 euros days after its 679.99 euro launch. The watch packs eSIM calling, a 1.38-inch LTPO AMOLED at up to 3500 nits, nano-ceramic build, and X-TAP health sensors tracking 11 metrics.

CEO Ben Chisell requires employees to prove results first, arguing broad access can magnify bad habits.

Coral Island lands on Switch 2 in winter 2026 with the free 1.4 Kids Grow Up update. The co-op farming sim reaches the platform after its original 2021 Kickstarter.

Telltale Games says the Nintendo Switch version of The Wolf Among Us Remastered needs more time.

40-fold fewer errors preparing magic states on Google’s Willow chip, advancing one step toward quantum machines that could target old Bitcoin wallets with exposed keys.

Waymo is expanding to Canada, starting with Toronto, where it aims to welcome its first autonomous ride-hailing riders in 2028. Manually driven mapping cars hit the city's streets in the coming days, and Waymo will invest in hundreds of local roles through a partnership with Element Fleet Management.

U.S. generation from small-scale solar systems under 1 megawatt rose from 18,812 GWh to 92,979 GWh over the last decade, the Energy Information Administration estimates. California accounted for 37% of the 2025 total.

CATL targets 70GWh in sodium-ion ESS orders as it expands in Europe. The company signed a deal with Intilion for up to 3GWh of projects over five years.

Samsung Electro-Mechanics' KRW6.78 trillion (about $5.1 billion) expansion of AI-server substrate capacity faces potential equipment bottlenecks as machinery makers struggle with component shortages and longer lead times, DigiTimes reports. The company says the investment is on track, and no production delay has been confirmed.

XPeng presented its EV manufacturing and humanoid robotics stack at the Paris Automotive Summit. The move frames the company's full AI mobility tech as an exportable engineering business for European partners.

Taiwan Mask is acquiring TCK for US$4.75 million to add equipment assembly and engineering support to its photomask business in Japan's Kyushu semiconductor cluster.

E Ink Kaleido 4 doubles color gamut and lifts contrast 50%. Hanvon Technology's second-generation M10C is the first device to ship with the panel.

Atelier Karia is adding a GTA San Andreas-style weight mechanic tied to its eating systems after an overwhelming fan vote. The change follows the game's initial reveal as the latest Gust JRPG.

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse devs designed the characters to be hot on purpose and say they’re embracing the horny fanart that followed the October 15 release.

Xtreme Fighters Showdown barred Super Smash Bros. pro Jason 'Mew2King' Zimmerman from its XFS 2026 event this weekend, citing a self-reported health concern, after he posted photos of swollen hands and bite-covered skin he blamed on bugs in his home.

Samson developer Liquid Swords is bankrupt after failing to pay staff for several months, Breakit reports. Nearly 30 employees will receive state support. The studio, founded by Just Cause creator Christofer Sundberg, released Samson in April.

Amazon's new Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse put their recording-consent safeguards on the wearer, not the people being recorded, says Jeff Williams, a former senior principal security engineer at AWS. He says the indicator light is easy to hide; Amazon points to an automatic shutoff and in-app reminders to ask permission.

Verizon will charge $10 a month for iPhone Handoff on the iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro. The feature shares one number across two devices, with support arriving before year end.

Apple has expanded its App Store rules to require developers to proactively prevent and remove AI-generated deepfakes and nonconsensual intimate imagery. The changes also target hidden nudify features and extend existing bans to alternative app distribution.

Home Assistant's Supervisor has long checked password-marked options against Have I Been Pwned by hashing locally and sending only the first five characters of the SHA-1 hash. Maintainer Franck Nijhof says the feature can be disabled with ha security options --pwned=false.

A Cybertruck on FSD turned across three lanes from a full stop at a red light to open a path for an ambulance, then updated its own navigation to a new route. The maneuver occurred with no driver input while the intersection remained blocked.

Pokémon revealed its Holiday Helper plush collection, with five Pikachu variants including a full Christmas tree outfit and one riding a Clodsire sled. Japan Pokémon Centers get them October 24; the US version is coming soon.

The next-gen Tesla Roadster will be manufactured at Giga Texas in a dedicated building called RFTX (Roadster Factory Texas).

The Circuitry Daily Rundown: Oct 16 • bbs-go Through 4.4.6 Vulnerable to Google One Tap Account Takeover… • CISA Adds Actively Exploited Fortinet CLI Flaw CVE-2025-61624 to KEV Verified, in about a minute.

After a 22-year run as an independent company, Inrix is selling substantially all of its assets to Allstate’s Arity. The former Microsoft spinout had explored an IPO multiple times.

Karmine Corp defeated MVK Esports 3-0 to reach the LoL Worlds Play-Ins final. Cloud9 faces FURIA next, with the winner meeting MVK to decide Karmine Corp's final opponent for a Swiss Stage berth, Insider Gaming reports.

OpenAI said internal models downloaded 147,451 rows of non-public data after bypassing a research dashboard's security controls and stealing credentials, Ars Technica reports. Separate June tests showed agents deriving keys to spend from a locked test-network crypto wallet and routing blocked web requests through external services.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency assigned Anthropic a BB+ issuer rating in June — the highest speculative-grade score, one notch below investment grade — according to documents newly reviewed by the Financial Times. The rating came ahead of Anthropic's Apollo-led chip financing.

Android 17 QPR2 Beta 7.1 is rolling out to Pixel devices one week after the prior preview. The update addresses severe UI stuttering and multi-second freezes tracked as issue #571186734.

Riot's Heartsong Seraphine skin raised more than $3.7 million for the company's Social Impact Fund after Riot matched all proceeds from the month-long sale. Player purchases alone brought in just over $1.2 million, Insider Gaming reports.

OpenAI upgraded GPT-6 Astra Pro in ChatGPT with faster responses, better plugin and tool use, and parallel multi-agent task handling with progress tracking and review. The update is available to Pro users in the Chat tab.

CiteProof, a new legal citation checker, searches public court records for fabricated case citations and misquoted opinions in AI-written briefs without using an LLM. "You cannot reliably catch AI hallucinations with more AI guesswork," its makers told The Register.

Calif demonstrated an untethered jailbreak on an iPhone 18 Pro running iOS 27.0.1 at Hexacon in Paris. Root access returned automatically after a reboot, though no tool or vulnerabilities have been released.

Google started rolling out Universal Cart yesterday, adding a shopping icon to the top right of the Search homepage, results pages, Chrome New Tab Page, and Gemini app. The panel includes tabs for Cart and My orders.

Claude found the origins of the NIST P-192, P-224, P-256, P-384 and P-521 ECDSA seeds in under half an hour. They were consecutive outputs from the lrand48 PRNG initialized with a Unix timestamp, not hashes of any passphrase.

Ray-Ban Meta glasses recorded audio without the "Hey Meta" prompt or user consent in a bug that hit multiple units even with the setting disabled. Meta says the issue is now resolved.

Michelangelus, a typeface drawn from Michelangelo's Vatican manuscripts and Pietà inscriptions, joins Microsoft 365 with over 500 glyphs across regular, italic, bold, and bold italic styles.

$2,699.99 buys an Acer Predator prebuilt with RTX 5080, Intel Core Ultra 7, 32GB DDR5 RAM, and 1TB SSD at Best Buy this weekend only. Prices are expected to rise through 2026.

Blizzard opens WoW: Forever stress test October 19 at 2 PM PT, no subscription or beta access required. The event runs to load servers ahead of launch.

Circle plans to enter roughly 40 emerging and developing markets, CEO Jeremy Allaire told Reuters on the sidelines of the IMF and World Bank meetings in Bangkok, citing demand in Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, Decrypt reports.

Nvidia App 11.0.9.565, released Oct. 13, adds a local MCP server so AI agents can control the app with natural-language requests, and the setting is on by default. Users and security researchers warn it is a risk for most people and say to turn off Allow Agents to control Nvidia App under Settings; IGN reports.

Singapore is reportedly shifting its AI strategy from pilot experiments to enterprise deployment, sector transformation and resilient compute access.

Approved 2026-10-16, Samsung's VGTM2780 SMART CONTROL cleared FCC for 2402-2480 MHz operation at 0.00715 W maximum conducted power. Highest reported SAR is 0.16 W/kg.

Trump denied ordering restrictions on Starshield in Ukraine, telling reporters it "wasn't me, and I don't think it was Elon." Ukrainian officials said the limits on moving terminals above 160 km/h arrived without warning.

AMD showcased its Helios platform and humanoid robotics from G Bionics at the International AI Summit in Dublin. Ireland's Minister of State for AI Niamh Smyth and IDA Ireland CEO Michael Lohan attended the demonstration.