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Here’s the tea

When Tristan Brown, an associate professor of history at MIT, first examined a Chinese tea chest label displayed at Old South Meeting House, he had no reason to doubt its story. Descendants of the … more

Benjamin Daniel (via MIT Technology Review) | 10/20/26

I gave Claude the keys to my homelab, and it found 3 major problems I'd overlooked for months

No news isn't always good news. more

Adam Davidson (via How-to Geek) | 10/20/26

It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s a robo-puffin?

Given that water is 1,000 times denser than air, moving through those two mediums requires very different mechanics—or so one might assume. Yet birds like gulls and puffins can plunge into the sea, … more

Jennifer Chu (via MIT Technology Review) | 10/20/26

Melt it, spin it, use it again

The average American throws out around 81 pounds of clothing each year, and there are few options for recycling it. MIT engineers hope to cut down on that textile waste with a new type of yarn. The … more

Jennifer Chu (via MIT Technology Review) | 10/20/26

Nebraska native explores galaxies far, far away

Growing up on a small farm in Nebraska, Megan Donahue ’85 discovered the wider world by reading her way through her local library. Today, she is learning how the wider universe works by studying … more

Kathryn M. O’Neill (via MIT Technology Review) | 10/20/26

Robotic therapy for stroke patients

Strokes leave 5 million people with long-term impairments each year, and a growing shortage of physical therapists makes it hard for them to get the care they need. A new approach tries to solve that … more

Anne Wilson (via MIT Technology Review) | 10/20/26

Taking a swing at a pickleball startup

In corporate America, Stanley Anderson ’79 says, executives often assume that their peers grew up in privileged circumstances. He did not. “I spent my early years trying not to get recruited … more

Kathryn M. O’Neill (via MIT Technology Review) | 10/20/26

What to expect during monday.com’s Elevate event: Join theCUBE Oct. 29

Enterprise work management is entering a new phase as artificial intelligence agents move beyond assisting employees to executing business processes. Platforms once designed to organize projects and … more

Cheryl Knight (via SiliconANGLE) | 10/20/26

Asus’ ROG XBOX Ally X20 is a big step forward, but not in performance

I’m writing this a few days after my MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ review went live on MobileSyrup, and as much as I enjoyed my time with the mean $2,200 gaming machine, it did have its share of cons, … more

Karandeep Oberoi (via MobileSyrup) | 10/20/26

PHP warns admins of two critical flaws, emergency patches coming tomorrow

The PHP security team is warning administrators to prepare for emergency security updates tomorrow to address two critical vulnerabilities, as information about the flaws has reportedly leaked ahead … more

Lawrence Abrams (via BleepingComputer) | 10/20/26

SpaceX reports Q3 capex of $19.6B, up from $6.9B a year earlier, and Q3 connectivity revenue, which includes Starlink, up 69% YoY to $5.2B (Becky Peterson/Wall Street Journal)

Becky Peterson / Wall Street Journal: SpaceX reports Q3 capex of $19.6B, up from $6.9B a year earlier, and Q3 connectivity revenue, which includes Starlink, up 69% YoY to $5.2B — … more

Via Techmeme | 10/20/26

Google Wallet’s receipt scanning has already won over most of you

The votes are in! more

Karandeep Singh Oberoi (via Android Authority) | 10/20/26

Report: Anthropic's draft S-1 shows it spent ~$9B on compute and infrastructure in H1, up from $2.3B a year earlier, and could spend $750B in the coming years (David Morris/Bloomberg)

David Morris / Bloomberg: Report: Anthropic's draft S-1 shows it spent ~$9B on compute and infrastructure in H1, up from $2.3B a year earlier, and could spend $750B in the coming years … more

Via Techmeme | 10/20/26

A New Rocco Smart Fridge Just Dropped. So Did the Prices (2026)

Save $100 on the new Essential or $200 on the original, and give your holiday drinks a place of their own. more

Kat Merck (via Wired) | 10/20/26

Cloud Strife, Sephiroth and Other FF7 Characters Land on Xbox Game Pass Soon

It wouldn’t be Halloween without some spooky games, too, and Xbox Game Pass has you covered. more

Zachary McAuliffe (via CNET Technology) | 10/20/26

Netflix says it expects FY 2026 ad revenue of ~$2.7B, under its ~$3B forecast, and its Q4 operating margin will be impacted due to costs associated with layoffs (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix says it expects FY 2026 ad revenue of ~$2.7B, under its ~$3B forecast, and its Q4 operating margin will be impacted due to costs associated with layoffs … more

Via Techmeme | 10/20/26

OpenAI Says Its Models Can Give the Financial Sector a Coding Makeover

Banks, government agencies, and other critical institutions run largely on antiquated programming languages. Can AI help bring them up to date? more

Webb Wright (via Gizmodo | Tecg. Science. Culture) | 10/20/26

SpaceX’s AI business is beating expectations

SpaceX hit profitably in the third-quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine. more

Tim Fernholz, Kirsten Korosec (via TechCrunch) | 10/20/26

Next Xbox console could cost as much as US$1800 without subsidies

Yesterday, we wrote about the increasing likelihood that the PS6 will have an eye-watering price tag of at least US$1,000 (about C$1,400). Now, we’re learning that Microsoft’s rival console, the … more

Bradly Shankar (via MobileSyrup) | 10/20/26

Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure

And other fun facts about how Zuckercorp aims to keep a million GPUs running long enough to train a model more

Tobias Mann (via The Register) | 10/20/26