Hacker News

1. Bob Cringely Has Died
2. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
3. Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers
4. Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States
5. Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked
6. Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
7. We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare
8. Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being
9. The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux
10. Our AI Midwife

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The Verge

1. Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’
2. The best early October Prime Day deals happening now
3. Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava thinks AI emails are killing conversations
4. An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm
5. 3D movies are finally worth watching
6. Meta open sources code to let you make Muse AI gadgets
7. Netflix is pivoting away from prestige
8. Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents ‘substantially’ increase risk
9. Sling TV drops its one-day cable passes
10. OpenAI’s Dot agent is enterprise software that can also order your dinner

Ars Technica

1. Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
2. The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
3. Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
4. Someone got Doom in an SQL database
5. Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
6. Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed
7. Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M
8. The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship with energy
9. US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
10. Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

TechCrunch

1. Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’
2. Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs
3. OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’
4. Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat disappears from app stores in India after government order
5. Vessev built an electric ferry that almost flies
6. All the AI agents that can live in your text messages
7. Spotify billionaire’s body scan startup has come to America
8. Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused
9. Sanders introduces bill to ban the federal government from using Flock
10. Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music

Wired

1. The Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100 Price Hike
2. Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
3. How to Collect CDs
4. The Best E-Readers That Aren't a Kindle (2026): Kobo, Boox
5. Best Mosquito Repellents for Your Yard: What Works and What Doesn’t (2026)
6. A Decade-Long Experiment Is Unlocking the Mysteries of the Ocean’s ‘Deep Reefs’
7. 20% Off Brooks Promo Code | October 2026
8. Chewy Promo Codes: $20 Off October 2026
9. Hoka Coupon Codes: 30% Off in October 2026
10. Klook Promo Code: 25% Off October 2026

Engadget

1. What are amplifiers for and how important are they to your sound system's quality?
2. How has Apple's Mac Studio changed over the years?
3. What's the difference between battery capacity and battery life?
4. Why is this the only pink MacBook available right now?
5. This little-known app lets you display song lyrics on Apple CarPlay
6. Why this ancient cable still connects to modern TVs with a simple adapter
7. How to improve your laptop's webcam quality
8. Online retailers that don't support digital wallets are losing Gen Z customers
9. ICE is reportedly using a Palantir database to compile dossiers on protestors
10. How to check the temperature of your PC's CPU

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9to5Mac

1. Gemini app limiting what models free & AI Plus users can access, AI Pro adding Deep Think
2. Watch F1 on Apple TV tonight, free for everyone in the US
3. Indie App Spotlight: ‘HEVCut’ helps you trim your photo library without deleting anything
4. Here’s why I upgraded from the Apple Watch Series 10 to Series 12
5. Here’s everything we know so far about Apple’s next entry-level iPad: A19 chip, more
6. Apple @ Work: The numbers on AI trust for IT are not great, and one company is trying to fix it
7. Apple weekend deals: MacBook Pro $500 off, AirTag 2, Prime Day HomeKit discounts, MagSafe chargers, more
8. Apple TV releases ‘The Sisters Grimm’ season 2 in full
9. Apple confirms iPhone 18 Pro Max AT&T cellular issues, affected devices require hardware replacement
10. ‘HomePad’ coming: Will Apple hold an October special event?

Guardian Australia

1. Chalmers says global economic turmoil will drive budget cuts, but Australia should avoid recession
2. Flydubai co-pilot’s time in Australia being investigated by security agencies after alleged cockpit attack
3. A Statement review – outstanding climate change dramedy about a 1980 meeting
4. Five-year-old girl in a coma and P-plater charged after car hits crowd of NRL fans in Newcastle
5. Paw patrol: Mexico debuts tiniest national guard recruit
6. Episcopal bishop who urged Trump to ‘have mercy’ to resign post in Washington DC
7. Trump urges calls to Arkansas senator in push for permanent daylight saving time
8. Black Box: The Chatbots | Life Raft | Ep 4 – podcast
9. OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
10. Why millennial motherhood can feel like rearranging chairs on the Titanic

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ABC News

1. Regional audiences to lose Network 10, as licensee warns of TV's future
2. Breaking: Man who allegedly crashed into Newcastle Knights fans refused bail
3. Treasurer downplays chance of cost-of-living relief amid surging debt
4. AFP confirms investigation of flydubai co-pilot's Australian links
5. 'Unnecessary and cruel': People with MS to lose home care
6. Call for witnesses after ball bearings used to smash windows at government buildings
7. A doctor said Tim was incapable of love. His mum knew otherwise
8. On duty just after 6pm, these paramedics' shift is about to go bad
9. Houthis target Saudi oil facility as hostilities escalate in Yemen
10. Two helicopter rescues in Tasmania after separate bushwalker mishaps

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BBC News

1. The Celebrity Traitors connections that might surprise you
2. When parenting advice becomes too much
3. Autumn chill to arrive this week as temperatures set to drop
4. Cornell president says university 'must do better' after frat house rape allegations
5. The Papers: 'Another tax bombshell?' and 'Terror plot targets'
6. Why Canada is preparing for a (long shot) US invasion
7. Two going on four, five or six on good night for new Scotland era
8. Bellingham unlocks new level and potential to be 'one of the greatest'
9. Tories pledge to scrap £100,000 childcare 'cliff edge'
10. Leicester hold off Newcastle for first Prem win

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The Guardian

1. Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv to increase oil refinery attacks because of Moscow’s winter strategy, Zelenskyy says
2. Ministers drop plans to cut jury trials in England and Wales after outcry
3. Man shot dead at London memorial service in ‘senseless act of violence’
4. Lamine Yamal stars again as Spain see off Czechia and maintain perfect start
5. Bowie gets Pocognoli off mark with Scotland victory in North Macedonia
6. Tuchel convinced England have buried World Cup woes with Croatia thrashing
7. Wakefield dominate Warrington in Grand Final to claim fairytale Super League title
8. Let there be blanks instead of Manchester City’s name on trophies: there was no honour there | Jonathan Wilson
9. Celtic fans throw tennis balls at club owner Dermot Desmond during golf tournament
10. Young sailors on the USS George Washington adjust to life at war – in pictures

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Al Jazeera

1. Ethiopian government troops seize Tigray’s capital Mekelle
2. Cornell president vows transparency amid outrage over fraternity rape case
3. Serbian populist leader Vucic launches campaign for prime minister
4. Mamdani, Irish PM play bingo, ‘split the G’ in New York
5. Brazil’s Lula and Bolsonaro close campaigns ahead of critical election
6. Iran war live: Yemeni forces strike Sanaa as Trump warns Tehran of hard way
7. Air ambulance missing on flight from Bermuda to Boston
8. Pelosi-backed US candidate calls for ‘full arms embargo’ on Israel
9. Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers during olive harvest
10. Fernandes denies Portugal rift, hails Ronaldo after walk out

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NPR

1. Coast Guard searching for missing medical plane carrying 6 people
2. Can the Cornell lawsuit force changes that make students safer?
3. Opinion: A Hawk is not the same as a Hawkeye
4. Economist Betsey Stevenson breaks down the gender gap in recent hiring reports
5. Economist Betsey Stevenson breaks down the gender gap in recent hiring reports
6. All's fair in love and 'War' — a well-cast, classy-trashy divorce drama
7. Just short of its 200th birthday, a landmark natural history museum shuts down
8. How the system failed us: Former foster youth tell their stories
9. The Supreme Court faces another term jam-packed with controversy
10. No one expected an American pope. Here's the inside story of how 'Bob' became Pope Leo

Kottke

1. Is American Culture Simply Bad Now? I’ve been hanging...
2. Back in 2005, a group of restorers established a hidden...
3. OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home. Small...
4. The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century
5. Don’t Cook That: a collection of real recipes that you...
6. So Many Amazing Control Rooms
7. The Bayeux Tapestry of Fascism. “What’s this middle bit?”...
8. “Influencers are the private equity of culture: draining...
9. Prince Was One of the First Players of The Oregon Trail
10. A “Kelvin wave” powered by El Niño will soon raise sea...

The Marginalian

1. Against Brute Force: D.H. Lawrence on the Superpower of Vulnerability
2. The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Live in Wonder
3. How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust
4. Ocean of Stars: A Painted Poem About How to Bear the Astonishment of Life
5. The Common Language of Science: Einstein’s Clarion Call to Divided Humanity in a Rare 1941 Recording
6. How to Say “YES” to Your Life
7. Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death
8. James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing
9. What Happens When We Die
10. David Bowie Answers the Famous Proust Questionnaire

Pitchfork

1. Fontaines D.C. Plot 2027 North American Tour
2. Watch Metallica Spawn a Monster for Their Sphere Residency Opener
3. 10 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Greg Freeman, Quavo, and More
4. Drake and Don Toliver’s “Choosin’ Texas” Remix Is Officially Here
5. Talking Heads Set Fear of Music Super Deluxe Edition
6. How to Live Stream Austin City Limits Festival 2026
7. Yung Miami Announces Debut Solo Album Watch Dis
8. Alexander Skarsgård Moves Like Jagger in New Rolling Stones Video
9. Lil Nas X Returns with New Song “World’s Greatest”
10. Carly Rae Jepsen to Tour Day and Night in 2027

Stereogum

1. Mike Patton Performs With Mariachi Gama 1000 For Mondo Cane’s Mexico Debut
2. Troye Sivan Joins Charli XCX To Perform Two Of His New Songs At ACL
3. Dave Grohl Joins AC/DC For “Highway To Hell” In New Jersey
4. Zach Bryan Wears “Free Palestine” Shirt At Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium
5. French Oi Crew Squelette Release Extremely Cool New EP Soir d’Orage
6. Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Linus Announce Jules de Corte Tribute Album, Share Three Songs
7. Shane Parish Surprise Releases New Album Dental Work To Pay For His Dental Work
8. Members Of Guerilla Toss, SML, & PC Worship Team Up As Silk Fence: Stream Their Self-Titled Debut
9. Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky – “Sky Burial” & “Drive It In”
10. The 5 Best Songs Of The Week

Longreads

1. Behind His Great Novels, an Unbearable Family Secret
2. What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
3. The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
4. The Work
5. Journalist Evan Gershkovich: My 491 Days as Putin’s Political Prisoner
6. I Lost Myself When I Lost Hong Kong
7. A Place Among the Fiddlers
8. Hockey Dads and Hockey Sons
9. A Record of Breath
10. The Babies Left Behind in America

ScienceDaily

1. This protective enzyme could help stop fatty liver disease from getting worse
2. ESA’s Juice just used Earth as a slingshot to Jupiter
3. Chang’e-6 lunar soil contains a surprising magnetic time capsule
4. Powerful simulations reveal how the first stars changed the universe
5. Leucine does more than build muscle. It powers up your cells
6. Your gut may be making a molecule that raises Alzheimer’s risk
7. Scientists just made a superconductor stronger using “empty space”
8. Vitamin C linked to fewer deaths in blood disorder trial
9. NASA’s Roman telescope just opened its planet-hunting eye
10. Nearly 6 in 10 people with high blood pressure don’t know they have it

Quanta

1. Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How To Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence
2. What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like?
3. Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings
4. Mathematicians Harness Randomness To Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture

NASA

1. APOD: 2026 October 3 – Selfie at Vera Rubin Ridge
2. NASA Astronaut Christina Koch to Join NFL Fans in Philadelphia
3. Heading Home: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Concludes Station Science Mission
4. NASA’s DAVINCI Probe Can Stand the Heat
5. La NASA abre solicitudes para próxima promoción de directores de vuelo
6. NASA Campaign Explores Clouds Spawned by Wildfires
7. NASA Model Wing Lights Up During First Pressure Sensitive Paint Tests
8. NASA Opens Applications for Next Class of Flight Directors
9. APOD: 2026 October 2 – The Complete Sharpless Catalog: 313 Nebulas
10. Rains Swamp the Gandak River

Nature

1. Can we have class outside? Seven tips to breeze through outdoor lectures
2. Prozac use for childhood depression skewed by single flawed medical trial
3. Von Neumann’s party
4. Location, location, location: how to edit genes only in the cells you want
5. ‘Learning about physics changed my life’: author Hernan Diaz on his new novel Ply
6. How to respond to hate speech without fuelling it further
7. Stunning fossil shows dinosaurs' distinctive path to flight
8. Can you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize?
9. Nature has rights — it is time the world recognized them
10. Can pancreatic cancer be stopped in its tracks? Radical tactic raises hopes

Dezeen

1. Luxury ocean liners inform New York's Kimpton Era hotel by INC
2. Studio Armitage creates Field Shelter for people tending allotments in Nara
3. Ten monumental brutalist buildings in Asia
4. This week we looked at the future of data-centre design
5. Shinsegae Group displays 336 Paul Cox artworks at Frieze Seoul 2026
6. Desai Chia shapes New York house to "cast shadows that mimic nature"
7. Rafael Prieto creates furniture from fragments of New York buildings
8. Nothing wants to revolutionise the takeaway paper cup
9. Broken-pitch roof tops wooden House in Yakami by Enter-Archi
10. Vollebak creates Rock Jacket from thousands of slate tiles

Design Milk

1. Suzie de Rohan Willner on Anni Albers, the Glass House, William Mitchell + More
2. Paola Lenti’s São Paulo Flagship Turns Architecture Into a Living Frame
3. A Williamsburg Duplex Draws From Brooklyn’s Industrial Past
4. Laila Gohar Turns Whisky Tasting Into a Visual Experience
5. 6 Design-Forward Essentials for the Minimalist Bedroom
6. Bitreel’s AI Knowledge Agents Are Reshaping the Design Process
7. A Warsaw Law Office Finds Common Ground Between Japan and New York
8. A Bahrain Bay Apartment Finds Its Rhythm in Art and Curves
9. The Dexter Hotel Makes a Case for Made-in-Michigan Design
10. Wangari Mathenge Reassembles Memory in ‘Re-membering’

BBC Sport

1. Humphries to face Price in World Grand Prix final
2. Whittaker survives late scare to hold on for points win
3. Wakefield beat Warrington to become champions for first time since 1968
4. 'An unbelievable story' - inside unfancied Wakefield's rapid ascent
5. Man Utd & Arsenal eye Croatia striker - Sunday's gossip
6. Robertson's Scotland career in numbers as he wins 100th cap
7. Ronaldo 'greatest symbol' of Portugal - Fernandes
8. England's Jordan in contention at Alfred Dunhill Links
9. Glasgow and Ulster play out thrilling draw in URC
10. Wu thrashes Trump to set up Yuan final in Shenzhen

ESPN

1. Fight results: Ben Whittaker outpoints Conor Wallace
2. Reno throws for 4 TDs, leads Yale to win after death of father
3. Smith to Heisman voters after record day: 'I'm the best player in the country'
4. Rasmussen silences Yankees with near no-hitter in Game 1 win
5. UFC 332: Live results, analysis for Natalia Silva vs. Wang Cong
6. USA's youth vs. Mexico's veterans: Who is better off for 2030 World Cup cycle?
7. Mike Tomlin shows off extensive 12-year build of Minecraft city
8. $50,000 tab? Inside Commanders owner Josh Harris' day with fans at London bar
9. Michigan, Underwood again underwhelm as Gophers hoist Little Brown Jug
10. White Sox shut down Guardians to win Game 1 of ALDS

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CNBC

1. Trump taps Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as AI czar: WSJ reports
2. Ukraine will hit Russian refineries in response to Moscow's 'new doctrine' of airstrikes, Zelenskyy says
3. How Nvidia, Micron and a surprising jobs report drove last week's stock action
4. U.S. to lend $4.2 billion to Vistra to boost nuclear power output, source says
5. Gen Alpha kids are earning money. Here's how parents can help them save and invest
6. Novig credits Sydney Sweeney-backed campaign for platform’s surge in growth
7. Goldman Sachs says buy these stocks now, ahead of their earnings
8. Lula or Bolsonaro: Wall Street braces for two wildly different results in Brazil election
9. High interest rates are foreclosing on the American home remodeling dream
10. Berkshire buys more Lennar shares, but pace of purchases slows

IGN

1. Everything We Saw at RuneFest 2026, Including RuneScape 4 and RuneScape Reignited
2. Fourth RuneScape MMO Built With Unreal Engine in the Works, Jagex Announces RuneScape Animation With MoistCr1TiKaL
3. Gears of War: E-Day Devs 'Proud to Be One of Xbox's Main Titles' Amid Newfound Focus on Exclusivity
4. The Best Deals Today: Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, Shuten Order, MLB The Show 26, and More
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Video Reveals Major Change That Could End Wallhacks for Good
6. 'I Did My Best' — Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Director Responds to Fans Asking for Full Disc Version
7. Love and Deepspace Devs Issue Warning to Players After Deadly Drink Recipes Go Viral
8. Former NFL Coach Mike Tomlin Is a Hardcore Minecraft Player, Reveals City He Took 12 Years to Build
9. Disney Says Conversations About Buying Epic Games Are Not Happening 'Right Now'
10. Vibe-Coded Mashup Mods Have Taken Over X This Week

Kotaku

1. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Gets Frustrated Losing At StarCraft And Decides To Cheat Instead
2. Troves Of Unseen Star Wars Material Emerge Online After Effects Wizard’s Garage Sale
3. Valorant Player Banned Due To Previous GPU Owner’s Cheating Ways
4. Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Director Says It Was ‘Absolutely Essential’ Not To Turn The Remake Into ‘My Own Personal Fan Project’
5. Behold The Best New Witcher 3 Remastered Mod
6. RTX 5090 Buyer Asked To Sign A Resale Loyalty Pledge: ‘NO EXPORT – NO EXCEPTIONS’
7. Activision And Bethesda Crackdown On GenAI MW2 And Fallout Projects
8. Game Pass Is About To Lose Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 And Some Other Incredible Games
9. 5 Big Things That Just Changed In The World Of Warcraft: Forever Beta
10. GTA 6 Had A Really Busy Week

PC Gamer

1. One of the most popular Total War: Warhammer 3 mods was 'deliberately corrupted' by its creator to sabotage AI-made copies
2. Crimson Desert DLC delayed by 2 weeks, please join me in wishing the devs a fond 'take your time, please drink some water'
3. Valorant player claims to have inherited hardware ban through secondhand CPU, Riot anticheat boss disputes parts of story
4. RuneScape 4 announced at RuneFest, full MMO sequel started as expansion to survival game Dragonwilds
5. The Witcher 3's remaster just brought it to a new all-time concurrent player count peak
6. Forget what PC Gamer said: The Witcher 3 will always be my 2015 GOTY
7. Deadlock is the king of MOBA character designs, and it's all thanks to Valve's embrace of New Yorkyness
8. 11 underappreciated games you should buy in the Steam Autumn Sale, according to some of our biggest genre sickos
9. Has your life ever been changed by someone you met in an MMO?
10. Fallen London is where the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Dishonored and Stellaris come to let their hair down

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Rock Paper Shotgun

1. The Other One: Jordan Magnuson's Game Poem jam is a fascinating collection of chimeras
2. What are we all playing this weekend?
3. Desktop and handheld prices going out of control means PC bargain hunts lead to my old enemy: gaming laptops
4. "Support modders, not AI": Total War: Warhammer 3 mod "deliberately corrupted" by its own creator in protest of AI-infused unauthorised reuploads
5. RAM shortages are only getting worse and will last until at least 2028, Micron boss declares from atop a mountain of money
6. AI-generated Fallout: New York browser game full of utterly cursed faces slapped with Bethesda cease and desist, its slop prompter claims
7. PUBG extraction shooter Black Budget canned less than a year from reveal, after Krafton decide it won't "deliver an experience players could enjoy over the long term"
8. If game developers steal one thing from No Law, I hope it's the open-world game's ridiculously detailed and realistic corner shops
9. Reigns and Card Shark developers Nerial are closing down, laying staff off while the founders go "back to our roots"
10. RetroSpace offers a huge sci-fi playground for inquisitive space janitors, but I'm not that System Shocked by the tools at your disposal

Eurogamer

1. Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director says he "did his best" to fight for a full disc release
2. Sony in talks to land Battlefield movie from Christopher McQuarrie and Michael B. Jordan
3. Capcom plans to evolve RE Engine into an "AI-generation game engine"
4. Metro Redux's Next-Gen Update arrives this month as franchise passes 50 million sales
5. Memory shortages set to persist into 2028, warns Micron CEO
6. "We felt that fans were getting a bit desensitised to the violence" Gears of War: E-Day devs made a "big investment" in gore, and weirdly, it works
7. What we've been playing - "That's one of gaming's great cities, that is"
8. GTA 6's 18+ age rating reveals Lucia and Jason can partake in drug use "directly from their inventory" and "at any time"
9. "This is your Dreamcast moment": Former PlayStation boss thinks Xbox needs to "pick a lane" with exclusive games to fix itself
10. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 boss hopes GTA 6 pushes game prices up because it's "long overdue and also necessary for this business to survive"