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Front Page Archive October 2026
EV1,480 words7 min read
Europe's Truck Lobby Wants the Rules Frozen. Its Biggest Customers Want the Opposite.
On the same morning, two groups of European companies sent letters to the president of the European Commission, and they asked for opposite things. One group was a coalition of the continent's largest truck and bus manufacturers…
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EV
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IoT
October 2026
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AI
AI1,745 words8 min read
Washington Renames AI as 'Super Intelligence' and Signs a Voluntary Safety Accord With Six Tech Giants
On September 29, 2026, the US government took two steps on artificial intelligence that, taken together, amount to the most consequential federal AI policy action of the year — and one that…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
Cloud & Edge Computing1,299 words6 min read
Samsung Puts $1 Billion Into Helix to Chase the AI Data Center Bottleneck Nobody Else Owns
For most of the past decade, the story about cloud infrastructure investment was a story about land, buildings and servers. Money flowed into the same three layers in roughly the same…
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Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity1,768 words9 min read
Pentagon Personnel Breach Exposes 3 Million Records, and the Data Was Unencrypted
For roughly nine months, a small number of unauthorized users had access to an unencrypted file-sharing system operated by the Defense Manpower Data Center, the Pentagon's records-keeping…
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Robotics & Drones
Robotics & Drones1,489 words7 min read
Singapore Opens S$100M Humanoid Robotics Centre to Put Embodied AI on Public Safety Duty by 2028
On 30 September 2026, Singapore's Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) opened the Home Team Humanoid Robotics Centre (H2RC) in one-north, a 29,000 square foot facility whose entire…
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Semiconductors
Semiconductors1,225 words6 min read
TSMC Weighs a Second US Fab Cluster in Texas as Arizona's $265 Billion Commitment Forces a Redraw of American Chipmaking
The world's largest contract chipmaker is looking past Arizona. TSMC is evaluating a potential investment in Texas that would establish a second American manufacturing hub, according to two…
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Battery Tech
Battery Tech1,440 words7 min read
China's Megawatt Charging Race Heats Up: Geely's 2,250 kW Station Takes On BYD's Flash Charging
For most of the EV era, the argument about charging has been a fight over range. Now it is a fight over minutes. Chinese automakers have spent the past month pushing peak charging power…
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EV
EV1,786 words9 min read
The EV Transition Now Runs on Three Different Tracks
On the same week in late September 2026, three of the world's largest vehicle markets told three completely different stories about electrification. In the United States, the first…
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IoT
IoT2,071 words10 min read
Galaxy SmartTag3 Breaks the Galaxy Lock: Bluetooth 6.0, iOS Sharing, and a 60-Meter Compass
For most of its life, Samsung's item tracker has been the one consumer gadget in the SmartThings lineup that made an obvious, uncomfortable demand on buyers: buy a Galaxy phone. The Galaxy…
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AI
AI1,572 words8 min read
Google Built Gemini 4 Argon, Then Decided the Public Could Not Have It Yet
On the afternoon of Wednesday, September 30, Alphabet's Google announced a new flagship artificial intelligence model, Gemini 4 Argon, and in the same breath told almost nobody they could…