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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-10-12.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ • Apple's upcoming "HomeView" smart hub leaks with an A18 chip and a mid-November launch.
▸ • Silicon Valley billionaires are falling in line with Trump's bizarre push to rebrand AI as "Super Intelligence."
▸ • NASA drops an 800GB treasure trove of Artemis II lunar data, including footage of a 54-minute solar eclipse.
Apple is gearing up to launch "HomeView," a new smart home command center powered by the A18 chip. It comes in countertop and wall-mounted flavors, relies heavily on Siri AI, and notably lacks a dedicated App Store. Because why let third-party devs ruin a perfectly walled garden?
In a bizarre twist of tech sycophancy, Silicon Valley elites are capitulating to Donald Trump's demand to rename Artificial Intelligence to "Super Intelligence." Elon Musk is already rebranding SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, and Marc Benioff is pushing "SIForce." We're just calling it silly.
NASA just open-sourced 800GB of data from the Artemis II mission. The massive drop includes 11,000 photos, 8.5 hours of crew audio, and unprecedented footage of a 54-minute total solar eclipse viewed from beyond the Moon. Space is cool, folks.
Tucked away in Warren, Michigan, GM is running a massive half-million square foot "mini factory" dedicated to building its EV battery future. It's their best bet at catching up in the electric race without relying entirely on overseas supply chains.
A deep dive into 30 days of GitHub trending data reveals that AI agents are no longer just experimental toys—they're building their own infrastructure layer. The new stack includes persistent memory systems, production-grade skills frameworks, and multi-agent orchestration. The "AI experiment phase" is officially over.
The open-source MCP server "REA" just exploded to 115K GitHub stars in a single week. It allows coding agents like Claude and Cursor to analyze native binaries, Electron apps, and APKs without source code, returning pseudocode and module graphs. Software reconstruction is getting terrifyingly easy.
A new open-source TypeScript framework that natively syncs LLM agent tool calls directly to dynamic, interactive web UI components. It cuts down the boilerplate for building copilot experiences and supports React 18+.
A new paper introduces REDaCT, an inference-time unlearning framework for Large Reasoning Models. It successfully removes "forget-set" information from reasoning traces without causing the model's chain-of-thought to collapse into a puddle of digital confusion.
An Illinois community college tried to cancel its contract with license plate reading camera company Flock Safety, and the company simply refused to let them go. Ah, the Hotel California model of SaaS.
Prime Video unveiled the full trailer for Blade Runner 2099 at New York Comic Con, because we haven't quite squeezed every drop of dystopian dread out of this franchise yet.