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Video from a doggy Halloween event in Ashburn, Loudoun County, home to more than 200 data centers that officials expect to bring in over $1.3 billion in 2027, about 40% of the local budget.

Merritt's 23-second clip shows a long line of Cybercabs and Model Y Robotaxis heading back to base. He says Tesla is nearing 1,000 robotaxis registered in Texas.

An Apple news channel says buyers are posting cracks in the identical spot of the foldable's main display, leaving a vertical line across the screen. The cause is unclear; Apple Stores can swap affected units on the spot.

In a clip shared by Futurism, Elon Musk says Neuralink's Blindsight will write directly to the visual cortex. The post stresses these are predictions, not demonstrated results; the device holds an FDA Breakthrough designation, not approval.

Futurism shared a clip of a badminton-playing robot built in China that tracks the shuttlecock and returns shots. The post names no lab or maker.

The robot plants hands, knees and feet on tiny rungs and predicts each landing about 1.5 seconds ahead from its own sensors instead of replaying a recording. Ladder runs still use a safety line.

Unreal Engine's account shares a one-minute clip from last week's deep dive with Epic experts on next-gen engine systems that run on mobile, and points to the replay for anyone who missed it.

DJI's official clip shows the Neo 2 taking off from a hand, a palm-takeoff setup the company pairs with Apple Watch control. Footage credit goes to user sembler8.

NVIDIA Robotics posted a 39-second clip of its helpful robots and sleepy ducks from GTC Berlin, where Jensen Huang brought four tiny Microduck robots on stage.

Google's video shows its Gemini 4 Argon model, working in the Antigravity coding tool, building real-time 3D fur that runs in a web browser: a WebGL2 engine with GPU hair shaders, procedural characters and animation, plus an automatic lighter fallback mode.

According to The Hacker News, a Chinese-speaking group handed much of a hacking campaign to autonomous AI agents, hitting more than 1,200 websites with some breaches confirmed. AI control panels left open online exposed the operation, along with hundreds of leaked secrets.

The Hacker News says the Qilin and INC ransomware groups keep breaking into company networks through CVE-2026-0257, a Palo Alto Networks flaw that already has a fix, and use it to get around MFA on VPN logins. In one intrusion they went on to VMware ESXi hosts and stole domain credentials.

A short NVIDIA video recaps stops in four European cities, pitching Europe as a builder of the next wave of AI, and says CEO Jensen Huang takes the stage at GTC Berlin on Wednesday.

The Hacker News reports that private keys for eight intermediate certificate authorities run by eMudhra were compromised. Chrome and Firefox distrusted the affected certificates within hours, and Go, NSS and other projects have shipped patches.