FedEx Bets $300 Million on an Electric-Truck Startup’s Single Model
FedEx has spent years buying electric delivery vehicles one pilot order at a time. On Sept. 30 it committed to a single supplier in a single stroke: 2,000 medium-duty electric…
Pentagon Personnel Agency Says a File-Sharing Flaw Exposed Troop Data for Months
The letter arrived without a number. It told recipients that “a small number of unauthorized users” had reached a file-sharing system run by the Defense Manpower Data Center, the Pentagon’s…
Pentagon Hands Its Look at Future War to Three Outsiders
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood before officers and enlisted troops at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30 and said the department that runs the largest military on earth cannot…
Reddit Kills RSS and Its Public API to Shut Out AI Scrapers
Reddit handed its moderators and developers a timetable this week that reads like a farewell to the open web. RSS support ends on November 13. The public API closes in…
More Than 44,000 Britons Formally Object to Palantir’s NHS Data Platform
More than 44,000 people have filed legal objections asking NHS England to stop Palantir from sharing, storing or using their health records. It is one of the largest single waves…
A Nightly Maintenance Task Cut Microsoft’s Cloud Off at the Gates
Microsoft’s engineers knew something was wrong within minutes. At 20:30 UTC on Sept. 30, customers across the company’s Azure cloud began reporting that ExpressRoute gateways, the private connections linking corporate…
Samsung Defers Its Most Expensive Machines to 2030
Samsung Electronics bought two of the most advanced chipmaking tools ever built, then decided to let them wait. ChangMin Park, a senior technology executive at the Korean company, told engineers…
Micron’s Record Quarter Gives Way to a Spending Warning
Micron Technology delivered its sixth consecutive record quarter after the market closed on September 30, and its shares fell anyway. The chip maker cleared every target it had set for…
Intel’s Nova Lake Chips Clear USB4 and PCIe 5.0 Certification
Intel’s next generation of processors, code-named Nova Lake, has passed compliance and interoperability testing for two standards that desktop and laptop buyers will notice, according to certification records that hardware…
IBM’s Quantum Processor Finishes a Sampling Task in 19 Seconds
A commercially available quantum processor has completed a computation that its collaborators estimate would take a classical supercomputer about 110 years. IBM’s Nighthawk r2 processor generated one million samples of…
