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Archives for October 2026

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Volodymyr Zelenskiy confirms Starshield and Starlink are back to normal.

The Ukrainian president posted on X that the services have been “restored to the speeds we had before the restrictions.” Reuters reports that the defense ministry said the connection remained stable at over 400 kph, crucial for countering Russian drones.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Sen. Marsha Blackburn isn’t happy about Meta’s revised business terms, either.

Blackburn (R-TN) said the updated terms “indicate Meta is attempting to exploit American creators and businesses by granting itself sweeping authority to scrape content from any website associated with Facebook ​and Instagram business accounts,” according to Reuters.

Following publisher pushback, Meta delayed the enforcement of these new policies until November 20th.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Texas becomes the latest state to sue OpenAI.

Similar to the lawsuits filed by Arizona, West Virginia, Iowa, and several others, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accuses OpenAI of misleading users about the safety of ChatGPT, allegedly exposing children and other users to a “litany of harms” that’s “driven by the company’s insatiable quest to win the AI arms race and amass
large fortunes.”

Elon Musk’s dangerous grip on outer space

As SpaceX throttles Ukraine’s Starshield, experts warn that Elon Musk’s de facto monopoly over launch and satellite tech poses a major threat to global security.

Georgina Torbet
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Proton is hosting a map of more than 300,000 Flock cams.

The map comes from security researcher Joshua Michael, who is facing a trademark complaint from Flock after he published an interactive map of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) using information from a data leak. Proton is now hosting the map, but notes that it’s a snapshot from December 2025, so “devices installed or removed since then won’t be reflected.”

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Shein reportedly agreed to pay $100 million to settle an FTC investigation.

According to Reuters’ sources, the FTC was investigating Shein over “delivery delays and other customer complaints,” adding that the settlement would be “equivalent to 44% of Shein’s second-quarter profit.” The European Union also opened an investigation into Shein earlier this year over concerns about “addictive design” features and illegal product listings.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Greece is banning kids from using social media.

The ban comes into force on January 1st, 2027, and applies to any child under the age of 15. Greece is the latest country to consider or pass such legislation, following Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, France, the UK, and more. Similar efforts are also being made in some US states, including Florida.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Oura is suing Ultrahuman all over again.

Its previous patent dispute saw Ultrahuman blocked from the US market for almost a year. Now Oura alleges the Ultrahuman Ring Pro violates another two of its patents, including one only issued to Oura this week, and wants it taken off sale. For now at least, that hasn’t happened yet.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Intel just got a temporary waiver from the foreign robot ban.

And no, you haven’t forgotten about a line of Intel-made Roombas. It requested permission to make hardware changes to the “Automatic Guided Vehicles” it’s used in semiconductor facilities for two decades. It says replacing the machines could take years, and there are no domestic alternatives. The FCC agreed, giving it permission to update its bots for the next year.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
President Trump reportedly called Elon to lift Ukraine Starlink restrictions.

Trump asked Musk on Wednesday to fully roll back the interruptions that neither has publicly taken responsibility for, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Today, the WSJ says the system is working “more normally” after the call, citing US and Ukrainian officials.

Republican politicians have embraced anti-Indian racism — and it’s costing them votes

Some Indian American conservatives say bigotry against their community has driven them away from the party they once supported.

Gaby Del Valle
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
MSI just got a router ban waiver — but not a blanket one.

As PCMag notes, Taiwan’s MSI has gotten conditional approval to bring two specific routers into the United States, pending certification: the Radix GRBE94 and GRBE34, which’ll likely have friendlier names when they go on sale. Netgear and Asus inexplicably got blanket approvals for all new routers earlier this year, while TP-Link is fighting for its Wi-Fi 8 ones.