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1. ICE wants to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team

   ICE plans to hire contractors to scan platforms to target people for deportation.

2. Ars Live: Is the AI bubble about to pop? A live chat with Ed Zitron.

   Join a live discussion on October 7 about the AI gold rush.

3. Why iRobot’s founder won’t go within 10 feet of today’s walking robots

   Rodney Brooks says humanoid robots pose hidden safety challenges and won't learn dexterity from video alone.

4. That annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this

   Smishers looking for new infrastructure are getting creative.

5. OpenAI’s Sora 2 lets users insert themselves into AI videos with sound

   Sora social app launches with deepfake-style "cameos" and feed controls.

6. Intel and AMD trusted enclaves, a foundation for network security, fall to physical attacks

   The chipmakers say physical attacks aren't in the threat model. Many users didn't get the memo.

7. DeepSeek tests “sparse attention” to slash AI processing costs

   Chinese lab's v3.2 release explores a technique that could make running AI far less costly.

8. California’s newly signed AI law just gave Big Tech exactly what it wanted

   After the failure of S.B. 1047, new AI disclosure law drops kill switch for disclosure mandate.

9. Anthropic says its new AI model “maintained focus” for 30 hours on multistep tasks

   New Claude Sonnet 4.5 beats OpenAI and Google on coding tests.

10. Can AI detect hedgehogs from space? Maybe if you find brambles first.

    Cambridge researchers use satellite-based bramble detection as a proxy for mapping hedgehog habitats.