Israel compromising Hezbollah pagers shows the West should take hardware security more seriously, especially as most electronics manufacturing shifted to Asia (Chris Miller/Financial Times)

Chris Miller / Financial Times:
Israel compromising Hezbollah pagers shows the West should take hardware security more seriously, especially as most electronics manufacturing shifted to Asia  —  Unreliable suppliers can modify devices, yet companies devote few resources to verifying the origin of components

Dublin-based Appeals Centre, backed by Meta's Oversight Board, launches to moderate disputes between EU users and Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube under the DSA (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)

Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters:
Dublin-based Appeals Centre, backed by Meta's Oversight Board, launches to moderate disputes between EU users and Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube under the DSA  —  Social media users in the European Union will be able to make complaints against Facebook, ByteDance's TikTok and Alphabet's …

SportQuake: crypto companies have spent a record of almost £130M on Premier League sponsorship deals for the 2024/25 season, buoyed by tighter gambling rules (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
SportQuake: crypto companies have spent a record of almost £130M on Premier League sponsorship deals for the 2024/25 season, buoyed by tighter gambling rules  —  English football club deals with crypto firms are at a record high. … The flood of crypto money into English football is continuing …

A look at the fall of Byju's, India's most valuable startup in 2022 with an estimated $22B valuation, as it faces insolvency and lawsuits in India and the US (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
A look at the fall of Byju's, India's most valuable startup in 2022 with an estimated $22B valuation, as it faces insolvency and lawsuits in India and the US  —  Edtech company's legal battles from Delaware to Bengaluru have exposed corporate governance issues

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are increasingly eyeing nuclear reactors, which provide steady "baseload" power, as their carbon emissions climb due to AI tools (Justine Calma/The Verge)

Justine Calma / The Verge:
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are increasingly eyeing nuclear reactors, which provide steady “baseload” power, as their carbon emissions climb due to AI tools  —  Major tech firms, in search of carbon pollution-free electricity for data centers, are helping to revive nuclear energy in the US.

Sources: Apple plans to launch iOS 18.1 and Apple Intelligence on Oct. 28 and announce new Macs and an iPad mini in late Oct., with shipments starting on Nov. 1 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to launch iOS 18.1 and Apple Intelligence on Oct. 28 and announce new Macs and an iPad mini in late Oct., with shipments starting on Nov. 1  —  Apple is inching away from its annual product upgrade cycle, a move that could lead to more frequent releases and fewer jarring delays.