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Tesla’s reservation agreement for its next-generation Roadster says the company cannot guarantee when the car will be delivered, or whether it will be delivered at all. The language appears in the terms customers see when placing a reservation on Tesla’s website, which the automaker opened up after re-revealing the Roadster on Thursday night, Oct. 15.

Terence Tao’s blog on Sunday, Oct. 18, carried a guest essay asking a blunt question: “Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?” The author is Francesco Maggi, a mathematician at the University of Texas at Austin, and his answer is that the outcome hasn’t been decided. “Reality will

Java sealed classes, introduced in Java 17, let developers list exactly which subtypes may implement or extend a type. Paired with pattern matching for switch, they let the compiler check that a switch covers every permitted subtype, which removes the need for a default clause in many cases. Neil Madden walked through the feature in

Samsung, Google and Apple all process and store the face data used to unlock their phones on the device itself. None of the three uploads it to company servers or shares it with other services, according to the companies’ published documentation as reviewed by MakeUseOf. Samsung’s setup is the least uniform, because its phones don’t

Anthropic researchers used Claude to generate quantum circuit designs for eight computational primitives. In seven cases the AI found versions that needed fewer Toffoli gates and fewer qubits than the best previously published algorithms, according to a research post published Thursday, Oct. 16, 2026. A companion paper, “Discovering state-of-the-art quantum circuits with large language models,”

AI data centers are consuming far more electricity than earlier facilities, and startup Firma Power wants to supply them with bundled clean power instead of waiting years for gas plants. Digital Trends covered the company on Oct. 16, 2026; details below also draw on a Business Bearings summary of that reporting. A “large” data center

Clicks Technology has released its Power Keyboard accessory and plans to ship the Clicks Communicator smartphone in December. The U.K.-based company, whose team includes former BlackBerry employees, wants to restore tactile typing that many users say disappeared with all-touchscreen phones. “Something was thrown out with the bathwater when we moved to modern smartphones,” Jeff Gadway,

Security researchers have published a working local privilege-escalation exploit that gains root on OpenBSD 7.9. The chain combines a 37-year-old integer overflow in shared-memory handling with a kernel use-after-free and bypasses KARL kernel-address randomization as well as SMAP and SMEP hardware protections. Security firm Calif found and reported the issues. The company released its detailed

Google’s Pause Point Digital Wellbeing tool, which interrupts autopilot use of apps a user marks as distracting, is spreading beyond the Pixel 11. Android Authority reported Friday, Oct. 16, that the feature—announced in May 2026 ahead of I/O and long treated as a Pixel 11 exclusive—reached additional Pixel phones with Android 17 QPR1 and has

Samsung Electronics has reported overheating in testing of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 for the Galaxy S27 Ultra and asked Qualcomm to address thermal problems by mid-October before finalizing the processor choice, Seoul Economic Daily reported Oct. 16. Internal tests found the chip repeatedly exceeded temperature thresholds under sustained heavy workloads, with processing