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F5 stock suffers worst day in more than a decade as AI spending shakes investors

F5 shares fell about 20% Wednesday after the company forecast slower revenue growth and lower margins for fiscal 2027, despite beating Wall Street's estimates for its fiscal fourth quarter. F5 also plans to double its team of specialist AI…

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PicoBrew’s patents are back on the market, six years after the Seattle homebrew startup’s collapse

Hilco Global is marketing 17 patents and applications from the defunct Seattle homebrew startup on behalf of Pico Craft Group, which bought the assets in 2024.

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Former T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert exits board of directors, wraps up his run at the wireless giant

Mike Sievert is leaving T-Mobile’s board and vice chair role on Nov. 1, a year after stepping down as CEO. The company says the advisory role was always intended to last a year, wrapping up his time at the wireless giant he joined in 2012.

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The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker

Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs have continued into 2026. See the latest companies to cut roles.

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Blue Origin leases former Bartell Drugs warehouse south of Seattle for new manufacturing site

The Jeff Bezos-founded space company’s Des Moines, Wash., facility could employ hundreds, joining Shield AI, which plans 4,000 regional jobs, in the small city’s growing aerospace scene.

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Amazon earnings preview: AWS is booked up, and Wall Street wants to know what comes next

Amazon reports third-quarter earnings Thursday with more demand for its AWS cloud services than it can supply, after CEO Andy Jassy said capacity is booked for this year and most of next. Analysts expect revenue of about $202 billion, up…

SpaceNews

Flexell Space and Satoro Agree to Collaborate on In-Orbit Demonstration of Next-Generation Space Solar Cells

– Two demonstration missions planned aboard SpaceX Falcon 9, one each in 2027 and 2028 – Satoro to provide “Satellite-as-a-service” solution; Flexell Space to supply solar cells and test modules

IEEE Spectrum

How Beta Technologies Is Clearing the Runway for Electric Flight

In the cockpit of Beta Technologies’ Alia CX300, pilot Chris Caputo steers onto Runway 33 at Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport in Vermont. Cleared for takeoff, he releases the brakes and nudges the throttle forward. At the…

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Exclusive: Numeracle Raises $28M To Keep Legitimate Business Calls From Spam Label

Numeracle, a McLean, Virginia-based company that verifies businesses and links their identities to the phone numbers they use to contact customers, has raised $28 million from Edison Partners to help businesses whose calls are incorrectly…

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The Invisible Graph: How Companies Grow Revenue And Still Lose Value

Revenue growth does not guarantee a larger exit, as declining valuation multiples can outweigh operating gains and reduce enterprise value. Guest author Itay Sagie suggests that founders and boards should track valuation alongside…

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From Monk To Startups: One Founder’s Unusual Path To Building Government Software

After living as a monk while managing Graves’ disease, a former Facebook engineer left Big Tech to pursue meaningful work, eventually founding government software startup FSH Technologies which aims to improve processes such as school food…

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A new pal for Pluto? Rubin Observatory finds its first dwarf planet candidate

2026 ED138 joins a tribe of potential dwarf planets on the edge of our solar system — and Rubin's astronomers are likely to find more during 10-year sky survey.

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Etzioni on AI: Is Anthropic worth $2 trillion? Do the napkin math with this handy calculator

Anthropic filed to go public Monday, with its bankers reportedly valuing the company at $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion. Oren Etzioni’s interactive calculator estimates what Anthropic is worth from three inputs: its revenue in 2028, its…

SpaceNews

Ukrainian startup, GomSpace test satellite for future communications network

The companies said the experimental spacecraft, launched Oct. 1, could lead to a Ukrainian-controlled satellite network

IEEE Spectrum

Your Robot’s Safety Functions Already Work. What If the Input Lies?

This article is brought to you by VicOne. A mobile robot slows for someone in a hallway. A collaborative arm eases its movement as a worker approaches. A humanoid pauses to let a person pass. Each response depends on information about the…

IEEE Spectrum

I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here’s What Happened

Science has a spam problem. And the spam filter is getting clogged up. According to all reports, academic publishing is drowning in what has come to be called AI slop: low-quality, mass-produced content generated with AI. By 2025, an…

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Craft Prospect kicks off PERSEUS project to advance optical communications for space

Craft Prospect is working with Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics (Fraunhofer CAP) and Vector Photonics on a new project exploring the potential of next-generation laser technology for high-performance optical communications

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Flexell Space Establishes French Subsidiary to Strengthen European Presence

– Paris-based FLEXELL SPACE FRANCE SAS creates a local business hub in Europe– New entity to support ongoing contract and volume-production discussions with European customers, from technical reviews to supply

IEEE Spectrum

IEEE Xplore Digital Library Adds AI Assistant

IEEE recently released the IEEE Xplore AI Research Suite, built on the full text of millions of peer-reviewed publications in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The library offers full-text access to IEEE standards, journals, magazines…

IEEE Spectrum

Build a Hidden Lock With a Magnetic Imager

Like many a nerd, I have a certain fascination with locks. This originates in reading the memoir Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman as a teenager, in which Richard Feynman recounts picking locks and cracking combinations while at his day…

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Astranis Upgrades Falcon 9 Launch Contract to Dedicated Mission for Entire Block 4 Production Run of Satellites

SAN FRANCISCO —October 26, 2026—Today, Astranis announced it has upgraded its 4th launch to a dedicated mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set to launch in 2028, allowing it

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AI models cost more when you don’t use English

Some languages require far more tokens for AI models to process, raising costs and reducing context for the people who use them.

IEEE Spectrum

Poetry for Engineers: Of Code and Shortleaf Pine

I step into the warm moist air among the columns of the pines, their net of twigs and roots complex as any lines of code. The trees purify and anchor. Their branches balance my restlessness. Their calling is to be present, mine to develop…

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Nov. 5: Satellite Mission Management at the Edge

Join us to explore how emerging technologies and commercial capabilities are transforming satellite operations

IEEE Spectrum

From Chip Lab to Center Stage

Many engineers are more comfortable working behind the scenes developing technology than speaking to consumers about products. But Preethi Ashwath has learned to take center stage, talking about the “hearable” and wearable devices she has…

SpaceNews

Rethinking networks in space with Aalyria’s Brian Barritt

In this episode, SpaceNews’ Mike Gruss talks with the CEO of Aalyria Brian Barritt about how networks are evolving, what scaling the company means and the role of software interoperability

IEEE Spectrum

Why AI Can’t Replace Engineering Teams

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox…

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Why Engineers Should Brave Capitol Hill

When San Antonio–based software engineer Nikhil Jathar first went to Washington, D.C., to advocate for federal support for technology education and research funding, he was in awe of the opportunity. It was spring of 2025, not long after…

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Big Tech’s thirst for water is sparking a global resistance

In his new book “Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires,” writer Paris Marx examines how local communities are resisting the growing demand for water to cool data centers.

IEEE Spectrum

Manfred “Fred” J. Schindler Is 2027 IEEE President-Elect

IEEE Life Fellow Manfred “Fred” J. Schindler has been elected as the 2027 IEEE president-elect. He will begin serving as president on 1 January 2028. Schindler, who was nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors, received 16,421 votes in the…

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