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"Avatar 3": Exklusiver Filmausschnitt für Meta Quest macht Lust auf VR-Kino
In zwei Wochen startet "Avatar: Fire and Ash" in deutschen Kinos. Auf Meta Quest gibt es vorab eine Filmszene mit tollem 3D-Effekt zu sehen.

Chipmaker Cerebras withdraws its IPO, a little over a year after filing its IPO prospectus; it announced a $1.1B raise at a $8.1B valuation on September 30 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/cerebras-withdraws-ipo-ai.html

AI chipmaker Cerebras withdraws IPO
Days after announcing that it raised $1.1 billion in a financing round, Cerebras said it's pulling its IPO plans.

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Mailchimp's Mandrill outage due to PostgreSQL XID wraparound.
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Thousands–Including Many Visitors–Volunteer in Taiwan to Help Flood Victims Following Typhoon https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/thousands-including-visitors-volunteer-in-taiwan-to-help-flood-victims-following-typhoon…

Thousands Including Visitors Volunteer in Taiwan to Help Flood Victims Following Typhoon and Flood
Heading southward in extra trains, the volunteers included two Ukrainian women who had lived in Taiwan for 9 years.

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people. https://www.theverge.com/news/791533/google-a…

Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple’s ICEBlock crackdown
Google has removed Red Dot, an app people could use to report ICE sightings from Google Play, one day after Apple removed similar apps, including Red Dot and ICEBlock.

📽️ ‘We can have abundant rivers and wildlife’: Director of ‘The American Southwest’ on new film
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/we-can-have-abundant-rivers-and-wildlife-director-of-the-american-southwest-on-new-film…

‘We can have abundant rivers and wildlife’: Director of ‘The American Southwest’ on new film
At its roots, The American Southwest, from Fin and Fur Films, is a natural history documentary. “I’m a wildlife guy,” says director Ben Masters, who founded Fin and Fur in 2012. His infatuation with nature comes through in the film’s exploration of the southwestern United States, traced along the path of the Colorado River from […]

Bengals HC Zac Taylor unhappy with how RB Chase Brown handled loss: 'That's not how we want to react' https://www.nfl.com/news/bengals-hc-zac-taylor-unhappy-with-how-rb-chase-brown-handled-loss-that-s-not-how-w…

London is establishing itself as a center for quantitative finance; filings show trading firms XTX, Qube, and Quadrature each made £1B revenue in the past year (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8a6502c3-f244-4b61-880b-b20cf03299cc

Jensen Huang says "we don't know" if China would accept Nvidia's H200 AI chips even if the US relaxed export controls, following a meeting with President Trump (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Moonlake AI, which creates tools to "vibe code virtual worlds", including for gaming, animation, and filmmaking, comes out of stealth with a $28M seed (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

Gaming Worlds Could Be The Answer To AI’s Data Problem
Stanford PhDs Fan-Yun Sun and Sharon Lee cofounded AI research company Moonlake AI to help people "vibe code virtual worlds."