T-Mobile's Starlink-powered satellite service T-Satellite is now generally available as a standalone subscription for US users, not just T-Mobile customers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/712546/starlink-powered-t-sate…
Gamma Data: China's female-oriented gaming market surged 124% YoY to $1B in 2024, driven by mobile game Love and Deepspace, which earned $400M, per Sensor Tower (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Media-Entertain…
Telemundo Studios plans a short-form vertical drama slate featuring adaptations of existing Telemundo content and original productions developed for the format (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/telemundo-studios-launches-vertical-shorts-conte…
I've been doing some ridiculously neat reverse engineering recently.
Check this out: https://github.com/httptoolkit/frida-interception-and-unpinning/blob/main/android/android-disable-flutter-certificate-pinn…
Appfigures: dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have yet to gain traction, with Instance: AI App Builder, the largest such app, seeing just 16,000 downloads (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/dedicated-mob…
Development of a Mobile Application for at-Home Analysis of Retinal Fundus Images
Mattea Reid, Zuhairah Zainal, Khaing Zin Than, Danielle Chan, Jonathan Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16814
The UK CMA proposes giving Apple and Google "strategic market status" in mobile platforms after an investigation and finds "opportunities for more innovation" (Muvija M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/a
Armada, whose mobile AI data centers for use in remote environments have been used by the US Navy, raised $131M, bringing its total funding to $200M (Cal Biesecker/Defense Daily)
https://www.defensedaily.com/armada-announ
A look at the invite-only iOS and Android apps for Digg, which now operates similarly to Reddit, with links with a lot of "diggs" moving up the feed (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/apps/763689/digg-mobile-ios-android-app-relaunch…
T-Mobile plans to expand support for the L4S network standard in the coming weeks, helping high-priority internet packets move fast, a first for a US network (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/710312/t-mobile-low-latency-l4s-5g