Anthropic has raised eyebrows by announcing it will ban users from “sustained and needless” abusive behaviour towards its AI. The Claude-maker said on Thursday it was updating its usage policy to let its tools end interactions where people are “cruel” – something it said it had done in “rare” cases prior. It will now be included on a list of forbidden conduct which also contains bullying others, promoting self-harm and creating non-consensual intimate imagery. While Anthropic said the policy would only apply in “extreme cases” of repeated abuse, it has reignited debate over how we should communicate with AI tools. BBC 

unveiled its lightest VR device yet at its Connect event on Sept. 23. The $1,299.99 Meta VR Glasses weigh about 100 grams because the processor, battery, and storage sit in a separate 300-gram puck. They’re due in spring 2027. On the Oct. 8 episode of Bloomberg’s Power On podcast, Vlad Savov said the launch would settle an old question: “Was it the hardware that was holding it back, or was it the content?” Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, best known for breaking Apple news, put it more bluntly: “This is VR’s last stand. If this device at this weight and price point and functionality is not what makes VR successful, nothing will.” Yahoo!

For the last 15 years, you’ve been able to buy a Fire tablet from Amazon. The company’s new tablet lineup is a big change, though. Amazon has dropped the Fire branding in favor of Alexa, and the new Alexa Tablets are now Google-certified Android devices. Throughout the history of Fire Tablets, Amazon downplayed its use of Android. They ran Android apps from the company’s Appstore platform, but there was no Google integration with “Fire OS.” However, Amazon shut down its app store last year. The new Alexa Tablets run full-fledged Google-y versions of Android with the Play Store and all the apps you’d expect. Ars Technica 

The data firm mentioned in the ASOS hacking message has said the breach was not caused by a flaw in its system. Customers received a , apparently addressed to the firm’s IT managers, saying the “Snowflake” had been “fully compromised”. The fashion app said some personal data had been accessed, such as name and contact details, but that payment information and passwords were safe.

Snowflake – the American data storage business that services ASOS – said on Friday the hack was not its fault. “We can confirm this issue did not in any way result from a vulnerability, weakness, flaw, or misconfiguration with the Snowflake service, platform, or internal environments, and was not caused by Snowflake,” said a spokeswoman.

SpaceX is officially declaring that its satellite-to-phone service, Starlink Mobile, will become a major carrier in the US, putting it in direct competition with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon.  The company did so after acquiring a slice of radio waves from Grain Management, a private investment firm that bought the spectrum from T-Mobile. In the announcement, SpaceX noted: “This prime low-band spectrum addresses one of the key remaining technical gaps that will pave the way for Starlink Mobile to become a major mobile carrier in the US.”

A rival bidder for TalkTalk has accused BT executives of profiting from a rescue deal for the ailing broadband provider. which had been bidding for TalkTalk’s 1.5 million retail customers, suggested BT bosses could benefit from higher bonuses after securing a dramatic last-ditch deal to buy the company out of administration. This year, BT introduced a new incentive linking directors’ bonuses to the telecoms giant’s share of the UK retail market for both mobile and broadband. Telegraph 

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