1 · CNET
Move Over ‘Carrie’: Mike Flanagan Teases ‘The Exorcist: Martyrs’ at NYCC 2026
Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist: Martyrs premieres in theaters on March 12, 2027, with the film he calls “the scariest movie I’ve ever made.”
Daily digest · Friday, October 9, 2026
AI policy and safety decisions dominated today: Anthropic tightened Claude’s abuse rules, and OpenAI dismissed three AI safety researchers after an internal probe. Other headlines ranged from new LED headlight glare standards and survey results on AI holiday shopping to archaeology in Spain and hardware trends from mechanical keyboards to DDR RAM.
1 · CNET
Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist: Martyrs premieres in theaters on March 12, 2027, with the film he calls “the scariest movie I’ve ever made.”
2 · CNET
Anthropic’s updated Claude usage policy bans “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” only in “extreme cases” of repeated cruelty with “no discernible purpose,” and will make Claude end the conversation as a “last resort.”
3 · Ars Technica
Archaeologists cataloged 597 preserved wooden remains from Neanderthal living areas at Abric Romaní, but only 13 were made or modified tools dated to 62,000–40,000 years ago.
4 · CNET
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration plans to update Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 108 to make LED headlight glare less blinding, with the last major update to lighting standards dating back 25 years.
5 · CNET
Fewer than half of US Black Friday/Cyber Monday shoppers plan to use AI for holiday shopping—though planned AI use for navigating sales more than doubled from 16% to 34% year over year.
6 · The Verge
OpenAI dismissed AI safety researchers Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni after an internal investigation found they committed “a significant breach of trust” and violated “clear policies on handling sensitive information.”
7 · TechCrunch
Keychron’s mechanical keyboards—like the $60 Keychron K2 and the ~$200 Keychron K8 HE Wireless Magnetic Switch Custom Keyboard—offer wired or Bluetooth setup and can be customized with keycaps for a more enjoyable typing experience.
8 · Ars Technica
Ukraine’s drone strikes knocked out an AI data center described as belonging to “Russia’s Google,” along with other Russian services including a dating app, a real estate aggregator, a self-publishing book platform, and the website of Spartak Moscow, Reuters reported.
9 · Ars Technica
A 1:1 Cray-1 replica built from 30 2012-era Mac Minis delivers about 1.3 teraflops in recent tests, after reaching 1.5 teraflops previously with all 70 cores active before one node went offline.
10 · The Verge
New LGA 1700 CPU support for both DDR4 and DDR5 is being revived via Gigabyte motherboard lines, with new LGA 1700 chips “expected to launch in early 2027.”
