Afghanistan Hit By Nationwide Internet Blackout As Taliban Cuts Fiber Optic Cables [Slashdot.org]

"Reading Rainbow" is back with new host, celeb guests [AXIOS]

Anthropic debuts Claude Sonnet 4.5, claims it is the world's best coding model, the strongest for building complex agents, and its “most aligned” frontier model [TechMeme]

OpenAI adds parental controls to ChatGPT after teen's death [Quartz]

Apple is trying to make your phone usable as a phone again [Vox]

Ending graciously [TheNextWeb]

Flotilla to Gaza: Testing the Limits of a Blockade [Medium] #Gaza #Flotilla #Italy #Spain #HumanitarianAid

What Is 996? A Banned-in-China Work Schedule Is Trending in Silicon Valley: ‘We Don’t Believe in Work-Life Balance’ [Entrepreneur]

Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab [WIRED]

This Week in Tech 1051 [TWIT]

Gemini comes to Google TV [Google Blog]

Towards better health conversations: Research insights on a “wayfinding” AI agent based on Gemini [Google Research]

The Flag of Ahab [Lapham’s Quarterly]

NASA revives VIPER moon rover, taps Blue Origin for lunar landing [Astronomy Magazine]

Interstellar Probe mission would go twice as fast and far as the Voyagers [Astronomy Magazine]

Sun Fires Energy Blast Straight at Mysterious Interstellar Object Cruising Through Solar System [Futurism]

How Do You Know if Your AI Agent Is Doing a Good Job? [Salesforce, The 360 Blog]

Transforming dsm-firmenich’s i-Health: A Journey to the 3-System Landscape | Episode 2 | Expert Talk [SAP] #SAP #IwantToWorkAtSAP #Neurodivergent

What’s up, everybody! It’s Tuesday, September 30th, 2025. Shout out to #GeeksNerdsOtakus. I also wrote a Medium article about the Flotilla of 50 small ships headed to the Gaza Strip, and thanking Italy and Spain for providing Security with their naval ships.

Until Next Time!