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Japan’s Defence Ministry Says It Has Signed a Contract for Ukrainian SkyFall Interceptor Drones; the Terms Are Not Public
Japan's defence minister says a contract with Ukraine's SkyFall for interceptor drones is signed. Value, quantity, model and delivery are undisclosed.
Metals Market: A Lithium Survey Says Chinese Supply Is Lagging, and SMM Says Tungsten Has Two Prices
Mysteel says China's lithium carbonate supply is falling short of expectations in Q4; SMM says tungsten has one market and two prices. Both are data firms' estimates.
Unions Say a Strike at Antofagasta’s Centinela Copper Mine Could Halve November Output
A strike at Antofagasta's Centinela copper mine in Chile began on 7 October. Unions say November output could fall by half; the company declined to comment on that.
EU and China Say They Will Ease Rare-Earth Export Licences. It Is an Understanding, Not a New Rule
After talks in Beijing, China says it is willing to keep facilitating rare-earth and magnet export licences for the EU. It is an understanding, not a rule change.
China’s Policy Guidelines Call for a National Blockchain Network, but Give No Details
China's 9 October policy guidelines call for "a national blockchain network". What the official text says, what it leaves out, and what it is not.
A Humanoid Patent From BYD and a Robot-Cop Agreement in Kerala: A Drawing Is Not a Product
BYD's humanoid design patent is published, but its August debut has not happened. Kerala Police signed a traffic-robot MoU. Neither is a product yet.
Defence Tech Roundup: A Conditional Counter-Drone Deal, X-BAT Funding, an AI-Contractor Bill and an FPV Order
Four defence-tech items from 8–9 October 2026: EOS signs a conditional £370m counter-drone contract with an unnamed Gulf state, Shield AI says the US Navy added $150 million for X-BAT, a Senate bill proposes Pentagon reporting rules for large AI contractors, and the Indian Army orders 225 FPV drones. What each says, and what it doesn't.
Robotics Roundup: How Robot World Models Scale, a Beijing Funding Round and a Shop-Floor Humanoid
Three robotics items from 8 October 2026: a FAIR at Meta and Mila preprint on how robot "world models" scale, a reported Series A for Beijing's Livsyn Robotics, and CP AI Robotics' C1 store humanoid, which the company plans to roll out in Japanese convenience stores "as early as 2027". What each shows, and what it doesn't.
The FBI Takes Down Two Hacking Tools Tied to “Flax Typhoon”: What Happened and Why It Matters
On 8 October 2026 the US Justice Department and FBI seized web domains behind two hacking tools allegedly run by China-based Integrity Technology Group, linked to "Flax Typhoon". Eleven agencies from seven countries issued a joint advisory, and CISA added five old flaws to its exploited-vulnerabilities list. What was done, what is alleged, and what defenders are told.
NVIDIA’s Jetson Kiosk Demo: A Coding Agent Puts a Vision Model on the Device
An NVIDIA tutorial shows OpenAI's Codex coding agent turning a Jetson Orin Nano into a self-starting kiosk that captions a live webcam feed with Google's small Gemma 4 E2B model, running on the device. What the demo shows, what "No Mac required" means, and why local inference matters.
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