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• T-Mobile's $1 Fee Hike: Where Your Extra Money Goes

  T-Mobile quietly raised its mandatory fees on Oct. 12, and AT&T and Verizon have done the same. The amounts look tiny, but they add up fast on a family plan.

• AWS and Anthropic Bet $1B on Engineers to Prove AI Pays Off

  Forward-deployed engineer job ads jumped 6x for a second straight year as AWS, Anthropic and OpenAI spend billions to prove AI actually pays off.

• Tesla's Flying Roadster Packs 80 kN Thrusters, But It's Not Road Legal

  Tesla's Roadster demo showed a car flipping and jumping on compressed-air thrusters. The 80 kN rear thrusters explain why the Rocket version is marked not for public roads.

• iPhone Duo Slips to 2027 Shipping Hours After Pre-Orders Open

  Five hours after iPhone Duo pre-orders opened, every storage and color option on Apple's store shows January 2027 shipping. Here's what happened and where stock might still exist.

• Five Scraping Brands Unite as Source, a $3.6B AI Data Bet

  Oxylabs, Decodo, Webshare, ScrapingBee and Honeygain are now one $3.6 billion family called Source, and it says AI agents have quadrupled demand.

• AMD's 32,768-Core AI Rack Ships in November, Minus Power Specs

  AMD's Helion Agentic AI Rack crams 32,768 Zen 6 cores and 16 Instinct accelerators into a single rack for AI agents. It ships in November, but power and cooling specs are absent.

• AI Builders Save Small Businesses $850 as Web Dev Gigs Fall 59%

  A Bluehost survey finds 53% of small business owners use AI website builders, saving $850 and 32 hours on average. Freelance web design gigs are down 59%.

• iPhone 20: All-Glass 2027 Redesign May Come With a Price Hike

  Apple's 20th-anniversary iPhone, likely called the iPhone 20, is shaping up as an all-glass, buttonless redesign for September 2027. The catch: it could cost more.

• MapQuest Maps License Plate Readers as Tiny Eyeballs

  MapQuest's new Surveillance layer plots license plate readers from Flock and a dozen other vendors as tiny eyeballs on the map. It's a privacy tool from an unexpected source.

• UK Weighs £180 BBC Fee on Netflix and YouTube Viewers

  A BBC charter renewal due before Christmas could stretch the £180 licence fee to streaming platforms, closing a loophole that has cost the broadcaster 539,000 licences in a year.

• Best stock of the week: Fair Isaac (FICO) +15.52%, plus the biggest losers (October 16, 2026)

  The S&P 500 slipped 1.95% this week, with the Nasdaq down 4.48% and the Russell 2000 off 3.05%, while the Dow edged up 0.67%. Energy and defense names led weekly gains, while…

• Stocks at midday: Honeywell Aerospace (HONA) leads S&P 500 gainers, +3.73% (October 16, 2026)

  At midday on Friday, October 16, 2026, the S&P 500 is down 0.58% as technology and communication services stocks weigh on the index, while energy and utility names post solid…