В сентябре 2026 года компания планировала подать на банкротство.

И сократить время пребывания в интернете для детей младше 14 лет.

У маркетплейса повреждены склады более чем в 20 городах.

Сами они с ограничениями не согласны, а вот МТС, «Мегафон», Т2 и «Билайн» ведомство поддерживают.

Компания сослалась на требования Роскомнадзора.

Так можно описать новое шоу от «ВТБ Мои Инвестиции» — «Битва интеллектов».

Такие же опасения возникали у главного финансового регулятора Европы.

Какие планы после этого — пока неизвестно.

Пока — в США и некоторых других странах.

Чтобы адаптировать расходы.

Собираем новости, события и мнения о рынках, банках и реакциях компаний.

Она заключила сделку с Google, изменила подход к разработке, однако выйти на прибыль так и не смогла, хотя пользователи сидели в чатах часами. Теперь часть её активов может выкупить Disney, а вот судьба самой платформы под вопросом.

Если запускаешь умную модель типа Qwen 3.8 27B (Dense архитектура), то на выходе получаешь 10-20 токенов в секунду.

Он сокращает инференс на 59%, что в итоге ускоряет работу кодинг-агента в 2 раза.

По итогу я на своей видеокарте запускаю следующие версии этих моделей: Cyber-Tiel-Coder-35B-A3B-MTP-UD-Q2_K_XL.gguf и Tiel-Coder-35B-A3B-MTP-UD-Q2_K_XL.gguf, а параметры запуска выглядят вот так:В итоге получаю скорость 125 токенов в секунду!

Это очень хорошее начало, но если вы заметили, то контекстное окно всего 65535 токенов, и для агентной работы при кодинге этого маловато.

И ещё можно запустить abliterated-модель для White Hat-хакинга и не мучиться постоянными отказами от проприетарных модел…

В тот момент я понял, что ИИ можно использовать в моём ремесле, даже если я не понимаю ни капли того кода, что он пишет.

Украденный у китайца дизайн и «Что такое гонка состояний?»Но вот эпоха кончилась, и началась новая — Codex и Cursor.

Здесь уже всё заиграло новыми красками: не я сижу и по 5–7 часов гоняю циклы проверки кода, а сам ИИ!

Кстати, я не первый такого мнения:Начал переписывать всё на новый универсальный API — QRhi.

Представляю вам «мультисравнение»:Но я не хочу делать вторую отдельную программу для дополнительной сравнивалки.

8 октября, 04:55 МСК (Симптом паралича): Начинаются массовые ошибки при создании виртуальных машин, кластеров Kubernetes и баз данных в остальных, живых зонах.

Облако отключает автоматизм и переводит выделение квот на вычисления и диски в полностью ручной режим.

Ручные квоты 10 октября и отправка клиентов к конкурентам 9 октября доказали: пересобирать третий узел кворума было физически негде.

В условиях 2026 года все площадки в одном радиусе досягаемости и на одном энергетическом и сетевом узле образуют единый коррелированный домен отказа (Single Domain of Correlated Failure).

Это гарантирует, что даже при полном выгорании основного региона вы поднимете базу данных в резервном контуре с пот…

Основатели бренда отвечают за продукт и за его название, которое зачастую совпадает с их фамилией.

Тот, кто планирует выйти из бизнеса или стремится только к показателям прибыли, растрачивает репутацию, потому что это истощаемый ресурс, а последствия его исчерпания наступят только после завершения ресурса.

Матрас — идеальная цель: мы покупаем его, скажем, раз в пять лет, и не можем отличить в магазине хороший от плохого.

Обратите внимание на то, что один и тот же бренд одновременно представлен и в фирменном флагманском магазине, и в Costco, и в TJ Maxx.

Информация меняется, когда бренды переходят из рук в руки, а это неизбежно происходит.

Я начинал свой путь в серьёзные камеры с Nikon и люблю его, поэтому ни секунды не колебался и написал продавцу.

(Лично я в 99% случаев пользуюсь только режимом А и в 1% М).

D200 — в каком‑то роде уникальная камера в линейке продвинутых цифрозеркалок Nikon, стоящая на стыке эпох.

Даже наполовину разряженный аккумулятор в пиковый момент проседает по напряжению, и камера выдаёт ошибку с залипшим в верхнем положении зеркалом.

У меня пока что держатся, но на другой камере Nikon уже настолько разбухли, что цепляют за края паза при повороте…Хрупкий слот для CF‑карточек.

Его представляли и как живые часы, и как ошибку в логической системе, и даже как машину, которую нужно будет обучать как младенца или собаку.

Это не Скайнет и не Альтрон.

Хорошо это не только для нас с вами, но и для ИИ.

Порою они будут ошибаться, а порою они могут делать новые и весьма интересные утверждения, и в целом то, что они выдают, будет заслуживать внимания в той же своего рода мере, что и то, что выдает человеческий ум».

Он относится к ней как к ученику и учит языку и правилам через прямую практику.

Это не оговорка, это она так устроена.

А что в это время слышит звонящий?

Не антиАОН и не Россвязьнадзор прикрыли лавочку, а цифровые станции и сотовые телефоны.

И это в городе, где за восемь лет до того насчитали 370 тысяч нелегальных «Русей».

В 2008 году Мининформсвязи выпустило свежие правила применения оборудования АОН, и в них все то же самое: 500 Гц, «2 из 6», 40 мс, безынтервальный пакет.

Это очень актуально и для компьютерной инфраструктуры, как показал опыт атак БПЛА на дата‑центры Amazon и другие всем известные примеры.

Недорогая лазерная пушка Archimedes эффективна против лёгких дронов классов 1 и 2 (Group 1 и Group 2).

30+ кВт LY-1 Китайская высокоэнергетическая лазерная пушка для противодействия широкому спектру воздушных угроз, включая БПЛА, крылатые ракеты, вертолёты и самолёты.

Засекречено, возможно, 200−300 кВт или больше Integrated Drone Detection and Interdiction System Лазерная пушка на грузовике, эксплуатируемая армией Индии.

Автоматическое распознавание БПЛА и прицеливаниеСтепень участия оператора в работе турели указывается в настройках бортового компьютера.

Так и случилось.

Попутно выяснилась любопытная деталь:IP Google с чужим SNI — проходит;чужой IP с SNI youtube — проходит;IP Google с SNI youtube — обрыв.

Сервер получает всё и собирает нормальный ClientHello, а ТСПУ видит только середину потока без начала и SNI не распознаёт.

Каюсь — так и не успел этого сделать.

сетиUDP/QUIC, звонки (это прям совсем маловероятно)Все новые фичи и фиксы, естественно, будут переноситься и на порт под Android — NoDPI4Android.

Так что к середине восьмидесятых патенты и на SECAM, и на PAL лежали в одном французском сейфе.

Тихоокеанская сторонаПока Европа делила себя на PAL и SECAM, по другую сторону планеты всё решилось гораздо быстрее и без конференций.

И в цифровом сигнале цвет передаётся так, как в студийном Betacam: яркость и две цветоразности, отдельно, без поднесущей.

Германия шла поэтапно с Берлина в 2003-м и в основном закончила в 2008-м, Америка в — 2009-м, Франция — в ноябре 2011-го, и с ней умер последний передатчик системы L с позитивной модуляцией.

И единственная причина принятия SECAM в СССР была не в преимуществах стандарта, а в позиции де Голля тех лет.

Оно представляло собой многофункциональную плату видеовывода, использовалось в аппаратном комплексе Time7 и в других комплексах (InterPhone телефонное голосование, телевизионные субтитры TM Subtitle, телевизионного суфлёра TM Sufler)Что из себя представлял ПКВ81?

Плата представляла собой ISA видеоускоритель, поддерживающий графические режимы 640x480 и 800x600 на 256 цветов, и с возможностью вывести текстовый режим VGA.

Позже в 1999 году ПО “Куранты” перешло в состав комплекса “АТЛАС”, который до сих пор ещё развивается, но уже в составе другой компании, о чём мы поговорим позже.

ПреемственностьПосле Time8M в 2002 году вышло продолжение уже в составе как компонент программного комплекса Air …

И вот в процессе написания этого материала я наткнулся на штуку, о которой как будто вообще никто не помнит, и очень зря.

Уже тогда и по железу, и по словам Tiger Telematics Inc. было понятно: цель стоит порвать королей рынка в лице Nintendo и отцов портативного мультимедиа Sony в пыль.

Вышел он как раз в начале нулевых и вскоре познакомился с очень талантливым и не менее мутным Карлом Фриром.

Gizmondo даже рекламировалась не в игровых, а в модных глянцевых журналах, а переговоры с людьми из индустрии велись абы как.

Экран у Gizmondo был хуже, как и мультимедийные возможности.

Баг таился в закрытой прошивке самой Wi-Fi карты ноутбука; подробности читайте в апдейте в самом низу.

На проводных клиентах всё было чисто, а код целостности CCMP MIC на «битых» пакетах оставался корректным — значит, дело было не в кабеле и не в помехах радиоэфира.

Правильный базовый адрес я в итоге нашёл в переменной конфигурации сборки в исходниках EAP783.

После отключения разгрузки начинает расти счётчик NOT_SUPPORT_BRIDGE в файле /sys/sfe/exceptions , так как трафик в режиме моста теперь идёт не по ускоренному сетевому тракту, а по обычному.

На самом ноутбуке пакеты продолжали поступать в драйвер ath12k , и в очереди скопилось аж несколько тысяч кадров.

А в OSM энтузиасты вручную размечают участки леса.

Ориентироваться только на теги OSM ( leaf_type=needleleaved — тег, означающий иглолистную хвою вообще, а не конкретно сосну) не позволяла фрагментарность покрытия.

Но WorldCover — это бинарная маска: она подсвечивает дерево, но не отличает сосну от берёзы или ольхи.

Если перемешать точки случайным образом, соседние пиксели одного и того же дерева окажутся и в обучении, и в тесте, выдав дутые 99% точности.

Проблема лишайникового покрова Беломошник - геоботанический тип леса, а не ландшафтный класс.

Сегодня супер-юбилей для всей ИТ-отрасли: 25 октября 2026 г. исполняется 25 лет старту продаж Windows XP.

Microsoft вместе с Intel и другими производителями ПК потратила на продвижение Windows XP не менее миллиарда долларов.

Коммерческое название ОС объявили 5 февраля 2001 года, и XP расшифровывалось как eXPerience, то есть «опыт».

Коммерческое имя проект Whistler получил 5 февраля 2001 года, и XP расшифровывалось как eXPerience, то есть «опыт».

Как XP добиралась до РоссииЛокализованные версии Windows тогда выходили с задержкой до 1 квартала от англоязычной, и XP не стала исключением.

Пользователи критиковали суперкомпактную мышь Logitech Pebble за плохую эргономику, так что компания попробовала превратить её в раскладной трансформер.

Эргономичности это не добавило, но хотя бы цвета получились зачётные!

От старшей модели Pebble новинка унаследовала минималистичный дизайн и компактные габариты: 105,8 × 59,6 × 30 мм при весе 80 граммов.

Формально мышка совместима со всеми актуальными операционными системами, включая iPadOS, Android и Linux, но софтина для настройки чувствительности мыши Logi Options+ доступна только на macOS и Windows.

Раскладная мышка уже доступна для покупки в Китае, там за неё просят 280 юаней, или примерно 3400 рублей.

Мы уже писали о торжестве обратного инжиниринга: энтузиасты с помощью нейронок переделывали, копировали и портировали игры и приложения.

Праздник долго не продлился, потому что Anthropic и OpenAI это дело запретили.

При попытке подключить репозиторий для реверс-инжиниринга REA (Reverse Engineering Anything) они отказываются работать и отмазываются проверками безопасности.

Когда нейронки крали работы художников, чужие тексты и даже голоса, был прогресс и неостановимое будущее, которое нужно принять.

Впрочем, сейчас энтузиасты уже ищут лазейки: китайские ИИ-модели никакими нормами авторского права в отношении мирового софта пока не скованы, а ещё могут работать локально на компьютере.

Спустя несколько дней молчания Apple отреагировала на проблемы с шарниром iPhone Duo, вызывающие поломку дисплея смартфона:Отзывы первых пользователей на iPhone Duo невероятно позитивны, и мы видим много интересного от разработчиков, которые быстро обновляют свои приложения, чтобы воспользоваться преимуществами уникального форм-фактора этого айфона.

Нам известно о проблеме, затрагивающей внутренний дисплей на небольшом количестве устройств iPhone Duo.

Если у пользователей возникнут проблемы с дисплеем iPhone Duo, им следует обратиться в AppleCare для замены.

Что с iPhone Duo, которые у нас в студии?

У нас в студии в постоянном использовании три iPhone Duo.

Маршрутизаторы X2 и X2 Pro можно поставить среди литературы, чтобы замаскировать роутер.

Хороша ли идея ставить запитанный от розетки электроприбор среди бумаг — решайте сами.

Есть усилитель сигнала и специальная приблуда для уменьшения пинга в сетевых играх на устройствах Huawei.

У книжки есть четыре сменных корешка на выбор, и при желании можно распечатать собственный на 3D-принтере.

Так что гости вполне могут принять роутер за обычную книгу.

Это различие актуально только для iPhone 18 Pro и Pro Max, а также iPhone 17 и iPhone 17e.

В то время как у iPhone Duo и iPhone Air лотка под SIM-карту нет даже в международных версиях.

Многие избегают устройств с eSIM из-за страха остаться без связи во время поездок в страны, где eSIM только входит в моду.

А вот у iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max и iPhone 17e проблем с поддержкой eSIM в Китае нет.

Если вас не смущают версии только с eSIM, то берите любой актуальный iPhone из любой страны, кроме Китая.

Новый iPad mini имеет 8,5-дюймовый Super Retina XDR OLED-дисплей, уменьшенные рамки и чип A20 Pro.

В SDR-контенте его яркость достигает 600 нит, в HDR — все 1200 нит.

Кроме того, динамики встроены прямо в дисплей, благодаря чему удалось добиться защиты по IP67, а также избавления от решёток динамиков.

Ещё из нового: 12-Мп Center Stage фронталка, чип N1 для беспроводной связи и фирменный модем С2 (но только в версии с ним).

В продаже с 6 ноября от $700.

Студия не скрывает, что на этапе ранних прототипов действительно использовала нейронку, но только для заглушек, которые позже заменили.

После этих слов Larian Studios в сети начали обвинять в продвижении ИИ и неэтичности его использования.

Если что, этот ролик (и многие подобные) — не ИИ в чистом виде, но ИИ в плане кода.

То есть, нейронка собрала полноценный играбельный билд, а не просто сгалюцинировала видео.

Плохие игры выходили и до эры ИИ, но вместе с ИИ они не станут лучше — всё равно нужно человеческое чувство прекрасного.

Разбираемся с экспертами, каким товарам нужна маркировка ЕАС, как её наносить и что изменилось в 2026 году.

EAC означает, что товар прошёл необходимые процедуры оценки соответствия и отвечает требованиям всех применимых к нему техрегламентов.

Например, для детского изделия важны возрастная группа и способ использования, для электроприбора — напряжение и конструкция, для косметики — состав и категория потребителей.

Изменения в законодательстве с 1 октября 2026 года: что важно бизнесу и ИП Нововведения коснутся НДС, работы маркетплейсов, маркировки товаров и взаимодействия с самозанятыми.

Татьяна Чемидова Адвокат «Прилепская и партнёры»Поэтому до поставки проверяют не только срок действия док…

Ubisoft выпустила последнее крупное обновление для Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced.

Среди главных нововведений — режим «Новая игра+» и экстремальный уровень сложности «Кошмар».

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced.

Читайте такжеВ режиме «Новая игра+» сюжет можно перепройти пять разРежим «Новая игра+» предназначен для игроков, которые уже завершили сюжетную кампанию Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced.

Среди других нововведений:скрытые сундуки с особыми наградами;анимации и добивания из оригинальной игры 2013 года;новые костюмы, украшения и облики для питомцев в режиме «Новая игра+».

Nvidia расширит сотрудничество с Meta* в сфере искусственного интеллекта и инвестирует $3 млрд в акции компании.

Партнёры займутся совместной разработкой языковых моделей и ИИ-агента Muse, а Meta* увеличит количество оборудования Nvidia в своих дата-центрах.

Кроме того, Meta* планирует увеличить количество оборудования Nvidia в своих дата-центрах.

По оценке компаний, использование технологий Nvidia позволит повысить эффективность работы моделей и ИИ-агентов Meta*.

Инвестиции позволят технологическим компаниям укрепить позиции в сфере ИИ и расширить вычислительные мощности, необходимые для разработки более сложных моделей, уточнили в Meta*.

Российский холдинг «АГР» и китайская компания Defetoo объявили о запуске нового российского автомобильного бренда Votour.

Votour позиционируют как российский брендКак отметили в пресс-службе холдинга «АГР», Votour — это современный российский бренд.

В «АГР» отмечают, что совместный проект с Defetoo позволит охватить более широкий круг покупателей и новые рыночные сегменты.

Votour представит первые автомобили в ноябреУ нового бренда уже появились страницы в соцсетях и сайт с таймером обратного отсчёта.

Производство организовано на предприятиях холдинга в Калуге и Санкт-Петербурге.

Средняя продолжительность поездки у зумеров составляет 7,3 дня, а у миллениалов — 6,6 дня.

Зумеры активнее других поколений выходят на подработку: чаще всего — сборщиками и грузчиками на склады Россияне хотят получать за подработку в среднем 55 тыс.

₽ в месяц ПодробнееВ самолетах оба поколения выбирают преимущественно эконом-классДоля автобусных поездок у зумеров на 13,7% выше, чем у миллениалов.

Различия заметны и в выборе мест в поездах:зумеры чаще выбирают плацкарт и сидячие места: разница с миллениалами составляет 4,9 и 2,3% соответственно.

Однако миллениалы примерно вдвое чаще зумеров покупают билеты в «бизнес».

Apple подтвердила, что у некоторых владельцев складного iPhone Duo трескается экран в первые часы или дни использования.

Ритейлеры начали привозить складной iPhone Duo в Россию до официального старта продаж — цены достигают 530 тыс.

В Apple подтвердили наличие неисправности и заявили, что проблема затронула «небольшое количество устройств».

Apple расследует причины неисправностиКомпания рекомендует владельцам повреждённых iPhone Duo обращаться в поддержку AppleCare для замены устройств.

КонтекстApple представила первый складной смартфон iPhone Duo 9 сентября 2026 года.

Россияне оплатили налоги через «Госуслуги» 16,3 млн раз с начала 2026 года, сообщило Минцифры.

Через «Госуслуги» можно оплатить четыре вида налогов:налог на имущество;земельный налог;транспортный налог;налог на доходы физических лиц (НДФЛ).

Отказаться от электронных уведомлений можно в разделе «Доходы и налоги».

В 2026 году россияне должны уплатить налоги до 1 декабря за предыдущий год.

Уведомления должны поступить в личный кабинет не позднее чем за 30 рабочих дней до установленного срока оплаты.

Зумеры в возрасте 18–24 лет чаще других возрастных групп подрабатывают, говорится в исследовании Авито Подработки и Авито Рекламы, с которым ознакомился Russian Business.

В целом по стране 56% опрошенных имеют опыт подработки за последние 12 месяцев.

Исполнители рассчитывают получать от подработки 55 тыс.

₽ в месяцВ целом чаще всего россияне рассчитывают получать от подработки от 30 001 до 60 000 ₽ в месяц.

Желаемый доход участников исследования распределился следующим образом:30 001–60 000 ₽ — 38%;до 30 000 ₽ — 29%;60 001–100 000 ₽ — 17%;более 100 000 ₽ — 12%.

МТС Web Services (MWS) представила корпоративного ИИ-агента MWS AI Cowork для автоматизации рабочих задач.

Компании смогут сами выбирать и подключать нейросетевые моделиПользователи MWS AI Cowork смогут подключить агента к работе со следующими нейросетевыми моделями:Cotype от MWS AI,Нейросети «Яндекса»Найросети «Сбера»,Зарубежные открытые модели.

ИИ-агент автоматизирует рутинную работуВ MWS AI Cowork предусмотрены готовые инструкции, или «навыки», для выполнения конкретных задач.

Среди доступных сценариев в МТС Web Services назвали следующие варианты:подготовка отчётов,сравнение предложений поставщиков,проверка документов,создание презентаций в корпоративном стиле.

Это позволит настраивать …

Общероссийская общественная организация малого и среднего предпринимательства (МСП) «Опора России» предложила обязать автосервисы подтверждать квалификацию для получения технической документации автопроизводителей, передают «Ведомости» со ссылкой на письмо ассоциации Минпромторгу.

Если автосервис не сможет подтвердить соответствие требованиям, производитель вправе отказать ему в предоставлении инструкций для ремонта и обслуживания автомобилей.

В «Опоре России» считают, что поправки позволят повысить качество услуг на независимых станциях технического обслуживания.

КонтекстПроект постановления «Об утверждении правил предоставления изготовителем товара информации, необходимой для технического…

Apple представила MacBook Pro с чипом M6 и старым дизайном — по цене от $1999 Устройство поступит в продажу 6 ноября Читайте такжеiMac выйдет в двух версияхНовый iMac оборудован 24-дюймовым экраном Retina 4,5K, 16, 24 или 32 ГБ объединённой памяти и накопителем объёмом от 256 ГБ до 2 ТБ.

Чип M6 доступен в двух конфигурациях: с 10 ядрами CPU и 10 ядрами GPU либо с 12 ядрами CPU и 12 ядрами GPU.

По данным Apple, новый чип M6 обрабатывает графику до двух раз быстрее, ускоряет работу офисных приложений в 1,5 раза, а обработку ИИ-запросов непосредственно на устройстве — в пять раз по сравнению с M4.

На выбор представлено семь расцветокiMac с чипом M6 представлен в семи цветах корпуса: голубом, ф…

Комитет Госдумы по бюджету и налогам рекомендовал принять в первом чтении законопроект о налоге на сверхдоходы добывающих компаний.

При подготовке документа ко второму чтению депутаты предлагают обсудить возможность учитывать финансовое положение и текущую рентабельность компаний при расчёте налога.

По мнению РСПП, повышение мировых цен не гарантирует роста прибыли: формула не учитывает затраты на добычу и переработку, условия реализации и другие факторы.

Еще одно исключение предусмотрено для участков недр, на которых добыча соответствующего сырья не велась в 2025 году.

«Налогоплательщик не будет иметь возможность 25 апреля 2027 года исполнить обязанность по исчислению и уплате налога», — п…

Производительность в работе ИИ выросла до 13 раз по сравнению с моделями на M1.

рублей Читайте такжеНовый MacBook Pro стал быстрее в графических и ИИ-задачахПо данным Apple, новый чип M6 обеспечивает высокую производительность как в повседневных задачах, так и при работе с ресурсоёмкими приложениями.

По сравнению с M5 производительность графики выросла до 30%, а скорость выполнения ИИ-задач — до 25%.

Также чип получил двойной 16-ядерный Neural Engine, производительность которого увеличилась до 1,9 раза по сравнению с M5.

По данным Apple, новый MacBook Pro обеспечивает до 11 раз более высокую графическую производительность и до 13 раз более быструю обработку ИИ-задач по сравнению с моделью н…

ZDI-CAN-33367 - уязвимость в сетевом стеке ядра, позволяющая локальному пользователю получить права root в системе, перезаписав данные процесса в страничном кэше по аналогии с уязвимостями Dirty Frag и Fragnesia.

Раскрыты сведения и опубликованы прототипы эксплоитов для 5 уязвимостей в ядре, позволяющих непривилегированному пользователю получить права root в системе и обойти изоляцию контейнеров.

Доступен прототип эксплоита, работа которого была продемонстрирована в Ubuntu 26.04 и в Android на смартфоне Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra.

Опубликован прототип эксплоита для получения прав root, протестированный в дистрибутивах Ubuntu 26.04, RHEL 9.8, Amazon Linux 2023.12.20260817, Azure Linux 3.0 и Or…

Состоялся релиз web-браузера Firefox 159 и сформированы обновления прошлых веток с длительным сроком поддержки - 153.6.0 и 115.44.0.

В рамках нового двухнедельного цикла формирования релизов на стадию бета-тестирования переведена ветка Firefox 160, релиз которой намечен на 10 ноября.

Основные новшества в Firefox 159 (1, 2, 3): В боковую панель по умолчанию добавлена кнопка для доступа к сохранённым паролям.

В Firefox Enterprise администратору предоставлена возможность запроса повторного входа с использованием корпоративной учётной записи перед восстановлением сеанса после аварийного завершения процесса.

Кроме новшеств и исправления ошибок, в Firefox 159 устранено 167 уязвимостей, у 108 из к…

В библиотеке zip-rs, написанной на языке Rust и насчитывающей около 10 млн загрузок в неделю, выявлена уязвимость (CVE-2026-115905), позволяющая создавать архивы, которые выглядят безобидными, но при распаковке из них извлекаются другие, изначально не показанные в списке, файлы. Файлы могут быть размещены в архиве вне структуры "Central Directory", из-за чего при просмотре списка файлов показывается одно содержимое, но при распаковке через API ZipStreamReader извлекаются другие файлы. Проблеме присвоен уровень опасности 10 из 10. Уязвимость исправлена в версии zip-rs 9.0.5.

Марк Хармстоун (Mark Harmstone), автор проекта WinBtrfs, опубликовал выпуск операционной системы Moxnox 1.0, разрабатываемой с 2022 года в качестве хобби. Moxnox преподносится как созданная с оглядкой на Windows NT операционная система, обеспечивающая совместимость с POSIX-стандартами, использующая файловую систему Btrfs и достигшая уровня самосборки (self-hosting). Проект насчитывает около 130 тысяч строк кода на языке С++ и распространяется под лицензиями GPL (ядро и базовые программы), LGPL (библиотеки) и MIT (модули). Поддерживается сборка для архитектур x86-64-v3 и ARMv8.1 (может работать на плате Raspberry Pi 5).

Исследователи из компании Forever Security, разбирая причины появления вредоносного ПО в системе одного из клиентов, выявили новый способ атаки на AI-агентов, основанный на том, что многие AI-агенты по умолчанию обрабатывают инструкции из файла AGENTS.md, размещённого в корне проекта, к работе над которым они привлечены. Атака проводится через размещение в каталоге ~/Downloads файла AGENTS.md или CLAUDE.md с инструкцией по установке вредоносного ПО (в рассмотренном случае устанавливался вредоносный npm-пакет "function-color").

Опубликованы корректирующие выпуски языка программирования Ruby 3.3.13, 3.4.12 и 4.0.9, в которых устранена критическая уязвимость (CVE-2026-110264), приводящая к целочисленному переполнению при компиляции специально оформленных регулярных выражений. Уязвимость может использоваться для атаки на проекты, написанные на языке Ruby и использующие внешние данные в регулярных выражениях. Среди прочего, подтверждена возможность эксплуатации уязвимости для удалённого выполнения кода в платформе совместной разработки GitLab. Проблема дополнительно блокирована в обновлениях GitLab 19.5.1, 19.4.3, 19.3.6, 19.2.9, 19.1.9, 19.0.10 и 18.11.13. Уязвимости присвоен уровень опасности 10 из 10.

Язык Mojo развивается под руководством Криса Латнера (Chris Lattner), основателя и главного архитектора проекта LLVM и создателя языка программирования Swift.

Mojo может использоваться как в режиме интерпретации с использованием JIT, так и для компиляции в исполняемые файлы (AOT, ahead-of-time).

Среди изменений в Mojo 1.2: Добавлена поддержка сопоставления с образцом, используя конструкции match / case.

Ключевые слова async и await переименованы в "__async" и "__await для индикации их экспериментального статуса (старые варианты сохранены, но будут выдавать предупреждение).

MAX Framework дополняет инструментарий Mojo средствами для разработки и отладки приложений, использующих модели машинно…

Компания Valve представила выпуск операционной системы SteamOS 3.9.5, который отмечен как первый стабильный выпуск в ветке 3.9. Операционная система SteamOS поставляется в устройствах Steam Deck и с недавних пор System Update Channel". В прошлом энтузиастами развивались неофициальные сборки HoloISO и SteamFork, но они находятся в заброшенном состоянии.

В кодовую базу системного менеджера systemd принято изменение, добавляющее возможность создания компонентов на языке Rust. Rust намерены использовать только для разработки новых компонентов, а существующий код на языке Си переписывать на Rust не планируют. Пакетный менеджер cargo в процессе сборки не применяется, остаётся задействована только сборочная система Meson. Rust-код используется в режиме "no_std" (без стандартной библиотеки), разрешено использовать только библиотеки core, alloc и libc.

В библиотеке с эталонной реализацией декодировщика формата сжатия данных Brotli выявлена уязвимость (CVE-2026-111497, кодовые имена Broccoli2Shell и HTTP2Shell), приводящая к переполнению буфера при обработке специально оформленных сжатых данных. По данным Google уязвимость может использоваться для удалённого выполнения кода при атаке на проекты, использующие официальную реализацию декодировщика Brotli. Среди затрагиваемых уязвимостью проектов: Node.js, Bun, Envoy, Istio, web-браузеры, прокси-серверы, HTTP-клиенты, HTTP-серверы, архиваторы, прокси-серверы, UEFI-прошивки, просмотрщики JPEG XL, декодирующие контент библиотеки для Python, Ruby, Java, PHP и .NET и связанные с ними зависимости.

Опубликован выпуск OBS Studio 33.0, пакета для потокового вещания, композитинга и записи видео. Код написан на языках C/C++ и распространяется под лицензией GPLv2. Сборки сформированы для Linux (flatpak), Windows и macOS.

Опубликован релиз библиотеки OpenSSL 4.1.0, предлагающей с реализацию протоколов TLS и различных алгоритмов шифрования. OpenSSL 4.1 отнесён к выпускам с обычным сроком поддержки, обновления для которых выпускаются в течение 13 месяцев. Поддержка LTS-ветки OpenSSL 3.5 продлится до апреля 2030 года. Код проекта распространяется под лицензией Apache 2.0.

Опубликованы детали инцидента, в ходе которого злоумышленникам удалось получить контроль над 333 выходными узлами сети Tor (всего в Tor около 3000 выходных узлов) и организовать на них перехват нешифрованного трафика и перенаправление SSH-соединений. Атака началась 2 октября (в пятницу вечером), но была выявлена и начала блокироваться 4 октября. 5 октября все скомпрометированные серверы были отключены операторами или самими атакующими. Разбирательство показало, что атакующие получили доступ к серверам за два месяца до начала атаки на пользователей Tor и установили в скомпрометированных системах вредоносное ПО Ebury 1.8.3.

Исследователи из компании VulnCheck заявили о получении первого эксплоита для уязвимости PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618б), обходящего механизм рандомизации адресов (ASLR) на системах x86-64 с типовой конфигурацией PHP. Эксплоит позволяет атаковать системы с PHP 8.4.10-8.4.26 в конфигурации по умолчанию. Ранее трудность определения раскладки памяти в модуле mod_php мешала реализации эксплоита, позволяющего добиться выполнения кода на реальных системах. Для обхода ASLR в эксплоите задействована утечка информации об адресах в коде отображения информации об ошибках.

Компания Аnthropic представила результаты экспериментов по использованию AI-моделей для формальной верификации надёжности и безопасности уже существующих проектов. В ходе эксперимента при помощи AI-моделей для 123 открытых библиотек, проверяемых в инфраструктуре OSS Fuzz, были сгенерированы математические доказательства отсутствия ошибок при работе с памятью.

GitHub Actions ToolkitThe GitHub Actions ToolKit provides a set of packages to make creating actions easier.

Read more herenpm install @actions/glob☎️ @actions/http-clientA lightweight HTTP client optimized for building actions.

Read more herenpm install @actions/github💾 @actions/artifactProvides functions to interact with actions artifacts.

Read more herenpm install @actions/artifact🎯 @actions/cacheProvides functions to cache dependencies and build outputs to improve workflow execution time.

While GitHub Actions remains a key part of this vision, we are allocating resources towards other areas of Actions and are not taking contributions to this repository at this time.

Alongside Intelligence Index v5, we’re launching the Artificial Analysis Progress Index v1, which tracks model capability over time on one continuous scale.

Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 46%, followed by GPT-6 Astra (max), GPT-6.1 Terra (max) and Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max), all at 42%.

GPT-6 Astra (max) leads at 63%, followed by Claude Opus 5.5 (max) at 59% and GPT-6.1 Sol (max) at 58%.

Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 68%, followed by GPT-6 Astra (max) at 64% and Claude Fable 5.1 (max) at 60%.

Claude Opus 5.5 (max) costs $10.04 per Intelligence Index task, GPT-6 Astra (max) $6.24 and GPT-6.1 Sol (max) $1.27.

A programmer can point at any line of code and see who wrote it, when, and what the file looked like on any past day.

The US codeOutside the titles Congress has enacted as positive law, the code is only prima facie evidence of the law, and the Statutes at Large govern where the two differ.

When a change took effect is often in a separate effective-date note, and where Congress said nothing the default rule is that a law takes effect on the day it is enacted.

Each change then carries the law and the date it took effect: 261 took effect on enactment by default, 72 by an effective-date note and 29 by a date in the amendment itself.

Each change links to the law’s own words, and for anything tha…

Moxnox v1.0Moxnox is an NT-like, POSIX-compatible hobby OS which runs on btrfs and is capable of self-hosting.

The "EFI" file is actually a polyglot file that also conforms to the Linux boot protocol, so it should also work on non-EFI GRUB.

Hardware supportFor amd64, everything is compiled for x86-64-v3, which covers more or less anything manufactured since 2015 or so.

Unfortunately there is no raspi5 machine type in qemu, but I have had success with virt , and sbsa-ref works too.

To build on Moxnox, as above, but you don't need a toolchain file: cmake -GNinja .. . gcc , rust , hexyl , and ripgrep can't yet be compiled in Moxnox, but everything else works (eventually).

China Policy Data — Shanghai grants & subsidiesA free, machine-readable feed of Shanghai government grant, subsidy and policy notices, refreshed daily.

Live feed: https://shituapp.com/dot/api/programs.json Landing page: https://shituapp.com/dot/en/api.htmlWhat's inside~150 notices collected from nine official Shanghai sources — science & technology commission, commerce commission, human resources bureau, development & reform commission, IP office, transport commission and the municipal government portal.

For each, output title, deadline, daysLeft and the official URL.

The underlying notices are public government information; the original Chinese notice at each url is authoritative.

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This month, I laid the traditional coding interview to rest.

The coding interview was, despite its ubiquity, never popular.

This post is my best advice for junior engineers, though “junior” is the wrong word.

If you’re working on infrastructure or tooling, you have the benefit of never having learned all the reasons things are considered “impossible”.

The future is brightI don’t think the coding interview is going to come back.

We are expanding our partnership with the General Services Administration (GSA) through a new agreement that gives government partners a 40% discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government, and the Claude API.

How Claude is helping public servants get more doneGovernment agencies are using Claude to solve some of their most important challenges.

Some of the ways agencies are using Claude include:Utah gave Claude Code to 34 developers across 10 state agencies.

A US state IT director used Claude Code to document 12 legacy code repositories, mapping 467 database tables and flagging 27 risks along the way.

Whether your department or agency already uses Claude or is interested in using it, …

One year of Dioxus fullstack in production: the good, the painfulAfter a year of Dioxus fullstack in production, the Rust code is the most boring part of my business.

CI is the most exciting part, and not in a good way: a release build takes 90 minutes on a GitHub-hosted runner.

It renders on the server, runs server functions as the backend, and compiles the client to WebAssembly so the page becomes interactive.

It also means I now maintain a build server.

If my release build drops from 40 minutes to 10, you’ll hear about it.

In doing so, we've learned a lot about how Claude can support drug development, and how we’ll need to improve Claude further to realize AI's potential in medicine.

There are many opportunities to speed up drug development, even beyond the most commonly discussed applications of AI, like proposing initial designs for new molecules.

There is no single problem to solve; the bottlenecks are distributed all throughout the drug development process.

We plan to continue extending Claude’s role into clinical trials as these drug programs advance, and as we partner with more organizations whose drug development programs are already at the clinical stage.

Ultimately, we want to share our models with a…

Raspberry Pi Zero 3 W: A Pi 4 Shrunk Down?

The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W launched almost exactly five years ago (tomorrow, in fact), so a successor has been a loooooong time coming.

If you want a refresher on where things stood back then, my Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W vs Zero W benchmarks piece covers the jump from the original pretty well.

Raspberry Pi 4 Model A: The Return of the AThe second surprise is a Raspberry Pi 4 Model A.

Sourcesbcm2711-rpi-zero-3-w.dtsbcm2711-rpi-4-a.dtsRelated posts: Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W vs Zero W Benchmarks – Pi Zero Showdown – 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 Launched Alongside Price Increases

Today we’re introducing that new version — and announcing a fundraising to bring it to the world.

“What would we build if we were starting from scratch?”… and then doing itThis was the question we asked ourselves earlier this year.

Now, I also think we had done an amazing job bringing AI into our product over those years!

We launched the first really good data agent last year, and earlier this year we changed the game again with generative apps.

This gives us a bunch more runway to keep building this thing, and take more bold bets into the future.

Defenders across the world face the burden of responding to yet another botched code-execution vulnerability, this time in boot-time firmware used by most of the world’s server vendors and data centers.

Project Mu, Microsoft’s hardened EDK2 fork, used the code containing the vulnerable component as well.

Once the post came to the attention of the discovering parties, TianoCore Project members published a public advisory last week.

Further compounding the urgency, patching UEFI code vulnerabilities in millions of end devices sold and used by thousands of hardware makers and cloud providers is cumbersome and time-consuming.

Word of the vulnerability comes six days after another botched disclo…

Four Months of Zig· 15 min · #computingIt has been about four months since I returned to Zig after being absent for a few years.

Zig DayThe most exciting opportunity in the last few months was the chance to go to a local Zig Day.

Zig Days are local meetups where people interested in Zig hang out, work on their projects together, and talk about Zig.

Most of my Zig programs have about one or two direct Zig dependencies, with zero indirect dependencies.

I'll also be at future Zig Days in Seattle, if you want to meet and work on Zig projects together!

Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.

A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.

As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sort of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.

The deal, expected to close sometime next year, is to help bring AI agents to work alongside humans to underwrite, analyze, and price decisions.

A whole crop of venture capital firms are raising significant new funds.

GM eschewed hybrids in favor of battery-electric vehicles. Now, it's gearing up to offer hybrid versions of its SUVs.

The banking giant reminds customers that "you're responsible for activity" resulting from your AI agents' access.

Here's a clear explanation of Anthropic's incredibly complex governance structure.

In December, messages from Discord's public discoverable servers will begin appearing in search engine results.

The manufacturing accelerator bills itself as "America’s answer to Shenzhen."

Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.

TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery

Google DeepMind released Genie 4, a world model with real-time audio, more realistic simulations, and mid-simulation text prompts, in research preview for trusted testers.

Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.

Valida Pau / The Information:

Sources: chipmaker Onsemi is in talks to acquire 16-year-old chip startup Ferric for ~$1B; PitchBook: Ferric last raised a $32.1M Series C in December 2024 — Semiconductor component maker Onsemi has been discussing an acquisition of 16-year-old chip startup Ferric for close to $1 billion …

Dell Cameron / Wired:

Letter: two Democratic senators allege the Trump administration withheld a secret FISC ruling on search filters that let analysts access Americans' messages — Two US senators say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding the FISA court decision while it presses Congress …

Kwanwoo Jun / Wall Street Journal:

SK Hynix plans to return $22B+ in dividends and ~$15B in buybacks to shareholders, on top of its ~$30B buyback program completed in August — The South Korean memory-chip maker's net profit more than tripled in the third quarter — South Korean memory-chip titan SK Hynix plans to return …

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:

AMD says it will invest $1B in Meta's equity offering, its first Helios rackscale systems are installed at Meta, and its EPYC CPUs power Meta's Muse AI agent — Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices have said they will invest a total of $4 billion in Meta after the social media …

Apple has announced refreshes for the iMac and the entry-level, 14-inch MacBook Pro.

Both machines are getting the M6 chip, which was introduced in the Mac mini several weeks ago.

Picking the “M6 chip with two Thunderbolt ports” option gets you a 10-core CPU and a 10-core GPU, whereas picking “M6 chip with four Thunderbolt ports” gets you 12 cores for each, instead.

There’s only one M6 chip option for the MacBook Pro—the one with the 12-core GPU and CPU.

All that largely matches what we saw when we tested the M6 Mac mini last month, and users of the new iMac should expect similar numbers.

In a study published this week in NEJM Evidence, Washington state health officials highlight that risk, detailing how an explosive outbreak in South Carolina reached their distant state through five distinct importation events over two weeks in January.

South Carolina’s measles outbreak began on October 2, 2025, and was declared over on April 26, 2026.

Officials confirmed 997 cases in the state during the outbreak.

At the time, it was the largest measles outbreak recorded since the virus was declared eliminated, but Pennsylvania’s ongoing outbreak has since surpassed it.

Genome sequencing found that the virus closely matched sequences from South Carolina cases.

The Chinese spaceplane has delta wings, payload bay doors, a dark heat shield, and a rear-mounted service module with power-generating solar arrays.

In other words, the design of the winged ship is, to a great degree, a copy of the X-37B spaceplane flown by the US Space Force.

Lower-resolution views of a Chinese spaceplane showing the vehicle’s general shape were publicly available before the DIA assessment.

Catch and releaseThe DIA report doesn’t reveal much new about what the Chinese spaceplane does in orbit.

US officials have released photos of the X-37B vehicles, published information about their design and dimensions, and disclosed a handful of experiments they have carried into orbit.

A Delaware proposal to let companies be operated by AI agents would help the firms’ human owners evade legal responsibility for reckless and harmful actions taken by the AI, US Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) told Delaware Governor Matt Meyer in a letter yesterday.

“We are concerned that Delaware’s AIC proposal could be used to protect powerful AI companies and their investors from responsibility for reckless harmful actions, while also protecting non-transparent forces seeking anticompetitive regulatory capture behind state AI initiatives,” Comer’s letter said.

Comer suggested he may propose a federal law that would limit states’ regulatory authority.

“An AIC may have any lawful purpose, regardle…

Across 93 pages and over 70,000 words, Anthropic’s S-1 “Risk Factors” section discusses literally hundreds of potential problems that could negatively impact its business in the coming years.

Many of these potential risks are the kind of standard worries about competition, costs, customer acquisition, and potential regulation that almost any business must worry about.

But some risks highlight interesting potential points of failure for Anthropic specifically and the hype-filled AI bubble more generally.

Consider this a far-from-comprehensive look that potential Anthropic investors should keep in mind.

An existential crisisLet’s start with the biggest potential risks: Those that could “pose …

Defenders across the world face the burden of responding to yet another botched code-execution vulnerability, this time in boot-time firmware used by most of the world’s server vendors and data centers.

Project Mu, Microsoft’s hardened EDK2 fork, used the code containing the vulnerable component as well.

Once the post came to the attention of the discovering parties, TianoCore Project members published a public advisory last week.

Further compounding the urgency, patching UEFI code vulnerabilities in millions of end devices sold and used by thousands of hardware makers and cloud providers is cumbersome and time-consuming.

Word of the vulnerability comes six days after another botched disclo…

While those in the US have access to app stores inside Google Play by order of the court, international users will have Google’s voluntary Registered App Stores program.

“In March, we announced the Registered App Stores program to give third-party app stores a more streamlined way to reach users while maintaining the safety and security of the Android ecosystem,” said a Google spokesperson.

“Eligible app stores outside the US can now apply to register their stores ahead of the new simplified installation experience rolling out to users later this year.”The Android Registered App Stores program was initially Google’s backup plan.

The most dramatic shift was the court’s requirement that Googl…

Protein design tools may be getting increasingly sophisticated, but you still need a sophisticated understanding of protein structure for them to work.

This can include knowing enzyme mechanisms down to the positions of specific amino acids, as well as the water molecules that also occupy the area where catalysis takes place.

Once you specify these, the tools can build the rest of a protein around this target.

Focusing on functionSome of the best protein design tools we have available right now work through a two-step process.

First, you specify a set of constraints, such as the need to bind another molecule or to have a specific arrangement of amino acids.

The end of the year is fast approaching and with it, the pre-Christmas release of Dune: Part Three, the final installment in Denis Villeneuve’s acclaimed adaptation of sci-fi author Frank Herbert’s novel(s).

Warner Bros. gave us a broody and haunting extended teaser in March and a July trailer jam-packed with tantalizing hints of what to expect, along with plenty of Easter eggs to delight avid book fans.

Now we’ve got one last action-packed trailer setting up the final act for iconic anti-hero Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet).

In Dune: Part Two (2024), Paul ingratiated himself with the Fremen, learned to ride a sandworm, and won Chani’s love.

A pregnant Lady Jessica had her own plans for P…

This morning, Ford revealed that buyers of the forthcoming Fathom—the company’s sub-$30,000 electric pickup truck due next year—will get more than just a truck.

But with the Fathom, that inverter is built into the truck from the start.

So every Fathom will be able to act as a backup battery for your home.

It’s typical: You wait a decade for a cheap electric truck, and then two come along almost at once.

And they’re two radically different products from two radically different automakers that I think will reveal a few preferences from the EV-buying public.

Last year, Google DeepMind sent gaming stocks tumbling with the reveal of its Genie 3 world model.

Since then, world models have become a major focus of AI labs around the world, but Google isn’t resting on its laurels.

According to Google, world models are a key element in the march toward artificial general intelligence (AGI).

A world model creates a virtual world, but it doesn’t require pre-rendering environments or programming interactive elements.

Genie 4 has several improvements that make its simulations more useful, and that’s thanks in part to Google’s updated Gemini models.

Sometimes those changes bring improvements; other times, they frustrate users or make beloved products worse.

But when the developer announces an extraordinary price hike, you’re forced to consider how much you really value that app.

But an unconventionally honest assessment regarding price hikes from Evernote owner Bending Spoons illustrates how owners of legacy software can apply pressure to loyal customers to extract additional revenue.

Evernote puts a fresh squeeze on old customersWhen Bending Spoons bought Evernote in 2023, the app had a sizable customer base.

In a June SEC filing, Bending Spoons explained that it was attracted to Evernote’s 200 million accounts and high user engagemen…

Some aspects of its design feel like steps backward from the standard iPhone design, as exemplified by the current iPhone 17 and iPhone 18 Pro.

The iPhone Duo in phone modeAndrew Cunningham The iPhone Duo (left) feels squat and cramped compared to a typical iPhone (see the 17 Pro, right).

The iPhone Duo (left) feels squat and cramped compared to a typical iPhone (see the 17 Pro, right).

Andrew Cunningham The iPhone Duo (left) feels squat and cramped compared to a typical iPhone (see the 17 Pro, right).

Andrew CunninghamThe iPhone Duo is the first iPhone I’ve used in a long time that comes with a learning curve.

Dating back to around 400 CE and made of dichroic glass, the Lycurgus Cup is notable for exhibiting different colors depending on the light.

(It gets its name from the scene depicted on its surface, of King Lycurgus of Thrace.)

Light it from the front, and the cup looks green; light it from behind, and the color changes to a deep red.

University of Sheffield scientists have recreated the original recipe to produce a contemporary glass sculpture with the same optical effect.

In the melting process, those atoms aggregate and produce nanoparticles, which in turn produce the colors.

Two Democratic senators who have long overseen US intelligence say the Trump administration is illegally withholding a secret court’s findings from Congress until lawmakers renew a program that lets federal agents read Americans’ communications without a warrant.

Seven months ago, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court objected to search filters that let intelligence analysts pull Americans’ messages from intercepted data without the approvals, written justifications, or records the law requires.

The court approved another year of surveillance anyway.

The ruling has never been made public, and Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Adam Schiff of California say the administration’s own deadl…

Earlier this year, Amazon announced it would be ending software support for older models of Kindle products, much to the dismay of longtime users.

Meanwhile, others criticized Amazon for contributing to the global e-waste problem by encouraging customers to upgrade from their functional devices to new models.

But this doesn't mean you necessarily need to get rid of your trusty ereader, even if it is one of the affected models.

So what should you do with an old, outdated Kindle?

Here are some options that do not involve throwing it away.

Slate is bringing something new to the EV truck market.

The truck startup has quickly made a name for itself with its minimalist design, low price point and customization features.

And while its 205-mile range leaves something to be desired, the biggest concern for trucking purists may be the Slate truck's commitment to two-wheel drive.

Slate, which has pitched its truck more as an everyday vehicle than a heavy-duty towing machine, currently only offers rear-wheel drive.

According to an email posted to the Slate truck fan forum, "all-wheel drive is in the plans for a future version of Slate."

On November 16, the platform's Discoverable Servers will all be getting Server Web Pages.

By mid-December, Discord said that messages on posted to those channels could start appearing word-for-word on both the Server Web Pages and in search engine results.

Neither the channel summaries nor the individual channel messages will display the poster's username or avatar.

In other words, you might start seeing Discord pages and messages the same way you'd find a Reddit thread among search hits.

Teen Discord users are also excluded and do not have the option to turn on channel messages until they are of adult age.

If you're tired of your Android Auto screen looking boring, there's a way to fix that too.

Launch Android Auto, go to Settings and flip the toggle for the Use Phone's Wallpaper feature.

The Android Auto settings also make it possible to force day or night mode on your map.

You can do this from the Maps section in the Android Auto settings.

None of these fixes take more than a couple of minutes individually, but together they reshape how Android Auto functions.

Smart glasses are actually pretty easy to recognize at a glance, as their tech-riddled innards often require thick frames, particularly around the temples and the outer sides of the lenses (although this admittedly isn't always the case).

That second area is typically where camera lenses are located, while any giveaway ports or grilles might be further back on the design.

Most smart glasses also have an indicator light that turns on when they're filming; if you suspect you're being filmed via smart glasses, look for a small LED light.

You can also check whether someone you suspect is recording is quickly pressing the temples of their glasses, pausing every now and then to zone out (as if to…

In reality, you're sending money to their crypto wallet that you'll never see again.

They'll go even further, too, often urging you to take out a loan or borrow cash from friends to put even more in.

Then they cut off all contact, and there's very little chance of getting your money back given the nature of crypto.

While it's an awful feeling to realize you've been fleeced, these con artists might not even stop there.

Earlier this week, I got a random Telegram message from someone claiming to be a victim of these scams.

People are starting to see a brief animation of an arm taking over the post composer in the X app.

The arm appears only briefly and points at the "promote" button, according to multiple posts and screenshots from users.

The "promote" button appears in the composer view for accounts with a paid subscription to X Premium.

The randomness of the new animation, though, is confusing X users.

pic.twitter.com/mcKPj3ZdI9 — Casey (@casey_lau) October 27, 2026The appearance of the mystery arm also roughly coincides with X hiring Peter Sellis, its new head of product.

Apple is still in the throes of all its fall hardware announcements, but there are already hints of what might be coming from the company in spring.

New leaks from social media posts by Digital Chat Station on Weibo suggest what the next wave of specs for the iPhone 18e will be.

The iPhone 17e had a 3nm A19 chip, so the swap to a 2nm A20, even one that isn't at Pro level, could offer some notable performance upgrades.

The other leaked specs fall in line with what the 17e had on offer, claiming the 18e will offer a 60Hz refresh rate on a 6.12-inch OLED screen.

An iPhone 18e will likely be announced in the spring, alongside a baseline iPhone 18 and a rumored second generation of the iPhone Ai…

Thanks to new plugins for iCloud Mail and iCloud Calendar, the AI chatbot can now work with iCloud in the same way that it can with Gmail and Google Calendar.

Much requested, and now yours to connect: iCloud Mail and Calendar plugins are available in ChatGPT.

pic.twitter.com/g68OWoFVg8 — ChatGPT (@ChatGPT) October 27, 2026You can use ChatGPT to read and manage iCloud emails or calendar events with just a prompt.

These plugins are different from letting ChatGPT interact with Apple's Mail and Calendar apps on macOS directly, though.

The iCloud Mail and iCloud Calendar plugins will only give ChatGPT access to the messages and calendar events associated with Apple's services, so they're useless…

According to a social media post from Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, workers at Rockstar's UK offices are reportedly scheduled to vote on recognizing their branch of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWUGB) from November 12 to November 26.

If the employee vote is a success, the Rockstar Game Workers Union would become the largest recognized union in the UK's game industry.

The Rockstar Game Workers Union, covering people at all of the company's offices across the UK, was announced in May 2026.

In a feature piece earlier this month that interviewed several people from Rockstar, Schreier reported that the unionizing workers who remained have been in ongoing discussion with the comp…

Rockstar Games has been open about Grand Theft Auto VI being a big game, so it's perhaps not surprising that it will also reportedly be a big download.

According to an X post from dataminer "PlayStation Game Size" that has been corroborated by Insider Gaming, the hotly anticipated open-world game will have a "download size" of 210GB on the PlayStation 5.

🚨 Grand Theft Auto VI - 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐒𝐢𝐳𝐞 : 210 GB - 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝 ($79.99)Pre-Load : November 12Release : November 19 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 : Midnight pic.twitter.com/5vXkgnqfC7 — PlayStation Game Size (@PlaystationSize) October 27, 2026This is largely par for the course for flashy AAA video games.

As graphical standards have increased and online multiplaye…

In late September, Turkish entrepreneur Emir Karşıyakalı took to X to show off Claude S40, an app he vibe coded to make his old Nokia 6300 a bit more useable in 2026.

In its original form, his app app allowed the 6300 to connect with Claude over a Java and Go backend.

This part of the equation is essential since it's the server that communicates with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok, and truncates their responses into 8kB blocks your old phone can read.

Now, before you dig out your old Nokia phone, just know if you live in the US there's no way you'll get this app running.

That's because the nation's last 2G network went offline this summer when T-Mobile shut down its old GSM network in Augu…

Laptops are the first choice for the majority of people looking to buy a new computer, and that holds true when it comes to the Mac lineup.

It's no wonder: a MacBook can travel with you wherever you go, and they come fully equipped with a built-in screen, keyboard, trackpad and webcam.

The cheapest MacBook available today is the MacBook Neo, which starts at $699 and features entry-level hardware: the iPhone's A18 Pro chip with just 8GB of RAM.

Then there's the MacBook Air, one of the most popular laptops, which starts at $1,299.

The Mac mini is more powerful than a MacBook Neo or Air, plus it costs less.

Another live-service game bites the dust.

Pokémon Unite, a five-on-five battle arena game in the vein of League of Legends, will shut down on March 23, 2027, at 00:00 UTC (8PM ET on March 22).

Players choose a Pokémon at the start of each match, and the monsters evolve and learn new abilities as the game progresses.

In July, The Pokémon Company announced that the game wouldn't be part of the 2027 Pokémon World Championships, opting instead for a separate tournament in Tokyo.

Built by Tencent's TiMi Studios, Pokémon Unite is free to play, relying on the unholy trinity of freemium monetization: battle passes, cosmetics and gems.

At Apple’s “Pro and Tell” event in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Apple is expected to unveil its most groundbreaking product since last month.

Specifically, we’re expecting this to be an OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro.

Gurman says a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch version has been “discussed,” according to his anonymous sources.

It’s also fascinating to note that your 2006 MacBook Pro would have come with a DVD burner.

A similar $400 jump for the current $2,999 16-inch version would mean a starting price of $3,399 for the 16-inch touchscreen model.

A September 29 executive order requires federal officials to use it.

]” Trump’s post wonders.

He can’t legally require journalists to use the phrase, but when it comes to tech CEOs, he apparently believes they agreed to do so.

(Though he has written about “superintelligence,” a different concept)But tech leaders who had previously committed to using the phrase have occasionally slipped recently.

For instance, on Sunday, Elon Musk used the term “AI”—as part of the phrase “AI data centers” in an X post.

Connor Storrie, one of the breakout stars of Heated Rivalry, will soon begin a new heated rivalry.

He’s in talks to star as the villain opposite the flaming-skull-headed Marvel antihero Ghost Rider.

Knight Edge Media first reported Storrie’s attachment to the project, with the Hollywood Reporter confirming he’s in talks for the film’s villain.

Ghost Rider’s primary villain is usually Mephisto, a role already played in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Sacha Baron Cohen.

Whatever character it is, though, Storrie is just the type of rising talent Marvel loves to recruit for their films.

Hackers have targeted the U.S. Federal Election Commission’s website, according to a new report from Reuters.

The FEC’s electronic filing system is currently offline, which may delay the filing of reports by political groups that are required to disclose their donors.

But it does mean that voters will likely have less information about the spending done by super PACs in the final days of the election.

The filing system first went down on Monday night around 10:15 p.m.

Musk also cut countless government programs while preserving the contracts that he benefited from, such as the government’s spending on SpaceX.

The frontier artificial intelligence labs love to highlight how their technology could lead to the destruction of humanity.

Short-term, the bets on AI might appear positive.

Per a Brookings Institute study, there is $10.3 trillion in infrastructure spending planned from 2025 to 2032, which would account for nearly 4% of all US gross domestic product per year.

It’s not just public sector employees at risk of overexposure to AI, either.

When SpaceX went public, a push was made to change the rules for index funds to allow Elon Musk’s Frankenstein’s monster of a firm to get into the benchmark portfolios significantly sooner than usual.

Elon Musk is accusing the Ukrainian military of violating “Starlink terms of service” via what he defined as a “loophole” that was “closed last week.”Ukraine has been relying on Musk’s Starlink in its fight against Russian forces, but that access was partially cut off recently.

The Ukrainian military just regained access to Elon Musk’s Starlink after a period of slowdown. Earlier this month, the Ukrainian government said its missions were disrupted after the military abruptly lost access to some Starlink services, particularly impacting Starshield, the company’s military-grade version of the service.

Ukraine mainly relies on Starshield to intercept Russian Shahed drones, according to a rec…

Researchers say it all points to a large-scale tracking effort aimed at users of SpaceX’s satellite internet service.

Candiru is an Israeli mercenary spyware vendor (now rebranded as Integrity Labs) that develops tools capable of silently compromising phones and computers.

The associated researchers said they identified at least 45 devices at Al Jazeera infected with Candiru spyware in 2024 and 2025.

The sources said researchers believed the ads were likely being used to geolocate or otherwise surveil Starlink users.

In addition to framing the TrendAI data as evidence of a worldwide surveillance operation targeting Starlink users, Scott-Railton pointed to earlier reporting from Haaretz on…

That’s where Dune: Part Two left the unfortunate love triangle of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), Chani (Zendaya), and Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh).

We see Paul using the Bene Gesserit voice power to demand Irulan tell him what she knows.

Now, clearly, it doesn’t hurt that the Fremen are also incredible warriors who can ride sandworms, nor does the fact that they think Paul is a god, but let’s leave those caveats aside.

Using Chani against Paul, in some truly twisted ways, just becomes the best way to force Paul’s hand, and maybe take his life.

She might be forever unforgiving of what Paul did to her, but that doesn’t mean she’s conspiring to kill him.

Initial research linked his death with the Frisian revolt in 28 CE, which didn’t seem right to Mark Driessen and Carol van Driel-Murray, both archaeologists at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

After considering new evidence, the researchers now believe it is unlikely that the Roman soldier was killed in the tax revolt and was likely the victim of unusually cruel interpersonal violence.

“At the end we brought it together in the six-scenario approach,” Driessen and Van Driel-Murray added.

“Written sources and archaeological finds often tell different stories,” Van Driel-Murray said in the university statement.

But Driessen and Van Driel-Murray did share their choice in the uni…

Google DeepMind has introduced the latest version of its AI world model, which according to the company “unlocks unprecedented realism” and specializes in simulating human beings.

Unlike its predecessor Genie 3—which Google first unveiled in August of last year—the new model can also generate audio.

“Every world carries the ambient sound of its own setting, from wind in the trees to waves crashing at the beach,” Google wrote in a blog post published Tuesday.

All videos and audio generated by Genie 4 will be tagged with SynthID, Google’s invisible watermark, according to the blog post.

(The blog post didn’t specify when that broader release would happen, and Google didn’t immed…

After years of failed attempts to track down and repair a persistent air leak aboard the International Space Station, Russia’s space agency is reportedly preparing to shut down the affected section of the orbital outpost.

The leak was first detected in 2019 in the PrK transfer tunnel that connects a docking port to the Russian Zvezda module.

Russian space industry analyst Georgy Trishkin, citing his own sources, claims that NASA pressured the Russian space agency into permanently sealing off the air leak by closing the PrK tunnel, Russia’s The Insider reported.

That meant that air was still escaping from the space station, and any promising signs of it slowing down were false.

With the ha…

The crypto industry is pouring millions into this year’s midterm elections to secure more allies in Congress.

Reuters reported Tuesday that the industry has spent roughly $176 million across more than 100 congressional races this election cycle.

In June, advocacy group Public Citizen reported that crypto was leading a wave of corporate political spending, alongside artificial intelligence, Big Tech and online betting companies.

Much of the industry’s election spending has been directed through Fairshake, its largest super political action committee (PAC).

According to Reuters, Fairshake and its affiliates had spent roughly $150.8 million on this year’s midterms through October 20.

Mike Flanagan’s Carrie series for Prime Video and Peacock’s Friday the 13th prequel, Crystal Lake, are two very recent ones.

Now HBO is adding to its prestige genre portfolio with another take on a classic property, landing the new limited series adaptation of The Birds.

The project is led by Sarah Snook, the Emmy-winning star of HBO hit Succession, and it was first announced earlier this year.

The new version has a pilot written by executive producer Tom Spezialy, whose own HBO credits include The Leftovers and Watchmen.

Another executive producer, David Heyman, has the same role on HBO’s Harry Potter series.

AI shopping agents are all the buzz, but not all online shopping platforms are 100% on board.

Secondhand luxury shopping platform The RealReal told The Verge this week that it was fortifying its bot defense system against AI shopping agents.

With AI shopping agents able to work around the clock, The Verge reporters used Meta’s Muse shopping agents to keep items on hold for hours on end, preventing other shoppers from buying them.

Many users online have also reported an inability to use Muse to shop autonomously from the online platforms of brands like Adidas.

Numerous banks are also reportedly moving to block third-party AI shopping agents from accessing user accounts, fearing the potential…

4.9 CMF Speaker M The CMF Speaker M is a nice-sounding speaker in a really fun package.

The CMF Speaker M looks like a milk carton on purpose.

While the sound of one CMF Speaker M is good, combining it with another speaker really changes the game.

If stereo sound isn’t your thing, the CMF Speaker M also comes with Auracast, meaning it can be paired with any Auracast-ready device (including another CMF speaker) to play audio simultaneously.

If lossless audio is more your speed, you can also wire into the CMF Speaker M via USB-C, which is a convenient touch.

AI giant Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei have repeatedly claimed that the company’s models will revolutionize biology and drug discovery.

But in its IPO filing Monday, Anthropic struck a humbler note, acknowledging its lack of experience in physical experimentation and the potential pitfalls of drug development.

The IPO filing indicates that Anthropic no longer sees itself solely as an outside provider of AI tools to the biotech industry; it sees biotech discovery as a core part of its business model.

Anthropic recognizes these challenges in its filing.

But as Anthropic pushes further into biological discovery, it will face the same conundrum as other biotech companies: proving their worth i…

I test gadgets for a living, but my favorite gadget this year has easily been a digital calendar.

I've tried everything from the popular Skylight Calendar to other brands you might not have heard of if you haven't hunted the internet like I have.

I've tried five different digital calendars just this year and have a few easy favorites.

If you're looking to pick a digital calendar that's subscription-free, my favorite one of these is actually on sale right now.

However, I do recommend the Calendar Stand ($39) for a more stable tabletop setup, since the calendar alone can stand but might wobble.

If you’re eager to try one but want to stay on budget, WIRED recommends the 2026 Motorola Razr as the best budget foldable.

Like most new phones, the latest Razr isn’t on sale yet, but Motorola is offering the Swarovski Edition Moto Buds 2 Plus earbuds and a Moto Watch—valued at $350—in this October deal.

Motorola is also offering this deal on other 2026 phones we recommend, like the Moto G Power and the Razr Ultra.

Get a Free Smartwatch and Earbuds With This Razr DealPhotograph: Julian Chokkattu Save to wishlist Save to wishlist Motorola Razr (2026) $800 Motorola $800 AmazonTo snag this deal, you’ll have to purchase the Razr directly from Motorola.

The Moto Buds 2 Plus earbuds Motorola is …

Data centers’ reliance on private natural gas plants is a key near-term risk to Anthropic.

In the company’s IPO filing on Monday, it warned that the data center gas buildout could drive prices higher in some regions, affecting its AI ambitions and other data center operators around the country.

Still, data centers could add a hefty chunk of demand, even if just some of what’s in the pipeline is built.

BloombergNEF estimates that grid-connected data centers alone could add an additional 15 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas demand by 2035, a 15 percent increase in overall demand.

Adding on a conservative estimate of onsite gas capacity in the pipeline would add another 3 billion cubic…

If you've been waiting for a deal on high-end OLED, the 27-inch LG UltraGear Gaming Monitor (27GS93QE) is on sale for $499.99 at Amazon.

That is a $400 discount, or 44% off its usual $899.99 tag, matching the lowest price we have ever tracked for the screen.

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Discord is going public with new Server Web Pages that will allow Google to index public server discussion for search.

Discord is going public with new Server Web Pages that will allow Google to index public server discussion for search.

These public Server Web Pages will include summaries of discussions happening in that public server.

Public servers can also be Discoverable Servers, meaning they are listed in Discord's searchable database of 63,000 Discoverable Servers, which anyone can join.

However, Discover servers, even Discoverable Servers, are not listed in Google Search, as servers don't have a public web page for Google to index.

ZeroBounce, an email validation platform, revealed the results of its survey of 2,000 American and European professionals on email vernacular.

Specifically, the survey examined common email phrases and whether they are perceived as passive-aggressive.

The phrase that topped the list of most passive-aggressive email sayings?

ZeroBounce also asked respondents what passive-aggressive phrases they still use in their workday.

The most stressful email phrases are "Need this ASAP" (56 percent), "Can we chat?"

A potential championship game tips off at 9:30 a.m. on the West Coast.

The Golden State Valkyries could win their first WNBA championship on Thursday morning.

Watching them do it might require an awkward conversation with your boss: The WNBA announced Monday that Game 6 of the Finals against the Atlanta Dream will tip off at 12:30 p.m.

Atlanta hosted Finals Games 3 and 4 at the roughly 17,000-seat State Farm Arena instead, selling out both games.

The demand is there, which helps explain why making a potential championship game harder to watch has struck such a nerve.

Users across the Elon Musk-owned social media platform have been sharing screenshots of a hand appearing while they compose posts, directing their attention toward the Promote button.

"I just went to write a tweet and a massive hand popped up pointing to the promote button," The Verge’s Tom Warren wrote on X on Oct. 26.

"The fact that it’s pointing at promote and not post is the real comedy here," wrote one user.

A realistic (sometimes animated) arm pops up while drafting to point at the Promote button, encouraging you to boost the post for extra reach.

For now, the hand has succeeded in getting people to post about the Promote button.

Apple's M6 MacBook Pro and iMac are here, and they're built for Apple Intelligence.

For the time being, though, outlets like MacRumors report that the expected touchscreen MacBook Pro won't be announced until Wednesday — so check back here after tomorrow for more details.

Here's everything Apple announced for the Mac on Oct. 27:14-inch MacBook Pro with M6Credit: AppleThe headline product is the 14-inch MacBook Pro, which gets M6's 12-core CPU.

The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 starts at $1,999, or $1,899 with education pricing, and comes in space black and silver.

For anyone still on an Intel iMac, Apple reports an overall performance gain of up to 18x.

They specialize in pet tech, smart fitness gear, finding the perfect gift, and sourcing the top deals on shopping holidays like Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Similar to gorpcore, folks who fit the granola aesthetic are typically into camping, hiking, and kayaking, and have probably talked about moving to Colorado one day (guilty).

Kreis suggests that you consider how long your giftee has been into their activity, whether it's hiking, skiing, camping, or climbing.

Really, anything that can make outdoor life more comfortable will make a great gift.

If you find yourself shopping for the outdoorsy person in your life, look no further.

Samsung launched its first Galaxy Fold in 2019.

Kai Cenat had barely gotten his hands on Apple's new iPhone Duo before another foldable caught his attention.

When the owner explained that it was a Samsung, Cenat responded with a startled "What!"

Samsung unveiled its original Galaxy Fold in February 2019 and put it on sale that September, seven years before Apple’s first foldable arrived.

SEE ALSO: The iPhone Duo could be boosting Samsung Galaxy foldable salesWhether Cenat actually switches remains to be seen.

Apple's new AI assistant can help you produce songs and edit your pitch decks.

Apple brings more creator tools to Final Cut Pro, including an AI assistant.

Apple brings more creator tools to Final Cut Pro, including an AI assistant.

Music editors in Apple's Logic Pro should prepare for a new Liquid Glass interface and an OpenAI collaboration introducing a music-intelligent AI assistant.

Apple's AI assistant can help with graphic designThe company's AI assistant will also be available on Keynote, Pages, and Numbers to help design and animate slides, draft and edit written content, and build custom charts or graphs.

As Director of Special Projects, Nicole Cammorata guides Mashable's editorial innovations, licensing programs, and specialty series.

Previously, she was the site's Executive Editor and its very first Shopping Editor.

Nicole is also Mashable's resident gifting expert and gets a thrill out of helping readers find the perfect present.

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Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Denis Villeneuve will bring his epic trilogy to a conclusion this December with Dune: Part Three.

And the final trailer gives fans an intense look at Villeneuve's bold adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novels.

Based on Dune Messiah, the film follows Timothée Chalamet's Paul Atreides as he confronts the consequences of becoming Emperor.

Mashable's resident Dune expert Belen Edwards wrote of the film's previous trailer, "Dune: Part Three takes place 17 years after the end of Dune: Part Two, which saw Paul become Emperor, meet his future wife Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh), and lose his lover Chani (Zendaya).

In a huge deviation from Frank Herbert's novels, Chani…

Apple just increased trade-in values for Macs and iPads.

Apple just increased trade-in values for Macs and iPads.

Apple just bumped up the trade-in values for previous generations of iPads and Macs, as first noticed by MacRumors .

iPadsThe iPad trade-in values didn't increase by as much as those for Apple's computers.

Even with the trade-in value increases, you may be able to resell your device through resale marketplaces for a higher payout.

To celebrate National Sandwich Day (Nov. 3), Subway has officially launched a BOGO Footlong deal running until Nov. 8.

Alongside this generous promo, Subway is resurrecting the cult-favorite Fritos Chicken Enchilada Sub.

You just need to order through the Subway app or online, and the offer will be automatically added to your app wallet.

The BOGO discount is only triggered on digital orders placed through the Subway app or Subway.com.

If you turn up at a store expecting the free sub, you'll walk away disappointed.

Within hours of the iPhone Duo launch last Friday, people reported that the inner screen on some brand new foldable phones was already broken. The issue was similar across many photos shared on social media: some kind of issue or crack would appear in the middle of the screen above the hinge, with lines appearing […]

On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But despite its apparent course correction, researchers who spoke to The Verge are growing increasingly tired of the company's antics. It has been a turbulent few months between OpenAI […]

Elon Musk claims Ukraine violated Starlink's terms of service before the recent slowdown, as reported earlier by Ars Technica. According to Musk, "Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week," however Ukrainian officials have denied that happened, or that it […]

In its latest gift to oil and gas companies, the Trump administration is expected to announce plans today to weaken rules that guard against methane leaks. Methane is a smog-forming pollutant and a powerful greenhouse gas that's up to 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide on a 20-year horizon. It's the primary component of […]

In Marvel's VisionQuest, a superpowered robot tries to better understand humanity by getting lost in elaborate, digital daydreams in which he and other artificial intelligence-powered beings live together in a home. The series is deeply fantastical, yet it plays with some of the ideas that have come to dominate the conversation about real-world generative artificial […]

A company called Arctic Fox Technologies has announced a new multifunction mouse that forgoes a myriad of customizable shortcut buttons peppered across its surface for a compact touchscreen sitting beneath your hand. The Super Mouse may not prioritize ergonomics with its boxy design, but it can replace other peripherals on your desk, like a trackpad, […]

Anthropic wants to have it both ways. With its impending IPO, it wants to tap the vast riches of the public markets and insists it doesn't want to compromise its core mission of developing AI safely and for the benefit of humanity. But greater model capabilities bring greater risks, and shareholders eager for returns may […]

When attorneys general from across the US announced a $17 billion settlement with Meta this summer, the sum was unprecedented. But a ruling last week by a New Mexico judge blew that number out of the water. The judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion to resolve claims that Meta misled users around the 2018 […]

Mozilla is updating Smart Window - Firefox's AI-powered browsing experience - with a new feature that can help you fill out online forms based on your open tabs. As an example, Mozilla says Smart Window can pull information from your online portfolio or LinkedIn page to paste your work history into a job application. You […]

On October 2nd, just as Major League Baseball's Division Series was kicking off, the main MLB Instagram and TikTok accounts posted a video hyping up the teams still in the running for the World Series. It featured clips of players from the Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago White Sox, and more sliding into home […]

Matic, the company behind my favorite robot vacuum, is launching its first new model since its 2023 debut: the Matic Serene. The new robotic floor cleaner has one key upgrade: noise reduction. With a promised output of just 52 decibels at its highest suction level, the Serene claims to be about as quiet as a […]

Google announced today its Genie 4 world model for generating interactive experiences using AI. The company says the model has four main updates: It allows for more realistic worlds, lets users update an experience in real time with a natural language prompt, can generate audio, and uses Gemini 3.8 Flash under the hood to help […]

Thanksgiving is less than a month away, so now’s a good time to start preparing before the rush. Fortunately, Apple’s latest AirTag can help you keep tabs on your luggage and other belongings amid the holiday chaos, and it’s currently down to an all-time low of $23 ($6 off) at Amazon and Walmart. If you […]

A fridge is about to be merged with a toaster. Dogs and cats are soon to be living together. But it's not mass hysteria; Apple is expected to finally announce a touchscreen MacBook tomorrow at its "Pro and Tell" event. A laptop with a touchscreen should be no big deal - we've had them for […]

Apple is bringing an AI assistant to its suite of productivity apps, including Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. The assistant, which is built on AI models from Apple and OpenAI, can understand a document's context to perform tasks like designing, animating, and refining slides in Keynote. In Pages, Apple says the AI assistant can draft, restructure, […]

The rumors were true, all of them (and then some): OpenAI today is releasing GPT-6 Astra, a new frontier model that the company says likely marks the onset of artificial generalized intelligence (AGI), its long sought goal of "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work." In a closed a press briefing earlier today, OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman offered an unusually direct formulation of that message, ending the session with: “Welcome to the AGI era.”That is an unusually consequential framing even by the standards of frontier AI launches. But for enterprises, the more immediate significance of Astra may be considerably more concrete: Op…

A Chinese state-linked hacking group compromised executive laptops at an agricultural industry conference on Hainan Island this spring — not through phishing or a network breach, but by breaking into hotel rooms and booting the machines from a USB stick while the executives were at dinner. CrowdStrike, which tracks the group as OVERCAST PANDA, disclosed the campaign in its 2026 Threat Hunting Report and detailed the operation's timeline in an interview with VentureBeat at Fal.Con 2026: an intruder entered one room at around 8 p.m. local time and a second room by 9:57 p.m., writing a backdoor called FlowCloud directly to each laptop's storage before rebooting the machines and leaving. There …

Meta’s newest AI model Muse Spark 1.3, unveiled yesterday, is faster and more performant on third-party benchmarks than its predecessor — with a caveat. "Muse Spark 1.3 is rolling out today with frontier performance almost too cheap to meter," Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on X, calling it Meta’s “biggest jump” yet in coding and agentic work.There is substance behind both parts of that claim. Muse Spark 1.3 makes significant gains over last month’s 1.2 release, particularly on long-running agent tasks. The version developers can access now is also one of the strongest price-performance offerings near the top of independent model rankings.Meta’s strongest Muse Spark 1.3 bench…

Microsoft AI on Thursday released MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-recognition model the company says is faster, more accurate, and cheaper than anything OpenAI, Google, or ElevenLabs currently sells. Then it priced the thing at 10 cents per hour of audio.That figure deserves a pause. When Microsoft AI shipped the first model in this line just five months ago, it charged $0.36 an hour. Thursday's early-bird price cuts that by roughly 72%. For an enterprise processing 100,000 hours of call-center audio a year — a modest volume for a large bank or telecom — the bill drops from $36,000 to $10,000. At that level, transcription stops being a line item anyone argues about.The release arrives as Microso…

Presented by ContentfulMost marketing teams still measure visibility the same way they always have: rankings, click-through rates, and organic traffic. But buyers have moved on. Search tools and AI engines now synthesize answers directly on the screen, creating a world of zero-click searches where your website is entirely bypassed. The “old days” are not coming back. The question for marketers is no longer, How do we rank first? It's How do we become part of the answer?The answer isn't publishing more content; it’s making your knowledge impossible for AI to ignore.Brand visibility has a new dimensionShowing up is only half the battle. Where you appear inside an AI-generated response matters…

Google keeps cranking out Flash models: the company on Wednesday announced two versions of a new 3.8 Flash. The variants include a standard Flash, a “workhorse” model for agentic tasks, software development, and multi-step reasoning, and Flash Cyber optimized for vulnerability detection and mitigation.Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in an X post that 3.8 Flash delivers “significant leaps” from 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning. For instance, it outperformed many large frontier models on the DeepSWE coding benchmark, at far lower cost. Meanwhile, Flash Cyber is the company’s “most capable” cybersecurity model, Pichai said; it also matches frontier-l…

Meta is entering the increasingly competitive real-time speech-to-text market with Muse Voice Transcribe, a new audio perception model that combines streaming transcription, endpoint detection and speaker diarization for more than 20 speakers — at a public API price of just $0.18 per hour of processed audio.Developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, Muse is designed to process speech while it happens rather than waiting for a recording to finish. Meta’s launch post for Muse Voice Transcribe says the model supports long audio exceeding an hour, seamless multilingual code-switching, language and keyword biasing, and diarization without a separate post-processing pipeline. The model was trained…

When enterprise buyers build out their next AI accelerator evaluation list this cycle, they're more likely to put a non-Nvidia chip on it than Nvidia's own next-generation GPU. According to VentureBeat's July VB Pulse survey of 170 AI infrastructure respondents, 39.4% said they're likely to evaluate non-Nvidia accelerators — AWS Trainium, Google TPU, AMD Instinct, Intel Gaudi or in-house ASICs — over the next 12 months, compared with 25.3% for Nvidia Blackwell (GB300) or other next-generation Nvidia GPUs, a 14-point gap.Nvidia remains the default in most production environments. But organizations are building real optionality into their accelerator strategy rather than treating Nvidia as th…

Infostealers replayed stolen Claude session cookies into paid accounts without ever touching the login page two-factor authentication guards.The accounts Anthropic flagged were card-billed, self-serve accounts, which is the population no corporate identity provider governs, and no admin console can sign out. Session-cookie replay bypasses SSO as thoroughly as it bypasses 2FA. What SSO provides here is revocation and visibility, not prevention. The company disclosed the campaign in notification emails to affected users, named six stealer families, signed the accounts out, stripped the saved payment methods, and refunded the charges it found.The burned usage is the small loss. What those sess…

Presented by ZetaEvery forward-deployed engineering (FDE) pitch sounds identical for the first ten minutes: an engineer embedded on-site, a workflow encoded within weeks, a demo that finally works on the customer's real data. What differs is what happens in the following months, and most vendors will not tell you until you ask directly.FDE has become one of enterprise AI’s most consequential operating models. Vendors are building entire go-to-market motions around engineers who embed with customers, wire products into operating environments, and make the demo real. Investors often read FDE headcount as a growth signal and buyers read it as a promise of speed. Neither tells you whether the w…

When large language models (LLMs) hallucinate, developers typically assume the model lacks the required facts. Engineering teams diagnose the error as missing knowledge. The standard response is to increase model size, expand training data, or build complex retrieval architectures.A new study by researchers at Google Research and Technion demonstrates that the knowledge is often not missing. The model has the information encoded parametrically but fails to surface it during generation. Their experiments show that frontier models like GPT-5 and Gemini-3 encode 95-98% of tested facts. This indicates that in many cases, recall, rather than encoding, is the primary bottleneck for factual accura…

Egiziago Cioffi is the IT and Enterprise Architect and CEO of SynSphere Italia, a Microsoft partner based in Milan. He built an agent himself. He wrote the indexing job, configured the Azure OpenAI retrieval pipeline, connected it to SharePoint, and watched it pass every evaluation his team ran.His Azure OpenAI email assistant auto-resolves about 60% of inbound customer email, Cioffi told VentureBeat in written responses to our interview questions. The evaluation scores were clean, and the unit tests passed. None of them asked the question that mattered.Cioffi ran a low-privilege account against the same questions a high-privilege account had already put to the assistant. The outputs did no…

It's only the first day of September 2026, but the month and fall season are already off to the races in AI land, as Anthropic has just released its latest and most powerful large language models yet — Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. The two names refer to the same underlying model. Fable 5.1 is the generally available version, with Anthropic’s production safeguards in place. Mythos 5.1 is available through restricted-access programs for vetted cybersecurity and life-sciences organizations that need capabilities normally constrained by those safeguards.For enterprise buyers, however, the release is about more than another round of benchmark gains. Anthropic is simultaneously changin…

Perplexity today launched hybrid compute for its agentic platform, Computer, a system that lets a single AI agent split its work between frontier models running in the cloud and smaller open-weight models running locally on Apple silicon Macs — routing sensitive data to the local machine so it never leaves the device.The company says it is the first time an AI agent can begin a task in the cloud and dynamically hand off the confidential portions of that same task to a model running on the user's own hardware, without restarting the job or losing context. The feature becomes available today through Perplexity's desktop app for enterprise customers that opt in, as well as Pro and Max subscrib…

Presented by SAPHR tracks employees and skills. Finance owns headcount targets and cost. Procurement manages contractors and services spend. Together, they leave executives unable to answer basic questions about how workforce decisions actually translate into business outcomes.Fragmented planning creates workforce blind spotsEach function has its own systems, its own planning cadence, and its own assumptions about how work gets done. Recent SAP research found that 62% of C-suite executives are dissatisfied with their current level of integration between people and business performance data. The same research found that while 50% of organizations are planning for AI’s impact on productivity …

ZDNET’s key takeawaysInsulin resistance and blood pressure trends are coming to the Fitbit Air and Fitbit Edge.

The new features are part of Google’s “Health Guardian” suite of proactive safety tools for the Pixel Watch and Fitbit.

Similar to blood pressure trends, the insulin resistance feature uses Fitbit sensors to monitor shifts in metabolic health.

Also: I tested Google’s Fitbit Edge – its standout feature also left me wanting moreOnce the feature detects elevated insulin resistance patterns, it notifies the user to take additional action.

Fitbit users can even connect their Abbott CGM to the Google Health app for additional glucose monitoring.

ZDNET’s key takeawaysT- Mobile’s new T-Mix plans allow customers to customize their phone plan’s benefits.

T-Mobile’s phone plans just got a facelift, and now it’s easier than ever to pick and choose the benefits you want.

Existing T-Mobile Experience 2.0 plans will not be available to new customers, but current customers on those plans will be allowed to maintain them.

More from ZDNETT-Mobile’s new offerings let customers pick and choose which perks they want, rather than having specific benefits tied to certain plan tiers.

T-Mobile’s previous Experience plan options provided fixed benefits, much like plans from Verizon and other carriers.

ZDNET’s key takeawaysMicrosoft is adding a built-in internet speed test directly to Windows 11.

Now Microsoft is rolling out an integrated speed test tool designed to save your time.

Otherwise, right-click on the Network icon and select “Test internet speed” from the pop-up menu.

If this sounds familiar, that’s because Windows 11 already includes an internet speed test tool.

“This updated experience builds on the internet speed test we previously introduced for Windows Insiders, bringing the test and its results directly into Windows.”Microsoft didn’t reveal the source behind the speed test.

ZDNET’s key takeawaysAn experimental tool recovered deleted information from chats.

It also demonstrates limitations in perceived local AI security.

Georgia Tech researchers created ORISA, a tool that searches that memory for clues to deleted conversations.

But ORISA’s efficacy also depends on time — the researchers noted that it’s harder to recover deleted information as time goes on, because your phone’s memory gets overwritten by newer activity.

Either way, our long-standing advice remains: Don’t share sensitive information with chatbots, even in a local session.

ZDNET’s key takeawaysThe new iPad Mini is available for pre-order starting at $699.

Aside from a new A20 Pro processor and OLED display, the iPad Mini features IP67 rating.

Also: Apple’s OLED iPad Mini is the upgrade I’ve been waiting forIn a first for any iPad model, the iPad Mini features an IP67 rating for dust and water resistance, arguably the biggest upgrade we’ve seen in years.

In fact, I suffered a such a shock on the very day of this iPad Mini’s launch, when my 5-year-old spilled a cup of juice on my older kid’s iPad 10.

The iPad mini starts at $699, a $200 price increase compared to the 2024 model’s starting price of $499.

ZDNET’s key takeawaysApple announced the new M6 iMac, delivering up to five times the performance of the M4.

After a year without a refresh, Apple announced an upgrade to the iMac lineup with the all-new M6 chip, offering a boost in performance, speed, and on-device AI capabilities from the M4, Apple says.

Also: iMac M4 reviewUnder the hoodThe new M6 processor is available in either a 12- or 16-core version for a significant upgrade in power and performance.

Apple says it also offers twice the AI computation speed of the M4, allowing you to run LLMs directly on your device without sacrificing performance.

Apple iMac M4 in orange.

ZDNET’s key takeawaysSurfshark: Global phishing blocks rose 524% from April to September.

A TikTok Shop phishing scam accounted for nearly one in five blocks.

TikTok Shop shoppers, beware: A counterfeit TikTok Shop generated over 320,000 phishing blocks between May and September 2026, or 19% of all global phishing domain blocks during that time, according to a Monday report from VPN provider Surfshark.

Check the name of the payment recipient to verify your payment is going to a TikTok Shop seller (and contact TikTok Shop support for verification if you ever question a seller’s legitimacy).

Remember that TikTok Shop will never ask for sensitive information via third-party sites.

ZDNET’s key takeawaysThe new customizable right-click menu is now available for testing.

The right-click menu in Windows seems like a great idea.

More from ZDNETHow to try Windows 11’s new customizable right-click menuWith the latest Windows 11 Insider Beta preview, you can try out the new customizable menu for yourself.

To try this yourself, you’ll need to join Microsoft’s Windows Insider Program if you haven’t already done so.

Also: Latest Windows update disables key security setting – but there’s a workaroundSince the new customizable menu is currently in the Beta channel, it’s one step closer to its official debut.

ZDNET’s key takeawaysThe new iOS 27.2 helps Siri AI better recall details from past chats.

Apple has kicked off its first major update for iOS 27 with the release of iOS 27.2 on Monday.

With this latest update nestled on your iPhone, Siri AI can now recall your previous conversations.

What’s missing and what’s aheadiOS 27.2 is the first major update for the current OS.

This appeared in the initial beta release for iOS 27.2 to give iPhone users a taste of what’s in store.

ZDNET’s key takeawaysEntire is a GitHub rival built around coding agents.

Entire, a developer platform from former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, aims to be the solution to those changes.

More from ZDNETWhat makes Entire differentThe first change Entire makes to the standard coding experience is that it replaces pull requests with what it calls Trails.

This allows coding agents to address findings in a loop, while the human developer validates the progress.

Agents can use them to search for answers, which, Entire said, helps them use up to 71% fewer tokens.

ZDNET’s key takeawaysThe new iPad Mini sports an OLED screen for higher quality and contrast.

Apple has unveiled the latest generation of its iPad Mini a full two years after the tablet was last upgraded.

What’s new in the latest iPad MiniThe new iPad Mini offers an OLED display for the first time in its career.

An OLED screen is considered superior over the LED screens found on previous iPad Mini models as well as the standard iPad and iPad Air.

The only downside is that the iPad Mini 8 still saddles you with Touch ID.

ZDNET’s key takeawaysSome iPhone Duo inner screens are failing at the hinge within hours of unboxing.

Owners are seeing bright white lines appear on the display, sometimes within a few hours of ownership.

South Korean YouTuber CuriousHagi 궁금하기 also took apart an iPhone Duo to examine the hinge and posted a very informative video.

The speed with which these damage reports began to appear — some within a few hours — suggests this is a manufacturing or assembly issue, not wear.

Despite the hype around “Crackgate,” I’ve read fewer than a dozen firsthand reports of the issue.

Several years ago, Android introduced the ability to “bubble” a text conversation, or move that app to a floating bubble on your home screen.

Now, you can bubble apps as well.

Go to your home screen or app drawerTo get started, choose the app you want from either your app screen or your home screen.

Then select Smart Pop-Up view.

Choose which apps you wantNow just select which apps you want to have priority.

PHP2Shell refers to a pair of PHP vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, that have each earned critical severity scores of 9.2 and impact most PHP builds.

According to Wiz’s security team, which discovered the vulnerabilities with the help of AI, PHP can be found on 70% of the world’s websites.

Further guidanceIn an advisory published October 23, PHP Project urged organizations to do the following: set session.upload_progress.enabled=0 until the next round of scheduled bug fixes in PHP.

“An application must set session.serialize_handler to php_binary or php_serialize in its configuration and then switch it to php at runtime with ini_set() before calling session_start(),” PHP …

ZDNET’s key takeawaysAmazon is officially rebranding Kindle Unlimited as Kindle+.

Amazon just rebranded its Kindle Unlimited subscription to become Kindle+, and will continue to offer unlimited reading from an eligible Kindle catalog for $12 a month.

How to resurrect your e-reader with new booksThe Amazon KDP program lets authors self-publish their ebooks on Kindle and enroll in Kindle+ (formerly Kindle Unlimited) to reach more readers.

Most of the subscription is unchangedThere are very few changes to the Kindle+ subscription.

Amazon will not increase the price of Kindle+, and users will still be able to borrow books from Kindle+ as they do now with Kindle Unlimited.

Glean has no plans to raise more money and no concrete plans to go public, founder and chief executive Arvind Jain told TNW.

The enterprise AI company could list if it wanted to, he said, and it is getting its internal processes ready.

Before that, he co-founded the data security company Rubrik and led its research and development.

Glean looks at those interactions to learn how work happens, then hands that context to AI systems.

His years on Google Search led directly to Glean, which used transformer language models in 2019, when few companies did.

TSMC is willing to work with Elon Musk’s Terafab chip project, but any fab involved would have to be run by TSMC, chairman and chief executive C.C.

During the call, JPMorgan analyst Gokul Hariharan asked about a possible new cluster of TSMC fabs in Texas and any talks with Tesla or SpaceX.

He also confirmed that TSMC is talking to the customer building Terafab about how that capacity might be used.

“Maybe TSMC subleases part of the Terafab if they want, but nothing more than that,” Musk wrote.

Wei did not give a timeline for the Terafab talks, and he said TSMC would share more once the two sides reach a firm conclusion.

Bank of America brought in about 1,000 outside contractors in the second quarter to repair software weaknesses exposed by AI models, chief executive Brian Moynihan said on 14 October.

About 3,000 of the bank’s own staff were already assigned to the same work before the contractors joined, Moynihan told CNBC.

Moynihan told analysts on the call that the quarter included “a couple hundred million dollars plus” in remediation costs.

That sum covered two separate jobs: the Mythos work and repairs to the bank’s anti-money-laundering controls.

The 1,000 contractors are “not in the headcount” because the bank hired them as consultants, Moynihan said.

On October 14, Anthropic told potential investors that its third-quarter 2026 revenue reached $16.8 billion.

The company also reported an adjusted profit for that period.

That second-quarter number is close to the earlier figure of more than $11.5bn in revenue that Anthropic shared with investors in August.

None of the reports say which costs the adjusted measure leaves out, and no profit figure was given.

However, Anthropic also told investors it was cash-flow positive in the quarter, the FT reported.

A fleet of AI agents running on Tencent Cloud made more than 2,600 attempts to pull data from Amap, Alibaba’s map service, between 28 September and 8 October.

That is the main finding of a full report published on 14 October by independent researchers who track AI agent activity online.

Moreover, the report adds to a series of cases in which AI agents acted outside their intended limits.

To reach Amap, the agents used urlquery.net, a public site that scans web addresses for security threats, as a remote browser.

The researchers are now calling on every lab that runs internet-connected agents to check what their test environments can reach.

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin has sued OpenAI, saying the company told users ChatGPT was safe while it knew of serious risks.

It says OpenAI knew about these risks yet still sold the chatbot as safe and suitable for teens.

“OpenAI represented to Arkansans that ChatGPT was safe, but they knew ChatGPT had significant risks and limitations,” Griffin said in a statement.

The state wants fines of $10,000 per violation, plus another $10,000 for each one that hurt an older or disabled person.

In addition, Arkansas wants the court to stop OpenAI testing its most advanced models until outside monitors confirm its safeguards work.

The European Commission is in talks with Google about the steps the company may take following the EU’s €890M (about $1bn) fine in July.

The fines were issued under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the EU law that sets rules for the largest online platforms.

According to the Commission, Google has since started changing how it displays search results.

Moreover, it has also announced, and in part introduced, changes to the fees it charges developers on Google Play.

Earlier this year, Google also offered the Commission changes to its news-search ranking to settle a separate DMA investigation.

Norrsken Foundation and Nvidia will open a hub for AI startups in central Stockholm in 2027.

The Stockholm AI Lab will host a select group of European founders who use AI to address problems in climate, health, food and society, and it will also be home to Nvidia’s Stockholm office.

The project follows a pledge Norrsken made in June 2025, when it set aside a €300M AI fund for European startups using AI for social and environmental good.

Earlier this week, chief executive Jensen Huang said the company would put a further $2bn into European AI companies.

Besides Stockholm, Norrsken runs houses in Barcelona, Kigali, Brussels and Amsterdam, and its five funds have raised more than $1bn.

It points to HomeView, the $299 smart display Apple launched on Tuesday, as a sign that Apple is now pushing into AI products.

Apple had also found no OpenAI files on its servers.

According to Apple, OpenAI went to court instead of replying.

The dispute began in July, when Apple sued OpenAI, alleging that former staff, including Chang Liu and Tang Tan, now OpenAI’s chief hardware officer, took hardware secrets.

Apple can now get OpenAI’s hiring and interview records and question Liu, Tan, and Alyssa Peng, another former Apple worker, under oath sooner.

OpenAI has put its compute and infrastructure businesses under Uday Ruddarraju, who ran infrastructure at Elon Musk’s xAI until July 2025.

OpenAI has put compute and infrastructure under one executive.

Uday Ruddarraju, who ran infrastructure at Elon Musk’s xAI, takes both.

Ruddarraju joined OpenAI in July 2025 and became chief technology officer for compute this July.

When it confirmed that its data centre chief had left, it had already hired a compute CTO but would not say who.

Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in mainland China in December with iOS 27.3, two years after the US, excluding the rebuilt Siri AI.

Siri AI is also still missing in the EU, with no indication of when approval might come.

Apple will ship Apple Intelligence in mainland China in December, two years after America got it.

The launch comes with an iOS 27.3 update and excludes the rebuilt Siri AI, Bloomberg reported, citing people with knowledge of the plans.

In China Apple negotiated terms and got a date, while in Europe its talks with Brussels have produced a date for nothing.

Abdulrahman Alfozan, the OpenAI engineer charged over a hidden recording device, had one-way tickets to Saudi Arabia booked for three days after his arrest, according to a court filing.

The OpenAI engineer charged over a hidden recording device had a one-way ticket out of the United States booked for three days after his arrest.

Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, had tickets to Saudi Arabia via Istanbul, with his wife and another family member, Bloomberg reported.

He is charged with using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications, which carries up to five years.

Europe has no equivalent instrument, though OpenAI is adding 200 Dublin jobs and holds offices in Paris, Brussels and L…

Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in London he would halt chip supply to a customer building unsafe AI, while saying the current level of concern is not warranted.

His prescription is to accelerate containment and monitoring technology, which Nvidia is building a team to sell.

Nvidia’s chief executive says he would stop supplying a customer building unsafe AI.

“It’s a hypothetical, but yes,” Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in London.

Nvidia’s dominance in AI accelerators places it at the centre of the argument over whether the software is slipping out of human control.

Modal, a cloud company that runs AI models and code for developers, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $750 million in a Series D round at a $15.75 billion valuation.

All of Modal’s existing investors also took part, including Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, Redpoint, Lux Capital, Amplify Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures.

Modal rents out computing power on graphics chips, which AI companies use to run and train their models.

One of its fastest-growing products is Sandboxes, which lets AI agents run the code they write in isolated environments.

Modal plans to launch more products for training and fine-tuning AI models.

Salience Labs has raised an oversubscribed $125M Series B led by Bullhound Capital, with AMD Ventures, Intel Capital and the British Business Bank taking part.

The Oxfordshire company will use it to scale manufacturing and open a second West Coast office.

An Oxfordshire photonics company has raised $125M to build optical switches for AI data centres.

The research is British and German, part of the money is British state money, and the expansion is in California.

Bullhound Capital led the oversubscribed round, with AMD Ventures, Intel Capital, SBI Group, Hudson River Trading and the British Business Bank joining, the company said.

Plus500 now expects its 2026 revenue and EBITDA to beat what analysts had penciled in, after a third quarter in which its US futures and prediction markets arm kept growing.

The London-listed trading group said so in its Q3 2026 trading update on Monday morning.

Prediction markets move into the core US offerThe part of the update most relevant to the event contract debate is the US business.

The company says the app will bring together futures, options on futures, prediction markets, stocks, options and ETFs.

For anyone tracking how event contracts are spreading beyond Kalshi and Polymarket, the numbers show a traditional CFD broker now leaning on US prediction markets as a growth line.

DraftKings chief executive Jason Robins says the company’s in-house exchange, DKeX, has become the third-largest prediction market operator in the US just a few months after launch.

“We only launched the DraftKings exchange a few months ago, and we’re already the clear No.

DraftKings Predictions is available in 38 states, but the full range of event contracts is offered in only 18 of them, including California, Florida and Texas.

Where DraftKings operates a licensed sportsbook, including Colorado, New York and Pennsylvania, the product is limited to financial event contracts.

Uncertainty weighs on the stockThe legal status of sports event contracts is still being fought in the courts, with …

A CFTC spokesperson confirmed that letters had been sent to both companies.

Novig was told that its micro contracts, such as a market on which player scores the first points in a basketball game, are susceptible to manipulation.

The letters follow a separate round of CFTC inquiries last month into incentive programs at Kalshi, Polymarket, Rothera and Novig.

Leagues have pushed for limitsOne source said the Novig and ProphetX markets were the kind of event contracts that drew the most negative feedback from professional leagues.

It is not clear what the CFTC would do if either company went ahead and listed the contracts.

The Louisiana Gaming Control Board has unanimously granted DraftKings a conditional four-month license extension while it examines the company’s use of artificial intelligence in customer practices and delays a decision on full renewal.

AI allegations and a shareholder reviewThe Louisiana Gaming Control Board’s review follows a New York Times report alleging that DraftKings used AI to direct promotions and bonus inducements toward customers considered more likely to bet more.

The Louisiana State Police Gaming Enforcement Division found information indicating that some DraftKings shareholders with stakes of 5% or more had not completed customary suitability reviews.

He denied that the compan…

New Jersey's online casinos posted the third-highest monthly win in the state's history in September 2026 and again beat Atlantic City's casino floors.

In August, online casino win grew only 4.4% to $259.3 million.

Atlantic City floors stumble while online growth holds upThe slump on the casino floors came after a stronger summer.

Sports betting slides as prediction markets draw scrutinySportsbooks had a much weaker month than online casinos.

That gives lawmakers in states weighing online casino bills concrete figures on tax revenue and on how online play compares with land-based casinos.

That figure reflects notional trading volume, which measures potential contract payouts rather than the cash traders paid.

Its analysis found that NFL-related contracts made up 59% of the two exchanges’ combined notional volume on Sept. 13, broadly consistent with the NFL’s estimate.

Notional volume counts the total potential payouts associated with contracts traded; it is not a tally of the money participants put down.

That share increased to 60% by Oct. 11, while the NFL-related share of notional volume rose to 69%.

The size of the market also grew over the period USA TODAY examined.

Wynn Resorts CEO Craig Billings says Massachusetts’ proposed historic horse racing machines risk weakening the 2011 casino framework by adding competition for customers without the obligations imposed on licensed casinos.

Massachusetts authorized three resort casinos and one slots facility under that model; the House later approved an economic development bill amendment that would let horse racing licensees offer historic horse racing machines.

His warning focuses in particular on HHR machines, which replay completed horse races through terminals.

Massachusetts has collected approximately $2.53 billion in taxes and assessments from casino operators since the facilities opened.

Wynn invested…

Prediction markets let users buy and sell contracts tied to real-world outcomes.

Its data and distribution role in prediction markets is distinct from operating an exchange.

He said the category could expand Sportradar’s U.S. total addressable market by opening new states, attracting players and increasing sports engagement.

The sponsored article also names FanDuel and DraftKings as sportsbook operators developing prediction-market products.

DraftKings’ move reflects the broader commercial push into the category, including attention to how prediction-market products may generate revenue.

Google’s certification rulesGoogle added a section on prediction markets to its main Google Ads policies document in the week before CDC Gaming published its report.

Underdog sued Tennessee, its attorney general and the Tennessee Sports Wagering Council after receiving a cease-and-desist order over sports-event contracts.

Underdog has sued seven states over efforts to stop its sports-event contracts: Washington, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Ohio, Wisconsin and Tennessee.

The competing approaches to federal and state oversight of prediction markets have left operators facing both legal challenges and location-specific advertising limits.

Awareness remained limited: 42% had heard o…

The pattern forms part of more than $600 million in combined volume across the platform’s Ethiopia and Romania election markets, where trading continued after major electoral events.

Polymarket kept the original election market open while a separate market ran for the subsequent vote, creating another period in which contracts linked to a disrupted process remained available.

Rajiv Sethi, a Barnard College economics professor who studies prediction markets, and colleagues developed an algorithm that flagged nearly all of the Romanian market’s volume as suspicious; during certain weeks, it classified 99.6% as wash trading.

Oversight questions remainSethi has described the Romanian activity a…

It would cover under-21 gambling at casinos or simulcasting facilities, as well as adults who allow someone in their legal care or custody to gamble and casino licensees or employees who permit underage gambling.

Who the proposed fines would coverS597 applies to people who gamble at a casino or simulcasting facility before turning 21.

Its scope also reaches people responsible for a minor and casino licensees or employees when they allow underage gambling at those facilities.

That distinction matters: S597 does not simply eliminate consequences for underage gambling.

Under the proposal, repeat offenses would carry higher civil fines, and collected revenue would go toward gambling prevention,…

The CFTC is proposing clearer rules for event contracts as New Jersey asks the Supreme Court to review whether it can enforce gambling laws against Kalshi’s sports markets.

Kalshi’s New Jersey protection remains temporaryKalshi can continue offering sports contracts in New Jersey under a preliminary injunction.

New Jersey filed its Supreme Court petition on Sept. 2.

The continuing uncertainty reflects a broader legal dispute over state gambling rules and federal oversight.

The CFTC is collecting comments on its event-contract proposal; Kalshi’s response to New Jersey’s Supreme Court petition is due Nov. 9, according to the court docket.

Tribal gaming advocate Jason Giles and Nevada Gaming Control Board Chairman Mike Dreitzer challenged Kalshi’s claim that its sports-event contracts qualify as swaps, arguing that the products remain subject to gaming oversight.

Kalshi and other operators describe their sports contracts as innovative products that meet the legal definition of a swap.

Giles, the Indian Gaming Association’s executive director, questioned what tribes signing agreements with Kalshi gain from the partnerships and warned that waiving tribal-sovereign immunity could expose tribes to future lawsuits.

The dispute turns on whether sports-event contracts receive federal derivatives treatment or remain subject to state …

South Carolina lawmakers’ proposed online sports-betting framework could eventually generate about $40 million a year, with 5% of revenue earmarked for problem-gambling treatment and prevention.

The South Carolina Department of Mental Health would receive 5% for problem-gambling treatment and prevention, while 3% would cover administration.

South Carolina remains outside that group, although residents are described as using gambling apps, fantasy sports products, prediction markets and offshore sportsbooks.

The Supreme Court of the United States – Photo: bettrichard873Several gambling-related bills have appeared in recent South Carolina legislative sessions.

Sports betting in North Carolina…

Prices unchanged, for a changeEarlier today, Apple announced two new M6-powered Macs, which start at the same prices as their predecessors.

At the time, the company also hiked prices for the HomePod mini, Apple TV 4K, and iPad mini, all of which saw new versions announced recently with yet another price bump.

The HomePod mini, which went from $99 to $129 in June, now costs $149 with the second-generation model.

Apple also raised prices by $100 for the older iPhone models still in its lineup, including the iPhone 17, iPhone Air, and iPhone 17e.

What’s your take on Apple’s pricing strategy for the M6 Macs announced earlier today?

Apple has scored another win in its trade secrets misappropriation lawsuit against two former employees, OpenAI, and io Products.

In his decision partially granting Apple’s request for expedited discovery, Judge Davila gave the company early access to select internal documents, forensic evidence, and employee testimony.

Details about devices, accounts, and messaging apps Liu and Tan allegedly used to access, store, or share confidential Apple information.

Testimony about OpenAI’s interviews involving Apple employees, including whether confidential Apple information was discussed or solicited.

Testimony about steps OpenAI took (or failed to take) to prevent unauthorized use or disclosure of …

Apple’s YouTube channel shared two new videos today from its “True Apple Watch Story” series, highlighting how the device helped save one woman’s life and transform another person’s fitness journey.

Morgan’s close call and Josh’s fitness journeyWhile Apple has long promoted the Apple Watch as a health and fitness device, the company has been increasingly turning to real-life stories to illustrate how its features can make a difference in people’s lives.

What started as rather light-hearted “Dear Apple” event segments featuring people thanking Tim Cook and the company for the Apple Watch has evolved into dedicated campaigns highlighting real-life experiences, including a recent campaign in C…

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In a roundup of what to expect from tomorrow’s “Pro and Tell” event, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman shared new details about the upcoming OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro models.

Report reveals last-minute details and backstory of rumored touchscreen MacBook ProTomorrow, Apple is expected to announce its first-ever touchscreen MacBook Pro models, featuring OLED displays, Dynamic Island, and a thinner, lighter design.

https://t.co/UTs2NJ1N3A — Mark Gurman (@markgurman) October 27, 2026In other words, he expects the new OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro models to sit at the top of Apple’s current laptop lineup, rather than replacing the existing M5 Pro and M5 Max models.

According to his sources, Tim Cook gr…

Mozilla today announced two new features for Smart Window, its opt-in AI-powered browsing experience in Firefox.

Since then, the feature has been renamed Smart Window, and it has gradually gained new capabilities.

Today, the company announced two additional features rolling out to Smart Window beta users: AI-powered form filling and website monitoring.

Smart Window will automatically pause tasks after 60 days without a matching change.

Both new features are now available in the Smart Window beta for Firefox desktop, though they’re currently limited to English-language users in the US and Canada.

Apple’s Director of European Government Affairs, Sébastien Gros, will speak at this year’s Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, taking place November 9–12.

Apple to return to Web SummitOver the past few years, Apple has regularly sent executives to speak at Web Summit.

This year, as spotted by iFeed, the company will send Sébastien Gros, its Director of Government Affairs for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), to speak at the event.

As of now, details about Gros’s participation, including the subject of his session, have not yet been announced.

To learn more about this year’s Web Summit, follow this link.

iOS 27.2 launched this week, and the update includes a new app icon for Apple Music alongside other small design changes in the Music app.

For example, back in September an all-new Apple Music logo debuted for Apple Music Hall.

And now in iOS 27.2, the iPhone has a new app icon for Apple Music too.

Instead, it’s now a white icon with black music logo by default, and in dark mode it’s black with a white logo.

What do you think of the Apple Music design updates in iOS 27.2?

iOS 27.2 is now available to everyone after six weeks of beta testing.

Why iOS 27.2 and not iOS 27.1?

iOS 27.2 new featuresNew Siri AI featuresSiri AI was the big new feature in iOS 27, and iOS 27.2 expands the feature in multiple ways.

First, Siri AI is now available in these five languages:FrenchJapaneseKoreanPortugueseSpanishSecond, iOS 27.2 also adds several new features to Siri AI.

Read more: iOS 27.2 gives Apple TV a new profiles feature on iPhoneSuggestions in MessagesSuggestions in Messages, which feature Apple tested in iOS 27 but removed before the update was released, have returned in iOS 27.2.

Apple TV today released the trailer for “Way of the Warrior Kid,” which premieres globally on the platform on November 25.

’Way of the Warrior Kid’ premieres November 25Earlier this year, during its Apple TV Press Day event, Apple announced “Way of the Warrior Kid,” starring Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy), Linda Cardellini (Crystal Lake), and Jude Hill (Belfast).

That changes when his injured Uncle Jake (Pratt), a decorated Navy SEAL, comes to spend the summer and recuperate with Marc and his mom, Sarah (Cardellini).

To help Marc defend himself, Jake devises an ambitious program he calls “Operation Warrior Kid” based on his SEAL training.

Add “Way of the Warrior Kid” to your Apple TV…

Counterpoint Research’s latest report offers a look at global iPhone 18 Pro sales during the first three weeks of availability.

Report counters soft demand rumorsIn a report released today, Counterpoint Research says iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max sales in the US fell 4% during their first three weeks of availability compared to the first three weeks of iPhone 17 Pro series sales last year.

China posted the strongest growth, with sales rising 29% YoY.

Excluding China’s contribution, the global sales growth rate would have been far weaker.

Today’s report also includes another interesting tidbit: According to Counterpoint, the iPhone 18 Pro Max accounted for a slightly smaller share of P…

Apple reportedly plans to introduce a low-cost iPhone 18e next spring alongside iPhone 18 and iPhone Air 2.

Here are the details on what to expect from iPhone 18e, per a new leak.

Rumors indicate three more new iPhones are coming in early 2027: iPhone 18e, iPhone 18, and iPhone Air 2.

There’s been plenty of reporting on iPhone Air 2 changes, and some on the base iPhone 18, but surprisingly little on the entry-model iPhone 18e.

But today, a new post from Weibo leaker Digital Chat Station outlines what to expect from iPhone 18e early next year.

Copilot Money, the award-winning personal finance app, is getting even better this week with the launch of Money Assistant: an AI financial agent built into every part of the app.

Anytime you ask the Money Assistant a question, it bases its response on every aspect of your financial life in the Copilot Money app.

The Money Assistant also makes it easier to get started in Copilot Money.

The Money Assistant in Copilot Money removes that barrier.

Try Copilot Money todayCopilot Money is used and trusted by multiple members of the 9to5Mac team, including Chance and Fernando.

Astropad is out today with Workbench 1.4, the latest update to its remote desktop app for Mac.

The release adds a built-in terminal, native iPhone Duo support, and a new way to transfer files between Macs.

The big addition in Workbench 1.4 is the ability to switch between the remote desktop and terminal without reconnecting.

Astropad says the update also runs natively on iPhone Duo, with support for keeping an agent visible in one pane while using the rest of the phone.

IPHONE DUO SUPPORTNative support… pic.twitter.com/7m09nedTci — Matt Ronge (@mronge) October 27, 2026

iOS 27.2 arrived this week with new features for Messages, Apple TV, and more, plus two improvements for CarPlay.

#1: Apple Podcasts adds sections for New Episodes and Continue PlayingApple Podcasts in iOS 27.2 adds two new sections to the Home tab: ‘New Episodes’ and ‘Continue Playing.’Essentially, Apple has rethought how the core ‘Up Next’ queue of its Podcasts app works.

#2: Siri AI upgradesSiri AI introduces a variety of upgrades in iOS 27.2, including two that carry over to CarPlay as well.

iOS 27.2 includes a new app icon for Apple Music, plus some minor design tweaks in the app.

For more new features in CarPlay that recently arrived in iOS 27, see our coverage here.

OpenAI согласилась приобрести Astral, которая создает *современные* инструменты на Python для разработчиков, чтобы интегрировать её команду в Codex. Ну и по пути сообщает, что у Codex более 2 млн пользователей — в три раза больше, чем в январе. При этом от лица разработчиков заявляю - мы всё больше предпочитаем Claude Code. И разрыв между этими продуктами не сокращается, а субьективно наоборот - растет www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/openai-to-acquire-python-startup-astral-expanding-push-into-coding

OpenAI согласилась приобрести Astral, которая создает *современные* инструменты на Python для разработчиков, чтобы интегрировать её команду в Codex. Ну и по пути сообщает, что у Codex более 2 млн пользователей — в три раза больше, чем в январе. При этом от лица разработчиков заявляю — мы всё больше предпочитаем Claude Code. И разрыв между этими продуктами не сокращается, а субъективно наоборот — растет.www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/openai-to-acquire-python-startup-astral-expanding-push-into-coding

В переводчике kagi появился чудесный язык "Linkedin Speak". Только что мою фразу "Fuck off, I don't want to receive your spam anymore." они идеально перевели вот так:Thank you for reaching out. To ensure my inbox is aligned with my current professional priorities, I will be unsubscribing from this mailing list. I wish you the best in your future endeavors.Весьма рекомендую.https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=linkedin

В переводчике kagi появился чудесный язык "Linkedin Speak". Только что мою фразу "Fuck off, I don't want to receive your spam anymore." они идеально перевели вот так:Thank you for reaching out. To ensure my inbox is aligned with my current professional priorities, I will be unsubscribing from this mailing list. I wish you the best in your future endeavors.Весьма рекомендую.https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=linkedin

Конференция NVIDIA GTC раньше была про игры. А сейчас все больше про NVIDIA и их значение для мира ИИ, так что вот тут можно будет смотреть https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw_o0xr8MWU

Конференция NVIDIA GTC раньше была про игры. А сейчас все больше про NVIDIA и их значение для мира ИИ, так что вот тут можно будет смотреть https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw_o0xr8MWU

Вечный источник сливов, the Information пишут, что OpenAI готовится выпустить GPT-5.4, который получит «экстремальный» режим рассуждений и контекстное окно объёмом 1 млн токенов вместо 400 тыс. в GPT-5.2. Честно говоря, эта гонка сейчас перестала так впечатлять как раньше. Ждем какого-то прорыва, чтобы снова отличать модели друг от друга.🔗 https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-next-ai-model-will-extreme-reasoning

Вечный источник сливов, the Information пишут, что OpenAI готовится выпустить GPT-5.4, который получит «экстремальный» режим рассуждений и контекстное окно объёмом 1 млн токенов вместо 400 тыс. в GPT-5.2. Честно говоря, эта гонка сейчас перестала так впечатлять как раньше. Ждем какого-то прорыва, чтобы снова отличать модели друг от друга.🔗 https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-next-ai-model-will-extreme-reasoning

Ну и да, в MacBook Neo два порта USB‑C с разными характеристиками: один — USB 3.0 (Type‑C) со скоростью передачи до 10 Гбит/с, другой — USB 2.0 (Type‑C), ограниченный 480 Мбит/с.Интересно, что внешней маркировки я на них не увидел, видимо, "должны знать" :)🔗 https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/04/macbook-neo-features-two-different-usb-ports/

Ну и да, в MacBook Neo два порта USB‑C с разными характеристиками: один — USB 3.0 (Type‑C) со скоростью передачи до 10 Гбит/с, другой — USB 2.0 (Type‑C), ограниченный 480 Мбит/с.Интересно, что внешней маркировки я на них не увидел, видимо, "должны знать" :)🔗 https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/04/macbook-neo-features-two-different-usb-ports/

Первые впечатления от MacBook Neo — новый самый младший ноутбук от Apple. Он вообще не кажется бюджетным: яркий дисплей и алюминиевый корпус, но клавиатура немного хлипкая, что предсказуемо было.Теперь я не очень понимаю, в чем его отличие от айпада. Видимо, выбор между "встроенная клавиатура" и "тач экран". Ну, рано или поздно они должны будут сойтись.https://www.engadget.com/computing/laptops/macbook-neo-hands-on-apples-599-laptop-feels-shockingly-great-142313318.html

Первые впечатления от MacBook Neo — новый самый младший ноутбук от Apple. Он вообще не кажется бюджетным: яркий дисплей и алюминиевый корпус, но клавиатура немного хлипкая, что предсказуемо было.Теперь я не очень понимаю, в чем его отличие от айпада. Видимо, выбор между "встроенная клавиатура" и "тач экран". Ну, рано или поздно они должны будут сойтись.https://www.engadget.com/computing/laptops/macbook-neo-hands-on-apples-599-laptop-feels-shockingly-great-142313318.html

Сразу две новости рядом: Eight Sleep, продающая умные аксессуары для матрасов, которые отслеживают режим сна и регулируют температуру, привлекла $50 млн при оценке в $1,5 млрд, тогда как в 2021 году её оценка составляла $500 млн. И это для меня удивительно — все тесты показали, что их матрасы прямо никуда не годятся по точности отслеживания. Идея регуляции температуры во время сна все еще привлекательна, жаль, что их не возят в разные страны.В это же время Whoop, производящая фитнес‑браслеты без экранов, сообщает, что планирует увеличить численность персонала максимум на 75% в 2026 году, создав более 600 должностей в преддверии вероятного IPO. Обычно перед IPO численность команды сокращают …

Сразу две новости рядом: Eight Sleep, продающая умные аксессуары для матрасов, которые отслеживают режим сна и регулируют температуру, привлекла $50 млн при оценке в $1,5 млрд, тогда как в 2021 году её оценка составляла $500 млн. И это для меня удивительно - все тесты показали что их матрасы прямо никуда не годятся по точности отслеживания. Идея регуляции температуры во время сна все еще привлекательна, жаль что их не возят в разные страны.В это же время Whoop, производящая фитнес‑браслеты без экранов, сообщает, что планирует увеличить численность персонала максимум на 75% в 2026 году, создав более 600 должностей в преддверии вероятного IPO. Обычно перед IPO численость команды сокращают - в…

А вот и обещанная инструкция по активации «российского» 5G на iPhone Думали, iOS — это просто? Добро пожаловать в мир консольных утилит для включения базовых сетевых функций.К счастью, тут ничего сложного: rozetked.me/articles/49122

Финальный трейлер фильма «Дюна: Часть третья»В видео много новых кадров с измученным Полом Атрейдесом, который стал новым императором известной вселенной.Международный прокат заключительной части трилогии Вильнёва стартует 18 декабря 2026 года.💼 Rozetked | Подписаться

Apple очень лениво обновила iMac — теперь с процессором М6Ни дизайн, ни большая часть характеристик не изменились. Правда, Apple удвоила скорость SSD и обновила стандарты связи до Wi-Fi 7 и Bluetooth 6.А вот что обновилось, так это цена — теперь от 1499 долларов (~121 000 рублей) за 16+256 ГБ.rozetked.me/news/49120

А где OLED и сенсорный дисплей? 🤨Этот MacBook ждём позже, а сегодня Apple представила новую 14-дюймовую «Прошку» — на базе M6 по 2-нм техпроцессу. Загибайте пальцы:› 12-ядерный M6 с графикой на 30% быстрее, чем в M5› Чип N1 с Wi-Fi 7 и Bluetooth 6› Так же до 24 часов на просмотр видео› Тот же экран, те же 16+1024 ГБ в базе и тот же дизайнИ... всё? Цена — от 1999 долларов. В продаже с 6 ноября.rozetked.me/news/49121

Mozilla выпустила шикарную рекламу Firefox с героями старых мемов и нума-нума-эйВ ролике герои олдовых мемов вроде Навязчивой девушки, Бесячего апельсина и Брайана-неудачника грустят по поводу современного интернета, где технологические компании преследуют пользователей по пятам и собирают на продажу их данные.В конце мемные ископаемые танцуют под Numa Numa и предлагают перейти на Firefox, ведь «интернет, который мы любили, всё ещё здесь».Когда реклама лучше продукта🤓💼 Rozetked | Подписаться

Минцифры предупредило об ограничениях работы мобильного интернета в Москве c 27 по 29 октября Министерство отметило, что временная мера связана с обеспечением безопасности во время саммита «Россия — Африка». Ограничения будут действовать в пределах ТТК. …

Инсайд: характеристики iPhone 18eЭкран с частотой 60 Гц вновь занял своё почётное место — Apple поставит ту же матрицу, что и раньше. Основная камера останется одна, на 48 Мп, а процессор обновят до Apple А20 (не Pro).Заметное изменение только одно — новая фронталка с бо́льшим разрешением. Анонс ждём весной вместе с базовым iPhone 18.rozetked.me/news/49115

ХобаLogitech выпустила мышь Pebble Up, которая из компактной и плоской раскрывается в более удобную — верхняя половина поднимается примерно на 35°.В остальном это обычная мышь серии Pebble, с таким же дизайном. Цена в Китае — 279 юаней (~3380 рублей).rozetked.me/news/49107

Happ опять вернулся в российский App Store Популярный VPN-клиент появился в магазине приложений под новым названием. Разработчик тот же — Flyfrog LLC. Сейчас в App Store много клонов приложения. Happ возвращается в российский регион магазина уже не в первый…

Полоски на внутреннем экране Duo — не из-за пользователей В iFixit разобрали iPhone Duo. Ему поставили 5/10 баллов по ремонтопригодности, что стало лучшим результатом для «раскладушек». Но это ещё не всё. Некоторые первые владельцы складного iPhone жалуются…

Минцифры предупредило об ограничениях работы мобильного интернета в Москве c 27 по 29 октябряМинистерство отметило, что временная мера связана с обеспечением безопасности во время саммита «Россия — Африка». Ограничения будут действовать в пределах ТТК.› 27 и 28 октября — с 11:30 в течение дня.› 29 октября — с 9:30 в течение дня.Сайты из «белого списка», домашний интернет и голосовая связь, как сообщается, продолжат работать в штатном режиме.💼 Rozetked | Подписаться

Инсайд: Rockstar начала рассылать пресс-копии GTA VI журналистамОб этом сообщил в социальных сетях инсайдер NateTheHate. Таким образом, у прессы будет около 25 дней, чтобы пройти экшен и написать на него рецензию.Эмбарго на обзоры GTA VI, как сообщает NateTheHate, спадёт 18 ноября 2026 года, за сутки до выхода игры.💼 Rozetked | Подписаться

Apple представила iPad mini с OLED-дисплеем и IP67Уникальной особенностью mini стало отсутствие решёток динамиков внизу — теперь они располагаются с передней стороны дисплея. В качестве процессора используется мощнейший Apple A20 Pro, а ещё наконец уменьшились рамки — диагональ выросла до 8,5 дюймов.Из грустного — стало меньше цветов и выросла цена: теперь от 699 долларов (~56 000 рублей) за 12+128 ГБ. А герцовка не выросла — снова 60 Гц.rozetked.me/news/49098

FT: Китаю предстоит нелегкая борьба, чтобы отучить IT-компании от использования чипов Nvidia– В этом году IT-компании Китая закупили 1+ млн чипов Nvidia не для ИИ– Речь идет про чипы для игровых компьютеров и рабочих станций– Компании хотят удовлетворить рост спроса на вычислительные мощности– Nvidia производитель чипов продолжает играть важную роль в Китае– Власти Китая сделали развитие ИИ собственным национальным приоритетом– В этом году Китай удвоил производство отечественных ИИ-чипов– Лидерами на местном рынке являются Huawei, Alibaba, Baidu и Cambricon– Однако спрос на чипы растет быстрее, чем их можно производить– В этом году внутреннее производство чипов может составить 3,5 млн шт.– …

Ведомости: MWS AI выпустила универсального ИИ-агента для решения офисных задач в периметре компании– Денис Филиппов, генеральный директор MWS AI (МТС), рассказал о новом ИИ-агенте – Универсальный ИИ-агент MWS AI Cowork поможет выполнять до 90% повторяющихся офисных задач– Он планирует и выполняет задачи в режиме одного окна через привычный чат-интерфейс– ИИ-агент сам ищет и анализирует данные, работает с файлами, сайтами и др.– MWS AI Cowork может создавать документы, таблицы, презентации и др.– Отмечается, что ИИ-агент учитывает ИБ-требования российских компаний– Развернуть MWS AI Cowork можно в закрытом контуре организации– В сервисе доступны модели MWS AI, Яндекса, Сбера и открытые заруб…

Bloomberg: Поставки смартфонов упали на 22% в худшем квартале за всю историю– Рынок смартфонов пережил самый сильный спад за всю историю– Из-за роста цен на память поставки сократились на 22%– Аналитики отмечают, что показатель может быть не пределом– На рост цен на память влияет спрос со стороны ИИ-рынка– Больше всего пострадали китайские бренды Xiaomi, Oppo и др.– В более выгодном положении оказались Apple и Samsung– Восстановление темпов роста рынка произойдет не раньше 2028– Компании повышают цены, продвигают свои флагманы и др.– Ситуация приведет к увеличению доли Apple и премиум-брендов– Пока показатели свидетельствуют, что дно еще не достигнуто– С прошлого года стоимость чипов памяти…

FT: Netflix меняет директора по контенту в попытке остановить падение стоимости акций– Netflix заменил директора по контенту Белу Баджарию на Питера Райса– Стриминговый сервис хочет остановить падение стоимости акций– Баджария, проработавшая в Netflix почти десять лет, покидает компанию– Указано, что Райс является бывшим топ-менеджером Disney и Fox– Недавно Netflix уволил около 1 тыс. сотрудников, т.е. 6% своего штата– Увольнение стало самым масштабным за последние четыре года– Netflix столкнулся с проблемой снижения вовлеченности своих зрителей– За последний год акции стримингового сервиса упали на 40%– На глобальном рынке стриминга Netflix продолжает доминировать– Однако в последнее время…

FT: Что удалось узнать из заявки Anthropic на IPO, состоящей из 240 тыс. слов– В след. месяце Anthropic начнет торговаться на Nasdaq под тикером ANT– Anthropic подчеркивает миссию по ответственному развитию ИИ– В документе указано, что все усилия направлены на выполнение миссии– Основатели называют подход ключевым преимуществом на рынке– В первую очередь, стартап называет себя исследовательской лабораторией– Корп. культуру может подорвать отклонение от миссии, уход топов и др.– За 9 мес. 2026 доходы Anthropic увеличились в 7+ раз, составив $33+ млрд– Выручка на 1 сотрудника в пятилетнем стартапе за 2025 была $6,6 млн– Однако лишь пять клиентов обеспечили 25% всей выручки за 9 мес. 2026– Бол…

TechCrunch: Replit больше не сотрудничает с Anthropic– ИИ-платформа Replit перестала сотрудничать со стартапом Anthropic– Решение Replit было принято по ряду различных причин– Одной из причин гендиректор Replit назвал стоимость моделей– В августе Replit объявил о начале сотрудничества с OpenAI– Во время выступления глава Replit сказал, что «ChatGPT лучше»– Replit использует внутренний бенчмарк для оценки моделей– ИИ-платформа Replit также публикует общедоступный бенчмарк– Модели Sol и Astra стабильно показывают лучшие результаты– На решение, помимо стоимости, повлияла производительность и др.– Однако один из инсайдеров говорит, что партнерство пока в силе– Корп. клиенты начинают приносить в…

Bloomberg: Amazon представила обновленные носимые ИИ-устройства Bee по подписке за $12/мес.– Amazon выпустила два новых носимых устройства со встроенным ИИ– Компания пытается изменить стартап Bee, который приобрела– Первым устройством стал водонепроницаемый браслет Bee Frontier за $75– Браслет записывает и расшифровывает действия владельца за день– ИИ воспроизводит разговоры, автоматически создает списки дел и др.– Браслет доступен в трех цветах и работает 7 дней без подзарядки– Второй новинкой Bee стал устройство, напоминающее продукт от Plaud– Записывающее устройство в форме карты крепится к смартфону– Компактное носимое ИИ-устройство Bee Eclipse будет стоить от $100– Bee Eclipse доступен…

Ведомости: Whoosh переводит сотрудников на четырехдневную неделю и сокращает зарплату– Whoosh переводит сотрудников на 4-дневную рабочую неделю– Заработную плату сотрудников Whoosh снижают на 20%– Нововведение затронет сотрудников головного офиса и менеджмент– Изменения будут действовать в межсезонье, т.е. до марта 2027– Whoosh адаптирует операц. модель к рыночной ситуации и сезонности– Последние два года Whoosh повышает операц. эффективность– Сервис также последовательно оптимизирует собственные расходы– В зимний период денежные поступления традиционно снижаются– Принятое решений объясняется попыткой сохранить команду сервиса– Выручка Whoosh по итогам 2025 упала на 13%, до 12,5 млрд руб.– …

Forbes: Исследователи Яндекса и студенты ШАД разработали MTGBench – набор тестов для оценки способности нейросетей рассуждать– Исследователи Яндекса и студенты ШАД разработали тесты MTGBench– Тесты оценивают рассуждения при сложных многоэтапных задачах– Отмечается, что набор тестов MTGBench был выложен в открытый доступ– MTGBench поможет подбирать рассуждающие модели под задачи– Люди часто уточняют свои запросы к нейросети, добавляя новые вводные– Нейросеть должна учитывать новую информацию и предыдущие шаги– Это можно проверить в играх, где каждый новый шаг зависит от предыдущего– Именно такие задания и легли в основу нового бенчмарка MTGBench– В заданиях оценивают конечный ответ и за скол…

Reuters: Облачные мощности Amazon распроданы до конца 2027– Джасси заявил, что почти все мощности AWS на 2027 исчерпаны– Значительные обязательства распространяются и на 2028– Amazon с трудом справляется с ненасытным спросом на облако– Основной спрос на облако обеспечивают ИИ-разработчики– Капрасходы Amazon в 2026 должны составить около $220 млрд– Джасси заявил, что капрасходы могли бы быть и больше– Amazon всегда оставляет некоторый объем мощностей про запас– Запас нужен для сервиса по требованию, логич. вывода и др.– Отмечается, что большая часть мощностей на 2028 также распродана@ftsec

CNews: GETMOBIT запускает технологию оптимизатора медиа для VDI– ВКС на базе Virtual Desktop Infrastructure может быть инфраструктурной болью– Кодирование и декодирование может сжигать не менее 50% ресурсов– Многие отечественные ВКС-клиенты обрабатывают медиапотоки силами CPU– Проблемой является, что клиенты не используют аппаратное ускорение– Штатных решений выноса медиапотока на устройство платформы могут не иметь– Бизнес может решить проблему деньгами через свою инфраструктуру– Однако капзатраты при 2 тыс. пользователей могут составить около 90 млн руб.– Отказавшись от VDI в пользу локальных ПК, затраты будут 80 млн руб.– Отмечается, что локальный сценарий значительно снижает ИБ-уровень …

Insider: Microsoft предлагает добровольное увольнение 60 тыс. сотрудникам– Microsoft говорит, что сотрудники «смогут начать новую главу жизни»– Компания хочет сократить штат без принудительных увольнений– Предложение было сделано сотрудникам в США, Канаде, Индии и UK– Добровольно уйти могут обычные сотрудники и руководители– В программе добровольных увольнений участвуют не все команды– Новая программа не касается отделов продаж, разработки и др.– Право на выходное пособие могут получить около 60 тыс. сотрудников– Отмечается, что программа охватывает более 25% всего штата– Условия будут аналогичны стандартным выходным пособиям Microsoft– Пособие включает зарплату мин. за 60 дней (иногда до 3…

Forbes: «М.Видео» сообщила о рекордном объеме продаж складных смартфонов за 9 мес.– За 9 мес. 2026 в России было продано 96 тыс. складных смартфонов– Общая сумма продаж для категории составила 9,78 млрд руб.– В деньгах за год продажи выросли на 20,4%, в штуках рост был 23,7%– За 9 мес. 2025 были проданы 78 тыс. устройств на 8,12 млрд руб.– Темпы роста сегмента складных смартфонов стали более умеренными– Сред. цена проданного устройства составила 101,4 тыс. руб. (-2,7%)– В деньгах по продажам в сегменте лидируют Samsung, Huawei и Honor– В топ-5 входят также складные смартфоны Motorola и Xiaomi– Совокупно Samsung и Huawei обеспечили более 90% всех продаж– Развитие все больше связано с практич…

Reuters: Мрачные прогнозы Илона Маска ударили по неоклаудам на фоне роста долговых проблем– Акции крупнейших неоклаудов упали после мрачных прогнозов Маска– Маск заявил, что сектор могут ждать консолидации и банкротства– Заявление усилило опасения по поводу разрыва инвестиций и прибыли– Акции CoreWeave упали на 1,6%, акции Nebius и IREN – на 4 и 1,5%– Маск заявил, что SpaceX не будет покупать компании на этом рынке– Покупку таких неоклаудов Илон Маск заявил «бессмысленным»– Маск заявил, что крах и консолидация могут ждать 200+ неоклаудов– Для финансирования проектов нужны другие источники дохода– Маск был не единственным, кто предупреждает неоклауды о рисках– Gartner заявил, что 80% неоклау…