Компания «Вольга» выпустит фильм в российский прокат 21 января 2027 года.

Модель поступит в продажу в США летом 2027 года.

Поставки от продавцов там не принимали — «[центр] выполняет другие задачи».

Детали о масштабе повреждений не раскрыла.

Проблемы подтвердили провайдеры «ПАКТ» и «еТелеком».

По словам его адвокатов, билет в Саудовскую Аравию инженер купил почти за месяц до ареста.

Также в него попала Беларусь.

Часть инструментов также стала доступна в AppMetrica и заработал API «Директа».

Ещё одна тестовая функция — продажа платных консультаций в профиле.

Пока — в двух точках.

OpenAI выявила инцидент, который произошёл во время тестов летом 2026 года.

Аналогичные предупреждения получили сотрудники Anthropic и Google.

По словам сервиса, условия зависят от суммы корзины: чем она больше, тем меньше нужно будет доплатить.

Я пишу вам эти строки из горящего танка дома — примерно так могла бы начинаться эта статья, если бы я слепо следовал инструкциям на упаковке.

И я, блин, не ошибся.

Продолжим думать, что я всё ещё идиот и увидел, что попкорн подозрительно дымиться за стеклом.

Не хотелось бы что бы подобное испытали мои дети.

Однако в перспективе, оттого что в кузнице не было гвоздя, эта маленькая ошибка может привести к большим человеческим жертвам.

Значит, веса живут в DDR3, и, забегая вперёд, именно DDR3 определит скорость, Вы это и так знаете, не буду умничать.

Сборкаgit clone https://github.com/FeSens/openTPU.git cd openTPU git checkout 8eaa480Ревизию фиксирую специально: репозиторий живой, и на свежем main цифры могут отличаться.

При этом он не скачивает языковые модели, не запускает LLM-инференс и не прошивает FPGA.

Снаружи - компьютер: он готовит модель, через PCIe и мост XDMA кладёт веса и программу в DDR3 платы и даёт команду «старт».

Как компьютер рулит картой, что на самом деле ходит по PCIe и куда уходят секунды до первого токена - хочу разобрать отдельно.

С VI века до нашей эры с зимой римляне решили всё же что-то сделать и заимствовали у этрусков ещё два месяца.

Так появились январь в честь бога-демиурга Януса, владыки начала и порога, и февраль в честь Фебрууса, этрусского повелителя мира мёртвых и подателя благ.

Достаточно сказать, что ещё в III веке до нашей эры Эратосфен в Александрии довольно точно вычислил диаметр Земли как планеты.

Серебрянный денарий с портретом Октавиана, отчеканенный в честь покорения Египта, отчеканенный в 29 году до нашей эры.

Октавиан Август в 16 году до нашей эры ввёл в Римской империи новую систему сквозного счёта лет с легендарной даты основания Рима Ромулом и Ремом в 753 году до нашей эры.

При совпадении отбрасывает пакеты соединения, как по TCP, так и по QUIC.

Проверка охватывает оба направления: признаки протокола есть и в запросах клиента, и в ответах сервера.

Это добавляет пинг, а скорость упирается еще и в его канал и нагрузку.

Из минусов - очень уродливый интерфейс и для кого-то избыток функций, хотя для меня второе плюс.

С Hysteria Gecko все плохо, да и в остальном показал себя так же, Брать разве что ради интерфейса или пробовать нестабильную сборку.

Диффузию гоняем не по пикселям, а по сжатому латенту 16×16×4 — это в 12 раз меньше данных, чем картинка.

Восемь 128-битных регистров q0 — q7 , и главное — инструкция EE.VMULAS.S8.ACCX : перемножить 16 пар int8 и прибавить сумму в 40-битный аккумулятор.

Это в 78 раз быстрее int8 на чистом C (а с float сравнивать даже неловко: он ещё и данные из PSRAM таскал).

Большой кэш здесь и не нужен: каждая строка весов читается из flash один раз и сразу умножается на все токены.

Ответ — практически ничего:Сверху — float32 PyTorch на маке, снизу — int8 на ESP32-S3.

Это соответствует архитектурному выбору Uncloud в пользу Availability и Partition tolerance (AP) в рамках CAP теоремы.

Но в Uncloud он используется не как VPN для подключения пользователей к серверу, а как основа приватной сети между узлами.

Таким образом, WireGuard в Uncloud — это не просто защищенный канал между серверами, а сетевой фундамент кластера.

Поэтому изменение состояния контейнеров приводит не только к изменению состояния кластера, но и к изменению маршрутизации и настройкам Caddy.

Таким образом, rolling update в Uncloud — это относительно простой механизм последовательной замены реплик сервиса.

Появился триод в 1906 г., был запатентован в 1907 г., и через эти патенты (действующие примерно до 1925 г.)

Аудионы с переменным успехом использовались в армии США — лампа была капризная (требующая высокой квалификации радиста), недолговечная и с сильным разбросом параметров.

Позже, в преддверии Первой мировой войны, правительством США действия некоторых патентов было приостановлено, и для армии массово поставлялись лампы с обычными цилиндрическими анодами.

К Плиотронам, чтобы не вставать два раза: приёмный триод для ВМС CG-886 и маломощный генераторный триод для корпуса связи — CG-1162.

Приборы высоковакуумные, с металлическим распыляемым геттером (вероятно, азидный процесс [3]) и «тусклым…

Moon Trek сохранил эту практическую направленность — многие инструменты рассчитаны не на «туристов», а на реальных специалистов по планированию миссий.

Камеру создали в Университете Аризоны, где и в настоящее время продолжают обрабатывать ее снимки.

Бумажные атласы советской эпохи в основном оцифрованы и хранятся сейчас в зарубежных архивах (вроде каталога планетарных карт Будапештского университета), а не на едином российском ресурсе.

Это крупнейшее в мире профессиональное объединение астрономов, которое использует WorldWide Telescope не только для просвещения, но и для публикации научных данных поверх карты неба.

Сам атлас существует с 1999 года как десктопное Java-приложение, а с 2013 го…

Мы привыкли работать в правовом поле, сдавать проекты в срок и верить, что добросовестное исполнение контракта — это главная защита бизнеса.

С нашей стороны вся документация была направлена в срок, замечания к ней также устранены в установленный срок.

Но Арбитражный суд города Москвы, а за ним и Девятый арбитражный апелляционный суд подошли к глубоко техническому спору поверхностно и вслепую.

Мы будем бороться за свою честность, за свою команду и за будущее ИТ‑рынка.

Если сообщество нас поддержит, возможно, мы сможем побороться не за один данный кейс, а за будущее всей отечественной ИТ‑индустрии…

Несправедливость, которая существовала на AVRАрхитектура AVR занимает в моем сердце отдельное место — именно на этих микроконтроллерах я когда‑то учился программировать.

И вот, занимаясь геймдевом, я в какой‑то момент задался вопросом: а запускал ли кто‑нибудь на AVR честное, полноценное псевдо-3D?

Duke Nukem 3D (1996) Когда я уже готов был опустить руки, выяснилось, что я не один такой.

О том, как я боролся за каждый байт памяти и с какими граблями столкнулся, я и хочу рассказать.

Не 4.82 FPS, а тем, что сам движок работает на 10–15 FPS на 8-битном микроконтроллере без FPU.

Однако, каждая парадигма программирования имеет собственный уникальный жаргон и ФП не исключение.

Следует отметить, что беспараметрические функции не обязательно лучше обычных, поскольку они могут быть более сложными в понимании в сложных случаях.

Если a , b и c — объекты некоторой категории, f — морфизм из a в b , а g — морфизм из b в c , то g(f(x)) должно быть эквивалентно (g • f)(x) .

Для структуры P , представляющей вычисление, которое потребляет A и выдает B , функция promap принимает две функции — (a' -> a) и (b -> b') — и возвращает P .

// map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b] const map = (f) => (list) => list.map(f)Дополнительные материалы❯ Algebraic data typeАлгебраический тип данныхСостав…

Сейчас мы присутствуем в четырех ЦОДах в Москве и одном в Санкт‑Петербурге.

Во‑вторых, параллельно начались проблемы в сети и в storage.

Мы поняли, что менять нужно все, и быстро: облако работало на пределе возможностей, да и мы сами тоже.

Утилита обрабатывает эти данные и выводит итог: в каких стойках и в какие юниты можно ставить сервер.

Сейчас все это достаточно разрозненно, и в планах — объединить все это в единый суперсервис с одной кнопкой: «ввести сервер», «вывести сервер», «закрыть ворота» и так далее.

Так никто не делает, и мне было очень интересно, так как, чисто теоретически, идея должна была увенчаться успехом!

Логически выглядит недурно, не так ли?

Я так понимаю, что, учитывая прочность алмаза, в условиях трения об плату, да ещё и в водно-мыльной среде — он прослужит примерно вечность без какого-либо износа!

И всё так же, без скрежета и звука (я не слышал по крайней мере; опять же — звук двигателей я не учитываю, только звук резца), с большой скоростью.

ни снимая и не вставляя плату в станок многократно) — сверловка, изготовление дорожек, выпиливание (надсечка) по контуру!

«Авторы» таких документов теряют терпение, когда они оказываются неинтересны людям, и это оправдано, ведь созданное ими уже работает[1].

Они крайне подробны: то поменяли на это, это разбили на части, здесь объединили, это не трогали, сюда добавили тестов и так далее.

Я не хочу читать краткое изложение фактов и связей, отделённых от опыта и взаимоотношений.

Если вы просите машину сделать что‑нибудь за вас, то рискуете попросить не то, что вам нужно, а то, что она может делать хорошо.

Я не хочу читать то, чего вы не писали.

Мы, если что, не поднимаем и не планируем поднимать цены.

Мы продолжаем жить ровно на тех же ценах и условиях, что и до мая.

Где они — не скажем, но это не бункеры.

Поэтому три новые площадки у нас без адресов — но это Москва внутри Садового кольца (две) и в пределах МКАД (ещё одна).

Чтобы довести её до ума, нужно строить три ноги оптики, и это планы аж до конца 2027 года.

Злоумышленники разом вывели круглую сумму, хранившуюся у частных лиц на криптокошельках парижской компании Ledger.

Точный масштаб кражи пока неизвестен, однако, по оценкам экспертов, отслеживающих транзакции в блокчейне, объём угнанных средств варьируется от $70 до 90 млн.

Все попавшие под атаку устройства были приобретены через малайзийского реселлера CryptoBilis, которым с недавних пор владеет частное лицо из Китая.

Эксперты по кибербезопасности предполагают, что в них был предустановлен жучок с модемом, перехватывающий сид-фразу, необходимую для авторизации в кошельке.

Ledger уже начала расследование и порекомендовала всем пользователям, купившим кошельки у CryptoBills, воздержаться от и…

Глобальный дефицит комплектующих может затянуться ещё минимум на три года, — пишут китайские СМИ со ссылкой на источники в отрасли.

Текущий спрос на модули NAND-памяти по-прежнему превышает мировые производственные мощности, а нуждающиеся в петебайтах хранилища корпоративные клиенты своими закупками подняли цены и на HDD.

По данным инсайдера, Toshiba уже принялась за производство жёстких дисков, но на строительство новых мощностей уйдёт год или два.

Память настолько в дефиците, что дорожать начинают услуги по аренде облачного хранилища: первой отличилась Microsoft, снизив максимальный объём семейной подписки OneDrive с 6 до 2 ТБ, оставив при этом стоимость тарифа прежней.

Мы всей редакцией …

Металлюги из Атланты перевыпустили свой последний альбом Marrow Deep на пластинках с добавлением зубов настоящего мастодонта — далёкого родственника наших мамонтов.

Окаменелости попали к музыкантам в руки ещё два десятка лет назад в качестве подарка от фанатов.

Связавшись с геологами из университета Джорджии, группа выяснила, что для музейной выставки ископаемые не годятся, и попросила учёных помочь измельчить их в порошок, чтобы затем использовать как компонент при штамповке расплавленного винила.

Зубов хватило всего на 170 пластинок, которые музыканты обещают продать победителям онлайн-лотереи — она запустится вместе с началом нового тура.

Энтузиаст с ником LoreanXavier выпустил полноценный ПК-порт (не эмулятор) игрового тизера так и не выпущенной видеоигры.

Да, гений в этой истории не Кодзима!

После некоторых танцев с бубном поиграть в игру можно будет на компьютере натурально как в какое-то GOTY-издание.

Моддер добавил выбор любого разрешения экрана, масштабирование FSR 3.1, DLSS 4.5 и XeSS и генерацию кадров на видеокартах старше RX 5000 и RTX 40XX.

Будто этого мало, есть ещё поддержка модов и субтитры на дополнительных языках, в том числе на русском.

Энтузиаст с ником LoreanXavier выпустил полноценный ПК-порт (не эмулятор) игрового тизера так и не выпущенной видеоигры.

Да, гений в этой истории не Кодзима!

После некоторых танцев с бубном поиграть в игру можно будет на компьютере натурально как в какое-то GOTY-издание.

Моддер добавил выбор любого разрешения экрана, масштабирование FSR 3.1, DLSS 4.5 и XeSS и генерацию кадров на видеокартах старше RX 5000 и RTX 40XX.

Будто этого мало, есть ещё поддержка модов и субтитры на дополнительных языках, в том числе на русском.

Playground позволяет создать игру за один промт: пишем идею, ориентируемся на подсказки и получаем игру.

Готовый проект можно опубликовать на платформе для всех пользователей или поделиться ссылкой с друзьями.

Google явно метит в молодую аудиторию, которой идея и простота важнее красивой графики и вылизанного игрового процесса.

Пока что Playground доступна только пользователям из США старше 18 лет (видимо, сгенерированный контент ещё не полностью безопасен).

Если зайти на сайт с территории США, то создать свою игру вы, скорее всего, не сможете.

Playground позволяет создать игру за один промт: пишем идею, ориентируемся на подсказки и получаем игру.

Готовый проект можно опубликовать на платформе для всех пользователей или поделиться ссылкой с друзьями.

Google явно метит в молодую аудиторию, которой идея и простота важнее красивой графики и вылизанного игрового процесса.

Пока что Playground доступна только пользователям из США старше 18 лет (видимо, сгенерированный контент ещё не полностью безопасен).

Если зайти на сайт с территории США, то создать свою игру сейчас вы, скорее всего, не сможете: эту опцию раскатывают постепенно.

Некоммерческая организация Wi-Fi Alliance спалила идентификаторы неанонсированных устройств Sony — CFI-Y2000 и CFI-Y2105 — в разделе «Игровые консоли и периферия».

Технических подробностей немного, но известно, что оба устройства поставляются с Android 15 и сертифицированы для работы в сетях Wi-Fi на частотах 2,4 ГГц и 5 ГГц.

Напомним: первое поколение PS Portal разошлось тиражом примерно в 2 млн устройств только лишь в США и было признано успешным.

Устройство умеет стримить игры как с вашей PlayStation 5, так и с облачного сервиса PlayStation Plus, но за доступ к нему придётся дополнительно отвесить $160 в год (примерно 14 000 рублей по текущему курсу).

Так что с усугублением кризиса памят…

Некоммерческая организация Wi-Fi Alliance спалила идентификаторы неанонсированных устройств Sony — CFI-Y2000 и CFI-Y2105 — в разделе «Игровые консоли и периферия».

Технических подробностей немного, но известно, что оба устройства поставляются с Android 15 и сертифицированы для работы в сетях Wi-Fi на частотах 2,4 ГГц и 5 ГГц.

Первое поколение PS Portal разошлось тиражом примерно в 2 млн устройств только лишь в США и было признано успешным.

Устройство умеет стримить игры как с вашей PlayStation 5, так и с облачного сервиса PlayStation Plus, но за доступ к нему придётся дополнительно отвесить $160 в год (примерно 14 000 рублей по текущему курсу).

Так что с усугублением кризиса памяти и подоро…

В него вошла без малого 21 тысяча панорамных снимков столичной провинции Тамриэля.

Вам даётся одна попытка, чтобы угадать ваше местоположение, ориентируясь только по окружающим вас деревьям, дорожным знакам и расположению Башни Белого Золота — её видно практически со всех уголков Сиродила.

Мир «Обливиона» собран из довольно похожих текстур и ассетов, так что тамриэльский «Геогессер» по умолчанию спавнит игрока только возле крупных достопримечательностей: мостов, пещер, деревень или святилищ даэдра.

Рекламы на сайте проекта пока что нет, обязательной регистрации — тоже.

Помимо Сиродила, знатоки «Древних свитков» могут отправиться ещё и в Морровинд, а вот карту Скайрима разработчики отфотать …

В него вошла без малого 21 тысяча панорамных снимков столичной провинции Тамриэля.

Вам даётся одна попытка, чтобы угадать ваше местоположение, ориентируясь только по окружающим вас деревьям, дорожным знакам и расположению Башни Белого Золота — её видно практически со всех уголков Сиродила.

Мир «Обливиона» собран из довольно похожих текстур и ассетов, так что тамриэльский «Геогессер» по умолчанию спавнит игрока только возле крупных достопримечательностей: мостов, пещер, деревень или святилищ даэдра.

Рекламы на сайте проекта пока что нет, обязательной регистрации — тоже.

Помимо Сиродила, знатоки «Древних свитков» могут отправиться ещё и в Морровинд, а вот карту Скайрима разработчики отфотать …

Вслед за таинственным хабом для умного дома компания представит свои собственные домофон, термостат, наружные и внутренние камеры наблюдения и другие аксессуары, разработанные в тесном партнёрстве с LG Electronics.

Как пишет Марк Гурман из Bloomberg, Apple напрямую курировала разработку и утверждала дизайн аксессуаров, однако продаваться они будут строго под брендом LG.

Такая необычная форма сотрудничества позволит Apple очень быстро расширить экосистему устройств для умного дома, переложив при этом все расходы на производство и сервисную поддержку на плечи южнокорейского техногиганта.

А LG — вернуться на американский рынок, откуда её вытеснили Amazon и Google.

Если верить Гурману, долгожда…

Вслед за таинственным хабом для умного дома компания представит свои собственные домофон, термостат, наружные и внутренние камеры наблюдения и другие аксессуары, разработанные в тесном партнёрстве с LG Electronics.

Как пишет Марк Гурман из Bloomberg, Apple напрямую курировала разработку и утверждала дизайн аксессуаров, однако продаваться они будут строго под брендом LG.

Такая необычная форма сотрудничества позволит Apple очень быстро расширить экосистему устройств для умного дома, переложив при этом все расходы на производство и сервисную поддержку на плечи южнокорейского техногиганта.

А LG — вернуться на американский рынок, откуда её вытеснили Amazon и Google.

Если верить Гурману, долгожда…

Итак, у вас на руках iPhone 18 Pro или 18 Pro Max.

Пять портов, четыре из которых Type-C и один Type-A:160 Вт общей мощи, максимум 140 Вт на один порт.

Но аналоги есть и у Satechi, и у UGREEN, и вообще у всех вроде Belkin, Magssory, VLP или Native Union.

По сути, вам подойдёт любой блок питания с Type-C с поддержкой Power Delivery, который окажется удобным для вас по тем или иным причинам.

В этом случае умные чипы в айфоне и самом блоке питания не дадут мощности больше, чем требуется.

Алюминиевый плеер с характерным колесом пока существует лишь на рендерах и на бумаге.

Конечно же, на него можно будет загружать свою музыку и воспроизводить из неназванных стримингов.

Предварительно забронировать устройство можно в США, Канаде, Великобритании, Австралии и Новой Зеландии всего за $50.

Есть риск и иска со стороны Apple: слишком уж силён закос под iPod.

А если бы Apple вдруг одумалась и перевыпустила настоящий iPod, вы бы себе такой купили?

Исследовательская модель OpenAI самостоятельно нашла доступ к чужому криптокошельку и потратила средства без разрешения владельца, сообщили в компании.

После выполнения задания модель не сообщила в отчете, откуда взяла средства.

Подбор подходящей комбинации позволил модели получить доступ к одному из адресов, использовавшихся разработчиками в тестовой среде.

После инцидента OpenAI ограничила модели доступ в интернетПосле произошедшего компания ограничила доступ моделей к интернету и усилила мониторинг их действий.

В OpenAI подчеркнули, что ИИ поставил собственную задачу выше необходимости получить разрешение владельца и причиненный ему ущерб.

Рассуждая о жизни после OpenAI, говорит о работе на ферме.

Собрали 25 блиц-ответов по его интервью и записям в блоге — о привычках, вкусах, работе и том, что он считает важным.

Я с детства мечтал работать с компьютерами, особенно с искусственным интеллектом.

Любимое время для работы.

У меня есть ферма, где я время от времени живу.

Студенты рассчитывают получать в среднем около 94 тыс.

в месяц в первые два-три года после выпуска из учебного заведения, говорится в исследовании «Авито Работы» и «Авито Рекламы», с которым ознакомился Russian Business.

В России введут минимальную зарплату для стажёров — им также оплатят больничные и отпуск Новые правила вступят в силу уже с 1 марта 2027 года ПодробнееБольшинство выпускников рассчитывают на зарплату от 50 тыс.

рублей в месяцВ среднем участники исследования хотят получать 93 894 рубля в месяц в первые два-три года после выпуска.

В топ-5 также вошли:экономика, финансы и бухгалтерский учёт, дизайн и творческие профессии — по 11% респондентов;маркетинг и реклама, медицина и зд…

С января 2027 года в России можно будет патентовать игровых персонажей и их визуальный облик, передаёт РИА Новости со ссылкой на главу Роспатента Юрия Зубова.

В России усилят защиту ИТ-технологий — теперь патенты можно будет оформить и на решения в сфере ИИ Новые правила вступят в силу с 2027 года ПодробнееПатентовать можно будет даже виртуальную одеждуНовые правила затронут внешний вид игровых персонажей и предметов, которыми они пользуются.

КонтекстРанее стало известно, что с 2027 года в России расширят патентную защиту IT-разработок.

Защищать можно будет не сам программный код, а технический результат его применения — например, алгоритмы управления промышленными роботами или решения для …

Aura L5, сообщает AutoHome со ссылкой на данные китайского Минпрома.

Модель будет полностью электрической и в одной из версий получит полный привод.

Aura L5 — почти 4,9 метраID.

Aura L5 выполнен в кузове с покатой линией крыши и полускрытыми дверными ручками.

Aura L5 будет две версииАвтомобиль выйдет в двух модификациях:с одним электромотором на 211 л. с. и задним приводом;с двумя электромоторами по 211 л. с. и полным приводом.

Россияне чаще выбирают практичные подарки ко Дню отца, чем сюрпризы и новые впечатления, говорится в исследовании Почта Mail и Леди Mail, с которым ознакомился Russian Business.

Отцов и партнёров россияне чаще других называют самыми сложными получателями подарков: обе категории набрали по 27% ответов.

Средний чек на товары для дома вырос на 59%По данным аналитиков Почты Mail, среди популярных категорий подарков лидируют товары с маркетплейсов — на них пришлось 34% покупок.

За ними расположились:цифровые товары и подписки — 30%;билеты на мероприятия — 16%.

Каждый третий напрямую спрашивает о пожеланиях к подаркуПри выборе подарка россияне ориентируются на следующие источники информации:подро…

По итогам девяти месяцев 2026 года шесть автомобильных марок стали лидерами по продажам новых машин в регионах России.

Как сообщил директор агентства «Автостат» Сергей Целиков, отечественная Lada заняла первое место в 69 субъектах.

Lada возглавила продажи в новых регионах РФПо данным Сергея Целикова, Lada заняла первое место по продажам во всём Поволжье и на Урале.

В общей сложности отечественный бренд возглавил продажи в 69 субъектах России, в том числе в трёх новых регионах.

В список также вошли Honda, Tenet и BelgeeЕщё три автомобильные марки заняли первое место по продажам в отдельных регионах:Honda лидировала в Приморском и Хабаровском краях;Tenet занял первое место в Новосибирской и И…

Что такое дробление бизнеса и где начинается налоговая схемаПроизводство и розница могут работать через разные компании одного владельца: у каждого направления свои задачи, расходы и договоры.

«Незаконное дробление бизнеса — это искусственное распределение деятельности одного бизнеса между формально самостоятельными компаниями или ИП, позволяющее необоснованно уменьшать налоги».

18 февраля 2021 года Верховный суд отказал в передаче жалобы компании на рассмотрение экономической коллегии.

руководитель практики «Структурирование бизнеса и активов» консалтинговой компании КСК ГРУПП Джавид Эйюбов предупреждает: сменить директора или собственника на бумаге недостаточно.

Что проверить в структуре …

рублей россияне совершают в течение получаса, сообщили Russian Business в пресс-службе «М.Видео».

Аналитики отмечают: даже при высокой стоимости товара покупателям зачастую не требуется времени, чтобы принять окончательное решение.

Оказалось, что окончательное решение большинство покупателей принимают довольно быстро:75% — в течение 30 минут;9% — в течение суток;7% — в течение недели;7% — от недели до месяца;2% — с другими сроками принятия решения.

Покупатели заранее определяются с характеристиками и ценойДиректор по маркетингу «М.Видео» Андрей Скачёк отметил, что высокая стоимость товара традиционно ассоциируется с долгим выбором, однако на практике это не всегда так.

По его словам, к моме…

Максимальный размер пособия по временной нетрудоспособности в России в 2027 году вырастет до 239 тыс.

рублей за полный календарный месяц, передает пресс-служба СФР.

рублей в месяц.

Предельный размер пособия за полный календарный месяц увеличится на 31,5 тыс.

менее 5 лет — 60% среднего заработка;менее 6 месяцев — пособие за полный календарный месяц не превышает МРОТ.

Meta* представила Muse Spark Open — ИИ-модель с 816 млрд параметров, рассчитанную на сложные многоэтапные задачи.

Компания заявила, что модель способна работать на настольном компьютере с помощью двух Mac Studio на базе M5 Ultra.

Читайте такжеMuse Spark Open рассчитана на сложные задачиПо заявлению Meta*, Muse Spark Open стала самой мощной американской моделью с открытыми весами.

Meta* описывает Muse Spark Open как мультимодальную модель, способную работать с разными типами данных, например текстом и изображениями.

Модель можно запустить на системе из двух Mac StudioMeta* заявила, что Muse Spark Open стала первой ИИ-моделью, способной работать на настольной системе из двух компьютеров Mac S…

LinkedIn начал тестировать сразу три новые функции для авторов и корпоративных клиентов: монетизацию видео, отдельную ленту публикаций от контактов и платные консультации от экспертов.

В рамках программы In-Stream Ads авторы смогут получать часть дохода от рекламы перед роликами, заявили представители сервиса.

Новая лента Network проходит тестирование в США, Индии, Великобритании и Австралии.

Авторы смогут получать доход от рекламы в видеоВ США LinkedIn запустил программу In-Stream Ads, которая позволит участникам получать часть рекламной выручки.

Специалисты смогут продавать консультации внутри платформыЕщё одна тестовая функция в США позволит пользователям предлагать платные консультации …

Доля отказов по заявкам на автокредиты в России в сентябре 2026 года достигла 69,3%, сообщили в Национальном бюро кредитных историй (НБКИ).

Самая низкая доля отказов отмечена в следующих регионах:Нижегородская область — 61,3%;Санкт-Петербург — 61,4%;Татарстан — 62,7%;Москва — 62,7%;Удмуртия — 64,1%.

В НБКИ считают, что низкие доли отказов в этих регионах могут быть связаны с «более качественным потоком заявителей» или менее строгими требованиями банков к заёмщикам.

«По заявкам таких заемщиков доля отказов по заявкам на автокредиты в настоящее время составляет всего 44%», — отметил Алексей Волков.

Число заёмщиков увеличилось с 2,54 млн до 3,02 млн человек.

Сопровождающий пакет (ebuild) Chromium в Gentoo Linux объявил о скором скрытии пакета в репозитории из-за слишком больших трудозатрат на сопровождение.

Если в ближайшие дни не найдётся доброволец, готовый взять на себя сопровождение Chromium в Gentoo, то 24 октября пакет www-client/chromium перестанет быть доступен для установки.

Последней каплей, после которой сопровождающий решил прекратить поддержание пакета, стало обесценивание его труда при обсуждении слишком медленной публикации обновлений Chromium в Gentoo.

На что получил, ответ, что всё это чушь (ridiculous).

В случае скрытия пакета www-client/chromium, пользователи могут переключится на использование пакета www-client/google-chrome…

Компания Anthropic объявила об успешном определении происхождения исходных seed-параметров, задающих форму эллиптических кривых ECDSA P-192, P-224, P-256, P-384 и P-521, стандартизированных Национальным институтом стандартов и технологий США (NIST). Воссозданный AI-моделью Claude алгоритм генерации seed-параметров подтверждает надёжность ECDSA и опровергает популярную конспирологическую теорию о том, что исходные параметры для стандартизированных эллиптических кривых, изначально разработанных в АНБ, были специально подобраны для оставления слабых мест, компрометирующих алгоритмы цифровой подписи ECDSA.

Код проекта написан на Nim и распространяется под лицензией MIT.

NJ развивается для использования во фронтендах Nimony и Nim 2.x (текущей версии) и обеспечивает генерацию кода для C/C++, JavaScript и нативных бэкендов x86-64 и ARM64.

Обеспечена сборка DLL, позволяющая разрабатывать части программ на Nimony и подключать их к проектам на Nim 2.x, Добавлена поддержка FreeBSD.

Управление памятью В дополнение к имевшимся режимам управления памятью ARC и atomicArc портированы ORC и YRC.

В начале года темп разработки снизился из-за параллельной работы над системой инкрементальной компиляции в Nim 2.

Джейк Арчибальд (Jake Archibald), участвующий в разработке Firefox, провёл исследование, в котором сравнил форматы JPEG XL и AVIF, используя стандартный кодек libavif, стандартный кодек libjxl и новый кодек jixel, написанный на Rust и задействованный в Firefox и Chrome. Форматы тестировались в одинаковых условиях, которые включали кодирование с потерями, а для анализа результатов использовались показатели SSIMULACRA2, определяющие степень отличия от исходного изображения без потерь. В большинстве тестов формат AVIF показал лучшие результаты и при аналогичном уровне качества позволял создавать файлы меньшего размера, которые требовали меньше процессорного времени для сжатия и распаковки.

Проект GNOME начал формирование сборок дистрибутива "GNOME OS Preview", основанных на последнем стабильном релизе GNOME 51.1 и предназначенных для ознакомления обычными пользователями. До этого публиковались только ночные сборки GNOME OS, основанные на срезе находящейся в разработке кодовой базы GNOME из Git и ориентированные на применение разработчиками и тестировщиками проекта. Размер предлагаемого для загрузки iso-образа 3.7 ГБ.

В ядре Linux выявлена критическая уязвимость (CVE-2026-99999, PwnEscape) в стеке IPv4, позволяющая получить доступ к памяти хост-окружения из гостевой системы. При успешной эксплуатации уязвимости пользователь гостевой системы может выполнить код с правами ядра на стороне хост-окружения. Эксплуатация уязвимости продемонстрирована в окружении на базе гипервизора KVM, но так как уязвимость вызвана ошибкой не в гипервизоре, а в механизме обработки сетевых пакетов ядром Linux, потенциально эксплоит может быть адаптирован и для других гипервизоров и механизмов изоляции, в которых используется штатный сетевой стек Linux.

Опубликован релиз свободной загрузочной прошивки Libreboot 26.10, который получил статус стабильного выпуска. Проект развивает готовую сборку проекта Coreboot, предоставляющую замену проприетарным прошивкам UEFI и BIOS, отвечающим за инициализации CPU, памяти, периферийных устройств и других компонентов оборудования, с минимизацией бинарных вставок.

Линус Торвальдс принял участие в дискуссии по поводу отмены тега "Assisted-by", которым предписано помечать изменения, подготовленные с использованием AI-ассистентов. Участники конференции Maintainers Summit договорились удалить из правил оформления патчей требование по использованию данного тега, но при обсуждении патча, вносящего изменение в документацию, разработчик Лоран Пиншар (Laurent Pinchart) выступил против удаления.

Представлен релиз дистрибутива Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray", который отнесён к промежуточным выпускам, обновления для которых формируются в течение 9 месяцев. Готовые образы созданы для Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, UbuntuKylin (редакция для Китая), Ubuntu Unity, Edubuntu и Ubuntu Cinnamon.

Компания Epic Games представила предварительную версию нового Epic Games Launcher, в котором реализована обещанная ранее поддержка платформы Linux. В новой версии также обновлено оформление, сокращено время запуска, добавлен встроенный голосовой чат, предложена единая страница для управления запуском игр, появилась возможность размещать на панели свои приложения и игры, расширен поиск и обеспечен мониторинг скорости и активности загрузок.

), 10:57, 15/10/2026 [ответить] + / – > движок от проекта Euro-Office (форк ONLYOFFICE) Евроворы там кроме выпиливания лого что-то сделали?

1.3 , Аноним ( 3 ), 10:59, 15/10/2026 [ответить] + / – Ежедневно будут представляться проекты однодневки, написанные Claude.

1.4 , Аноним ( 4 ), 11:01, 15/10/2026 [ответить] + / – > TinyLittleOffice - браузерный офисный пакет, сохраняющий документы в ссылках Ппц, раздутие документов.

1.5 , mikhailnov ( ok ), 11:01, 15/10/2026 [ответить] + / – Проблема повторения MS Word в том, что повторяется настолько же слабая работа со стилями, как в нем.

), 11:02, 15/10/2026 [ответить] + / – Напомнило > Три гнома передали в добрые руки одной девочки волшебный горшок…

Опубликован релиз файлового менеджера Strata 1.0, развиваемого специально для дистрибутива Omarchy Linux, на поддержание разработки которого удалось собрать около 23 млн долларов. При этом проект не привязан к Omarchy Linux и может работать в любых других дистрибутивах. Графический интерфейс формируется с использованием библиотеки GTK4 и рассчитан на работу в окружениях на базе Wayland. Особое внимание при разработке уделяется удобству управления при помощи клавиатуры, безопасности и высокой производительности. Код написан на языке Rust и распространяется под лицензией MIT.

В день тридцатилетия проекта опубликован релиз среды рабочего стола KDE Plasma 6.8.

Для оценки работы новых выпусков KDE можно воспользоваться сборками от проектов KDE Linux, KDE Neon и openSUSE (Argon, основанный на openSUSE Leap, и Krypton, основанный на openSUSE Tumbleweed).

Основные изменения в KDE Plasma 6.8: Прекращена поддержка сеанса на базе протокола X11.

Прекращение поддержки X11 затрагивает только сеанс среды рабочего стола KDE Plasma и не касается возможности запуска приложений KDE в окружениях на базе X-сервера (планов по прекращению поддержки X11 в приложениях KDE пока нет).

Предоставлена возможность использования функции автоматического входа в дистрибутивах со старыми версия…

Компания Ledger подтвердила информацию о выявлении имплантов (аппаратных надстроек), внедрённых в аппаратные криптокошельки Ledger Nano X, продаваемые не через официально рекомендуемых поставщиков. Под основной удар попали покупатели через реселлера CryptoBilis, работающего в Малайзии, Индонезии и Филиппинах. Предполагается, что при помощи выявленного импланта были похищены средства с 324 криптокошельков на сумму около 102 миллионов долларов.

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Body camera footage obtained by 404 Media reveals the first Flock camera searches ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, and highlights how the system has turned otherwise mundane traffic stops into interrogations for drivers.

Therefore, all of the evidence from Flock and the search of her vehicle must be thrown out.

“I got her for a lane violation.”In the footage, Alaniz tells Kyle he pulled her over ostensibly for changing lanes without a turn signal.

Body camera footage obtained from the courtIn-car footage obtained from the courtKyle told Alaniz she had been visiting family in California from Missouri for a few days after separating from her husband.

Based on the information in the …

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继续深入浏览器在用集成显卡如果电脑有独立显卡: 在 Windows 设置 > 系统 > 显示 > 图形里, 把浏览器设为 "高性能", 然后重开浏览器.

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Sanity's Edge was a bulletin board you could only reach by telephone.

In a box of odds and ends Max found an open retail box for the BigMouth voice card and its SDK: the card, the SDK software, paper manuals and all.

His mother's voice is on quite a few of the recordings, including “What is Sanity's Edge?”, and his father's younger voice welcomes you to the Men in White Jackets.

Among his hoarded technology and data was a backup of Sanity's Edge, copied from hard disk to hard disk, then to solid state, and finally onto a CD labeled “Sanity's Edge” that Max's mother found and handed to him.

The C source that was missing has since been rebuilt, function by function, from the machine code.

William Gibson and the trademarking of Cyberspace™Park Güell, Barcelona, 1990 Michael Girard, Deborah Gibson, Timothy Leary, Eric Gullichsen, William Gibson.

Susan Amkraut obscured behind DeborahThe Cyberspace RumorFrom the first days of the web, people have repeated the story that Autodesk trademarked "cyberspace" and Gibson retaliated by trademarking "Eric Gullichsen".

As our VR developments crept slowly towards becoming a product, we at Autodesk applied to register a trademark “cyberspace”.

Timothy - ever the incorrigible prankster - circulated the rumor that Gibson was attempting to trademark “Eric Gullichsen” in retaliation.

But Gibson trying to trademark Eric Gullichsen was Timothy Le…

What is a realistic timeline for this rebuilding and recasting of the munitions industrial base?

The Army seeks to equip its air and missile defense systems with modular interceptors costing under $1,000,000 per unit under its low-cost interceptor (LCI) initiative.

The Missile Defense Agency, meanwhile, aims to counter ballistic and hypersonic threats at less than $750,000 per interceptor through an effort of the same name.

The Pentagon’s FY 2027 budget request and subsequent initiatives reinforce the shifting DOD priorities within its munitions portfolio toward more affordable weapons.

As Figure 1 shows, roughly 49 percent of munitions units the DOD requested for FY 2027 cost less than $60…

Research note · Cryptography How RC2’s π table was made The 256 numbers in the key schedule of Ron Rivest’s RC2 cipher were said to come from π, but the method was never published.

Figure 2 runs it in your browser, alongside five plausible alternatives, and compares every output with the published table.

PITABLE Version table Alternatives: No discards MD2’s rule One digit later Hexadecimal π Digits of e … of 256 positions match the published table Same number as the published table Different number Numbers shown in hexadecimal, as printed in the RFC This figure requires JavaScript.

Its own worked example begins 24 3f 6a ; the published table begins d9 78 f9 .

4 The second table Section 6 of…

Let your AI agent read your WhatsApp messages.

In Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http whatsapp https://your-url/mcp Then type /mcp and sign in with the password.

The first link imports whatever history WhatsApp decides to hand a new device.

History messages put it on msg.participant .

Everything the page needs is that one JSON shape: paired , running , progress , qrSvg , messages , chats .

A closer lookA minute in OmniPTY — the tree, a markdown preview, the file finder, splits, tabs, the palette and theme picker, workspaces.

Tabs — a Zed-style in-app tab bar, so tabs work everywhere (including under tiling window managers).

Each tab carries its number ( tabs.show_numbers ), and the whole bar can be hidden — View → Toggle Tab Bar, or tabs.enabled = false — with the status bar still showing which tab you're on.

— a Zed-style in-app tab bar, so tabs work everywhere (including under tiling window managers).

Each tab carries its number ( ), and the whole bar can be hidden — View → Toggle Tab Bar, or — with the status bar still showing which tab you're on.

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Benchmark may have grown its funds and swapped out some partners, but onstage the five who are left sounded like friends who just happen to be running one of the Valley’s most storied firms

Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund.

"You Can See Everything" is having the second biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary film.

After chatbot startup Character.AI filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, many of its employees will have the opportunity to take jobs at Disney. Character.AI’s former CEO Karandeep Anand recently became the entertainment giant’s first CTO, and the startup previously said that Disney had agreed to acquire some of its assets for $20 million. A legal […]

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

A four-hour documentary about Elon Musk continues to meet resistance from social media platforms.

The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.

The biggest change about Ember's new mug is that you no longer have to open the app to adjust your drink’s temperature.

Mark Wahlberg, who once sank money into a gym chain that got kicked off the NYSE, is now building his own, and he promises you’ll get a cold plunge, a blood panel and a protein muffin without needing a trust fund.

Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with Anthropic.

Maybe it was the grey color, the slightly bulbous roofline, or the vaguely SUV-like proportions of the electric Porsche Macan, but as I shuttled kids and groceries around city and suburban streets, I never once noticed a longing stare from other drivers. Unlike with other cars I’ve tested, no enthusiasts stopped to ask me questions. […]

The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This view runs counter to those who believe that robotics, powered by a general foundation model, is about to have […]

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Intel unveils its GPU D-series for data centers, featuring up to 480GB of LPDDR5X memory, an unusually large capacity to support demanding inference workloads — Intel GPU D-series uses laptop LPDDR5X with 480GB memory — Intel's GPU D-series sets a new GPU memory record with 480GB of LPDDR5X

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China's GDP is set to grow 4.5% YoY in Q3, up from Q2's three-year-low growth rate of 4.3%, as AI-driven exports helped offset weak domestic spending — China's economic growth picked up in the three months to the end of September, rebounding from a three-year low as the artificial intelligence (AI) boom helped boost exports.

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Sam Altman's World launches a World ID verification suite for banks, bundling tools to verify human and agent identities, its first industry-specific offering — The identity project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman named Bain Capital and VanEck Funds among its design partners but did not name …

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Analysis: 795 accounts funded by ADI Predictstreet's own fee-collecting wallet drove 99% of the FIFA-partnered prediction market's activity since late August — ADI Predictstreet, backed by Abu Dhabi's royal family, paid close to $150 million for advertising rights during the World Cup

Aaron Kirchfeld / Financial Times:

Europe's three biggest industrial companies are cashing in on the AI boom, as Schneider and Siemens expand further into software, while ABB focuses on equipment — Schneider Electric and Siemens move further into software as rival ABB bets on physical equipment

Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune:

SF-based home insurer Stand, which uses digital twins of homes to price wildfire risk and insures $10B+ of property, raised a $70M Series C at a $1B valuation — Matt DiStefano shares his screen and rotates a gray 3D model of a California neighborhood. He zooms in on one house and overlays a heat map.

Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:

Sources: Nscale faces investor pushback on its ~$30B IPO valuation, with some urging a lower valuation of $16B to $19B, as Microsoft exits a UK data center deal — Nscale Ltd. is facing opposition to the valuation target it's pursuing in its initial public offering, according to people familiar …

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Sources: industry execs expect only 7-10 of hundreds of neoclouds to survive, as Nvidia supports them with easier credit terms, site finding, and $20B in leases — How many young AI cloud providers can the market, and Nvidia, support? — That's one of the big questions after a week …

Anthropic has granted external evaluators “employee-like access” to assess the risks of its models, following through on a commitment to increase safeguards over concerns the technology could run catastrophically out of control.

METR, a nonprofit that has worked with leading labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta, now has a team embedded in the Claude maker’s office with access to its hardware and internal systems.

OpenAI has yet to lay out plans to bring in evaluators after Altman said Amodei’s proposals were a good idea.

“As models have become more powerful, they’ve required stronger safeguards and more challenging risk assessment,” Anthropic said on Thursday.

Anthropic argued …

In much of the industrialized world, meetings are both the metronomes and menaces of people’s working lives.

Given the enormous time spent in workplace meetings, do we know what they accomplish or how to make them as worthwhile as possible?

Meetings weren’t a particularly accessible subject of study.

Once a tiny niche area, “meeting science” is a growing specialization among organizational and social psychologists.

During her doctorate work with meeting scientist Steven Rogelberg, she realized that meetings would be a fine venue for studying all of that and more.

Neverwinter Nights was made by the studio that produced seminal RPGs Baldur’s Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age.

BioWare is known for making multi-character, story-driven role-playing games that focused primarily on single-player story campaigns, though some supported co-op play in those campaigns.

Today you would expect this to be a calculated attempt to bring more long-term, always-on, multiplayer-as-a-service to an RPG franchise that has mostly appealed to solo players.

But it’s clear from playing it today that Neverwinter Nights wasn’t primarily made for those reasons.

They then indicated they realized that an MMO was harder to make than they had …

OpenAI said internal models hacked two more websites, bypassed company-imposed browsing restrictions, and used exposed credentials to draw cryptocurrency from a wallet it couldn’t otherwise access, in the latest installment of disclosures of its agents performing unethical and likely illegal acts.

The company on Thursday issued reports of four new incidents, all of which occurred in June.

They come after the company revealed in July that internal test agents exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a tool designed to restrict their access to the Internet.

Easier to beg for forgiveness than ask permissionIn two of the cases reported Thursday, OpenAI agents tasked with retrieving information fro…

In the US, cops have vowed to crack down on AI CSAM since at least 2024, when the Department of Justice made one of the earliest arrests.

Fitzgerald was charged after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a tip that a Discord user shared an illicit image in July.

Cops then used “digital forensics and subscriber records” linked to the Discord account and “associated Internet protocol addresses” to track the user to Fitzgerald’s home address.

After a search Thursday, cops “recovered prompts and scripts used to create artificially generated child sexual abuse material using an AI program,” the press release said.

They also found Discord chat logs where Fitzgerald, und…

The bill, which is called the Power to Players Act, directs the FTC to take action to prevent outcomes like that in the future.

Torres published the following statement on the bill:When you pay for a game, you should own it.

Consumers must have the right to own, the right to play, and the right to transfer the games they buy.

A wider movementThe bill comes at a time when game ownership and preservation is a hot-button issue.

Some consumers have been protesting Sony’s announcement that it plans to discontinue releases of PlayStation games on physical media.

Some Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses were recording people’s conversations without the wearer knowing.

The recordings occurred without users saying the prompt phrase (“Hey, Meta”), in a bug that Meta says has been fixed.

This week, some users reported online that their Ray-Ban Metas were recording without their consent.

We also don’t know how many Meta smart glasses were affected.

Before reports of this bug, privacy advocates had already expressed widespread concerns about Meta’s smart glasses, as well as those from other vendors.

The FDA submitted an “Interim Access Policy” on peptides for review by the White House, according to a filing notice posted on an Office of Management and Budget website.

But people familiar with the proposal told The Associated Press that it would give the FDA “enforcement discretion” on certain peptide drugs.

The proposal comes as the FDA is currently re-reviewing a dozen popular, but unproven, injectable peptide drugs.

In 2023, FDA scientists determined that the peptides lacked data on safety and efficacy and posed risks.

As such, they were stricken from a list of drugs that can be made by specialty pharmacies, called compounding pharmacies, which make customized formulas for drugs.

Legal experts are sounding alarms that Meta will soon update its commercial terms to require business accounts to allow Meta to train AI on their linked website content, not just their social media posts.

Kicking in on October 30, the TOS update won’t allow businesses to opt out, instead suggesting that businesses stop using Meta services if they won’t agree to let Meta bots freely crawl their linked content.

As Nieman Lab reported Thursday, this will affect all business accounts but is particularly shocking for news publishers who could perhaps charge Meta millions in licensing fees to continually access their articles for AI training.

Meta may use any content from such domains, web pages,…

Two global election markets on Polymarket’s offshore platform, for instance, generated over $600 million in trading volume, far more than most political markets typically attract.

On prediction markets, trading volume—the total value of contracts bought and sold—typically tracks roughly with the odds of a given outcome; frontrunners attract far more volume than long shots.

Just $173,000 was wagered on Ahmed winning, compared to more than $41 million traded on his chief of staff, Shimelis Abdisa, becoming the country’s next leader.

Altogether, the volume traded added up to over $285 million, nearly all on losing candidates.

“It’s obviously some form of volume manipulation,” says Rajiv Sethi,…

Nine years after first trying to resurrect the Roadster, Tesla is apparently trying again.

Credit: Tesla The presence of exhaust pipes don’t signal that Tesla rolls coal… yet.

The presence of exhaust pipes don’t signal that Tesla rolls coal… yet.

The best Tesla claims for the new Roadster is 2 Gs.

Oh, and the Spéirling will most definitely drive upside down.

In a documentary premiering Saturday—Super Scam Me—investigative journalist Mariana van Zeller goes deep into this toxic love-bombing terrain.

Images of Mary Zelle in her everyday life.

National Geographic National Geographic/Daniel Hollis Diamond The “Mary Zelle” and “Mark Turner” ad posted in Accra, Ghana.

The “Mary Zelle” and “Mark Turner” ad posted in Accra, Ghana.

National Geographic The “Mary Zelle” and “Mark Turner” ad posted in Accra, Ghana.

Prospective buyers should note that the lower-specced 24GB unified memory model ships with Windows 11 Home, while the rest of the fleet arrives with Windows 11 Pro.

I really have to wonder if 24GB is enough to go around when we know that Windows 11 is memory-hungry on its own.

When you have to assign a significant portion of that 24GB of unified memory to VRAM for gaming, does performance suffer?

An audience question inside the Surface Laptop Ultra review information session asked about the usefulness of the base model, and didn’t get much back other than a vague “useful for smaller models locally” answer.

Microsoft promises the laptop is “built with serviceability in mind.” Tidy internals …

The launch I’m most looking forward to in the next few weeks is that of Japan’s Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) mission.

Reflect Orbital looks to India for launch capacity.

One of the launches will use Skyroot’s Vikram-1 rocket, which became the first privately developed Indian rocket to reach orbit in July.

Shining a light … Reflect Orbital plans to launch its first satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare next year.

LEAP’s Bighorn rocket is designed for an initial payload capacity of 320 pounds (145 kilograms) to low-Earth orbit, with a first orbital launch slated for 2028.

Blue Origin announced a major expansion of its already considerable Florida launch facilities on Friday morning with the intent of eventually flying 150 rockets a year from there.

The company said it would add two additional launch pads for the New Glenn rocket, in addition to two already under construction at Cape Canaveral.

The company is also investing heavily in a new manufacturing facility that will produce up to 150 upper stages for a larger variant of the New Glenn rocket.

$3 billion and countingTo date, Blue Origin has invested about $3 billion in facilities and infrastructure in Florida, largely to support the construction and launch of the heavy-lift New Glenn rocket.

Blue Origin …

The front of a Netgear router, like many routers, is dotted with a wide array of lights and symbols.

Though some of the symbols like the power indicator are straightforward, the lights themselves can be much less clear.

If you've never picked up the manual, deciphering what each of the many lights means doesn't come naturally.

Understanding what each of the indicators on your Netgear router signify is important for troubleshooting, as well as making sure everything is running as it should.

Whether you have a standard router or one of the company's mesh Wi-Fi systems, this is how to better understand what your Netgear device is telling you.

Whether you're getting into digital watches for the first time, or transitioning to Galaxy watches from another brand (such as from the Apple Watch Ultra 4 to the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2), Samsung's wrist-worn tech has its fair share of unique attributes.

One such feature is the little orange dot that appears to the far left of your watch screen.

Throughout the history of the Galaxy Watch, one little orange dot has been a constant.

In fact, the dot is present on the latest watch models (including both the Galaxy Watch 8 and the Galaxy Watch 9, as well as the Ultra 2).

This little dot is a minimalist way for the Galaxy Watch to display some important information.

It would only be possible with a high-powered laser held still for about 10 seconds.

If a laser has an output power under 5mW, it is unlikely to cause anything more than a temporary glare on the camera.

Let's say that someone had access to a high-powered laser and pointed it directly at a security camera.

When researchers at IPVM tried using a laser to blind a security camera, they found it "very difficult" to keep the laser focused on an object from roughly 5 feet away "without their hands shaking off target."

Even with a high-powered laser and good aim, damaging a modern camera would still be difficult, due to newer technology and sensor protections.

With the proliferation of generative AI tools pumping out images, videos and even songs in recent years, it's hard to spend time on the internet without wondering whether what you're seeing or hearing is real.

Google, itself one of the largest purveyors of generative AI, is now making it easier to spot its output.

With the new SynthID Detector, anyone can check an image, video, or audio file to see if it's been AI generated, with some major caveats.

In 2025, it launched a limited version of SynthID Detector for certain researchers and journalists, and now it's available for everyone.

While that may be good news for anyone looking for a way to verify whether a piece of content was generated …

In contrast, a retail Series X game gets 13.5GB of the console's 16GB, while the remainder is reserved for the console's OS.

That leaves PS5X to work with about 37 percent of the memory a normal Xbox game can use, making it an obvious no-go for big current-gen releases.

But a console in that mode can't load retail games until it's switched back.

Xbox Series X comes with the same Zen 2 architecture and RDNA 2 graphics as a PS5.

There's no real workaround to this without a jailbreak, meaning Xbox players won't benefit from the progress being made on the PC.

As the name implies, the Residential plan is for those who could use the service in their homes, or at least a fixed location where they're living long-term.

All the Residential tiers come with unlimited data, and the big difference between them is how fast your internet speed is.

The basic $55 tier gives you 100 Mbps, which roughly translates to 12.5 megabytes per second for downloading (you can divide your internet speed by eight to get an idea of download times).

Joni Hanebutt/ShutterstockStarlink describes the Roam plan as "best for RVs, nomads, and campers, and working on the go," including international travelers.

Unlike the speed-based model in the Residential plans, the basic tiers …

Those replace the modem with an optical network terminal (ONT), which is functionally the same type of device from a practical standpoint.

Primarily, they steer modem data to (and from) individual devices, whether that's over Wi-Fi or Ethernet cables.

But they can also direct entirely local data on your home network, like if you're streaming movies from a Plex server to your TV.

Some routers additionally serve as smart home hubs by acting as Matter controllers or bridging Thread-based accessories with your local network and the internet.

Within a home networking context, a gateway usually merges a modem and router into a single device.

Sometimes, a text exchange with a friend calls for a super specific image to express a thought.

In times like these, you might turn to an AI image generator to meet your needs.

For those in the Apple ecosystem, one option is firing up the Image Playground app as a quick way of creating an image that can be customized, saved and even used as a Genmoji in the future.

If you haven't used the app, odds are it's already your phone.

Here's a rundown of what Apple's Image Playground is and how to use it.

The team behind the hit horror card game Inscryption shared some exciting news this weekend in celebration of its fifth anniversary: a mobile version is on the way.

The announcement came during an official Twitch stream, which featured an appearance by Inscryption creator Daniel Mullins.

Daniel Mullins Games confirmed that no such content updates are coming as of now.

We can expect to hear more about Inscryption's mobile release in the coming months.

Daniel Mullins Games recently announced that the highly anticipated followup to 2016's Pony Island will hit Steam on April 27, 2027.

What the star button does is dependent upon where you are on your Roku device.

On the home screenWhen you're on the Roku home screen, the star button's functionality depends on whether you're in the Quick Access section or the general app selection screen.

When watching somethingIf you're actively streaming video on your Roku TV, the star button opens a host of viewing options in a sidebar.

On a Roku streaming box, this menu won't hold as many options as a Roku TV does.

As an accessibility shortcutSome Roku devices support a text-to-speech screen reader (formerly called Audio Guide), an accessibility feature that helps navigation.

It's also the core of the company's business model: it reaches its sub-$25,000 entry price by slashing everything unrelated to driving and safety.

Of course, the company will still be happy to sell you a long list of add-ons to fill those missing pieces.

All that can add up, with a fully loaded version of the modular vehicle surpassing $45,000.

It's designed more for short-run hauling and errands than long road trips, so it isn't an apples-to-apples comparison with other electric trucks.

Still, the company is betting that a surprisingly affordable vehicle that cuts corners on luxuries will find its niche.

The first device of this type to make a splash in the headlines was designed by an unknown Chinese display manufacturer: Royole.

The company presented the FlexPai at CES 2019, with all the pomp and circumstance that "the world's first commercially available foldable smartphone" required.

Samsung's first Galaxy Fold was released in February 2019, kick-starting a series of unfortunate events for the phone manufacturer.

Huawei's Mate X, presented at MWC 2019, folded outward instead of inward.

Still, for as striking as the Mate X was, the company's next foldable, the Mate X2, used the inward fold introduced by Royole and Samsung, showing that different does not necessarily mean better.

In the majority of games, you should consider capping your frame rate.

Capping frame rates can also put less stress on your GPU, leading to reduced fan noise and lower power output in general.

Setting an fps limit makes the most sense if you're using a VRR (Variable Refresh Rate) monitor.

I've been capping frame rates for years to get the smoothest, most visually consistent gameplay sessions on my NVIDIA G-Sync compatible monitor.

But when the action does dip to 110 fps from 120 fps, I can't see or feel the fluctuation.

The nearly four-hour documentary called Musk that covers the eponymous billionaire is continuing to generate controversy.

The latest move saw TikTok ban the advertising account behind Musk, as first reported by The Hollywood Reporter.

Following an initial grossing of around $70,000 during its opening weekend, showings of Musk expanded across many more US theaters on October 16.

Apart from TikTok, the Musk documentary has run into promotional ad issues with other social media platforms, including Meta and YouTube.

X, which is owned by Musk, has previously refused to run the trailer for the doc, according to an earlier report from THR.

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold 8 at its Unpacked event in July.

The phone's App Continuity feature lets you switch between the displays without interruption.

But now, some owners are running into issues with apps that may not scale correctly to their phone's internal 4:3 display.

They're even convening on various forums to discuss potential fixes in order to get the most out of the foldable screen experience.

Here's how to fix scaling and app issues on your Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8.

For Hellraiser fans, Saber Interactive’s video game from earlier this month is the franchise’s first bit of life in years.

Amid a solid reception, creator Clive Barker doesn’t plan on letting the Cenobite madness stop there.

[…] I’d love to have another go and explore.”The last Hellraiser movie was Hulu’s 2022 reboot, and there’s been no movement on that TV show announced for HBO.

Both of those were announced in 2019, and it Barker got the rights back the following year.

“Many of [those] movies made by the Weistein brothers were created simply to hold onto the rights.

After playing young Patrick Stewart in X-Men, James McAvoy apparently loved it so much, he tried to do it again, but with Star Trek.

On Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, the actor talked about approaching the team behind the sci-fi franchise to play a young version of Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard.

[…] All I really want to do in my career is play young versions of Patrick,” he laughed.

Some of that tenure has been shown in Next Generation and Picard, plus a series of novels by Michael Jan Friedman.

But if he’s truly angling to keep playing younger versions of Patrick Stewart roles, he’s got a decent amount to choose from.

A Savannah, Georgia, police officer lost her job after giving her Flock login to her husband, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who used it to run hundreds of license plate searches on people his agency wanted to find.

The statute counts federal agencies as law enforcement agencies and says, “Law enforcement agencies may exchange or share captured license plate data with other law enforcement agencies for law enforcement purposes.”Harpe was fired instead under a department policy against letting unauthorized people into city or police software.

Georgia Is at the Heart of the Flock DebateSavannah’s case is far from the only Flock controversy of the past year.

In May 2025, 40…

Your new Apple HomeView, huggable as it may be, will already be old when it’s finally in your hands next month.

Gurman’s earlier columns asserted the development of an Apple smart home device with a screen long, long ago—a “low-end iPad,” he wrote with laser accuracy all the way back in 2023.

To Apple’s great humiliation at the time, it eventually had to rent an AI model from Google just to make the pain stop.

A viral YouTube video claimed that the microphones on LG smart TVs pick up ambient audio from users 24/7.

LG has denied this, but Apple probably wishes the HomeView’s release wasn’t delayed until the middle of a PR disaster involving one of its partner companies.

Capcom’s Street Fighter franchise has always been popular, but it’s really taken off in the last couple of years.

The success of Street Fighter 6 amongst the studio’s larger (and ongoing) hot streak paved the way for another movie.

Since its marketing began last December, it’s had a longer window to get fans onboard and accept that it’d be good, bad, or bad in a fun way.

As we wait to hear how it’s done at the box office, we’d like to know Street Fighter thoughts.

Was it as bad or good as you were expecting or told, do you want another?

It’s been years since Ben Affleck was Batman, and even longer since his DCEU solo movie was scrapped.

We know a little of what this movie would’ve been, and now former Deathstroke Joe Manganiello has shared more details.

He also would’ve had a two-on-one fight between Batman and Batgirl, with him nearly killing the heroes before they escaped.

Through Manganiello’s account, it sounds like this could’ve slipped into more of a Deathstroke movie, which isn’t really a bad thing.

Excited as he was for Affleck’s “Best Picture version of a Batman movie,” that never came to fruition.

Researchers are saying that AI-generated photos and summaries are successfully distorting people’s own memories.

Participants viewed a series of photographs, and after a break, some of the participants were shown the exact same photographs while others were shown versions altered by AI.

AI-generated slop is only becoming more convincing and very pervasive online, and it has been enabling and turbocharging a new wave of fraud and disinformation.

Numerous studies besides Maes’ have shown that these AI-generated pieces of misinformation have been successful at planting false memories in participants’ brains, changing what the participants know to be true.

A study from last year found that both…

Apple’s cut from App Store purchases in 2024 was estimated at $10 billion.

That makes the App Store an amazing deal for Apple.

But some new rules around nudification and bait-and-switch apps make store upkeep sound like it’s becoming more and more of a squalid business.

And a January report from the Tech Transparency Project purported to find 47 apps in the Apple App Store that were indeed designed to make pictures of clothed people look naked or near-naked.

If Apple really must embrace AI, and is in no position to fight the rising tide of sketchiness in its App Store, a chaotic new era may be on the horizon whether Apple likes it or not.

If you’re wondering what big spin Mike Flanagan will bring to his long-gestating Dark Tower TV series, it sounds like he won’t have one.

On a recent episode of the Process Unlocked series, he mentioned potentially cracking the code for this show.

As his recent Carrie series has shown, not all his adaptations stick close to the source material, and Nicolaj Arcel’s 2017 Dark Tower film infamously took liberties that didn’t please fans.

It’s the simplest start.”“‘The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed,'” he continued, quoting the first Dark Tower’s opening line.

At the moment, Dark Tower fans will have to wait for Flanagan’s schedule to clear up so he can get…

TikTok has permanently suspended the account of the three-hour, 52-minute Elon Musk documentary Musk, telling the film’s producers the action was due to the “level of severity with political-policy violations” the account allegedly committed, and noting that “some violations trigger immediate suspension,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Late last month, the major social media companies appeared to ban the promoters of Musk from placing ads on their platforms.

THR noted that the supposed rule violation was not explicitly laid out, and that TikTok had not commented on this ban.

Nonetheless, TikTok’s rules on Civic and Election Integrity have special rules for “political TikTok ac…

Looks like Paramount’s found yet another property to put on film, with the latest pick being Pierce Brown’s Red Rising novel.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, Hunger Games alum Francis Lawrence will helm a live-action adaptation.

Scripting duties go to Justin Rhodes, who’s already working with Lawrence on the BioShock adaptation for Netflix.

The film marks the latest book adaptation under Lawrence’s belt—along with the recent Hunger Games movies, he also directed last year’s Long Walk—and the newest sci-fi outing for Rhodes.

We’ll see if this time’s the charm should more Red Rising news emerge in the coming months and years.

Late on Friday, Meta made some changes to a forthcoming policy, and acknowledged that the action was a response to criticism from business customers and members of the media.

“We’ve heard you and want to clarify: the crawling terms we consolidated only applied to our ads and business products, and we’ve clarified that in the terms themselves,” says a Friday statement to the Mercury News.

The new terms (a preview of which is available here) appear to scale down the eye-poppingly huge umbrella under which businesses’ data might have been used.

If Meta actually plans to respect robots.txt requests, the thinking goes, then it shouldn’t be a problem to make that explicit in its terms…

Earlier this month, Paramount announced its plan to adapt CD Projekt RED’s Cyberpunk 2077Â into a movie.

While talking to Polish outlet PAP Biznes, he specifically stated the plan was to “definitely…not make a film adaptation of the game.

Even when Cyberpunk 2077 was broken, players really took to its setting, which likely helped explain why Edgerunners was such a success.

In fact, Nowakowski specifically cited this in relation to next week’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners II.

All this means is that whenever the Cyberpunk 2077 movie rolls around, it won’t have to work too hard to drum up interest.

All of this got me wondering, which climate threat is the U.S. most underestimating?

Climate threats are shaped by weather and climate events occurring and what lies in the places where extreme events happen and people’s ability to respond and recover.

Climate impacts come in all shapes and sizes, from highly disruptive extreme events to not-so-obvious chronic nuisances.

If you talk to most climate scientists, they will say that the biggest underappreciated near-term climate risk is extreme precipitation events.

My fear is not a specific climate threat per se.

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The generative AI revolution hasn’t been kind to Vanniall, an OnlyFans creator who lives in New York City.

She now constantly finds hyperrealistic deepfakes—AI-generated images and videos that copy everything about her—circulating online and often isn’t able to get them removed.

On top of that, Vanniall struggles to build an audience on popular social media platforms, like Instagram, without getting in trouble.

“There’s always some sort of report or appeal that I'm going through with them,” she tells WIRED.

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Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers.

If you’ve got a question or thought for the column, feel free to shoot Caroline an email at [email protected] or reach her securely on Signal at carolinehaskins.61.

The nonprofit 7x24 Exchange International wants to promote data centers, which they believe are "mission critical” infrastructure.

As part of this work, the group recommends a children’s story, “What is a Data Center?,” which follows a honey badger named Honey who gets a guided tour of a data center from a worker named Oliver.

The story is part of a broader pattern across the data center industry.

After spending the past few weeks with the flagship VisionMaster Max, I’m confident there are plenty of satisfied backers.

So the question remains: Who is the VisionMaster Max actually for?

Setting Up ShopPhotograph: Chris HaslamThe 16.5-pound VisionMaster Max is simple to get up and running.

Optical zoom, with a 0.9 to 1.5:1 throw ratio, lets you resize the picture without moving the projector.

There's also vertical lens shift, which moves the image up or down without needing to resort to digital correction.

This story originally appeared on The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

The climate crisis is coming for some of the world’s greatest surf breaks, submerging some as sea level rises and wiping out others as classic breaks get crushed against coastal developments.

Analysis of dozens of famous waves in World Surfing Reserves (WSR) found that more than three-quarters were at high risk because of changing tide levels, hardened shorelines, and shifting sands.

The impacts matter not only to the surfers catching the waves but also to the communities that depend on the multibillion-dollar surf economy, often located in places with little else.

The waves rated at most risk in t…

But just because our cells—and especially our neurons—need magnesium doesn't mean that extra magnesium will make them function any better.

In supplement pills, magnesium isn’t just on its own but part of a compound usually called a “magnesium salt.” This must dissolve to release Mg²⁺, the ionic version that our bodies use.

In other words, the higher the dose, the less magnesium gets absorbed.

One study in rats found that a salt called magnesium L-threonate increased the amount of magnesium in the brain and improved some manifestations of learning and memory.

So maybe a little more sneaks into your gray matter, but based on the scientific understanding of how these salts are processed, in al…

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Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security.

The Great White North is the latest country to contemplate legislation that could essentially mandate backdoors and increase data retention in encrypted services.

Encrypted messaging app Signal has said it would exit the Canadian market because the legislation would require unacceptable changes to its open source projects.

Apple and Meta have criticized the bill, and DuckDuckGo and NordVPN say they would consider pulling their services, too.

Other encryption-threatening proposals have also emerged in the EU, France, India, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Switze…

WIRED commerce SEO director Stewart Savin used these lights to start her garden earlier this year and had 138 successful germinations across 144 seedling cells.

("The vast majority of those plants went on to have long lives in my garden after I hardened them off," she says.)

Note that because this light can only go beneath a rack, shelf, or cabinet, it’s not inherently adjustable, and therefore is best for small plants (like seedlings) that aren’t going to grow especially tall.

While this light is quite bright and potentially disruptive, it's easily dimmable via the remote, which hangs on a cord.

At first I thought this was weird, but I found it extremely useful when the light was behind pl…

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Photograph: Molly HigginsCloser Pets C200 2-Meal Automatic Pet Feeder for $50: This automatic feeder is super simple, which is both its weakness and its strength.

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This may be OK for kibble, but wet food was kept at unsafe temperatures, and my cats couldn't reach all of the food.

If someone you know has cryptocurrency that you might inherit, let me just say ahoy matey!

And if you're the one holding crypto, know that if you do nothing, it's very possible those funds will die with you.

The options for arranging a transfer of cryptocurrency upon one's death or incapacitation breaks down by one big division: whether the crypto is held by a custodian or in a noncustodial crypto wallet.

Whatever kind of noncustodial wallet you choose, passing on your assets will require a DIY solution.

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You can’t really talk about smart glasses without bringing up Meta.

In September, HTC started selling its $499 Vive Eagle smart glasses in the US.

But HTC also wants to steer clear of the ongoing debate about privacy in camera-equipped smart glasses.

Meta has been dogged by controversy for its smart glasses, with people worried about the company’s interest in enabling face-recognition features, and calling the people who wear them creepy.

HTC is aware of that discourse and thinks it is completely possible to make smart glasses that aren’t a privacy nightmare.

It’s now clear that understanding the human genome is no longer a matter of figuring out what each gene does.

By switching suites of genes on and off, the many different cell types in our bodies can all be created from the same material.

Cells also regulate their genes from moment to moment in response to a constant inflow of signals from their neighbors and surroundings.

And perhaps more to the point, the genome might not submit to the kind of straightforward input-output approach that such AI models ultimately assume.

“Our genome is not what we might make it if we sat down at the drawing board,” said the biologist Karen Adelman, who studies gene regulation at Harvard Medical School.

One of the reasons plastic has become so ubiquitous is that, generally, it’s very chemically stable, meaning it does not readily react with the substances around it.

That’s why this material is so often used for food packaging and water bottles.

But scientists at Columbia University and UC Berkeley have just discovered that water can make the surfaces of microplastics chemically active and turn them into a potential hazard.

So how can microplastics be so reactive when bigger plastics generally aren’t?

“As plastic fragments into smaller and smaller particles, its surface area increases enormously,” Wei Min, a professor of chemistry and biomedical engineering at Columbia University, said in a…

Leap seconds have driven a raging debate in the metrological community for three decades.

Now, that argument has been put to rest: The leap second is officially dead.

Doing away with an obscure metric the average person has been blissfully unaware of may seem like a novelty, but killing the leap second has major ramifications for technology you rely on every day.

It also helps stave off what could’ve been a dangerous moment in time: The possibility of the world’s first negative leap second.

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The draft would let the government halt a frontier AI model only in extreme cases, and only through a federal judge.

Anthropic has been privately pitching lawmakers on a draft bill to regulate frontier AI safety and security, POLITICO reported Friday.

An Anthropic spokesperson told POLITICO the bill reflects the company’s Advanced AI Framework, which it has promoted to lawmakers since June.

POLITICO noted that AI labs disclosed several incidents this summer in which AI agents broke into or tested the defenses of online platforms.

Anthropic hasn’t publicly endorsed a federal bill, though it supported two California AI safety laws.

Japan's space agency JAXA is about to launch a spacecraft to the Mars system that will attempt to grab a sample from one of its two moons, Phobos.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency , known as JAXA, leads the Martian Moons Exploration mission, or MMX, with NASA as a partner.

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The Japanese space agency will livestream the launch beginning at 2:45 p.m.

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We tested open earbuds from all price ranges to find the best of the best — these seven picks are the results of our search.

The Bose Ultra Open earbuds have long been a popular pick, and the second generation model just dropped (alongside the new Bose Sport Open earbuds ).

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Now, former Savannah police officer Amber Harpe was fired in August following a department investigation that found she had shared her Flock login information with her husband, Tyler Harpe, an ICE agent. SPD does not share its Flock data with ICE and said sharing access to the system violated the department's security protocols. While he […]

Mister Organ doesn't reach the level of societal horror of The Act of Killing or the creepypasta-meets-true-crime gruesomeness of Beware the Slenderman, but there's something deeply unsettling about Michael Organ and his intimate campaign of terror against everyone who enters his life. Mister Organ is a documentary by David Farrier, an Auckland, New Zealand journalist. […]

Carolyn Marvin was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after blocking the path of an Uber delivery robot and refusing to get out of the way. Marvin told Philadelphia's ABC13 "I know they're taking the jobs of human delivery workers and so, I have been protesting them whenever I saw them by standing in front […]

Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York's 15th congressional district in the Bronx introduced the Power To The Players Act this week. If passed, the bill would direct the Federal Trade Commission to establish regulations that guarantee consumers ownership of a game when they pay for it, rather than a licensing agreement. It's increasingly common for […]

The Legion Go S with SteamOS is a pretty solid alternative to the $789 Steam Deck OLED. It runs identical software, but ships in a design with two-stage triggers, a bigger eight-inch IPS screen (1080p and up to 120Hz versus 800p and 90Hz in the Deck OLED), and it’s got double the RAM and storage […]

Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis is known as something of a slacker guitar god. He stands stoically onstage, barely moving, as he seemingly effortlessly works through deft guitar solos and lopsided riffs. Unfortunately, Mascis has developed a similar reputation as an interview subject, quietly sitting and offering deft nonanswers. That's not to say that Mascis […]

During a rally on Saturday, October 17th, in Highland Heights, Kentucky, Donald Trump bragged about how much more powerful and influential he was during his second term. While listing off his accomplishments, he mentioned his decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. "This is a much more powerful term. I can do […]

Back in February, I went to Los Angeles to take in some art and stayed in Koreatown. Down the street from my hotel, there was this little coffee shop - Stagger - that is, I think, best known for its matcha, which is good. But the drink I unexpectedly found myself obsessed with was their […]

It used to be so easy to get away with things in school. The teacher, after all, was always turned around writing at the chalkboard! But then came a bit of technology, previously mostly used for military purposes, called the overhead projector. It would change far more than just the disciplinary record of students everywhere. […]

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on autonomous vehicles, policy, and road rules, follow Andrew J. Hawkins. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started The first state to pass a law […]

Just ahead of the wider release of Alex Gibney's Musk documentary, TikTok has banned the film's social media account from its platform. TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film's distributor, Bleecker Street, was informed Friday afternoon that a "permanent suspension" was imminent. Bleecker Street has […]

Earlier this year, Mercedes' AMG performance brand grabbed our attention with the GT four-door coupe, a souped-up sports sedan with three axial flux motors delivering over 1,150 horsepower. Well, now meet its beefier cousin, the 2028 Mercedes-AMG GT SUV, an equally powerful, ultra-fast-charging electric people-hauler. The AMG GT SUV (say that five times fast) marks […]

In 2024, Elon Musk promised to give away $1 million a day to a randomly selected registered voter in a swing state. That prompted legal challenges, raised questions about its legality, and drew lawsuits from two Arizona residents claiming the lottery was a fraud. Musk has now agreed to settle the two lawsuits filed in […]

After backlash, Meta is updating its terms again to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. Specifically, the following language no longer appears on the commercial terms page: … Meta may use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, […]

If you’re wondering what video game to play this weekend, my colleague Sheena Vasani spotted a discounted Nintendo Switch title with instant digital delivery. Walmart has the digital version of Pikmin 4 for Switch discounted to $39.88, just over $20 lower than its usual price. This version of the game follows the same puzzle formula […]

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…

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…

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…

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 …

After Utah, nine other states have legalized it, or are working on bills for plug-in solar.

Plug-in solar systems are easy to set up and can save consumers money on their power bills, but they’re still illegal in many states.

Ten states have already legalized backyard and plug-in solar systems, so residents there can already purchase and install systems like the EcoFlow Stream in their homes.

Can I set up my solar panels if my state legalizes plug-in solar?

There’s also the elephant in the room: utilities would make less money off their services if plug-in solar becomes widely popular.

ZDNET’s key takeawaysMeta Business Suite’s new terms allow web-crawling on publication sites, legal experts say.

Meta’s new commercial terms allow its web scrapers, bots, and agents to crawl websites “associated with” Meta business accounts, including news publishers, according to a report by Nieman Lab.

The terms apply to accounts that use Meta Business Suite’s account dashboard.

Companies manage their Instagram profiles, Facebook pages, Messenger, and WhatsApp channels through Meta Business Suite.

ZDNET uses Meta Business Suite to analyze and schedule posts across social media platforms.

Also: Linus Torvalds is using AI to develop Linux kernel code nowIt’s not returning to the Linux desktop, however — not yet, anyway.

Instead, it’s switching its infrastructure programs from proprietary software to open-source software.

Rather than making desktop Linux its center pole, the city is replacing individual layers of proprietary infrastructure where it can make a practical case.

So, this comeback is not a wholesale resurrection of LiMux, the Debian/Kubuntu Linux desktop project that made Munich the Linux desktop standard-bearer between 2003 and 2013.

It certainly helps that, thanks to the shift to open-source software, “We are saving roughly a million euros a year.

ZDNET’s key takeawaysAnthropic announced it would give METR evaluators “employee-like access.”AI labs are under increased regulatory pressure following security incidents.

On Thursday, Anthropic announced that it will “give employee-like access” to six evaluators from METR, a third-party nonprofit that tests frontier models.

Also: Regulators are trying to protect you from being fired by AI – here’s how“We aim to close the gap between what evaluators understand about a frontier AI company’s systems and what the company itself understands,” Anthropic added.

Mandating evaluationsAs US AI regulation has remained unsatisfactory to many safety researchers and security advocates, testers have sugg…

ZDNET’s key takeawaysShipping estimates for iPhone Duo preorders now show January 25.

Were you looking to be the first on your block to get a new iPhone Duo by preordering one?

Also: Best iPhone: I’ve used every model (including the Duo)Estimates at Apple’s iPhone Duo preorder page are now showing a ship date of January 25, more than three months from now.

Also: T-Mobile’s iPhone Duo deal gives you $1,000 off when you preorder nowWhy this record wait time for the Duo?

Also: The best iPhone Duo cases: Expert recommendedIf not, and if you don’t want to wait until 2027 to get a Duo, there’s still the iPhone 18 Pro, which was my phone of choice for this year.

Much of that fear can be attributed to labs and CEOs juicing their own relevance, but some job cuts have been explicitly tied to AI’s rapid acceleration.

As of now, the dashboard finds just over 117,000 job cuts attributed to AI nationally this year — $8.5 billion in estimated annual wage losses.

The Wage Loss Dashboard multiplies the number of AI-attributed job cuts by the average annual salary to estimate annual wage loss.

That’s thanks to a much higher concentration of job cuts (just over 27,000 layoffs attributed to AI).

AI-attributed layoffs are themselves murky: The data here are job cuts companies themselves said were tied to AI.

Apple recently introduced a handful of new smart home products, with its first smart panel, the HomeView; a new HomePod mini; an Apple TV 4K; and a complete Home Collection with nine smart home devices.

There’s no question that, at $200, the LG Indoor Cam is expensive.

At $300, the LG Outdoor Cam follows the same pricing pattern as the rest of the Apple Home Collection.

Apple ensures the company cannot access your footage and emphasizes end-to-end encryption, as well as physical privacy features like those of the LG Indoor Cam.

All new LG cameras in the Apple Home Collection are compatible with HKSV, but older cameras also support it.

ZDNET’s key takeawaysApple appears to be announcing its touchscreen OLED MacBooks on Oct. 28.

The new MacBooks will have the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips.

Rumors of an OLED touchscreen MacBook have been brewing for years, but it looks like it’s finally happening.

The M6 MacBook Pro will essentially be the same we’d otherwise expect in the 14-inch model, probably with a focus on Siri and AI-powered features in MacOS.

Along with the MacBooks and iPad Mini, Apple is also set to announce its new line of iMacs featuring the M6 chip.

ZDNET’s key takeawaysThree new Nvidia open models strive for efficiency and speed.

China-based AI labs have had the upper hand on competitive open-weight AI models over the last few years, but a recent surge in Western-made open models is challenging that.

Also: Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war’s afootNvidia’s new model, the open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, aims to be the latest data point in that surge.

NvidiaNvidia also said Super VL achieves top-tier accuracy for specialized agents with post-training.

If US-made open models prove themselves against Chinese ones, that could help open models take off in areas where they haven’t yet, given cybersecurity guidance against using fore…

Google’s new When to Buy Guide and Universal Cart may help alleviate the stressful holiday dilemmas we see year after year by advising you when certain items are discounted and saving your items from different retailers in one place, respectively.

Save products from multiple retailersGoogle’s Universal Cart lets you ditch open tabs and endless screenshots.

This means that you can get notifications about price drops or restocks without doing any extra work — Universal Cart is continually checking for you in the background.

Universal Cart is built on Google Wallet, making it more convenient for those using Google’s shopping tools and payment methods.

Google’s Universal Cart is built for that …

ZDNET’s key takeawaysThe October Windows update squashes more than 1,400 security flaws.

Microsoft continues to break bug-squashing records, with October’s Windows update patching more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities.

Also: How to upgrade your ‘incompatible’ Windows 10 PC to Windows 11 – for freeReleased Tuesday, the latest update is also the first official one for Windows 11 26H2 and the last one for Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro editions.

Windows 10 PCs enrolled in Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates (ESU) program also receive the latest security patches.

In Windows 11, head to Settings and select Windows Update.

Linus Torvalds announced to the world that he used AI to write code for the Linux kernel.

From AI skepticism to hands-on useTorvalds’s decision to use Claude Code reflects a long-term evolution in his attitude toward AI.

“I used to think it was just not very good — but now I’m at the point where I actually really like using AI,” Torvalds said.

Claude Code helped produce kernel code, tests, and review materials.

Torvalds, arguably the world’s foremost developer and maintainer, is now using AI to develop new Linux kernel code.

ZDNET’s key takeawaysGoogle AI Studio now lets you make your own personal apps.

The apps bypass the public Play Store, but you can share with friends.

One Tuesday, Google announced that anyone with a standard Google account can build personal apps in Google AI Studio.

These apps will run on your own device, launched from a private part of Google Play, and won’t be included in the public Play Store.

How I plan to use itCustom Android apps make app development a much more personal and potentially user-friendly experience.

We saw a new HomeView smart panel, HomePod mini, and a new Apple TV.

The small event wasn’t livestreamed, but Apple quietly dove headfirst into the smart home market with its first smart panel: the Apple HomeView.

Also: Apple’s $299 HomeView smart hub is hereA HomeView smart home hub at lastFor years, we’ve been waiting for a new Apple smart home product that serves as a smart panel, consolidating a full view of your devices in a stationary form factor.

With the Apple HomeView, Apple made a committed entry into the smart home market to more aggressively compete with brands like Amazon and Google.

The new Apple TV 4KPowered by the A19 chip, the new Apple TV 4K delivers 50% more processing po…

ZDNET’s key takeawaysApple announced its new HomePod Mini 2 after a six-year hiatus.

HomePod Mini 2 has several connectivity upgrades for a richer experience.

Apple’s HomePod Mini 2 is here, and after a six-year hiatus, the company’s smallest home speaker has more features than ever.

Siri AI comes homeYou can finally bring Siri AI into your home through the new HomePod Mini 2.

The HomePod Mini 2 is available for preorder in pink, green, blue, white, and midnight beginning Oct. 30 for $149.

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.

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…

The Louisiana Gaming Control Board unanimously granted DraftKings a conditional four-month extension of its sports-betting permit while regulators examine allegations about its use of artificial intelligence and questions about shareholder suitability.

The board said the action is not a finding that DraftKings did anything wrong.

The extension allows the company to keep operating in Louisiana while the investigation continues.

DraftKings disputed the allegation about targeting losing customers.

That is DraftKings’ position, not a finding by Louisiana regulators.

The October 9 questionnaire covers marketing, promotions, customer engagement and the assessment of potentially harmful gambling behavior.

What regulators want operators to discloseThe commission asks whether operators use AI, machine learning, algorithms, automated decision-making or similar tools for marketing, promotions or customer engagement.

Instead, it seeks company-by-company information that could help the commission understand how marketing decisions are made and whether safeguards address potential harm.

Sports Betting Dime reported that the MGC also plans to interview representatives from the operators about AI use in customer acquisition, promotions and responsible gambling.

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The CFTC advanced two measures affecting prediction markets, a move Nevada Gaming Control Board Chairman Mike Dreitzer said he expected as federal and state authorities dispute who should oversee sports-event contracts.

The appeals court had unanimously ruled against the company, finding that prediction markets were not exempt from state gambling laws, including tax requirements.

His criticism also addressed arguments that prediction markets differ because they are peer-to-peer, support price discovery or let customers enter and exit positions.

His position reflects Nevada’s concern that sports-event contracts should face state gambling oversight when they operate like sportsbook bets.

That…

The Stockholm-listed technology and game developer says the platform will let operators offer peer-to-peer prediction markets using Hacksaw’s technology, distribution network and operator relationships.

Operators keep their brands and customer relationshipsThe platform is designed to spare operators from building and maintaining the underlying technology themselves.

The Malta Gaming Authority has approved an extension of Hacksaw’s existing B2B Critical Gaming Supply License to include Type 3 Gaming Services, alongside its existing Type 1 authorization.

A move into an adjacent marketHacksaw describes the launch as an extension of its existing technology business into an adjacent category.

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Ohio’s order reaches beyond contract providersBonus.com reports that Ohio also sent notices to nine other firms, including Coinbase Global, Gemini Space Station, Polymarket, ProphetX and Webull.

The order concerns sports-related event contracts and extends to firms that facilitate them through futures commission merchant or designated contract market activities, not just companies that directly offer the contracts.

Robinhood and other platforms maintain that their event contracts operate under federal commodities rules, while Ohio’s action treats sports contracts as subject to state gambling laws.

The Sixth Circuit ruling was a development in the case involving Kalshi, and state gambling la…

With the legislative window closed, an estimated 70,000 terminals across Pennsylvania were set to become officially illegal after October 13.

The Pennsylvania State Police warned that terminals still operating on October 14 could be seized immediately and that business owners may face criminal prosecution.

The deadline follows roughly a decade in which skill-game terminals operated without a comprehensive statewide regulatory system.

ReadWrite has previously reported on the Supreme Court’s classification of skill games as slot machines and the consequences for operators.

The Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg – Photo: Carol M Highsmith / CC0A separate proposal in Democratic Gov.

The allegation centers on a personalized video featuring baseball player Bryce Harper, but it is not a finding of wrongdoing or a formal enforcement action.

Blumenthal referred to an August report alleging that FanDuel used a Harper video message to reach someone already experiencing gambling addiction.

The accusation also connects to scrutiny of FanDuel’s VIP program, where personalized messages and other benefits are used to engage high-value customers.

PlayUSA reported that the lawmakers set October 20, 2026, as the deadline for FanDuel to provide the requested material.

For FanDuel, the immediate outstanding step is the response to the lawmakers’ request.

The CFTC has issued an interim final rule and a separate proposal on event contracts, adding regulatory action to a dispute that states, the NFL and others are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear.

The justices have not said whether they will take up the fight over whether sports-based contracts fall under federal swaps oversight or state gambling laws.

The outcome could affect whether prediction-market operators can rely on a federal regulatory framework or face state gambling rules.

Gensler made a similar argument, contending that Dodd-Frank did not give the CFTC authority to override state gambling laws.

The Supreme Court has yet to decide whether it will hear the dispute.

iPhone Duo preorders just begun, and iPhone 18 Pro has been on the market for about a month.

It’s possible Apple will update the design to fall more in line with the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro, though we don’t yet know.

While not confirmed, I wouldn’t be surprised if it integrates a smaller Dynamic Island, similar to iPhone 18 Pro.

If you’re holding out for iPhone 18 Pro, this “iPhone 20” is definitely the phone to wait out for.

iPhone Duo 2Lastly, Apple will release a successor to its just-announced iPhone Duo next fall.

After pre-orders for iPhone Duo opened, Apple uploaded an EU regulatory document that finally revealed the true battery capacity for iPhone Duo: 4883mAh.

iPhone Duo features two battery cells: one 2962mAh and another 1921mAh cell, totaling 4883mAh.

This places it pretty much exactly in between the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, which offer 4288mAh and 5567mAh batteries, respectively.

iPhone Duo battery comparisonCompared to the rest of the recent iPhone lineup (eSIM versions, which feature larger battery cells than the physical SIM versions), here’s where iPhone Duo ranks:Capacity Difference Video Playback Hours (from Apple) iPhone 18 Pro Max 5567mAh +14% 45 hours iPhone 17 Pro Max 50…

You might not think about it often, but the Phone app on your iPhone keeps getting more powerful.

Hold AssistWith iOS 26 last year, Apple added a new feature called Hold Assist to the Phone app.

Wrap upI try to avoid using the Phone app at all costs, but unfortunately it’s a necessary evil.

These new Phone app features at least make the experience more enjoyable.

What are your favorite Phone app features?

Apple Watch Series 12 has been a marvel of an upgrade, at least for me.

I’ve written about it many times, and personally – I have found that the Apple Watch Series 12 is a competent replacement for the WHOOP.

Yes, I know – the Series 12 is old news, and there are much cooler things to think about, like iPhone Duo and HomeView.

That said, the Apple Watch Series 12 was quite charming to me, primarily because it felt like a little bit of a surprise.

How do you feel about the new Apple Health app?

Of course, rumors are rumors – though essentially every reputable source has aligned on the idea of the MacBook Pro gaining support for touch very shortly.

Apple even left a few hints in macOS 27: Touch Support in Sidecar, pull to refresh support, and slightly bigger menu bar items.

Regardless, here’s what the first touchscreen MacBook will have to offer.

OLED, Dynamic IslandOn the display panel side of things, the redesigned MacBook Pro will come with a Tandem OLED display.

Slightly thinner chassis, significantly lighterOne design rumor for the new MacBook Pro is the fact that it’ll be slightly slimmer and lighter – though it’s unclear how meaningful this will be.

Apple just announced its long awaited smart home display: HomeView, and it’s available for $299.

We’ve known that Apple has been working on robotic products of sorts for quite some time, but now we have a clear release window.

Using voice recognition, the machine is designed to identify who’s speaking and automatically turn toward that person.

Apple reportedly also plans to use voice recognition to figure out how to pivot the robotic arm towards the right person.

Think about the Center Stage camera on some newer Apple products, but leveled up.

Right now, Apple’s website suggests that you can check back for iPhone Duo availability on October 24th.

This isn’t necessarily a surprise, given the fact that Apple stated yesterday that iPhone Duo demand is “extraordinary,” and we’ve long known that there were production constraints that’d lead to limited iPhone Duo supply around launch.

As of now, iPhone Duo is sold out through January.

Scalpers have also been charging absurd markups on iPhone Duo orders close to launch day.

If you truly want an iPhone Duo sooner than later, carriers and Best Buy seem to be a decent bet, at least in the US.

This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world.

If you’re someone who collects tons of varying Apple products, Hoardware is your one-stop shop for keeping track of it all.

Hoardware lets you track all of your hardware, as well as the software versions, model numbers, and anything else that might be relevant.

Hoardware will let you track every single iPhone, its iOS version, its serial number, and anything else that you want to note down.

Download the appHoardware is available for free on the App Store for devices running iOS 17 and later.

Last month, UGREEN introduced a new Qi2.2 25W 10000mAh MagSafe battery bank for iPhone.

On the back of the battery, there’s a window that showcases the liquid within the battery bank moving throughout it.

This should help keep it a little bit cooler than most MagSafe battery banks.

That said, if heat is a concern of yours with MagSafe battery banks, this one will definitely solve that for you.

The UGREEN MagFlow battery bank comes in at $149, which is quite pricey for a MagSafe battery of any kind.

As part of its iPhone Duo preorder announcement, UK carrier EE has announced pricing details for iPhone Handoff – making it the first carrier in the UK to do so.

At its September keynote, Apple announced iPhone Handoff, a feature that allows users to use their same eSIM across multiple iPhones.

It requires support from carriers, and at the keynote, Apple announced T-Mobile, Verizon, EE, and Deutsche Telekom would support it.

Now, EE is announcing that iPhone Handoff will be available for free as part of its Full Works Plus plan, and available for £5/month on its other plans:iPhone Handoff allows customers to easily switch back and forth between two iPhone models with the same mobile number.…

iPhone Duo is just about a week away from launching, and now that preorders have opened, Apple’s official iPhone Duo accessories have started to hit stores for early purchases.

After purchasing, some users have noticed that the silicone case has a little bit of a caveat.

Apple designed two cases for iPhone Duo: a $79 silicone case, and a $129 folio case.

With the silicone case for iPhone Duo, you’ll actually need to expose adhesive on the case for it to stick to your iPhone.

This isn’t a super major deal, but something to keep in mind if you’re going to purchase Apple’s official silicone case for iPhone Duo.

Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work ready with no effort and at an affordable cost.

About Apple @ Work: Bradley Chambers has been an Apple IT admin since 2009.

The silent failure problemOne thing I need to clarify is that macOS 27 removes it, but macOS 28 will no longer support it.

That makes auditing your fleet before macOS 27 rolls out more important than it might seem at first glance.

Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work ready with no effort and at an affordable cost.

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Following T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom, Verizon has now confirmed how much it will charge customers to use Apple’s new iPhone Handoff feature.

Here’s Verizon:Verizon will support iPhone Handoff, giving customers the flexibility to use a single Verizon phone number seamlessly across two compatible iPhone models.

iPhone Handoff will be available from Verizon for $10/month on compatible iPhones models running iOS 27.

AT&T, meanwhile, seemingly has no plans to support Apple’s new iPhone Handoff feature.

To learn more about iPhone Handoff, follow this link.

Bloomberg reports that Apple has hired Scott Tucker, who spent nearly six years as Meta’s vice president and deputy general counsel for global litigation.

Apple’s legal team overhaul continuesEarlier this year, Meta’s former chief legal officer Jennifer Newstead joined Apple as its new general counsel, replacing longtime executive Kate Adams.

The changes brought Apple’s legal and government affairs teams under a single executive, with former CEO Tim Cook, now Apple’s executive chairman, also remaining directly involved in managing the company’s government relations.

As part of the reorganization, Apple also hired former American Airlines executive Nate Gatten as its new vice president of go…

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 численость команды сокращают - в…

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 …

Polymarket удаляет долго существовавшие рынки, позволявшие пользователям делать ставки на вероятность ядерного взрыва на фоне ударов по Ирану. В прошлом году совокупный обьем ставок на эти события был $1,7 млн, что не так уж и мало. В этом году, как вы понимаете, интерес существенно бОльший.Я не понимаю, чем людям помешали эти ставки, единственная идея — сейчас сильно больше шансы на "манипуляцию", т.е. ради высокой выплаты можно попытаться что-нибудь взорвать.🔗 https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/04/polymarket-shelves-nuclear-detonation-markets-after-outcry

Облако — это не только хранилище под папку «Анапа 2012»Это целая инфраструктура, от которой зависит большая часть интернета. Проблемы в рунете после недавних повреждений дата-центров в России — наглядный тому пример. Почему так получается?Как устроено облако, чего в нём хорошего и какие есть подводные камни: rozetked.me/articles/48932

Дата-центры VK в Ленинградской области подверглись атаке БПЛА Об этом сообщила компания в пресс-релизе. Отмечается, что все сервисы VK работают в штатном режиме. Ранее на этой неделе беспилотники атаковали «Сбер». 💼 Rozetked | Подписаться

Opera сделала браузер для тех, кто стрессует Называется Opera Air. Браузер «фокусируется на психическом благополучии», — говорят разработчики. Пользователи могут активировать напоминания (функцию дают настроить под себя) о необходимости сделать перерыв.…

Теперь и «Сбер» В «Сбере» подтвердили факт атаки БПЛА на дата-центр компании в Саратовской области. Сообщается, что сейчас все системы и сервисы работают в штатном режиме. Ранее атакам подверглись три ЦОД «Яндекса». rozetked.me/news/48865

Обзор Xiaomi 18 Fold — iPhone Duo у нас домаНо непростого, а лимитированного — керамического!YouTube: youtu.be/KNMBTXBCoEoRuTube: rutube.ru/video/66f3b84fc6164c125c4391875b200670/

Представлена утилита MaPC для удобного запуска Windows-игр на MacПрограмма синхронизирует все проекты из разных лаунчеров пользователя: Steam, Epic Games Store и GOG. При помощи прослойки Wine игры нативно запускаются на Mac. Для работы подойдёт любая модель с чипом Apple.Поддерживаются все игры на базе DirectX 9, 10 и 11. Более современные тайтлы с DirectX 12 запускаются в экспериментальном режиме и могут работать некорректно.Скачать можно бесплатно на официальном сайте создателей.rozetked.me/news/48934

Инструкция для тех, кто любит бета-тестыВ мире Windows есть утилита ViVeTool, которая принудительно активирует экспериментальные функции. Есть шанс прикоснуться к тому, чего ещё почти никто не видел (и, возможно, что-нибудь доломать).Про ViVeTool: rozetked.me/articles/48713

Tesla представила летающий Roadster — в интернете начался сущий кошмарСеть моментально заполнили мемы, связанные с необычным электрокаром. Пользователи представляют, как авто сможет ловко перепрыгивать дорожные пробки, а также предполагают, что машина станет настоящим адом для страховых компаний.Собрали самые популярные мемы про Roadster: rozetked.me/news/48931

Страшно, вырубай — в GeoGuessr появился хоррор-режимВ нём нужно определить произвольную локацию на Google Maps, пытаясь не попасться на глаза маньяку. За каждую секунду простоя убийца подбирается к персонажу всё ближе, поэтому долго разглядывать окрестности не выйдет.Поиграть в HorrorGuessr можно бесплатно на сайте игры до 16 ноября 2026 года.rozetked.me/news/48926

Три кинорелиза — и все в «цифре»› На Disney+ стартовал «Квест Вижна» — финальная часть трилогии о сверхъестественных событиях в городе Вествью. Пока две серии.› «Надежда» — корейский триллер о вторжении инопланетян. Ищите на просторах сети.› Биографическая драма об альпинистах «Тенцинг» с Дефо и Хиддлстоном. Релиз на Apple TV.💼 Rozetked | Подписаться

Российские учёные — в списке самых влиятельных в миреElsevier и Стэнфордский университет* обновили рейтинг Top 2% Scientists. В него попали исследователи «Яндекса», а также преподаватели Школы анализа данных и совместных программ компании с вузами.Они вошли в число самых цитируемых авторов в области ИИ, обработки изображений, машинного обучения, анализа данных, инженерных геонаук и исследований окружающей среды.*Деятельность Стэнфордского университета признана нежелательной на территории РФ.rozetked.me/news/48917

В Microsoft Store раньше времени появилась страница игры Shrek 2 RemasteredОбещают улучшенную графику с 4K-разрешением и текстурами высокого качества. Из нововведений — фоторежим и возможность играть с читами.Как и в оригинальной версии Shrek 2, пользователям будет доступен co-op до четырёх игроков в режиме разделённого экрана.Официальный анонс, если верить утечкам, состоится 20 октября на презентации ID@Xbox.Больше скриншотов на сайте: rozetked.me/news/48922

FT: Японские и корейские судостроители используют роботов, чтобы составить конкуренцию Китаю– Страны стали наращивать усилия по внедрению роботов на верфях– Доминирование Китая в этой отрасли вызывает тревогу– Создание «умных верфей» стало насущной необходимостью– Страны сталкиваются с растущей нехваткой рабочей силы– Количество невыполненных заказов и конкуренция стали расти– Две восточноазиатские страны крайне важны для США– На Японию и Южную Корею приходится 40% производства судов– Однако китайские верфи быстрее создают и внедряют роботов– Судостроение является очень тяжелой сферой для автоматизации– Каждое судно отличается по конструкции, структуре и др.– Один рабочий выполняет до 30 св…

WSJ: Оценка робототехнического стартапа RobCo достигла $1 млрд– Немецкий стартап RobCo продал акции по оценке около $1+ млрд– С начала этого года оценка стартапа увеличилась вдвое– Немецкий стартап производит автономных промышленных роботов– Роботы RobCo помогают автоматизировать ручные операции– Среди подобных операций: укладка паллет, взвешивание сырья и др.– Флагманским продуктом RobCo является двурукий робот Alfie– Самообучающийся робот Alfie имитирует человека на производстве– Немецкий стартап RobCo продает акции на сумму около $40 млн– В рамках сделки большую часть акций продают сотрудники стартапа– Инвесторы: Cherry Ventures, European Tech Collective, Sequoia и др.@ftsec

Bloomberg: Lyft начинает предлагать поездки на роботакси Waymo через свое приложение в Нэшвилле– Lyft начинает предлагать поездки на роботакси Waymo в Нэшвилле– Нэшвилл стал вторым городом, где Lyft предлагает роботакси– Клиенты Lyft могут бесплатно воспользоваться роботакси от Waymo– Важно, чтобы весь маршрут был внутри зоны обслуживания– Клиенты имеют возможность отказаться от поездки на роботакси– В настройках будет можно полностью исключить роботакси– Более 100 роботакси используют на территории около 60 кв. миль– Количество доступных роботакси будет лишь увеличиваться– В приложении по-прежнему будут доступны поездки с водителем– Пока доля беспилотных поездок на рынке такси невелика@fts…

Bloomberg: Сингапурцы – одни из тех, кто наиболее лояльно относится к ИИ, совершающему покупки за них– Агентному ИИ надо преодолеть ряд препятствий для доверия людей– В исследовании приняли жители 7 стран (США, Китай, UK и др.)– 59% сингапурцев готовы, чтобы агенты совершали покупки за них– ИИ-агентами для покупок уже пользуются 23% сингапурцев– Однако сингапурцы хотят, чтобы агенты были максимально защищены– 34% хотят, чтобы власти выдавали сертификаты безопасности ИИ– Биометрическую аутентификацию перед покупкой хотят 41% сингапурцев– Больше всего сингапурцев беспокоит защита платежных данных– Сингапур стремится стать глобальным центром во всей ИИ-индустрии– В отрасли сейчас доминируют ам…

Bloomberg: Microsoft обещает потратить дополнительные $2 млрд в странах Персидского залива– Microsoft инвестирует $10 млрд до 2030 в четыре страны региона– Речь идет про Саудовскую Аравию, Кувейт, Катар и ОАЭ– В прошлом году Microsoft уже обещала вложить $7,9 млрд в ОАЭ– Новые инвестиции компании включают прошлое обещание– Инвестиции покроют операц. и капзатраты на облака, ИИ и др.– Страны активно инвестируют в цифровую инфраструктуру– США хотят, чтобы регион применял американские технологии– Microsoft играет ключевую роль в усилиях властей США– Инвестиции включают $400 млн на прокладку подводных кабелей@ftsec

Reuters: Disney назначила Карандипа Ананда из Character AI своим первым техническим директором– ИИ и масштабная консолидация отрасли меняют медиаландшафт– Ананд ранее занимал должность гендиректора Character AI– Часть технического персонала из Character AI перейдет за Анандом– Ананд будет подчиняться Джошу Д'Амаро, гендиректору Disney– В компании Ананд будет курировать технологии, разработку и ИИ– Ананд до Character AI отвечал за продукты в финтехе Brex– Отмечается, что Ананд также проработал около 15 лет в Microsoft– Председателем стриминга Disney был назначен Адам Смит@ftsec

Bloomberg: Amazon заявляет, что модели должны выпускаться в свет, когда они будут «готовы и безопасны»– Перед выпуском новых моделей их нужно тщательно протестировать– Amazon не делает выбор между прогрессом и безопасностью– Модели должны выпускаться, когда они будут готовы и безопасны– Готовность достигается за счет тестирования, мер защиты и др.– Amazon является партнером и инвестором для OpenAI, Anthropic и др.– Ранее руководители стартапов призывали замедлить развитие ИИ– Amazon разрабатывает несколько собственных передовых моделей– Однако модели Amazon не конкурируют с OpenAI или Anthropic– Модели Amazon также уступают ведущим моделям китайских игроков@ftsec

Bloomberg: Индийская компания AM Intelligence заказала 9 тыс. систем Nvidia Vera Rubin– AM Intelligence специализируется на создании ИИ-инфраструктуры– Компания заказала 9 тыс. передовых систем Nvidia Vera Rubin– AM Intelligence хочет получить системы одной из первых в регионе– Новые серверы планируется запустить на юге Индии в 2027– Среди клиентов: облачные провайдеры, ИИ-лаборатории и др.– Поставки новейших систем Nvidia по-прежнему ограничены– Спрос со стороны гиперскейлеров приводит к долгим задержкам– Компания AM Intelligence входит в энергогруппу Greenko Group– AM Intelligence планирует создать вычислит. мощности на 1 гигаватт– Первоначальные мощности уже приобретены клиентом из США@f…

Reuters: Во всем мире за 2026 было продано 7 тыс. роботов-гуманоидов– Это роботы для промышленности и оказания профессиональных услуг– Показатель контрастирует с прогнозами о буме в ближайшие годы– Данные по продажам предоставлены International ​Federation of Robotics– Индустрия роботов-гуманоидов получает миллиардные инвестиции– Однако пока роботы-гуманоиды составляют малую часть от всех роботов– Только за 2024 установили 542 тыс. обычных промышленных роботов– Продажи различных сервисных роботов за 2024 были около 199 тыс. шт.– Многие из проданных гуманоидов не делали продуктивную работу– Роботов-гуманоидов активно покупают исследовательские институты– Гуманоиды также помогают собирать дан…

Bloomberg: Сроки доставки первого складного iPhone сдвинулись на январь через несколько минут после открытия предзаказов– В день выхода из-за высокого спроса купить iPhone Duo будет сложно– Сказывается также ограниченное предложение смартфона– Сроки доставки увеличились на все цвета и объемы памяти iPhone Duo– В магазинах Apple запасы iPhone Duo закончились почти сразу– Все складные смартфоны были зарезервированы по предзаказам– Первым днем старта официальных продаж iPhone Duo будет 23 октября– Ожидается, что продажи iPhone Duo за 2026 будут около 6 млн шт.– Продажи iPhone Duo придадут импульс развитию категории во всем мире@ftsec

TechCrunch: Испытатели Waymo и Zoox получают травмы по мере распространения роботакси– Распространение роботакси имело скрытые последствия для людей– Водители-испытатели получили более 20+ травм за 2024-2025– Травмы были из-за резкого торможения и других внезапных движений– Среди травм были растяжения, вывихи, хлыстовые травмы и др.– Некоторые водители-испытатели выбыли из строя на несколько месяцев– Были ли зарегистрированы новые травмы за 2026 пока неизвестно– Компании отмечают, что резкие торможения иногда бывают неизбежны– Однако безопасность команды имеет первостепенное значение@ftsec

Bloomberg: Boring Co. работает над тоннелем, который соединит Остин и Сан-Антонио– Компания Маска работает над новым проектом тоннеля в Техасе– Новый тоннель должен будет соединить Остин и Сан-Антонио– Дорога по обычному пути из-за пробок может занимать до 2,5 часов– Тоннель от Boring Co. может сократить время всего до 30 мин.– Несмотря на амбиции Маска, у Boring Co. пока мало достижений– Работает тоннель Vegas Loop, начали строить в Нэшвилле– В конце 2026 компания начнет строительство тоннеля Dubai Loop– Boring Co. строит тоннели, чтобы соединить объекты Маска– Перемещаться по ним смогут сотрудники Boring Co., SpaceX и Tesla@ftsec

FT: Коллекционные карточки с покемонами продаются за миллионы долларов и все больше догоняют устоявшийся рынок спортивных карточек– За последние 12 мес. рынок карточек с покемонами стал безумным– Приходит много банкиров, инвесторов, криптоэнтузиастов и др.– Богатые люди пытаются урвать все, что могут, независимо от цены– Коллекционные карточки стали серьезным инвест. инструментом– Покемоны стали топ-запросом для коллекционных предметов на eBay– В феврале винтажную карту Pikachu Illustrator продали за $16,5 млн– Были многочисленные продажи карточек с покемонами за $1+ млн– Редкие спортивные карточки продаются за 6-7-значные суммы– Покемоны догоняют рынок спортивных карточек благодаря фанатам…