Thursday, October 8, 2026

Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI

I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it

Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth

Pollo AI turns creative ideas into campaigns with OpenAI

With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‑Image‑2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.

How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex

Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.

Rally Up: ‘Gears of War: E-Day’ Launches on GeForce NOW

Gears of War: E-Day leads the charge on GeForce NOW this week, bringing Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago’s first fight against the Locust Horde to the cloud with GeForce RTX-powered performance. A new way to join the action is also coming: Fir

Can you trust Meta’s Muse or OpenAI’s Dots to run your life?

My Decoder guest today is Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, and we’re discussing the new wave of consumer-friendly AI agents. If you’ve been paying attention to this space, you know AI enthusiasts have been using agents for a mi

Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations

OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.

Building on our commitment to American scientific discovery

Building on our commitment to American scientific discovery

2026 Usage Policy update

2026 Usage Policy update

Google is launching a one-stop Gemini agent for your work tasks

Google is launching a "universal" Gemini AI agent that can work across apps and devices in the background. The tool, announced as part of the Gemini at Work event on Thursday, will be available within the Gemini Enterprise app, allowing use

NVIDIA, Microsoft Kick Off a New Beginning for Windows PCs With RTX Spark and AI Agents

At a Microsoft event in San Francisco on Wednesday, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlined how NVIDIA and Microsoft are co-engineering hardware and software for AI agents to run on Windows PCs. NVIDIA w

Artificial is a wicked satire that also sticks to the facts

At the New York Film Festival premiere of Artificial, Luca Guadagnino's satirical Sam Altman biopic, the director said onstage that "[when] someone wants to play God, that's very interesting to me." The idea of playing God, and power in gen

AI math breakthroughs have Ethereum researchers debating how fast wallet security could collapse

Ethereum researcher Justin Drake is urging the crypto industry to prepare a "bunker mode" for a scenario where AI-powered math could break wallet signature schemes within months. Vitalik Buterin broadly agrees but warns against rushed migra

ChatGPT with GPT-6 ditches mostly text output for interactive UI with charts, buttons, and mini apps

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 with "Intelligent UI," a feature that turns answers into interactive interfaces with charts, buttons, and forms. The model can now respond while still thinking, cutting wait times by 44 percent. Paying customers

A single prompt was enough to hijack every AI agent in an AWS account, Zenity researchers found

Zenity Labs researchers say a single publicly accessible AI agent on Amazon's Bedrock AgentCore was enough to take over every AgentCore agent in the same AWS account and region. The attack exploited an internal AWS interface for temporary c

The Download: AI roadblocks for humanoids and portable rubber dams

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon The hype around humanoid robots is r

Why we’re watching these climate tech companies

This week, we released our 2026 version of our Climate Tech Companies to Watch list. It’s an annual project that the MIT Technology Review team puts together. Our goal is to highlight some of the promising, interesting advances and firms we

Teen's AI-guided mountain hike ends with a helicopter rescue and a lesson in common sense

A 16-year-old planned his hiking route on Crown Mountain near Vancouver using Anthropic's Claude and had to be airlifted off a steep rock face. The chatbot had sent him down a route that requires climbing gear. Bryce doesn't blame the AI bu

AI-powered hacking tools enabled a likely single attacker to breach multiple South Korean banks

According to CrowdStrike, a suspected Chinese-speaking attacker hacked multiple South Korean financial institutions. At Shinhan Bank alone, more than 25,000 customer records were stolen. The attacker used ARTEX, an open-source tool that use

AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon

The story is a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Aventine, a non-profit research foundation that creates and supports content about how technology and science are changing the way we live. A robot shaped like a human—white wit

Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI

Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advances in foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI are making it possible to automate more complex tasks across industr

Adaptive Workflow Intelligence: A Cognitive Architecture for Context-Driven Enterprise Automation

arXiv:2610.08793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise systems increasingly rely on automated workflows, yet many AI-driven solutions remain brittle under non-stationary conditions, evolving policies, and delayed operational feedback. W

Accelerating Floating-Point Satisfiability Solving via Gradient Normalization

arXiv:2610.08808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers are foundational to software verification, program analysis, and compiler testing, particularly over the theory of Quantifier-Free Floating-Point (

Route-Verify-Vote: Procedure-Conditioned Self-Consistency for Mixed-Domain Reasoning

arXiv:2610.08814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compositional generalization remains challenging when language models must combine familiar reasoning operations in unfamiliar ways. The Scenario-Based Commonsense Reasoning Evaluation (SCoRE)

An Empirical Study of Agent Skills' Downstream Utility

arXiv:2610.08875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent Skills package procedural guidance and resources for reuse, but a relevant Skill does not necessarily improve task performance. Existing studies characterize Skill content and evaluate d

How Could AI Eliminate Humanity? A Failure-Mode Analysis of Civilizational Risk

arXiv:2610.08878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article develops a failure-mode framework for analyzing how advanced artificial intelligence could contribute to human extinction, irreversible civilizational collapse, or permanent human

Humanize: Judgement Engineering for Agentic Coding

arXiv:2610.08900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic coding makes code generation cheap, but reliable completion remains difficult: the agent that writes the code is a weak judge of whether it is done. We present Humanize, a multi-agent

Sequential Probabilistic Uncertainty Estimation for Parallel Multi-Agent Reasoning Systems

arXiv:2610.08901v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) have attracted growing attention for improving reasoning through interaction among multiple agents. In this work, we focus on parallel multi-agent reasoning

Agent Plasticity: Measuring Self-Improvement Through Experience

arXiv:2610.08902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents increasingly operate in environments where they can diagnose failures and improve through experience, yet existing evaluations largely measure what an agent can do at a fixed point i

AdaGuard: Enhancing Safety and Policy Compliance with Reasoning-Enabled LLM-As-A-Judge Guardrails

arXiv:2610.08923v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise generative AI applications require robust safety mechanisms that can accommodate diverse risk postures, evolving policies, and varying latency constraints. Current guardrail solutio

Can AI Agents Make Open-Ended Scientific Discovery? Evidence from Station

arXiv:2610.08927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent AI systems have made rapid progress in scientific discovery when given well-defined metrics, but whether they can autonomously undertake open-ended scientific discovery remains unclear.

Humanity's Sixth Sense: Benchmarking Intuitive Visual Reasoning in Multimodal Models

arXiv:2610.08966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans perceive far more in a scene than what is explicitly depicted: a single glance captures past causes and future trajectories; a quick peek determines if a vehicle can fit between two par

Socio-Foundation: A Model for Generalizable Individual Behavior Simulation via Hierarchical Capability Distillation

arXiv:2610.08967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulating individual behavior requires large language models (LLMs) to preserve persona traits while adapting to dynamic social contexts. However, general-purpose LLMs often flatten distinct

Quoting Ben Affleck

I've always been kind of into computers since I was young. And then when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. And the visual effects workflow for many years has included machine le

ChatGPT’s ‘Intelligent UI’ update fills its responses with pictures, charts, and buttons

OpenAI is launching a new Intelligent UI feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to answer your questions with interactive visuals. The update, which is rolling out to all users alongside GPT-6, gives ChatGPT the ability to combine a tex

It appears .agent and .agi are about to be the hot new domains

For the first time in years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - better known as ICANN - is accepting applications for new top-level domains. These are the suffixes at the end of all URLs, and you may know them as thin

Everything announced at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra event

Microsoft just wrapped up a big Windows and Surface-focused keynote in San Francisco. The biggest announcement was arguably the release details about the Surface Laptop Ultra, its new laptop that’s powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark Arm-based ch

Microsoft is giving Copilot more control over Windows and your files

At today's Windows and Surface event, Microsoft showed off an upgrade to its Copilot AI system that will give it access to local files on your PC and the ability to take actions across the OS. It's part of an idea Microsoft is calling "Hybr

Zuckerberg's Biohub leads a $1.8 billion push to build AI models that predict cell behavior

Biohub, the research organization backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, is coordinating a $1.8 billion initiative to train AI models that predict cell behavior. Meta, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, and the US Department of Energy

Google says 180 billion images and videos now carry SynthID watermarks as detector goes public

Google's AI watermark detector SynthID is now public. Anyone can check whether images, videos, or audio were created by Google's AI or partners like OpenAI and Nvidia. More than 180 billion pieces of content already carry the watermark, but

Natura’s $99 smart ring puts AI agents on your finger

Natura’s $99 Interface smart ring lets you summon AI agents with the press of a finger to complete tasks, capture thoughts, and control devices — while doubling as a health tracker.

The First Six Radio Stations Have Been Revealed For GTA 6, Complete With Audio Previews

Black Sabbath, Bad Bunny, Slayer and much more! Here we go! Rockstar Games is starting to pull back the curtain on the radio stations for GTA 6 , with six of them having been revealed today along with audio previews for each one - with more

Amazon unveils new Alexa tablets with Alexa+ and Google Play Store access

The lineup includes three models: Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro, Amazon Alexa Tablet 11, and Amazon Alexa Tablet 8.

Google releases a new local-first Granola competitor

Google’s new AI Edge Foresight app takes on Granola with an offline meeting note-taker that can transcribe conversations, generate notes, and answer questions using on-device AI.

OpenAI brings GPT-6 to ChatGPT and debuts Intelligent UI

After introducing the first GPT-6 models last month, OpenAI today announced new GPT-6 models built for everyday ChatGPT conversations, alongside a new Intelligent UI. Here are the details. more…

Docs: OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was nearing $50B at the end of September, well below the $70B reported by media based on investor docs (Financial Times)

Financial Times : Docs: OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was nearing $50B at the end of September, well below the $70B reported by media based on investor docs — AI giant recently told investors the key figure was approaching $5

Hone, founded by former OpenAI and Cognition staffers to create AI agents that can help run a business, raised a $60M seed at a $285M valuation (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Hone, founded by former OpenAI and Cognition staffers to create AI agents that can help run a business, raised a $60M seed at a $285M valuation — A group of former employees from some of the fastest-growing artificial intelligen

OpenAI disrupts a Russian influence campaign tied to the Politology network that targeted schools, media, and foreign officials, and gives it a 5/6 impact score (Kevin Collier/NBC News)

Kevin Collier / NBC News : OpenAI disrupts a Russian influence campaign tied to the Politology network that targeted schools, media, and foreign officials, and gives it a 5/6 impact score — OpenAI says the campaign is the most far-reaching

OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results

Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years

Google Cloud unveils the Gemini agent, which can handle multiday enterprise workflows in Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack using Gemini and other AI models (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : Google Cloud unveils the Gemini agent, which can handle multiday enterprise workflows in Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack using Gemini and other AI models — Google is unveiling a new universal AI agent for th

Margaret Hamilton has died

I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities

“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically

Beauty in DVD Menus

Trump says the WH considers as "THE ENEMY" anyone who uses the term Artificial Intelligence, not "the highly accepted" and "more accurate" Super Intelligence (Donald J. Trump/@realDonaldTrump ...)

Donald J. Trump / @realDonaldTrump@truthsocial.com : Trump says the WH considers as “THE ENEMY” anyone who uses the term Artificial Intelligence, not “the highly accepted” and “more accurate” Super Intelligence — The White House considers a

Arena, which develops the popular AI model leaderboard, raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation, up from $1.7B in January, and launches an Alignment Index (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : Arena, which develops the popular AI model leaderboard, raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation, up from $1.7B in January, and launches an Alignment Index — Arena Intelligence Inc., the startup behind a popular artificia

GlobalFoundries signs a five-year, $2B deal to provide silicon interposer production capacity to TSMC, manufactured at GlobalFoundries' Malta, New York facility (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Ian King / Bloomberg : GlobalFoundries signs a five-year, $2B deal to provide silicon interposer production capacity to TSMC, manufactured at GlobalFoundries' Malta, New York facility — GlobalFoundries Inc. shares gained as much as 7% after

Sources: the IPO of Nvidia-backed data center provider Firmus is uncertain after failing to attract adequate support, underscoring concerns over AI funding (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Sources: the IPO of Nvidia-backed data center provider Firmus is uncertain after failing to attract adequate support, underscoring concerns over AI funding — The sudden plunge in demand for an Nvidia-backed data center company's

The US suspends Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, and others from a program that lets skilled foreign workers gain permanent residency, citing alleged fraud (Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff/Reuters)

Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff / Reuters : The US suspends Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, and others from a program that lets skilled foreign workers gain permanent residency, citing alleged fraud — US Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday t

Gallatin AI, which uses AI to digitize and streamline military logistics data, raised a $50M Series A, bringing its total funding to $70M (Colin Demarest/Axios)

Colin Demarest / Axios : Gallatin AI, which uses AI to digitize and streamline military logistics data, raised a $50M Series A, bringing its total funding to $70M — Gallatin AI raised a $50 million Series A, with defense-tech frequent flier

European venture funding rose 77% YoY to $25B in Q3, the region's strongest funding quarter in four years, representing 16% of global VC and led by AI startups (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News : European venture funding rose 77% YoY to $25B in Q3, the region's strongest funding quarter in four years, representing 16% of global VC and led by AI startups — In Q3, Europe posted its strongest venture fund

Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro hands-on: Taking aim at the iPad Pro for less than half the price

It's a promising tablet that starts at about $500.

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

Careful out there: latest GTA 6 leak has major story spoilers

If you can't help yourself, maybe don't watch it at work...

The Mathocalypse

'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the first thorium nuclear clocks

Apple Launches Creative Labs Program With The King's Trust

Apple is partnering with UK charity The King's Trust to launch a new education program that will help young people build careers in creative industries, Apple said today . The Apple x King's Trust Creative Labs will give people aged 18 to 3

Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder for $5,999

Microsoft's Nvidia-powered Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder now and is slated to ship in November for just about $6,000. It's pricier than the DGX Spark mini PC Nvidia launched last year, but PC prices have been climbing

Prosser's lawyers try arguing that iOS 26 isn't a trade secret anymore

YouTuber Jon Prosser has stepped up his battle against Apple's lawsuit against him, in part by claiming he can't be accused of trade secret theft over iOS 26 now that it has long been released. Jon Prosser in a still from one of his Front P

The best CarPlay upgrades to try in iOS 27

Apple released iOS 27 to everyone a few weeks ago, and it includes several CarPlay changes worth checking out. Here are a few changes I’ve been loving so far. more…

Companies aren't being forced to stop buying Macs because of Apple Intelligence

There's a repeated claim that since some organizations won't allow generative AI installations, they also won't buy new Macs because of macOS Golden Gate . So, we looked into the claim and talked to actual IT managers and buyers. Craig Fede

Older Pixel watches are losing free cellular access to several safety features

Google announced through a short community post today that the LTE versions of the Pixel Watch 2 and 3 are losing free access to Safety Signal that allowed features like Emergency SOS, Fall Detection, and Safety Check to work through cellul

Razer's Basilisk V4 Pro gaming mouse features a new tilt wheel and up to 275 hours of battery life

The company also released the V4 Hyperspeed and a charging dock.

Trump administration says Microsoft ‘abused’ worker visa program and is cutting off access

The Trump administration is suspending some tech companies, including Microsoft, from an immigration program that lets an employer hire foreign workers that can reside permanently in the US, as reported by Reuters. In a press conference, Vi

American Airlines is bringing Starlink Wi-Fi to its entire mainline fleet in 2027

It's more than double the number of aircraft the company quoted earlier this year.

New York accuses TikTok of serving users ‘placebo’ safety features

New York is alleging that thousands of TikTok users, including kids and teens, were unknowingly given "ghost" versions of the platform's safety features rather than the working versions. Reuters reports the allegation is part of an "updated

Are you ready for everything to look like TikTok?

Since TikTok burst into mainstream consciousness, many things have been called a "TikTok clone": YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, Snapchat Spotlight, Netflix's Clips, LinkedIn's vertical video feed, and countless other, less recognizable na

A startup founder who served time in prison is looking to court an untapped market: ex-cons

Richard Bronson, a former Stratton Oakmont partner who served time in federal prison for securities violations, has launched Commissary Club, a startup that uses AI to help people leaving prison find jobs, housing, community and even dates.

US Gov’t Interferes To Get Foreign Sponsors To Drop Conference Because A Panel Asks If The US Engages In Foreign Information Interference

One of the most bizarre things over the last few years is how two guys, Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi, bumbling around cosplaying as “free speech” experts, have done tremendous damage to free speech. After Elon Musk brought them in

Amazon is phasing out Fire Tablets because they weren’t ‘giving customers what they were asking for’

In an interview with Bloomberg, Amazon's head of consumer electronics, Panos Panay, confirmed the company would phase out the Fire brand in favor of Alexa Tablets. The new lineup runs proper Android, instead of the custom Fire OS, and has f

Amazon's new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever

Amazon killed its app store, so Google Play it is.

Goodfire says its new ‘inside-out’ monitors catch rogue AI agents at a fraction of the cost

Goodfire just launched what it says is a cheaper way to keep AI agents in check: Instead of paying a second AI to read everything an agent does, its monitors peek inside the model while it works and only call in backup when something looks

Mac mini M6, M5 Pro deals from $779 are still going strong

Prime Big Deal Days offers have been extended on Apple's latest Mac mini, with the 2026 desktop marked down to as low as $779.99. Save up to $150 on Apple's 2026 Mac mini. The best online deals we've seen on Apple's new Mac mini are still i

Apple TV turns to Australia, acquires 'Dustfall' crime drama

Following its rare acquisition of a hit BBC comedy, Apple TV has now bought the six-part crime mini-series "Dustfall" from Australia's ABC network. Anna Torv starring in "Dustfall" - image credit: Apple TV. Broadcasters at least used to all

Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch space internet service by end of year

"If this was easy, everybody else would be doing it."

Google’s AI note-taking app transcribes your meetings completely offline

Google has released an experimental note-taking app that can transcribe meetings and audio files entirely offline, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The app, called Google AI Edge Foresight, is free to use and runs on macOS using the compa

These US states just said ‘no’ to Apple Wallet driver’s licenses

Apple Wallet driver’s licenses keeps expanding to more US states, but two states recently indicated they won’t launch support anytime soon—if at all. more…

Elon Musk questions Ambani’s influence as Starlink India launch stalls

“Is Ambani the real boss of India?” Elon Musk asked as he questioned why Starlink has yet to launch its satellite internet service in the country.

New York alleges TikTok gave teens, children a placebo safety feature instead of a real one

New York’s lawsuit against the company is one of more than two dozen cases brought by states accusing the social media giant of designing its platform to encourage addictive use among children.

Asos confirms breach of customer data after hackers send rogue app notification

The hackers alerted the fashion giant's customers through a push notification that said they had "fully compromised" the company's cloud storage.

Hear from Ambrosia Energy and Bloom Energy execs on where the AI infrastructure boom is creating opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Ambrosia Energy CEO Ben Longmier and Bloom Energy SVP Bill Thayer join the Smart Systems Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Register now to save up to $100. Grab a second of the same pass to save 50%.

The Retro Song Bird plays just the music from your favorite Game Boy cartridges

The Retro Song Bird may look similar to devices like Epilogue's GB Operator with a slot on top for Game Boy cartridges, but it's not designed for playing retro games. The featureless box is instead a media player designed to play through al

'The storytelling genius of Steve Jobs'

This video is a blast from the past for most of us. The Art of Storytelling YouTube channel posted it a few days ago, looking back at how Jobs build the story around product releases, and kept doing it for his entire life. It's worth 20 min

Spotify is getting more serious about selling enterprise software

The company launched technology.spotify.com, a new site that will make its internal tech available to outsiders.

Xbox's new division will focus on TV and movie adaptations of its biggest franchises

No really, how are you going to adapt Candy Crush.

Apple TV’s latest acquisition signals key shift for streamer

Apple TV just acquired the global streaming rights to Dustfall, a crime series from Australia and the second recent deviation from the streamer’s originals-only strategy. more…

Waymo locks in $5B loan from Blackstone, PIMCO to fuel robotaxi expansion

This is the first time the Alphabet-owned company has turned to debt financing.

iPad has competition from Amazon's new Alexa tablets

Amazon is taking on Apple's iPad lineup with three new Alexa tablets that pack larger displays, built-in AI features, and prices starting at just $229.99. Lineup of Alexa tablets The Alexa Tablet 8, Alexa Tablet 11, and Alexa Tablet 12 Pro

Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign

Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations.

Cal AI’s 19-year-old founder just raised $10M for his new AI startup

Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of popular Cal AI calorie tracking app, has launched a new personal AI agent startup that competes with Instinct, Muse, and Bee.

5 days to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Don’t pay more at the door for your pass

The global tech ecosystem gathers at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 at San Francisco’s Moscone West on October 13-15. Get your pass now to save up to $100. Get a second of the same ticket type to save 50%.

The new Stylophone Mini packs in iconic sounds and comes in three nifty colors

It's little because it's small, and it's small because it's little.

Apple Still Expected to Announce Three New Products on October 13

On his Power On podcast today , Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman insisted that Apple plans to hold an "online home event" on Tuesday, October 13 to introduce an all-new smart home hub, a new HomePod mini, and a new Apple TV 4K, all with Siri AI. It

The Magic Mouse is 17 years old, it's time Apple fixed it

The Magic Mouse will be 17 years old on October 20, 2026. It's beyond time Apple turned it from a curiosity into something that Mac owners actually want to use. Since 2015, you've charged the Magic Mouse through a port on its base Apple off

New MacBook Pro leak could be very good news for ‘pro’ users

Apple’s redesigned MacBook Pro is coming soon , and the latest leak offers potentially great news for truly ‘pro’ users worried about the rumored thinner design. more…

China’s Manus raises over $500M in first funding round since split with Meta

Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the funding round, and existing shareholders Tencent, HSG (formerly known as Sequoia China), ZhenFund, and others also participated.

Last call to volunteer at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026

TechCrunch Founder Summit is gearing up to return to Boston on November 4! We’re doing a last call for exceptional volunteers to join us in bringing this event to life. If you’ve ever wondered about the inner workings of tech events, now’s

Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro vs Amazon Fire HD 10: What's changed, and is the upgrade worth it?

Amazon's best tablet ever didn't have to work hard for the title, but a new nanomatte screen and Kindle mode sweeten the deal.

Amazon's Panos Panay teases more Alexa-branded devices and a new design language

More will be revealed later this month.

Amazon's new Alexa tablets include a 12-inch model with anti-glare screen

Amazon has launched three new tablets that come with Alexa+.

Amazon is releasing kids' versions of its new Alexa Tablets

The new Amazon Kids Tablets come in two sizes and can be bundled with one of two styles of case.

The New Alexa Tablets Feel Like a Blueprint for an Amazon Phone

Amazon is rumored to be making a smartphone, and the Alexa-powered experiences on its new tablets give us a taste of what might come if that happens.

'The Elder Scrolls Online' going Apple Silicon native, finally

In a brief post on Steam, ESO's Game Director, Nick Giacomini, said that performance optimizations and a Universal Binary of the game will arrive in Summer 2027. The first Mac release for the title was in April 2014, and the first Apple Sil

Uber and China’s Pony.ai plan to launch robotaxis in London

The two companies said on Thursday that they would begin testing Pony.ai's Gen-7 robotaxis in London in the coming weeks.

Leaker Jon Prosser Pushes Back as Apple Seeks His YouTube Data

Jon Prosser is arguing that Apple's alleged trade secrets are now public, while the company seeks his YouTube revenue records, channel analytics, and third-party messages to investigate his alleged financial gain from leaks about iOS 26 . I

Right On Cue: Here Comes The Skydance/Paramount Layoffs

You can set your watch to it. Major media companies insist they simply have to merge to create all manner of amazing new “consolidative synergies.” The debt from the acquisitions then result in brand and company cannibalization as labor and

Sketchy rumor again says OLED iPad mini will lack one key feature

Apple is widely expected to introduce a new OLED iPad mini as soon as later this month. A sketchy new rumor today once again claims the new iPad mini will switch to OLED but still have a 60Hz refresh rate and lack ProMotion support. more…

Xbox is launching a new film and TV division. It’s called “XP,” a play on Experience Points, and it will focus on film, TV, products, live events, and partnerships www.theverge.com/games/100760...

Vesta raises $30M to bring swarms of agents to mortgage lenders

Vesta, an AI-native software startup that helps lenders originate mortgages, announced a $30 million round led by Conversion Capital.

iPhone Air 2 Could Be as Thin as an Unfolded iPhone Duo

Apple's iPhone Air 2 will be approximately 0.4mm thinner than the current model despite having a higher-capacity battery, claims the account " yeux1122 " on the Korean Naver blog. Apple lists the original iPhone Air at 5.6mm thick, so a 0.4

Nvidia's big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots

Full-stack safety solution for physical AI is being used by robotics companies.

A senator tried to ban gambling on prediction markets—now she's a Kalshi lobbyist

Sen. Blanche Lincoln wrote law that let US ban sports-event contracts. She lobbies for the other side now.

How Massive Is Elon Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Fortune? Spend It Yourself

WIRED has partnered with Neal Agarwal of Neal.fun to create a visualization of Elon Musk’s massive wealth. Here’s how it came together.

Teenage Engineering will stop making synths to focus on... whatever it feels like

Teenage Engineering, the company famous for its synths, is going to stop making... synths.

Life Is Asymmetric. The Scientists Who Figured Out Why Won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai designed chemical reactions producing only one of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule—an important finding for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biological substances.

Best Reusable Water Bottles of 2026, Tested by WIRED

We dropped them, tossed them in bags, and cleaned their fiddly lids. Here are the ones we recommend.

WIRED’s Midterms Races to Watch

From data centers to Elon Musk funding to the AI lobby, the 2026 midterms are the most WIRED elections yet. These are the candidates we're following closely.

Security Bite Podcast: We need to talk about the changes to Full Disk Access

9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform . Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to management and security combines state-of-t

Tristan Harris’ Tech Nonprofit Is Laying Off Most Staff and Going ‘Founder-Led’

The Center for Humane Technology helped spark a movement against excessive screen time, but internal tensions over its direction and strategy have simmered for years, sources tell WIRED.

New iPad Mini Rumored to Have 60Hz OLED Display Ahead of Launch

Ahead of the expected imminent launch of the new iPad mini 8, word out of Asia suggests that the device will feature a 60Hz OLED display rather than a ProMotion 120Hz display. The information comes courtesy of a hit-and-miss tipster running

A Scientist Working on the ‘IceCube’ Neutrino Detector Explains the Nobel Prize–Winning Technology

“Detecting a neutrino is like looking for a needle in a haystack,” says Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, who breaks down why researchers are looking for the cosmic particles under the Antarctic ice.

7 Best Cheap Phones (2026), Tested and Reviewed

There’s little reason to pay top dollar for a smartphone. These iPhones and Android devices—ranging from $100 to $800—stood up to WIRED’s testing.

The new BMW iX4 is the X4 reborn as an EV

BMW has brought the X4 design to its third Neue Klasse EV with an electric version called the iX4.

Gurman: OLED MacBook Pro Won't Be 'Significantly Thinner'

Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman has walked back somewhat on his previous reporting that Apple's upcoming touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro will be thinner than current models. "I don't think it'll be significantly thinner in the end," he posted on X la

New York Declares State Of Emergency As Measles Cases Spread Fast

It’s becoming very apparent that we failed to learn a key lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic: infectious diseases aren’t partisan; they will come for us all. While Donald Trump and RFK Jr. play their little partisan games over the measles ou

Microsoft Launches $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra to Take on MacBook Pro

Microsoft today announced launch timing and pricing for the Surface Laptop Ultra that it unveiled earlier this year. The 15-inch Surface Laptop Ultra is priced starting at $2,599, undercutting Apple's $2,999 16-inch MacBook Pro , and it tar

Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes

Get ready for more AI in your Windows and more AI on the desktop.

Google's SynthID AI Detector is Now Available to Everyone

Google today said it is making its SynthID Detector available to everyone for identifying content created using AI. SynthID Detector first rolled out to members of the media last year, and it is now available worldwide in English. SynthID D

Robot data startup Mecka AI nabs $60M from Sequoia

Mecka AI collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid robots and other kinds of robots. The startup pays people to record everyday tasks.

WhatsApp expands the Liquid Glass design to its video player

WhatsApp’s rollout of Liquid Glass across its interface continues, with the app now bringing the new look to its video player. Here are the details. more…

While VCs crowd into San Francisco, Endeavor Catalyst raises $320M for founders ‘elsewhere’

Endeavor Catalyst just raised $320 million to keep backing founders outside Silicon Valley. Half the profits go back to the nonprofit that finds them.

PD’s New Policy For Flock Cameras Just Shows How Little It Was Doing Before The Blowback Hit

Flock is being tossed aside by tons of cities and the trend doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Sure, these cities may ultimately decide to go with another ALPR provider, but hopefully it will be one that’s a bit more serious about preventing

“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones

Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.

Apple Watch Series 12, Ultra 4 Owners Report Skin Irritation

Some Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 owners have experienced unexpected skin irritation with the new models, according to reports on the MacRumors forums and Reddit . Affected users complain of a burning sensation and redness under the se

Apple’s new ‘second-party’ accessories for Home are bigger than we thought, per leak

Apple has reportedly been co-developing “second-party” Home accessories with LG, but a new leak reveals there are “second-party” smart home products coming from another company too. more…

Spotify starts rolling out audiobooks to more than 180 markets

Spotify today announced a global rollout of its audiobooks section, giving users in more than 180 markets access to over 350,000 titles spanning more than 120 languages. Here are the details. more…

PA measles outbreak tops 1,000 cases, largest since disease was eliminated

Pennsylvania reported 1,066 outbreak-linked cases on Wednesday.

TP-Link problems in US grow amid FCC router ban and four state lawsuits

TP-Link can't sell latest routers in US, still needs exemption from FCC ban.

Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand

Altering molecular handedness has implications for the origins of life.

watchOS 27 adds three new apps to your Apple Watch

watchOS 27 is the latest major software update for Apple Watch, and among its variety of new features , it adds three new apps to your Watch. more…

Pediatricians renew call to ban raw milk as anti-science rhetoric reigns

In renewed policy, pediatricians review the benefits of heating milk to kill germs.

I got to see how Microsoft built its MacBook Pro competitor. Deep inside Microsoft's labs the company zaps keyboards with electrostatic discharge guns, tries to break screens and trackpads, and uses…

How Microsoft built its MacBook Pro competitor

Boston's MBTA Testing New Charlie Card With Apple Wallet Support

This year, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has been testing a new version of the Charlie Card with Apple Wallet support on the iPhone and Apple Watch. The new Charlie Card is limited to testers who signed up in 2024, w

The Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a release date — and a starting price of $2,599. Microsoft’s most powerful Surface arrives on October 16th, alongside other RTX Spark devices…

The Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a release date — and a starting price of $2,599

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra has built-in magnetic USB-C charging. Magnetic Connect replaces Microsoft’s Surface Connect port www.theverge.com/news/1006445...

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra has built-in magnetic USB-C charging

Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift

Man gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties.

Hands-on: Sonos Ace Ultra fix nearly everything I wanted from the original [Video]

I have been a huge Sonos fan and customer for years, dating back to the original Sonos One. So, about two years ago, when I heard that Sonos was entering the over-ear headphone market, I knew I had to give it a try. The Sonos Ace looked gre

Rockstar Reveals Some Of The Radio Stations And Songs In GTA 6

The company also confirmed you'll be able to listen to music and podcasts while on foot via your phone

Roundup: All The Biggest Xbox Reveals From The Triple-I Initiative Showcase (October 2026)

Including multiple world premieres! Today marked the latest Triple-i Initiative Showcase for October 2026 , treating us to reveals and updates for a wide variety of games across multiple platforms, with many of them coming to Xbox as well.

Spending On Physical Games In The U.S. Is…Up? Thanks To Game-Key Cards?

Sorry, what?

Forza Horizon 6 for PS5 launches January 26, 2027 alongside first expansion

Forza Horizon 6 will launch for PlayStation 5 on January 26, 2027 alongside the game’s …

French Revolution narrative deckbuilder Lazare’s Sacrifice announced for PC

Publisher Curve Games and developer Dream Reality Interactive have announced Lazare’s Sacrifice, a narrative deckbuilder …

Tekken 8’s Reina Teased as the Next Guest Character for Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves

Reina, who made her debut in Tekken 8, is coming to Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves. The announcement comes from a short teaser trailer from SNK Official.

Pokémon and Santa Cruz reveal blind bag skateboards featuring classic Pokémon TCG cards

The new Pokémon Santa Cruz skateboards release next week

Hellraiser: Revival Review

While the studded scalp of otherworld antagonist Pinhead absolutely looks the part, it’s a shame that little else in Hellraiser: Revival has been nailed to anywhere near the same extent.

Critical Role joins Rockbeasts, launching January 2027.

Since the very beginning, we knew Rockbeasts was something special. To us, at least. Not because it’s the biggest game, or the safest bet. Quite the opposite. It’s not built around a genre you can neatly file it under. It’s built around a t

You Have Minutes to Live: Introducing Echo Weaver

“This is the best demo I’ve ever played.” Two years ago, a demo from a three-person team in northwest North America hit my email and I wasn’t really prepared for how special it would end up being. My name is Buddy Solá, I’m the Head of Publ

Official GTA 6 Merch Store Opened by Rockstar Games

Rockstar Games has unveiled the official GTA 6 merchandise store, presenting players with a new GTA IV Collection. The post Official GTA 6 Merch Store Opened by Rockstar Games appeared first on Insider Gaming .

Star Wars Zero Company developer Bit Reactor begins bringing furloughed staff back

Star Wars Zero Company developer Bit Reactor has started bringing back staff it furloughed ahead of the game's launch. Read more

Rockstar-hunted GTA 6 leaker seemingly strikes again, showing off series' most plentiful helping of onscreen johnson since San Andreas starred Carl

The GTA 6 leaker or leakers that previously shared enough alleged gameplay to prompt Rockstar Games and Take-Two to begin the legal process of hunting them down appear to have returned, with a new 25 minute clip of them up to various hijink

Free Play Days – ARC Raiders, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Little Nightmares III, Screamer, and More

One Weekend. Seven Worlds. Endless Possibilities. Screamer and Family Man are available in Free Play Days this weekend for XBOX Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and Essential members to play from Thursday, October 8 until Sunday, October 11. Add

GTA 6: Rockstar Releases Brand New Official Screenshots Showing Off Stunning Reflections

Rockstar has released three brand new GTA 6 screenshots alongside its radio station reveal.

GTA 6 In-Game Radio Stations Announced, and You Can Preview Them Right Now

Tune in. Rockstar Games has given us another GTA 6 crumb to enjoy; it's announced some of the in-game radio stations we'll be able to enjoy as we drive around Leonida, and you can get a taste for them right now. It's all unveiled on the off

Pull Up to 7-Eleven in Forza Horizon 6

Every good drive has a convenience store stop along the way somewhere. Starting today, that stop becomes possible for a limited time inside Forza Horizon 6. XBOX and 7-Eleven, Inc. are teaming up on the new Horizon Meets update – as well as

No, I Have Not Seen Jason’s Penis in GTA 6

IGN cannot confirm or deny if GTA 6 will feature full-frontal nudity, but we can confirm that we have not seen Jason's penis.

GTA 6 Gameplay Leaks Are Back with Potentially Big Spoilers

25 minutes of gameplay leaked online. Cyberleek, the GTA 6 leaker from before the Netflix Extended Look debuted, has returned to the Internet with yet another significant gameplay video that potentially reveals a lot of spoilers and details

Nintendo eShop Highlights

Check out what's new on Nintendo eShop this week!

Full-frontal nudity, dirt-biking, and a dev menu: GTA 6's infamous leaker is back with the most X-rated look at the game yet

It looks like the GTA 6 leaker, 'CyberLeek' is back - and this time the infamous leaker has posted a 25-minute video of footage from Rockstar's upcoming game that even features nude scenes, including a fully naked Jason, and a topless Lucia

GTA 6 Leaker Returns With New 24-Minute Gameplay Video, Sparking Spoiler Concern

GTA 6 leaker Cyberleek has returned to publish a 24-minute gameplay video that has left fans scrambling to issue spoiler warnings across the internet.

Introducing XP

Our ambition at XBOX is to be the number one entertainment company in the world. This means growing our games into enduring franchises that entertain, inspire and connect people across every generation and across the globe. That opportunity

New Leadership Appointments and XBOX Division

This message was just sent to Team XBOX employees globally. Team, At Town Hall on Tuesday, I talked about the four Cs and the choices we are making to put them into practice. You’ve seen a lot of our work on Core and Content. Today I want t

As Rockstar continues to hunt for the GTA 6 leaker, they’ve returned with 25 minutes of nudity-heavy gameplay

Cyberleek is seemingly using the clip to raise money for an 'expensive' gaming-related project

Massive GTA 6 Leak Reveals Story Spoilers, Car Chases, And Jason’s Dong

The lengthy portion of the game features cutscenes, dirt bike racing, and...Jason's winky

The Australian Government Helps Workers Know Their Rights for Taking Time Off for GTA 6

Australia's workplace regulator, The Fair Work Ombudsman, has put out a helpful graphic for people who might want to take time off when GTA 6 comes out this November.

CBS News Amazed by Accuracy of GTA 6, Highlights Miami Similarities in New Report

CBS News has reported on the accuracy of GTA 6’s Vice City, a fictionalized recreation of The Magic City. The Miami office of CBS News looked at major locations and brings on experts to talk about how accurate Rockstar’s open world is, from

The Escapists 3 announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, and PC

Team17 has announced prison escape simulation game sequel The Escapists 3 for PlayStation 5, Xbox …

Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection Heading to XBOX on PC November 18

The hit RPG Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection, currently available on XBOX Series X|S, will launch on XBOX on PC on November 18, 2026, with Xbox Play Anywhere support. This will allow players to enjoy the game on XBOX Series X|S,

Waltz and Jam launches December 3 for PS5, Switch 2, and PC

Top-down puzzle action adventure game Waltz and Jam will launch for PlayStation 5, Switch 2, …

Among Us Story: On Guard launches February 17, 2027 for Switch 2, PC, iOS, and Android

Among Us Story: On Guard, a new standalone adventure game set in the Among Us …

You’ll Have One Last Shot At The Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Switch 2 That Keeps Selling Out Everywhere During A Midnight Launch

A midnight release for Ocarina of Time ? What year is it?

Unity’s new AI game-creation tool has a twist: You still have to put the work in

An interview with Unity CEO Matt Bromberg about wooing millions of would-be developers with Unity Spark, what people love and hate about AI in games. Plus: A Game File idea “worth considering”

Best Buy Announces Midnight Opening for Ocarina of Time Launch, Zelda Switch 2 Consoles Also Up for Grabs

Best Buy is opening select stores at midnight on Nov. 5 for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time launch day, featuring surprise restocks of the limited-edition Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2.

Witcher 3 Remastered patch rolls out on PC and console, with separate Switch 2 patch earmarked to address blurry visuals

CD Projekt Red has rolled out a substantial patch for the new Witcher 3 Remastered edition of the game, notably adding more lighting-related options to the console versions of the game, such as Bloom, enabling you to turn them off, should y

Minecraft Switch 2 Pre-Orders Now Live, Free Digital Upgrade Path Confirmed As "Limited Time Offer"

You have "until the end of January 2027" to claim the Switch 2 version. Ahead of the release of Minecraft on the Switch 2 on 27th October 2026 , Mojang has now sent pre-orders for this version of the game live. It's also provided some addit

Subnautica 2 fans can finally hunt and kill those pesky Nibbler Mangos—in Dave the Diver's crossover DLC

I will kill them. I will cook them. I will serve them. Thanks, Dave.

LudoNarraCon 2026

LudoNarraCon is a digital convention celebrating narrative video games, hosted on Steam . An initiative of indie label Fellow Traveller , it aims to create a platform to showcase and celebrate interesting and innovative narrative games, rep

Mafia 3 Receives Free 60FPS Upgrade For Xbox Series X|S, Full Patch Notes Revealed

"See you in New Bordeaux". Yesterday, we shared a story about how we thought Mafia 2: Definitive Edition and Mafia 3: Definitive Edition could be getting 60FPS upgrades in the near future, and in the case of Mafia 3 at least, that's ended u

Prospice: Anomalous Logistics is SnowRunner except instead of lengths of copper pipe, you're transporting the body parts of eldritch gods

Viewed from the front, my truck, with its winch and thick off-road tires, could be straight from SnowRunner central casting. Sure, it would an off-off-Broadway production of SnowRunner, with the polycount and texture resolution of a PS1-era

Mafia 3 Gets Current-Gen Update for PS5 and XBOX

Mafia 3 developers have revealed that the title is receiving a current-gen update for PS5 and XBOX consoles. The post Mafia 3 Gets Current-Gen Update for PS5 and XBOX appeared first on Insider Gaming .

Watch EXFIL Brothers and get Twitch Drops!

What is it like to set foot in Tarkov for the first time with an experienced veteran by your side? From October 9 to 14, starting at 8:00 AM BST / 3:00 AM EDT , watch new players find their footing in Escape from Tarkov alongside streamers

Cook, Serve, Delicious: Remustard! demo available on Steam buff.ly/zTCtEWE

October 8 EU Service Outage Compensation

Daevas, Following the recent outage that impacted multiple servers on the EU region, we are sending compensation to players on the affected servers with the items below: 1 day of membership to players with active memberships on impacted ser

Forza Horizon 6 PS5 releasing Jan 26th. Early with Premium Edition on Jan 21st. First expansion also releasing at the same time www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKo9...

Another Critical Role Actor Joins The Final Fantasy VII Revelation Cast As Shiva (But Not The Shiva You Think)

Hmm, wonder where all this chemistry with Vincent is coming from?

MachineGames developer sale on Steam buff.ly/yh1lyFN

Pony Island 2: Panda Circus Playtest Signup available on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/2017940/...

Pony Island is free to own on Steam (offer ends Oct 12) buff.ly/ApLyeco

Free Prime Gaming/Amazon Luna titles added: buff.ly/3NHFzRB -Conarium (GOG) -WarBreeds (GOG)

"It's clear that we both adore one another's games a lot" - Dave the Diver and Subnautica 2 team up for a crossover made in heaven

At today's Triple-i Showcase , Dave the Diver studio Mintrocket announced a surprisingly obvious, and perfectly fitting, collaboration. The game's final DLC, set for release in early 2027, brings the worlds of Subnautica 2 and Dave the Dive

I have added roving bands of militant furries to Grand Theft Auto 5

Thereby bringing it a bit closer to real life.

I Love K-Pop, But This New PS5 Game Ain't It

Stage fright. Earlier this year, I had a fair amount of fun with the tycoon-style visual novel K-Pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut – even if it wasn’t exactly what I expected. However, I really don’t expect much from this new Microids effort,

Two Point Museum's Cutest Collaboration Is Now Available, And It's Free

Little Kitty, Big Museum. There are very few games that we wouldn't benefit from having a cute cat added to it, and Two Point Studios knows it. The dev has just revealed a collaboration between Two Point Museum and Little Kitty, Big City ,

Travis Willingham On Taking Over Sephiroth In Final Fantasy VII Revelation: ‘There’s Nothing More Dangerous Than The Villain That Doesn’t Need To Shout To Be Heard’

The Critical Role star is taking over after previous actor Tyler Hoechlin had to step down

The Talos Principle 3 - Gameplay Reveal Trailer (coming 2027 for PS5/Steam) www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB-b...

DAVE THE DIVER X Subnautica 2 - DLC Reveal (Final Dave the Diver DLC) coming early 2027 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp4K... Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5246570/...

DAVE THE DIVER DLC ‘Subnautica 2 Content Pack’ announced

MINTROCKET has announced DAVE THE DIVER‘s final downloadable content pack—a Subnautica 2-themed expansion in partnership …

SULFUR launches October 28

Roguelike first-person shooter SULFUR will leave Early Access and launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, …

Risk of Rain 2 DLC ‘Hallowed Concepts’ now available

Risk of Rain 2 downloadable content “Hallowed Concepts” is now available, 2K and developer Gearbox …

Norsfell announces top-down ‘survivalite’ action RPG Aftergods for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC

Tribes of Midgard developer Norsfell has announced Aftergods, a top-down “survivalite” action RPG set in …

Amazon is roasting users with their own shopping habits, but it don't have nothin' on us

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you…

ReVamp launches March 25, 2027

Roguelite tower defense game ReVamp will launch for PC via Steam on March 25, 2027, …

North American eShop releases for the week of Oct. 8th, 2026

Talk about a big week!

Fast-paced roguelike action game Volatiles announced for PC

Publisher 11 bit studios and developer Team Instant Defeat have announced Volatiles, a fast-paced, top-down …

PRISON OF HUSKS launches January 27, 2027

Soulslike action RPG PRISON OF HUSKS will launch for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam …

U.S. software/hardware charts for August 2026

Switch 2 does it again!

Strange Scaffold announces narrative tactics game Gods With Badges for PC

Strange Scaffold has announced Gods With Badges, a narrative tactics game that examines the power, …

Crowning the best FPS mode of all time through 1v1 combat (ROUND 2)

FFA is dead. King of the Hill? Kaput. What will be the last mode standing?

Stronghold 4 launches December 7

FireflyReal-time strategy / city builder sequel Stronghold 4 will launch for PC via Steam on …

Among Us Story: On Guard Releases Feb 17, 2027 - a new standalone narrative game from Innersloth www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHHH... Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2842310/...

As it lays off developers and closes studios, Xbox gets into the movie business

Asha Sharma's latest big move is all about bringing "franchises" to the world in ways that don't involve games.

Rainbow Six Mobile Being Shut Down By Ubisoft

Ubisoft has opted to take Rainbow Six Mobile offline after more than three years, stressing it was a 'difficult decision.' The post Rainbow Six Mobile Being Shut Down By Ubisoft appeared first on Insider Gaming .

Drunken Goddess Reflux launches December 8

Russian roulette drinking survival game Drunken Goddess Reflux will launch for PC via Steam on …

All hail the long steam machine, Pimax's new SteamOS-ready mini PC

It looks like a Steam Machine, and it runs SteamOS, so it must be a steam machine.

Pimax says 'I'll have what Valve's having' as it announces new wireless VR headset, foveated streaming, updated controllers, and long Steam Machine

Imagine a Steam Machine but taller… yep, you got it.

Machinarium 2 | Announcement Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqcg... Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1619280/...

Apex Legends Blood Pact Event Revealed for Halloween

EA and Respawn have announced the Apex Legends Blood Pact Event this Halloween with new Alter and Sparrow skins and a Haunted Kings Canyon The post Apex Legends Blood Pact Event Revealed for Halloween appeared first on Insider Gaming .

Astral Ascent x Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 collaboration update ‘For Those Who Come After’ now available

Hibernian Workshop has released a free update for side-scrolling roguelite platformer Astral Ascent in collaboration …

Call of Duty Goes Twilight in New Vampires vs. Werewolves Mobile Season

Call of Duty Mobile's next season is very Twilight themed, introducing a battle between Vampires and Werewolves. The post Call of Duty Goes Twilight in New Vampires vs. Werewolves Mobile Season appeared first on Insider Gaming .

Machinarium 2 announced for PC

Amanita Design has announced hand-drawn adventure game sequel Machinarium 2 for PC (Steam). A release …

Outward 2 launches in Early Access on February 8, 2027

Adventure RPG Outward 2 will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam, Epic Games …

Blizzard Is Making WoW Forever’s Controversial Skyborne Race Look Worse On Purpose, And That’s A Good Thing

Standard-definition elf

Europe Shows Up for Physical Games, 51% of Wolverine's PS5 Sales for Disc Version

There was a disc, so they bought it. Sony is yet to share official Marvel's Wolverine sales data, but firms worldwide have begun sharing their own points and projected figures. And, according to GSD data shared by The Game Business , physic

Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival Is Getting Some Seriously Divided Reviews At Launch

Mixed impressions for sure. One of the games we mentioned in today's "out now" article is Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival , and looking at the initial reviews that have been published over the past few hours, it's hard to know what to ma

Bobby Kotick returns: former Activision boss becomes board member of Skydance, the new company formed by Paramount and Warner Bros

Former Activision boss Bobby Kotick has returned to a position of high influence as a board member of Skydance, the new entertainment juggernaut formed by the merging of Warner Bros. into Paramount. Read more

Hell Is Us Massively Expands Its Roster of Freaky Enemies to Celebrate 2 Million Players

Free update out now. Publisher Nacon and developer Rogue Factor have announced that Hell Is Us, the sci-fi action game that refuses to hold the player's hand, has now surpassed the 2 million players milestone. To celebrate this news, the ga

Riot Games announces a final hurrah for its ill-fated fighting game 2XKO, with a surprise character joining the roster this month

Riot Games has released a final gameplay trailer for 2XKO, its short-lived fighting game set to be sunsetted later this year. The game is going out with a bang, with a shock reveal of a secret character coming alongside the games last major

Microsoft seems very excited about its new magnetic USB Type-C charger for the Surface Laptop Ultra, but it don't impress me much

Not sure I'm feeling a connection, to be honest.

35% of Sony’s Wolverine launch sales were the disc version, data suggests

The majority of Wolverine launch sales were physical in Europe

For the first time in the series, Grand Theft Auto 6 lets you use headphones to listen to radio stations and podcasts

GTA 6 will let you listen to radio stations while not in a car, by wearing headphones and earbuds connected to smartphones. GTA 6 also introduces on-demand podcasts, so you can binge true crime while also doing true crime - something like t

Physical Sales Of Wolverine Estimated To Be Surprisingly High For A Company That’s About To Ditch Discs

What would it take for Sony to walk the controversial move back?

Mattel Reveals an Epic DC Premium Batman Figure Based on the Iconic Hush Comic

With Mattel regaining the rights to DC's vast lineup of characters, we can reveal the very first DC Premium figure ahead of its debut at NYCC. And yes, it's Batman.

Marvel Tokon Far Exceeds Expectations in US Sales Charts, PS5 Dollar Spend Up

But Sony's system behind Switch 2 overall. Isn’t it interesting how conventional wisdom from social media – usually massively influenced by Steam concurrent users – would lead you to believe a game flopped, only for the reality to be quite

Try Unlimited Checklist Tracking on IGN’s Ocarina of Time Guides This October

Video Game Sales Fall In The United States, But It’s Not All Bad

According to the latest data, video game sales in the United States have fallen by nearly 10%, but the news isn't all bad. The post Video Game Sales Fall In The United States, But It’s Not All Bad appeared first on Insider Gaming .

‘Enough Games Have Been Cancelled and Shut Down. That Betrayal Has Ramifications’ – Is It the Beginning of the End for Live-Service Games?

Live-service dominates global playtime, but can it survive cancelled projects, dwindling players, and a market in decline? Or is this the beginning of the end for forever games?

‘It’s Almost Not Worth Being Number Two’ – How Live-Service Turned Games Into a Battle Royale for the Top Spot

The live-service trend has brought us some amazing games, but the chase for money-printing success means developers have become trapped in a bloody battle royale that's stifling creativity.

‘It’s Difficult To Justify the Investment’ – How MMORPGs Built (and Lost) the Live-Service Throne

How MMORPGs like World of Warcraft and EverQuest started the industry's obsession with never-ending live-service games.

I'm intrigued by this political sim that puts you smack-dab in Germany at the end of World War 1

When everything was going incredibly fine.

Japanese Charts: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Scrapes Into The Top 10 With 5,000+ Sales

While Ace Combat 8 takes the crown. Famitsu has provided the latest look at Japan's boxed charts, and there are a few new faces once again this week. For Nintendo fans, the highlight is Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition , w

I enjoy how Hellraiser: Revival's 'real-life' bondage club makes the rest of Hellraiser: Revival feel kind of embarrassing

Not being much of a kinkster, I'm the wrong writer to assess how Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival portrays BDSM. I can't say with any authority, for example, whether developers Saber Interactive have succeeded in distinguishing consensual

As I Begin Replaying All Of Kingdom Hearts, What Do I Hope To Learn About A Series I Love?

Guiding Key is a year-long Kingdom Hearts replay, so what do we hope to learn along the way?

Doctor Doom, Invisible Woman Join Marvel Cosmic Invasion in DLC Pack Next Month

Just what the doctor ordered. Publisher Dotemu has revealed more details about the upcoming second DLC pack for its superhero beat-'em-up, Marvel Cosmic Invasion . The add-on, titled The Siege of Castle Doom, is scheduled for launch on 10th

Mixtape wins three awards at Australian Game Developer Awards 2026, including GOTY

The winners of this year's Australian Game Developer Awards have been revealed, with Beethoven & Dinosaur's Mixtape receiving three awards, including Game of the Year alongside Excellence in Art and Sound Design. Read more

LEGO The Marvel Skyline Set Announced

LEGO has announced a new set depicting all the most recognizable buildings in the Marvel universe, including the Daily Bugle, Avengers Tower, and more.

Anne Hathaway And The Rest Of Digger Nation Rises Up As The Movie Reportedly Prepares To Lose $250 Million

My feed is full of people watching the movie in empty theaters

Spiritfarer dev's next game, At Fate's End, is one of the prettiest things I've ever seen

Simply gorgeous.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered Patch Adds Bloom Toggles on Console and Larger Lighting Changes

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered just got a significant update to tweak the presentation of CD Projekt’s RPG epic. Check out the patch notes.

"A creative idea can save more money than AI can right now" – Glen Schofield on his retirement, Callisto Protocol's development, and the state of AAA

During the summer, veteran developer Glen Schofield announced his retirement from the games industry . Read more

Nintendo Switch Sports Resort Looks Like A Game Night Delight In New Overview Trailer

Start the warm-up. With Nintendo Switch Sports Resort right around the corner, Nintendo has released a seven-minute overview trailer to showcase all of the exciting things that await on Wuhu Island. Aside from introducing the game's 12 spor

Star Wars: Galactic Racer was prototyped in the most unexpected way: as a board game covered in Post-It notes

We're big fans of Star Wars: Galactic Racer , having given the fast and punishing racing game five stars in our review. We also spoke to developer Fuse Games to better understand how it recaptured the Burnout spirit so well in the game. And

What does Nomadic Crafting let you make in Arc Raiders?

Here are the field items unlocked by this top level survival skill.

Edith Finch, Journey designer secures big investment for shared-world fantasy game

Gardens Interactive has raised $70m for its online 'strandbox' adventure

How did PS5 boxed games sell in September? And the problem with industry consolidation

Plus, Zelda boosts Switch 2, new IP conquered September, and what caused Crimson Desert’s mixed reviews?

After Playing Final Fantasy VII Revelation, I’m Convinced Square Saved Some Of The Best Stuff For Last

Cid and Vincent blow the rest of the cast out of the water

NBA 2K27 tops US August charts, becomes third-best selling game of 2026

NBA 2K27 topped the US charts in August, becoming the third-best-selling game of the year according to Circana data. Read more

Safe In Our World launches Four Billion Players campaign to make mental health support more accessible for gamers

Mental health charity Safe In Our World has launched Four Billion Players, a campaign to raise awareness of mental health support for gamers. Read more

Marvel Cosmic Invasion's New DLC Will Build The Hype For 'Doomsday' Next Month

New characters, new game modes. Dotemu and Tribute Games teased their upcoming Doctor Doom-focused Marvel Cosmic Invasion DLC a few months back, and today at New York Comic Con, the teams announced when we can expect to play it. 'The Siege

A full-sized replica of the Atari 800XL home computer is coming next year

The 800XL has 25 games built-in and support for more via USB

Xbox aim to wring more cash out of the games they've not cast into oblivion by launching new licensing arm and handing Minecraft to ex-Meta monetisation lead

Xbox, currently in the midst of multi-round mass layoffs as part of a plan to let a final total of 3200 people go, have announced a new arm of their business which is firmly aimed at milking more cash out of its blockbuster game series via

The Witcher 3 Remastered Gets Notable Improvements And A Much-Requested Feature On PS5 And Xbox

Dozens of fresh fixes have arrived for the newest version of the open-world RPG

Nerfs to Silent Hill: Townfall's Worst Enemy Are Substantial, Hard Puzzle Also Tweaked

The Weight gets hit hard. Screen Burn promised it would be addressing the worst enemy encounter in Silent Hill: Townfall , and boy has it in a new PS5 patch available now. The Weight, a monster that stalks you in a few sections and has an i

Xbox announces new XP division to deliver transmedia spinoffs including film, TV, and theme parks

Xbox has announced a new XP business unit, dedicated to transmedia brand extensions, including the Fallout TV series and the Minecraft World theme park. Read more

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 reveals pricey spawn options for DMZ, which offer rich players an enormous advantage over poor players spawning on foot

The week of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 DMZ reveals continues, and the latest highlighted a questionable addition that seems to offer an unfair advantage in an extraction shooter. Read more

Following Nintendo and Sony's lead, Xbox is setting up a division exclusively dedicated to movies and non-games partnerships

Today, Microsoft announced it is setting up a new branch of the Xbox business named XP. In a blog over at the Xbox Wire, Microsoft details what this new area of the business looks like - it consists of four branches: Xbox Places, Xbox Pictu

Microsoft Announces New 'Xbox XP' Division With Four Key Focuses

"XP is a play on “Experience Points” and formalizes four investment areas". We've got more major Xbox news to share today, as a brand-new division called "Xbox XP" has just been announced, spearheaded by a newly-appointed XP President in Ka

Xbox Is Building A Film Division, And It’s Putting Minecraft In The Driver’s Seat

And the former head of Minecraft is going to run it

Xbox Announces New XP Entertainment Division to Make Movies, TV, and More

Xbox has announced a new TV, movies, and entertainment division called XP. It will be headed up by Kayleen Walters, a Lucasfilm veteran who moves over from her most recent post at Minecraft maker Mojang, for whom she was president – and als

Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (October 8-11)

Presenting your latest batch of weekend freebies! It's Thursday, and so it's time once again for a new batch of Xbox Free Play Days titles! There's a whopping seven games in the lineup this week! Several of these games are considered absolu

Guide: Stage Tour Setlist: All Confirmed Songs and Artists

Every song revealed so far. Stage Tour is basically Guitar Hero and Rock Band reborn on PS5, complete with a brand new set of plastic instrument peripherals and a giant setlist of songs to play. Set for release on 10th December, 2026, you m

Blizzard is changing the appearance of WoW: Forever's new Skyborne race in response to community feedback

World of Warcraft: Forever's developers have announced drastic visual changes to the game's new Skyborne race following passionate community feedback. These include new in-game models that better represent the game's early MMO aesthetic, mu

Google and Unity unveil gen-AI game-making platforms, and demonstrate one of them with depressingly rubbish "dream game" Space Corridor

Google and Unity yesterday announced new generative-AI game-making platforms designed to make and shape games by inputting text prompts. Google's product is called Playground and is available for testing now, if you live in the US, and Unit

Where to find the Ruined Homestead in Arc Raiders

Take a photo of any farmland house around the Ruined Homestead.

Wizards of the Coast Confirms Reprints for Popular MTG Warhammer 40K Commander Decks

In a statement to IGN, Wizards of the Coast has confirmed a new "small" reprint run for the incredibly popular MTG Warhammer 40K Commander Decks.

Xbox CTO Shares Statement About Making It Easier For Developers To Publish Their Games

"We’re working to make it better". Over the years, we've occasionally heard a grumble-or-two from independent developers about how bringing their games to the Xbox platform has been unnecessarily difficult, and how they've felt like they're

Star Wars Galactic Racer will soon welcome larger podracing parties, with multiplayer group size limits set to double in a future update

I've admittedly not delved into any multiplayer action in Star Wars: Galactic Racer since the gates to its racetracks were opened to the masses early this week. Look, I needed a quick breather after ramjetting my way through 40 or so hours

Hell Let Loose developer Expression opens new studio in Manchester "in response to what's happening in the talent market"

Expression Games, the hitherto entirely remote developer behind Hell Let Loose Vietnam and co-developer on Star Wars Galactic Racer, has announced the opening of a physical studio in Manchester, in response to what CEO Errol Ismail describe

Richard Garriott is officially regaining control of the Ultima series

Ultima creator confirms he will soon regain the copyright from Electronic Arts

AMD's handsome FSR 4 upscaler is coming to handheld PCs this year, though Steam Deck support could take longer

Handheld PC games could be set for a bit of visual spit 'n' shine, as AMD have confirmed plans to bring FSR 4 – their newest, prettiest upscaling tech – to the kind of dinky Radeon APUs used by portables. AMD Computing & Graphics exec Jack

10 Xbox Games Are Out Today, Including A Trio Of Day One Game Pass Titles (October 8)

It's another good day for Xbox Game Pass subscribers! Salutations, and welcome back to your daily fix of all the new games launching on Xbox! Let's start with the three Xbox Game Pass additions shall we? First up, we've got Neon Abyss 2 , a

Gardens Interactive, founded by veterans behind Journey and Sky: Children of the Light, raises over $35m in Series B funding round

Gardens Interactive has raised over $35 million in a Series B funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to more than $70 million . Read more

Sony seemingly closes the door on PlayStation VR as it sells more than 40 VR patents to Meta

Sony published two original games for the PlayStation VR 2

Wardogs Streamer Banned for Exploiting the Game's Building Mechanics to Get Rich

A vtuber is at the center of a controversy in the Wardogs community surrounding exploits.

Silent Hill Townfall update nerfs The Weight stealth sections, weakens enemies and makes the final puzzle easier

The version 1.4.0 patch should make the game less frustrating

Star Wars Zero Company studio start to bring back devs furloughed prior to launch, with "more than half" of previous headcount reportedly returning to payroll

Star Wars Zero Company developers Bit Reactor have begun to put some of the developers they furloughed prior to the game's release back on payroll. Thus far, the number of staff on payroll at the studio has reportedly returned to "more than

Gameplay footage from cancelled Xbox Perfect Dark game leaks online, and it looks pretty good

Last year, we learned that Xbox cancelled a reboot of Perfect Dark . The game, in development at The Initiative, was cancelled as part of 2025's wave of wide-ranging cuts at Microsoft and Xbox . In 2026, of course, things have only gotten w

Gears of War boss says the next game won't take seven years to make as he dances around the question of layoffs

The Coalition, the Microsoft-owned studio behind Gears of War: E-Day, Gears 4 and Gears 5 has mostly survived the wide-ranging cuts and layoffs initiated by Xbox CEO Asha Sharma in her attempt to bring the gaming division back to profitabil

Fireshine Games acquires Necesse dev Fair Games, described as a "defining moment" for Danish indie studio

Fireshine Games has acquired Danish indie studio Fair Games and its open world sandbox title Necesse. Read more

Below Review

Below is Netflix’s go at a “What if Jaws but…” type of story set in Newfoundland starring Josh Hartnett that starts off with a promising hook and closes with a hole-y, disappointing end.

Round Up: The Reviews For Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Are In

Here's what the critics think. Dragon's Dogma 2 arrives on the Switch 2 this week, and alongside this, the new Dark Arisen Expansion has been released across all platforms. The reviews are now rolling in about this additional content. If yo

Muramasa: Revenant Blades has 108 swords, and its definitive update for PC wants to make sure you use them all

The swords may be cursed, but the action is better than ever.

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds "Year One" Edition Spotted Online

As "Year Two" gets underway. If you didn't catch the first year of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds , it seems Sega may soon be releasing an updated retail copy. Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Now we know the prices of the new RTX Spark laptops and they're as expensive as I'm sure you feared

The launch is coming on October 16, is your bank account prepared?

Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire Switch Port Rumours Resurface Following Pokémon HOME's Latest Update

Two GBA games are now compatible with the service. There have been rumours doing the rounds online in recent times about Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire making a return. Now, the latest Pokémon HOME update has got some trainers even more excited. R

Gundam Rogue Orbit Drops Its Enthusiastically Narrated PS5 Gameplay Trailer

Gun, damn. I’ve always been keen on trying a Gundam game, but the various ones Rob has reviewed for the site always looked a bit too scrappy or technical for my tastes. Enter the upcoming Gundam Rogue Orbit , then, which is launching on the

The First Review For Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Is In

A fresh take on the world of Castlevania. Konami's Castlevania series returns next week, and the first critic review for Castlevania: Belmont's Curse has now gone live. It comes from the famous Japanese publication Famitsu , so what did thi

PS5 to Integrate Anime into Main Menu as Sony Tightens Ties with Crunchyroll

"Anime and gaming have overlapping communities". Moments ago, PlayStation boss Hideaki Nishino took to the stage at the inaugural Crunchyroll Anime Future Forum to confirm it’ll be integrating anime into the PS5’s main menu with a “dedicate

It’s Going To Be A Long Time Before We Get A New Halo Game

Halo: Campaign Evolved might be getting a horde mode as a skeleton crew works on one last update before Activision takes over the franchise

Gravity Well lays off more than 40 developers after losing its funding

Gravity Well, an independent studio founded by Respawn Entertainment alumni, has let go of the majority of its team after losing its funding. Read more

What if Resident Evil Had Debuted on SNES? Dead of Darkness 2 Has the Answer on PS5

Sprite-based scares. I didn’t play the original Dead of Darkness , but its successor – in development for PS5 and PS4 – has caught my eye. This game looks a lot like Resident Evil if it had been scaled back for the Super Nintendo, and while

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Star Wars: Zero Company studio is bringing "as many people back as possible" after furloughing "most" of its developers

Star Wars: Zero Company maker Bit Reactor is bringing back developers who were furloughed ahead of launch. Read more

Discord protection bot Double Counter hit by breach exposing around 1 million email addresses

Double Counter, a service that protects Discord servers from raids and alt accounts, has suffered a data breach that exposed about 1 million email addresses, as well as Discord IDs and IP addresses for millions more users. Read more

Sony is reportedly plotting to revive classic PlayStation games, starting with a new Ape Escape from the developers behind Sonic Mania

Sony reportedly wants to revive a selection of its long-dormant PlayStation classics with the help of smaller third-party developers, and a new Ape Escape game is apparently up first. Read more

Spiritfarer Dev Delays Its Next Game 'At Fate's End' Into 2027, But It's Still Coming To Xbox Game Pass

At Fate's End was one of my most-anticipated 2026 titles. As disappointing as it can be to learn a game you're excited for has been saddled with a delay, it's not always bad news. French-Canadian developer, Thunder Lotus, has announced its

Trump says U.S. won't attack Iran prior to midterms

Fighting began in late February, with joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program

Arizona Congressional Candidate Reports She Was Raped While Fixing Campaign Sign

“She hopes that by speaking about her experience, others will know they are not alone,” Democrat Bernadette Greene-Placentia’s spokesperson said.

What is the pneumonic plague?

The ancient disease of plague is back in the headlines after the death this month of a Russian lab worker.

Trump admin. blocks Microsoft and Adobe from sponsoring H-1B workers for green cards

The Trump administration has halted the ability of tech giants Microsoft and Adobe to sponsor H-1B visa workers seeking green cards, Vice President JD Vance announced Thursday. Vance made the comments during a press conference on visa fraud

Drones target Eritrean troops inside Ethiopia, conflict monitor says

Oct 8 - Drone strikes targeted Eritrean forces deployed inside northern Ethiopia overnight, a conflict monitor said on Thursday, following an incursion that has brought the Horn of Africa neighbours closer to the brink of outright war.

The Democratic Socialists of America Platform

The DSA would abolish the police, open borders, socialize medicine, abolish the Department of War, and abolish the Senate.

Royal Navy serviceman accused of plotting to leak intelligence to Russia appears in court

A junior Royal Navy serviceman accused of plotting to leak classified information to Russia has appeared in court.

Supreme Court asked to weigh political ad rates

The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to set aside a ruling issued Wednesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.

WATCH LIVE: Trump awards Elon Musk the National Medal of Science, among other awards for tech execs

President Donald Trump on Thursday is expected to hand out several of the nation's highest science and technology honors, including to the entrepreneur and former DOGE chief Elon Musk.

Preparations ramp up as Hurricane Isaias approaches the Gulf Coast

Hurricane Isaias surges toward the Gulf Coast and is expected to intensify into a Category 2 storm. NBC News’ Jesse Kirsch reports from Pensacola Beach, Florida, where preparations are underway after the state declares a state of emergency

OpenAI's math breakthrough points beyond math

AI's conquest of computer programming offered an early demonstration of what happens when models become good enough at a specialized field that experts can no longer treat them as a novelty. Mathematics appears to be next. Why it matters :

British consulate in Jerusalem to become 'UK Mission' as diplomats leave

The UK government said it will retain its presence in East Jerusalem as Israel insisted the British consulate in the city had "ceased to function".

South Korea test-flies its first domestically developed hypersonic weapon

The test follows North Korea's recent hypersonic missile test. Tensions between the Koreas have increased after land mine explosions injured three South Korean soldiers near the border. North Korea denies responsibility.

The 87-year-old woman evicted from her home in Spain has died

An 87-year-old woman, whose eviction from her home sparked major protests in Spain and was partly responsible for a snap election, has died.

Trump misnames Muslim senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed ‘Mohammed’

US President Donald Trump misnamed Muslim candidate for the US Senate Abdul El-Sayed on Thursday, calling him Mohammed and baselessly accusing him of being a “Terrorist Sympathiser”. El-Sayed, an Arab American running for a Michigan senate

Nana Patekar, Indian Actor Who Embodied the Everyman, Dies at 75

He brought the intensity of the stage to the screen and was praised for his craft and philanthropy. He was also accused of sexual harassment.

UK police accept ex-prince Andrew search warrants must be ‘legally quashed’

British police on Thursday said that search warrants they secured to search properties linked to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had been issued unlawfully and must be quashed, but that the investigation into King Charles’ younger brother was co

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French activists were set to rally across France on Thursday, in another test of whether a nationwide pro

Kurdish PKK group says Turkish state not doing enough to pursue peace process

“We have withdrawn all our armed forces, both within and outside of Turkiye, that could be considered near the border,” the PKK said, adding that the move was taken to prevent the government “making any excuses or justifying its inadequate

‘Fighting for our future’: France high school students vow no let-up

Students have blocked entrances to hundreds of high schools across the country, with squads of riot police deployed to control the situation — occasionally resulting in violent clashes

US imposes fresh sanctions on Iran's shadow fleet

WASHINGTON, Oct 8 - The Trump administration imposed fresh sanctions on Iran on Thursday targeting individuals, networks and 17 vessels for transporting its crude, oil products and petrochemicals, in the latest act of US economic warfare on

What would make your life easier? Martin Lewis asks public for ‘small ideas’ to improve UK

Finance expert launches Small Ideas Initiative to gather ‘practical, low-cost’ ideas to put before cross-party panel Every day, people run into what the finance expert Martin Lewis calls “the life-potholes of unintended consequences” – clun

How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel

A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.

More than 30 killed in Russian strike on buses in Ukraine's Kramatorsk as Kyiv targets data centre

At least 30 people were killed in a Russian strike on two buses in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk in the eastern Donetsk region on Thursday. Earlier, a drone hit a data centre belonging to Russian technology company Yandex, causing a fire

Search warrants for ex-prince Andrew's homes 'unlawful'

A criminal investigation into former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is ongoing despite the search warrants that allowed British police officers to raid two of his properties being ruled unlawful, the High Court has heard.

Two arrested at military air base in Britain

Two men have been arrested at a military air base in Cambridgeshire north of London. The men are now suspected of trespassing and British counter-terrorism police are investigating the incident.

US bars Microsoft, Adobe, and major IT firms from green card program for skilled foreign workers

The other firms being suspended from the program include Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, and Wipro.

One dead in Poland's second school attack in two days

A school employee was killed and two others were injured after a knife attack in Poland - the second such incident in the country in two days

Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Canada’s Anne Carson

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson on Thursday by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Toronto-born Carson, 76, draws from ancient Greek and Roman literature for her works blending elements of p

Evicted pensioner Maricarmen Abascal, heart of Spain's housing protests, dies

Maricarmen ​Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked housing ​protests in Spain, has died, Madrid's tenants' union said on Wednesday. Massive protests following Abascal's eviction spiralled into a political crisis, eventually l

Lower Saxony SPD parliamentary group leader steps down

The pressure on Stefan Politze proved too great. The SPD group leader in Lower Saxony's state parliament has resigned.

'Honestly, watch out': Rima Hassan files death threat complaint after video shows social media user addressing her with a shotgun

The LFI MEP is accused of knocking down Israeli and European flags on Monday during an exhibition in the Strasbourg Parliament dedicated to October 7. In a video posted to Instagram, a user with an Israeli flag...

Astronaut Sophie Adenot returns to Earth after record space mission

Sophie Adenot left the International Space Station on Wednesday after an eight-month stay, the longest by a European astronaut, and splashed down on Thursday at around 5.30 pm with three fellow crew members.

4 people on NASA's Crew-12 mission return to Earth after 8 months in space

Four people — two NASA astronauts, one from the European Space Agency and a Russian cosmonaut — spent nearly eight months at the space station, conducting spacewalks, science experiments and research.

UK signals ‘openness’ to Germany joining GCAP fighter jet programme

The United Kingdom is “open” to Germany joining an international coalition to build the next generation of fighter jets, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has announced. Speaking in Berlin on Thursday, during his first visit to the German

Hanshin's Teruaki Sato captures Triple Crown, 9th in history and first for Hanshin since Bass in '86

Samsung, SK Hynix record earnings fuel South Korea spending on AI, youth

Japan's Mitsubishi Materials taps Vietnam for tungsten as China alternative

Vietnam offshore energy rush draws Japan, US, Russia to South China Sea

Nissan to roll out China-made Frontier Pro pickup truck in Mexico

SoftBank and Grab to develop AI infrastructure in Malaysia's Sarawak

Bangladesh hands UAE's DP World key port contract after years of delay

Uniqlo operator projects 7th straight record profit for current fiscal year

McCormick backs S. Korea's greater role in U.S. shipbuilding, urges faster investment

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Overnight Coupang outage causes widespread disruptions, sparks fresh hacking fears

Coupang and its affiliated services suffered widespread access disruptions early Friday, leaving users unable to shop, order food or stream videos and raising fresh concerns about cybersecurity following the e-commerce giant's previous data

Teachers turn classrooms into social media stages, sometimes exposing students without consent

A Korean elementary school teacher known for dancing has amassed nearly 100,000 YouTube subscribers. An Instagram Reel showing the teacher dancing to a K-pop song with fellow teachers in a school hallway has drawn more than 9 million views.

Governor Omura: 'I wish they hadn't come'

[OSEN = Reporter Ko Sung-hwan] After serving substandard meals at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, the response has been shameless. Aichi Prefecture Governor Hideaki Omura made disparaging remarks directed at the Thai teqball team and is

'You took photos of the poor meals, so don't come?' Thai public outraged by Japanese governor's remarks... 'Did you come for views?' Controversy over absurd explanation: 'It only applied to the manager and coach'

[OSEN = Reporter Ko Sung-hwan] Serving substandard meals at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games and then shifting the blame. Aichi Prefecture Governor Hideaki Omura made disparaging remarks toward the Thai national teqball team and is now scr

Majority of Americans support S. Korea's nuclear-powered submarine project: poll

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (Yonhap) -- Nearly six in 10 Americans support South Korea's ...

'Is Kim Ha-seong's Departure Confirmed?' Facing Career's Biggest Crisis, Will He Return to KBO? What Lies Ahead

[Sports Chosun Reporter Na Yu-ri] The Atlanta Braves' shortstop position is expected to be vacant once again. What will happen to Kim Ha-seong after the worst year of his career due to injuries? Atlanta suffered a crushing 1-4 loss to the L

Prime Day deals extended: $179 AirPods Pro 3, $349 Apple Watch Series 12, $779 M6 Mac mini

Amazon has extended several popular Apple deals after this week's Prime Big Deal Days event. Grab AirPods Pro 3 for $179, save $200 on M5 MacBook Airs, and score a new Apple Watch Series 12 for $349.99. Save up to $562 on Apple products aft

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Apple's Cheapest 16-Inch MacBook Pro Just Got a Massive $563 Discount on Amazon

Apple's entry-level 16-inch MacBook Pro has received a massive discount today on Amazon, coming in at $563 off its new price. This is the 18-Core M5 Pro 16-inch MacBook Pro with 24GB RAM and a 1TB SSD, available for $2,436.53 , down from $2

Missed Prime Day? You Can Still Score Big on Apple Devices Today

Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days event has ended, but the Apple deals have kept rolling into today, with the year's best prices still available on AirPods Pro 3, Apple Watch Series 12, and more. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amaz

Apple's M5 Pro 16-inch MacBook Pro plunges to $2,437 in post-Prime Day sale

A deeper discount on Apple's standard M5 Pro MacBook 16-inch has launched at Amazon after Prime Big Deal Days, saving shoppers $562. Save $562 on Apple's M5 Pro 16-inch MacBook Pro - Image credit: Apple The lowest price in 30 days has taken

Feature: 25+ Of The Best Discounted Games From Xbox's Seasonal Savings Sale

One of the best sales yet! What a bleddy sale we have for you this week. Xbox has massively discounted a tonne of games, so we're back to rummage through them and pick out a banger or two for you. Xbox is currently running a Seasonal Saving

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