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Proton VPN kicked off Black Friday early with a massive 75% discount — get it for $2.49 per month

SAVE 75%: Proton VPN's Black Friday sale drops its two-year VPN Plus subscription down to $2.49 per month (billed as $59.76 for 24 months) — save 75% off the standard monthly rate. Opens in a new window Credit: Proton VPN Proton VPN (2-Year Plan) Get Deal at Proton VPN If you have been putting off getting a VPN because you didn’t want to add another expensive monthly bill to your plate…

Presentation: Wrangling Telemetry at Scale: A Guide to Self-Hosted Observability

<img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/self-hosted-observability-stack-tradeoffs/en/mediumimage/colin-douch-medium-1791450600829.jpeg"/><p>Colin Douch shares battle-tested strategies for building and scaling self-hosted observability stacks. He explains how to effectively correlate metrics, structured logs, and distributed traces using open-source tooling like Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, a…

Sauerkraut at Every Meal? These Fermentation Fanatics Tried That Long Before MAHA

The annual Portland Fermentation Festival took place last week in Oregon, at a time when sauerkraut, kimchi, and other funky foods are in the social and political spotlight.

T-Mobile’s new T-Mix plans: How to get Netflix, Apple TV, Xbox Game Pass, and more for free

TL;DR: T-Mobile is overhauling its unlimited plans with T-Mix &mdash; starting at $55 a month with AutoPay &mdash; trading traditional bundled perks for customizable "Picks" and slightly lower single-line pricing. T-Mobile is shuffling its lineup once again. After nudging rates upward over the past couple of years, the carrier is introducing T-Mix, a trio of plans built around an &agrave; la carte…

Amazon just dropped the 55-inch LG C6 OLED TV to under $1,000 — act fast to save $400

SAVE $400: The 55-inch LG C6 OLED 4K TV is down to $999.99 at Amazon, saving you $400 off its regular $1,399.99 price. Opens in a new window Credit: LG LG 55-inch C6 evo AI OLED 4K TV $999.99 at Amazon $1,399.99 Save $400 Get Deal at Amazon Finding a current-year flagship OLED from LG for under four digits usually requires waiting for holiday doorbusters, but Amazon is jumping ahead of the calenda…

Letter: Senator Elizabeth Warren asks Dario Amodei for "exhaustive responses" to four pages of questions by November 3 regarding existential risks in its S-1 (Corrie Driebusch/Wall Street Journal)

Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal : Letter: Senator Elizabeth Warren asks Dario Amodei for &ldquo;exhaustive responses&rdquo; to four pages of questions by November 3 regarding existential risks in its S-1 &mdash; The Democratic senator told the AI giant to answer four pages of questions about its IPO filing by Nov. 3

Pornhub Stars Want to Teach You How to Make Dinner

Faced with censorship and anti-porn laws, the adult site is encouraging creators to embrace cooking, gaming, podcasting, and other safe-for-work content.

Volkswagen to take China-developed car technology to global markets

Volkswagen plans to use technology developed in China in cars sold in other markets, starting with South America, Reuters reported from Hefei on Wednesday. Until now, the carmaker kept the technology it built in China for cars sold in China. The plan centres on VW’s Compact Main Platform and its China Electronic Architecture. Both were built [&hellip;] This story continues at The Next Web

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Nitro PDF (2026) review

We’re not there yet, but mainly thanks to PDFs, we’re slowly making our way towards a paperless society. But how do you sign a document without actually touching a physical piece of paper? One solution is to use an online digital service like Nitro. Available for Windows and Mac, there’s also a version of the PDF editor app for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. But how does the latest version measure u…

Best early Black Friday fitness tracker deal: The Garmin vívoactive 5 is over $100 off

SAVE $108.99 : As of Oct. 28, the Garmin v&iacute;voactive 5 is on sale for $191 at Amazon. That's a 36% discount on the list price. Opens in a new window Credit: Garmin Garmin v&iacute;voactive 5 $191 at Amazon $299.99 Save $108.99 Get Deal at Amazon You don't have to wait until Black Friday to score a deal on a Garmin fitness tracker . The Garmin v&iacute;voactive 5 is already discounted by $108…

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The DJI Power 1000 V2 is down to record-low price at Amazon — save almost $300 before Black Friday

SAVE ALMOST $300: As of Oct. 28, the DJI Power 1000 V2 is on sale for $399.98 at Amazon. That's a 43% discount off the list price. Opens in a new window Credit: DJI DJI Power 1000 V2 $399.98 at Amazon $699 Save $299.02 Get Deal at Amazon With winter storms bringing the risk of power cuts, having a backup power source at home could come in handy. The DJI Power 1000 V2 is a high-capacity portable po…

Malaysia seizes $12.1M of AI chips at Kuala Lumpur airport

Malaysian customs officers have seized 30 servers containing advanced AI chips at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), the authorities said on Wednesday. The shipment was worth about RM49.5m ($12.1m), and it was moving through Malaysia without the required permit. Officers found the servers on 15 October in a warehouse in the airport’s free trade zone. [&hellip;] This story continues at The…

The Dyson Airstrait is back on sale at Amazon — and it comes with Dysons Omega Oil for free

SAVE OVER $100: As of Oct. 28, the Dyson Airstrait is on sale for $427.74 at Amazon. That's a 23% discount on the list price. Opens in a new window Credit: Dyson Dyson Airstrait $427.74 at Amazon $554.99 Save $127.25 Get Deal at Amazon If you prefer straight hair to curl or a bouncy blowout, don't worry, Dyson still has a styling tool for you. The Airstrait takes a different approach to styling th…

Malaysia says it seized ~$12.11M worth of AI chips this month, as authorities close in on a syndicate suspected of smuggling through the country's main airport (Rozanna Latiff/Reuters)

Rozanna Latiff / Reuters : Malaysia says it seized ~$12.11M worth of AI chips this month, as authorities close in on a syndicate suspected of smuggling through the country's main airport &mdash; Malaysian customs said on Wednesday that it had seized about 49.5 million ringgit ($12.11 million) worth of advanced artificial intelligence chips &hellip;

Microsoft's October Security Update Fixes 1,400+ Vulnerabilities, One Exploited in the Wild

<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/microsoft-october-2026-patch/en/headerimage/microsoft-october-patch-1793129871505.jpeg"/><p>Microsoft's latest monthly security update addresses 1415 vulnerabilities across multiple products. One vulnerability affecting Windows Shell has been exploited in the wild, while 85 are classified as critical. Affected products include Windows OS, Office, Exchan…

Apple AirPods Max 2 Are $100 Off Ahead of Black Friday

If Apple headphones have been sitting on your wish list, now might be the time to buy ahead of the holiday rush.

Moon phase today: What the Moon will look like on October 28, 2026

We're in the Waning Gibbous phase of the lunar cycle, which means the Moon appears more than half illuminated but is gradually getting smaller as we move towards the Third Quarter Moon. What is today's Moon phase? As of Wednesday, Oct. 28, NASA's Daily Moon Guide tracker tells us the Moon is in the Waning Gibbous phase, with 94% of its surface visible. Tonight, without the use of visual aids you s…

The Pokémon TCG Prismatic Evolutions Elite Trainer Box is below market price on Amazon — save $130 with rare deal

TL;DR: The Pok&eacute;mon TCG Scarlet & Violet Prismatic Evolutions Elite Trainer Box is on sale for $43.85 at Amazon , down from its $177.62 typical price. Opens in a new window Credit: The Pok&eacute;mon Company Pok&eacute;mon TCG Scarlet and Violet Prismatic Evolutions Elite Trainer Box $43.85 at Amazon $177.62 Save $133.77 Get Deal at Amazon In a very rare turn of events for the Pokemon TCG ma…

Macmillan Staff Say the Publisher Threw a Party for a Workplace AI Assistant That Was Later Killed

Workers tell WIRED that NOA—or “No Ordinary Assistant”—was unhelpful. Bestselling authors also say AI is ruining their relationships with Big Five publishers.

McDonald’s x Pokémon TCG: Collab adds plastic toy boxes and 15 cards in November

TL;DR: According to reporting from Pok&eacute;Beach , the upcoming McDonald's x Pokemon TCG collab will feature plastic toys of 15 Pokemon and two random Pok&eacute;mon cards out of a set of 15. We cover a lot of collabs, because there's something special in seeing two of your favorite brands come together to create something fun. And you clearly feel the same, because fans go wild for the limited…

Anthropic and OpenAI might be building the future, but someone else may own it

Wall Street is busy preparing for what could become the three biggest initial public offerings in history. SpaceX has already gone public, and Anthropic and OpenAI are expected to follow suit. Yet even as investors scramble to get in, doubts are growing over whether these frontier AI labs can ever generate enough value to justify their astronomical spending. The sheer scale of it is just staggerin…

Why UK marketers need mobile-grade measurement before AI can deliver on ROI

UK marketers are entering a decisive phase. Digital advertising investment continues to grow, retail media and connected TV are becoming more central to media plans, and artificial intelligence is moving from experimentation into everyday campaign operations. Yet, the basic commercial question has not changed. Can marketers prove that each pound spent is generating measurable value? That question…

Polymarket faces new CFTC probe over US users on offshore platform

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is again looking into whether Polymarket broke a 2022 deal to keep US users off its offshore platform. Reuters reported the news, citing two people familiar with the matter. According to Reuters, the probe is part of a wider CFTC investigation into the prediction market that began earlier this year. TNW [&hellip;] This story continues at The Next…

Lawsuit: the parents of a 31-year-old say OpenAI's GPT-4o guided her through an aggressive tapering plan off epilepsy meds, leading to her death in February (Teddy Rosenbluth/New York Times)

Teddy Rosenbluth / New York Times : Lawsuit: the parents of a 31-year-old say OpenAI's GPT-4o guided her through an aggressive tapering plan off epilepsy meds, leading to her death in February &mdash; The chatbot helped a woman taper off a lifesaving drug and hide the plan from her doctors. &mdash; 1.3k

VAR is ruining soccer. I say ban it

What’s the purpose of a soccer game? It’s the moment a goal is scored. That ecstatic instant when everyone rises in unison to their feet, held by the primal bonds of human passion and connection. That’s the moment athletes play for and the reason fans attend. As described by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly in their book, All Things Shining , “Something so overpowering happens that it wells…

This JBL Bluetooth speaker brings the party wherever you go, and now it’s $80 off

TL;DR : Bring the party wherever you go with this JBL Xtreme 5 Portable Waterproof Speaker , on sale now for just $319.99 (reg. $399.95). Opens in a new window Credit: JBL JBL Xtreme 5 Portable Waterproof Speaker (Open Box) $319.99 $399.95 Save $79.96 Get Deal Looking for a speaker that brings stellar sound, can survive the outdoors, and even keeps your phone powered up? It may sound like a unicor…

Life ingredients probably didnt ride in on a comet, new study shows

When comets hit Earth billions of years ago, they pelted the planet too fast and too steep for them to have delivered fragile organic molecules, according to a new study. Using advances in computer simulations, a University of Cambridge-led team of researchers ran scenarios of comet strikes, comet interactions with an atmosphere, and gravity's influence on comet movements through space to determin…

NY governor signs major chatbot safety bill into law

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law Wednesday a major safety bill that effectively prohibits artificial intelligence chatbots from offering a range of standard features to users under the age of 18. Among the blocked behaviors are pretending to be a real person or feel human emotions; offering "people-pleasing" or flattering responses; and asking unprompted emotional questions or referr…

Willow invented the wearable breast pump. Now it wants to dominate the breastfeeding market

When my first daughter was born in 2015, there weren’t many options when it came to breast pumps. The hospital sent me home with a device made by Medela—the industry leader—involving lots of tubes, funnel-shaped breast shields, and a loud motor that was attached to an electrical outlet. Bonding with other new moms often involved complaining about how awful pumping was. By the time my second daught…

These tiny rat backpacks are designed to help find victims in an earthquake

All too often rats get a bad rap. They can be vectors of disease, and cities like New York invest heavily in fighting them . But maybe it’s just that we’re not seeing their potential. Once trained, backpack-wearing African giant pouched rats can save lives. To assist in disaster recovery like an earthquake or building collapse, the nonprofit APOPO trains rats nicknamed “RescueRATs” to get into spa…

The people in your workplace matter a lot more than where they work

Just before the turn of the millennium, I worked for a global company in a boring six-floor brick building with long corridors and offices behind closed doors. I worked on a team of eight, all located in a corner on the third floor. There were coffee machines everywhere, but for some reason, people came to our corner for their breaks. It wasn’t because we had better coffee; it was because of Marti…

Please Let the Internet Die

Online spaces are captured by oligarchs and saturated with slop—and they’re exacerbating humanity’s worst impulses. It’s time to start over.

Jimmy Kimmel reacts to Trump being heckled at his rally

It's not entirely uncommon for hecklers and protesters to crash Donald Trump's rallies, but it's not often they manage to yell an insult that can be clearly heard throughout the stadium. In the clip above, Jimmy Kimmel plays footage of Trump's flow being interrupted by a man yelling, at top volume, "Shove that ballroom up your fat ass." "Wouldn't it be a shame if people start yelling that everywhe…

S-1: Anthropic had $112.4B in cash and $19.3B in short-term investments on June 30, surpassing every non-bank US company except Berkshire Hathaway and Alphabet (Leslie Picker/CNBC)

Leslie Picker / CNBC : S-1: Anthropic had $112.4B in cash and $19.3B in short-term investments on June 30, surpassing every non-bank US company except Berkshire Hathaway and Alphabet &mdash; Anthropic has more cash than almost every company in America. &mdash; The nearly 6-year-old artificial intelligence lab disclosed &hellip;

Why less data means improved security for businesses

In recent weeks, we have seen eye-watering amounts of personal data exposed by criminal actors, in an attempt to either extort organizations for ransom payments or sell the information for financial gain. In the UK, three major airports suffered data breaches that exposed information relating to nearly nine million people. In the fintech sector, Revolut mistakenly disclosed a wealth of customer da…

The Men Spending $50,000 Just to Reserve a Tesla Roadster

The base model—without thrusters or the flight system—will likely cost several times that amount to buy. “I’m going to do everything in my power to get the flying one,” says one customer.

FIA names AWS its official AI and cloud partner for motor sport

The FIA, which governs motor sport worldwide, has named Amazon Web Services (AWS) its official partner for AI, cloud computing, machine learning and cloud infrastructure. The deal was announced today, and it covers every level of the sport, from club racing up to Formula 1. Under the agreement, AWS will help shape the technical rules [&hellip;] This story continues at The Next Web

Eric Schmidt says China is now just 6 months behind the U.S. in AI

The AI race between the U.S. and China is the defining competition of our age. Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, adviser to the Pentagon, and current CEO of Relativity Space, gives his most unvarnished assessment yet. He reveals that the gap he once estimated at two years has narrowed to six months, and takes on the open-source question that’s keeping Silicon Valley up at night. He also shares t…