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SAVE $600.99: As of Sep. 2, get the Ecovacs Goat A2000 LiDAR Pro robot lawn mower for $1,399 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $1,999.99. That's a discount of 30%. Opens in a new window Credit: Amazon Ecovacs Goat A2000 LiDAR Pro Robot Lawn Mower $1,399 at Amazon $1,999.99 Save $600.99 Get Deal Fall may be here, but that isn't stopping high temperatures from putting a damper on our outdoor f…
Did you suddenly get locked out of your Samsung account without an explanation? Don't worry. You're not the only one. According to user reports across social media and official support forums , some Samsung smartphone users have found that their Samsung accounts have been randomly deactivated , locking them out of some central features on their devices. Reddit "Can't sign in," the prompt reads whe…
Microsoft is switching off text predictions by default in Word and Outlook after acknowledging that unwanted suggestions can interrupt rather than assist some users. The change is coming to Word for Windows, the web, iOS, and Android, as well as classic Outlook for Windows and Outlook for Mac. The feature will remain available but will no longer be enabled by default. Introduced several years ago,…
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory may now be beyond rescue, but the team behind the spacecraft has reactivated its instruments to eke out a final few months of science data before it reenters Earth's atmosphere. The Ultraviolet/Optical and X-ray telescopes were reactivated last week, and the team hopes to return the Burst Alert Telescope to data collection during September. The former two tele…
While the internet is salivating in wait for Apple's big iPhone 18 launch event later this month, one prominent Apple reporter just gave us some hard info about the rumored iPhone Ultra . In a video interview published on the Tom's Guide YouTube channel, Bloomberg reporter and Apple prognosticator Mark Gurman shared some of what he's heard about the foldable iPhone Ultra. Apple has not yet officia…
Mozilla's Firefox 155 and subsidiary MZLA's Thunderbird 155 have arrived. Yes, already. Firefox officially debuted yesterday, although The Reg FOSS desk wasn't offered the upgrade until early evening. Thunderbird followed several hours later. If this seems soon after the previous releases, that's because it is. Mozilla announced Firefox's new fortnightly cadence in July, and MZLA subsequently conf…
TL;DR : MoMA and Baggu launched a 13-piece collection featuring works by Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Ruth Asawa, Piet Mondrian, and Alma Woodsey Thomas across bags and accessories. Prices start at $18, and the collection is available through Oct. 25. Baggu and MoMA just teamed up on a new collection that puts some very recognizable works of art on some of Baggu’s most popular bags and ac…
The first Japanese citizen to launch into space, Toyohiro Akiyama was also the first commercially sponsored cosmonaut and the world's first journalist to file reports while on a spaceflight. Akiyama, 84, died last Wednesday , August 26, of lower gastrointestinal bleeding, news agencies in Japan reported. A funeral was held with his close relatives in attendance. As a correspondent for the Tokyo Br…
Florence Pugh steps into the shoes of one of literature's great villains in East of Eden , an upcoming limited series from Netflix . SEE ALSO: 2026 fall TV preview: Every show you should know about Based on John Steinbeck's magnum opus, East of Eden is written and executive produced by Zoe Kazan ( Ruby Sparks , The Big Sick ). Notably, her grandfather Elia Kazan directed the 1955 East of Eden movi…
SAVE UP TO $150: As of Sep. 1, save up to $150 on Alienware gaming monitors at Amazon. Get the Alienware 34 Curved Gaming Monitor for $289.99, down from its usual price of $349.99, which is 17% off. Alternatively, choose the Alienware 34 240Hz QD-OLED Curved Gaming Monitor for $649.99, down from its usual price of $799.99. That's a discount of 19%. Opens in a new window Credit: Amazon Alienware 34…
Dropbox has warned around 5,000 users that attackers compromised their accounts by abusing a legacy Lenovo login integration. In an email sent to affected customers, the cloud storage biz said attackers exploited an integration that allowed users to access Dropbox using Lenovo IDs. Dropbox blamed "an issue with Lenovo's email verification process," which allowed attackers to register Lenovo IDs us…
President Trump's order renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America" isn't floating with Americans, with a majority opposing the name change and his new tariffs on Washington's northern neighbor, per recent polling. The big picture: After trade talks between the longtime allies collapsed last month and triggered steep new tariffs, the Trump administration has escalated its feud with Canada. With the mi…
Every company cuts the same corner on renewals. You go top down. Your biggest accounts get a real custom deck with their actual results in it. Everyone else gets a templated follow-up email. Not because you don’t care about them. Because nobody has a week to build 25 custom decks, and the week you’d spend has to come out of new business. Amelia built a renewal agent on top of 10K, our AI VP of Rev…
As companies scale, the technology supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset. Disconnected systems, site-specific tools, spreadsheets, and manual workarounds can create data silos that make it harder to spot problems early, coordinate responses, and make decisions with confidence. For Jabil, a global manufacturing company with more than 100 sites across mo…
Jeremiah Brown didn't leave Love Island USA with a master plan to become a full-time creator . In fact, before entering the villa, his social media presence was relatively sparse: a few book reviews, some funny videos, and an Instagram account that functioned mostly as a modeling portfolio. But when Brown returned to the real world, he quickly realized just how many people were paying attention. R…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/09/swiggy-pltv-multitask-mlp/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1787507980584.jpg"/><p>Swiggy developed an in-house predicted lifetime value model using more than 350 pre order features and a multi task MLP for Food and Instamart. Adding order count as an auxiliary task reduced model parameters by 63% while improving predictive performance. The pLTV signa…
Data: Death Penalty Information Center ; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals Florida executed its 14th prisoner for the year on Tuesday, adding to a post-COVID surge in capital punishment that drove more executions last year than any since 2009. The big picture: Even as fewer courts sentence defendants to death and more than half of the states have banned or at least temporarily halted the practice, t…
Good news if you want to keep your NAS boxes on FreeBSD – two new contenders just stepped up, with updated forks of the cancelled TrueNAS Core. FreeBSD has a strong reputation as a stable server OS, and integrates highly reliable ZFS filesystem right into its kernel. The snag is that Linux is rather more widespread, meaning more people know their way around a Linux box – but Linux knowledge doesn’…
TL;DR: Live stream the 2026 US Open for free on 9Now . Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN . There was absolutely nothing wrong with the French Open or Wimbledon , but you could feel the absence of Carlos Alcaraz. We missed his all-action style, his passion, and his rivalry with top seeds. Fans will be desperately hoping he's back to defend his US Open ti…
UK Parliament's science and technology committee has asked the government to explain how it will avoid conflicts of interest after Anthropic recruited Matt Clifford, chair of blue-sky research agency ARIA. Clifford said he was joining the US AI poster child as managing director of international affairs, "leading the company's work with governments outside North America." He was commissioned to wri…
This week, the US Army used a high-energy multipurpose laser to shoot down three drones near the US-Mexico border, which official reports claimed were “posing a physical threat to US military personnel and CBP partners,” referring to Customs and Border Patrol. The operation took place between the night of August 25 and the early morning of August 26 in the vicinity of the Rio Grande Valley in Texa…
If you thought 72 GPUs per rack was dense, next-generation designs from Nvidia and others will cram hundreds or even thousands of accelerators into a single massive system. But for any of that to happen, they're going to need a lot of optics and technology that's reminiscent of the old-fashioned telephone switchboard. This reality has fueled a flurry of investment in everything from photonics star…
Laifen's new beauty tech lineup: Laifen AutoCurl Curling Iron $84.99 at Laifen (save $15) Shop Now Laifen Swift 4 High-Speed Hair Dryer $199.99 at Laifen Shop Now Laifen has expanded its beauty lineup with three new products: the Swift 4 High-Speed Hair Dryer , AutoCurl Curling Iron , and Glowy Vanity Mirror . The new launches cover different parts of the beauty routine, from drying and caring for…
TL;DR: The Magic: The Gathering Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Bundle is on sale for $49.99 at Amazon , down from its $69.99 list price. Opens in a new window Credit: Magic: The Gathering Magic: The Gathering Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Bundle $49.99 at Amazon $69.99 Save $20.00 Get Deal Magic: The Gathering’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover has already seen several worthwhile discount…
Not keen on the new Outlook? You're not alone. Microsoft's August security update has stopped it and Teams from launching reliably on some Arm-based devices, including Surface hardware. Microsoft acknowledged the problem on September 1 and added it to the Windows release health dashboard. "After installing Windows security updates released on or after August 11, 2026 (KB5121003), Microsoft Teams a…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/09/openai-gpt-live/en/headerimage/OpenAI-gpt-live-system-architecture-header-1788176199388.jpeg"/><p>OpenAI recently published an engineering account of GPT-Live. It described how they designed the system to maintain continuous voice interaction while separating latency-sensitive media processing from broader application work. The live path contains the me…
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 models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better? Puzzles and games have always been central to AI development. The term “machine learning” was popularized in a 1959 article about an algorithm that learned to play checkers. Chess and Go are famo…
I’m running about 30 active agents at any given moment, and in this episode I break down my full Grok Bot setup: what it is, how it compares to OpenClaw, and the nine bots I’ve built for work and my personal life. We go deep on Chief (my chief-of-staff bot sweeping six inboxes and multiple Slack workspaces), TradBot (the family agent that prints a kitchen-table newspaper for my kids), two engineer…
Visiting a second bar on the same night can often be a dangerous move. When Dave Bradley did it, he ended up having to move a datacenter, on a two-week deadline, without extra budget. Bradley is a senior cloud engineer at healthcare services company Vizient and visited a bar while winding down after an off-site company meeting. After enjoying a decent stint of merriment with colleagues from the co…
SAVE $100: As of Sept. 2, the iPad Air 13-inch (M4, 256GB, WiFi) is on sale for $949 at Amazon. That's $100 off its full price of $1,049. Opens in a new window Credit: Apple Apple iPad Air 13-inch M4 $949 at Amazon $1,049 Save $100 Get Deal Before Black Friday begins, Labor Day sales are a great opportunity to shop around for discounts, including on Apple devices . Considering the recent price hik…
Mobile coverage on parts of London's Underground now rivals the streets above for 5G availability and signal strength, according to analysis by network intelligence biz Ookla. Cellular support has been rolling out across the Tube since Mayor Sadiq Khan promised in 2021 to connect all stations and tunnels by the end of 2024. That deadline was missed. About 60 percent of below-ground stations now ha…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/context-engineering-redis-llm-architecture/en/mediumimage/ricardo-ferreira-medium-1787820318843.jpg"/><p>Ricardo Ferreira discusses moving beyond simple prompt engineering to build production-grade AI applications. He shares practical architectural strategies for integrating long-term and short-term memory using Redis, managing LLM token limits via sum…
TL;DR: The Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Ascended Heroes Elite Trainer Box is on sale for $183.41 at Amazon , down from its $192.48 list price. Opens in a new window Credit: The Pokémon Company Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Ascended Heroes Elite Trainer Box $183.41 at Amazon $192.48 Save $9.07 Shop Now Ascended Heroes ETB pricing has stayed stubbornly high throughout much of 2026, b…
The British government has opened the first competitions under a £100 million procurement scheme intended to give domestic AI startups a route into public sector contracts. Chancellor John Healey announced the initiative at a G20 finance ministers meeting in North Carolina. It invites companies to develop technology addressing challenges including NHS productivity, national security, cyber resilie…
SAVE $200: As of Sept. 2, the Sonos Arc Ultra soundbar is on sale for $899 in Amazon's Labor Day sale. Compared to its full price of $1,099, you're saving $200. Opens in a new window Credit: Sonos Sonos Arc Ultra Soundbar $899 at Amazon $1,099 Save $200 Get Deal Amazon's Labor Day sale is full of great finds for those looking to shop some deals ahead of Black Friday . If you've been on the hunt fo…
TL;DR: Panini is launching its first Sonic the Hedgehog trading card collection, featuring classic and modern versions of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, and Dr. Eggman, plus rare Color Blast, Kaboom!, Tie-Dye Prizms, and 1-of-1 Black Prizms. Sonic the Hedgehog is getting the trading card treatment for the first time, thanks to Panini America . The new collection brings together characters from acros…
Lanterns co-stars Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler have something of a prickly on-screen relationship, so it's only right that they carry some of that over into the Hot Ones Versus episode above. Their challenge? Either answer a difficult question, or eat a spicy wing. Cue 20 minutes of tears, laughter, an amusing drawing round, and a friendship test that they both fail terribly. "Lanterns" stars Aa…
Incest porn is now banned in the UK, and it's already filtering adult expression online. Porn filmmaker and performer, Vex Ashley, removed her films Maman and Maman II from the internet after the law came into effect in April. Now, the films are back online — only significantly edited. The 'Mommy' film banned in the UK These two films delve into the "Mommy" kink , which is less mainstream th…