In Avatar: Seven Havens , the world of Avatar as we know it has been upended by a devastating cataclysm. However, according to the show's fifth episode, some key relics from Aang and Korra's time still remain. Episode 5, titled "The One Left Behind," sees twin Avatars Pavi (voiced by Saheli Khan) and Nisha (voiced by Aishu Devan) continuing to investigate their mysterious past. Their sleuthing lea…
The company will start off by testing its self-driving vehicles on Toronto's streets.
“Providing a WBS and obtaining a license does not guarantee indefinite or ongoing access to Claude.” Accenture gave its staff that warning in an internal announcement about Claude, Anthropic’s AI model. The consulting firm now pays only $29 a month per person for Claude use, Joseph Cox reported for 404 Media on 15 October. Some […] This story continues at The Next Web
The new Apple TV 4K will be available in November. | Image: The Verge Earlier this week, Apple announced its new Apple TV 4K , which costs nearly twice as much as the 2022 model did at launch. Amazon is now offering the first discount on the forthcoming streaming box (coming out on November 13th), just days after discounting Apple’s new smart display for the first time. Right now, you can preorder…
according to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks.
New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia on Thursday defended her legal background and justified her truncated inaugural briefing as she navigates a rocky first week as the president’s chief spokeswoman. Zacharia sat down for an interview with conservative media. She told the conservative Human Events outlet that she did not have time to get fully prepared ahead of her first briefing on Tues…
Stream European Rugby Champions Cup 2026/27 free on S4C (UK) / France TV (France) Unlock your stream with NordVPN (save up to 75%) EPCR Matchday 1: Fri, Oct 16 – Sun, Oct 18 (fixtures below) Back-to-back champions Bordeaux's European Rugby Champions Cup title defense begins against early Gallagher PREM leaders Gloucester on Friday, in the first of 12 Matchday 1 ties across three days. L'Union have…
Nathan Fielder's documentary about disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has created a constellation of colliding personas that interrogate the very nature of authenticity.
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Spoilers for You Can See Everything below. A lot is dissected in the nearly three-hour runtime of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's new documentary, You Can See Everything , much of it centered on the very Fielderian topics of truth and reality. The question of whether disgraced biotech founder Elizabeth Holmes is lying threads throughout the film, and extends to her X account, which is active…
“Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher.” Epic Games opened its launcher announcement with those lines on 14 October. Epic says the rebuilt app is faster than the old one and has a new look. It is out in Preview for Windows, macOS and, for the […] This story continues at The Next Web
GoDaddy has launched new APIs to support business management and growth The APIs let AI agents manage professional email, hosting, and ecommerce The expanded Developer Platform is now available for free to users across the globe. GoDaddy, the world’s biggest domain registrar , has just released an expansion to its Developer Platform that will let AI agents manage hosting, commerce, and professiona…
Legal experts are sounding alarms that Meta will soon update its commercial terms to require business accounts to allow Meta to train AI on their linked website content, not just their social media posts. Kicking in on October 30, the TOS update won’t allow businesses to opt out, instead suggesting that businesses stop using Meta services if they won’t agree to let Meta bots freely crawl their lin…
It's been a couple of days since Apple's big smart home announcement, and we have some more information - and a bunch of new questions - about the Apple HomeView. The device has plenty of computing oomph, is always connected to power, and looks like a perfect place to run a bunch of apps. And yet the HomeView is relying almost entirely on CarPlay . What gives here? On this episode of The Vergecast…
“Now we’re creating alien beings … And the reality is, we only have a couple of years to adapt to that.” Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate often called a “godfather” of AI, said this to the Guardian. The interview ran on 13 October. Leyland Cecco interviewed him in Toronto. Hinton also answered Nvidia chief Jensen […] This story continues at The Next Web
Below, Ben Meer shares five key insights from his new book, How to Be Good at Life: Simple Systems to Achieve More and Stress Less . Ben is the creator of System Sunday , a weekly newsletter on productivity and life design read by more than 250,000 people. He is an executive coach to founders and CEOs, and previously worked as a management consultant at Ernst & Young. What’s the Big Idea? We tend…
The data comes from Vercel's AI gateway, a unified API service similar to OpenRouter.
Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/zod-schema-compliation/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1792163115814.jpg"/><p>Zod is a TypeScript-focused schema validation library that recently released versions 4.5 and 4.6. Key updates include schema compilation for faster data parsing, significant memory usage reductions, and new validation features. The library supports efficient validation pr…
SAVE $50: As of Oct. 16, get the Hisense VoyageBoom Bluetooth speaker for $249.97. That saves you $50.02 off its $299.99 list price. Opens in a new window Credit: Hisense Hisense VoyageBoom Portable Bluetooth Speaker $249.97 at Amazon $299.99 Save $50.02 Get Deal at Amazon If you're prepping for spooky season, getting your Skelly assembled and lawn decorated with cobwebs and ghosts, don't let the…
PREORDER NOW: The new Apple TV 4K (4th Gen) is available for preorder on Amazon for $289.99. That's $10 less than Apple. Opens in a new window Credit: Apple Apple TV 4K (4th Gen) $289.99 at Amazon $299 Save $9.01 Get Deal at Amazon If you're looking to upgrade an aging streaming setup or you're already too deep in the Apple ecosystem to turn back, preorders for the next-gen Apple TV are officially…
Analogue announced new versions of its Super Nt and Mega Sg retro consoles today with a "reworked industrial design" and built-in wireless connectivity for controllers and accessories. Like the original versions, the new Super Nt Plus and Mega Sg Plus are able to play Nintendo and Sega Genesis cartridges using an FPGA processor that perfectly recreates the functionality of Nintendo and Sega's 16-b…
Apple's AirTag has a speaker on it that plays a sound when the device is away from its owner. A company called Elevation Lab tried to subvert that, but quickly learned that maybe that isn't a great idea. Apple learned the same lesson the hard way after launching the original AirTag, which stalkers quickly realized could be used to track their victims. According to MacRumors , Elevation Lab sent ou…
Lilly Singh is going back to her YouTube roots. And honestly, it's about time. The comedian and former late-night host, who rose to internet fame in the 2010s as Superwoman, officially returned to YouTube on Thursday, Oct. 15, with her first sketch comedy video in nearly five years. Titled " My First Day Back at YouTube ," the video marks the beginning of a new chapter for one of the platform's or…
After a Chrome clone was spotted on the Play Store earlier this week, a user on Reddit says they're seeing a fake version of WhatsApp in a "sponsored" slot above the real version . As reported earlier by Android Authority , the WhatsApp dupe has racked up over 500,000 downloads and, at the time of writing, its Play Store listing is still live . Google did not immediately respond to a request for c…
Date: Friday, December 11 Global stream: Netflix (no PPV) Tickets: Seat Unique Use NordVPN to watch from anywhere Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua is quite simply the biggest fight in British boxing history. A scrap 16 years in the making since a hotly dispute spar in a London gym in 2010, the contest sold out in under an hour and will break worldwide viewing figures, too. It's unmissable. Sure, we wo…
Phishing campaigns are abusing calendar invites and meeting requests to steal Microsoft 365 credentials Attackers hide malicious links in .ics files, fake meeting details, QR codes, and invite pages Researchers observed hundreds of thousands of phishing emails targeting over 40,000 organizations If you get a calendar invite in your inbox be wary - it might be a carefully created phishing lure, des…
MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots.
Nvidia’s new SoC is available in Windows laptops from six different manufacturers. We’ve collectively tested four of them so far. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X processor is finally here, and we've been collectively testing a small fortune's worth of powerful laptops sporting this new "superchip." RTX Spark is designed to be a high-performing Arm-based SoC for…
Charles Schwab is blocking unauthorised AI agents, including Meta’s Muse, that try to move client money, CEO Rick Wurster told Bloomberg Television. Schwab will instead let outside AI tools view balances through controlled MCP servers, and wants clients to use its own assistant, Charley. JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon took a similar line this week. Charles Schwab […] This story continues at The Nex…
John Harney / Bloomberg : In its first meeting, Trump's Super Intelligence Force says it plans to commission a report on AI risks and develop protocols for labs to provide early warnings — President Donald Trump's artificial intelligence task force in its first meeting agreed on Thursday to address risks related to cybersecurity …
October has brought another wave of layoffs across the tech industry. HubSpot, Netflix, Flock, Airtable, and Amazon have all announced cuts in recent days, affecting thousands of employees. The reasons seem to vary, from AI -focused restructuring and post-acquisition overhauls to coping with public backlash and pandemic-era overhiring. But the overall pattern is still the same: tech companies are…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/uber-automated-dependency/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1791060253143.jpg"/><p>Uber has developed an automated dependency analysis system that uses RPC middleware and production metrics to correlate caller and downstream failures. The approach classifies dependencies as fail-close, fail-open, or unknown and addresses limitations of sampled distrib…
Meta released a new version of its Muse Spark LLM on Thursday. As its name indicates, the big news about Muse Spark Open is that it’s an open-weight model . Rather than being offered solely as a cloud service, it’s publicly available for anyone to run on their own hardware. With 816 billion total parameters and a 1-million-token context window, it’s the U.S.’s most capable open-weight model, accor…
SAVE $20: As of Oct. 16, get the Roborock Saros 20 robot vacuum for $1,499.99 at Amazon. That makes the combo robot vacuum and mop 12% off for the first time ever. Opens in a new window Credit: Roborock Roborock Saros 20 Robot Vacuum and Mop $1,499.99 at Amazon $1,699.99 Save $200 Get Deal at Amazon I would personally like one less thing on my to-do list. With three pets at home, the amount of vac…
Private Internet Access (PIA) has released the v3.8.0 update for its eponymous VPN, which the company says could boost Windows connection speeds by more than 200 per cent. The update makes WireGuard the default protocol on all platforms, replacing OpenVPN, and updates Windows clients to use the WireGuard-NT 1.1 kernel driver. In the patch notes, PIA says this driver can boost ‘WireGuard speeds by…
Google announced new Android scam defences on 14 October, led by an opt-in Enhanced protection mode in Google Messages that uses Gemini models in the cloud. Android will also end fake bank calls, hide login fields in Chrome during screen sharing, and block apps from silently forwarding calls. Google is adding new AI tools to […] This story continues at The Next Web
TL;DR: As of Oct. 16, you can get the 65-inch Toshiba G700 Series ArtVision 4K UHD Smart Fire TV for just $997.99 at Amazon. That's a 23% discount or $300 in savings. Toshiba 65-inch G700 Series ArtVision 4K UHD Smart Fire TV $997.99 at Amazon $1,297.99 Save $300 Get Deal at Amazon OK, so I'm just going to say it: I don't like TVs . I mean, I'll watch Bob's Burgers and Friends reruns until I die,…
Actor and angel investor Mark Wahlberg says he's OK with using AI in filmmaking, provided it's used "to enhance what you're doing."