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TechRadar8d ago

How to watch Friends Sex and Games online – stream the German romantic drama from anywhere with a free trial

Stream Friends Sex and Games on Prime (free trial) Watch Prime from anywhere with NordVPN (75% off) All 8 episodes drop Friday, October 16 The premise for this romantic dramedy is simple: two friends reunite after years apart and decide to hang out at a party along with their significant others. However, things descend into sexual chaos when the group play a game involving keys in a bowl. You migh…

TechCrunch8d ago

Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs

Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.

Mashable8d ago

JPMorgan Chase blocks outside AI agents, limiting what Muse can do for users

Meta wants Muse to take errands off your hands. But if your to-do list involves your Chase account , you’re still doing the banking yourself. JPMorgan Chase is blocking outside AI agents, including services like Meta's Muse and Instinct, from directly accessing retail customers' accounts and acting on their behalf, CNBC reported . Coming weeks after Amazon blocked Muse from shopping on its s…

Fast Company8d ago

A timeline of New York City trying to ban horse carriages in Central Park

The iconic but controversial horse-drawn carriages in New York City might finally halt as Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin reached a deal Tuesday to outlaw them. If enacted, the proposed bill would ban rides for hire starting June 1, 2028. Other mayors have contributed to this effort, but none facilitated a full ban. Mamdani could be the first to achieve the full…

TechmemeTrade8d ago

Perplexity open sources SPACE, its AI agent sandbox, and says partners including CoreWeave, Akamai, and Crusoe agreed to offer SPACE to customers (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

Reed Albergotti / Semafor : Perplexity open sources SPACE, its AI agent sandbox, and says partners including CoreWeave, Akamai, and Crusoe agreed to offer SPACE to customers — THE SCOOP — Perplexity is giving away the software it has been using to combat rogue AI agents, the company told Semafor Thursday.

Fast Company8d ago

We can’t keep guessing whether AI helps students learn

On September 2, as students returned to class, New York City implemented a one-year pause on generative AI use for nearly 600,000 students across pre-K, elementary, and middle school. Los Angeles soon followed, blocking it for every student on a district-issued device. Together, the country’s two largest school systems came to the same conclusion: Better to wait a year than to keep putting unteste…

The Verge8d ago

Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social

Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt , Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said to think of Attie as "social vibe coding or vibe coding for your community." You can…

TechCrunch8d ago

Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps

Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.

The Verge8d ago

Withings now charges $100 per year to sync your data to other apps

If you're a new user of Withings' fitness-tracking smartwatches or smart scales and want to sync and access your health data through third party apps like Apple Health or Google Health it's now going to cost you. According to a discussion on Withings' support forums spotted by MacRumors , new Withings accounts created from October 13th, 2026, and onwards will require a Withings Plus subscription t…

Fast Company8d ago

Dementia cases are expected to more than double by 2050. A new study reveals who’s most at risk

More and more of our loved ones could develop dementia , as the number of diagnoses is projected to more than double by 2050, according to new research. In the absence of large-scale prevention efforts, the number of people who are diagnosed with dementia each year could total 24.7 million by 2050, up from 11.4 million in 2023, according to a study by Australian researchers published in JAMA Psych…

Fast Company8d ago

Social Security 2027: VA disability payments to increase alongside COLA. Here’s how much the adjustment amounts to

Some good news for military veterans who collect disability and retirement benefits each month: Effective December 1, military retirement checks and Department of Veterans Affairs disability benefits will increase 3.6%. (However, veterans will most likely not see the increase until December 31 or early January 2027, according to Stars and Stripes. ) The increase is tied to the Social Security Admi…

TechCrunch8d ago

Bluesky wants to make it easier to buy, sell, and fundraise on the network

The executives argued that advertising isn’t the only path to monetization, and that there are alternative models that are feasible when it comes to monetization.

Engadget8d ago

FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic following safety failures

The FTC is investigating possible consumer harms at two major AI companies. The FTC is investigating possible consumer harms at two major AI companies.

Fast Company8d ago

Government has perfected awarding grants

The federal government sent $1.26 trillion to state and local governments in FY2022, primarily through grants. States distributed $662 billion to local governments, while nonprofits received $294 billion in government grants that year. Grantmaking is essential to turning public policy into local action. Today, state agencies use grants to equip organizations to do everything from improving rural h…

TechmemeTrade8d ago

Sources: top DOJ officials halt career prosecutors' Biden-era investigation of Meta over facilitating illegal drug sales and are weighing more lenient options (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)

Ben Penn / Bloomberg Law : Sources: top DOJ officials halt career prosecutors' Biden-era investigation of Meta over facilitating illegal drug sales and are weighing more lenient options — Top Justice Department officials have sidelined career prosecutors' long-running grand jury investigation of Meta Platforms …

TechCrunch8d ago

Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access

METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.

AnthropicLive

Ars Technica8d ago

What did the Liberty Bell sound like? Science is on the case.

The Liberty Bell , with its famous crack, hasn't been rung in 180 years, but that hasn't stopped scientists from pondering what the bell might have sounded like when tolling. In honor of the nation's 250th anniversary, researchers at Penn State University have modeled its acoustic properties, drawing on data collected from one of the bell's replicas. The work was first presented at a meeting of th…

Mashable8d ago

AI job interviews are here, and people are already trying to break them

Job interviews are already awkward enough when there's another human being on the other side of the conversation. Now, companies are increasingly turning to AI recruiters , and job seekers aren't exactly embracing their new robot interviewers. Some are walking away. Others are deliberately confusing the bots with nonsense answers. And a few have decided that if employers can automate their side of…

HackerRankLive

TechRadar8d ago

Experts uncover bizarre new malware that spooks users with jump scares and screams

KGB RAT is a malware-as-a-service platform offering remote access, credential theft, and crypto hijacking features The malware includes unusual psychological tactics such as fake BSODs, jump scares, and screamer functions Researchers found multiple operators using the tool, which is marketed as legitimate software despite its criminal capabilities Halloween is just around the corner, and cybercrim…

Wired8d ago

Upgrade Your Thermostat for Winter With This Ecobee Deal for $120

You don’t need the fanciest model to make your heating routine smarter. A refurbished Ecobee we love is just $120 through October 21.

TechRadar8d ago

Apple iPhone Duo pre-orders start tomorrow — here are 4 things you should do to get ready right now

In case you don't know, Apple iPhone Duo preorders are set to start tomorrow at 8:00 a.m EST / 12:00 p.m GMT. There isn't much time left until you can potentially lay down some cash (some serious cash) on Apple's first-ever foldable device. If you're already getting ready to place your order, then note that there are a few little tips and tricks you might want to know ahead of go-time. In some cas…

Mashable8d ago

18 very specific things I want to see in the Girls revival series

When Girls premiered in 2012, I was a twentysomething living in New York City, fresh out of college and making my own questionable decisions. So were Hannah (series creator and co-writer Lena Dunham), Marnie (Allison Williams), Jessa (Jemima Kirke), and Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet). I spent six seasons watching them make terrible choices, occasionally recognizing myself in their worst impulses, and eve…

TechCrunch8d ago

Bluesky expands its AI-powered Attie app to let anyone build websites, games, and more

Bluesky is bringing “social vibe coding” to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network's audience.

Ars Technica8d ago

Black Sea drone attacks enter NATO country's territorial waters for first time

Russian drones are suspected of sinking a cargo ship and leaving chemical tankers ablaze near the Black Sea coasts of Bulgaria and Romania, respectively. The latest attacks mean that at least seven ships have been attacked in the exclusive economic zones of NATO member countries—and even within Romania's territorial waters if Russian involvement is confirmed in the case of the chemical tankers. Su…

Fast Company8d ago

Americans are warming to a healthcare idea that once seemed politically impossible

Americans have hit a breaking point with health insurance. Saddled with growing medical bills and totally reliant on stable jobs to stay healthy, the majority of Americans now say they would prefer a government plan that offers health insurance to everyone. Two-thirds of U.S. adults now support a national healthcare plan or “Medicare for All,” according to recent polling from health policy researc…

Fast Company8d ago

Your AI tools should be working together better

No one buys a dishwasher on Tuesday, then wakes up Wednesday thinking: “ You know what I could really use? Another dishwasher.” But that’s essentially how many e-commerce systems still operate. A shopper may spend weeks researching dishwashers—visiting a retailer’s website, using the mobile app, and eventually going to their local store to narrow down the options in-person—before making the big pu…

TechmemeTrade8d ago

Google says it has 400+ publications in its News AI pilot, which tests features like overviews; participants include Financial Times, CNN, and The Texas Tribune (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab : Google says it has 400+ publications in its News AI pilot, which tests features like overviews; participants include Financial Times, CNN, and The Texas Tribune — In December, Google launched its News AI pilot program, which licenses content from select publishers and uses it to test new AI features in Google News.

TRM LabsLive

Fast Company8d ago

What happens when your employees’ AI agents start coming to work? (Spolier: It’s bad)

Personal AI agents are having a moment. Meta recently launched a personal agent it named Muse , and saw an estimated 2.8 million installs in its first 12 days , outpacing ChatGPT’s own mobile debut. Meanwhile, Instinct, a startup building a personal agent you can text or call, just raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation . SpaceXAI launched its Grok Bot agent in August, and most recently, on…

Engadget8d ago

E Ink's new Kaleido 4 could inch us closer to the perfect color e-reader

E Ink's new display tech offers improved color reproduction and refresh rates. E Ink's new display tech offers improved color reproduction and refresh rates.

Ars Technica8d ago

Microplastics in water aren’t inert and make damaging chemicals on their own

One reason plastics are used so often is that they’re chemically inert, meaning bags, food containers, and cups don't react with what we put in them. Yet they can still break down into microplastics, which turn up in drinking water, human blood, arteries, and brains. The consequences of that are uncertain. “Whether microplastics can directly cause human disease is still being researched,” said Wei…

Mashable8d ago

Yandex outage: Cloudflare confirms what really happened with Russian bots

Ukrainian drones struck data centers belonging to Russian tech giant Yandex over the past week. Following the strikes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that there was a sudden drop in Russian bot activity and political disinformation campaigns on platforms like X. Social media users took the story — Ukraine had taken out a massive Russian bot operation — and ran with it.…

CloudflareLive

Engadget8d ago

Riot will sunset League of Legends Classic in January 2027

The throwback League of Legends Classic mode may reappear as a limited-time event in the future. The throwback League of Legends Classic mode may reappear as a limited-time event in the future.

Fast Company8d ago

Job seekers are using ‘résumé Botox’ to seem younger. They say it helped them land interviews

Where cosmetic Botox softens wrinkles, so-called “résumé Botox” does the same for job seekers’ applications, making them appear younger to prospective employers. That might mean removing or editing graduation years, early jobs, senior titles, and profile photos, all in the service of obscuring an applicant’s real age. The practice is more common than you might think. A new survey suggests that nea…

TechRadar8d ago

15 spooky but cute IKEA finds I'd use to give my home a creepy Halloween makeover

Halloween is fast approaching, and my home is — embarrassingly — still very much in Summer Mode. That's all about to change, though, because I've just discovered IKEA's 2026 Halloween range. It's packed with spooky-but-cute ornaments, tableware, and soft furnishings at the kind of affordable prices you'd expect from the Swedish homeware titan. I've combed through the whole range to pick out the 15…

Engadget8d ago

Alexa Tablet 12 Pro review: Amazon's premium tablet gets almost everything right

This tablet is a great value, even if Android apps still aren't great on a big screen. This tablet is a great value, even if Android apps still aren't great on a big screen.

Mashable8d ago

Gen Alpha has turned the French fries emoji into an insult

If you've noticed people dropping the fries emoji in TikTok comments lately, they're probably not hungry. The French fries emoji (🍟), sometimes accompanied by a peace sign (✌️), has become a way for Gen Alpha to tell someone they're being corny, embarrassing, or simply talking too much. Think of it as the emoji equivalent of telling someone to wrap it up . And like so much of Gen Alpha's internet…

Fast Company8d ago

Healthcare has a churn problem

I was diagnosed with anorexia at 10 years old. Over the next several years, my family and I navigated a healthcare system that was mostly focused on how many days I stayed in a hospital bed instead of whether I was getting better. I spent my entire freshman year of high school in and out of facilities, counting down 45-minute therapy slots while fighting a brain disorder that forces you to battle…

TechRadar8d ago

Tech giants warn Europe ditching their cloud services could cost billions — but then they would say that

CCIA report says European Commission's cost estimates are way off the mark Pro-European restrictions could add to operating costs, migration complexity and more Importantly, these figures come from a group that represents Amazon, Google and other US Big Tech Europe's efforts to tackle foreign tech vendor reliance could cost €115 billion over the next decade, a new report by the European Center for…

Ars Technica8d ago

Trump cancels Pentagon plans to livestream firing squad execution

On Thursday, Donald Trump called off the Pentagon’s highly controversial plans to livestream a firing squad execution that is still on schedule for December 3. Trump supports the execution of Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others in the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood. But sources close to Trump told CNN that the president was blindsided last week whe…

The Verge8d ago

Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macs

The new Muse Spark Open AI model can work on M5 Ultra Mac Studios. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today , claiming that it's the "most capable US open-weight model to date." But the company also says that it's the "the first model in its class" that can "run on your desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework."…

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