Windows 11 has a new preview (optional) update This introduces the ability to fully tailor the right-click (context) menu to your liking, as well as speeding up its performance That's great, but you're best off steering clear of a preview update and waiting for the full release in under two weeks – but even then, this feature will be on a gradual rollout Windows 11 now has one of the most-wanted i…
Lauren McCarthy / New York Times : Kalshi raised $1B led by Sequoia and Wellington Management at a $40B valuation, up from a $22B valuation after raising $1B in May, its last raise before an IPO — The prediction market raised $1 billion in a new funding round and landed a market value almost double that of rival Polymarket.
Riders of Tesla’s Robotaxi service in Houston are reporting long detours and pickup points the app will not accept, Business Insider reported on Wednesday. The problems come days after Tesla greatly expanded the area the service covers. Tesla announced the larger service area on Monday with a post reading “Houston, we have liftoff.” The new zone, […] This story continues at The Next Web
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/AI-environmentally-sustainable/en/headerimage/header-1793174464846.jpg"/><p>IT is responsible for about 2 - 4% of all global emissions, and electricity use at Microsoft and Google has climbed because of AI, according to their own reports. Sustainability ought to be a top-level architectural concern. Some recommendations are: use pre-built and smaller mo…
I bought a new MacBook this year, and I did something unusual for me: I downgraded. I've been using MacBook Pro laptops for a decade, but when the time came to replace my 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 Max chip, I opted for the 15-inch MacBook Air with the M4 chip. Realistically, I don't require the kind of power that the Pro offers, at least not in a laptop. But the main reason for going with th…
Anuja Bharat Mistry / Reuters : DoorDash agrees to acquire Instacart in a ~$17B deal, paying $65 per share, a 26% premium to its October 22 close, as the platform delivery market consolidates — DoorDash (DASH.O) said on Thursday it would buy Instacart (CART.O) in a deal valued at about $17 billion, stepping up its push …
Last week, we highlighted the excellent Seagate Expansion drive dropping to $460, but while I was running a price check ahead of Black Friday, I noticed the 16TB Expansion Desktop HDD now down to $400 (was $550) at Newegg . If you're looking for extra storage for archiving files and media libraries, I don't think you can go far wrong with this desktop hard drive. Seagate has consistently impressed…
Technology innovation should always be driven by one core objective – to improve people’s lives. Unleashing human imagination in new and exciting ways, whether that’s solving complex problems or making everyday life easier. We’re at a fascinating moment in time, where smartphones have become the de facto platform, but in terms of innovation they have reached a bit of a plateau. New smartphones hav…
Reuters : Sources: the Pentagon is treating the late August freezer malfunctions across 6+ military bases as a suspected cyberattack and is working with French police — The Pentagon is treating the spate of mysterious freezer malfunctions that spoiled food at military bases across the United States …
Ashutosh Joshi / Bloomberg : Jio Platforms adds $36B in market value in two trading sessions, hitting a $144B market cap, up from its ~$108B IPO valuation, after India's biggest-ever IPO — Jio Platforms Ltd. has added almost $36 billion in market value in two trading sessions, extending its blistering run …
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The Pentagon is investigating whether hackers caused freezers to fail at shops on US military bases in August, after a similar attack hit hundreds of supermarkets in France this month. Four officials told Reuters on Thursday that investigators are treating the US incidents as a suspected cyberattack. One official said they had also spoken to […] This story continues at The Next Web
A few months after SaaStr AI Annual 2026, someone asked on LinkedIn how many leads sponsors got from the event. Steve Burton, CMO of Aurasell, answered in one line: “Don’t count leads, but we booked 85 meetings on the calendar.” That’s the right way to measure an event. A badge scan is a maybe. A customer meeting on the calendar with a buyer who chose to spend 30 minutes with you is pipeline you c…
For nearly a quarter of a century, Elon Musk and his essential partner at SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell, viewed the United States government as El Dorado, the mythical city of gold. Like machete-wielding treasure hunters, Musk and Shotwell hacked through a tangled jungle filled with lurking carnivores such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin, as well as bean counters and regulators. Over time, against long od…
With days until the election, Patagonia employees and grantees gathered virtually for a “Know Your Voting Rights” training with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) . The nearly 100 attendees walked away with information on how to arrive at the polls without impediment, cast their ballot free from intimidation, and trust their vote will be counted as cast and not discarded. They also received…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/qcon-ai-newyork-2026-pc-picks/en/headerimage/qcon-ai-newyork-2026-pc-picks-1793192613417.jpg"/><p>Who authorizes an agent’s actions, and how should teams manage growing context costs? The QCon AI New York 2026 program committee shares six session picks that tackle these questions, alongside open-source inference, agent standards, and audio AI.</p> <i>By…
iFi unveils the UP Travel Max It's a Bluetooth adaptor for audio systems that rely on 3.5mm jacks Can be used on flights, in cars, and on your ancient iPods I'm always struck by how odd it is that airlines seem comfortable to let modern tech trends fly straight by. Only last year, I was given a pair of antique cheap wired earbuds for on an in-flight entertainment system, and there's no way of usin…
It is now getting pretty difficult to track every time OpenAI and Anthropic models break containment, wander onto the wider web, and cause unintended, high-risk chaos. The recent wave of rogue AI agent incidents has now prompted US President Donald Trump’s administration to consider asserting more power over AI tools . These incidents expose a deep vulnerability for the UK. If advanced AI models a…
You Can See Everything , Nathan Fielder's documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, is going so viral that it was only a matter of time before one of the late shows parodied it. In the clip above Jamie Lee Curtis plays Holmes and Jimmy Fallon plays Fielder, sitting opposite each other to recreate that famously intense moment from the teaser . "Be honest, do you really want to be on the…
AI agents could tell you where you're going wrong before customers call to complain The system works by identifying early signs and fixing them By modelling outcomes, humans can make an informed decision on a fix Oracle has plans to make customer service a lot more proactive with its new AI-powered applications, which now promise to identify and address problems before they even escalate into cust…
A Google Pixel Watch Ultra? Google is reportedly mulling over a sequel to its best Android watch of 2026, and the next iteration might be cut from the same cloth as the Apple Watch Ultra 4 , Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 and Garmin Fenix 9 Pro . According to Gadgets & Wearables , Google is circulating a survey in its app to 'select users' regarding the future of Pixel Watches. We haven't managed to…
The Information : Sources: DeepSeek and Moonshot AI heavily relied on GPT-6 Astra distillation to train models like Kimi K3.1 Pro and V4.1-Flash 1017, after Anthropic's crackdown — OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, the most powerful model the company has released, has met with strong demand since its release in early September.
Anthropic and OpenAI say they’ve disproved a key tenet of computer science. Researchers are struggling with the fall but also feel like “overexcited bunnies” as they look at new questions to explore.
South Korean regulators found that Apple and Google violated the country's Telecommunications Business Act. South Korean regulators found that Apple and Google violated the country's Telecommunications Business Act.
TL;DR: Unblock ePorner for free with a VPN . The best service for unblocking porn sites is ExpressVPN . More than a third of U.S. states have introduced restrictions for online adult content. After the introduction of these age verification laws, some porn sites blocked users from those locations. The same situation is now taking place in other parts of the world . So where does that leave frustra…
Jamie Hore / This Week in Videogames : Epic Games says it is using AI tools to “develop code and features” for Unreal Engine, including core engine components like the D3D12 rendering layer — In Brief: Following CEO Tim Sweeney's announcement of a “huge pivot” towards AI tools, Epic Games has confirmed that AI tools …
Chinese robot maker Pudu Robotics has opened its European headquarters in Neuss, near Düsseldorf, as it builds out its business across the region. The Shenzhen-based company announced plans for the German site in September, following a showcase of its robots at the IFA trade fair in Berlin. The headquarters is now fully operational, bringing together […] This story continues at The Next Web
Can we not pause to enjoy Halloween ? Must we relentlessly march onwards without a moment to reflect? The corporate calendar is absolutely relentless, and that means plans for the holidays are already in motion. Fresh from Starbucks announcing its holiday menu, Dunkin' has done the same. Dunkin’ unveiled its full 2026 holiday lineup arriving nationwide on Wednesday, Nov. 4, featuring the deb…
Trump has been waffling at his rallies again, and Jimmy Kimmel wants you to know just how ridiculous things can get. "For a man that is very proud he picked out all the marble in the White House, he certainly seems to be losing his," the host says in the monologue above, before playing a 40-second montage of some of Trump's more ridiculous and nonsensical moments. "He's almost incoherent enough to…
Illicit software on the computers of some of the world’s best online poker players allowed the accused cheater to see what cards were in the victims’ hands—and trounce them at the tables.
The Hisense UR8 RGB MiniLED is more affordable than competitors and offers exceptional color accuracy, but is otherwise just OK.
Bloomberg : Sierra Club expects US power emissions to hit 2.1B metric tons by 2030, up 42% on 2025 and erasing 15 years of cuts, with off-grid data centers matching Mexico — The boom is set to produce enough greenhouse gases to cancel out 15 years of declines in power-sector emissions, according to a Sierra Club analysis.
You can finally get Cheerios in a resealable bag. General Mills announced Tuesday it partnered with SC Johnson’s Ziploc brand for Cheerios with Ziploc PantrySeal, its trademarked name for a new bag design. It features a blue Ziploc seal that goes partially across the top of the bag and doubles as a handy pour spout. The specialty box is available only for Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios and exclus…
They fit better than they look and stay put when you move, but Snap’s $2,195 Specs still feel like a developer prototype in search of a purpose.
Since the launch of Anthropic's Mythos, the debate around the risks that AI-powered tools pose for security teams has steadily ramped up. Yet, fundamentally, the attack targets aren’t changing: the big shift is one of scale and speed. AI finds more vulnerabilities, giving security teams more to deal with. But at the same time, AI is lowering the technical barrier to exploitation. The result is a s…
This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about how they’d be graded. Around the same time, another OpenAI agent accessed private files from an Australian government website. It’s a problem that’s by no means confined to OpenAI. In the months sinc…
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Hybrid work succeeds when flexibility comes with clear expectations. Here, experts in the field share practical insights on how meetings, focus time, communication, and accountability can genuinely improve productivity and morale. These 11 rules help teams work better together without adding unnecessary complexity. Trust Individual Attendance Choices One rule that always works: Let employees decid…
TL;DR: Live stream Carolina Panthers vs. Green Bay Packers for free on 7Plus . Access this free livestream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN . Thursday Night Football kicks off with an NFC North vs. South showdown tonight, as the Carolina Panthers visit the Green Bay Packers. The Packers have a better season record than the Panthers — the Packers are 4-3 while the Panthers are 3-3 &…
Meta’s Muse is the first of its kind—a personalized AI agent that lives on users’ devices, handling tasks like sending email, ordering groceries, and negotiating lower bill payments. In fact, it’s so good at acting on humans’ behalf that it’s quite difficult for websites to identify it as a bot, rather than a human user. Meta says that Muse navigates browsers just like human users , meaning it doe…