TL;DR: Get a free iPhone 17e when you sign up for a T-Mobile plan, with no trade-in required. Alternatively, get the iPhone 17 for under $100 from T-Mobile when you switch to T-Mobile and bring your number on an Experience More or Experience Beyond plan. Opens in a new window Credit: Apple Apple iPhone 17e Shop Now Opens in a new window Credit: Apple iPhone 17 Shop Now Apple is going extremely har…
Protecting your personal information online is as challenging as ever. With many platforms requiring signups to access information, you’re inadvertently going to disclose personal information online, and this information is often made public. Whatever is made public on the internet stays there for a long time, and you’re likely not comfortable with this. What’s a possible solution? A data removal…
Witchbrook finally has a solid release date. A decade after developer Chucklefish first teased the cosy witch life sim, it and co-developer Robotality have now announced the game will launch on Jan. 28 next year. That's only three more months of waiting. SEE ALSO: Chinese fantasy farming sim 'Immortal Life' adds trauma bonding to pastoral ideal, and I love it First teased in 2016 under the working…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/cloudflare-web-search-api/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1791616850849.jpg"/><p>Cloudflare has recently launched a beta Web Search API through AI Gateway. Available through REST APIs and Cloudflare Workers, it provides unified logging, access controls, and billing, and supports bring-your-own-provider keys.</p> <i>By Renato Losio</i>
Belgian startup Ravical, which builds AI software for accounting and tax firms, has raised $17M in a seed round led by MMC Ventures. Existing backers Lakestar and Pitchdrive also invested, along with new investor Shapers. More than 100 accounting firms in Europe now use the platform, the company said. Ravical plans to use the new money […] This story continues at The Next Web
Olivia Carville / Bloomberg : How Maynard v. Snapchat, a 2016 lawsuit linked to a car crash involving Snapchat's speed filter, sparked social media's legal reckoning over user safety — The rain had only just let up when the night shift ended at the Bay Breeze Seafood Restaurant in Lovejoy, Georgia.
Reuters : STMicro reports Q3 revenue up 17.9% YoY to $3.76B, operating income up 98% YoY to $429M, vs. $400.5M est., and forecasts $4.15B in Q4 revenue, vs. $4.10B est. — STMicroelectronics (STMPA.PA) reported a third-quarter operating profit above market expectations on Thursday …
Bloomberg : A profile of Tencent Cloud CEO Dowson Tong, who is shifting Tencent's AI focus toward businesses and betting on its Claude Cowork-style assistant WorkBuddy — When Pony Ma called Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s AI endeavor “a leaky ship” this summer, the billionaire founder sent ripples through …
Wired : Bluesky blocks links to a leaked archive containing personal data of 41,000+ DHS employees and contractors, saying it was “shared without their authorization” — Bluesky tells WIRED it blocked links to a leaked archive of information on 41,000 ICE, CBP, and other DHS workers …
Elizabeth Rembert / Bloomberg : National Student Clearinghouse: US computer science enrollment fell 12%+ for undergrads and 10%+ for grad students this fall, as AI reduces coding jobs — Computer and information science departments at US colleges saw an exodus of students this fall, with enrollment declining more than 12% …
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch : Google announces the expansion of ads in AI Mode into international markets, as growth in its core search advertising business slows — Google is bringing ads in its AI-powered Search experiences to international markets, betting that generative AI can open up new revenue opportunities …
Bloomberg : Samsung shares fall as much as 6.6% as a lack of a new shareholder return plan, higher capex, and its chip unit's profit miss weigh on investor sentiment — Samsung Electronics Co. shares reversed earlier gains to slide as much as 6.6% as the lack of a new shareholder return plan in its earnings disappointed investors.
Bloomberg : Samsung expects capex to rise ~60% to ~$63B this year, with HBM capacity sold out through 2027 and 10 long-term supply deals secured with key customers — Samsung Electronics Co. plans to hike spending more than 60% this year after selling out of high-end chips for 2027 …
Today's Connections: Sports Edition will be easier for fans of abbreviations. As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections , the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle , Connections resets after midnight, and each new set…
Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalog. Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit. Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move on to the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you cover…
Simon Sharwood / The Register : Google's search revenue rose 12% YoY to $63.25B in Q3 2026, down from 14.5% in Q3 2025, with Google attributing the slowdown to “lower monetization” in AI Mode — That's a problem, cos it just spent $51 billion on infrastructure and still needs to rent compute from others to run its cloud
If you like playing daily word games like Wordle , then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine. There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give…
Ville Heiskanen / Bloomberg : DoorDash moves its Q3 earnings release from November 4 to before the market opens on October 29, amid reports of an imminent ~$17B deal to acquire Instacart — DoorDash Inc., the food delivery provider in talks to take over Instacart, moved its earnings release date forward by almost a week.
Chris Metinko / Axios : Fragment, which uses AI to resolve purchasing and payment issues across manufacturing datasets, emerges from stealth with $56M from 8VC and others — Procurement startup Fragment is exiting stealth with $56 million raised, CEO Pranav Mulgund tells Axios Pro exclusively.
The full Moon may be behind us, but there's still plenty of lunar activity to look forward to as October draws to a close. What is today's Moon phase? As of Thursday, Oct. 29, NASA's Daily Moon Guide tracker tells us the Moon is in the Waning Gibbous phase, with 87% of its surface visible. Tonight, without the use of visual aids you should be able to spot the Tycho Crater, Copernicus Crater, and t…
FADU's File-Semantic SSD runs path lookup, permission checks, and file-to-flash mapping in firmware instead of on the host NFSv3 requests ride inside standard NVMe commands, so GPUs, DPUs, and remote clients can reach files without requiring a host file system Its headline 460,000 ops/s result came from a PCIe 5.0 host, with PCIe 6.0 results promised by Q1 2027 South Korean controller designer FAD…
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal : How surging demand from AI hyperscalers has quintupled flash memory prices and shifted market and negotiating power from Apple to suppliers like Kioxia — The iPhone maker for years bullied flash-storage makers into steep discounts—until AI hyperscalers bid up prices and gobbled up supply
Bluesky tells WIRED it blocked links to a leaked archive of information on 41,000 ICE, CBP, and other DHS workers because it contains people’s contact information, shared without their authorization.
Jenny Lee / CNBC : Samsung reports Q3 revenue up 127% YoY to a record ~$146.3B and a record operating profit up 783% to ~$80.5B, both roughly in line with estimates — - Samsung Electronics reported third-quarter earnings on Thursday, with operating profit broadly in line with analysts' estimates
An Israeli company is alleged to have launched a spy campaign using malicious ads targeting Starlink users The ads do not have to be clicked on, just served to the user to begin collecting data The ads were served to Starlink users across more than 100 countries An alleged Israeli spy firm has been spotted snooping on Starlink users on an industrial scale by a digital defense firm. These are the c…
Anthropic has announced new Claude reporting tools, allowing employers to see exactly how and why their employees are using the AI tool. Smart reports are available now for users on paid Claude Enterprise plans, and can be enabled in an organisation's settings. SEE ALSO: Anthropic sued for allegedly training Claude on Elvis Presley's music Announced on Wednesday , Claude's smart reports feature pr…
Nintendo officially increased the price of its Switch 2 console in September from AU$699.95 to AU$769.95 due to “various market conditions”, no doubt caused by increasing component costs driven by AI-driven shortages. If you missed out before the price increased, and now feel the new price has put you off from buying a Switch 2, I don’t blame you — but if you also happen to be in the market for a…
On Tuesday, defense contractor Anduril and chipmaker Qualcomm announced a partnership to build laptops entirely in the United States , starting with a single model in 2027. They also announced a "long-term goal" of pushing the computer industry to create "a fully domestic supply chain." Even a single Made-in-USA laptop would be a surprise, because no major US computer company builds its laptops he…
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : Google is rolling out Gemini 4 Carbon to selected cybersecurity defenders through Fairwind at $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, rising to $4 and $20 later — Google announced its latest and most intelligent frontier AI model today: Gemini 4 Carbon promises improvements in cybersecurity …
Today's Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you're a mechanic. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable SEE ALSO: NYT Connections hin…
Today's NYT Strands hints will be easy if you belive in magic. Strands , the New York Times ' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an a…
The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult if you love the cold. Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle , Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and…
Looking for spoiler-free NYT Connections hints or just wondering why Connections is trending today? We've got what you need to understand the clues for today's puzzle without spoiling any of the answers. Of course, Mashable has also provided daily hints and answers for Connections, Wordle , and Strands for years, so we can help you if that's also what you need. While we are focused more on meaning…
The xTool X1 might initially look like another large, enclosed laser engraver, but it wasn't long into my months-long test of the X1, to realise it's something far more ambitious. Essentially, xTool has brought years of laser engraving development together into a single, expandable manufacturing platform, making the X1 one of the most versatile machines I’ve ever reviewed. This is not the first ma…