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Apple introduces AirPods 5 with best-in-class open-ear Active Noise Cancellation

Apple today announced AirPods 5, delivering the industry’s best Active Noise Cancellation in an open-ear design and even better sound quality.

ChatGPT accueille un nouveau GPT‑6 et des réponses interactives, même sans abonnement

OpenAI a annoncé le 7 octobre 2026 l’arrivée de GPT‑6 pour tous les utilisateurs de ChatGPT. Au programme: des réponses interactives et un accès élargi, mais des modèles différents selon votre abonnement.

Fortinet sounds the alarm over actively exploited FortiMail zero-day

Fortinet is warning customers to lock down FortiMail after attackers started exploiting a critical bug that lets them write files to vulnerable systems without logging in.

From reactive to proactive: How endpoint monitoring is fixing broken meeting rooms

The role of meeting rooms is changing. Traditionally, they were formal spaces built around a large central table and inflexible physical setup, reserved primarily for board meetings, client presentations, or official status updates.

Honor Win 2 series with active cooling fan to be unveiled next week

Honor has confirmed that the successors to the Win and Win RT will be announced next week in China. The Win 2 series launch will also be accompanied by the Win Tablet and the Win Earbuds.

Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy

The startup will sell some of its assets to Disney for $20 million.

Making global public health more proactive with Google Earth AI

Google is helping health leaders overcome reporting lags, forecast disease outbreaks, and deliver care to vulnerable communities.

[World Heart Day] Taking Care of Your Heart Every Day, Starting From Your Wrist

No matter who you are or what you do, we all have one constant companion we rely on every single day: our heart. Unseen but always at work, it beats around 100,000 times a day, keeping pace with us through every moment.

Amazon's Holiday Kids Gift Book is back with 600+ toys, games, and gifts for every age

From an interactive Alexa+ story to exclusive Forest Friends gifts, this year's edition has something for everyone on your list.

Attack on BAE-managed system disrupts US bankruptcy courts

The US' bankruptcy courts are currently down owing to what officials are calling a “cybersecurity incident.” The Administrative Office of the US Courts said the websites and systems that support the Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC), which manages electronic comms related to…

Audible has three new features to give you a deeper connection to your stories

Credit: Audible TL;DR Audible is rolling out three new AI-powered features: Character Guide, Interactive Story, and Visual Explorer.

Audible thinks you want to have an AI-generated conversation with Dracula's beleaguered servant

The platform is rolling out "Interactive Stories" starting with Bram Stoker's classic.

Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price

Nvidia's RTX Spark partner systems are here, and spec-for-spec they've got all the ingredients for a hit: a potent CPU, blisteringly fast integrated graphics, and up to 128 GB of unified memory in a lightweight, ultra-premium package that's ready to run demanding models locally.

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.

Bringing Fantasy Characters to Life: Samsung Spatial Signage Transforms Tokyo Game Show 2026

At Tokyo Game Show (TGS) 2026, held from September 17 to 20 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan, Samsung Electronics and NC demonstrated the future of fan engagement by bringing the characters of Astrae Oratio — the upcoming urban fantasy RPG — into the physical world through…

British watchdog seeks tougher terms around Microsoft's dominance of business software

The UK's competition watchdog wants to designate Microsoft with strategic market status (SMS) in business software, allowing the regulator it to intervene to level the playing field, and says it is considering other areas for investigation.

ChatGPT is getting a lot more visual, with the launch of a new interface

OpenAI is launching a new user interface that will bring interactive visuals to ChatGPT.

ChatGPT’s ‘Intelligent UI’ update fills its responses with pictures, charts, and buttons

OpenAI is launching a new Intelligent UI feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to answer your questions with interactive visuals.

Check out this year’s buzziest Halloween trends.

Ready or not, spooky season is here. To help you prepare, we’re launching Google Frightgeist, our annual interactive website highlighting the top trending searches for H…

Citrix gives NetScaler admins another critical reason to patch

Citrix is urging customers to patch another critical NetScaler vulnerability after weeks of disclosures involving actively exploited flaws.

Elusive ‘Geoneutrinos’ Are Building a New Map of Earth’s Volatile Interior

A global network of detectors are reporting some of the most substantial measurements yet of neutrinos created deep underground by the radioactive elements that power our planet’s tectonic activity.

Get in the bin! UK Space Agency wants public to name its debris removal mission

The UK Space Agency needs a name for its Active Debris Removal Mission and has decided that the great British public are the people for the job. The agency confirmed the operation earlier this week and selected ClearSpace UK to lead it.

Give him a hand: Dev publishes 25-year-old Palm OS tools to GitHub

A small but active community of retro computing enthusiasts is working to keep Palm OS alive, and a developer who recently became aware of their existence has just handed them a treasure trove of code he had no idea was still useful.

Google could soon solve Pixel’s biggest face unlock flaw

Credit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Code within Android 17 QPR3 Beta 1 reveals Google is working on a “Face Active Illumination” feature, likely designed to assist face unlock in low light.

Google Maps is flooded with incident reports that won’t go away

Credit: Megan Ellis / Android Authority TL;DR Incident reports are not disappearing on Google Maps. Users say the alerts are staying active for hours or even days after they’re reported.

Google sounds really excited about ‘massive’ feature update hitting Pixel Buds right now

TL;DR Google shares a series of new feature upgrades for the Pixel Buds Pro, Pro 2, and Buds 2a. The Pro 2 get their Dynamic Active Noise Cancellation, first announced at the Pixel 11 launch.

Google’s new Android sideloading rules are coming — and here are all the ways to bypass them

Credit: Megan Ellis / Android Authority TL;DR Certified Android devices running Google Play Services in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand now actively block apps from unverified developers, with a global rollout set for 2027.

GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

GPT‑6 is rolling out globally in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, delivering faster responses with visuals and interactive experiences you can explore and use directly.

GPT-6 gives ChatGPT its biggest visual makeover yet

TL;DR OpenAI’s new Intelligent UI lets GPT-6 build visual, interactive responses with buttons, charts, forms, diagrams, and task-specific tools.

Hegseth’s dubious low-T screening may flag up to 25 percent of the Army

Up to a quarter of active-duty Army members could receive a low testosterone result from mandatory military screening, despite the true prevalence of the condition likely being a tiny fraction of that figure, according to a study published Thursday in JAMA.

heise+ | Warum moderne Java-Systeme weder rein reaktiv noch rein synchron sind

Reactive war lange Zeit eine Glaubensfrage. Mit virtuellen Threads und KI-Anforderungen wandelt sich die Debatte zu einer hybriden, pragmatischen Architektur.

Introducing the next Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch with Snapdragon X2 Plus: Greater performance that travels light

Today at Snapdragon Summit, we introduced the next Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch, built on the Snapdragon X2 Plus ® processor, alongside the new Surface Mouse with integrated haptic feedback 1.

iQOO Pad Pro is joining the iQOO Pad Ultra soon, here's what's different

Alongside the iQOO 16, the iQOO Pad Ultra was unveiled at the end of September as an 8.8-inch gaming tablet powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and the company's Q4 gaming chip.

Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve.

Social media bans are stacking up.

Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before they hit the real world

University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment.

Leaked OnePlus Ace 7 schematic shows its dual-airflow cooling setup

A recent leak suggested that the upcoming OnePlus Ace 7 would feature a built-in active cooling fan. Now, a tipster has shared alleged schematics of the phone, offering a look at its new cooling system.

Meta says it's caught up to the frontier with its latest Wonder AI models

The models add "active memory" and "active focus" abilities.

Microsoft bringing Defender to Linux desktops. Repeat: Microsoft bringing Defender to Linux desktops

It might not be the Year of the Linux Desktop yet, but it could be the Year of Corporate Compliance on the Linux Desktop as Microsoft releases Defender for Linux Workstations.

More Gmail users can now use Gemini to skim through work emails

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Gmail Live and AI Inbox are now rolling out to Workspace users. Google is also bringing the option to change Gmail Live voices directly from the chat screen.

Open From Data Center to Desktop: NVIDIA Expands Nemotron Family With Highest Efficiency Super VL and Bolt Models

NVIDIA today released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120-billion-parameter model that delivers the fastest task completion and highest accuracy for specialized always-on agents.

Open source sovereignty gets down to the boring business of making it work

AI and digital sovereignty dominated this year's Open Source Summit Europe. But beyond the AI noise, the sovereignty discussions offered something useful: practical plans for putting open source to work.

Pre-order our most powerful Surface devices ever

For more than a decade, Surface has been shaped by the people pushing technology further. Creators rendering complex scenes. Developers building what doesn't exist yet. Designers moving between ideas, models, code, and content.

Samsung Galaxy SmartTag3 Makes It Easier To Keep Track of What Matters

Samsung Electronics today announced the new Galaxy SmartTag3, a compact tracker that combines a smaller, lighter design with longer-range finding, cross-OS support, faster location updates through the Galaxy Find Network and expanded proactive alerts.

Samsung To Invest USD 1 Billion in AI Infrastructure Company Helix

Samsung Electronics, Samsung C&T, Samsung SDS, Samsung SDI, Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance today announced they are investing a combined USD 1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure, an AI infrastructure company established by global investment firm…

Samsung TV Plus Expands Global Creator Lineup to More Markets

Samsung TV Plus is expanding its creator offerings to more markets worldwide.

Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind

Have you ever thought about what makes you you? Science assures us it has everything to do with the three-pound organ between our ears, with its billions of neurons and trillions of delicate connections.

Staying Evergreen: How we automated secure access and repo hygiene in a shared org

Working with outside collaborators can add more work for a repository owner. You need to confirm who still needs access, change permissions as projects evolve, and archive repositories once they’ve served their purpose.

Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware

Researchers say that mercenary hackers laced ads with zero-click exploits that installed sophisticated malware on the devices of targeted individuals when they did nothing other than load a website or open an installed app.

Teaching students to think and learn through questions

Celebrate Teachers’ Day with AI for Educators in Brazilian Portuguese and see how Study Mode can help teachers support active, step-by-step learning.

The feds are looking into reports of Tesla’s robotaxis speeding through school zones

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it's evaluating allegations that Tesla's 1,000 or so robotaxis using its automated driving system are exceeding "posted speed limits in active school zones." Waymo's robotaxis have also faced similar inquiries, including…

The New ChatGPT Is More Show Than Tell

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT for all users with an “Intelligent UI” that’s more visual—generating interactive elements as part of the chatbot’s outputs.

The next developer interface is ambient intelligence

For most of my career, building software started with the same setup: keyboard, mouse, editor, terminal, browser, and an impressive number of tabs I was definitely going to look at later. The tools changed, but the relationship did not.

The Witcher 3 Remastered a un problème de cheveux, Mercredi a déjà sa saison 3, et le speedrun de Metal Gear Solid 2 évolue : c’est le récap pop culture de la semaine

Cette semaine, il est question de poils et de vitesse dans le récap pop culture hebdomadaire de Numerama. Du côté de CD Projekt Red, on vous conseille de désactiver l'option Nvidia HairWorks dans la version Remastered de The Witcher 3.

We’re sharing 3 tips to study smarter with Gemini Notebook.

Master your exams with Google Gemini Notebook’s new 60-second video overviews and interactive quiz formats. Try these study tools at notebook.google.

YouTube’s new search feature takes a page from Google Search, and that’s bad news for creators

Credit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is running a limited test in the US, displaying conversational “Ask YouTube” AI previews at the top of desktop search results for open-ended and how-to queries.

Devices · 7

Apple iPhone 18 Pro

Apple's 2026 Pro flagship brings the first variable-aperture iPhone camera (f/1.48–f/4.0), the 2 nm A20 Pro with a dual 16-core Neural Engine, Apple's own C2 modem with mmWave and N1 wireless chip, and a big jump to 36 hours of video playback.

Apple iPhone 18 Pro Max

The 6.9-inch sibling of the iPhone 18 Pro shares the variable-aperture 48MP camera, A20 Pro, C2 modem and N1 chip, and stretches battery life to a class-leading 45 hours of video playback.

Apple iPhone Air

At 5.64 mm the thinnest iPhone ever made, the Air pairs a titanium frame with the A19 Pro, Apple's C1X modem and N1 wireless chip, a single 48MP Fusion camera and an eSIM-only design. Its successor is not expected until spring 2027.

Apple iPhone Duo

Apple's first foldable: a passport-sized 5.4-inch phone that opens into a 7.6-inch nano-texture tablet-style display, built from grade 5 titanium with Touch ID in the side button, an under-display inner camera and the A20 Pro. Announced 9 September 2026, on sale 23 October.

Microsoft Surface Laptop (7th Edition, 13-inch)

A smaller, lighter and cheaper Copilot+ PC on the 8-core Snapdragon X Plus, with a 13-inch 3:2 touchscreen, USB-A and 23-hour video playback. Still sold as the entry Surface Laptop alongside the 8th Edition.

Nothing Phone (3)

Nothing's first true flagship swapped the Glyph lights for a Glyph Matrix micro-LED display, added four 50MP cameras including a 3x periscope, a 5,150 mAh silicon-carbon battery with 65W charging and the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4, with five years of Android updates promised.

Nothing Phone (4a) Pro

Unveiled 5 March 2026, Nothing's upper mid-ranger moves to an aircraft-grade aluminium unibody, a 5,000-nit 6.83-inch 144Hz AMOLED, a 50MP 3.5x periscope with 140x ultra zoom and the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4, keeping the Glyph Matrix at $499.