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  • The director of Fjord takes the ‘risky position’ of moderator
    by May Jeong on October 10, 2026 at 11:00 am

    Cristian Mungiu’s sixth feature, Fjord, concerns a family on trial. They seem like good people, God-fearing. They’ve just moved from Romania to a small hamlet nestled in the fjords of rural Norway. There is Mamma (Renate Reinsve), Tata (a bald and bespectacled Sebastian Stan), and their passel of children. They are an openly religious and

  • The Telo MT1 is a big truck trapped in a tiny truck’s body
    by Abigail Bassett on October 10, 2026 at 11:00 am

    I’m bouncing down the road in San Carlos, California, zipping past behemoth tech companies like EA and Oracle, in America’s smallest electric truck. The Telo MT1 (which stands for “mini truck”) unquestionably turns heads because it looks so remarkably different from everything else on the market right now. It has a nearly cab-over design, meaning

  • My brief romance with an AI bird feeder
    by Thomas Ricker on October 10, 2026 at 7:00 am

    It started off promising enough. Dozens of tiny, colorful birds were drawn to my garden just a few weeks after I mounted a $350 $269 Kiwibit Bird Feeder 2 Pro. “Looks like Great Tit!” read the first AI-driven alert sent to my phone. “Looks like Eurasian Blue Tit!” read another. I chuckled, still waiting for

  • Decade-old RAM is making a comeback
    by Stevie Bonifield on October 9, 2026 at 9:50 pm

    CPU makers have noticed that the seemingly unending RAM price hikes are making it tough for a lot of us to upgrade our PCs. Their solution? A return to last-gen DDR4 RAM. Intel and AMD are making new CPUs that’ll support the older, more affordable type of memory. On Friday, Gigabyte announced that two of

  • Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
    by Emma Roth on October 9, 2026 at 9:15 pm

    An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, but the investigators never reviewed it because it was marked as

  • Ohio blogger found guilty of harassment for sending Shrek nude to senator
    by Emma Roth on October 9, 2026 at 7:41 pm

    A jury found an Ohio political blogger guilty of telecommunications harassment after he sent an explicit image of Shrek to a Republican state senator. On Friday, a judge ordered DJ Byrnes, owner of political commentary blog The Rooster, to pay a $200 fine, according to a report from the Columbus Dispatch. Byrnes texted Ohio Sen.

  • ‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop
    by Robert Hart on October 9, 2026 at 7:09 pm

    “Staggering.” “Overwhelming.” “Unprecedented.” “Surreal.” “Pure insanity.” Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week. Amid the awe, excitement, and uncertainty over the sheer scale of the

  • Brendan Carr says he’ll let Pete Hegseth decide whether TV networks can air the public execution
    by Jay Peters on October 9, 2026 at 6:30 pm

    FCC chairman Brendan Carr said he will defer to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on whether TV networks can air the planned execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad. The Pentagon has said the execution will be livestreamed, suggesting it’ll appear on an online platform beyond the FCC’s jurisdiction. But it’s

  • Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI
    by Stevie Bonifield on October 9, 2026 at 6:06 pm

    Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest “did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI.” BBC reports that the original first place video from Dr. Ning Xu claimed to show “tiny, hair-like structures called cilia moving in the airway of a child with the

  • Google teases Fitbit Edge launch next week
    by Emma Roth on October 9, 2026 at 6:05 pm

    It looks like Google is getting ready to take the wraps off its rumored Fitbit Edge next Monday. In a post on X, Google posted a picture of what appears to be the side of the fitness tracker, with the caption: “Get an Edge on your health. 10.12.26.” A trove of Fitbit Edge leaks has