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Today β€” 1 October 2026Main stream

A Hacking Competition Shows the Power of China’s Approach to A.I.

By: Cade Metz
1 October 2026 at 13:43
The winner of a cybersecurity contest prevailed by relying on an β€˜open weight’ Chinese model β€” another sign that available A.I. systems could already be too powerful to easily regulate.

Β© Avishag Shaar-Yashuv for The New York Times

Pavel Gurvich, the chief executive of the cybersecurity company Tenzai. Mr. Gurvich’s firm won the HackerOne contest by using a freely available Chinese A.I. model.

What even is a β€˜microdrama’?

1 October 2026 at 13:30
A man and a woman looking at one another while standing on a suburban street.

On Monday, Variety reported that RoseBerry Media is recutting episodes of the Australian soap opera Neighbours "into microdramas." These clips will be available on Epis, a short-form vertical video streaming platform. Though Neighbours ran for 41 seasons from 1985 to 2025, at launch, RoseBerry is only recutting two storylines from the late aughts focused on a character played by the now-internationally famous Margot Robbie.

In a statement about the project, RoseBerry cofounder / CEO Guy Hameiri described Neighbours as "an iconic piece of television history" that's well suited to be adapted for vertical viewing with the company's proprietar …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Samsung raised prices on the Galaxy S26 by $100

1 October 2026 at 13:17
Photo of white Samsung Galaxy S26 and blue Galaxy S26 Plus cameras side by side

The base Galaxy S26 with 256GB of storage costs nearly $1,000 after Samsung raised prices in the US by $100 or more, Phone Arena reports. The Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus were already $100 more expensive than their S25 predecessors when they launched earlier this year, which Samsung said RAM price hikes were partly to blame for. With both price hikes combined, the base S26 will now set you back $200 more than the base S25 would have. Apple and Google have also raised prices on their phones this year.

Nearly every phone in the S26 lineup is $100 pricier on Samsung's official website now, and the 1TB version of the S26 Ultra went up by even more …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Gears of War: E-Day is a great game launching at a terrible time

1 October 2026 at 13:00
A screenshot from the video game Gears of War: E-Day.

There are few blockbuster games that are as confident as Gears of War: E-Day. A prequel to one of Xbox's most transformative titles, E-Day knows exactly what it wants to be: a brutal, tense, and self-aware action game, one that is stronger because it doesn't deviate from that premise. Twenty years since the original Gears of War, there's still nothing like its particular brand of up-close cover shooter gameplay, and E-Day shows that it still hits hard two decades later. As Xbox moves into a messy new era focused on its biggest franchises, E-Day could be an early glimpse at the future of the platform. But it's also launching during one of the …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Amazon is launching colorful new Kindles β€” and a case with physical page-turn buttons

1 October 2026 at 13:00
The base Kindle (shown here), Kindle Paperwhite, and Colorsoft come in aluminum options, not just plastic. | Photo: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge

Kindles don't usually change much with each new version, but Amazon is launching next-generation models today that look and feel a whole lot nicer. The base Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Kindle Colorsoft are a millimeter thinner and 30 percent faster at opening books, and their power buttons have moved from the bottom to the right edge near the top.

They ship in vibrant new colors with a soft-touch plastic case, and, for the first time, there's the option for a couple shades of aluminum, giving them a higher-end look and feel, not to mention double the storage of the plastic version (32GB versus 16GB). Amazon VP of Kindle Kevin Keith told …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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