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Not a bombshell, but it rivals pricier models on some tasks at a tenth of Astra's API price
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Thomas Claburn (via The Register)
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10/26/26
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Political campaign texts are relentless ahead of Election Day, with fundraising appeals piling up in Messages. One iPhone setting can silence their alerts without forcing you to block each unfamiliar …
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Via AppleInsider
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10/26/26
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At a glance
Top gaming desktop computer deals
ABS Cyclone Aqua—$849 (29% off on Walmart)
MSI Codex Z2C—$1,279 (20% off at Walmart)
CyberPowerPC Gamer …
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Via TechHive
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10/26/26
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OpenAI announced GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26, 2026, introducing a new mid-sized model priced at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. This release arrives 27 days after the …
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Lena Park (via Forkast)
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10/26/26
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Months after Elon Musk declared that the xAI model would outclass Christopher Nolan’s mythological epic, the bot itself admitted defeat.
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Miles Klee (via Wired)
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10/26/26
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Michael Nicolls, SpaceX’s vice president for Starlink and president of xAI, appeared recently at the International Astronautical Congress in Turkey to lament the rise of space collisions as Musk …
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Karl Bode (via Techdirt)
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10/26/26
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Now I can fall behind my reading goals automatically.
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Adam Davidson (via How-to Geek)
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10/26/26
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Payload blobs measuring 12.9 to 13.7 MB were large enough to evade GitHub code search
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Jessica Lyons (via The Register)
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10/26/26
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Raise a glass of “wodka” to the Enterprise’s navigator. The actor not only starred in the original series, but in all six original-cast movies.
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Gael Cooper (via CNET Technology)
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10/26/26
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Network security company Fortinet Inc. today extended its FortiGate firewalls into artificial intelligence security with the launch of the FortiGuard Inline AI Security Service. The service’s …
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Duncan Riley (via SiliconANGLE)
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10/26/26
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According to Slok's Daily Spark note, AI has so far delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech, despite the massive amount of money and hype surrounding the latest …
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Via TechSpot
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10/26/26
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A new iPad Mini and possible upgrades to the MacBook Pro and iMac are coming. Here’s what we’re anticipating in another big week for Apple.
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Corinne Reichert (via CNET Technology)
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10/26/26
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The University of Copenhagen in Denmark confirmed that hackers accessed one of its test environments containing personal data belonging to 525,000 people. [...]
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Bill Toulas (via BleepingComputer)
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10/26/26
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End the month with a fresh list of titles.
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T.M. Amrita (via How-to Geek)
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10/26/26
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Turns out selling to big companies isn’t about having the shiniest tech: It’s about hitching a ride on a giant’s sales team.
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Julie Bort (via TechCrunch)
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10/26/26
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Commentary: And it could mean the massacre of grading in general.
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Rachel Kane (via CNET Technology)
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10/26/26
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OpenAI:
OpenAI announces three breakthroughs in computer science, math, and physics, including that the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a longstanding conjecture, is false — We are …
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Via Techmeme
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10/26/26
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Are crypto-focused hardware devices even a good idea?
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Kyle Torpey (via Gizmodo | Tecg. Science. Culture)
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10/26/26
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Some say nostalgia is seen through rose-tinted glasses, but the cost of buying a GPU in 2006 didn't equate to first, last, and a security deposit.
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Via BGR Tech
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10/26/26
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Samsung was first — by a mile — with its Z Fold lineup, but is Apple's iPhone Duo now the best? The answer isn't so simple.
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Via TechnoBuffalo
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10/26/26
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