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Paramount+ has dropped a fresh trailer for 'Avatar: Seven Havens,' the sequel series to 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. The show is set to premiere on the streaming service on October 9.
An essayist contends that software projects, despite being fundamentally simple systems of forms, databases and workflows, tend to make otherwise rational people behave erratically. The piece attributes this to the unique combination of speed, cost, complexity and near-limitless ability to change direction that software allows, unlike physical construction where changes have visible, immediate costs.
Amazon has cut the price of SHOKZ's OpenDots ONE open-ear earbuds by 30% off their retail price, saving buyers $60. This matches the lowest price the earbuds have hit since launch.
A new analysis finds Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet collected roughly $28 billion in federal contracts between 2018 and 2022, with the five largest tech contracts from 2019-2022 carrying combined ceilings of at least $53 billion. Separately, venture capital poured nearly $100 billion into defense tech startups from 2021 to 2023, a 40 percent jump over the prior seven years combined.
Yoto has announced a fourth-generation Yoto Player and a refreshed Yoto Mini, both aimed at kids' audio listening without needing a smartphone. The new Player adds a green dial for quick access to up to 20 favorite tracks or stories without inserting a Yoto Card, plus 64GB storage, faster downloads and simplified routine settings. The redesigned Mini is now rugged and water/dust-resistant, holds up to 1,000 hours of audio, and also supports card-free playback via the same green button.
GOG expanded its Preservation Program with five classic titles—Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, Armikrog, Descent, Hitman: Codename 47, and Myst—each paired with interactive 3D box scans in GLB format. Through a new partnership with Big Box Collection, GOG is also offering printable, foldable templates so users can assemble physical replicas of the original packaging at home.
OpenAI announced Tuesday that a swarm of 10,000 AI agents, run for 88 hours at a cost of millions of dollars, had found a scenario where the Navier-Stokes equations describe fluids reaching infinite velocity, effectively breaking the famous equations. NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster then publicly accused the company of producing a solution suspiciously similar to unpublished work he had been developing for years and was close to finishing.
Apple's new AirPods 5 are available for pre-order at $129 and $149, while retailers are already discounting the newly launched Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 by up to $325. Separately, the entry-level M5 MacBook Air is selling for $1,099 through Apple's refurbished store, $200 under its regular price.
A NASA-developed image-processing method called decorrelation stretch, originally created to pull extra detail from satellite and Mars rover photos, has been repurposed to reveal ancient artwork invisible to the naked eye. Using this technique, a Singaporean archaeologist uncovered roughly 200 faded paintings at Angkor Wat between 2010 and 2012, including scenes of horseback riders and musicians. The method reached archaeology through Jon Harman, a medical imaging professional and rock-art hobbyist who adapted NASA's published algorithm into the widely used Dstretch software.
Security researcher Nightmare-Eclipse has published a new proof-of-concept exploit called ShieldCrash on GitHub, claiming it circumvents Microsoft's fix for CVE-2026-69414 (ShieldBreak), a privilege escalation bug in the Malware Protection Engine. The exploit reportedly allows arbitrary file reads as SYSTEM on all supported Windows versions, despite Microsoft's September patch. Microsoft has not yet responded to requests for comment on the claim.
Amazon is selling the XGIMI Horizon 20 Pro 4K projector for $1,618.98, a 19% cut from its $1,999 list price and a $381 savings. The projector uses an RGB triple-laser engine with about 4,100 ISO lumens, optical zoom, and lens shift, and supports Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, HLG, and IMAX Enhanced. It also includes a low-latency gaming mode with up to 240Hz at 1080p, Google TV, Netflix, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, and HDMI 2.1 with eARC.
A new analysis reports that autistic individuals face significantly shorter lifespans than the general population, with an average reduction of about 13.8 years. Researchers found that much of this gap stems from preventable causes of death, including influenza, drowning, and malnutrition rather than autism itself.