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Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit

ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! on September 17 after the late-night host commented on the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. His monologue suggested Trump supporters were trying to reframe the shooter’s political ties, which drew backlash from the FCC and major ABC affiliates. ABC replaced the program with reruns, sparking accusations of censorship and igniting a boycott campaign against Disney, its parent company. Overwhelming public reaction The suspension triggered strong resp

‘Night of the Reaper’ Is a Retro Babysitter Slasher With a Mystery Twist

Night of the Reaper begins with a familiar slasher movie scenario: a babysitter being stalked by a killer. The masked menace puts on a big show of toying with her, leaving creepy notes that almost feel like a prank until the danger gets all too real. It’s a freaky opening sequence that signals director and co-director Brandon Christensen (Still/Born, Z) is well familiar with the horror tropes his movie is leaning into—and you can tell he knows his audience will pick up on them too. Night of th

Hot deals: Take an awesome portable projector home for as low as $135

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority These offers are all available from Amazon. Most are “limited time deals.” The only exception is the XGIMI Elfin Flip, which has a timer that ends in a bit over four hours. If you want that one, you might want to act quickly. Yaber Projector L2s Home Cinema Yaber Projector L2s Home Cinema Yaber Projector L2s Home Cinema See price at Amazon Save $65.01 Limited Time Deal! Our friends at SoundGuys.com have already reviewed the Yaber L2s, and they were pretty h

Get the latest Amazon Fire tablet for $90 right now

Maria Diaz/ZDNET If you're looking for a back-to-school tablet, our top-rated Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet is now available for 36% off at Amazon as an early October Prime Day deal, meaning you can score the latest model of the Fire HD 10 for just $90. We found this tablet to be an excellent option for those looking to stream media, game, or read e-books, and it's particularly well-suited for kids. Also: The best kids' tablets you can buy Our expert Maria Diaz previously reviewed the Amazon Fire

‘Andor’ Writer Dan Gilroy Knows Why You’re Thinking About the Show This Week (and It’s Not the Emmys)

Though we here at io9 would have preferred Andor win all the Emmys, the Disney+ Star Wars show did pick up a few notable trophies, including Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. Dan Gilroy, brother of Andor creator Tony Gilroy, won the honor for season two’s ninth episode, “Welcome to the Rebellion.” You know, the one where Mon Mothma makes her ferocious speech condemning genocide and monstrous leaders from the senate floor. While remarking on how unfortunately relevant the story of Andor en

After a very slow start, Europe’s reusable rocket program shows signs of life

No one could accuse the European Space Agency and its various contractors of moving swiftly when it comes to the development of reusable rockets. However, it appears that Europe is finally making some credible progress. This week, the France-based ArianeGroup aerospace company announced that it had completed the integration of the Themis vehicle, a prototype rocket that will test various landing technologies, on a launch pad in Sweden. Low-altitude hop tests, a precursor for developing a rocket

Time Spent on Hardening

Time Spent on Hardening I recently received mail from someone working on a software-based approach to fault tolerance. Their tool makes applications more reliable, but they think it also makes developers more productive by reducing the amount of error detection and handling code they need write. They have never been able to find research that quantifies how much time developers spend on code for detecting and handling problems relative to the effort for the “happy path”. they know it’s substan

Slow Liquid

September 18, 2025 After updating to iOS 26, I will add my voice to the chorus of dismay: this thing makes my phone run like shit! I recognize that mine isn’t the latest and greatest, but it’s only four years old — an iPhone 13 mini — and the pre­vious iOS ran perfectly: snappy and practical. I hope Apple can (literally) smooth things out. I realize there’s always an under­cur­rent to these releases of “maybe you should get a new phone … ” but in this case the per­for­mance hit feels either (1

Tropical Storm Gabrielle Breaks ‘Unprecedented’ Atlantic Storm Drought

An exceptionally long lull in Atlantic storm activity finally came to an end Wednesday as Tropical Storm Gabrielle took shape. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center expect this storm to strengthen into the second hurricane of the season by Sunday. Gabrielle’s emergence followed 20 days of no named storms in the Atlantic basin—a dry spell that WPLG-TV hurricane specialist Michael Lowry called “unprecedented” for the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season. As of Friday morning, Gabrielle ha

I put away my iPad just minutes after testing this $120 Android tablet

Tabwee T90 ZDNET's key takeaways A very capable entry-level tablet. Normally priced at $230, the tablet is currently available for only $120. While the screen is ideal under most conditions, it does struggle in bright sunlight. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I get to test and review a lot of tablets in my job, and the iPad used to be the benchmark that all others were compared to. But now that you can pick up an iPad for $350, it's not the high-end p

Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project, an effort to preserve early music recordings that only exist on brittle shellac records. No details of the settlement have so far been released, but a court filing on Monday confirmed that the Internet Archive and UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, Sony Music Entertainment, and other record labels "have settled this matter." More details may come in the next 45 days, when parties

The Apple Watch SE 3, Series 11, and Ultra 3 are now available

is a commerce reporter for The Verge writing about the best deals and gadgets. He previously wrote for Business Insider, Rolling Stone, Futurism, and Popular Science. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The iPhone Air and the iPhone 17 fleet of phones took the spotlight during Apple’s “Awe dropping” event. If you weren’t tempted by the new phones, the fact that the entire Apple Watch lineup got refreshed might have been even bigger news to yo

The XGIMI MoGo 4 portable projector packs Google TV into the most convenient build I’ve tested

XGIMI MoGo 4 The XGIMI MoGo 4 keys in on what a portable projector should be: compact, battery-powered, and easy to set up anywhere. It costs more than some of the competition, but its balance of portability, features, and polish makes the premium easier to justify. With a versatile 360-degree stand, built-in Google TV, and USB-C power bank support, it streamlines movie nights wherever you set up. Plenty of portable projectors claim to be travel-ready, but only if you have half a duffel of spac

This $120 Android tablet proves you don't need to overspend for a Samsung Tab or iPad

Tabwee T90 ZDNET's key takeaways A very capable entry-level tablet. Normally priced at $230, the tablet is currently available for only $120. While the screen is ideal under most conditions, it does struggle in bright sunlight. $229.99 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I get to test and review a lot of tablets in my job, and the iPad used to be the benchmark that all others were compared to. But now that you can pick up an iPad for $350, it's not the high-end pr

Rocket Report: European rocket reuse test delayed; NASA tweaks SLS for Artemis II

Welcome to Edition 8.11 of the Rocket Report! We have reached the time of year when it is possible the US government will shut down its operations at the end of this month, depending on congressional action. A shutdown would have significant implications for many NASA missions, but most notably a couple of dozen in the science directorate that the White House would like to shut down. At Ars, we will be watching this issue closely in the coming days. As for Artemis II, it seems to be far enough a

Nvidia just spent over $900 million to hire Enfabrica CEO, license AI startup's technology

Co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., Jensen Huang attends the 9th edition of the VivaTech trade show in Paris on June 11, 2025. Nvidia has just shelled out over $900 million to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and other employees at the artificial intelligence hardware startup, and to license the company's technology, CNBC has learned. In a deal reminiscent of recent AI talent acquisitions made by Meta and Google , Nvidia is paying cash and stock in the transaction, accordin

Apple: SSH and FileVault

When FileVault is enabled, the data volume is locked and unavailable during and after booting, until an account has been authenticated using a password. The macOS version of OpenSSH stores all of its configuration files, both system-wide and per-account, in the data volume. Therefore, the usually configured authentication methods and shell access are not available during this time. However, when Remote Login is enabled, it is possible to perform password authentication using SSH even in this sit

You should update your Samsung phone ASAP - this zero-day flaw just got patched

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Samsung issued a patch for a zero-day vulnerability. Android devices are affected by ongoing attacks in the wild. Samsung users should accept security updates immediately. Samsung recently issued a patch to resolve a critical vulnerability impacting its Android smartphone users. All impacted phone models will receive the fix, which patches a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-21043. The security fla

When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail"

BY RINDALA ALAJAJI | September 17, 2025 This is the second instalment in a ten-part blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. During our Stop Censoring Abortion campaign, we set out to collect and spotlight the growing number of stories from people and organizations that have had abortion-related content removed, suppressed, or flagged by dominant social media platforms. Our survey submissions have revealed some alarmi

I Watched Every Jimmy Kimmel Monologue Since Charlie Kirk Was Killed and All I Got Was This Sinking Feeling

Jimmy Kimmel became the latest casualty in President Donald Trump’s war on the media on Wednesday when news broke that ABC would be putting the comedian’s late night show on hold indefinitely. And if you’re trying to figure out what Kimmel said that was so offensive, you’re not alone. I watched every monologue that Kimmel has delivered on his ABC show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, since Charlie Kirk was murdered in Utah on Sept. 10. I was expecting there to be something shocking that would at least warra

FCC derided as “Federal Censorship Commission” after pushing Jimmy Kimmel off ABC

ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel's show off the air yesterday, shortly after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr urged the Disney-owned company to take action against Kimmel or face consequences at the FCC over Kimmel's comments about Charlie Kirk's killer. Carr appeared on right-wing commentator Benny Johnson's podcast yesterday and said, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly on Kimmel, or there's going

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Automatic differentiation can be incorrect

ISCL Seminar Series The Numerical Analysis of Differentiable Simulation: How Automatic Differentiation of Physics Can Give Incorrect Derivatives Scientific machine learning (SciML) relies heavily on automatic differentiation (AD), the process of constructing gradients which include machine learning integrated into mechanistic models for the purpose of gradient-based optimization. While these differentiable programming approaches pitch an idea of “simply put the simulator into a loss function a

The New ‘Batman’ Run Is 2025’s Best-Selling Comic Yet

Two weeks after Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez’s Batman began, it’s already hit a massive milestone. According to a press release, the inaugural comic has sold over 500,000 copies, making it the current top-selling comic of 2025. As the Hollywood Reporter notes, Invincible Universe: Battle Beast #1 from Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley, and Annalisa Leoni and Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee’s Batman #158—the start of their still-ongoing Hush sequel, which Fraction and Jiménez’s run is set after—take second

DACLab says it can remove CO2 using less electricity than many competitors

The world’s countries may have pledged to cut its carbon pollution, but with global emissions reaching an all-time high last year they’ve fallen far short. Digging out of that hole is going to require removing carbon straight from the atmosphere. But it comes with a hefty price tag, mostly because of the energy required. Removing one metric ton of CO 2 using direct air capture is expected to require around 2,000 kWh of electricity when the technology is sorted and scaled up. One startup called

Jaguar Smashes Record for the Species’ Longest Recorded Swim, Baffling Scientists

Despite what they say about cats and water, jaguars are powerful swimmers. These predators rarely stray from the rivers and wetlands that permeate their rainforest habitat, and they readily dive in to hunt for prey. Usually, these dips are relatively brief: Until now, the farthest jaguar swim on record was just 656 feet (200 meters). But now, scientists have observed a jaguar in Brazil smashing that record as if they were a feline Michael Phelps, with the big cat seemingly paddling for more tha