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An Odd Trio of ‘Halloween’ Movies Is Returning to Theaters

The latest movies to come back to theaters are the Halloween franchise, which makes sense since it’s spooky season. But instead of just the original film or the more recent trilogy, we’re getting three installments that’ve been surprisingly grouped together. Along with the original 1978 Halloween, both Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers are also coming back to the big screen. The trio’s cinematic return comes courtesy of Trancas International

Congressman Calmly Explains There Are "Entities" Coming From “Five or Six Deepwater Areas”

Bet you didn't have this on your 2025 bingo card. Yesterday, a baffling video started making the rounds on social media showing Tennessee representative Tim Burchett casually claim that alien entities are here on Earth, and that they're rising out of the ocean. "What if, these are entities that are here on this earth, that have been on this earth for who knows how long, and we think they're coming from way out," he says while strolling along the streets of DC, the Capital rotunda glowing in th

No One Knows What ‘Terminally Online’ Means Anymore

In the days following the shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, there’s been a scramble to understand the politics of the situation. The effort to ascribe a specific political affiliation and motive to 22-year-old suspect Tyler Robinson—with President Donald Trump and his followers blaming “the radical left”—has led to serious investigation and scrutiny being applied to all the publicly available details of his life before, during, and after his alleged crime. In particular, there’s bee

Netskope soars 18% on first day of trading, reaches $8.6 billion market cap

In this article NTSK Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT watch now Netskope jumped more than 18% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, pushing the cybersecurity firm to $8.6 billion in market value. The stock debuted at $23 under the ticker symbol "NTSK," after Netskope sold shares at $19 on Wednesday at the top end of its recently upped pricing range. The sale raised over $908 million. CEO and co-founder Sanjay Beri said in an interview with CNBC ahead of the first trade that the offer

Meta Ray-Ban (1st Gen) vs. Ray-Ban (2nd Gen): I compared both smart glasses, and there's a clear winner

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The Meta Ray-Bans are arguably the most successful AI hardware product in the past three years, with enough momentum to encourage Mark Zuckerberg to spend 80% of this week's Meta Connect keynote discussing the past, present, and future of smart glasses. Also: I used the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, and they offer 2 breakthroughs to take us beyond smartphones While much of the fanfare was reserved for the new Ray-Ban Dis

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TIC-80 – Tiny Computer

TIC-80 tiny computer v1.1.2837 TIC-80 is a free and open source fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games. There are built-in tools for development: code, sprites, maps, sound editors and the command line, which is enough to create a mini retro game. At the exit you will get a cartridge file, which can be stored and played on the website. Also, the game can be packed into a player that works on all popular platforms and distribute as you wish. To make a retro styled game the

FTC Sues Ticketmaster Over ‘Deceptive’ Ticket Pricing Tactics

The FTC and seven states have sued Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation for allegedly “deceptive” ticket resale tactics, according to a press release Thursday. The federal regulatory agency says that Ticketmaster is “tacitly coordinating with brokers,” allowing them to buy millions of dollars worth of tickets, just to resell them at a higher cost to the person who actually wants to attend a given concert. The FTC says Ticketmaster is also aware of ticket brokers regularly bypassing s

No One Knows What 'Terminally Online' Means Anymore

In the days following the shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, there’s been a scramble to understand the politics of the situation. The effort to ascribe a specific political affiliation and motive to 22-year-old suspect Tyler Robinson—with President Donald Trump and his followers blaming “the radical left”—has led to serious investigation and scrutiny being applied to all the publicly available details of his life before, during and after his alleged crime. In particular, there’s been

Nvidia and Intel’s $5 billion deal is apparently about eating AMD’s lunch

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Today, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan held a joint webcast to explain just why the world’s most valuable company (Nvidia’s at $4.28 trillion) is throwing a $5 billion lifeline to a struggling competitor. And, Huang insisted, it’s not

Mark Zuckerberg Humiliated as AI Glasses Debut Fails in Front of Huge Crowd

On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a slew of new augmented reality glasses, including what he claimed to be the "first AI glasses with high resolution," a new $799 version of its Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses that features a tiny screen that's viewable to the wearer. But it didn't take long for the company's MetaConnect 2025 keynote to descend into chaos. The social media giant's demos repeatedly failed, leading to awkward stares, deafening silences, and muted laughter. The poor show

The FTC sues Ticketmaster for allegedly colluding with resellers

The FTC and seven states sued Ticketmaster owner Live Nation on Wednesday. The lawsuit accused the company of knowingly allowing brokers to buy tickets in bulk. Ticketmaster allegedly then let them resell the tickets at a significant markup on its own second-hand market. The FTC claims Ticketmaster was aware that resellers routinely bypassed its security measures for these purchases. The company profits three times from resales. It collects fees at the initial purchase, followed by both buyer a

Meta will let outside developers create AI-powered apps for its smart glasses

Meta's lineup of smart glasses could soon get a lot more capabilities. The company will begin allowing outside developers to bring their apps to its RayBan and Oakley smart glasses, Meta announced on the second day of its Connect event. Up to now, Meta has only had a limited number of third-party integrations for its glasses, with apps like Spotify and Audible. But Meta will now allow developers to start experimenting with apps that can take advantage of the built-in sensors and audio capabilit

Your Quest headset just got a big upgrade for free - see what it can do now

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Meta has announced three new features for the Quest headset. Horizon TV is a new hub for all your streaming content. Also new is a way to make a digital copy of your room. At this week's Meta Connect 2025 event, we got our expected peek at the company's upcoming smart glasses (three new versions are on the way), details on upgrades to its existing glasses, and a few other surprises. While the spo

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Samsung's Trifold Phone and AI Glasses Will Get Sept. 29 Launch, Reports Say

Is three better than two? Apparently, we're about to find out again. Samsung is expected to launch its Galaxy Z TriFold in South Korea on Sept. 29 in its third Unpacked event of 2025, according to Korean news sites. At the same time, the company will introduce its Project Moohan mixed-reality headset and AI smart glasses, reports said. CNN later reported that Samsung is considering introducing the phone in the US and other markets outside Korea. If Samsung does indeed unleash the Galaxy Z Tri

Tesla's Robotaxis Have Already Gotten Into Numerous Accidents

Tesla has been caught hiding details of three separate robotaxi accidents that happened since the launch of the service. As Electrek reports, the Elon Musk-led company reported the three crashes, which occurred in the early days of its pilot robotaxi service in Austin, to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA.) At the time, the company's robotaxi fleet of modified Model Y vehicles only consisted of "ten to 20" vehicles, according to Musk, which even had safety drivers sitti

AYANEO unexpectedly reveals a new mini handheld coming early next year

TL;DR During the Pocket AIR Mini launch, AYANEO surprised viewers with the reveal of the Pocket S Mini. The device is a 4:3 handheld with a Snapdragon G3x Gen 2 chip. The hardware is scheduled to launch in March 2026. Today, AYANEO launched the Pocket AIR Mini, providing a full look at the device, its specs, and price. In addition to this launch, however, the company had a surprise up its sleeve that we didn’t see coming. This surprise is a different handheld that is slated for early next yea

Discord will launch a native Meta Quest app next year

In addition to new hardware announcements, Meta had software news to share during its Meta Connect 2025 conference today. The company revealed that Discord will be making a native app for the Meta Quest headset. According to Meta, the native window app will be available some time in 2026. The development makes sense. VR is a platform with a lot of gaming presence, so having Discord for easy social and voice connections while playing is a win for players and a natural match for the two businesse

I took 1,000 photos with the Google Pixel 10 Pro's camera in Hawaii - and it blew my mind

Matthew Miller/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google's photo prowess may be the best out there due to its software tuning. The Pro Res Zoom brought to life objects that were barely visible to the naked eye. Night photography, seamless editing, and other features added to an amazing camera experience. After decades of covering mobile devices -- and a personal obsession with always having the latest and greatest smartphones -- I never travel

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Follow your favorite sites and creators in Google Discover - now with just one click

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Your Quest headset just got these new free features - see what you can do now

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Meta has announced three new features for the Quest headset. Horizon TV is a new hub for all your streaming content. Also new is a way to make a digital copy of your room. At today's Meta Connect 2025 event, we got our expected peek at the company's upcoming smart glasses (three new versions are on the way), details on upgrades to its existing glasses, and a few other surprises. While the spotlig

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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

We Finally Know How Much It Cost to Train China’s Astonishing DeepSeek Model

Remember when DeepSeek briefly shook up the entire artificial intelligence industry by launching its large language model, R1, that was trained for a fraction of the money that OpenAI and other big players were pouring into their models? Thanks to a new paper published by the DeepSeek AI team in the journal Nature, we finally know what it took to train DeepSeek 1: $294,000 and 512 Nvidia H800 chips. The reason it was able to spend less, it seems, is because of the team’s use of trial-and-error-b

Meta is opening up its smart glasses to developers

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Meta is going to let apps access the vision and audio capabilities of its smart glasses thanks to a new Wearable Device Access Toolkit for developers. “Our first version of the toolkit will open up access to a suite of on-device sensors— empowering you to start building features withi

Best early October Prime Day TV deals 2025: All time low prices from Samsung, LG, and more

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Linking to text fragments with a bookmarklet

Linking to text fragments with a bookmarklet One of my favourite features added to web browsers in the last few years is text fragments. Text fragments allow you to link directly to specific text on a web page, and some browsers will highlight the linked text – for example, by scrolling to it, or adding a coloured highlight. This is useful if I’m linking to a long page that doesn’t have linkable headings – I want it to be easy for readers to find the part of the page I was looking for. Here’s

OpenTelemetry Collector: What It Is, When You Need It, and When You Don't

Do you really need an OpenTelemetry Collector? If you're just sprinkling SDKs into a side project - maybe not. If you're running a multi-service production environment and care about cost, performance, security boundaries, or intelligent processing - yes, you almost certainly do. This post explains exactly what the OpenTelemetry Collector is, why it exists, how data flows with and without it, and the trade‑offs of each approach. You’ll leave with a decision framework, deployment patterns, and p

Luau – Fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua

In addition to a completely custom front end that implements parsing, linting and type checking, Luau runtime features new bytecode, interpreter and compiler that are heavily tuned for performance. Luau interpreter can be competitive with LuaJIT interpreter depending on the program. An optional component for manual Just-In-Time compilation is also available for x64 and arm64 platforms, which can considerably speed up certain programs. We continue to optimize the runtime and rewrite portions of i

The FTC is suing Ticketmaster for illegally ‘coordinating’ with brokers

The latest targets in the White House’s on-again-off-again antitrust war are Ticketmaster and Live Nation, two villains that everyone appears to agree on. The Federal Trade Commission is accusing Ticketmaster (which owns Live Nation) of allowing ticket brokers to illegally exceed limits on purchases and then profiting off the inflated resale value. Customers often pay significantly more than the face value because resellers have snatched up all the tickets. And when a ticket is resold through Ti

Microsoft is filling Teams with AI agents

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is adding a whole load of AI agents to Teams today, promising Copilot assistants for every channel, meeting, and community. The new agents will also work across SharePoint and Viva Engage, and are rolling out for Microsoft 365 Copilot users. Facilitator agents will now sit in o

Meta product chief Chris Cox says smart glasses are the future of computing

Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox said on Thursday that smart glasses are the future of computing devices. "We talk to them, we will see with them, we will use gestures the same way we interact with each other to interact with our computers," Cox told CNBC's Julia Boorstin. "The interfaces will get more natural, and so we certainly believe that the next really important wearable technology is going to be a pair of glasses." The $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, which were revealed on Wedne