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Amazon-owned Zoox is offering free rides in a fleet of about 100 purpose-built robotaxis in San Francisco, using a Rider Lounge and partnerships with local restaurants and landmarks to build public awareness. The company still lacks permission to charge passengers in California, so it's using free trips to establish a presence against Waymo, which operates nearly 4,000 vehicles in the city.
Apple and Google have each released premium foldable phones—the iPhone Duo and Pixel 11 Pro Fold—that carry IP68 durability ratings, a first for foldables in terms of dust and water protection. The Duo starts at $1,999 with preorders opening Oct. 16 ahead of an Oct. 23 launch, while the $1,899 Pixel 11 Pro Fold is already on sale. The two differ mainly in form factor: the Pixel uses a book-style fold with a standard-size cover screen, while the Duo has a shorter, wider passport-style design.
A new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, titled You Can See Everything and helmed by Nathan Fielder, has drawn attention through a deliberately secretive promotional campaign. Rather than revealing plot details, the marketing leans on withholding information to spark curiosity among moviegoers. Early signs suggest the approach is successfully generating buzz ahead of release.
A drone light show used 2,977 individually flown drones—one for each victim of the September 11 attacks—to recreate the original Minoru Yamasaki-designed World Trade Center towers at full architectural scale. Organizers faced significant logistical hurdles, including securing a launch site capable of supporting the massive coordinated flight.
Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 recovery feature called Cloud Rebuild in Insider Beta Preview Build 26220.9343. It reinstalls Windows directly from Windows Update even when the existing installation is corrupted or won't boot, eliminating the need for a USB recovery drive. The tool is accessed through the Windows Recovery Environment, which can now also reuse saved Wi-Fi credentials to connect during recovery.
Rumors are spreading across social media and podcasts that President Trump has a prepared speech confirming extraterrestrial life exists, though no such address has surfaced publicly. The buzz stems from real developments: Dr. Phil says he was given access to unreleased government UAP files, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed Stephen Miller now oversees the UAP portfolio, and a former Navy admiral advising the government calls the current openness unprecedented.
Meta says it has corrected an issue in its AI assistant after a viral video showed the tool generating an invasive suggested question, 'Who is the child passenger?', beneath a Facebook video of Instagram user Kalie Robins and her daughter. Robins says the chatbot then pulled together details about her children's ages, location, and even old deleted photos from posts made by her and her relatives.
The Toronto International Film Festival kicked off its annual lineup, featuring new work from Takashi Miike, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Werner Herzog, and a four-hour Elon Musk documentary. Among the festival's early standouts is 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,' starring John Turturro as an aging, technophobic thief navigating a city that has moved on to smartphones. The film hits theaters October 30th.
AMC Theatres, fresh off the highest-grossing weekend in its 106-year history with over 10.2 million admissions across AMC and Odeon locations, is starting its own distribution arm. The move comes because even strong box-office demand hasn't solved a deeper problem: studios simply aren't releasing enough films to keep theater screens consistently filled.
A veteran smart-home reviewer argues that Apple's next major hardware push should be a dedicated home computer that processes data locally rather than another cloud-connected screen. She notes that new CEO John Ternus described the iPhone using language—an 'intelligent personal hub' focused on local processing and privacy—that better fits a smart home hub than a phone. The piece also points to Anker's Eufy MindBase, shown at IFA Berlin, as an early example of this 'super hub' category supporting Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Thread, Zigbee and Matter.
Huntress' Security Operations Center reports that over the past nine months, attackers have been abusing legitimate sharing features on AI platforms—like Claude Artifacts, claude.ai/share links, and indexable ChatGPT and Grok conversations—to distribute malware. These campaigns exploit the trust users place in familiar AI branding, often surviving only hours or days before the platforms take the content down.
Anthropic's latest misuse report covers activity from November 2025 to September 2026 and details five cases where users tried to get its Claude AI to assist with dangerous biological research, three involving viruses and two involving toxins. In one instance, a request framed as a civilian grant application to enhance the chikungunya virus's mutation rate and virulence was traced to a military facility, prompting Anthropic to intervene. The company says all the actors used anonymization tools and tried to bypass its regional access blocks, which cover countries including China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.