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Aaron Sorkin's film depicts Frances Haugen, a Facebook product manager, as she leaks internal documents to the Wall Street Journal and testifies before Congress, highlighting her efforts to expose platform issues. The movie combines real events with some timeline adjustments, notably placing key moments on January 6, 2021, instead of their actual dates.
Amazon is running a Prime Day lightning deal on the Toshiba M450 Series 43-inch QLED Fire TV, cutting its price from $329.99 to $139.99, a $190 saving. The TV features 4K UHD QLED display with direct-lit LED backlighting, Alexa support, REGZA AI Engine ZR Gen4 processing, and dual Power Audio speakers. Amazon Prime membership is required to access the discount.
Amazon's Prime Day 2026 ran June 23-26 exclusively for Prime members, covering millions of deals across more than 35 categories. AWS published performance metrics from the event, including DynamoDB processing over 59 trillion requests at a peak of 192 million per second, Lambda handling 2.3 trillion daily invocations, and EBS peaking at 24.8 trillion I/O operations.
Noitom Robotics has published HiPHI, a whole-body human motion dataset totaling 617.5 hours captured with optical motion capture accurate to sub-millimeter precision. Of that, 245.7 hours cover human-object interaction with synchronized object trajectories and meshes, and the data is organized using FrameNet, a linguistic framework for categorizing human actions. A white paper from IEEE Spectrum and Wiley describes the dataset and shows reinforcement learning policies trained on it transferring from simulation to a physical humanoid robot.
Microsoft has confirmed that the Surface Laptop Ultra will launch on October 16th, with starting prices at $2,599 for the base model. The device features a 15-inch HDR touchscreen, Nvidia RTX Spark chip, and a range of ports, targeting high-end users in creative, gaming, and AI fields. Higher configurations are available, with the most expensive reaching nearly $6,000.
A Jordanian teenager known as 'Rey,' identified by KrebsOnSecurity as Saif Al-din Khader, was detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the ShinyHunters hacking group. The detention occurred while ShinyHunters was extorting a business unit recently spun off from Boeing, and came weeks after Rey took over the group's operations following the arrest of another member in the Netherlands, boasting about breaching an FBI site and extorting the ransomware group Cl0p via an Oracle PeopleSoft vulnerability.
Microsoft has opened preorders for its Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a high-performance AI and development machine priced at $5,999, with shipments expected in November. The device features Nvidia’s RTX Spark platform, 128GB of memory, and a design inspired by gaming consoles, targeting developers working on AI models and coding tools.
Tab, a personal AI assistant accessible via text on iMessage or WhatsApp, announced Tuesday it has emerged from stealth with a $300 million valuation. The company, founded this year by Brennan Erbz, Stafford Schlitt, and Ammar Amdani, did not disclose specific funding figures but named SV Angel, Valar Ventures, and American Spirit as investors. Tab handles tasks like ordering groceries or booking travel on users' behalf using its own phone number, computer, and wallet.
Microsoft unveiled a new magnetic charging feature called Magnetic Connect for the Surface Laptop Ultra, which attaches to the right-side USB-C port. The magnetic connection is designed to be simple to use, with the connector snapping into place when brought close. Despite the magnetic feature, the USB-C port remains fully functional for data, video, and other connections.
Google has released Snooze Jump, a dream-themed single-player platformer available through its Google Playground collection. The game offers a Normal Mode for relaxed play and a Speedrun Mode for competitive, high-stakes runs through a cloud-climbing level design.
Amazon's Prime Big Deals Days 2026 sale includes discounts on Nintendo Switch 2 accessories such as a 20-in-1 Meneea accessory kit, now $29.74 instead of $34.99, and an amFilm matte screen protector down to $11.04 from $12.99. The Nintendo Switch 2 Camera, which enables party chat video with 1080p resolution, is also listed at its regular $49.99 price.
YouTube is testing a new desktop layout that relocates comments and video details into a right-hand sidebar while placing enlarged recommended-video thumbnails below the player. The test appears to be reaching more web users, and reports on Reddit describe the resulting watch page as cramped and cluttered. A similar layout was tested and rolled back in 2024 after user backlash.