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An annual photography competition has released its collection of humorous wildlife images, showcasing animals caught in unexpectedly comical poses and moments. The contest focuses on perfectly timed shots that capture unpredictable and playful animal behavior in natural settings.
A Tom's Guide tech writer compiled a list of 15 affordable gadgets currently discounted to under $50, including items as cheap as under $25, that they personally own and use. Among the featured deals is Rosewill's NVMe M.2 SSD Cloner, now $36.09 (28% off its $49.99 price) on Amazon, which lets users clone or transfer drives via a 20 Gbps USB-C connection without extra enclosures or software.
A tech writer reports that enabling Apple's Call Screening feature, introduced in iOS 26 with the 'Ask Reason for Calling' option, eliminated spam and scam calls impersonating their mobile carrier and fake job offers that had been arriving weekly. The feature requires callers to state their reason before the phone rings through to the user.
OpenAI released 722 manuscripts addressing progress on 372 significant mathematics problems, generated by an unreleased ChatGPT model, publishing them in a GitHub repository. The company said it largely followed release guidelines set by its advisory group AGMAI, including disclosing the model used and compute costs, though it withheld per-problem compute times and prompts. Claimed results include a solution to the four-dimensional Kakeya conjecture and progress toward the Riemann hypothesis.
A software blogging guide catalogs frequent mistakes made by beginner technical writers, with 'meandering intros' flagged as the most common problem. The author argues that many developers open posts with unnecessary backstory and context instead of quickly signaling who the piece is for and what benefit it offers, and recommends readers be given a clear reason to keep reading within the title and first three sentences.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu's new film Digger, starring Tom Cruise and marking his first English-language project since 2015's The Revenant, earned about $20 million globally in its opening weekend against a reported budget of $125 million or more. Reviews and audience reactions have been sharply divided, with some praising its unconventional structure and others calling it nearly unwatchable. The project originated years ago at Netflix with Leonardo DiCaprio attached before moving elsewhere.
Skydance-owned Paramount has completed its $81 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, a deal valued at $111 billion including debt. The combined company now holds a broad portfolio spanning film franchises, television networks including CNN, and streaming services such as HBO Max.
Amazon has discounted the Mammotion LUBA 3 AWD 3000 robot lawn mower to $2,109, down from its $2,799 list price, a $590 reduction. The wire-free mower is built for lawns up to about 0.75 acre and uses all-wheel drive plus a LiDAR, vision and RTK-based navigation system called Tri-Fusion for boundary-free, multi-zone mowing. The deal requires an active Amazon Prime membership.
A Verge newsletter examines BPC-157, an unapproved 'body protection compound' peptide popularized as part of the so-called Wolverine stack for injury recovery. A 2025 systematic review found only 35 preclinical studies and a single human clinical study on the substance, even as it racked up over 50 million YouTube and TikTok views in 2024 and a reported 1,600 percent rise in US web searches over five years.
Amazon and Target have discounted several Apple Watch Series 12 configurations by $50 for the duration of Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days. The 42mm GPS model drops from $399 to $349.99, with cellular versions costing $100 more, while the 46mm model starts at $399.99 and its cellular counterpart is $499.99. Apple's Watch SE 3 is also discounted to $199 during the same sale.
Qualcomm has agreed to a multiyear cross-license deal with Huawei covering patents tied to LogicFolding, the chip-stacking method used in Huawei's Kirin 9050 Pro, according to Bloomberg. The agreement reportedly spans 5G devices, AI services, optics and networking, and Qualcomm also plans to buy specific Huawei U.S. patents in compute, AI and networking technology. Neither company's public statements named LogicFolding or any specific chip, and the deal still requires approval.
A new film from writer-director Aaron Sorkin, titled The Social Reckoning, dramatizes the Wall Street Journal's Pulitzer-winning investigation into Facebook, known as 'The Facebook Files.' It follows reporter Jeff Horowitz, played by Jeremy Allen White, and whistleblower Frances Haugen, played by Mikey Madison, as she exposes internal research showing Instagram's harm to teen mental health and Facebook's algorithm promoting extremist content. The film depicts Haugen's path from Facebook engineer to congressional witness after she leaked internal documents in 2021.