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Netflix has released a trailer for Greta Gerwig's adaptation of C.S. Lewis' The Magician's Nephew, scored to Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" and featuring striking, psychedelic visuals. Gerwig has said the film draws inspiration from 1960s David Bowie but will not be a musical.
Audible has produced an Original audio drama based on Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' featuring actors Jonathan Bailey, Ella Purnell and Maggie Gyllenhaal. The production is staged as an intimate, ASMR-style theatrical performance rather than a traditional audiobook reading.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that the first wave of business AI adoption focused mainly on productivity tasks like drafting emails, summarizing meetings and generating marketing content. The piece contends a second, more consequential wave is emerging where AI gets embedded directly into specialized operational workflows, such as turning product ideas into executable instructions for development and manufacturing.
Google has quietly changed Android behavior so a device's phone number is automatically verified and linked to every Google account signed in on it, including secondary, work, and throwaway accounts. Users discovered this after receiving unsolicited emails from a Google phone-verification address, and the change appears to have been made to Google's support documentation between August and October 2025. The setting can be disabled via Settings > Google > All Services > Privacy & Security > Phone number verification.
Startup Hiyd has built a thin, 7-gram sensor disc that attaches to the back of any watch using microsuction, a textured silicone material that creates a vacuum seal without magnets or adhesive. The device tracks metrics like heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep stages, movement, calories burned, and VO2 max, syncing data to a companion iOS or Android app. Founder Salah Batroukh says the team is training its AI by filming and labeling their own activities, such as walking, jogging, and running.
A new survey finds that 70% of Americans intend to make purchases during this year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales events. The report ties the trend to growing emphasis on bargain hunting as a core part of holiday shopping plans.
Palo Alto Networks disclosed a high-severity PAN-OS flaw, rated 8.6, that lets authenticated attackers with management-interface access execute code as root. The company said it observed limited exploitation in the wild and has released patches for PAN-OS 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1 and 12.2, with a fix for 11.2.16 due October 15. The flaw affects PA-Series and VM-Series firewalls and Panorama appliances, but not Cloud NGFW or Prisma Access.
McKinsey & Company will have some entry-level candidates for business-analyst roles complete a 10-minute conversation with an AI-simulated client as part of its interview process, according to The Wall Street Journal. The simulation is meant to reflect about 80% of scenarios consultants typically face, not to stress-test applicants with extreme behavior, and human interviewers—not the AI—will evaluate performance. The pilot runs this fall in select North American offices and could involve hundreds of undergraduate applicants.
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan told CNBC the bank brought on 1,000 outside contractors in the second quarter to patch software vulnerabilities exposed by advanced AI models, including Anthropic's Mythos. Those contractors remain in place alongside the bank's existing 3,000-person team, and Moynihan said the bank spent over $200 million in the third quarter on remediation and related anti-money-laundering compliance work.
A research team, along with academic collaborators, released a paper in the journal Cell introducing open tools designed to evaluate AI models and help scientists identify potential drug targets in aging biology. The work is framed as part of a broader effort to apply AI to longevity research, offering new methods both for finding interventions and for studying their effects in people.
Deezer announced a new on/off switch that will let users completely remove AI-generated tracks from their streaming experience, set to roll out by the end of 2026. CEO Alexis Lanternier said the feature responds to clear user demand to focus only on content made by human creators. Deezer says AI-generated tracks now make up more than 50 percent of uploads to its platform, up from 18 percent last year, with about 90,000 AI tracks uploaded daily.
A military intelligence source and internal documents describe Task Force Raider, a U.S. Cyber Command unit based in San Antonio, Texas, working within a government-wide election security group ahead of the midterms. The unit's activities reportedly include sending mass anonymous text and voice messages abroad, deleting social media posts, and taking down websites, with the mission reportedly designated a 'no fail' top priority by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.