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There Goes the American Muscle Car

PONTIAC, Michigan—Traveling a fair amount for work outside of major metros requires relying on rental cars. And relying on rental cars quickly teaches you that while you might reserve a standard sedan every time, there is no reason to expect the rental car agency to actually give you the keys to a sedan when you show up at the counter. Eventually, you realize your fate is entirely in the hands of the rental car gods, and the rental car gods are capricious gods. Sometimes, the rental car gods f

Meet Freddy Fazbear and Friends at Halloween Horror Nights’ ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ House

Take a look inside the Five Nights at Freddy’s house at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights. It looks like a real Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza location right out of the mind of game creator Scott Cawthon and Emma Tammi’s cinematic adaptation. io9 was invited to a behind-the-scenes walkthrough of the Hollywood attraction based on the video game and Blumhouse film franchise, opening at HHN ahead of December’s Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. Creative director John Murdy took us through to highlight th

Tesla Sales Nosedive 40% in Europe as Market Share Drops to 1%

Sales of Elon Musk’s Tesla have plunged by approximately 40% in Europe over the first half of 2025, according to new data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA). The decline is just the latest effect from increased pressure from Chinese automakers—particularly BYD—that are gaining ground in the rapidly expanding electric vehicle (EV) market on the continent. But European consumers have also shown a dislike for Musk’s very visible politics, which may be making it a less p

Teams Grow Organically

I’ve been working a lot with service line architecture recently. If you’re not familiar with that; it’s how business units such as IT, HR, or Sales bring services to clients, both internal and external. These structures often mirror team organization. Think of it as a hierarchy: IT at level one, Software Development and Ops at level two, and then individual teams, like: Software Team X or Ops Team Y, at level three. What’s surprising is how rarely these structures reflect reality. In practice,

Tesla Sales Nosedive 40% in Europe As Market Share Drops To 1%

Sales of Elon Musk’s Tesla have plunged by approximately 40% in Europe over the first half of 2025, according to new data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA). The decline is just the latest effect from increased pressure from Chinese automakers—particularly BYD—that are gaining ground in the rapidly expanding electric vehicle (EV) market on the continent. But European consumers have also shown a dislike for Musk’s very visible politics, which may be making it a less p

The best alternatives to Spotify for listening to music

is a reviews editor who manages how-tos and various projects. She’s worked as an editor and writer (and occasional sci-fi author) for more years than she cares to admit to. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. When this article was originally written in February 2022, the big Spotify controversy was that artists were abandoning the audio service in protest of the company’s contract with podcaster Joe Rogan, and some subscribers were deciding t

ARMSX2 is the future of PS2 emulation on Android, and you can try it now

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR ARMSX2 is an upcoming Android fork of the PS2 emulator PCSX2. Test builds are now available, with the open-source 1.0 release coming to GitHub. This has the potential to overtake AetherSX2, which is based on an outdated PSCX2 build. While it’s certainly playable, PS2 emulation on Android has largely stagnated since AetherSX2 was abandoned in early 2023. Other devs have done an incredible job tweaking the closed-source code to add new features, but thos

Apple Music Now Lets You Transfer Playlists From Spotify: Here's Why You May Want To

Apple Music app customers woke up to a new feature Tuesday, although not many know it exists yet. Apple Music subscribers can now grab songs or playlists from other music platforms, notably Spotify, and bring them to Apple. The ability to transfer music from other music services is buried in the Music App settings. Initially tested in Australia and New Zealand last year, this transfer option has now been rolled out to the US, UK, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany and several other countries. It's

IT system supplier cyberattack impacts 200 municipalities in Sweden

A cyberattack on Miljödata, an IT systems supplier for roughly 80% of Sweden’s municipal systems, has caused accessibility problems in more than 200 regions of the country. In addition to the service disruption, there are concerns that attackers also stole sensitive data. Local media report that the threat actor demanded a ransom of 1.5 (currently around $168,000) Bitcoins from Miljödata in exchange for not leaking stolen information. Miljödata is a Swedish software company that develops and p

Recorder on the Pixel 10 is ready to turn your ideas into full-blown songs

TL;DR Google’s Recorder app for Pixels already taps into the company’s AI smarts for features like transcription. Now Google’s adding a new tool that generates music to accompany your recordings of song ideas. Give Recorder 30 seconds of a tune, tell it the vibe you’re looking for, and the app fills in the rest. Taking advantage of your smartphone to quickly record audio notes for yourself is one tool that far too few of use frequently enough. And if you’re using a Pixel, you have even less r

John Williams Thinks Film Music Is Mid

John Williams is a composer who needs no introduction. Over the span of his 70-year career, he has crafted scores for over 100 films, earning five Academy Awards and 54 Oscar nominations with his work on seminal pop culture films, including Superman, Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, and Home Alone. However, the legendary composer, now 93, says he doesn’t think too highly of film music. In a recent interview with the Guardian, Williams said that, despite the power film music has as

The Top 5 Multivitamins for Men in 2025

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics recommends that men who are missing key vitamins from their diets, lack regular physical activity or adequate amounts of sleep take a multivitamin. Men specifically require a multivitamin that contains some of the following. Vitamin A Found in cantaloupe, carrots, eggs and milk, vitamin A (along with carotenoids, a version of vitamin A found in plant sources) is important for eye health. According to the CDC, only 10% of US adults meet the vegetable intak

Onimusha: Way of the Sword Interview: Resurrecting a Series After 20 Years

Since its arrival on PlayStation 2 in 2001, the Onimusha series has been recognized for blending a mix of Resident Evil-style action horror with historically inspired Japanese samurai combat. Now, after lying dormant for over two decades, players will soon enter Edo-era Kyoto as Musashi Miyamoto, the new wielder of the Oni Gauntlet, in Onimusha: Way of the Sword. At Gamescom 2025, I sat down with Akihito Kadowaki, producer of Onimusha: Way of the Sword, to chat about the upcoming Onimusha game,

Apple Music radio stations are now available outside of Apple Music for the first time

In what appears to be a marketing effort for its subscription service, Apple has partnered with TuneIn to offer the free Apple Music radio stations outside of the Apple Music app for the first time. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, starting today, all six of the Apple live music radio stations will be made available to listen to on TuneIn. TuneIn reports more than 75 million monthly active users, spanning a variety of platforms and devices. Live radio has been a key element of Apple Mus

3 Things James O’Donnell is into right now

Overthink This is a podcast in which two very smart people (who happen to be young and hilarious professors of philosophy) draw unexpected philosophical connections between facets of modern life. Ellie Anderson and David Peña-Guzmán have done hour-long episodes on everything from mommy issues to animal justice, with particularly sharp segments on tech-adjacent issues like biohacking and the relationship between AI and art. Whenever I think society is dealing with a brand-new problem, these two

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QEMU 10.1.0

Release schedule: Planning/10.1. System emulation Removed features and incompatible changes Consult the 'Removed features' page for details of suggested replacement functionality. New deprecated options and features Consult the "Deprecated Features" chapter of the QEMU System Emulation User's Guide for further details of the deprecations and their suggested replacements. 68k Alpha Arm New CPU architectural features emulated: FEAT_SME2 FEAT_SME2p1 FEAT_SME_B16B16 FEAT_SME_F16F16 FEAT_SVE

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SpaceX Suddenly Seems Pretty Terrified to Launch Starship After Long String of Super Expensive Explosions

For years, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been stridently glib when his rockets explode during tests, quipping that the blasts were "just a scratch," a "minor setback," or a "rapid unscheduled disassembly." He's still deploying these jokey ripostes, but there's reason to believe the walls may be starting to close in for SpaceX's efforts on Starship, as more and more of the ultra-expensive spacecraft fail in spectacular public view. The issue is that he's bet the future of the company on the massive

One-shot vaccines for HIV and covid

Irvine and MIT professor J. Christopher Love, the senior authors of a paper on the work, had found that the combination helped generate more robust immune responses. In the new paper, they showed that the dual-adjuvant vaccine accumulated in the lymph nodes, where white blood cells known as B cells encounter antigens and undergo rapid mutations that generate new antibodies. The vaccine’s antigens remained there for up to a month, allowing the immune system to build up a much greater number and d

Reimagining sound and space

“It would be very difficult to teach biology or engineering in a studio designed for dance or music,” Jay Scheib, section head for Music and Theater Arts, told MIT News shortly before the building officially opened. “The same goes for teaching music in a mathematics or chemistry classroom. In the past, we’ve done it, but it did limit us.” He said the new space would allow MIT musicians to hear their music as it was intended to be heard and “provide an opportunity to convene people to inhabit the

Listen to the ‘Tron: Ares’ Soundtrack the Way It’s Meant to Be Heard: On Tape

Along with the digital release of the Tron: Ares soundtrack, Nine Inch Nails is playing up the nostalgic music tech sensibilities of the franchise with its score on physical media. Collectors will be able to snag not only multiple vinyl variants of the music from the upcoming Walt Disney Pictures release but also a special edition cassette tape, which, for us ’90s NIN fans, is how we first listened to the industrial rock act. The analog release will only be available through the Nine Inch Nails

Beat-driven puzzler Lumines Arise will overload your senses on November 11

Fans of music-driven puzzlers loved 2018's block-dropping puzzle game Tetris Effect . The same publisher behind it, Enhance, revived another Tetris-inspired game called Lumines and created indie darling Lumines Remastered . Now Lumines is getting the full Enhance treatment a la Tetris Effect, in the form of Lumines Arise, a new title set to be released on November 11. We got a chance to go hands-on with the music-driven, block-dropping puzzle game earlier this summer. The game's sensory-rich ef

Elon Musk Just Suffered a Humiliating Defeat in China

So far, 2025 hasn't exactly been a year of resounding success for centibillionaire Elon Musk's AI efforts. The richest man on earth has struggled to get xAI's Grok off the ground, with setbacks taking the form of privacy scandals, misinformation controversies, not to mention a highly-public white supremacy episode. And now, more than a month after Musk promised to roll Grok out to Teslas "next week," it turns out a Chinese AI model will be taking the chatbot's place. According to Bloomberg, T

Easily switch from Spotify to Apple Music in the US; Spotify DMs

Earlier this year, we saw an Apple Music tool intended to make it easier to switch from Spotify, and that tool is now available in more countries, including the US. But wait! Are you sure you really want to do that when Spotify has just rolled out its very latest feature? Direct messages … Spotify to Apple Music transfer tool First seen in beta last year, Apple started a slow roll out of the transfer tool this year, beginning with Australia and New Zealand. The feature has now come to the US

Alexis Ohanian’s Next Social Platform Has One Rule: Don’t Act Like an Asshole

What you're basically telling everyone is: You can go over there and talk about Jigglypuff, and go over here and spew your racist, hateful crap. And it normalizes the latter. There are plenty of places on the internet to go find that stuff. Just not at our Javits Center, so to speak. The other thing that real life does really nicely, if we keep pushing this analogy, is if you show up in the Pokémon Con and you start spewing really crazy stuff, you get a response from the people around you. At

Musk firms sue Apple and OpenAI, alleging they hurt competition

Musk firms sue Apple and OpenAI, alleging they hurt competition 11 hours ago Share Save Natalie Sherman BBC News Share Save Getty Images Two Elon Musk-backed businesses have officially sued Apple and OpenAI, accusing them of joining forces illegally to block threats from potential competitors. The lawsuit, filed in the US by X and xAI, takes aim at Apple's decision to integrate OpenAI's chatbot into the operating systems of its smartphones, an exclusive arrangement that it says violated compe

Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

If you haven’t been watching closely, you could be forgiven for assuming that Bluesky is a just liberal Twitter clone, or a newfangled imitator of Mastodon. But under the surface, something fascinating has been happening: this is the first time ever that a public benefit corporation with a small team has quickly scaled an open source social network, built on top of decentralized infrastructure, to tens of millions of users. For us at New_ Public, nothing illustrates the potential of this model

Elon Musk sues Apple and OpenAI, revealing his panic over OpenAI dominance

After a public outburst over Grok's App Store rankings, on Monday, Elon Musk followed through on his threat to sue Apple and OpenAI. At first, Musk appeared fixated on ChatGPT consistently topping Apple's "Must Have" app list—which Grok has never made—claiming Apple seemed to preference OpenAI, an Apple partner, over all chatbot rivals. But Musk's filing shows that the X and xAI owner isn't just trying to push for more Grok downloads on iPhones—he's concerned that Apple and OpenAI have teamed u

The Feud Between Grok and ChatGPT Just Got Real

Elon Musk has been accusing OpenAI and Apple of engaging in some sort of corporate conspiracy to inhibit smaller AI companies (you know, like his own) from flourishing. Now, his company, xAI, is suing both firms, accusing them of having used “anticompetitive” practices to quash their competitors (again, you know, like Musk). The lawsuit, which was filed in Texas on Monday, argues that the two companies have colluded to make ChatGPT the “only generative AI chatbot that benefits from billions of

Make the Easy Change Hard

I'd say this is a setup for a joke later on in the blog post, except the joke doesn't even make sense, so I don't really know what this is. Generated by ChatGPT. There’s a semi-well-known adage in software development that says when you have a hard code change, you should “first make the hard change easy, and then make the easy change.” In other words, refactor the code (or do whatever else you need to do) to simplify the change you’re trying to make before trying to make the change. This is es

Social media's next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

If you haven’t been watching closely, you could be forgiven for assuming that Bluesky is a just liberal Twitter clone, or a newfangled imitator of Mastodon. But under the surface, something fascinating has been happening: this is the first time ever that a public benefit corporation with a small team has quickly scaled an open source social network, built on top of decentralized infrastructure, to tens of millions of users. For us at New_ Public, nothing illustrates the potential of this model