JustWatch, best known as a guide for finding where to stream content, announced at the Toronto International Film Festival that it will launch its own platform called JustWatch TV in October. The service will offer three tiers: a free ad-supported option, rental/purchase titles, and a paid ad-free subscription, with initial content from Fremantle, Paramount and Bleecker Street. It will launch across the US, UK, Canada, and several European and Oceania markets, with plans to expand further.
WIRED is producing a special issue on gender and power in Silicon Valley and will record a live episode of its Uncanny Valley podcast in San Francisco on October 8. The event, co-presented with KQED, features a conversation between former WIRED writer Paulina Borsook and editorial director Katie Drummond, followed by a panel with Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer and Lauren Goode discussing Goode's search for the most powerful woman in tech.
Shoppers looking to save money on smartphones often encounter listings labeled 'pre-owned,' 'used,' or 'refurbished,' terms that sound similar but carry different meanings. A refurbished phone has typically been inspected, cleaned, tested, and repaired with replacement parts as needed, while a pre-owned phone is usually sold as-is without such processing.
A year-end review of 2026's major hacks highlights an unresolved controversy over the Department of Government Efficiency's access to Social Security Administration data. Ongoing federal lawsuits and a whistleblower's claims allege DOGE staff uploaded a live copy of the Social Security database to an unsecured third-party server, potentially exposing sensitive personal information tied to most living Americans. The broader roundup also notes a year marked by ransomware, nation-state attacks on infrastructure, and data weaponization by governments.
A dark web marketplace called Nexus was found selling access to a database containing roughly 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver's licenses and 3 million travel documents, according to Krebs on Security. The breach appears linked to identity verification firm IDScan, which is now investigating, while the FBI has also opened a probe; the Nexus listing vanished from the dark web after the report but its operators have not claimed to have deleted the stolen data.
A developer released scipgo, an open-source Go library that wraps the SCIP solver for mixed integer and nonlinear programming problems. It mirrors the API design of russcip, an existing Rust crate for SCIP, making it straightforward for developers familiar with either language to switch between them.
Amazon is offering a 25% discount on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic's 46mm LTE model, lowering the cost of Samsung's premium smartwatch. The deal brings the flagship wearable down to a more accessible price point for shoppers considering a cellular-enabled smartwatch.
Nitter and its downstream service XCancel, which let users read X posts without logging in or seeing ads, have gone offline following a cease-and-desist from X. Nitter's GitHub repository is now archived and read-only, while XCancel posted a notice saying it must suspend operations due to ongoing legal proceedings.
Tech leaders including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk have pushed for greater federal oversight of artificial intelligence, but President Trump has dismissed such calls as a 'conspiracy.' Congressional Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance and Speaker Mike Johnson, are largely holding back, while Democrats like Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Jon Ossoff are pressing for more aggressive action.
Roblox announced 'Roblox Everywhere,' a plan to let creators release their games as standalone apps on mobile, PC, and consoles while Roblox still handles the engine and backend. The move comes as Roblox's creator earnings hit $1.7 billion, with the top 10 creators averaging $65 million each even as the median creator earned only about $1,500. Roblox also confirmed cross-play will remain on by default, keeping standalone games tied into its main network.
OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed the company has spent weeks in discussions with Anthropic and Google DeepMind about managing catastrophic risks from advanced AI. The disclosure follows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's public essay urging industry-wide cooperation to slow frontier AI development, which drew support from Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis. Lehane said the firms don't need a government waiver to coordinate, despite antitrust concerns raised by some executives.
Apple's iOS 27 update introduces a new 'Siri' mode in the Camera app that uses AI to identify and act on what the camera sees, such as translating text or adding event details to a calendar. The update also lets users customize which controls appear in each camera mode, while iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max owners get exclusive tools including manual aperture, shutter speed, white balance, a histogram viewer, and upgraded Photographic Styles with texture and grain adjustments.
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