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Under the Island officially landed on store shelves today, October 9, 2026, as developer Slime King Games and publisher SelectaPlay shipped boxed copies of the retro pixel-art adventure for PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch. The launch, confirmed by COGconnected, caps an eight-month run that started with a digital-only debut in February and ends with a…
Traders Just Bet on SpaceXAI Becoming SpaceXSI, and a Manifold Market Jumped to 58%. A Manifold prediction market asking whether Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI unit will rename itself to SpaceXSI, or another “SI” name, by the end of 2026 sits at a 58% implied probability of yes as of October 09, 2026. The contract saw roughly…
Will we “lose public key cryptography” by EoY 2028? A small Manifold market is suddenly one of the busiest offbeat contracts on the platform. The market sits at a 10% implied chance of YES as of October 09, 2026, yet roughly 29% of its all-time volume changed hands in a single day. The spark was…
C has run the world’s infrastructure since 1972. Rust showed up determined to take its job, one memory-safety bug at a time. In October 2026, that fight has stopped being theoretical. Google now ships roughly 5 million lines of Rust inside Android, the Linux kernel accepts Rust drivers in its mainline tree, and Rust just…
The barriers to building software have collapsed. Today, anyone can build. Hackathons are a great place to start learning. The post Hack the World: Why hackathons are still the best place to learn to build appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Security researchers have published a full working exploit for a pre-authentication remote code execution flaw in AnyDesk Linux that gives attackers root access before anyone approves the connection. AnyDesk patched the flaw in version 8.0.3 in June, but its changelog described the fix only as “fixed a bug that could lead to a crash,” with no CVE assigned and…
It’s gadget season, and a lot of companies are launching a lot of new products. But whether it’s Microsoft dropping a high-end laptop, Amazon shipping a fancy Android tablet, or Apple diving headlong into the smart home, the actual strategy appears to be almost always the same. All these companies believe AI assistants and agents…
Google’s new operating system is off to a rocky start. The five newly launched Googlebook laptops have hardware that ranges from great to excellent, but the software in its current state is the weak point. There are four of us on staff at The Verge actively testing Googlebooks and, frankly, our internal Slack discussions have…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Today’s AI models are trained to refuse a vast number of prompts. If you ask your chatbot how to poison…
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course, cautionary. But recently, the idea that AI shouldn’t…
