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Cristian Mungiu’s sixth feature, Fjord, concerns a family on trial. They seem like good people, God-fearing. They’ve just moved from Romania to a small hamlet nestled in the fjords of rural Norway. There is Mamma (Renate Reinsve), Tata (a bald and bespectacled Sebastian Stan), and their passel of children. They are an openly religious and…
OpenAI’s biggest math announcement of the year lasted less than a day before it needed a correction. On October 6, 2026, the company published 722 preprints to a public GitHub repository, each one claiming progress on one of 372 unsolved or hard mathematical problems, generated with help from an internal mathematical-reasoning system. By October 7,…
Two flagship Windows gaming handhelds landed within weeks of each other this fall, and for the first time, the choice isn’t AMD versus AMD. The ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X20, ASUS’s first OLED gaming handheld, went up for pre-order on September 25, 2026, with a release date of October 15. The Acer Predator Atlas 8,…
Japan’s cybersecurity agencies have a number that tells the story on its own: 600. That is how many unauthorized-access incidents Japanese companies and local governments had disclosed publicly between January and the end of September 2026, according to security firm Trend Micro. It already beats the 593 cases logged across the entirety of 2025, with…
Two of the most widely deployed names in enterprise networking spent the first two weeks of October 2026 issuing emergency patches for the same class of bug. Cisco pushed a fix for a critical authentication-bypass flaw in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that the company confirmed was already under active attack. Days later, SonicWall shipped hotfixes for…
Gardens Interactive, the Los Angeles studio founded by veterans of Journey and Sky: Children of the Light, has closed more than $35 million in Series B funding, the company confirmed in an October 7 announcement. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and pulls in a investor list that mixes traditional venture capital with…
GameStop is now asking $1,399.99 for a refurbished PlayStation 5 Pro, a price hike of roughly 55% over the console’s own new-unit price and exactly double what Sony charged at launch. The retailer bumped the pre-owned listing from around $800 to $1,399.99 on October 6, 2026, according to Tom’s Hardware, at a moment when new…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories. “Using the account of Takashi Kitao, author of the 18,400-star game engine pyxel, the attacker pushed a malicious workflow to 27 repositories starting at 13:20 UTC,” StepSecurity
It looks like Google is getting ready to take the wraps off its rumored Fitbit Edge next Monday. In a post on X, Google posted a picture of what appears to be the side of the fitness tracker, with the caption: “Get an Edge on your health. 10.12.26.” A trove of Fitbit Edge leaks has…
Amazon has the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra in black with 256GB of storage discounted to $949.99, a healthy discount from its usual price of $1,399.99. This phone’s standout feature is the adjustable privacy display, which can hide your entire screen, or just portions of it, from onlookers and strangers. It doesn’t meaningfully hurt the screen’s…
