Autonomous is an AI-forward company that sells everything from a coaster that tracks how much water you drink, a creepy-cute Pixar-esque companion lamp, to $20,000 backyard office pods. Another offering is the Autonomous Key, which promises to help kick the doomscrolling habit. — Read the rest

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Embark's promised big next step in Arc Raiders is set to release on October 8th. Will it bring back the fading player base?

Arc Raiders had one of the most exciting launches and ramp-ups in years. It held on for a few months, but then rapidly lost players, at a rate that seemed intentional but was not. — Read the rest

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For the first 15 years or so of this century, subscription satellite TV was available in Latin America with a one-time purchase of a pirate box. The channel operators tried to stop it, and the pirates nimbly worked around the locks. — Read the rest

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The Orange Menace, who has notably been sued by women over alleged "affairs" during his current marriage, gave his bag carrier a good once-over and then described her as a "perfect person," where perfect seems to mean her legs.

While musing over television vehicles for Natalie, Diaper Don also offered up Los Angeles and San Diego to Iran as targets for retribution. — Read the rest

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Disneyland's fume-soaked Autopia has been given until February 1st, 2027, to change or shut down.

A few years ago, Disney got caught running Autopia cars that were not emissions-approved. They agreed to a 30-month timeline to clean up its grossly polluting car ride, or shut down. — Read the rest

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Steve Hilton has a really creepy and weird ad for Governor of California, and its probably not helping him.

I guess first-time voting has changed a lot since I was a kid! The ad even has Republicans pissed off.

Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center considers a Christian nationalist, said the ad promotes "lesbianism," which he called a "pandemic" among high school and college students during his Facebook live on Saturday, and called it "grotesque" and "insensitive."

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The new Star Wars racing game is available for free on a service you likely forgot exists. Star Wars: Galactic Racer is out today on PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam, but also on Amazon Luna, free to play for Prime members. — Read the rest

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With police abuse of Flock surveillance cameras often making news and backlash growing against the rapid deployment of ALPR (Automated License Plate Readers) across the U.S., some cities are finding ways to make sure taxpayers know as little as possible. The Fort Worth suburb of North Richland Hills, reports The Texas Tribune, demanded $2.3 million to fulfill a public records request for information about its use of Flock cameras. — Read the rest

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Everyone has a stack of books they swear they'll get to, and every new release makes the stack taller. — Read the rest

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Doom, the classic first-person shooter, brought PCs to their knees in 1993. But now it runs on toothbrushes and earbuds and has even been implemented on the Commodore 64. Now it has been ported to SQL, the structured query language used by many relational databases. — Read the rest

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"Natural healing" coach Barbara O'Neill is permanently banned from providing health services in Australia, but will soon be touring Britain and Ireland to deliver lectures such as 'The Science of Breath' and 'What Really Does Cause Disease.'

O'Neill has claimed that cancer can be treated with baking soda; the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission found in 2019 that she had discouraged mainstream cancer treatment, antibiotics and vaccination, and that her claims had 'real potential to have a detrimental effect on the health of individuals'

Regulators and fact-checkers have documented Ms O'Neill saying that cancer is a fungus that can be treated with bicarbonate of soda, that vaccines have caused an 'epidemic' of autism and cot death, and that pregnant women with Group B Strep do not need antibiotics.

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A good VPN goes beyond streaming benefits—it also protects your privacy. And with FastestVPN PRO, you'll never have to worry about losing out on either. — Read the rest

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Donald Trump sent U.S. service members to war in Iran. When an Iranian drone strike on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait killed six and left dozens wounded, nine report they were not classified as wounded and were left to figure out their own medical care. — Read the rest

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Still failing to read the room, Sam Altman thinks the world should accept "some bad things happening" for the benefits of artificial intelligence.

This is an incredible bargain to offer humanity while Forbes says you're worth about $3.3 billion, and the bad things under discussion include other people getting hacked, scammed, and otherwise abused by the technology that made you that $3.3 billion. — Read the rest

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Having abandoned Donald Trump for a longer-lasting future that doesn't involve being left to die with the press corps, Karoline Leavitt surprises us only by jumping to Fox News so quickly.

Leavitt was one of Trump's most vile press secretaries. Not the pitiful joke of Scaramucci, or the weakness embodied by Spicey, Karoline "The Mouth of Moron" Leavitt was a hopped-up, supercharged version of Huckabee-Sanders with nothing but spite for the American people. — Read the rest

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As a big fan of Naughty Dog's zombie-killing/teenage angst simulator The Last of Us, I was gutted to discover that an ongoing multiplayer mod for The Last of Us: Part 2 had been axed by Sony. The moment you decide to charge for a mod, you're making money off someone else's IP and open to be beheaded for it. — Read the rest

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The President of the United States stood in a high school gym in Vandalia, Ohio, and described his vision of a Republican victory this November, insisting they'd "shove it up their ass." The audience cheered.

Trump was stumping for Ohio Republicans Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy when he resorted to the kind of argument MAGA can really get behind:

Apparently the face-eating leopards have evolved. — Read the rest

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This is the kind of Paul Reubens story that just makes you love him more. The Pee-wee Herman actor had an incredible Mr. T memorabilia collection.

The comedian amassed two A-Team kites, fake gold chains, "Gold" chain bubble gum, air fresheners, party hats, coloring books, an action figure, and a Mr. — Read the rest

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With the hype behind Grand Theft Auto 6 reaching cataclysmic levels, it was only a matter of time before our other American cultural institutions started taking notice. Let no one say that Saturday Night Live hasn't cast off its reputation for being slightly behind the times: they've finally done a GTA 6 sketch. — Read the rest

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Remember when your friends roped you into Lethal Company, then Peak, then Big Walk, then that game where you just walk around a run-down house picking up leaves? So-called 'friendslop' — a term I really, really hate that describes small, low-scope co-op indie games — has become a thriving industry all its own, rivaling even the dreaded cozy game in its ubiquity. — Read the rest

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Heroic rescue workers went into pounding waves to extract a dog trapped in a van that left Pacific Coast Highway for a Malibu surf experience.

A white cargo van went off PCH in Malibu, near Deer Creek Road, smashed into some rocks, and wound up in the Pacific. — Read the rest

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If you're only asking Claude basic questions, you're really missing the boat on this powerful and popular AI model. — Read the rest

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Cloud storage has a way of becoming one of those bills you forget you're paying until the charge appears again. — Read the rest

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Why pay more for software upgrades when you can simply give your operating system (OS) and productivity suite a makeover for less? — Read the rest

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Even experienced coders sometimes need a little help. Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 combines professional development tools with AI-powered assistance to help you tackle code more efficiently. — Read the rest

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My friend and Wired colleague Gary Wolf is one of my favorite writers. He wrote a bunch of fantastic articles for Wired magazine, including a profile of Ted Nelson, creator of the Xanadu hypertext project, and he wrote a history of Wired magazine, a book called Wired: A Romance. — Read the rest

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Illustrator Robert Ullman, who did some great illustrations for Make magazine when I was editor there, has a new Kickstarter for a 48-page comic about his trip to Zion National Park. What a great way to capture an experience and share it with other people. — Read the rest

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The Saudi-owned and operated son-in-law of our dementia addled President is tired of people getting things wrong, and maybe sometime he'll tell us the side of the story he wants us to hear.

Jared Kushner, whose private-equity firm took a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and who is best known for marrying Diaper Don's daughter, is sick and tired of being kicked around by the press and is not gonna take it anymore, someday, really. — Read the rest

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Id Software's 1992 shooter Doom now runs on toothbrushes, alarm clocks and all sorts of other modern gadgets that contain tiny supercomputers. But it doesn't run on the 8-bit home computers (or even 16-bit ones) that are even older than it is. — Read the rest

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While a few software products include some kind of PDF management, nothing's better than the real thing. Take, for example, PDF Expert, a PDF editor that lets you edit, annotate, compress, merge, convert, sign, and protect PDFs from a single workspace. — Read the rest

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