Oregon’s expanding data center industry has triggered an increasingly organized political backlash involving residents, environmental groups, educators, farmers and elected officials.

The dispute intensified after reports showed Oregon data centers receiving more than $450 million in property tax exemptions during 2026, including about $85 million in the Hillsboro area.

The resistance is a grassroots coalition led by the nonprofit 1000 Friends of Oregon, which has already helped unseat a Hillsboro-area senator and pushed Governor Tina Kotek to reverse course.

A warning turns into political action

Sam Diaz, executive director of 1000 Friends of Oregon, said his concerns deepened after seeing how facilities affected communities and resources around Prineville.

In 2022, a rancher told him water allocations had been reduced because large server buildings had arrived nearby.

A later warning from a Virginia land-use executive gave Diaz another reason to accelerate organizing before data centers became harder to regulate politically.

“They said, ‘Once this takes hold in your state, you really got to get ahead of it, and you probably have one election cycle before you really start seeing politicians do the bidding of data centers,’” Diaz recalled.

Trouble escalated when Senator Janeen Sollman proposed opening 1,700 acres of farmland to industry and doubling a tax break that data centers already had.

Intense pushback forced her to drop the plan to double that tax break within days of the 2026 session starting, yet the backlash had already begun.

Sollman later lost her seat to Myrna Muñoz, though she blamed a separate bill on strike benefits rather than data centers for her primary defeat.

Criticism intensified again after Hillsboro was found to have approved incentives for 17 data centers shortly before a statewide moratorium took effect.

Tax incentives bring an unlikely coalition together

The incentive decisions helped bring previously separate groups into a common campaign involving education funding, environmental concerns, farmland and tax policy.

In June, 1000 Friends and 11 other plaintiffs sued Hillsboro and companies connected with the facilities, questioning whether the city had legal authority to approve the agreements.

“The first question of, ‘Does the city have the authority to do what it did?,’ and then the second question is, ‘Even if they did, do these applications even meet the Enterprise Zone Act requirements?’” Diaz said.

The coalition argues that reduced property-tax collections can affect public services, including education funding through Oregon’s State School Fund.

The Oregon Education Association, representing 41,000 teachers, joined the lawsuit over what it described as financial consequences for statewide schools.

These concerns have also become part of the coalition’s agenda for the 2027 legislative session, where members want changes to subsidies, land-use rules and public spending on economic development.

The lawsuit also brings major technology companies into the dispute because their facilities are connected to the tax incentives being challenged by the plaintiffs.

It names major technology companies including CoreWeave, Adobe and NVIDIA among firms tied to the disputed Enterprise Zone tax arrangements.

None of these companies has issued an official statement on the lawsuit or allegations concerning their involvement.

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Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Connections today (game #1212) - today's words

Today's NYT Connections words are…

• PARENT
• ADVISORY
• EXPLICIT
• CONTENT
• CHESS
• PLEASE
• MESSAGE
• GRAPHIC
• STRONG
• SAPPHIRE
• SUGGESTIVE
• SERENE
• PEACEFUL
• IRONING
• SLOAN
• PLACID

NYT Connections today (game #1212) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: Relaxed contentment
• GREEN: Adult warnings
• BLUE: A stiff word in common
• PURPLE: You can’t own these hidden words

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #1212) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: CALM
• GREEN: ADJECTIVES FOR MATURE CONTENT
• BLUE: KINDS OF BOARDS
• PURPLE: ENDING IN WAYS TO TEMPORARILY ACQUIRE

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #1212) - the answers

The answers to today's Connections, game #1212, are…

• YELLOW: CALM: CONTENT, PEACEFUL, PLACID, SERENE
• GREEN: ADJECTIVES FOR MATURE CONTENT: EXPLICIT, GRAPHIC, STRONG, SUGGESTIVE
• BLUE: KINDS OF BOARDS: ADVISORY, CHESS, IRONING, MESSAGE
• PURPLE: ENDING IN WAYS TO TEMPORARILY ACQUIRE: PARENT, PLEASE, SAPPHIRE, SLOAN

• My rating: Easy
• My score: Perfect

Back in the 1990s many hip-hop albums — or at least those that were deemed dangerous — carried PARENT ADVISORY stickers on them warning parents and carers of the contents of their children’s record store purchases. Naturally, like all warnings it backfired and the stickers helped sales of these so-called offensive products rather than leading to wholesome blasphemy- and cursing-free music.

I mention this because seeing PARENT, ADVISORY, GRAPHIC and MESSAGE I came close to building a group honoring that strange moment in pop-culture history.

Having said that, I was almost on the right track with the green group of ADJECTIVES FOR MATURE CONTENT.

Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Sunday, October 4, 2026, game #1211)

• YELLOW: CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT: BUNCH, HEAP, LOT, STACK
• GREEN: TABLE TENNIS NEEDS: BALL, NET, PADDLE, TABLE
• BLUE: PARTS OF A JUDGE COSTUME: COLLAR, GAVEL, ROBE, WIG
• PURPLE: SILENT ____: AUCTION, FILM, PARTNER, TREATMENT

Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,500 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today — or scroll down further for the answers.

Enjoy playing word games? You can also check out my NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those puzzles, while Marc's Wordle today column covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

Quordle today (game #1715) — hint #1 — Vowels

* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).

Quordle today (game #1715) — hint #2 — repeated letters

Quordle today (game #1715) — hint #3 — uncommon letters

Quordle today (game #1715) — hint #4 — starting letters (1)

If you just want to know the answers at this stage, simply scroll down. If you're not ready yet then here's one more clue to make things a lot easier:

Quordle today (game #1715) — hint #5 — starting letters (2)

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

Quordle today (game #1715) — the answers

The answers to today's Quordle, game #1715, are…

• SIXTH
• SPEAK
• SEDAN
• HEIST

It feels as if it has been a long time since we have had a rare letter.

Today, the letter X made an appearance and almost caught me out. Helping me off the hook, though, was the fact that — even rarer than the letter X — there were three words beginning with the same letter.

Daily Sequence today (game #1715) — the answers

The answers to today's Quordle Daily Sequence, game #1715, are…

• DIMLY
• CRASH
• EBONY
• OPIUM

Quordle answers: The past 20

• Quordle #1714, Sunday, 4 October: INFER, RAINY, THING, ARENA
• Quordle #1713, Saturday, 3 October: CHORE, FLYER, STICK, PURSE
• Quordle #1712, Friday, 2 October: IVORY, SADLY, ANGEL, LLAMA
• Quordle #1711, Thursday, 1 October: NAVEL, SHEER, BIRTH, TACKY
• Quordle #1710, Wednesday, 30 September: CHOKE, BATCH, MOSSY, EAGER
• Quordle #1709, Tuesday, 29 September: BILGE, MEDAL, LODGE, PORCH
• Quordle #1708, Monday, 28 September: BRUNT, TORSO, STONE, HEATH
• Quordle #1707, Sunday, 27 September: VALET, CHEST, VIGIL, PUREE
• Quordle #1706, Saturday, 26 September: SNORT, BIBLE, LAPSE, CRANE
• Quordle #1705, Friday, 25 September: SWEAR, FLOOD, GUPPY, GROAN
• Quordle #1704, Thursday, 24 September: TOPIC, METRO, SCALP, FREED
• Quordle #1703, Wednesday, 23 September: SHEET, BLAND, JOIST, GUAVA
• Quordle #1702, Tuesday, 22 September: COMFY, LOBBY, DRESS, PANEL
• Quordle #1701, Monday, 21 September: WAXEN, HIPPO, PETAL, LEASH
• Quordle #1700, Sunday, 20 September: DERBY, LIMBO, GAWKY, REIGN
• Quordle #1699, Saturday, 19 September: SCOPE, HEIST, PULSE, CHAMP
• Quordle #1698, Friday, 18 September: MUCUS, MIRTH, APPLE, TILDE
• Quordle #1697, Thursday, 17 September: CRIER, CHIRP, NEIGH, FREER
• Quordle #1696, Wednesday, 16 September: SPEAR, PRICE, BLUNT, FISHY
• Quordle #1695, Tuesday, 15 September: SHUSH, LITHE, DELTA, BUGLE

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #946) - hint #1 - today's theme

NYT Strands today (game #946) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

• BONE
• SCUM
• HOOD
• TREAT
• CURB
• TURN

NYT Strands today (game #946) - hint #3 - spangram letters

NYT Strands today (game #946) - hint #4 - spangram position

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #946) - the answers

The answers to today's Strands, game #946, are…

• ALAS
• BUMMER
• SUCKS
• BOOHOO
• UNFORTUNATE
• SORRY
• SPANGRAM: SADTROMBONE

• My rating: Hard
• My score: 1 hint

I was thrilled to get a Spangram First yesterday but there was absolutely no chance of spotting it today — congratulations if you were smart enough to see it.

I was totally puzzled by the theme, so I took a hint — but ALAS didn’t help me much.

Fortunately, I managed to connect BUMMER (not a word I was expecting to see in a game of Strands) and from here managed to make my sad SORRY way around the board. BOOHOO me.

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Sunday, October 4, game #945)

• PONG
• FROGGER
• ASTEROIDS
• CENTIPEDE
• SCRAMBLE
• SPANGRAM FIRST: ARCADEGAMES

Oracle’s massive 1.3 GW AI data center campus in Wisconsin, dubbed Project Lighthouse, faces severe power delays after regulators restarted the review needed to connect it to the grid.

The campus in Port Washington is being developed by Vantage for Oracle, with four data centers planned across the site.

Construction is advancing, but the campus cannot begin serving customers at scale until the required transmission infrastructure receives regulatory approval and gets built.

A review clock reset to zero

In September 2025, American Transmission Company (ATC) asked the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC) to approve the new high-voltage line serving the campus.

By December 2025, the PSC found the application complete and began its formal review, which started the legal countdown for a decision.

However, between January and July 2026, ATC altered the project and filed 564 more documents that changed routes, introduced temporary bypass lines and updated cost estimates.

An administrative law judge ordered ATC on 1 July to itemize each alteration and found on 15 July that the company had not complied.

Because the PSC lacked confidence about the exact scope under review, it withdrew its completeness finding in August 2026, ten months after the case opened.

Such late additions would need further environmental review that the legal deadline left no room for, so the project risked approval by default.

The PSC closed the case on September 10 2026 without ruling on the merits, and ATC refiled on September 18, restarting the statutory clock.

Buildings can advance before electricity arrives

Construction itself does not appear to face the same scheduling problem affecting the transmission connection serving the Wisconsin campus.

“Construction at Port Washington is progressing steadily, but power delivery depends on a regulatory process that has restarted,” said Javier Reyes, Head of Data Center Research, Aterio.

Permits have been secured, work has continued since December 2025, and imagery from September shows two buildings already enclosed.

The remaining structures are still undergoing construction, while equipment installation continues inside portions of the completed buildings at the site.

Vantage describes the campus as carrying 902 MW of IT demand, whereas utility records describe 1.3 GW of total electrical requirements.

Those figures differ because the larger measurement includes cooling and other consumption beyond electricity reaching computing equipment.

The first transmission stage could provide only partial service, and Vantage previously asked ATC about supplying roughly 310 MW during 2027.

That request also projected 438 MW of peak demand during 2027, followed by 1.3 GW from 2028 onward across the campus.

Consequently, initial grid access would not automatically mean every building could immediately support customer workloads at its intended capacity.

A longer regulatory review would shift partial service toward June 2028 and full 1.3 GW availability toward April 2029, well beyond Oracle’s guidance.

“Based on the public record, we see a meaningful risk that load arrives later than Oracle's current guidance,” Reyes added.

How will AFC Richmond Women react to Mae's death following their promotion to the English Women's Super League? And will they be further impacted if (or, rather, when) Zelda Stanton's hostile takeover of the club takes place? I can't answer either of those questions, but I can tell you when its season 4 finale will be released, so read on to learn more.

What is the launch time for Ted Lasso season 4 episode 10?

Titled 'The Departing Lass', Ted Lasso season 4 episode 10 is expected to premiere in the US and Canada at 6pm PT / 9pm ET on Tuesday, October 6.

If you're a regular around these parts, you'll know I've often said that Apple is supposed to release the next episode of its new and returning shows every Wednesday at 12am PT in North America.

That's the company's public line, anyway. In reality, new chapters of Apple TV Originals like Ted Lasso have aired on Tuesday evenings at the previously mentioned times. With all nine episodes of Ted Lasso 4 doing just that, there's no reason to suspect that its 10th and final entry won't do likewise.

As for the rest of the world, this week's installment will still make its debut on one of the best streaming services on Wednesday, October 7. Check out the list below to see what time it'll come out near you:

• US — Tuesday, October 6 at 6pm PT / 9pm ET
• Canada — Tuesday, October 6 at 6pm PT / 9pm ET
• UK — Wednesday, October 7 at 2am BST
• India — Wednesday, October 7 at 6:30am IST
• Singapore — Wednesday, October 7 at 9am SGT
• Australia — Wednesday, October 7 at 11am AEST
• New Zealand — Wednesday, October 7 at 1pm NZST

Has Ted Lasso season 5 been announced yet?

No. However, there have been murmurings that a fifth season of Ted Lasso is in early development. Filming could also begin in January 2027 (per 9to5Mac and Apple Insider).

Speaking to ScreenRant earlier this year, Apple TV senior vice president Eddy Cue said he hoped that more seasons would get made and that Ted Lasso is "certainly good enough" to warrant at least one more run-out.

It seems there's an appetite for more from viewers, too, after Variety reported that Ted Lasso season 4 had the biggest premiere in Apple TV history when it launched in mid-August.

Of course, its audience share could've tailed off significantly since then. Right now, though, it seems there's still a market for more Richmond-based adventures, so don't be surprised if Ted Lasso season 5 is officially given the greenlight in the days or weeks ahead.

Another big Amazon sale is coming to an end tonight. Prime Big Deal Days is the online retail giant's fourth major sale of the calendar year and there are two more to go: namely, the Amazon Black Friday sale in Australia, followed by Boxing Day. For now, though, ensure you check out anything sitting in your cart soon because this sale ends at 11:59pm AEDT today, Monday, October 5.

• Shop Amazon's full Prime Big Deal Days sale

It's been an interesting sale this time. I wasn't expecting previous all-time low prices to be beaten this month, but Amazon has surprised me in a good way. There are still so many good deals going that it's truly been hard to select the best ones. Some, of course, went out of stock thanks to these record-low prices — like the Samsung Galaxy A57 budget phone dropping to just AU$519 and the affordable Shark IZ102 cordless vacuum for AU$189.

Thankfully a lot of other record-low prices are still available and some of my favourites are the Philips Baristina coffee machine dropping to AU$359; a couple of JBL Grip Bluetooth speaker colourways going for under AU$70, the Ninja Crispi Pro down to an all-time low of AU$290.70 and 63% off on the Roborock H60 Hub Plus, which is arguably the best-value self-emptying vacuum deal right now.

My colleagues and I have also curated dedicated coffee machine deals, the best vacuum cleaner Prime Day deals, all the best headphone deals and even picked out the best Garmin deals. There's still a lot to shop, so don't miss out on this opportunity — get a head start on your Christmas shopping.

Pretty much every deal is Prime exclusive, so I hope you have a subscription. If not, you can sign up now and get a 30-day free trial if you're a first-time customer and you can cancel any time.

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AI infrastructure spending is racing ahead, and by 2031 the industry will need to find far more commercial value to justify the bill, new research has claimed.

Bain & Company estimates yearly spending on facilities, processors, memory and networking could climb to $1.5 trillion by 2031 alone.

To keep that investment going, the industry would need roughly $6 trillion in annual revenue, assuming infrastructure swallows about 25% of sales every year.

Where would all that revenue come from?

Bain calls that 25% assumption bold yet fair, since it matches what cloud computing providers have spent on infrastructure in earlier years.

Even so, the math leaves AI businesses needing far more commercial activity than their current products bring in, so the hunt for new revenue begins.

The biggest piece, about $4.2 trillion, would come from new products in search, advertising, autonomous systems and physical AI, many of which barely exist today.

Enterprise productivity comes second, adding $1 trillion to $1.4 trillion as companies lean on AI for software development, sales, marketing, customer support and IT operations.

Consumer subscriptions and advertising trail far behind, contributing only $200 billion to $400 billion even as providers push AI products to billions of users.

Speed of adoption matters too, so leading AI labs are spending more than $9.75 billion on engineering that helps companies put AI to work faster.

“The economics of AI infrastructure demand trillions in new revenue beyond productivity gains,” said David Crawford, chairman of Bain’s global technology practice.

Crawford adds that the industry needs a surge of ideas big enough to dwarf what mobile technology and cloud computing unlocked in earlier years.

Beyond that, Bain says future products could reach into drug discovery, mental health and energy generation, areas where AI has limited presence today.

Data center expansion compounds the financial pressure

The physical infrastructure supporting AI is becoming larger and more expensive as companies continue increasing their computing capacity.

Bain says data center size and cost have been increasing at roughly double rates over periods lasting approximately 12 to 16 months globally.

According to Epoch AI, Meta's Prometheus facility in Ohio had 600MW of capacity and an estimated $24 billion cost in 2025.

The facility could reach 2GW and $80 billion by 2027, before increasing to 5GW and $175 billion in 2029 under current projections.

By 2030, Epoch AI estimates the project could reach 9GW while requiring as much as $200 billion in total spending.

Those facilities require additional electricity generation, grid connections, advanced semiconductors, skilled workers and equipment capable of supporting sustained operations at scale.

The pace at which money is pouring into data centers has made securing enough computing capacity the industry's most pressing concern.

“But the more important question may be whether enough economic value can be created to justify it,” the report said.

Via The National News

One game that successfully breached my email defences was Chronicles: Medieval. Revealed during Summer Games Fest, this impressive real-time strategy (RTS) not only promised massive, strategic top-down battles blended with third-person combat – but narration from beloved homegrown actor Tom Hardy. And who was I to turn down battering virtual knights with Tom Hardy?

Tom? Hardly

"So, unfortunately, as much as we love him, Tom is not a part of the game.” Sam Millen, lead producer at Raw Power Games, tells me, sheepishly, as I ask him about the Bane actor’s involvement, “We do have the incredible Lars Mikkelsen in the game, acting in a chronicler role - taking a voiceover role during character creation and during parts of the game. Sadly, Tom Hardy was only part of the trailer.”

After ten emails and two press releases mentioning the BAFTA-winning actor, it turns out it was all a Trojan Horse-esque ruse to get me in the room. While hardly an auspicious start to my behind-closed-doors preview, thankfully for its Danish developers, Chronicles: Medieval's absurdly ambitious gameplay soon wins me over in spite of its misleading marketing, breaching my defences and ensuring a total coverage victory.

Chronicles: Medieval is an impressively nerdy history epic. What I didn’t expect, however, was just how deep the game’s roleplaying elements go. Slated for an Early Access launch in 2027, Raw Power Game’s debut mixes gargantuan troop battles that would make an eight-year-old blush with a vast, explorable world map. In this rags-to-riches tale, players start out as a lowly peasant and build their standing through questing, diplomacy, and, of course, combat.

From campsites to castles

“You start off without owning any land. You're just out in the wild.” Explains Millen, “Maybe you have a couple of men you grew up with in the town who walked together and decided to join you as you embark into the world.”

Drawing equal inspiration from Civilization, Heroes of Might and Magic, and Mount & Blade, the game’s 1313 AD map spans from the Pyrenees to Poland, and the British Isles down to Northern Italy. Yet while this could have been a broad Age of Empires-esque offering, Chronicles: Medieval revels in the specificities. Players can zoom all the way down to inspect individual sub-regions and see the individual lords that rule them.

“Each culture - England, France, HRE [Holy Roman Empire] - has different army trees: levies, household troops,” says Millen. “You're going to be able to upgrade your troops as they get experience…then you'll potentially take troops from being levied infantry to being cavalry, progressing up those paths."

There’s a heavy dose of Crusader Kings here, too. You can buy tavern intelligence to reveal the map, recruit mercenaries, or bypass combat entirely if you’d rather play that way. Despite its trailer's combat focus, the pair sell me Chronicles as a true sandbox. Whether you want to become a wealthy peaceful merchant, a feared bandit, or even claim the English crown through political backstabbing, the choice is yours.

"It's a sandbox, so you can do whatever you want to do in the world.” says Millen, “There's no linear narrative that you're set off on. If you want to become the best merchant in the world and become incredibly rich from just selling goods, you can absolutely do that.”

Boots on the ground

As a sea of hundreds of troops forms up along a hillside of gently swaying grass, Millen zooms in on each soldier individually, explaining the historical significance of their crests, weapons, and surroundings. In other words, this is a game built by massive history nerds, people who are deeply knowledgeable about the time period they’re depicting and passionate about getting it right.

Supporting up to 2,000 total troops on the battlefield, forces are drawn from three distinct unit categories: household troops, peasantry, and mercenaries. The pre-battle prep begins in classic top-down fashion, as Millen manoeuvres his various units, placing archers at the rear, pikemen at the front, and sending a troupe of covert cavalry up around the tree-shaded hillside to flank the French forces on the other side of the plain.

Once the battle commences, you drop straight into a third-person action-role-playing game (RPG) perspective, sending your commander charging into battle. As if he’s in a fully fledged action RPG. As Millen’s militia gallops towards the advancing enemy horde, he sends four of them flying with his poleaxe. Dismounting and unsheathing his blade, he parries sword blow after sword blow with impressive fluidity. Here, enemies have posture meters, parries require precise timing, and every weapon swing carries weight.

"When you start out, you have low proficiency, so your attacks are slower, and you don't have combos,” says Senior Game Designer Gareth Bourn, “But over time, you unlock a lot of these skills — including leadership skills.”

While cleaving heads on the battlefield will rile up and inspire your troops, if the tide of combat starts to turn in the enemy’s favour — or you take a particularly nasty hit from an enemy - your leadership skills will determine whether they leave you high and dry.

Mace swings and morale

"The troops have their own minds.” says Millen, “You take morale hits if you die — but they're going to keep fighting for their lives until the point where their morale dips, either because they're losing or because they've already taken a hit from seeing their commander die. If you're a great leader. They want to stay with you and fight to the death longer… They can pick up your injured body, take you back to a settlement, and you can recover, rest, get your health back, replenish your troops, and fight another day.”

As commander, you can still tell units to advance, hold, etc. In the thick of combat, keeping a hands-on tactical element amidst the manic melee. Yet as if to prove that this game’s show-stealing battles aren’t its only parlour trick, players can choose to bypass them entirely. "You can even auto-resolve battles if you want,” says Bourn, “But every time somebody clicks auto-resolve, I shed a small tear.”

While Chronicles: Medieval’s ambitions are impressive, these aren’t just lofty 1.0 goals. I'm surprised to learn that when it hits Early Access, Chronicles: Medieval will also include a four-player co-op campaign map alongside custom battle modes. The duo tells me that full sieges — complete with trebuchets, crumbling walls, and battering rams - are slated to follow shortly after, with full console support and robust modding tools planned for the official 1.0 release.

Part intricately detailed Total War-esque historical battle simulator, part player-choice-driven RPG, much like a ragtag group of bannermen holding off a king’s army, Chronicles Medieval punches far above its weight. Developed by a hundred people in Copenhagen, this ambitious RTS could well give Microsoft and 2K’s Age of Empires and Civilization a run for their money.

While it might have been a false Hollywood bluster that got me in the door, it's the admirable ambition, detail, and potential that have kept me thinking about Chronicles: Medieval since. If Raw Power Games can deliver even half of the features they’ve promised, this could be a very special RTS indeed.

Watch Portugal vs Norway live streams to see if the defending champions can extend their perfect start to the Nations League 2026/27 by making it four wins from four games in Group A4.

It should be a cracker after Jorge Jesus' came out on top 2-1 last week against Erling Haaland's side in an entertaining game.

What's even better is that Virgin Media Play will be streaming this game for free to viewers in Ireland.

But how can you watch Portugal vs Norway on Virgin Media Play from anywhere? And, can you access this free Nations League stream in the UK and the US too?

Here’s our simple guide to how to watch Portugal vs Norway in the 2026/27 Nations League for free from anywhere in the world using NordVPN.

Watch Portugal vs Norway for FREE

Portugal vs Norway will air for free on Virgin Media Play in Ireland, with English-language commentary.

The game will also air for free on RTP 1 in Portugal and TV 2 Play, which will show the game free-to-air in Norway. Naturally, they will be broadcast in their respective domestic languages.

Portugal vs Norway team news

Portugal XI: Costa, Mendes, Veiga, Dias, Cancelo, Palhinha, Fernandes, Vitinha, Conceição, Félix, Ramos.

Subs: Dalot, Silva, Neves, Soares, Araújo, Neto, Trincão, Bernardo Silva, Fábio Silva, Tavares, Leão, Rúben Neves.

Norway XI: Selvik, Møller Wolfe, Østigård, Ajer, Aursnes, Berg, Berge, Nusa, Ødegaard, Schjelderup, Haaland.

Subs: Aasgaard, Blomberg, Bobb, Botheim, Pedersen, Nyland, Langås, Bjørtuft, Sjøvold, Strand Larsen, Tangvik, Thorstvedt.

Use a VPN to watch Portugal vs Norway live streams

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Virgin Media Play: Q+A

Why should I use Virgin Media Play to watch Portugal vs Norway?

Virgin Media Play is one of our favourite streaming services for Irish residents, offering a host of live sports as well as an abundance of great TV shows.

The platform is showing multiple Nations League, Champions League and NFL games across this year.

Virgin Media recommend an internet speed of at least 5–10 Mbps for quality streaming.

We have watched a host of fixtures already on the platform this season and the coverage has been superb.

Which devices can I watch Virgin Media Play with?

• Amazon Fire (Tablets, Cube, Stick, and Fire TVs)
• Android TV (please note: some models may not be supported)
• Android (Mobile & Tablet – Android 7.0 and above)
• Apple TV (tvOS 14 or later)
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Earfun is not a company known for unveiling premium tech. The audio specialist keeps to the budget side of the tracks, and we’re better off for it — see winning products such as the Air Pro 4 Plus in-ear buds or Earfun Clip 2 open options for starters.

The Earfun Wave Pro X aren’t premium headphones; they’re not going up against the AirPods Max 2 or Sony WH-100XM6 in our list of the best headphones you can buy. But nevertheless, they’re Earfun’s most high-end over-ears yet; the company says it took over 30 months to design them — and it’s clearly true, given the year-long gap between their announcement and actual release.

All of Earfun's typical traits — which I’ve come to really appreciate from the brand’s kit — are evident in the Wave Pro X. The battery life is great, lasting 90 hours if you turn ANC off, and the app is chock-full of useful features — including one of the most in-depth equalizers I’ve ever seen on headphones I’ve reviewed.

The Wave Pro X also have a more refined design than I’ve seen from Earfun headphones in the past. Neat flourishes and smart material choices make these feel like headphones that’d usually cost twice the price. Before them, I tested the Bose QuietComfort Headphones (2nd Gen), and these feel just as well-designed as those pricey options.

In fact, I was surprised by how how similar these cans are in general, focusing on comfort and solid noise cancellation. The Earfun don’t sound quite as good, but if you want budget Boses, these are a pretty solid pick.

You’re getting all that for a relatively affordable price. These won’t find a place on our list of the best cheap headphones by any means, but they’re an inexpensive option which you could feasibly buy as a gift or pick up for yourself without it being a scary purchase.

However they’re not perfect, and I wish the sound was a little bit more refined. The Wave Pro X offers a slightly muddy performance overall, which occasionally drowns out trebles with overstated mids and bass, and presents some peaking as well as a reduced soundstage.

In true Earfun fashion though, the list of features may overwhelm some, especially in the ANC menu (there are loads of different modes), and with a listening test that challenges you to pick your favorite in a carousel of honestly identical-sounding mixes. I also associate top-end headphones with fun color ways, thanks in part to Bose’s range of hues, and Earfun has nothing of the sort.

But these are affordable, offer some of the perks of the recent Bose headphones, and beat them in a few departments — including battery life. So they’re well worth picking up if you want a premium-adjacent set of headphones that won’t break the bank.

Earfun Wave Pro X review: Price and release date

• Released in August 2026, almost a year after their official unveiling
• Sells for $129.99 / £119.99 (about AU$240)
• Earfun's most premium offering

The Earfun Wave Pro X had a long road to release; they were first announced in September 2025, re-announced in January 2026 with some tweaks, and then actually unveiled to buy in August 2026. Better late than never, then!

You can buy the Earfun Wave Pro X for $129.99 / £119.99 (about AU$240; Earfun does ship globally but the cost will be the current conversion from the USD price). So they’re not quite affordable cans — they’re a touch too pricey to qualify for our best cheap headphones round-up — but you’re not going to confuse these for premium cans.

The original Earfun Wave Pro sold for $79.99 / £79.99 (about AU$120) but they came out two and a half years prior, and so can be found for about half that price now.

Earfun Wave Pro X review: Specs

Earfun Wave Pro X review: Features

• ANC good for most uses
• Fantastic 90h battery life (with ANC off)
• Range of app features including loads of EQ tools

You’ll get a solid, commendable amount of listening time with the Earfun Wave Pro X; the company estimates that they last for 90 hours with ANC turned off, or 50 hours with it turned on. And from my testing, those figures sound about right. That means these puppies will last for much longer than your standard flagship ANC cans, with top options from the likes of Bose, Sony and Apple generally lasting 20-30 hours, but they don’t quite match the longest-lasting options on the market.

The ANC works well, doing a reliable job of blocking out most annoying noises around you. I can’t pretend it’s best-in-class, suffering most to unpredictable and non-repetitive nearby sounds, but it’s close enough that you won’t mind if you’re not a silence connoisseur. Earfun overcomplicates matters with a range of different noise cancelling modes, such as "AI Ear Adaptive ANC" and "AI Environment Adaptive ANC", but take my advice: just slap on full-strength normal ANC, and leave it there.

‘Loads of features’ was likely another bullet-point on the flipboard when Earfun was workshopping these headphones, because the brand’s audio products always come chock-full of the kind of tools you’d be lucky to get on another device.

I’m talking hearing health protection modes; I’m talking gaming-focused low-latency settings; I’m talking dual-device connections, AI translation and the ability to change the volume and language for voice prompts. I know!

The highlight on the features list — which I don’t recall from other Earfun products — is an equaliser that beats basically anything else in the business right now. There are 30 presets, a 10-band custom EQ mode, a listening test to create a personal EQ, and a ‘Professional EQ’ tool which gives you even more control over filters, frequency and gain. It’s a wonderful range of customization — even if the listening test is quite hard to use.

If you really love EQ, a tool called SoundSense lets you adjust the EQ on the fly and customize it per song. That’s a lot of admin, but a way to fine-tune your favorites, if you're so inclined.

These all come courtesy of the Earfun Audio app, readily available on the Play Store or App Store. Over my several weeks of testing, connection was generally impeccable, save for one occasion in which my Android phone couldn’t detect the Wave and I had to ‘Forget’ then re-pair them.

• Features score: 4.5/5

Earfun Wave Pro X review: Design

• Comfortable to wear thanks to soft padding
• Some premium materials; folds up small
• No IP rating; useful buttons on cup

The Earfun Wave Pro X are the brand’s premium headphones, and it lets you know in their design. Banish the thought of some all-plastic, generic-looking cans; there are some refinements in the Wave.

Look at the headband, for example. It has a soft fabric top, and comfortable leather padding. Like in the Sony WH-1000XM6, a sleek cylindrical bar, not a thin plasticky beam, connects the band with the cups. They’re little details, but they paint the picture of a more refined design than we’ve seen from Earfun before.

The Wave Pro X is comfortable to wear; I used it for hours at a time without any kind of ear or head pain. The cans weigh 259g so they’re not particularly heavy, and the soft material used for the cups and band keeps your cranium happy.

You can rotate the cups inwards, extend the band a fair way, and fold the Wave Pro X up too; they even come in a protective carry case. Oh, and while I’m mentioning neat touches: they have a 3.5mm jack, which I can’t say about every pair of over-ear headphones I’ve tested recently.

That joins the power button, volume rocker and noise cancellation toggle on the right cup (all of which save the first can be customized to change their function). The left cup has the USB-C charging port.

If the Earfun Wave Pro X has an IP rating, I haven’t been able to find any information on it. That’s not particularly unusual for over-ear headphones, but worth knowing in case you were planning on wearing these in the rain.

• Design score: 4/5

Earfun Wave Pro X review: Sound quality

• 40mm woofer + 10mm tweeter
• Slightly muddy, bass-heavy sound
• 24-bit audio; LDAC, aptX, Snapdragon Sound

Are the Earfun Wave Pro X some of the cheapest over-ear headphones with dual drivers? Not quite, but only because the company itself has the even-cheaper Tune Pro. In the Wave Pro X you’re getting a 40mm dynamic woofer for low-end, as well as a 10mm diaphragm precision tweeter to handle the high-end; they’re positioned on top of each other to avoid undue sonic spacing.

So Earfun’s talking audiophile-grade language, but do those words translate to music? Unfortunately, not to the degree you’d hope.

Bass is controlled and powerful, instilling songs like Fire by Kasabian with a punchy undercurrent. Despite the tweeter, though, treble doesn’t have quite the sparkle you’d want, often falling low in the mix to bass and mids. In something like I IV V by Don McCloskey, it sometimes sounds like the singer is hiding behind their guitar.

It all gives the impression that the woofer and tweeter are working independently, not creating one cohesive sound. It’s like having some really great performers in your band, but no matter how great they shred or sing, they’re playing the song with no thought for their other band members — so it’s not going to sound especially harmonious. That’s especially true if one’s playing a loud electric guitar, and the other an ocarina.

Of course, you can use the numerous EQ tools to fix the audio a little bit, but it doesn’t help with the other issue: they often sound a little muddy. Mids are more prominent than I’m used to in consumer headphones like these, but they sound a little… gloopy, is the best word I can think of. At the same time, sounds from hi-hats and high-pitched acoustic guitars often turn into a hiss, reminding you of the artifice of what you’re listening to. The soundstage also isn’t what you’ll get from other headphones at this price.

You’re getting highly-detailed music, at least. The Wave Pro X supports 24-bit audio with Snapdragon Sound, and a range of codecs including LDAC, aptX, aptX Adaptive and apTX Lossless.

• Sound quality: 3.5/5

Earfun Wave Pro X review: Value

• In many areas, these are top-value headphones
• The only minor issue is that the audio isn't exceptional

The Earfun Wave Pro X are a little pricier than some other headphones from the brand, but they justify that price in a few ways, particularly the design and noise cancellation. If you’ve been considering a budget option but would be open to a step-up alternative, you’ll get the uptick in quality you're paying for.

However, they're also a great step-down alternative to pricier options, like the aforementioned (and contemporary) Bose QuietComfort Headphones (2nd Gen). They're comfortable, long-lasting and full of features.

If they sounded better, Earfun could sell these for a fair-amount more, so if you don't care especially about top-tier audio quality, they're an even more tempting pick.

• Value: 4.5/5

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How I tested the Earfun Wave Pro X

• Tested for over two weeks
• Paired with Android phone for Bluetooth and USB-C
• Used on walks around neighborhood, at work, and on public transport

I used the Earfun Wave Pro X for two weeks before writing this review, and it got another week of use during the writing process.

During this time, I used the headphones alongside an Android smartphone, paired mostly with Bluetooth but occasionally over USB-C. I mostly listened to music via Spotify, but also watched videos and played games. Listening was done at home and on walks around my neighborhood, as well as on public transport and while working out at the gym.

I've been testing gadgets for TechRadar since early 2019, and in that time have tested many other pairs of over-ears, and countless Earfun audio products.

• First reviewed in October 2026

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Watch Greece vs Germany live streams from Toumba Stadium in Thessaloniki as the home side try to cling on to their unexpected spot at the top of 2026/27 Nations League Group A2 and pull off the most unlikely of doubles over the four-time World Cup winners.

Memories don't have to stretch back too far to remember the first time Greece ever recorded a win over the Germans – it was last Sunday! That shock victory in Augsburg, thanks to a winner from stalwart Dimitrios Kourbelis, together with a win in Serbia and 2-2 draw with the Netherlands have catapulted Ivan Jovanovic's men to the top of the table at the halfway stage. A last-minute equalizer from beating the Dutch, they have the quarter-finals firmly in their sights, with Arsenal's Christos Tzolis hitting his straps.

It will be with a huge sigh of relief that Jurgen Klopp managed to seal his first win as Germany head coach on Thursday, with a comfortable 2-0 win over Serbia. Liverpool's Florian Wirtz is proving the heartbeat of the team and converted the second goal to confirm victory after Bayern Munich midfielder Tom Bischof scored his first international goal. Klopp and his squad will now be eager to continue that momentum with a revenge win over the Greeks.

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Germany XI: Jonas Urbig, Philipp Treu, Malick Thiaw, Waldemar Anton, David Raum, Aleksandar Pavlović, Tom Bischof, Lennart Karl, Florian Wirtz, Derry Scherhant, Jonathan Burkardt. Subs: Finn Dahmen, Noah Atubolu, Finn Jeltsch, Ridle Baku, Maximilian Mittelstädt, Yannik Engelhardt, Said El Mala, Mika Baur, Bambasé Conté, Felix Keidel, Vitaly Janelt, Nick Woltemade

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Watch Portugal vs Norway live streams from Estádio do Dragão in Porto with the home side and Nations League champions knowing that a win will secure their place in the last eight of the 2026/27 competition.

While the hullabaloo over Cristiano Ronaldo's clashes with coach Jorge Jesus and subsequent exit from the squad threatens to overshadow events, Portugal's performances on the pitch have impressed. They're three wins from three with Joao Felix scoring in each game. They were particularly rampant last time out – a 4-2 win in Denmark, with Joao Cancelo, Goncalo Ramos and Vitinha all on the score sheet – and they'll already be looking ahead at the prospect of a third tilt at the Nations League title.

Norway, meanwhile, are looking to hit back after a surprise defeat by Wales in which Erling Haaland managed only 11 touches in the first half. Haaland may have three goals in the campaign, but his team only have three points after their opening win over neighbors Denmark. Following their impressive march to the 2026 World Cup quarter-finals, much is expected from Haaland, Martin Odegaard and the rest. A win in Porto today would help reinforce that they really do deserve a place among the elite of European soccer.

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Portugal: Diogo Cost, João Cancelo, Rúben Dias, Renato Veiga, Nuno Mendes, João Palhinha, Francisco Conceição, Vitinha, Bruno Fernandes, João Félix, Gonçalo Ramos. Sub: Rui Silva, Samuel Soares, Diogo Dalot, Tomás Araújo, Nuno Tavares, João Neves, Rúben Neves, Bernardo Silva, Rafael Leão, Francisco Trincão, Pedro Neto, Fábio Silva

Norway: Ørjan Nyland, Marcus Pedersen, Kristoffer Ajer, Leo Østigård, David Møller Wolfe, Sander Berge, Patrick Berg, Martin Ødegaard, Oscar Bobb, Erling Haaland, Antonio Nusa. Subs: Sander Tangvik, Egil Selvik, Fredrik Sjøvold, Sondre Langås, Fredrik Aursnes, Thelo Aasgaard, Jørgen Strand Larsen, Ole Didrik Blomberg, Kristian Thorstvedt, Andreas Schjelderup, Erik Botheim, Odin Bjørtuft

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Portugal vs Norway will also air for free domestically on RTP Play in Portugal. Although, of course, it will broadcast the game in its native Portuguese language. TV 2 Play will also be showing the game in Norway.

Soccer fans in the US can also watch this UEFA Nations League matchup on Fox One thanks the platform's free 3-day trial.

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AI agents increasingly receive access to software tools, private files, and credentials while performing technical tasks for their users every day.

That access creates another security problem because malicious instructions can influence what automated systems attempt to execute without authorization.

Bitdefender has released a public beta of AI Guardian, a macOS security tool that checks what autonomous software agents do before those actions take effect.

A security checkpoint for autonomous software

AI Guardian is a standalone application that initially supports Claude Code 2.1.121 and OpenClaw 2026.6.6.

The software operates quietly in the background and compares requested operations against rules established by users before allowing them.

Each request receives an allowed, flagged or blocked outcome, while decisions remain recorded for later examination and auditing.

Prompt processing takes place locally, although selected services such as website reputation checks can use Bitdefender's cloud infrastructure.

The system can identify attempts to manipulate agents through hidden instructions and prevent resulting operations from proceeding without approval.

It also examines Model Context Protocol tools, stopping suspicious or altered components before an agent can invoke them.

The software checks supported agent skills before execution, while exposed API credentials can trigger restrictions around protected resources.

It can also block an agent from accessing sensitive resources such as SSH keys and system credentials without authorization.

These controls are intended for developers, technical practitioners, and others who rely on agents for coding or operational tasks.

The company says every decision can be reviewed through an auditable record showing how individual requests were handled.

The security process establishes permitted resources first, then checks individual requests before returning an outcome for each operation.

Why the need for AI Guardian

Research cited by Bitdefender tested 20 AI agents against more than 1,300 tool poisoning attempts, with attacks succeeding 36.5% of the time.

One model in that testing was manipulated in 72.8% of attempts, illustrating risks that agent capabilities can introduce beyond ordinary chatbot interactions.

Another study reported more than 1.2 million exposed AI service secrets during 2025, representing an 81% annual increase.

That analysis also identified more than 24,000 credentials exposed through publicly available MCP configurations during the same period.

“AI agents are becoming a direct extension of the users who rely on them, inheriting the same security risks that come with that role,” said Ciprian Istrate, senior vice president of operations, Consumer Solutions Group at Bitdefender.

“This rapid shift means security can no longer stop at protecting the human alone; the agent itself has become its own entity to secure…”

AI Guardian is currently free during its public beta period, with the first release limited to English and macOS users.

The company says AI Guardian will eventually roll out for other operating systems, and its agent security lineup already includes two other products.

Hitting Steam Early Access in August this year after 13 years of development hell, this tale of kittens and covens is the brainchild of Assassin’s Creed 1 & 2 and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time director Patrice Désilets.

Revealed during 2026’s Summer Games Fest, this tale of sorcery and witchcraft immediately turned heads. As a hooded wiccan soared across thatched rooftops and ducked and weaved her way between soldier-ridden canals, crimson curses and talking cats teased an exciting, thematically unique-looking adventure. Yet despite its refreshing spin on open-world traversal, this time-bending tale took its first steps into existence all the way back in 2011.

"It’s been a long journey,” reflects Désilets with a warm but weary smile, sitting opposite me in a brightly-lit cardboard office, erected in the business area at Gamescom. Picking up the controller to proudly show off his gothic adventure, he takes one of the game’s dual protagonists for a covert stroll down a packed Amsterdam canal street, before shaking off her civilian disguise and raining hex-induced havoc on the screaming populace.

Once championed as THQ’s Assassin’s Creed beater, the inspiration for 1666 first took hold on a 2011 holiday to the Dutch capital. “Walking around, seeing the houses in Amsterdam. It’s really a level design city,” recalls Désilets, ”I could picture an Assassin’s Creed there…there's a facade, and all the mystery. Then I passed a building inscribed with ‘Anno 1666.’ and immediately I thought, 'What if I do a game about the Devil set in Amsterdam?'"

The Devil’s in the details

Originally envisioned as a cinematic Satan simulator, 1666: Amsterdam was meant to be the more gothic-feeling spiritual successor to Désilets’ 2010 smash hit game, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.

Thanks to his previous pedigree, publisher THQ was in, and so he spent the next two years crafting what we’ll affectionately call ‘The Devil’s Creed’. Yet like many deals made involving the devil, it soon appeared that Désilets Lucifer-staring epic was afflicted with a thematically fitting curse. “I started working on it for two years, then THQ went bankrupt.” Désilets recalls.

With THQ then suddenly snapped up by his old employers, Ubisoft, Désilets found himself briefly back at the Assassin’s Creed publisher, who almost immediately let him go – leaving poor old Lucifer trapped in development hell. Fiercely fighting his former employers for the rights back, Désilets eventually regained custody of his demonic baby in 2016. “…we got everything back…the 3D, all the concept art, and some animation,” Désilets grins. Yet in the years that had passed, something had changed for Désilets.

Despite having grafted to reacquire his IP, as time passed, Désilets no longer found himself excited about writing a game starring the devil’s apprentice. The reason? He was put off by a certain hit 2016 TV show. “Lucifer, the TV series, came out, and meanwhile, I'm like, 'Is it really the subject matter I want to attack?” shrugged Désilets. While Désilets had fallen out of love with the devil, he still found himself drawn to the idea of an evil-infested 17th-century Amsterdam. “What if there was a witch hunt going on in Amsterdam in 1666?” Désilets posited, as a new story unfolded before his eyes, “The only thing that I really kept was this idea of also doing 1999 [a dual time period alongside 1666], playing off two sides of the same coin: reflection and duality. That's when I pitched it to my team in January 2020, and [I] rewrote almost everything.”

Processing phobias through polygons

Thanks to being forced into remote work during the pandemic, retooling 1666 took the team at Panache six long years. While the initial Satan Sim was a Désilets-led project through and through, with his newest studio having previously made the 2011 survival game Ancestors, he’d grown to trust his team at Panache, letting their ideas help remould his 2011 original prototype in unexpected ways. “It’s funny, because it’s really a team game, yet in some ways, if we go back to my original PowerPoint, it's crazy how similar it is.”

Yet for all its violence, hexes and history, there is a familiarly agile, gravity-defying protagonist at the centre of Panache’s latest. "... I feel like I'm always doing the same game ... about traversal…” laughs Désilets, “the cat is my way to play with verticality [here]... Even in Ancestors, where you were an ape in a clan, it was still this sheer pleasure of going around a 3D world. Once I analysed myself: 'Why is this always in my fucking games?' "Because I've got vertigo! In real life, I can't climb – so maybe that’s why [you climb in my games]. Don't ask me to climb anything. It's a joke in my family.”

While soaring across canals as an agile Wiccan - or darting across rooftops as a black cat - provides the vertical thrills that Désilets physically can't enjoy in real life, 1666 departs radically from the traditional Assassin's Creed formula in one surprising way. “Each time you fail, there's a reshuffle of your abilities. You must continue your investigation with a different set - that’s where the roguelite element appears,” explains Désilets. “You might fail as a fighter and come back leaning towards witchcraft, so you have to think differently. You go through the challenges the way you want - it's your game, man. If you want to spend six hours in a row being the cat, I don't care.”

Swapping polish for collaboration

“You're not supposed to do [Early Access] with a narrative game,” shrugs Désilets, “But we're giving you roughly between 10 to 15 hours' worth of narrative-driven, open-world-ish content... [and] our goal is to have 1.0 by the end of next year, with console releases at the same time.”

For Désilets, the old way of shipping a game was done out of necessity, not choice, with the Assassin’s Creed veteran always wishing that he had more player feedback and additional time to refine his art.

“There was a time in game development when the game was finished... There was nothing you could do — no patches. That time drove me crazy.” Says Désilets . “Now... give me feedback…and then I can tweak. This is what game making is all about: having a dialogue. Yes, I can make a really badass character like Altaïr, but if you take the pad and make him turn around in circles, the badass character is gone because you're the one finishing the game. It's a co-creation.”

Narrative-driven games usually rely heavily on cinematic polish to pull players in, making 1666’s rough-around-the-edges Early Access release a peculiar sight. Yet in an industry plagued by ballooning budgets and sweeping studio closures, launching a single-player adventure this way might not just be an anomaly- but a canny survival strategy.

“I do my games with my team a bit in a bubble,” says Désilets when I ask him about the precarious current state of the industry. “I'm not always in those conferences. I'm not totally sealed off from what's going on, but you walk around, there’s an energy here…that reminds me of the old times... and lots of quality new games. Maybe we can attract new gamers into what people liked in 2007 when they first played Assassin's Creed. It's got that vibe, right?”

The Patriots vs Bills is a lop-sided matchup on paper, but recent meetings between these AFC East rivals have been ferociously competitive, with the past six encounters decided by one score. So although the teams have started the 2026 NFL season with wildly different fortunes, Buffalo shouldn't take anything for granted.

The Bills are a perfect 3-0, and multiple players have started the campaign in exceptional fashion. Josh Allen is the first player in NFL history to register at least five passing touchdowns and at least five rushing touchdowns in the first three games of a season, Greg Rousseau is the third to register at least two sacks in each of the first three games of a season, and James Cook's six yards per carry is second-best in the league. However, they turned the ball over five times against the Chargers last week, with Allen accounting for three of them.

For context, Drake Maye has been hammered from pillar to post for committing seven turnovers on the season so far. There's no question that the 2024 No.3 pick is struggling, with A.J. Brown's ankle injury-enforced absence really hitting him hard, but New England's defense hasn't played to its potential either. While the unit has been good at stopping the pass, it's been far too easy to run through. That's a problem against Allen and Cook.

Read on as we explain how to watch Patriots vs Bills for free.

Can you watch Patriots vs Bills for free?

Yes. Patriots vs Bills is being shown on free-to-air 5Action and 5 in the UK, and on free-to-air 7Mate and 7Plus in Australia.

Traveling abroad right now? You can use a VPN to watch Patriots vs Bills for free as if you were right at home.

Use a VPN to watch Patriots vs Bills live streams

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How to watch Patriots vs Bills live streams in the US

In the US, the Patriots vs Bills game is being shown on CBS and Paramount+.

Paramount+ starts at $8.99/month or $89.99/year, and is also home to Champions League soccer. However, you can access Paramount+ virtually for free with a Walmart Plus 30-day trial for $1.

Alternatively, YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, DirecTV Stream and the Fubo Sports + News plan each carry CBS and will provide near-comprehensive NFL coverage this season.

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How to watch Patriots vs Bills live streams in the UK

In the UK, Patriots vs Bills is free-to-air on 5Action, with live streaming available via the 5 platform.

If you're traveling outside of the UK, you can make use of IPVanish to access that free Patriots vs Bills coverage.

How to watch Patriots vs Bills live streams in Australia

The Patriots vs Bills game is free-to-air on 7Mate in Australia, with live streaming available via 7Plus.

Not in Australia right now? You can simply use a VPN like IPVanish to watch the action as if you were back home.

How to watch Patriots vs Bills live streams in Canada

The Patriots vs Bills game is available to watch on DAZN in Canada.

DAZN, which is showing every 2026 NFL fixture, starts at CA$24.99/month.

It's also being shown on CTV, which is available for free if you have a TV antenna or cable. CTV will require your TV provider login details, but is also available via pay-TV streaming platform Crave if you want an alternative.

If you're out of Canada but still want to tune in, explore the VPN route set out above, which will help you access your accounts from anywhere.

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Google is shaking up access to its Gemini AI models for individual users based on how much you pay each month, and it's those on the cheapest Plus plan and the free tier who are going to be losing out from next week.

As per an updated support document (via 9to5Google), if you don't have an AI subscription for Gemini then you'll be restricted to the Flash-Lite (3.5) "fastest answers" model. The Flash (3.6) "all around help" and Pro (3.1) "advanced reasoning" models won't be available going forward.

If you're on the $4.99 / £4.49 / AU$7.99 AI Plus plan, then you're losing access to Pro (3.1), but will still be able to call on Flash (3.6). There are no changes to the more expensive AI Pro and AI Ultra tiers, except for AI Pro gaining the Deep Think mode that maximizes parallel reasoning while sacrificing some speed.

Look out for a message inside the Gemini app or in your inbox if you're going to be affected by the changes. Google says the free tier restrictions will be applied from Friday, October 9, while AI Plus users will get an email advising them about the timetable.

Usage limits

Previously, the Gemini AI plans have been differentiated by usage limits — everyone got access to the same models, but for varying numbers of queries. Now there are further restrictions, based on model availability.

Exact usage limits are difficult to pin down: they depend on "the complexity of your prompt, the features you use, and the length of your chat" Google says, adding that "paid users have higher limits than users without a Google AI subscription". Usage limits refresh every five hours, and there are weekly limits too.

The move puts Gemini more in line with what you get with ChatGPT. OpenAI also limits model access based on how much you're paying each month, also the way it handles usage differs somewhat from Google: rather than one single allowance, there are usage limits on different models, query types, and thinking modes.

We know that AI compute doesn't come cheap, so presumably Google has done the math and decided it can save some money with the new restrictions — and perhaps convince a few more people to sign up for a subscription.

Eddie's (Anson Boon) relationship with grandmother Maeve (Helen Mirren) has always been unusual, but it's now progressed to uncomfortable levels. Eddie's now staying in a London flat occasionally used by Conrad (Pierce Brosnan), and wanting Gina (Teddie Allen) gone, Maeve's is making more than one kind of move on him.

Maybe that'll calm down this week... right? And when does MobLand season 2 episode 4 arrive on Paramount+?

What time can I watch MobLand season 2 episode 4 on Paramount+?

MobLand season 2 episode 4 will drop on one of the world's best streaming services in the US and Canada on Friday, October 9 at 12am PT / 3am ET.

Here's when it will be released in other nations globally:

• US – 12am PT / 3am ET
• Canada – 12am PT / 3am ET
• UK – 8am BST
• India – 12:30pm IST
• Singapore – 3pm SGT
• Australia – 5pm AEST
• New Zealand – 7pm NZST

When do new episodes of MobLand season 2 come out?

MobLand season 2 will have a total of 10 episodes, with new entries airing weekly. That gives us the following schedule:

• Episode 1: out now
• Episode 2: out now
• Episode 3: out now
• Episode 4: October 9
• Episode 5: October 16
• Episode 6: October 23
• Episode 7: October 30
• Episode 8: November 6
• Episode 9: November 13
• Episode 10: November 20

So how is Microsoft faring now we're six months down the line? Here's what I've been impressed with in terms of what Microsoft has been tinkering with lately, but I'll also cover the missing parts of the puzzle that I really think the company needs to address with its effort to make Windows 11 better in 2026.

5 things Microsoft has got right

1. 8GB performance tuning

Do you have a PC with 8GB of RAM? You might find it provides a less-than-ideal experience running Windows 11, even though it's enough memory to run the OS per Microsoft's system requirements. Indeed, 4GB is officially the bare minimum, though I wouldn't recommend it.

However, this is changing, because back in August, Microsoft let us know that one of its goals in fixing Windows 11 is memory optimization for 8GB devices (and indeed for any RAM loadout). Microsoft said that the overall aim is: "Reducing Windows memory footprint to deliver a fast and responsive Windows experience across the PCs customers use every day."

This is a necessary move in general, but Microsoft has additional impetus to make 8GB work better, given the ongoing RAM crisis means laptop makers are increasingly falling back on this memory configuration (as 16GB is just too pricey).

It's absolutely key that Microsoft makes Windows 11 run more smoothly on leaner RAM configurations, and we're already seeing some evidence of performance improvements coming through — as well as faster loading for apps (not just Windows menus) — so that has to be a good thing.

2. Speed boosts elsewhere

Along with work to optimize Windows 11 for RAM usage, Microsoft also announced plans to speed up boot times. That includes not just a faster boot, but a more responsive login via Windows Hello—so we'll hopefully get to the desktop much faster in the future. (And to be fair to Microsoft, Windows 11 already boots nippily enough, generally speaking).

Microsoft is also making the Windows 11 setup process more streamlined and quicker, which doesn't hurt, either.

3. Search improvements

Windows 11's search has long been subpar, and thankfully Microsoft has recognized this and made moves to address some of the thornier problems.

This includes work to make search more useful overall — so it can find files with long compound names, handle typos better, and show possibly relevant results after you've typed only two characters — but the most important change is the ability to turn off web results.

These are the websites that appear in the array of results Windows 11 presents and just clutter up the list, getting in the way. Now you can turn them off, and also dump any Microsoft Store suggestions too. Search is becoming a much more streamlined and useful feature (as it should have been all along, true enough, but at least Microsoft has finally fixed the major bugbears here).

4. Right clicking the right way

The context menu, which appears when you right-click a file or folder, is another part of the Windows 11 interface that is getting a major upgrade.

Microsoft is decluttering the lengthy list of options to make it look cleaner, pruning a bunch of stuff in the default view of the right-click menu. Again, this is something that shouldn't have taken this long, but it's still good to see the move finally underway.

The right-click menu is also being tuned so it loads faster, and a welcome choice to revert the layout to how it appears in Windows 10 is also in the pipeline. Good stuff.

5. Bolstering privacy

This is a minor tweak, but an important one nonetheless, as Microsoft is finally letting Windows 11 users adjust privacy controls for each installed app.

Currently, this is only possible with apps from the Microsoft Store, as other (Win32) desktop apps have a single master toggle for allowing (or blocking) camera and microphone access. In other words, you can allow permission for everything, or no apps at all, with no choices in between, which is obviously not very useful. With the change coming in (currently in testing), you'll be able to adjust these privacy options for each app.

3 glaring oversights Microsoft has yet to address

1. Quality assurance

This one's pretty simple: Windows 11 still has too many bugs creeping in with annoying regularity. If it's not broken backup features, it's audio being torpedoed by a Windows update, and those are just the latest two glitches to have emerged last month.

I keep going on about the problems with bugs, and yes, I understand that Windows is a complex beast of an OS with a lot of potential hardware configurations to juggle, and a sprawling labyrinth of legacy features to maintain.

Nonetheless, the sheer level of bugs – some of them quite serious – we continue to witness just isn't good enough. Microsoft needs to take a long, hard look at its quality assurance and testing processes, and implement some changes – yet we never hear anything about this side of the OS.

This is the year of fixing Windows 11, and if there are two things that users would say in response to the question of what should be fixed, I'm betting that most would reply: the performance and the bugs. Microsoft is addressing those performance issues, as we've seen, but what about the sometimes eye-opening glitches that still make it into released versions of the OS?

2. Cut back on the promos

The good news is that Microsoft has relented in some areas when it comes to the 'recommendations' peppered throughout Windows 11, some of which aren't even thinly veiled suggestions but outright adverts. For example, the widgets panel is now a much calmer, less ad-infested place.

Microsoft still needs to push further on this front, though, and communicate better with its marketing department to ensure that ridiculousness like a full-page Harry Potter advert never happens again. Yes, that ad was served through the Bing Wallpaper app, which isn't part of Windows 11 by default, since you have to choose to install it, but it remains a prime example of the kind of promotional excess that shouldn't happen at Microsoft.

3. Getting local

I still want Microsoft to bring back the option to install Windows 11 with a local account, instead of forcing the OS to link to a Microsoft Account during setup. There were hints earlier this year that this might happen, but none of Microsoft's tweaks to the Windows 11 installation process so far has come close to this option.

Maybe that'll change, but given how far Microsoft has gone in the past to prevent workarounds for dodging the Microsoft Account requirement, I'm starting to think this won't be part of the fix Windows 11 effort, which would be a shame.

If Microsoft wants an easy crowd-pleaser, this would be relatively low-hanging fruit compared to the above two changes.

Watch NFL London Games 2026 live streams as the National Football League makes its annual sojourn across the pond for a trio of games over the course of three Sundays in the UK capital.

Having already taken the jamboree to Brazil and, for the first time, Australia, the now-customary NFL International Games get a three-week residency in London, England. First up at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the Indianapolis Colts and Washington Commanders both make their first appearance in the UK for the first time in a decade. They have identical 1-2 season records heading into this one, but both recorded their first win of the season last week. While the Colts narrowly defeated the Houston Texans, the Commanders pulled off the shock of the season so far, prevailing 33-31 over the Seattle Seahawks. Can their stand-in veteran QB Marcus Mariota pull off another match-winning performance on Sunday?

London has become the Jacksonville Jaguars' second home over the last few years, and in 2026 they play not one but two games. If they win this weekend they'll take a handsome 3-1 record to the UK where they'll come up against the high-flying Philadelphia Eagles and then, across town at Wembley Stadium, the struggling Texans. You'll find a full schedule for the 2026 London Games below.

Here's where to watch this year's NFL London Games and all NFL 2026 live streams online from anywhere – including FREE options.

Can I watch NFL London Games 2026 for free?

Yes, all three 2026 NFL London Games can be watched for FREE in selected territories around the world.

In the UK itself, for example, they're going out on TV through Channel 5. That means the London Games also can be streamed live on the 5 website and app.

Elsewhere, the UK-based NFL matchups will be shown for free on Virgin Media 2 and VM Play online in Ireland.

• 🇬🇧 5 – UK
• 🇮🇪 VM Play – Ireland

Remember that, if you're traveling away from home, you can use a VPN to watch free NFL London Game 2026 streams from abroad on your usual streaming service. More details below.

Use a VPN to watch any NFL London Games 2026 stream

A VPN is a handy piece of software that can make your device appear as if it's back in your home country, so you can unlock your usual streaming services. One of our favorites is IPVanish – it does everything and comes with a 83% discount now.

Using a VPN is incredibly simple:

1. Install the VPN of your choice. As we've said, IPVanish is one of our favorites.

2. Choose the location you wish to connect to in the VPN app. For instance, if you're visiting the US and want to view your usual British service, you'd select a United Kingdom server from the list.

3. Sit back and enjoy the action. Head to your usual local streaming service and watch the 2026 NFL London Games.

How to watch NFL 2026 live streams in the US

The NFL Network is the US home to all coverage from 2026's three London Games.

The NFL Network is available through a variety of cable plans. Cut the cord? If all you care about is football, you can get access to the streams with NFL+ from $6.99 a month.

Alternatively, Sling TV, is an OTT service that offers the NFL Network with its Blue package ($46 per month). A costlier but even more thorough cable alternative is Fubo, which includes the NFL Network alongside other NFL-showing networks such as CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN and ABC. Prices start at $88.99 a month but new users get a FREE Fubo trial.

Similarly, YouTube TV and Hulu + Live TV are other comprehensive OTT options, both of which you can try before you buy thanks to their free trials.

How to watch NFL London Games 2026 live streams in the UK

As mentioned above, Channel 5 and its 5 streaming platform will show all three NFL London Games absolutely FREE.

The omnipresent Sky Sports will also show these games if you subscribe and prefer its presentation.

Abroad when the games are on? Use IPVanish as described above to watch your free 5 stream as if you were back at home.

How to watch NFL London Games 2026 live streams in Rest of World

NFL Game Pass is the National Football League's dedicated streaming service, which allows die-hard football fans to watch every single game, including the international games like these three in London.

It's available via DAZN everywhere except for the US and China. Prices vary from country to country, and get progressively cheaper throughout the season.

Most countries also show games on TV and online domestically, too. For example, the following official broadcasters:

Africa

The NFL broadcast rights for Africa are held by ESPN, which provides coverage to sub-Saharan countries:

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Americas

• Canada

Although CTV is the free-to-air home of NFL in Canada, it doesn;t have the rights to show this trio of London Games. So you'll need the DAZN Game Pass instead.

• Latin America

ESPN has the broadcast rights to the 2026 NFL season across Latin America.

• Brazil

While ESPN is the main NFL broadcaster in Brazil (meaning streams also available on Disney+), selected games are also shown on SporTV and the ge TV YouTube channel.

• Mexico

The 2026 NFL rights are split between ESPN, Fox Sports, TV Sky Sports and TelevisaUnivision in Mexico.

Europe

DAZN holds the exclusive broadcast rights to stream the NFL in many countries across Europe:

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland.

Many countries, including some of those listed above, also have some NFL 2026 coverage on traditional TV networks:

• France

Free-to-air M6 will show one 2026 NFL game every Sunday in France, plus a selection of playoffs games and the Super Bowl.

Further coverage is available via beIN Sports.

• Germany

While DAZN is the main NFL rights-holder in Germany, select games will also be shown on RTL.

• Ireland

As explained above, Virgin Media and VM Play will show this year's London Games absolutely free. Sky Sports also has coverage.

Asia

• India

Star Sports has the rights to the NFL in India.

• Japan

NTV G+ has the rights to show all NFL live streams in Japan, alongside DAZN/Game Pass.

Oceania

• Australia

Several weekly games will be shown on ESPN and via Kayo Sports and Disney+ online, including the 2026 London Games.

• New Zealand

Free-to-air TVNZ will show at least two NFL games for free each week, but not the London games. As such, you'll instead need access to ESPN.

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