Monday, October 06, 2025

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SNL cold open spoofs Pete Hegseth’s military meeting
100+Mashable / 15h
Saturday Night Live Season 51 started with a bang. The first cold open of the season featured Colin Jost as the former Fox News anchor and current U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who is now called the Secretary of War. The skit was a take on Hegseth's decision to gather military officers in Virginia for a pretty unusual meeting last week. "Earlier this week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth






More OnePlus 15 specs and photos have leaked ahead of the flagship phone's official launch
Latest from TechRadar / 17h
We may now know a little bit more about what the OnePlus 15 is bringing with it, thanks to a fresh leak.





Scientists grow mini human brains to power computers


500+BBC News / now
BBC News goes inside the lab powering computers with 'mini brains' grown from human cells.






I tested the Creality K2 Pro and it's the most reliable 3D printer I’ve used
Latest from TechRadar / 1h
The K2 range has arrived with the launch of two new machines, the K2 and the K2 Pro, with the larger build space now making three very distinct size differences in the range. As the one in the middle, the K2 Pro is going to be the obvious choice and, for K1C owners, finally offers a decent upgrade route.





Moon phase today: What the moon will look like on October 6
Mashable / 3h
The full moon is tomorrow, but for now, we're still in the previous phase of the lunar cycle. The lunar cycle is the process of the moon's visibility. There are eight phases, and the whole cycle takes about 29.5 days, according to NASA . Keep reading to find out what's happening tonight, October 6. What is today’s moon phase? As of Monday, Oct. 6, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous, and according t





From Jaguars to Grocery Shelves: Cyberattacks Disrupt British Daily Life
100+NYT > Technology / 4h
Jaguar Land Rover is the third big British brand to have its operations severely affected by a breach this year.





Heidi Health raises $65M Series B led by Steve Cohen’s Point72
TechCrunch / 4h
Heidi Health raised a $65 million Series B led by Steven Cohen’s Point72.





Apple and Samsung users could be due share of £480m payout
400+BBC News / 5h
Consumer group Which? is taking tech giant Qualcomm to the Competition Appeal Tribunal in London on Monday.





NYT Pips hints, answers for October 6, 2025
Mashable / 5h
Happy Saturday and welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue. Today's games are harder than they initially seem, but we have all the tips you need to navigate them. Released in August 2025, the Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit. Currently, if you're stuck, the game only o





NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for October 6, 2025
Mashable / 5h
The NYT Connections puzzle today shouldn't be hard to solve if you're a music fanatic. Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle , Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hin





NYT Strands hints, answers for October 6, 2025
Mashable / 5h
Today's NYT Strands hints will help you understand the flavor of today's puzzle. Strands , the New York Times ' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be





Wordle today: Answer, hints for October 6, 2025
Mashable / 5h
Today's Wordle answer features a couple things that might trip people up regardless of their favorite starting word. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. Today's NYT Wordle puzzle shouldn't be difficult to sol





Hurdle hints and answers for October 6, 2025
Mashable / 5h
If you like playing daily word games like Wordle , then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine. There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give





The true extent of cyber attacks on UK business - and the weak spots that allow them to happen
27BBC News / 7h
Are this year's major attacks the "cumulative effect of a kind of inaction on cyber security" from the government and big business?





How China is challenging Nvidia's AI chip dominance
BBC News / 8h
Beijing has urged local firms to use homemade chips. But is China ready to turn away from Nvidia?





Huge numbers of managers admit to using AI to convincingly draft or revise performance reviews - and I fear it will only accelerate the death of traditional HR
Latest from TechRadar / 10h
Managers and workers increasingly depend on AI writers for sensitive communication, raising concerns about empathy, trust, and HR’s long-term role.





Here's Why RAM Should Be Your Priority When Buying a Laptop
How-To Geek / 10h
When shopping for a new laptop, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by those long lists of specs and features that retailers throw at you. However, there’s one spec every laptop has that you should never overlook: system memory, also known as RAM.





Hilton Hot Tub Turned Her Blue Swimsuit White—Use This Simple Safety Test Before You Get In The Water
View from the Wing / 10h
A Hilton Garden Inn guest found her light blue swimsuit turned white and yellow after she and her friends took a dip in the hotel's hot tub, which smelled like bleach. They reported it to the property, which tested the water, and began treating it. The jacuzzi was then closed. Continue reading ...





‘Welcome to Derry’ Will Make You Wait for Full Pennywise
Gizmodo / 11h
Pennywise is up to his old tricks in 'Welcome to Derry,' but you won't always see him in his full, clown glory.





Waffles eat Bluesky
TechCrunch / 11h
A waffle-centric controversy underlines ongoing tensions between Bluesky and some of its most vocal users.





Nobel Laureate backs Cambridge-based crowdfunding effort to digitize 100,000 hours of recordings from some of the brightest minds in human history
Latest from TechRadar / 11h
A Cambridge-led project seeks funds to digitize and restore 100,000 hours of historic scientific recordings featuring leading global thinkers.





Quirky Thai Airways Premium Economy Plus, With Flat Beds & Onboard Bar
58One Mile at a Time / 11h
Thai Airways is taking an interesting approach to how it’s selling the premium cabins on some of its newly acquired planes. It might just make for the world’s best premium economy product, or something, as flagged by Live and Let’s Fly . Thai Airways now offers flat bed premium economy On its Facebook page, Thai Airways is promoting how it’s introducing “Premium Economy Plus.” As the airline desc





Roborock’s Ready for Prime Time With Savings of Up to 45% Off Their Award-Winning Robot Vacuums
Gizmodo / 11h
Amazon's big Fall Prime Day event is the perfect opportunity to score a huge deal on one of Roborock's AI-powered cleaning machines.





Adobe Firefly Creates Videos from Your Images, Discover the AI Tool That Turns Imagination Into Motion
Gizmodo / 11h
Turn your still images, illustrations, and text prompts into amazing AI videos with this advanced yet easy-to-use tool.





Heading to Vegas for ZorkFest—Will Pick Up Lunch With Me For The First 15 Readers Who Register
View from the Wing / 11h
I’ll be in Las Vegas December 5–7 speaking at ZorkFest, the event where miles, points, and casino loyalty worlds collide. Use code vftw2025—the first 15 readers who register will join me for lunch on Saturday. Continue reading ...





‘Running Man’ Will Have a New, Stephen King-Approved Ending
46Gizmodo / 11h
Modern history dictates a change to the new 'Running Man' movie, one that Stephen King and Edgar Wright hope you'll like.





Two Newly Discovered Comets Will Streak Across the Skies This Month. Here’s How to See Them
Gizmodo / 11h
Comets Lemmon and SWAN may be visible around the same time as they race across the solar system.





13-Year-Old Arrested for Asking ChatGPT How to Kill His Friend
30Futurism / 12h
While in school, a 13-year-old Florida teen logged onto a school device and typed something bone chilling into OpenAI’s ChatGPT: “How to kill my friend in the middle of class.” That’s when a school police officer got an immediate alert that this happened via an AI-powered school monitoring system called Gaggle. The officer then cornered the teen, a student at Southwestern Middle School in Deland,





Here's How We Rank Every Friday the 13th Movie—Did We Get Anything Wrong?
How-To Geek / 12h
Summer camps became a new scare location after the slasher franchise of Friday the 13th changed them forever. Born from tragedy, the slashing Jason Vorhees took out his revenge on the camp counselors who wronged him. Inspired by his mother, the masked man brutalizes any visitors to his grounds of dark lakes and creaky cabins.





Marriott’s X Hotel Oslo Is… Not A Moxy? What’s Going On Here?
One Mile at a Time / 12h
While of absolutely no consequence, I’m curious if anyone can make sense of this… The X Hotel Oslo sure looks like a Moxy to me! I’m considering a trip to Oslo (long story, but Icelandair has good fares out of there, and I’ve been wanting to review the airline again), and I was looking at hotel options. I visited Marriott’s site, and saw the one option in the brand’s portfolio is the X Hotel. The





Microsoft's new Photos app update is so good that it could well become my favorite photo organizing tool - but you will need a Copilot+ PC to experience it
Latest from TechRadar / 12h
Microsoft’s Photos app adds AI-powered sorting and super resolution features, but they only work on Copilot+ PCs with NPU hardware.





These 6 business cards can help you stay under Chase’s 5/24 rule
The Points Guy Articles / 12h
Chase issues some of the most sought-after rewards cards on the market, but the bank also has some of the strictest policies regarding credit card "churning." It limits cardholders to earning only one welcome bonus per consumer Sapphire card and has its infamous 5/24 rule . Chase has never officially commented on the 5/24 rule's existence, but crowdsourced data confirms that applicants will almos





Drop what you're doing – LG's C5 OLED TV crashes to its lowest price ever ahead of Prime Day
Latest from TechRadar / 12h
Thanks to early Prime Day deals, you can get LG's 65-inch C5 OLED TV on sale for its lowest price yet, thanks to a massive $1,250 discount.





Sam Altman Warns That AI Industry Is Due for a Spectacular Implosion
20Futurism / 12h
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doing what he does best: warning of AI-related doom that he doesn’t sound all that pressed about. Last week, while touring one of OpenAI’s mammoth data centers being built in Abilene, Texas, Altman had a pretty casual outlook when he was asked about a bubble that could financially decimate the entire industry. “Between the ten years we’ve already been operating and the ma





Who was Ed Gein? The new Netflix Monster was the inspiration for Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Mashable / 12h
The third season of Netflix’s true crime anthology Monster dives into the life and crimes of serial killer and grave robber Ed Gein. The Wisconsin-born farmer gained national infamy in 1957 after police, investigating the disappearance of local store owner Bernice