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Samsung’s mobile division disclosed its upcoming product roadmap during the latest earnings call, highlighting the Galaxy S27 series, new foldable models and Android XR smart glasses slated for release before year‑end. VP Daniel Araujo promised “a series of promotional campaigns” during the holiday peak and hinted at a “Pro” variant and design refresh for the S27 Ultra. The company also signaled “groundbreaking form factors,” including a potential Galaxy Z Fold 9 and thinner, lighter foldables aimed at real‑world use. Samsung reaffirmed [...]

Reddit announced it will soon require users to log in to access most of its content, marking a major shift from its historically open‑web model. The company will roll out a new “For You” feed and a primarily logged‑in experience, starting with a test outside the U.S. The change aims to improve user experience, strengthen advertising revenue, and curb bot scraping of proprietary data. While the homepage and search‑engine links remain public, browsing subreddits without an account [...]

AGIBOT unveiled Worken, a framework to quantify robot productivity, at its Innovation Day 2026 in Shanghai. The metric combines active robot count, autonomous working hours and an output efficiency ratio to produce “effective intelligent work hours.” Peng Zhihui, AGIBOT’s president and CTO, said the model shifts focus from unit shipments to real‑world output. The event also introduced the AHA3 hardware platform, an upgraded AGILE motion‑intelligence suite with self‑evolving agents, the GO‑3 Preview AI foundation model, the WITA‑Omni [...]

Threat actors behind the Yoba campaign are masquerading malicious loaders and XMRig cryptocurrency miners as AI desktop applications for Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT. They create fake GitHub repositories—such as “GPT‑5.6 Sol,” “GPT‑6 Astra,” and “Claude Opus”—and host ZIP files that contain two DLLs, YobaDropper and YobaLoader. The DLLs employ DLL sideloading, placing themselves beside legitimate signed executables like OpenAI’s Setup.exe and Anthropic’s wmpdmc.exe, then use checksum checks to ensure they run only in the intended host. [...]

Shionogi & Co., a Japanese pharmaceutical firm, won first place in the Quality of Life category of the NEDO Challenge for its quantum‑assisted drug‑discovery research conducted with D‑Wave. A peer‑reviewed study in Scientific Reports (July 2026) showed that a generative AI model integrated with D‑Wave’s annealing quantum computer produced chemically valid molecular representations 97 % of the time, versus 73 % for a comparable classical model, and yielded a higher share of molecules with strong drug‑likeness scores. The ¥40 million prize [...]

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney intensified his criticism of Valve’s Steam platform, accusing it of stifling competition and imposing controversial AI disclosure policies. In recent statements, Sweeney claimed Steam’s “social walled garden” prevents cross‑platform communication and that forcing developers to publish political statements is “abhorrent.” Former Valve designer Chet Faliszek, known for work on Portal and Half‑Life, responded in a YouTube video, dismissing Sweeney’s arguments as “AI psychosis” and defending Steam’s tools that give developers and players transparency, including [...]

Ireland’s Commission for Regulation of Utilities released its first national Flexibility Needs Assessment, estimating distribution networks will require about 234 MW of upward flexibility and 58 GWh of storage by 2028. The study shows flexibility must be located where constraints occur, citing the Naas 38 kV/10 kV substation, which may need 0.6 MW and 3 MWh of support in January. Planned reinforcement by 2030, removing it, underscores the location‑specific nature of the need. Batteries, managed electric‑vehicle charging and industrial demand response can meet [...]

Oscar‑winning actress Cate Blanchett met Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear Solid, during a visit to Kojima Productions that Kojima posted on X on Oct. 29, 2026. The tweet showed three photos and a Japanese caption, “With Cate Blanchett,” and tagged Blanchett’s Dirty Films company, but announced no collaboration. The images revived fan speculation that Blanchett could portray The Boss, the legendary mentor from Metal Gear Solid 3, a casting idea circulating since 2007 despite Kojima confirming [...]