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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launched globally with its DMZ extraction mode quickly becoming a fan favorite. Players have repeatedly urged Infinity Ward to add a PvE‑only playlist, arguing that hostile squads and costly revives ruin the looting experience. An accidental UI glimpse of a PvE option sparked brief optimism, but the studio clarified it was a developer‑only test and that DMZ will remain a PvPvE mode. Community backlash is evident across Reddit, where users lament losing gear [...]

Agility Robotics and GXO Logistics announced an expansion of their partnership to deploy the Digit humanoid robot at GXO facilities in North Carolina and Tennessee, adding to the initial rollout in Georgia. The collaboration, which began in 2023, marks the first commercial, robotics‑as‑a‑service agreement for a humanoid in live warehouse operations. Digit has already moved more than 100,000 totes at GXO’s Flowery Branch site, using Agility’s Arc cloud platform to coordinate material‑handling tasks alongside existing automation. Agility, [...]

Two critical vulnerabilities were discovered in Wasmtime, a WebAssembly runtime used as an embeddable library, allowing malicious modules to break out of the sandbox that isolates them. Both bugs reside in Cranelift, Wasmtime’s default compiler, and received CVSS scores of 9.9. One flaw (CVE‑2026‑115889) stems from 24‑bit value fields that overflow on large functions, causing type confusion; the other (CVE‑2026‑115893) affects ARM64 br_table handling, letting an out‑of‑range index jump to unintended code. Fixed releases (36.0.19, 48.0.7, 49.0.4, [...]

The Simpsons' Halloween installment 'Treehouse of Horror XXXVII' returns to the three‑segment format after last week’s special. The episode opens with a clay‑mation intro parodying The Nightmare Before Christmas, then presents three shorts: 'Bride’s Shed Revisited,' in which Marge’s new shed swaps husbands and even pairs her with Survivor host Jeff Probst; 'Dog Boy Afternoon,' a loose Pet Sematary riff featuring body‑swap chaos and graphic dog‑gore; and 'Vehicular Dad Slaughter,' where teen Bart and Lisa find Homer [...]

A joint report by the Israel Innovation Authority and C4IR Israel shows the country’s quantum sector expanding from roughly five firms and 50 staff in 2019 to more than 20 companies and about 1,000 employees by 2025. Israeli quantum startups secured nearly $500 million in private funding in 2025, accounting for roughly 9 percent of global private quantum investment and placing Israel fourth worldwide after the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. The study highlights a surge in quantum‑computing firms, rising [...]

The full “Hunter’s Moon” rose on the night of Oct. 25‑26, 2026, illuminating skies worldwide and inspiring a global wave of astrophotography. Photographers captured the orange‑hued disk at moonrise, over city skylines, historic landmarks and natural vistas, including Bill Trojan’s near‑full view, Tayfun Coskun’s San Francisco skyline and jet contrail, Gary Hershorn’s Empire State Building backdrop, Davide Pischettola’s Basilica of the Madonna dei Martiri, Sayim Harmanci’s neon‑lit Hakkari scene, Salih Zeki Fazlioglu’s Galata Tower, Lisa Shislowski’s Florida lighthouse reflection, and Selcuk Acar’s Hudson Yards perch. The collection showcases diverse [...]

Steam experienced a widespread outage on October 26 when users encountered a persistent “loading user data” error that blocked access to the client, game launches, and the storefront. Reports of the issue surged around 8 a.m. ET, and while SteamDB’s internal monitor showed a green status, Down Detector logged numerous complaints. The problem appears confined to the launcher; the web version of the store remains functional. Early anecdotal evidence suggests the error may be triggered after redeeming a [...]

Three months after Elon Musk announced that Grok would produce a “historically accurate” full‑length adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, the AI‑driven platform released a seven‑minute clip titled “Episode 1 of our Odyssey series.” The short was created in partnership with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker and posted on the Grok Imagine Twitter account on October 23, 2026. The clip blends AI‑generated visuals with a British‑accented narrator and features characters rendered in skin tones Musk has previously endorsed. Reviewers note occasional realistic [...]