Image: Microsoft On Friday, Microsoft released the first build of Windows 11 26H1—and as suspected, you won’t need to worry about it. Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28000 to the Canary Channel, the most experimental of the four Windows Insider channels. “With this build today, Windows Insiders in the Canary Channel will see the
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Next-generation black hole imaging may help us understand gravity better
Right now, we probably don’t have the ability to detect these small changes in phenomena. However, that may change, as a next-generation version of the Event Horizon Telescope is being considered, along with a space-based telescope that would operate on similar principles. So the team (four researchers based in Shanghai and CERN) decided to repeat
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The best streaming deals: Save on DirecTV, Audible, Starz and
Whether you’re a true cord-cutter or you just want to watch the next season of Stranger Things when it drops, everyone’s on the lookout for streaming deals nowadays. Plenty have chosen VOD and live TV streaming services over traditional cable in recent years, but the savings that choice got you just a few years ago
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Future of TV Briefing: Streaming subscribers save $16 through bundles
By Tim Peterson • November 5, 2025 • Ivy Liu This Future of TV Briefing covers the latest in streaming and TV for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how much money people are actually
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WPP expands AI capabilities to boost brand performance with Sightly
By Michael Bürgi • November 4, 2025 • Ivy Liu WPP, Digiday has learned, has partnered with analytics firm Sightly to tap its brand mentality platform that suggests content targets based on what marketers want their brands to be associated with. The move signals a era of agencies putting AI to use helping brands help
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Nancy Mace Curses, Berates Confused Cops in Airport Meltdown: Police
Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican congresswoman, unleashed a tirade against law enforcement at the Charleston International Airport on Thursday, WIRED has learned. According to an incident report obtained by WIRED under South Carolina’s Freedom of Information Act, Mace cursed at police officers, making repeated derogatory comments toward them. The report says that a Transportation
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OpenAI confirms GPT-5 is now better at handling mental and
OpenAI confirmed that it shipped an update on October 5, which allows GPT-5 to better handle sensitive conversations. After the update, GPT will automatically recognize when the user is not doing well, including situations like emotional or mental distress. However, OpenAI says only GPT-5 Instant has been updated to handle such use cases. GPT-5 Instant
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Labour fleshes out R&D funding
Reddogs - stock.adobe.com Over the next five years, £85bn has been set aside by the government to fund research and development By Cliff Saran, Managing Editor Published: 30 Oct 2025 0:01 The government has fleshed out details of how it plans to spend £55bn on research and development (R&D) out of the £86bn committed as
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The Financial Times’ AI paywall drove conversions up 290%. Now
By Seb Joseph • October 29, 2025 • Ivy Liu This article is part of Digiday’s coverage of its Digiday Publishing Summit. More from the series → The Financial Times is building an AI that doesn’t just know who will pay — it’s learning who will stay. After nearly a year of running its AI
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AMD is rebadging 2022 Ryzen processors as ‘new’ chips
Image: AMD If you’re in the market for a new Ryzen PC, beware: AMD is updating some of its old Ryzen processors with fresh branding and updated model numbers and passing them off as new processors. AMD has carved out a number of “new” Ryzen 100-series chips alongside a pair of new Ryzen 10-series model