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Get ready for way more Waymo. Sports
Sports
3w ago

Get ready for way more Waymo.

Waymo is reportedly looking to use that $5 billion loan it acquired this month to quintuple its current fleet of 4,000 robotaxis: bringing it to 8,000 by the end of this year, and 20,000 by December 2027. The goal is to expand to more US and international locations, having recently announced it’ll launch in Toronto, Canada by 2028. [Link: Exclusive: Waymo plans to quintuple its fleet | https://www.semafor.com/article/10/19/2026/waymo-plans-to-quintuple-its-fleet | Semafor]

#waymo #quintuple #fleet
Netflix’s Ted Sarandos reportedly wants more focus on TV shows and movies. Technology
Technology
3w ago

Netflix’s Ted Sarandos reportedly wants more focus on TV shows and movies.

The co-CEO has “complained internally for months that Americans were spending less time watching Netflix and that the service was short on new hit shows,” according to a big story from The Wall Street Journal. Also in the report: apparently just 3.5 percent of subscribers play its games every month, which is below the company’s 2026 goals. [Link: Netflix, America’s Dominant Streaming Service, Has Hit a Wall | https://www.wsj.com/business/media/netflix-americas-dominant-streaming-service-has-hit-a-wall-13660401 | The Wall Street Journal]

#netflix #usa #journal
The HomePod Mini 2’s Sound Glow feature is reportedly coming to more of Apple’s smart speakers. Technology
Technology
3w ago

The HomePod Mini 2’s Sound Glow feature is reportedly coming to more of Apple’s smart speakers.

According to 9to5Mac, the latest HomePod 27.2 beta adds Sound Glow support on the second-gen HomePod and first-gen HomePod Mini. Apple announced the feature with the HomePod Mini 2 last week, and says it can sync the HomePod’s LEDs colors to match album art or Apple’s ambient soundscapes. [Link: Your HomePod has a colorful new party trick: how to enable Sound Glow | https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/19/homepod-sound-glow-colorful-light/ | 9to5Mac]

#pod-mini #sound-glow #apple
“Instead, I have decided that someone else should stop me.” Technology
Technology
3w ago

“Instead, I have decided that someone else should stop me.”

> I understand the concerns. After all, I am attempting to assemble a living human being from dead human tissue and bring it to life with electricity, which isn’t generally considered something a person does after carefully considering the possible consequences. > But what am I supposed to do—stop? [Link: Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from Building the Creature? | https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wont-someone-please-stop-me-dr-frankenstein-from-building-the-creature | McSweeney's Internet Tendency]

#instead #decided
Netflix’s head of film is out, too. Entertainment & Cinema
Entertainment & Cinema
3w ago

Netflix’s head of film is out, too.

Following last week’s departure of chief content officer Bela Bajaria and broader company layoffs, Dan Lin is leaving the company as well, TheWrap reports. Lin was hired in 2024. [Link: Netflix Film Chief Dan Lin Out at Streamer | https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/netflix-film-chief-dan-lin-out/ | TheWrap]

#netflix #lin #dan
Trump officials reportedly asked staffers to secretly hack a voting machine. Technology
Technology
3w ago

Trump officials reportedly asked staffers to secretly hack a voting machine.

The request from political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency was never fulfilled, ProPublica found, but staffers were shocked at the directive not to report flaws back to the voting machine company. It demonstrates why state officials’ trust in CISA has eroded. [Link: This Cybersecurity Agency Is Supposed to Protect U.S. Elections. Officials Fear It’s Been Compromised by Trump. | https://www.propublica.org/article/cisa-election-security-donald-trump | ProPublica]

#cybersecurity #trump #homeland
OpenAI staffer accused of planting bug was allegedly in “frequent” communication with a Saudi royal. World News
World News
3w ago

OpenAI staffer accused of planting bug was allegedly in “frequent” communication with a Saudi royal.

The suspect, Abdulrahman Alfozan, used WhatsApp to communicate with the unnamed royal throughout 2025 and 2026, according to a court filing spotted earlier by CNBC. > Among other things, the individual [Saudi Royal Family member] told the defendant [Alfozan] that an artificial intelligence initiative was being launched in Saudi Arabia and wanted the defendant to join it. Alfozan allegedly contacted the individual on October 5th, just days before he was arrested on suspicion of planting a bug in an OpenAI conference room.

#saudi #openai #royal
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