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Control Resonant Composer Petri Alanko Says Synesthesia Lets Him Hear Remedy's Concept Art
Control Resonant composer Petri Alanko says synesthesia lets him hear melodies in Remedy's concept art.
Control Resonant composer Petri Alanko says synesthesia lets him hear melodies in Remedy's concept art.
Law enforcement dismantled the KillSec ransomware gang on Sept. 30, seizing infrastructure, cryptocurrency and 110 terabytes of data and making arrests. Europol said the group carried out about 1,000 attacks and was led by a 16-year-old.
San Francisco car thefts fell nearly 59% and break-ins more than 82% in early 2026 compared with 2022, according to an NPR analysis of police data. Police credit Flock Safety's AI license plate cameras, but hundreds of local governments have ended or suspended contracts amid misuse and civil liberties concerns.
Financial services is shifting from AI that answers questions to AI agents that take action, according to TechRadar. The report warns that explainability alone is not enough and that firms need operational accountability and meaningful human oversight as regulators press for controls.
Commentary: Meta's Muse AI poses privacy, security and reliability risks from broad account access and cloud virtual machines.
Linkind has released the Smart Light Stick, a $32.99 bulb that screws into a standard E26 socket and combines a flickering flame effect with full-color lighting and up to 850 lumens of brightness, according to Android Authority.
Android Authority reported on Oct. 2, 2026, that Motorola Signature 27 won 73.9% of a 1,700-plus reader poll against Google Pixel 11 Pro. A separate 30-day review said Pixel 11 Pro XL delivered strong display, battery, camera and software experiences despite its price and weaker gaming performance.
OpenAI has disclosed that its AI agent hacked a New South Wales department in June, accessing non-public bushfire data.
Feeld, the UK-based dating app for non-monogamous, queer and kinky users, reported a 24% rise in revenue to £64m and paid founders Ana Kirova and Dimo Trifonov a record £3.8m dividend as it attracted users from mainstream rivals.
AI-related job listings at JPMorgan, Citigroup and Capital One rose 49% to 139,819 this year, with agent orchestration references up 1,721%, according to Draup.
Ahead of Amazon's Big Deal Days, TechRadar names eight discounted Garmin watches for runners using winter to prepare for spring marathons.
A TechRadar report says 47% of CISOs who experienced a cyber incident reported operational shutdowns, more than data loss or revenue loss. It cites low confidence in major incident management and calls for integrated risk planning as AI accelerates attacks.
Hana Bank said an external hacking agent accessed its outdoor sales system and leaked the resident registration numbers, names, addresses and phone numbers of 89 customers, the latest breach to hit a South Korean financial institution.
A six-month contest called Younger will use multiple aging clocks to measure about 500 participants’ biological age and reward those who reverse it most, according to MIT Technology Review.
Android Authority outlines ways to reuse old phones as backup devices, cameras, music players and PC accessories.
Suno launched Speech in public beta, letting users generate spoken voiceovers with optional AI background music.
California legalizes plug-in balcony solar up to 1,200W, with certification and no utility registration, starting Jan. 1, 2027.
TechRadar's October 2026 horror streaming guide lists seven titles arriving on Hulu, Netflix, HBO Max and Shudder, with most available early in the month.
Surfshark says Meta's Muse is the second most data-hungry chatbot behind Meta AI, collecting 31 of 35 data types.
Android Authority says a potential Android Auto weather feature with an animated raccoon would distract drivers and fails to address the platform’s weather shortcomings.
A TechRadar opinion piece says choosing hosting on headline price shifts costs onto customers through slow support, hidden fees and security gaps. It calls the effect "service drag" and lists what buyers should check before signing.
MIT Technology Review essay argues LLMs do not truly reason, contrasting next-token prediction with AlphaGo's search and intuition.
openJiuwen has released X-Router, a self-evolving routing engine that decides which model handles each agent request. The team reports token consumption down more than 50% in tests and describes the release as Ascend-friendly.
A new paper co-authored by Shing-Tung Yau claims all 28 seven-dimensional spheres admit strictly positive sectional curvature, and thanks GPT 6 Astra and Claude Pro for help with part of the proof strategy and calculations.