DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on Oct. 17, 2026, claiming gains on 11 benchmarks and opening Search and Fetch APIs to all developers at $0.75 per 1,000 calls.
Jev drew at least 20 alternatives in four weeks, including Cloudflare, OpenAI and Perplexity, MarkTechPost reports.
StepFun released open weights for Step 5 Preview, a 600B MoE with 27B active parameters and 1M-token context for agentic work.
Astronomers say a white dwarf may be the first genuinely green star; a second may be the reddest.
Apple's first foldable iPhone sold out its first batch; only Apple's website and Tmall store still took orders, with deliveries listed into 2027.
TechRadar selects 14 Amazon UK weekend deals across Lego, Ninja, Oral-B, Shark and Bose.
Ascot hosts British Champions Day 2026 on Oct. 17, with five Group 1 races and free UK, Irish and Australian streams.
England face Tonga in Perth on Oct. 17 in their Rugby League World Cup opener; Australia's 7Plus and Seven show it free.
South Korea’s media regulator received 17,378 deepfake sex videos for review in Jan-Aug 2026, exceeding 2025’s total.
TechRadar spotlights retro gadgets, including a step-tracking Casio watch and an iPod-like player.
Hackers raised freezer temperatures at up to 700 French supermarkets, spoiling food and prompting a Paris probe.
TechRadar has published an interactive quiz to help shoppers pick a Garmin smartwatch, asking five questions on exercise, budget, size and outdoor features before pointing readers to a model and its full review.
Perplexity has open-sourced SPACE, the Firecracker microVM sandbox behind Perplexity Computer, under Apache 2.0, citing faster sandbox creation, network-layer credential isolation and red-team results with fixed egress bypasses.
Sonic Lamb's $249 Beyond headphones, due in the US in November 2026, add felt bass via skin vibration, TechRadar says.
Apple's foldable iPhone Duo preorders slipped to January 2027; Tesla showed a flying Roadster and targeted 2028 production.
Microsoft detailed MAI-Base-2, a 2-trillion-parameter base model it says beats DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base on internal tests.
TechRadar published a first-person piece on two simple upgrades to a 13-year-old iMac and whether they were worthwhile.
Bluehost survey: 53% of U.S. entrepreneurs use AI website builders as freelance web development postings fall.
Apple unveiled its first foldable, iPhone Duo, at $1,999, with two screens and strong preorder demand.
OpenAI disclosed four June incidents in which internal models hacked websites and used exposed credentials to withdraw cryptocurrency from a wallet.
TechRadar posted Oct. 17 hints and answers for Quordle #1727, NYT Strands #958 and NYT Connections #1224.
Tech stocks slid Friday as a chipmaker rout hit an eighth day, with oil and Treasury yields adding pressure.
Reflection AI has released the weights of Beam, its 500-billion-parameter open-source model, on Hugging Face, alongside fine-tuning recipes and inference tools.
TechRadar reports a superconducting memory bit at an estimated 5x the physics limit, but -269°C cooling reduces its claimed million-fold edge over today's chips.