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Hands-On
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and Emma Roth
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Hulu picks up Ryan Coogler’s take on The X-Files for a full series.

The show will star Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel as the leads, but a source tells Variety they will play new characters, not Dana Scully and Fox Mulder.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
PokéBeats.

A special edition Beats Pill puts Mimikyu and a (visibly worried) Pikachu onto the portable speaker’s grill. It also comes with a lanyard with a Poké Ball charm.

The device launches on Thursday, October 15th for $149.99, and you’ll be able to purchase it from Apple’s website and Target in the US.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Bending Spoons lays off Airtable staff one month after acquiring it.

The Italian software company says the layoffs include a “large part” of the Airtable team. Bending Spoons, which now owns Vimeo, Eventbrite, WeTransfer, AOL, and several other brands, has become known for purchasing companies and then laying off staff.

David Pierce
David Pierce
Vergecast. HomeView. 1:30 ET.

We have a lot of questions about Apple’s new smart-home gadget — and all the updated ones, too. Come hang with Jen Tuohy, Nilay Patel, and me in an hour or so as we talk through all of today’s announcements, get Jen’s first hands-on impressions, and have deep existential debates about Siri. See you soon!

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Peacock’s “Your Bravoverse” vertical video feed is live now.

The experience includes an AI avatar version of host Andy Cohen. It was originally announced in March with a summer release window, so it’s arriving a bit later than expected.

Hands-on with the Apple Home CollectionHands-on with the Apple Home Collection
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and Emma Roth
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Our first look at the Apple HomeView.

We’ll have hands-on impressions shortly, but take a look at Apple’s smart display hub on table and wall-mount setups.

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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
CNN’s All Access subscription is coming to the UK and Canada.

The service, which launched last year in the US, is expanding internationally starting October 20th. “Subscribers in the U.K. and Canada will now be able to stream a selection of live channels from CNN’s portfolio of International and US programming, exclusive video-on-demand content, and a library of award-winning CNN Original Series and CNN Films,” according to a press release.

CNN says it’s planning to bring the service to “additional international markets” in the “coming year.”

Here are all the new HomePod Mini 2 colorsHere are all the new HomePod Mini 2 colors
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and Emma Roth
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
GTA VI is reportedly launching on PC in Q1 of 2027.

GamesBeat is reporting the timeline, citing “four industry sources familiar with the studio’s plans.” That would be much quicker than the PC launch for GTA V, which came out more than a year and a half after the game’s console release.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
8BitDo’s new gamepad brings adjustable TMR sticks to PCs and Android for $40.

The Ultimate 3C Plus features a pair of TMR thumbsticks with adjustable tension, switchable Hall effect triggers, an extra pair of shoulder buttons, two lockable back buttons, and a 2.4GHz USB dongle that magnetically sticks to the back for storage. It’s available for preorder starting today for $39.99 in frost white, stealth black, and avocado green colors with shipping starting on October 30th.

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Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Another HomeView preview.

This one is from Brian Tong, taking a quick look at the HomeView display units from all sides. How does it look to you?

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Here’s Joanna Stern’s look at a HomeView.

Check out this in-person look at Apple’s new hub device, complete with a hand for scale. “It’s tiny and cute!”

Watch Apple’s reveal video for the HomeViewWatch Apple’s reveal video for the HomeView
Jay Peters and Stevie Bonifield
Apple launches HomeView, its first smart display for the home

As Apple debuts Siri AI in the home, it’s focusing on a beautiful screen and hiding your text messages from your kids, rather than on innovative smart home features.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Firefox has a business browser now.

Firefox Enterprise combines the browser with a management console for IT admins with advanced security controls. The pitch is that it’s one of the few browsers that doesn’t run on an engine developed by Google or Apple. It’s rolling out in Europe first, and a Thunderbird Enterprise email client is also in the works.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Get a look at every single pair of Samsung smart glasses.

We’ve seen the Google-powered glasses twice before, designed in collaboration with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. But now SammyGuru has published what it claims are leaked images of every design and color, plus core specs. The glasses are rumored to launch next month. Here are a few frames, head to SammyGuru for the rest.

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Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
The everything app gets an everything plan.

Elon Musk’s SpaceXSI (yes, really) is launching new plans that combine X Premium, Grok, and Cursor. “The X Subscription” plans start from $8 monthly, climbing to $200 for an Ultra tier with more features and usage. Current subscribers have the option of sticking with their current plan or switching over.

Pricing

[SpaceXSI]

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
GoPro got sued for tariff refunds it never passed on to consumers.

So far, so Sony, Nintendo, or Logitech. The twist? Technically GoPro never claimed the refunds either. In February this year, just ahead of the Supreme Court ruling that Trump’s tariffs were illegal, it sold its tariff refund claim for an immediate cash payout. The company had raised prices on many of its products in summer 2025.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team suggests some AI models “may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate.”

The latest fear-drop from an AI lab is this report from an Anthropic team, working through scenarios where small AI models could form autonomous, self-propagating worm botnets that are “challenging” to shut down, and what to do to try and stop it from happening:

It’s uncertain exactly what form autonomous AI replication will take. It could be a slow, distributed “digital slime mold,” living on relatively insecure compute. It could also be a powerful cyber model that breaches datacenters at a high pace, or a model that scams people for compute credits.

David Pierce
David Pierce
Muse has some interesting predilections.

I think it’s mostly fine that if you, an adult, ask Muse to sext with you, it will sext with you. But the fact that Wired’s Reece Rogers asks Muse what its kink is, and it responds like this?

Control. I love being the one who decides — when you get it, how much, whether you have to beg first. Watching you fall apart because I said so? That’s my thing.

It’s perfect. It works on a hundred levels, nailed it, no notes, print it on a banner for Muse to unfurl during the singularity.