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An autonomous agent powered by OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra has cleared the orc starting zone in World of Warcraft in roughly 40 minutes without a single death — and without ever seeing the game. According to the developer behind the open-source agent-wow project, the model received no screenshots, no video feed and no rendered frames. It … Read more
Wi-Fi calling — VoWiFi in industry shorthand — quietly reroutes your phone’s calls and text messages over your wireless broadband connection instead of the carrier’s cellular antenna. For anyone wrestling with dead zones at home or in the office, it is one of the most genuinely useful switches buried in a smartphone’s settings menu. It … Read more
President Donald Trump has named Jay Clayton, his director of national intelligence, to chair a newly created federal task force on artificial intelligence — branded the Super Intelligence Force — and given it 120 days to deliver a report on the technology’s risks and opportunities. Announced on 4 October 2026 in a post on Truth … Read more
One UI 9 does not reinvent the Galaxy interface, but it hands owners far more control over how their phone looks and behaves. The customization story lands in three places: Home Up, the module inside Samsung’s Good Lock suite; multi-finger gestures; and a Quick Panel that can now be reshaped almost without restriction. Flashier additions … Read more
Handing back a rental car key is easy. Erasing the digital fingerprint your smartphone leaves inside the vehicle’s infotainment system is the part most drivers forget — and it can expose your contacts, streaming-service logins and full navigation history to whoever sits in the driver’s seat next. The good news: closing that door takes about … Read more
McDonald’s is leaning on machine learning to recommend what a Big Mac should cost at each of its restaurants — and the results are already visible to anyone who opens the app. At one company-operated location in Fresno, California, the burger sells for $5.69. Two miles away, another corporate store charges $6.89 for the same … Read more
The TP-Link Tapo Doorbell Pro D260 enters a market where video doorbells are typically sold as cheap hardware and monetised through recurring plans — and it refuses to play that game. Priced at $220 (roughly €190 at October 2026 rates), it pairs a 4K camera with on-device detection for people, animals and packages, plus local … Read more