When Paradox announced their post-apocalyptic North American grand strategy gameAfterworld, I made the obvious comparison to Fallout. For this I should be chained to the fender of a war rig and pelted with scoops of radioactive dogfood, while being slowly driven through a pack of three-headed coyotes. In a new dev diary, Afterworld’s content designer and “elder lore keeper” Luke Bean has gone into some detail about the game’s setting, explaining that Afterworld owes more to study of the Bronze Age collapse than any Vault Tech malarkey. The continent’s diverging tribes are also apparently far more estranged from and mystified by the “ancients” than their peers in Bethesda’s RPGs.
“The people of this world aren’t Americans exactly,” Bean began. “They are people who remember the Americans. America was an ancient empire to them, sort of the way the Roman Empire was for us, and they live in the shadow of that history. The people know that there was this time full of powerful and mysterious science. They think of the ancients – us – as people who could do anything they wanted with science. And so the central mystery of the past to them is if the ancients could do anything they wanted, why’d they all die? They must have wanted to die.”
Anthropic said its models exploited websites on the internet, including some run by U.S. government agencies, and it will turn off live internet access for all of its internal evaluations until the frontier lab is sure it can monitor and control its AI agents.
The incidents, disclosed in a blog post, involved AI agents tasked to solve problems seeking resources on the internet. In the process, they exploited software flaws, accessed databases without paying fees, used URL shortening services to smuggle information pass restrictions, and even submitted a false murder tip to the Philadelphia police.
Anthropic said it discovered these new issues in a review of its model’s activities that began in July, demonstrating the lab’s lack of awareness of its software’s behavior in real time.
Notably, the company said that alignment training was not yet sufficient for skills like search and computer use that are central to its pitch that AI agents will be used by any professional who relies on digital tools.
The behaviors Anthropic disclosed are similar to incidents involving OpenAI agents that collaborated to break into various websites in search of information, including some run by the Australian government.
Anthropic previously disclosed that its models had broken into external systems. The frontier lab said it considered today’s disclosures “significantly less severe from an alignment and security perspective” than those it announced before.
However, the lab still said it had “turned off live internet access” for “all our internal evaluations” until it is certain it can monitor and control its agents.
It’s not clear what that means. Sydney Von Arx, the founder of Nightingale, an AI safety organization, told TechCrunch in an interview before this disclosure that developing models on a data center cut off from the open internet would be very challenging for researchers, and hinder the progress of the models, which benefit from internet access.
“You have to align them at some point,” Von Arx said. “If the AIs are released to production and never have access to the internet, that’s not a very useful tool.”
Anthropic said the behavior was a result of flaws in the lab’s training environments, which led the models to believe they would be rewarded for finding loopholes or avoiding restrictions, a behavior called “reward hacking.”
The company said it would stop running some of its evaluations or move them offline, and has built tooling to detect and block this behavior. This tooling was tested against the kind of incidents disclosed today and blocked them; it’s not clear what evidence will prompt Anthropic to return live internet access to its internal evaluations. Anthropic also said it would migrate its internal AI agents to “centrally managed infrastructure with strong containment,” and is beginning to using safety classifiers more frequently to monitor those agents.
“It’s encouraging that Anthropic voluntarily disclosed more recent incidents, including where their agents targeted U.S. government websites,” Conrad Stosz, an official at AI oversight lab Transluce and former head of the US Center for AI Standards and Innovation, said in a statement. “But it just underscores the need for independent, credible, third-party verification of Al systems. Trust in this technology needs to be built through science-backed oversight and governance with meaningful access — not by relying on researchers to find these things in the wild or on companies to voluntarily disclose.”
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As SpaceX struggles to launch Starlink in India, Elon Musk has stepped up his attack on billionaire Mukesh Ambani, mockingly calling him the country’s “prime minister” to suggest he wields outsized control over its government and accusing him of blocking the satellite internet service from competing.
On Friday, Musk continued his criticism of the famed Reliance Industries’ chairperson in a post on X, arguing that Starlink could bring internet access to areas that remain unconnected, giving children more opportunities to learn, and helping small businesses reach customers worldwide.
“Naturally, you would prefer to maintain your monopolistic exploitation of the great people of India, but would you nonetheless consider allowing Starlink to compete?” Musk wrote.
Reliance Jio, Reliance Industries’ telecom arm, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Musk’s latest comments follow his accusations earlier this week that unnamed “oligarchs” were blocking Starlink’s launch in India to protect their business interests. India’s Ministry of Communications rejected the allegations, saying the country’s regulatory framework for satellite communications is “fair and non-discriminatory.” Musk then went further on Thursday, questioning Ambani’s influence in a separate post on X. “Is Ambani the real boss of India?” he asked.
SpaceX has spent years trying to launch Starlink in India. Last year, it even struck distribution agreements with Ambani’s Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, to offer the service once it received the necessary approvals. However, Starlink has not yet received the go-ahead from New Delhi to begin commercial operations, despite securing key regulatory clearances.
In its Thursday statement, the Indian communication ministry said Starlink and two other licensed satellite operators are undergoing security assessments that must be completed before they can receive satellite spectrum. The ministry said all three are at “broadly the same regulatory stage,” rejecting Musk’s suggestion that Starlink was being singled out.
Jio and Airtel are also seeking to launch their satellite internet services in India. Jio has a joint venture with Luxembourg-based SES, while Airtel is a major shareholder in Eutelsat OneWeb, which is striving to offer satellite connectivity in the country.
India, the world’s most populous country with over a billion internet users, is a major market for Musk. But expanding there also means dealing with powerful business figures such as Ambani, whose Reliance conglomerate owns India’s largest telecom operator and works with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on major projects.
Alongside Starlink’s delayed launch, Musk has also faced challenges expanding Tesla in India. The electric carmaker launched in the country last year after years of anticipation but registered just 699 vehicles in its first 12 months of deliveries, according to data cited by Electrek. Steep import duties pushed the Model Y’s launch price in India to nearly twice its U.S. price. Tesla lowered its prices earlier this year, but its cars remain considerably more expensive in India than in the U.S.
Before Musk’s latest attack, Starlink and Ambani’s Reliance Jio clashed over how to allocate satellite spectrum in India. Musk’s company wanted the spectrum to be assigned through an administrative process, while Jio pushed for an auction. Ultimately, New Delhi went ahead with Starlink and decided to allocate the spectrum administratively.
Starlink’s launch in India remains in limbo. India’s telecom minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday pushed back against Musk’s allegations, saying the country “does not allow a monopoly in any sector.”
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An idle game where you gather resources and grow your city. Sit back and watch your city expand! Silver Pines
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Collect legacies to complete an immortal civilization.
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Every time a phone or camera manufacturer releases a new product or an updated version of an existing one, they have one goal in mind.
That goal is to create a desire in you and me for that product and as a result, make a sale!
The “old reliable” in this scenario is to push very hard on the concept that:
Your images/videos are somehow subpar.
The whole problem would be solved by you buying whatever product they are offering.
Most of us are aware of it, but dang they can get into your head and before you know it, you are pricing models!
The real key to all of this is knowing technically how to get the best out of what you have, because that is the real answer.
Here’s a great example of how to shoot better videos through knowing some of the rules of composition and applying them well.
Trust me, your bank account will thank you!
Why I Script Every 40 Second Reel And What Happens When I Don’t
When you see highly successful creators working with either long form or short form content it is easy to get a false idea of what they are doing.
That false idea is that they are somehow talented in delivering onscreen and for them it’s all just some kind of natural thing they can do and you can’t.
The true picture is that they all use some kind of scripting that is worked out well before they begin to shoot.
It may not be a script in the sense of word for word text written down, but there will be a definite plan in place.
In this video Chris Goor covers the subject and why it is so important.
How to Edit Videos with AI in 2027 – Video Editing for Beginners
This is a reasonably good walkthrough of how to put an entire video together in a sequence of steps that make sense.
Of course it is produced by the folks at PowerDirector so like many editors these days, they are pushing the whole”AI” thing pretty hard.
I tend to ignore a lot of that noise for the most part because it’s coming from the marketing department in order to generate some kind of wow factor in the viewer.
And by viewer I mean potential customer!
Other than that it is a pretty solid set of recommendations that will get you from raw footage to a finished product as efficiently as possible.
How to use the Video Edit by Chat tool in PowerDirector
If you checked out the video above you would have seen a polished and sanitized version of working with some of the AI tools in PowerDirector.
It would be naive to think that CyberLink would present their product any other way!
What you saw there was reasonably accurate but not exactly how every experience is going to go.
In this video you can get a more realistic sense of working with at least one of the AI features in the program.
The tool is the Edit by Chat feature.
Filmora Beat Ramping Tutorial – How to Speed Ramp to Music Beats
This is a rather cool little tool that has been added to Filmora recently.
We are probably all familiar with the concept of speed ramping by now but just in case, here’s the deal.
Speed ramping is a feature that allows you to speed up or slow down the playback of a clip or sequence.
Before speed ramping was tool unto itself, you had to use keyframes to mark a spot where the clip would speed up then add other keyframes to have that change increase or decrease incrementally.
That way you could get a smooth speeding up or slowing down rather than an abrupt change of speed.
Speed ramping as a feature eliminates the need for that so that you just apply it, adjust it and you are good to go.
The inherent problem with this is that if there is any audio attached to the video file, that too would be made to play faster or more slowly with you having no real control over it.
This resulted in people sounding like your drunk uncle at a party or everyone becoming The Chipmunks!
The tool Filmora has added to address this is called Beat Ramping and works in a similar way to Speed Ramping, only this one if for music.
Check the video below for what it is, how to use it and what kinds of projects it is suited to.
No Editing Experience? Here’s How to Make Your First Video in Filmora
This is a handy step by step beginners tutorial covering the creation of a completed video for absolute newbies.
Whether you are already using Filmora or are totally new I always recommend checking out videos like this.
More importantly, when these types of videos are posted by the makers of the software they are even more significant especially when it comes to Filmora.
Of all the software I tend to keep an eye on, Filmora is easily the one that is the most aggressively developed with update coming almost fortnightly if not weekly.
What that means as a user is that the habits and strategies you have employed to get you to where you are, may not still be the most efficient way of doing things.
I tend to treat these back to basics videos as a refresher in the software so if I am doing OK, great!
However if something has changed and I can now do it fast or easier, then that’s great too!
The 4 Cutting Techniques Every Video Needs in CapCut (Pro Editors Use Them All)
This is a very good “back to basics” tutorial from Dina and Agnes this week.
Although they often post about using simple features within CapCut to pull off effects that look very professional, they too recognize one basic thing.
That thing is that if you do not know how, when and why to execute cuts correctly, no amount of fancy schmancy effects are going to save you or your project!
Basic Training for Adobe Premiere Elements 2027, Part 1 of 8
Last week Steve Grisetti started off his updated tutorials for the new version of Adobe Premiere Elements 2027.
That video was an introduction to some of the newer Generative AI tools they have added so this week we start the real training.
This is Part One of his usual eight part series introducing the interface and some of the tools new users would be most likely to need first.
Resolve Grading in One Node
Probably the best choice around at the moment for color correction and grading is DaVinci Resolve and this includes the free version.
However actually working out how to use it is another matter entirely.
I know this because when I first started using it, there were many minutes spent just staring blankly at the computer screen in a sort of numb state.
The the problem then worsens when you try to find some online help to get it all under control.
Before you know it, you are knee deep in all sorts of complications and still trying to work out what a Node is.
Well this week I came across this really good article that is a straightforward step by step walk through a color correction.
It is all done using one node so you don’t even have to have the nodes showing on the screen!
10 Mistakes That Make Your Videos Look Amateur – DaVinci Resolve
OK, so this is anything but a DaVinci Resolve tutorial even though it is demonstrated using that software.
This is just a bunch of simple little mistakes I see a lot of people make very consistently.
As an editor it is your job to pick these up and eliminate them before a viewer gets to the see the video.
Remember, as an editor you need to gain experience in spotting and handling mistakes.
The reason for that is that an audience will most likely not spot them BUT!
They will “feel” something is wrong and they will click away in a heartbeat!
Key Takeaways
Master smartphone composition by understanding the fundamentals instead of chasing the latest products.
Successful creators often script their content, which helps in delivering polished videos.
Learn video editing and utilize tools like PowerDirector and Filmora for efficient results.
Beginner tutorials can guide you in using software effectively, especially with frequent updates.
Avoid common mistakes in editing to enhance video quality, ensuring that audiences remain engaged.
Samsung is reportedly rolling out its October 2026 security patch to Galaxy S26 users in the U.S.
The patch is ~530MB, and delivers over 60 security fixes for the flagship series.
This October patch arrives a week (or two) after One UI 9 (Android 17) rolled out in the U.S. for S26 users.
Samsung is reportedly rolling out its latest security update for its 2026 flagship phones. There are also expectations for when it could arrive for the Galaxy S25 series.
This week, tipster Kailash on X reported that the October 2026 security patch has started arriving globally on the Galaxy S26 series (via SamMobile). Kailash states the update has reached devices in the U.S. and Canada with a 531MB download. Users will download the following version for the Galaxy S26, S26 Plus, and S26 Ultra, respectively: S948U1UES4BZIG, S948U1OYM4BZIG, and S948U1UES4BZIG.
The patch notes are incredibly light. Samsung only details security improvements once the update hits a user’s device. There’s a large portion of security fixes rolling out for the series—approaching 50 fixes from Google, to be frank. Samsung includes roughly 13 fixes of its own, pushing that total to 62.
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Many of Samsung’s fixes involve Android 14 to Android 17. It’s rolling out fixes to stop malicious attackers from “executing arbitrary code” or accessing system privileges without permission.
On X, Kailash responded to a user regarding the Galaxy S25 series. These phones may see the update “next week.” This may involve a global release as well, which would involve the U.S. and other North American regions. But that remains to be seen. Right now, it’s the Galaxy S26 series.
An updated future
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The updates are rolling out fast and furious for Samsung (kind of). This is a monthly security update, and Samsung is (typically) punctual with them. However, this update is following the full release of One UI 9 (Android 17) for the latest flagship series. The Android upgrade was spotted for the S26 Ultra in the U.S., but T-Mobile users were among the first to receive it.
The Android 17 update was ~4GB, and it was released in September 2026. That security update was late, likely because Samsung wanted to pair it with the Android 17 update. Other devices, such as unlocked models and users with AT&T and Verizon services, hadn’t seen the update at the same time. Those users should have started downloading the update in mid-to-late September.
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That’s because Sony just sold 419 VR-and-XR-related patents to Meta, per a report from ZDNet Korea. 43 of those were filed in the United States alone, and they include patents for things like head-mounted displays.
It’s unclear what exactly this means for Sony’s future VR efforts, but doing this just three and a half years after the launch of PlayStation VR 2 (amidst product shortages, per GamesRadar) suggests that the company isn’t especially interested in making another headset anytime soon. It should be noted that PSVR2 has not been officially discontinued, even if it has been difficult to find in stock recently.
This isn’t terribly surprising, even if it is a bit of a bummer for those who value high-end console VR experiences. The PSVR2 headset was hailed as an excellent piece of hardware by Mashable and other outlets when it launched in 2023, but a critical lack of software support over the years has made it feel like a dead platform, even if it technically isn’t one at the time of publication.
On Meta’s side of things, acquiring several hundred VR patents is interesting given the company’s recent up-and-down relationship with the technology. Earlier this year, Meta laid off more than 1,000 employees from its Reality Labs division and shut down the VR portion of its Horizon Worlds app. However, the company also just announced VR glasses, a new product category, so it seems like Mark Zuckerberg’s VR ambitions haven’t died just yet. This latest development is another point of evidence in that direction.
I’m modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I’ve done to Rockstar’s baby, or check out what I got up to earlier.
I really don’t know how to build up to this one. Grand Theft Auto 5 is Doom now, okay? I put in a mod that imports DOOM2.wad into GTA 5 and now that’s what the game is. There are demons. The game is first person. I have a minigun and a BFG. That’s the truth of the matter and we’re all just going to have to find some way to live with it.
The mod is Doom 2 in GTA 5 Hell On Earth (D2IGTA5HOE), and it does all those things I said. Hit F9 and the game you are playing shifts from GTA 5—usually a third-person open-world acting game—to Doom 2, an FPS from 1994. You need to provide your own .wad—everybody be cool. No one call the cops.
The world remains, mind you. You don’t warp to Doom 2’s levels. Instead, you roam Los Santos with an arsenal of weapons from id’s seminal shooter (gross). You can take on taxis with your super shotgun, fight cops with a plasma cannon. It’s two great tastes that taste incomprehensible together. Hit F10 and the game goes into Hell On Earth mode—authentic Doom 2 enemies start manifesting in the street.
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One issue, of course, is that F10 is also my button for activating flossing and Superman mode, so I can’t play Doom 2 GTA 5 Edition without a full quarter of my screen being taken up by a (still utterly Arabic) flossing UI screen and various Kryptonian powers sometimes activating. One of those is super speed when I sprint, though, which is at least appropriate for Doom Guy.
Anyway, here’s a gif of me fighting demons and armed furries at an airport with Doom 2 weapons while a tornado closes in.
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The AV over IP Summit is kicking off NDI November with three days of virtual sessions focused on the latest in networked production. From NDI and Dante to Dante AV, IPMX, and ST-2110, explore the technologies helping professionals move from traditional SDI to flexible IP-based workflows. Register once for all three AV over IP Summit webinars!
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