Damian Pickett · No. 30
Saturday 3 October 2026
Qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, Formula 1’s return to Sepang after nine years, is today.
Apple will add new controls to macOS’s Full Disk Access permission after AI agents began requesting broad access to files, mail and messages. The change responds to growing agentic AI use on Mac, with specifics still unannounced.
OpenAI launched Dots, a personal agent inside the ChatGPT app, at its DevDay conference this week. MacStories’ Federico Viticci set one up and named it Puck, previewing what day-to-day use looks like.
Tony Gilroy’s new film, which premiered at the New York Film Festival, gives Pedro Pascal his most complex role to date as a classical cellist. /Film calls it his best performance yet.
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Meta is giving away the code behind its Muse AI model so hobbyists and hardware makers can build it into their own gadgets, from TVs to toasters, extending Meta’s AI reach beyond its own devices.
Sean Parker, the former Napster and Facebook executive, is relaunching Stability AI with a focus on music generation, this time with licensing support from record labels rather than their lawsuits.
Federico Viticci describes the Notion and local AI agent setup he built to research and write this year’s iOS and iPadOS review, a rare detailed look at one writer’s working AI toolkit.
Laytr’s new app lets people save articles, recipes, screenshots, videos and PDFs in one private, synced archive across Apple devices, aiming past read-it-later apps that only handle text.
Rivian delivered more than 19,000 EVs in the third quarter, up roughly 45 percent on the same period last year, with its new, cheaper R2 model driving the jump.
YouTube will start favouring original Shorts over accounts that simply re-clip other creators’ longform videos, a change aimed at rewarding original work on the platform.
Tesla delivered more than 486,000 EVs in the third quarter, below last year’s record but still trending upward despite a tougher US market for the company.
Apple TV released all six new episodes of animated fantasy series ‘The Sisters Grimm’ season two at once, letting viewers binge the full run from today.
Twelve South has launched Airfly Drive, a small wireless adapter that adds CarPlay to older cars, with 9to5Toys since publishing a full vehicle compatibility list.
Paul Thomas Anderson operates his own camera for this New York Film Festival concert documentary of Geese frontman Cameron Winter playing sparse solo piano arrangements.
Universal is understood to be eyeing Spanish director J.A. Bayona to return to the dinosaur franchise and helm the follow-up to Jurassic World Rebirth.
Sony is in talks for a film adaptation of EA’s Battlefield game, with Christopher McQuarrie set to write and direct and Michael B. Jordan producing and possibly starring.
Most of the 2026-27 Celtics roster has joined a fantasy football league together, with veteran Mike Conley credited for fostering the team bonding early in the season.
Top cornerback Christian Gonzalez is out for Sunday’s divisional game at Buffalo with a shoulder injury, forcing New England to rework its secondary against Josh Allen’s Bills.
Charles Leclerc set the pace in second practice at Formula 1’s return to Sepang, as Max Verstappen skipped a qualifying simulation and Lewis Hamilton was referred for impeding a rival.
After a Wild Card exit against the Yankees exposed scoring, bullpen and injury problems, Red Sox chief Craig Breslow is already working on fixes for 2027.
In 2005, a team of restorers built a hidden workshop inside Paris’s Panthéon and spent a year secretly repairing its antique clock, a quiet act of craft and devotion.