Damian Pickett · No. 38
Sunday 11 October 2026
Apple’s “Welcome Home” launch is Tuesday, and the Singapore Grand Prix is run today.
Apple has invited media to a smart-home event on Tuesday, its second product push this month. Six Colors argues the company is finally committing to the home category it has circled for years.
Apple is hiring Huxe’s team and licensing its tech, a startup that made AI-generated personalised podcasts. It points to Apple building its own AI-audio product rather than buying the company outright.
Max Verstappen’s pole for the Singapore Grand Prix, his 50th in Formula 1, puts him in an exclusive club of drivers who have reached that mark. He races from the front today.
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Tony Fadell’s Nest story, and his path from Steve Jobs’s iPod team to the smart home, is the perfect warm-up for Tuesday’s Apple home hub.
Nadella wrote that it is time to step back and assess AI’s trust architecture. It is a notable admission of caution from one of the industry’s biggest builders.
The notoriously idiosyncratic game, long rumoured to be built without version control, has finally adopted it. A small, satisfying piece of software trivia.
Anthropic detailed the activity of its AI agents in a blog post without naming the websites involved, but two sources told the Times its agents had targeted specific sites. Thin on detail so far.
Cloudflare is buying the Deno runtime to strengthen the programming model behind its Workers platform, folding a well-regarded open-source project into its developer tools.
The startup says its fuel cells are highly efficient, aimed at a moment when data centres and the wider tech industry cannot get enough electricity.
Gemini appears to be causing a bug that disrupts phone calls over Android Auto on foldable handsets, a reminder of how fiddly software integrations still are.
After nearly four years without an update, a new Apple TV is expected at Tuesday’s “Welcome home” event, reportedly as part of a wider smart-home push.
Apple is expected to unveil a wholly new type of smart home hub device on Tuesday, its first attempt at a dedicated hub for the home rather than an accessory.
A refreshed HomePod mini is reportedly due via press release as part of the home event, said to bring new features over the original released in 2020.
Apple shared behind-the-scenes footage showing the cross-stitch ‘Welcome Home’ logo for Tuesday’s keynote was stitched by hand, not generated. A small, deliberate human touch.
The Iron Giant and Incredibles director’s decades-long passion project, starring Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson, is immersive but doesn’t fully land, per IndieWire’s review.
Premiering at the New York Film Festival, Chris Rock’s fourth film as director gives the Slow Horses actor a standout lead performance, per The Hollywood Reporter.
Pegah Ahangarani’s documentary, made in the UK, was selected as the UK’s Oscar entry after winning the L’Oeil d’Or for best documentary at Cannes.
Thirty years on from Baz Luhrmann’s film, The Hollywood Reporter looks back at DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the star-crossed lovers in Verona Beach.
Payton Pritchard’s 25 points and Jayson Tatum’s 23 led Boston to a dominant home win over a Jaylen Brown-less Philadelphia side in the second preseason game.
George says he wants to help Tatum reach the best version of himself this season, after showing playoff-calibre defensive intensity in his own preseason debut.
New England made a flurry of roster moves ahead of today’s game against the Raiders, activating Schooler and signing cornerback depth while losing Gilliam and Hollins to IR.
Pats Pulpit previews today’s Week 5 game against Las Vegas, New England’s chance for payback in the 1pm window after a rough start to the season.
Chris Medland picks out five things to watch when the lights go out at Marina Bay today, after a dramatic qualifying and sprint weekend.
Hamilton starts third after a setup change cost him pole, but believes Ferrari can still work together to beat Verstappen in today’s race.
Singapore’s stewards found both McLaren drivers contributed to their last-lap sprint collision and ruled no further action was necessary.
Sonny Gray says he plans to keep pitching next season and would be open to returning to Boston, per a new report.
Tucson natives Mason White and Cade McGee got to play in front of family and friends during Arizona Fall League action this week.
Near Brno, a former brewery has been restored into a community centre with a curved, perforated brick facade, named Kulturní.
