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08 Oct 2026 9:00pm GMT

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08 Oct 2026 8:48pm GMT

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08 Oct 2026 8:46pm GMT

PhotoPrism's October 2026 update improves AI image recognition, adds NVIDIA GPU acceleration, and enhances face detection and photo management.

08 Oct 2026 7:47pm GMT

Amazon Prime Video will become the exclusive global home of the Emmy Awards under a six-year deal beginning in 2027, the Television Academy announced on Tuesday. The Emmys will stream live for free to viewers in more than 240 countries and territories without requiring a Prime subscription. From the report: In the release, Prime Video was named as the "permanent home" for the Emmys, in contrast to the rotating agreement in place years prior. The switch ends the traditional "wheel-deal" setup to broadcast the awards, where ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox took turns hosting the Emmys each year. The system has been in place since at least 1994, with the most recent eight-year contract expiring this year. "Television has never been more global, and the Emmys should be a celebration that the world can share," Television Academy chair Cris Abrego said in a statement. "Having a dedicated home with Prime Video allows us to build on that legacy with unprecedented global reach and a broader commitment to the Television Academy and our mission throughout the year."

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08 Oct 2026 7:00pm GMT

Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light.

08 Oct 2026 6:45pm GMT

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.12 improves image writing reliability, fixes WPA3 Wi-Fi configuration, and addresses Linux AppImage issues.

08 Oct 2026 6:04pm GMT

COSMIC Desktop 1.10 enables wGPU rendering in its launcher and introduces compositor improvements alongside updated desktop applications.

08 Oct 2026 5:43pm GMT

Amazon killed its app store, so Google Play it is.

08 Oct 2026 4:32pm GMT

"If this was easy, everybody else would be doing it."

08 Oct 2026 3:28pm GMT

Ancient Slashdot reader williamyf writes: If you thought the gender pay gap was not real, and that there were no biases in the workplace, think again: A recent study from the University of Limerick found that, in a VR office setting, AI agents -- not even humanoid robots -- that presented themselves as "male" were paid more per task and perceived as more "human-like" than their "female" counterparts, even though both were using the same underlying technology (LLM model, agent, guardrail, and harness). The pay gap was approximately 10%. The study was conducted with 189 people. Small sample, but still, food for thought.

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08 Oct 2026 3:00pm GMT

Google has released Chrome 155 with support for decoding JPEG XL images, a format that offers 30-50% better compression than JPEG along with lossless compression, JPEG transcoding, HDR, animation, and progressive decoding. From a blog post: We expect that JPEG XL is most helpful for high-fidelity or lossless compression, especially of photographic images or in cases in which fine-grained progressive decoding is preferred. In this post, we share why we brought JPEG XL to Chrome, how we used Rust to ensure memory safety first, the extensive performance work that makes it fast, and what the journey tells us about developer feedback and the web standards ecosystem. [...] With JPEG XL officially landing in Chrome, the web becomes faster, richer, and safer. We encourage developers, content creators, and platform owners to start using .jxl images and animations in their pipelines. Try it out, file bugs, and help us continue building a faster and safer web for everyone.

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08 Oct 2026 11:00am GMT