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Russian authorities detain suspect over St. Petersburg cafe blast
CNN • October 21, 2026 · 20:07 UTC

Russian authorities detain suspect over St. Petersburg cafe blast

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The Verge • Oct 21, 2026 · 19:54

Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash

Checking out of your next Airbnb might be less of a hassle now that the company is banning hosts from including time-consuming chores in their house rules. Airbnb's updated house rules policy, which starts with reservations booked on or after November 20th, says hosts can't ask guests to "complete tasks that require significant effort or […]

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The Verge • Oct 21, 2026 · 19:53

Anthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agent

Anthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots: Claude Duet. The new agent, designed for professionals and small business owners, is launching as a "research preview," according to Anthropic, and it's available as a standalone app on iOS and Android and through Claude on the web. The AI agent is […]

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The Verge • Oct 21, 2026 · 19:30

Walmart is inviting AI agents to shop for you

Walmart will soon let AI agents shop on its website for you. Next month, the retail giant will allow you to connect your own AI agent to the site, with systems in place to let you approve and review purchases and set spending limits. The embrace of AI agents stands in stark contrast to Amazon, […]

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The Verge • Oct 21, 2026 · 18:31

Xbox mandates a four-day return to office

Microsoft asked its employees to return to the office three days per week last year, and it's now upping this requirement to four days a week for most Xbox employees. An internal memo, seen by The Verge, describes the change as a "need to create more opportunities for people to work together" after feedback from […]

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The Verge • Oct 21, 2026 · 18:30

Star Wars Zero Company is a must-play strategy game at 20 percent off

If you’ve been curious about Star Wars Zero Company, the XCOM-like strategy game set in the Star Wars universe, Amazon has both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X physical editions on sale for $47.99 and $49.99, respectively. The game usually sells for $59.99. While I’m not usually enthused by turn-based strategy games, I’ve been […]

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Flaw in PHP computer language leads to shutdown of websites around world
The Guardian • Oct 21, 2026 · 18:20

Flaw in PHP computer language leads to shutdown of websites around world

Precautionary takedowns come as experts say bad actors could exploit vulnerability in language used by 70% of sitesWebsites around the globe have gone dark after a serious vulnerability was found in a computer language used to build much of the world wide web.Belgian, Dutch, Finnish, French and German sites were among those that governments took down temporarily as they scrambled to patch the critical weakness in PHP, a language used by almost 70% of websites. Continue reading...

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The Verge • Oct 21, 2026 · 18:00

Will TP-Link really make routers in the US? Here’s what it told us

TP-Link, one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer Wi-Fi routers, is in a precarious position in the US. The company just launched its first Wi-Fi 8 routers, but can't bring them here because of President Donald Trump's foreign router ban. Even though competitors Netgear and Asus make their routers in Asia, they've mysteriously obtained […]

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The Verge • Oct 21, 2026 · 18:00

GM promises smarter cars, faster updates, and autonomous dry-cleaning runs

General Motors is still very much in the business of selling gas-guzzling trucks and massive SUVs. But if you listen to its leadership, the Detroit giant is rapidly transforming into a nimble, software-defined tech player with a tightened grip on AI. That was the pitch today, when GM hosted its tech-focused Forward event to unveil […]

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The Verge • Oct 21, 2026 · 18:00

Xbox Cloud Gaming’s pay-as-you-go option starts at $3.99 for 10 hours

Microsoft announced last month that it will let anyone access Xbox Cloud Gaming in November, without the need to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass. The new pay-as-you-go model will require players to purchase bundles of cloud hours, and now Microsoft is revealing today that bundles will start at $3.99 for 10 hours of cloud playtime. […]

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Heidi Levine recounts how Palestinian youths helped save her in settler attack
The Guardian • Oct 21, 2026 · 17:59

Heidi Levine recounts how Palestinian youths helped save her in settler attack

US photojournalist describes ‘protective shield’, vows to return to work in West Bank and criticises Netanyahu comments on incidentThe Washington Post photojournalist who was attacked and seriously injured by Israeli settlers in the West Bank on Friday has described how she was saved with the help of local Palestinians.Heidi Levine sustained four fractured vertebrae, two broken ribs and four puncture wounds when she was knocked to the ground and repeatedly beaten by a crowd of masked...

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Energy secretary leaning towards rejecting Rosebank oilfield
The Guardian • Oct 21, 2026 · 17:15

Energy secretary leaning towards rejecting Rosebank oilfield

Exclusive: Officials say Miatta Fahnbulleh minded not to give approval in victory for climate campaignersMiatta Fahnbulleh is minded to reject the giant Rosebank oilfield, sources have told the Guardian, in what would be a blow for the North Sea energy industry and a major victory for climate campaigners.After approving the smaller Jackdaw gasfield on Wednesday, officials say the energy secretary is leaning towards refusing approval for what would be one of the biggest oilfields in the North...

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Jeffrey Donaldson investigated over alleged rape in UK parliament
The Guardian • Oct 21, 2026 · 16:25

Jeffrey Donaldson investigated over alleged rape in UK parliament

Met police investigating after referral from PSNI about allegation former DUP leader raped woman in 2016The Metropolitan police are investigating an allegation that the former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson raped a woman inside parliament in 2016.Scotland Yard confirmed it received a report from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on 13 October about an alleged rape in the Palace of Westminster involving a man now aged 63. Continue reading...

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‘Don’t sweat the small stuff’: hospice workers share 12 lessons about life and death
The Guardian • Oct 21, 2026 · 16:00

‘Don’t sweat the small stuff’: hospice workers share 12 lessons about life and death

Hospice and end-of-life workers discuss what they’ve learned from their work and patients in their last moments“Hospice” can be a loaded term. Some see it as synonymous with death and “giving up”, as Courtney, a full-time hospice nurse practitioner in Missouri, puts it. But Courtney, who asked that her last name be withheld for privacy reasons, doesn’t see it that way.“Hospice is giving someone a gift,” she says of her patients, who have typically received a terminal diagnosis with a...

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‘He had this electrical charge’: the short life and long legacy of Jason Molina, master of Americana
The Guardian • Oct 21, 2026 · 15:26

‘He had this electrical charge’: the short life and long legacy of Jason Molina, master of Americana

As a documentary celebrates the late US musician, friends and collaborators describe an incomparable storyteller who brought ‘myth and magic to everyday life’Jason Molina grew up in a trailer in the working-class city of Lorain, Ohio. The city’s skyline once flickered with blue flames and a warm orange glow emanated from clattering steel mills, but by Molina’s teenage years, Lorain was in a tailspin. “Things were really on the economic decline,” says Tommy Nickoloff, Molina’s childhood...

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‘I’m always being real’: what on earth persuades disgraced people like Elizabeth Holmes to let the cameras in?
The Guardian • Oct 21, 2026 · 15:02

‘I’m always being real’: what on earth persuades disgraced people like Elizabeth Holmes to let the cameras in?

With You Can See Everything, Holmes joins other such high-profile subjects as Lance Armstrong, Imelda Marcos and Anthony Weiner to allow film-makers to document their lives. But do they ever come out well?In You Can See Everything, convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes invites film-makers Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim into her home in a supposed act of “radical transparency”. Holmes is filmed, along with her partner, Billy Evans, and their two young children, in the weeks before starting...

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Can UK pop cut immigration and stop the boats? I suppose we’ll find out with GB News Music Radio | John Harris
The Guardian • Oct 21, 2026 · 14:58

Can UK pop cut immigration and stop the boats? I suppose we’ll find out with GB News Music Radio | John Harris

An ‘all British, all day’ station is a nativist dream come true – but good luck with the playlist. And anyway: how many artists will want to be on Farage FM?If you want a quintessential “It wouldn’t happen now” story, try this. Two months before Margaret Thatcher became prime minister in May 1979, a national Militant Entertainment Tour was organised by Rock Against Racism.On 20 March 1979, it came to the West Runton Pavilion near Cromer, the (very) small town on the coastal edge of East...

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The best Kindles in the UK for every bookworm and budget – tested
The Guardian • Oct 21, 2026 · 14:00

The best Kindles in the UK for every bookworm and budget – tested

Whether you want a colour screen, somewhere to scribble notes or a child-friendly model, here’s what we recommend from Amazon’s e-reader range• The best e-readersFrom that fresh paperback smell to the wrinkles in the spine, nothing beats a real book. But if you’re sick of the space they take up in your home, or the weight they steal from your holiday luggage allowance, it might be worth considering an Amazon Kindle. It can fit thousands of weighty reads into as little as 158g, and as tech...

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Too much Overlap? Gary Neville’s podcast empire knows no bounds
The Guardian • Oct 21, 2026 · 07:00

Too much Overlap? Gary Neville’s podcast empire knows no bounds

The Overlap has gone daily, with Steven Gerrard and Joe Hart among the latest additions to an ever-growing familyViewed in 2026, Nathan Barley, Chris Morris’s 2005 sitcom, shows remarkable prescience about the last two decades of metropolitan life, from smartphone addiction and digital derangement to sheer existential vapidity. When Barley’s character referred to his occupation as “self-facilitating media node”, Morris and co-writer Charlie Brooker were way ahead on the creator economy. What...

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