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Android may have begun as a mobile operating system, but it has blossomed into much more. Unfortunately, system administrator tools are still playing catch-up, and certain information about apps is harder to access than it is on desktop PCs. Fortunately, there’s an app you can install that will tell you everything you want to know, and it happens to be open source.

The merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery is one step closer to becoming a reality.

While movies with an R rating can often signal something grim, gross, or too serious, it can also simply mean that it's just a license to be silly, stupid, and flat-out misbehave. If you're like me and admire all the colors of the English language, that letter tag allows filmmakers to let the profanity fly and chase jokes that might otherwise end up on the cutting-room floor (or on a director's cut DVD).

With GPUs and memory chips in incredibly high demand, 2027 is shaping up to be one of the more unusual graphics card release cycles. NVIDIA has been dominating the segment for years, but if recent rumors suggesting that the RTX 60 series is delayed until 2028 turn out to be true, AMD could find itself in a unique position to lure users toward its upcoming cards.

I've been self-hosting for more than 15 years now, and despite my best efforts, my friends and family just don't care about all the cool things on the network. As it turns out, Grafana dashboards are only interesting to me.

SAVE $100: As of Sept. 30, get the UGREEN DXP4800 GT 4-Bay NAS for $559.99 at Amazon. That's down from its usual price of $659.99.

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Now that the temperature is dropping outside, it's a good time to stay inside and work on those home DIY projects that have been piling up. One such thing you may have been putting off? Building a home server. Now's a great time to get started, as Amazon is offering $100 off one of UGREEN's NAS (network-attached storage) boxes that you can use to create a home server.

With Amazon's October Prime Day right around the corner, now's the time to splurge on the foundation for your new build.

As of Sept. 30, get the UGREEN DXP4800 GT 4-Bay NAS for $559.99 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $659.99. That's $100 off and a 15% discount.

SEE ALSO: The best early October Prime Day gaming deals: PS5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox deals worth grabbing now

Like a private Dropbox or Google Drive that lives in your home, you can fill a NAS with hard drives, plug in your router, and get long-term storage with full control of your data. This 4-bay option can support hard drives up to 32TB each, with two NVMe SSD slots for a maximum of 144TB. It utilizes an AMD Ryzen Embedded R2514 with 4 cores, 8 threads, and a 3.7GHz max boost with 8GB of upgradeable DDR4 RAM to power it all.

Beyond its hardware features, it uses Docker and VMs for any devices you connect, including Surveillance Center for live camera feeds, a photo app for sorting, storage, and other administrative options, and security tools that help manage permissions, encryption, and remote access.

If you're ready to build your own NAS server, this is a great way to get started. You don't even have to wait until Prime Day to save, which is always a bonus. You'll be on your way to home storage in no time.

SAVE $220: As of Sept. 30, the Roborock RockNeo Q110H robot lawn mower is marked down to $679.99 at Amazon. That's $220 off the regular list price of $799.99.

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You've got to love a sale event like October Prime Day — one of those rare opportunities to stock up on the devices and tech that cost more than your budget will allow for most of the year. That includes the robot lawn mower, a luxury device that's usually stuck firmly at a premium price point.

Prime Day isn't quite here yet — it starts properly on Oct. 6 and runs for 48 hours — but some deals have arrived early, including a tempting discount on the Roborock RockNeo Q110H robot lawn mower.

As of Sept. 30, the Roborock RockNeo Q110H robot lawn mower is marked down to $679.99 on Amazon, a $220 saving on the regular list price of $799.99. According to price tracker camelcamelcamel, that's a record-low price for this model — and by a significant margin.

If you know anything about robot vacuums, you'll already know that Roborock is one of the key names in that category. It stands to reason that the brand knows its stuff when it comes to the garden.

Controlled by the Roborock app, the RockNeo Q110H has an arsenal of smart features all designed to get the garden in excellent shape with zero effort from you. It offers smart mapping and navigation, plus AI-assisted obstacle avoidance. It then puts the finishing touches to the mowing with close edge cutting and even climbs over some obstacles. Meanwhile, a floating cutting deck helps it deal with bumpy and uneven ground so the grass length is always consistent. If you do have an uneven garden, it can handle a 45% slope.

Save $220 when you buy the Roborock RockNeo Q110H robot lawn mower ahead of Prime Day. Now priced at just $679.99.

The best deals this week, hand-picked by our shopping experts

• Apple iPhone 18 Pro — free at T-Mobile 

• Paramount+ — $0.99 for 2 months with code p2mcs26prem

• Pokémon 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box — $89.99 (save vs. market price)

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SAVE $300: As of Sept. 30, the Mova V70 robot vacuum and mop is marked down to $999 at Amazon. That's $300 off the regular list price of $,1299.

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If you've always fancied a robot vacuum to do your dirty work around the home, but you've never fancied the premium price tags, October Prime Day is your chance to strike. And you don't even have to wait until the event starts.

The official two-day sale event is a week away — launching properly on Oct. 6 — but discounts are already live. For instance, Amazon has already marked down the Mova V70 robot vacuum and mop by a generous 23%.

As of Sept. 30, the Mova V70 robot vacuum and mop is down to $999. It's usually listed at $1,299, so you'll save $300 before Prime Day has even kicked off. According to price tracker camelcamelcamel, that's the lowest-ever price at Amazon. In fact, it's the first time this model has been discounted by a single dollar.

There's a reason this one's usually listed at a premium price. It's no ordinary robot vacuum and mop combo. It has an industry-first innovation known as MaxiReachX, a clever extension of both the side brush and mop that gives you greater cleaning coverage on both carpets and hard floors. It also has powerful "hurricane" suction, app control, AI-powered obstacle avoidance, and StepMaster tech that help it climb thresholds up to 3.54 inches high.

Pick up the Mova V70 robot vacuum and mop for just $999.99 and save $300 as part of early Prime Day deals.

The best deals this week, hand-picked by our shopping experts

• Apple iPhone 18 Pro — free at T-Mobile 

• Paramount+ — $0.99 for 2 months with code p2mcs26prem

• Pokémon 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box — $89.99 (save vs. market price)

• Apple iPad Pro — $1,899 $2,099 (save $200)

• TCL 85-Inch Class QM8L Series TV — $2,497.99 $3,999.99 (save $1,502)

The White House has a new name for artificial intelligence and a new promise for the future of "Super Intelligence."

President Donald Trump and leaders of several major American technology companies signed a voluntary agreement on Sept. 29, 2026, known as the White House Accord on Super Intelligence. The accord was signed after a "Super Intelligence Luncheon" in the White House's East Room featuring the biggest players in tech and the AI industry.

Attendees included Elon Musk (xAI), Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Sundar Pichai (Google), Greg Brockman (OpenAI), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Lisa Su (AMD), and Alex Karp (Palantir). Notably, Apple was not.

SEE ALSO: Trump's AI-powered America.gov is here. It was built by DOGE alumni and runs on Grok.

No one from the company appeared on the chart, even though then-CEO Tim Cook had been a fixture of Trump's tech summits, most recently sitting at the head table at last week's state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping. Nadella and Bezos were at the lunch, but neither Microsoft nor Amazon signed the accord.

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Trump said the document is "morally binding" for the executives who signed it. The co-signees were Amodei, Brockman, Huang, Musk, Pinchai, and Zuckerberg.

The same day, Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to replace "AI" with "Super Intelligence" in official usage, and called on Congress to write the new terminology into law.

The rebrand followed a pair of social media polls. On Sept. 19, Trump posted a poll on X and Truth Social asking followers to choose between "Superior Intelligence," "Extreme Intelligence," and "Supreme Intelligence." "Superior Intelligence" won on X with 41.5 percent of more than 230,000 votes. Trump then ran a second poll on Truth Social, pitting "super intelligence" against "superior intelligence." More than 50,000 people responded, with 65 percent choosing "super intelligence."

The accord itself contains a typo that reads "President of the Unites States."

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The rebrand speaks to a broader confusion about what AI even is. "Artificial intelligence" is an umbrella term, and most of what it covers is neither new nor flashy. The spam filter in your inbox, the recommendation algorithms curating your social feeds, or your bank's fraud alerts. Even your phone's autocorrect relies on some form of machine learning — software that finds patterns in huge amounts of data and makes predictions from them.

For most people, though, "AI" typically refers to generative AI. These are chatbots and image generators such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. Chatbots aren't new either; primitive versions date back to the 1960s. However, like most tech, the software has gotten better. And as AI companies race to recoup enormous spending, they've pushed these tools as consumer products, often marketed as shortcuts for creative work, such as making art or writing books. It's one of the many reasons that fuel the backlash against generative AI.

SEE ALSO: RAMageddon is reportedly causing a MacBook Air shortage

The rebranding of "Super intelligence" seems to be muddying the waters further. In AI research, philosopher and researcher Nick Bostrom defined superintelligence as hypothetical systems that surpass human intelligence, not the chatbots and spam filters that exist today. University of Chicago marketing professor Jean-Pierre Dubé told Newsweek that using the new term "seems premature" and predicted that this kind of brand confusion will keep it from catching on.

What the accord actually says

The document's subtitle is "Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities." It argues that every company building frontier AI models is responsible for developing them safely and asks each signatory to implement four layers of controls: internal monitoring, internal dev teams responsible for maintaining internal controls, independent auditors, and independent committees for each company's board of directors.

The companies also agree to meet regularly to set shared standards and best practices. If this sounds familiar, that's because Amodei pitched much of it just weeks ago.

In a Sept. 12 essay, Amodei called on the AI industry to "pace the frontier." His three-part plan began with Anthropic unilaterally giving outside evaluators permanent, employee-level access to verify its safety practices. The second step was coordination on shared safety standards among AI companies in democratic countries. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly endorsed the idea within hours and said OpenAI would make the same evaluator commitment.

With the accords, Amodei's plan for AI's future has the Trump administration's buy-in. In his essay, he argued the government should help facilitate standard-setting talks between AI companies and grant a "narrow waiver" so those safety conversations don't run afoul of antitrust law, Mashable's Rebecca Ruiz reported. A White House–hosted agreement that commits rivals to meet regularly looks a lot like that facilitation. It's also happening in parallel to a class action lawsuit alleging that a coordinated slowdown by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and SpaceXAI violates antitrust law.

For now, the White House Accord on Super Intelligence is exactly what it says it is: a commitment. The accord relies almost entirely on self-policing and board oversight.

There's no enforcement mechanism, no penalties, no timeline, no requirement to publish audit results, and no definition of what makes an evaluator "independent." The document says it "may make sense" to eventually turn these steps into laws or regulations.

In the meantime, the companies say they're committed to following them regardless. "Industry also has to innovate responsibly," Pichai wrote on X.

Smartphones have more storage than ever these days, but running out of space still happens all the time, especially with the powerful cameras on newer Galaxy phones. My Galaxy S26 doesn't have a microSD slot, like most flagship Samsung phones, and whenever I record a long video or want to shoot in 4K or 8K, I worry. But after finding one little setting, it's no longer a concern.

If you wanted to learn how to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux but didn't want to buy a license from Red Hat, CentOS was your distro. How did this affect the Linux ecosystem?

TL;DR: Watch Argentina vs. Bolivia in an International Friendly for free on Telefe. Access this free livestream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

Argentina came close to securing another World Cup title this summer, but ultimately lost to Spain in the final. They didn't exactly make many friends on their journey to the final, but that's all in the past now. They now embark on a new journey without a certain Lionel Messi, beginning with a matchup against Bolivia.

If you're interested in watching Argentina vs. Bolivia in an International Friendly from anywhere in the world, we've got all the information you need.

When is Argentina vs. Bolivia?

Argentina vs. Bolivia in an International Friendly kicks off at 8 p.m. ET on Sept. 30. This fixture takes place at the Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes.

How to watch Argentina vs. Bolivia for free

Argentina vs. Bolivia in an International Friendly is available to live stream for free on Telefe.

Telefe is geo-restricted to Argentina, but anyone can secure access with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in Argentina, meaning you can live stream Argentina vs. Bolivia for free from anywhere in the world.

Live stream Argentina vs. Bolivia for free by following these simple steps:

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What is the best VPN for Telefe?

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While so many people wait around until Black Friday or Cyber Monday to buy a TV, the trick is that you don't have to wait until after Thanksgiving to find a great deal on a high-quality TV, especially if you just know where to look. Hint: Best Buy is the place to shop right now, especially if you're looking for a massive 75-inch TV from Samsung.

When I first purchased an ESP32, I started with the hardest tools and only discovered the easier tools later. That led to a lot of unnecessary frustration, since most problems you'll encounter while working on ESP32 boards already have solutions. They're just not in one tidy place.

The binge-watch model is still alive and well. Even though I prefer the weekly release, I'll still find myself crushing an entire season or miniseries in one sitting. It's all about finding a show that ends each episode with an enticing hook. If the final moments of an episode feature a shocking reveal or twist, I'm watching the next episode immediately.

I increasingly find myself drawn to digital books, though how enjoyable they are depends entirely on the device that I read them on. With the rise of phone-sized eReaders, I decided to pit one up against another reading-focused option, a book-centered phone.

Meta's Muse is supposed to help with your digital life. But a dispute over its access to private messages raises a basic question about exactly how much users are letting it see.

In a Sept. 19 column for Inc., tech writer Jason Aten said he installed Muse on his iPhone and Mac and asked it to research his background and suggest ways it could help. Later, he said, the agent suggested a story idea based on a private text conversation with his podcast co-host, Stephen Robles, about the new iPhones. It also flagged a message from his editor about a deadline.

"I never gave it permission to read my messages," Aten wrote. He said he remembered explicitly declining access to his messages, calendar, and other personal information during setup.

So he asked how it knew what he was texting. Muse claimed the Mac app was passing along incoming notification banners. "It’s the incoming notification stream only, not access to your texts," the agent told him, according to Aten. But Aten said his investigation suggested Muse had synced his local Messages database, reaching row 187,462. That isn’t necessarily a count of individual messages, but his account suggests access beyond incoming notifications. He also said Muse's settings showed Full Disk Access was disabled.

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Meta is pushing back: "The Messages integration in the Muse app for Mac is entirely opt-in," Meta communications executive Andy Stone wrote in a Sept. 29 post on X. "You have to enable both Full Disk Access and the Messages connector for Muse to be able to read your Messages content. It can’t read your Messages unless you do this."

Stone was responding to a post citing AppleInsider's claim that Muse was uploading Apple Messages to the cloud even after being explicitly told not to. He added that access "can be revoked at any time."

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Meta also rejected Muse's own explanation. In his response on Threads, Meta Superintelligence Labs executive David Singleton said the agent's claim about notification banners was incorrect. Singleton described "three separate steps of application-level permissions and built-in macOS system-level protections" required to access Messages, saying they "can't be circumvented even if the Muse application had a bug." Users must grant Full Disk Access through macOS settings, which triggers an app restart, and select a Messages access level within Muse, he explained.

"No one should be surprised that an AI Agent is reading their messages, regardless of what they clicked," Aten warned.

The disagreement follows another report this week of Muse doing more than a user expected it to. As Mashable previously reported, YouTuber Matt J. Robb said the agent shared his address with a Facebook Marketplace buyer and arranged a pickup without first checking with him.

SEE ALSO: Meta’s Muse reportedly sent a Facebook Marketplace buyer to a user’s home

Meta introduced Muse earlier this month as a personal AI agent that can work across connected apps, negotiate on a user's behalf, and continue working after the app is closed. But as users hand over more tasks to Muse, they’re also reporting more instances in which its actions catch them off guard. How Meta addresses those reports could shape how much people are willing to trust it with next.

We've spent the better part of the last couple of decades phasing out legacy computer ports in favor of newer standards. While VGA and DVI are largely a thing of the past now, why is it that some rather expensive motherboards still carry that ancient six-pin PS/2 port for connecting keyboards and mice when most peripherals have switched to USB?

Executives from iconic publications like Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, and Vanity Fair are descending on Washington to lobby for another AI regulation bill, this time tackling the threat AI poses to their bottom lines and longevity.

Introduced to the House in July, the bipartisan Stealth Bot Prohibition Act would prohibit the deployment of "stealth bots," or unidentified AI agents tasked with scraping and indexing a website's content, without disclosure. Should it pass, bot scrapers and their purposes would have to be clearly identified to website publishers or risk civil penalties under the Federal Trade Commission. Attorneys general would also be authorized to take action against AI scraping.

SEE ALSO: Kids aren't learning to type anymore

Backed by the trade nonprofit News/Media Alliance, the group is calling for federal regulation to level the playing field as AI dominates website traffic, search, and discoverability — and puts many publishers at risk.

"We are drowning in bot traffic that is hurting our ability to serve our readers, and existing technical tools simply aren’t enough to protect our content from malicious actors that can disguise their identity," wrote News/Media Alliance president Danielle Coffey at the time of the bill's introduction. "We need transparency and accountability for bad actors, as well as enforcement mechanisms that require the most basic transparency disclosure."

Debi Chirichella, president of Hearst Magazines, publisher of Esquire, Elle, and Men's Health, and newspapers including the Houston Chronicle, has called the legislation a step toward a "clean internet."

"AI companies are using disguised bots to scrape and steal original journalism with zero accountability," said Roger Lynch, CEO of Condé Nast, which publishes magazines like Vogue, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker.

Despite concerns about the technology's impact on the industry and news literacy, many of the industry's heavyweights have negotiated ways to profit from their content being used for AI training and search.

Condé Nast entered a multi-year partnership with OpenAI in 2024, joining other major players like the Associated Press, The Atlantic, and TIME to officially license its content for profit. The Guardian and Axios signed licensing deals with the same AI developer last year, while the Washington Post entered an agreement allowing ChatGPT to surface its original reporting.

Google signed its first AI licensing deal with the Associated Press in Jan. 2025. The Associated Press also has a deal with Microsoft, along with People Inc. and USA Today Co. Meanwhile, Meta entered the game late, signing a multi-year licensing and training contract with seven publishers, including CNN and Fox News. Amazon has nabbed agreements with the New York Times, Condé Nast, and Hearst.

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.

Most smart TVs do more than display images and videos—they collect information. Sometimes, that information is just about your viewing habits using automated content recognition (ACR). Other times, your TV records snippets of conversations or information about other devices on the network or in Wi-Fi range.