Creative Stage Pro Review: A Great Soundbar for Small Spaces
News October 30, 2025
I was expecting SuperWide would make dialog harder to understand, but the Stage Pro has exceptional vocal clarity for both Far and Near, even in Music and Movie modes. I found the extra boost to upper-mids and highs in Vocal mode unnecessary. As a music speaker, the Stage Pro... Read more
Geostar pioneers GEO as traditional SEO faces 25% decline from AI chatbots, Gartner says
News October 30, 2025
The moment Mack McConnell knew everything about search had changed came last summer at the Paris Olympics. His parents, independently and without prompting, had both turned to ChatGPT to plan their day's activities in the French capital. The AI recommended specific tour companies, restaurants, and attractions — businesses that... Read more
The producers of hit shows like The Peaky Blinders have put pen to paper on a £4 billion ($5.28 billion) gambling deal. Banijay Group (Banijay) is responsible for the Cillian Murphy-led gangster show, alongside other television brands like Big Brother and Masterchef. Now the production company is entering into... Read more
On the internet, health misinformation abounds, especially on social media, where wellness influencers claim to have miracle cures for everything from dull skin and tiredness to a weakened immune system and lack of exercise. This is how health myths circulate, leaving us with questions about what’s fact or fiction.... Read more
Meta, Google, and Microsoft Triple Down on AI Spending
News October 30, 2025
While Microsoft didn’t offer a specific forecast for its AI capital expenditures for the next quarter or coming year, the company’s chief financial officer, Amy Hood, said that the company’s total spend will “increase sequentially, and we now expect the fiscal year 2026 growth rate to be higher than... Read more
The missing data link in enterprise AI: Why agents need streaming context, not just better prompts
News October 30, 2025
Enterprise AI agents today face a fundamental timing problem: They can't easily act on critical business events because they aren't always aware of them in real-time. The challenge is infrastructure. Most enterprise data lives in databases fed by extract-transform-load (ETL) jobs that run hourly or daily — ultimately too... Read more
Attackers are exploiting a major weakness that has allowed them access to the NPM code repository with more than 100 credential-stealing packages since August, mostly without detection. The finding, laid out Wednesday by security firm Koi, brings attention to an NPM practice that allows installed packages to automatically pull... Read more
The United Kingdom’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has agreed with a complaint about WHG (International) Ltd, which operates as William Hill Online, after an in-app promotion for the game Marble Race Live was ruled misleading. The ad appeared in the William Hill mobile app on May 27, 2025. It... Read more
Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Oct. 30
News October 29, 2025
Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? I admit, 1-Across stumped me until I filled the... Read more
The Microsoft Azure Outage Shows the Harsh Reality of Cloud Failures
News October 29, 2025
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, its widely used 365 services, Xbox, and Minecraft started suffering outages at roughly noon Eastern time on Wednesday, the result of what Microsoft said was “an inadvertent configuration change.” The incident—which marks the second major cloud provider outage in less than two weeks—highlights the instability... Read more










