Month: October 2026

Dungeon Crawler Carl gets two major tabletop releases: RPG and card game arrive in November 2026

Dungeon Crawler Carl is headed to tabletops in a big way in November 2026. Renegade Game Studios has confirmed two major releases, the Dungeon Crawler Carl Roleplaying Game and Crawler Carl: Unstoppable. The announcement comes right after a crowdfunding campaign that wrapped on May 19, 2026 at more than $13 million, which made it one of the year’s biggest tabletop hits and a pretty blunt measure of how far the Dungeon Crawler Carl fandom has spread beyond the novels.

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Renegade says the release window will include the RPG core rulebook, a starter set, Crawler Carl: Unstoppable as a solo and co-op deck-builder, and the Iron Tangle expansion.

If you’ve been following the books, this looks like an easy one to keep an eye on. Renegade says the Dungeon Crawler Carl Roleplaying Game will feature more than 30 races, along with classes, abilities, progression, familiar enemies, loot-driven advancement, and floor-by-floor survival meant to capture the feel of the World Dungeon.

Backers also had the option to go big with a $490 all-in tier, which bundled physical and digital RPG content, Crawler Carl: Unstoppable, expansions, dice, miniatures, playmats, journals, stickers, stretch goals, and a season pass. The limited Celestial Loot Boxes also offered game sessions with Matt Dinniman and Jeff Hays, and those are already gone.

There’s more arriving around the same time. A deluxe edition of the first Dungeon Crawler Carl novel is set for November 17, alongside the Dungeon Crawler Carl WEBTOON, merch, the Peacock TV series, Book 7 momentum, and the ongoing Book 9 speculation. The tabletop releases themselves land through Renegade Game Studios in November 2026.

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YouTube updates privacy settings: new controls are available now

You can change YouTube’s privacy settings right now through the YouTube mobile app, Google My Activity, and Google’s My Ad Center. That gives you a few ways to keep more of your activity to yourself: limit your history, use Incognito for private browsing, hide subscriptions and playlists, and switch off personalised ads.

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The setting that matters most sits in Google My Activity under YouTube History. That’s where Google lets you stop saving your watch and search activity, or set it to auto-delete after 3, 18, or 36 months. Some older accounts may still have that history saved indefinitely unless you go in and change it yourself. On a platform with more than 2.5 billion monthly users, according to YouTube, that’s not a small detail.

The YouTube mobile app also has Incognito mode, which is handy for the occasional search or video you don’t want connected to your signed-in profile. It’s also smart to check whether older privacy settings are still leaving your subscriptions or custom playlists visible. Those can give away more than people realize, including political views, health interests, religion, family details, or very specific niche interests.

I’ve been digging through these menus myself, and they’re easy to overlook. A lot of them are switched on by default, too. So if you use YouTube often, you should probably make these changes, even if they won’t make you anonymous or solve the bigger problems, like government requests for viewer data, children’s data collection, or the risk of inferred traits being used against marginalised users and people in countries with weaker protections.

You can make the changes now in the YouTube mobile app, Google My Activity, and Google’s My Ad Center. You’ll still get ads after turning off personalisation, just not ones tailored to you.

Censys’ new data: agent platforms are growing fastest online

Censys has released internet-exposure data for October 2025 through July 2026, and the pattern is hard to miss: internet-exposed agent and model-serving platforms are growing a lot faster than older software categories.

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The numbers spell it out. Censys says this newer group rose 63%, going from 164,088 IPs in October 2025 to 267,915 in July 2026 across 44 products. Industrial control systems, or ICS, grew only about 4% over the same stretch, reaching 134,000.

OpenClaw is one of the clearest examples in the report. Six days after launch, Censys saw just two exposed panels. By April 7, that figure had climbed to 85,478. It shows how quickly tools can end up online before hardening catches up. n8n still leads the pack at 113,926 hosts, and 76.1% of reported versions are tied to a 9.0+ flaw.

Older business software barely moved from January 2024 to May 2026. Censys found Telerik Report Server, Jenkins, Cleo MFT, and Microsoft SharePoint sticking to their oldest versions.

Jenkins, meanwhile, was upgrading at a 5% to 9% monthly rate. Cleo MFT stayed stuck at a 1.9% median until CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities listings and Cl0p attacks forced movement. By January 2025, 63% of returning hosts had shifted to newer versions.

ICS is still exposed, and it’s still hard to track. About 70% of hosts sit on consumer or mobile networks. More than 80% also expose HTTP or SSH, and Verizon accounts for 10% of ICS and 27.5% of human-machine interfaces, or HMIs.

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Add automated attacks and a 4.8 million worker gap, and this is a report worth reading if you manage exposure. You can find it on Censys.

Supacell season 2 is on the way: production is reportedly wrapped

By August 2024, Netflix had already renewed the British sci-fi drama Supacell for a second season, even though it didn’t have the built-in lift of franchise branding. Rapman later said filming was underway. Now, reports say production has wrapped.

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Netflix says Supacell has turned into one of its biggest tracked sci-fi hits, pulling in 51 million views and 265.7 million hours watched. Since Netflix’s wider What We Watched data only begins in 2023, that’s best read as one of its biggest tracked sci-fi shows, not one of its biggest ever. Still, the numbers are strong: in Netflix’s data, it sits at No. 7 among sci-fi titles in that window after premiering on June 27, 2024, and it hit No. 2 on the global English TV Top 10 in its first week, according to Netflix.

There’s still no release date. Rapman has said Supacell was planned as a three-season story, centered on five Black strangers in South London. Their powers, the shadowy organization hunting them, and the show’s sickle cell link all feed into its Black British take on poverty, racism, exploitation, and job insecurity.

If superhero sci-fi is your thing, Supacell is easy to recommend for the authenticity, the social commentary, and the “Supacell Six” push to create openings for emerging Black TV creatives. It’s streaming on Netflix now.

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‘Band of Brothers’ is a masterpiece, but there’s one actor who remembers it as a real nightmare

James McAvoy was just over 20 when he first set foot on the set of Band of Brothers. Imagine: you’ve only just started your career and you’re already working on a Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks series. No small thing. It was a supporting role in episode 4, but more than enough to get his foot in the door and start appearing in more series and films. He doesn’t exactly remember it with gratitude, though.

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“On my first day of shooting, there were loads of actors. It was one of those scenes with everyone there, and we were in a bar. And I had a scene“, he recalls. And it’s worth stressing, because most of his castmates barely had a line of dialogue. “They were angry, and I came in to do one episode and they gave me an arc and scenes. I had loads of dialogue”.

In fact, he played Private James W. Miller, full name and all, something another actor, whose name he didn’t want to reveal, didn’t like. “One of the guys on the series decided to bully me on my first day as a professional actor fresh out of school. He and his friends kept pointing at me and laughing at me for three minutes“. Now, McAvoy has played Charles Xavier, and no one’s heard from them again.

Luckily, actors Dexter Fletcher and Robin Laing saved him, telling him “Come with us, mate”. Even so, he admits that being in Band of Brothers, despite everything, was an absolute blast. “I’d say apart from that day it was a 9. But that day was a 2”. Don’t bully people, please.

The Diplomat season 4 is now on Netflix: a shocking death sparks a power struggle

Netflix dropped Season 4 of The Diplomat today, October 15, 2026, and all eight episodes are already up on the service.

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Spoilers ahead. If you’ve been watching The Diplomat since it premiered in April 2023, the familiar all-at-once release and annual cadence are back right away.

The season’s biggest jolt is Austin Dennison’s death. David Gyasi’s British Foreign Secretary is killed in a helicopter crash in Amritsar, one that also involves the Indian Prime Minister, and the result is both private grief and an international crisis.

That hits hard if you’ve followed the show, because Austin had turned into Kate Wyler’s main emotional and diplomatic anchor. Keri Russell has described the loss as “powerful” and “devastating” for Kate Wyler.

Season 4 also scrambles the UK government. Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge is dealing with the Margaret Roylin fallout before announcing that the King has accepted his resignation.

Debora Cahn, the show’s creator, has said that reset was deliberate, since diplomacy is always shifting. She also pointed out that keeping the same British lineup stopped feeling believable when the real UK has gone through three Prime Ministers and four Foreign Secretaries since April 2023.

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If you follow The Diplomat, there’s plenty here to pull you in: the fallout from a Russian nuclear weapon, rising US-UK tension, and another round of high-pressure political drama.

You can watch The Diplomat Season 4 on Netflix now.

Norrsken and Nvidia unveil Stockholm startup lab: set to open in 2027

Norrsken Foundation and Nvidia are teaming up on a new startup lab in Stockholm, scheduled to open in 2027. The idea is to give a selected group of European founders building mission-driven breakthrough tech a place to work, along with AI compute and developer tools. The hub will focus on climate, health, food, and wider societal challenges, part of Norrsken’s €300 million Prompt What Matters push, which is meant to go beyond capital.

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The lab is slated for Birger Jarlsgatan 37, about 200 metres from Norrsken House Stockholm, giving Norrsken a second location in the city. The space is expected to include private offices, a lounge, event space, and shared access across both hubs.

Nvidia will be the founding technology partner and plans to move its Stockholm office into the building. For founders, that means access to compute capacity, tools for robotics, simulation, and life sciences, plus Nvidia Inception.

A ground-floor demo lab will be run with Root Bio, which uses software models for molecule design to work on biological problems, including greenhouse gas emissions. More showcases are planned across robotics, climate, health, and manufacturing.

If you’re building impact software or deep tech in Europe, this is one to watch.

The timing matters. Swedish startups in the sector raised €454 million in 2025, adoption reached 35%, and Nvidia kept expanding across Europe, with another $2 billion planned after roughly $8 billion in regional venture investment. If you want to follow the project before the 2027 opening, Norrsken Foundation and Nvidia are both sharing updates.

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If tomorrow we’re going to buy an iPhone Duo, the best thing is to add AppleCare to it.

Pre-orders for the iPhone Duo open tomorrow and, along with the decision to make the leap to Apple’s first foldable, there’s another important choice: should we add AppleCare+? For a phone that starts at 2,339 euros and reaches 3,839 with 2TB of storage, the short answer is, in general, yes, but let’s add some data to help us make the decision.

Repairing the iPhone Duo can cost up to 1,719 euros

When you’re in the middle of buying a new device, it’s easy to want to avoid the extra cost of AppleCare+. We know the inner display has a replaceable layer, a particularly interesting solution so daily use doesn’t take its toll on the device, but what about the other repairs? Out of warranty, Apple estimates these repair costs:

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  • Protective layer: 55 euros.
  • Rear glass: 219 euros.
  • Battery: 269 euros.
  • Rear camera: 269 euros.
  • Outer display: 489 euros.
  • Outer display and rear glass: 629 euros.
  • Inner display: 1,149 euros.
  • Other damage: 1,719 euros.

AppleCare+ makes a big difference

AppleCare+ costs 17.99 euros a month, rising to 20.99 euros if we include loss and theft coverage. With this subscription, battery repair is free and the fees for accidental damage are reduced significantly: damage to the protective layer, 19 euros; damage to the rear glass, 29 euros; damage to the outer display, 29 euros; damage to the inner display, 99 euros; other accidental damage, 99 euros; and theft or loss, the worst-case scenario, 129 euros.

With pre-orders opening tomorrow and arrival in stores on October 23, AppleCare+ is an especially good fit for a purchase in this price range. Do we recommend it? That depends on the person, but, if they help you decide, these are the numbers.

This is how the new Apple TV 4K compares to the previous model: these are the new features

Apple has unveiled the new Apple TV 4K at the Welcome Home event. On the outside, it looks the same, but the number of new features in this generation is significant. Let’s go over how it stacks up against the previous model to answer a simple question: should I upgrade?

More power, Siri AI, and better connectivity

The Apple TV 4K comes with the A19 chip, with up to 50% more CPU and double the graphics performance compared with the A15 in the previous model. As far as we know, it will come with 8GB of RAM versus the current 4GB and will also come with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 and support for AV1 and VP9. Apple narrows the lineup to a single 128GB storage option with Ethernet, centers the indicator light, and increases the weight by 1% due to the changes in the internal hardware.

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Internal hardware that now includes three far-field microphones that let you use Siri AI, while an iPhone or iPad with Apple Intelligence provides your personal context. Siri AI will come to the 2021 and 2022 Apple TV models with tvOS 27.2, yes, but it will be only the new model will let you use it hands-free. Unlike the previous model, the new one supports four HomePods connected at once to create truly immersive sound.

A much easier-to-locate Siri Remote

the remote debuts support for the Find My app, Precision Finding, and also includes a speaker to make it ring and find it more easily. Because of that, it’s 6% heavier. Precision Finding, though, requires an iPhone 17 or later.

With pre-orders now open and the launch set for November 13, this is a very interesting refresh. One that improves a device that already seemed unbeatable, and not only with a new chip, but with features that substantially change how we enjoy our TV.

HomePod mini 2 vs HomePod mini: what do we gain by upgrading

Six years after its first launch, Apple refreshes the tiniest of its smart speakers. In this version you get smarter features, better connectivity, and much deeper integration with your devices, as Siri AI comes to the HomePod, but is there more? Is it time to upgrade? Let’s see.

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Siri AI and a much more powerful S10 chip

The S10 chip replaces the S5 and, with its power, adds support for Siri AI, which lets us have more natural conversations, tap into Apple Intelligence, access our personal context (with an Apple Intelligence-compatible iPhone or iPad connected), and discover music like never before. 

The HomePod mini 2 is much better at understanding what you ask it, while the original speaker keeps classic Siri and, as Apple has confirmed, won’t receive support for the new version. Although Siri AI will arrive in a later update, upgrading to this generation means you’ll get new features soon. Internally, the new HomePod mini goes from four to three microphones, but computational audio greatly optimizes its dynamic range, volume, and acoustics, so sound quality is better overall.

Sound Glow, connectivity, and much deeper integration

The new Sound Glow system makes the speaker’s surface pulse with the bass and vibrate with the treble using colors from the album art of the song that’s playing. Unlike the previous model, we can use it as the default speaker on a Mac with Wi-Fi 6E and we can use four speakers to create truly immersive sound with the new Apple TV 4K.

Connectivity jumps from Wi-Fi 4 to Wi-Fi 6E and from Bluetooth 5 to Bluetooth 6. It comes in green, pink, a new shade of blue, midnight, and white. It has new animations for Siri and weighs 3% less. With the HomePod mini 2 Apple refreshes an already compelling device and turns it into a key part of its new smart home push. Already available for pre-order, it arrives on October 30.