Apple has unveiled the $299 HomeView, a 7-inch smart display that combines Siri AI, FaceTime, customizable widgets, and Apple Home controls in a countertop or wall-mounted design. It also acts as a Matter controller and Thread Border Router, supports up to six facial-recognition profiles, and can use personal context from messages, calendars, and email when paired with a nearby Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone. The Verge reports: The device's square shape makes it feel less imposing than larger smart displays like Google's Nest Hub Max or Amazon's Echo Show 11, and I can see it fitting nicely on my kitchen counter -- though it might be a hair too big for my bedside table. The HomeView is the centerpiece of Apple's new push into the home. It costs $299 and launches alongside a new collection of cameras, thermostats, and a door lock designed for Apple Home.
As a smart home hub, Matter controller, and Thread Border Router, the HomeView can orchestrate these and other Apple Home and Matter smart home devices. It's available in eight countries at launch: the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, and India. Pre-orders are open now, with devices shipping November 13th.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Yahoo Finance: Microsoft has debuted its latest AI chip, the Azure Maia 300, as it looks to reduce its reliance on third-party processors from the likes of Nvidia and AMD. Unveiled at the OCP Global Summit 2026 in San Jose on Monday, the Maia 300 will join Microsoft's Maia 200 and Maia 100 chips as part of what the company said will be multigigawatt deployments beginning next year. The Windows maker said that will make its Maia chips the "primary AI inference system for Microsoft products and services."
The company said Maia 300 provides 40% more tokens per megawatt than "leading GPU-based systems," a clear swipe at Nvidia, and that a 96-chip rack offers seven times the rack-scale token throughput of Microsoft's Maia 200. [...] The Maia 200 chip currently powers its Microsoft production workloads, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, as well as OpenAI models, Microsoft's MAI models, and open-source models. That provides 1.7 times more tokens per watt for AI capabilities in Microsoft's Teams, Copilot, and Cowork software versus other GPU-based systems, the company said.
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Last week, a video came across my feed of a man saying horny lines over a dubstep beat. “On your knees,” he snarled. As the beat dropped, he growled, “Mmm, now look at me.”
“Instagram reels just showed me a guy who makes 'smutstep' for the booktok crowd and it is the funniest thing I have ever watched,” the person reposting the video on X wrote. The replies are predictably harsh: “I think this is actually the worst thing I have ever heard.” “Who the FUCK is demanding this 😭”
People demanding this is why it exists. DARQ DAGR, whose real name is James, is a dubstep musician and voice artist who’s been working in the music industry and voice acting world for years. But smutstep is what’s made his work go viral, in part thanks to the people who hate it so much – and the ones who demand more of it.
Smutstep emerged as a reaction to BookTok, a subculture within TikTok built by book lovers and their various followings. Within BookTok, the romantasy book genre thrives, with series like The Fourth Wing and A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) gaining massive readerships for their blend of elven high fantasy and dragon-based erotica. The romantasy genre is not a quaint fandom. It’s a billion-dollar industry.
Like so many online communities devoted to things a little horny and misunderstood, the wider world tends to scrutinize and discredit romance readers, especially when Fae fucking is involved. James, who wants people to know he does read the books too, saw a way into two niches that could compliment each other.
“I think what I like about the whole culture — the BookTok culture and dubstep culture — it's just letting your freak flag fly in a way,” he told me in a call. “It’s accepting and embracing what you're into within a safe and healthy space. I think that's a really beautiful thing.”
James and I talked about modern artistry in a world where interactivity and engagement rule, why he doesn’t take all of this too seriously, and the value of escapism in a time when everything else sucks. And yes, I ask him to do the growl.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
SAM: I will admit just off the bat, I'm not in the BookTok world personally.
DARQ DAGR: Uh-huh.
I have nothing against BookTok. Beautiful community. But I can't get into it. I've tried like, ACOTAR. I haven't found my romantasy, I suppose. So I might ask you some dumb questions, but hopefully you can also serve as a little bit of an explainer for those of us who are not super in that world. Tell me how you got into this?
Yeah. So the thing is, it wasn't like when I was a kid, I was like, when I grow up I wanna growl. You know? I've been a trained professional vocalist for a really long time. I've done metal and I've done theatre, I've done pop, I've done rock. The reason I'm in Nashville right now is because I spent eight years in a country band that was touring the world. I just kinda do everything there is to do with my voice. I've been a professional performer and vocalist for a really long time. My wife is really into the BookTok world. And so I was exposed to the community and the books through her.
The first video that went viral for me was when I had just left my country band. And all I wanted was for the way I was presenting myself and expressing myself to be true to the things that I was into, which is dubstep. I had fallen in love with dubstep. I think it's the most beautiful community in the world. And then, I've always been a huge fantasy fan. I've always been really into Lord of the Rings and The Witcher and all that stuff. So getting into romantasy was not a big step for me, because I'm already a fan of fantasy. Making that video was me kind of saying, ‘I feel like a lot of these BookTok boys are getting the growl wrong.’ And then I did a growl that I did from back in my metal days. And it just blew up and it created this whole community of people who were really into the growl. But I was not the first person to do the growl.
There's another creator who was doing it long before me. His name's Michael Ayok. I can't take credit for being the first to BookTok growl, but I definitely get a lot of recognition for it.
Obviously I wanted to be producing dubstep music, but my community all wanted me to growl, so it was like, how do I make this make sense? And so I just started growling in my dubstep and inadvertently created a subgenre of dubstep called smutstep. It's all community driven though. Honestly, even the name smutstep was a comment on one of my videos.
Somebody had requested that I growl ‘sit down’ and I did a video growling it that did really well. So I was like, well, let's just make a dubstep drop out of this. It's community driven, and it's fun. I'm glad that people are liking it.
I think the biggest issue though is that... I'm having fun. I do not take this seriously. Again, it wasn't a dream of mine to grow up and growl at people. I took two very niche communities — the dark romance BookTok niche community, and the dubstep community — that are not designed to be exposed to general culture. So there's a lot of hate that comes with that and a lot of negativity. People react very strongly to what I do. And I think that that's as an artist, I think that's effective art. You want people to be moved to an extreme. You know? But you cannot control what that extreme is gonna be.
There are people that treat me like Marilyn Manson in the nineties. His art is meant to be taken seriously. He is making a social commentary where he's putting a mirror up to society and showing how ugly it is. Whether you love that or you hate it, it's meant to be taken seriously. Smutstep is not meant to be taken seriously. If you enjoy it, that's awesome. You know what I mean? I'm having fun with it. I love the community I've created around it. We're all having fun. But it's not meant to be taken as seriously as so many of the haters take it.
Yeah, it's broken containment from these specific niche communities, into the wider world. Which is the curse and blessing of social media, I guess. Something breaks out and becomes viral and then everybody's aware of it, even people who maybe are not the audience.
I sent you the link to the video that's got a million views now on X, and all the comments and replies are really rude. So just be warned. People are like, ‘I'm never gonna unmute this. I would never unmute this to save my life,’ that kind of thing. And like you said, it’s not that serious. If it's not your thing, that's okay. Move on.
But what do you think about those comments? The ones that are like, ‘this is gigacringe.’
That's been a lot of what I deal with on other platforms. Facebook and TikTok are way better. On Instagram, l have my comments limited to people who follow me because it's just so much hate.
People are crazy on Instagram. People will say the most sideways shit on Instagram.
Yeah, and that's that's the thing. Like obviously, as much as we're all just having fun, of course it does mentally take a big toll on you.
You said this is community driven. Were people waiting to have this sort of thing enter their already-existing BookTok community, or where do you think it comes from? Why are people resonating with this?
Men in BookTok is not a new thing. Making it dubstep is my brand. But for me, smutstep is like the KISS makeup. It's a gimmick. Everybody needs something that makes them stand out. So right now, smutstep is what makes me different, it's what makes me unique.
Most of my content is based off of people making requests in the comments. I think that may be why it's taken off the way it has. Obviously it has to do with me, but it has so much to do with the people who are enjoying it. This is something that I think in a lot of ways is actually a much more modern take on entertainment. From its inception, it’s community demand, and giving people what they want within what I wanna do. I'm not doing something I don't wanna do. It's like, all right, you guys want this? Well, I'm gonna make it, but I'm gonna go the dark romance route and make it super aggressive, because I want to make dubstep out of it, and people are like, ‘That's fucking dope.’
Are you familiar with like the romantasy theme park videos?
No. No.
Oh my god. You would get a kick out of this, and probably your wife would also, but it's part of SeaWorld. You know how around Halloween, theme parks will do like horror nights, and characters come out and chase you? It's that, but it's BookTok boys.
I'll send you a link. But it has gotten a really big reaction from wider culture, where people are like, ‘this is so cringe and weird.’ The execution is really cringe and weird, but it is responding to something people wanted, which was: romantasy in a more interactive way. Is there anything that people are demanding from you more than other stuff?
There's a book series called The Fourth Wing and there's a dragon in it called Tairn. Somebody said that Tairn should be Scottish, because his name is Tairneanach, which is a Scottish name. So I did a growl, but in the Scottish accent.
I do another series with masked growls. I'm supposed to do one today, if the mask gets here in time. It’s a Scream mask 'cause we're in spooky season, and people have been wanting that for as long as I've been doing this.
I think what I like about the whole culture — the BookTok culture and dubstep culture — it's just letting your freak flag fly in a way. It’s accepting and embracing what you're into within a safe and healthy space. I think that's a really beautiful thing. Maybe it's just as I get older, but I'm just so disillusioned with reality and I constantly want more escapism for myself, and want to give others more escapism as well. So that's kind of my goal as an artist is just escapism.
That’s a huge appeal of fantasy and romance in general. I'm also a big Lord of the Rings fan. That type of fantasy I can get with. I wonder if Lord of the Rings launched today, if we would be calling it romantasy. I guess there's not enough sex in it though.
The thing about romantasy is, there does need to be pretty pretty graphic scenes in it. But Lord of the Rings has none of that. I do read the romantic stuff too. I don't wanna be somebody who just does it for the views. I do read both.
Do you think people have picked up on the smutstep genre since you started? Are there new people doing it?
I haven't noticed, but that doesn't mean someone's not out there trying and just hasn't had a video hit yet. And to be honest, I'm not surprised. I think that it's one of those things... It's human nature to have an aversion to something new that they don't understand. It’s still in the phase where I think it's more ‘what the fuck’ than something that is socially acceptable. Which again, it was never meant to be broadly socially acceptable. It was meant to be niche-acceptable, which it already is. I don't think there's a lot of people trying to do it because I think people are too afraid of having to deal with the same stuff I deal with.
I would be remiss in letting you go if I didn't make you do a growl. Would you be willing to offer us a growl?
I can. It's not going to be that loud, because I don't have a mic, but I can do one. Ready?
[Growls]
Did you hear it? Did it pick it up?
It was like a growl in the distance. I'll practice mine. I'll do it on the podcast maybe and you can critique my growl.
Wie ons een paar jaar geleden had verteld dat het juist de uiterst linkse kliek zou zijn die genocide zou willen plegen op het grootste internationale heaumeaufeestje, hadden we raar aangekeken. Toch is dat waar we met z'n allen al een tijdje zijn, en met die linkse kliek bedoelen we in dit geval die van NPO-MEDEWERKERS. Die roepen hun eigen Raad van Bestuur nu in een open brief op om het Eurovisie Songfestial ALSNOG te boycotten omdat ze niet willen dat hun publieke omroep meewerkt aan de "normalisering van genocide". De brief is ondertekend door liefst VIERHONDERD NPO-medewerkers. Je gaat je bijna afvragen of er bij de NPO nog iemand is die wél wil meewerken aan het Songfestival. Veel succes ook met het zoeken van een Nederlandse inzending, dat moet dus een artiest zijn die het niet erg vindt om totale canceling door rabiate dreigmob te riskeren. Bedenk wel: het gaat hier dus over een liedjeswedstrijd die MEI VOLGEND JAAR plaatsvindt. Dit gaat nog heel, heel erg lang duren.
A financial analyst is questioning whether the collapse in AI costs owing to the arrival of Chinese, low-cost and open source models will cause a “reset” in the AI story as cloud providers struggle to recoup trillions of dollars of capital spending. In a recent research note focused on Asian markets, Jefferies estimates that about half of the roughly $2.3 trillion contracted backlog at Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Oracle is owned by OpenAI and Anthropic. Yet Chinese AI models, open source/weight and small language models, threaten to undercut the prices the two US leaders charge, casting doubt on their future revenue. Jefferies points to research from global aggregator platform OpenRouter, which found Chinese models processed 76.12 trillion tokens in the week ended 27 September, up from just 4.37 trillion in late April. The top four US providers processed 14.2 trillion tokens. Meanwhile, the launch of Moonshot AI’s open source Kimi K3 is “competing at the frontier” with an estimated 95 percent of the performance of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5. “The question now is whether all of the above has been priced fully into markets. This writer does not think so,” the Jefferies paper states. The largest hyperscalers are set to collectively spend between $600 and $800 billion this year on building datacenters, funding it increasingly with debt rather than cash. Jefferies, however, questions where the hyperscalers' future revenue streams will come from. “It can no longer be assumed, most particularly with the arrival of the likes of Kimi K3, that large language models will ever be profitable given the related ongoing collapse in token pricing. This is extremely relevant for the hyperscalers since they have invested in datacenter capacity on the assumption that the compute will be purchased by the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI,” the paper says. While the long term bet on AI may be sound, in the medium term, there is a lot of uncertainty, it argues. “The AI story will be due for a big reset at some point in the not-so-distant future. Are the four hyperscalers really going to spend $993 billion on capex in 2027?” Jefferies questions. There are also important questions to ask about how much of the hyperscalers’ reported profits are down to their investments in AI model builders on which they will also depend for revenue. “Other income and expenses” — which describes gains in investments — have spiked in importance. Jefferies says these investments are “likely to include positions in unlisted AI-related stocks.” While the four major hyperscalers’ annualized earnings increased by $222 billion to reach $581 billion in the four quarters to 2Q26, “other non-operating income/loss” accounted for all of that increase, according to the analyst. Jefferies says “other non-operating income/loss” increased by $224 billion year-on-year to $237 billion over the same period, meaning it accounted "for all of the increase in earnings." Other research has underlined how much revenue and borrowing cloud providers might need to fund their datacenter building plans. The 2026 annual Global Technology Report from management consultants Bain & Company says the AI industry must generate $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to keep funding the infrastructure needed to meet anticipated demand. That means the industry will need new uses beyond employee productivity. Bain suspects existing AI applications might make up $1.8 trillion in revenue, but this still leaves a $4.2 trillion shortfall. It could be plugged by emerging AI applications such as search engines and ads, AI-built autonomous vehicles, and AI simulations. Even if they work out, these new categories will only add up to $1.5 trillion in revenue, leaving a $2.7 trillion gap which might be filled by “new products and uses that don’t exist today.” The Register does not offer investment advice.®
2026 heeft een bijzonder warmterecord uit 2018 geëvenaard. Dit jaar werden er al 125 ‘warme dagen’ gemeten in Rotterdam. Een warme dag is een dag waarop de temperatuur 20 graden of hoger is. Volgens Rijnmond-weerman Ed Aldus zit er misschien meer in het vat: later deze week is het mogelijk dat het warmterecord echt wordt verbroken.
HILVERSUM (ANP) - Vierhonderd medewerkers van de publieke omroepen willen dat de NPO de beslissing om deel te nemen aan het Eurovisie Songfestival terugdraait. Dat staat in een brief aan de directie en de raad van bestuur van de NPO. De brandbrief is ook online te lezen en heeft als titel #NietMijnSongfestival.
In de brief hekelen de medewerkers de deelname van Nederland aan het muziekevenement om de deelname van Israël. Ze schrijven dat zij "niet kunnen aanvaarden dat de wens om aan een entertainmentprogramma deel te nemen zwaarder weegt dan de talloze levens van mensen die worden vermoord".
De medewerkers stellen ook vragen bij de totstandkoming van het besluit van de NPO om alsnog mee te doen aan het Eurovisie Songfestival nadat omroep AVROTROS al had besloten om niet mee te doen. "Uit gesprekken is gebleken dat de omroepdirecties zelf niet zijn betrokken bij dit zwaarwegende besluit", valt te lezen. Ze vinden het "onacceptabel dat een besluit met zulke verstrekkende maatschappelijke gevolgen op deze manier tot stand komt".
CEUTA (ANP) - De Spaanse koning Felipe en koningin Letizia vinden dat ze met hun bezoek aan de Spaanse exclave Ceuta een schuld inlossen. Het koningspaar noemt het bezoek "iets waar al lange tijd naar werd uitgekeken en dat hard nodig" is. Dat schreef het koningspaar in het gastenboek van het gemeentehuis in Ceuta, meldt de Spaanse omroep RTVE.
Felipe en Letizia bedankten de inwoners voor hun warme ontvangst en benadrukten dat heel Spanje betrokken is bij de toekomst van Ceuta, een Spaanse strook land omgeven door Marokko. Ook lieten ze weten de moeilijke omstandigheden waarmee de inwoners de afgelopen maanden te maken kregen, nauwlettend te hebben gevolgd.
De Spaanse exclave kreeg eind juli te maken met een massale toestroom van migranten. Het laatste bezoek van een lid van het Spaanse koningshuis aan Ceuta was van Felipes vader Juan Carlos in 2007. Felipe en Letizia overnachten dinsdag in Ceuta en reizen woensdag door naar de Spaanse exclave Melilla.
PARIJS (ANP/AFP) - In Parijs zijn de aanhoudende onderwijsprotesten dinsdag uitgelopen op opstootjes met de ordediensten. Dat melden Franse media. Volgens een van de deelnemende vakbonden zijn in Frankrijk dinsdag circa 480.000 mensen op de been. De autoriteiten schatten dat aantal op circa 160.000, van wie circa 41.000 in Parijs.
Op beelden van BFMTV, dat een cameraploeg ter plaatse heeft, is te zien hoe in hoofdstad Parijs een kat-en-muisspel is ontstaan tussen veelal jonge demonstranten en de politie. Nabij het Hôtel des Invalides voert de politie dinsdagmiddag charges uit. Ook worden waterwerpers ingezet. Volgens BFMTV zijn de demonstranten voornemens naar het Hôtel de Matignon te trekken, de residentie en het kantoor van premier Sébastien Lecornu.
Al weken wordt in het land gedemonstreerd tegen de problemen in het onderwijs, aanvankelijk met name door scholieren. Later voegden zich daar, naast de vakbonden, ook universiteitsstudenten bij. Eerder klonk de oproep om dinsdag opnieuw in groten getale de straat op te gaan.
In brand steken prullenbakken
Ook in Lyon braken dinsdag onlusten uit. Negen mensen werden daar gearresteerd, voor zaken als het in de brand steken van prullenbakken en gooien van spullen naar de politie. In Montpellier voerde de politie eveneens charges uit. Ook in Rennes was het onrustig.
Op het geweld dat ordediensten gebruiken tegen de demonstranten klinkt grote kritiek. Zo verloor begin oktober een minderjarige zijn hand door een flitsgranaat die hij zou hebben opgepakt. Onder anderen vakbondsbestuurder Sophie Binet en meerdere politici hebben zich fel uitgesproken tegen het geweld tegen de veelal minderjarigen en de duizenden arrestaties en staandehoudingen die zijn verricht. Naar 36 incidenten wordt inmiddels intern onderzoek gedaan, zo bleek dinsdag.
LUXEMBURG (ANP) - De Europese Commissie is ontevreden over de onderhandelingsbox voor de nieuwe EU-meerjarenbegroting (MFF) van het Ierse voorzitterschap. Dat zei Eurocommissaris Piotr Serafin (Begroting) dinsdag. Het voorstel van de Ieren "sluit niet aan bij wat Europa nodig heeft", zei hij op een persconferentie na afloop van een overleg met EU-ministers over de MFF.
Er wordt te veel bezuinigd, de begroting is niet flexibel genoeg en het schrappen van EU-ambtenaren is niet mogelijk, zijn kort samengevat de belangrijkste bezwaarpunten.
"De voorgestelde bezuinigingen dreigen onze gezamenlijke handelingscapaciteit te beperken", zei Serafin. De Ieren hebben zaterdag een begrotingsvoorstel gepresenteerd van 1,62 biljoen euro; 140 miljard euro lager dan het voorstel van de Europese Commissie. In de huidige meerjarenbegroting gaat 1,2 biljoen euro om.
Minder flexibiliteit
In het voorstel van de Ieren zit ook minder flexibiliteit om op toekomstige crises te reageren, vervolgde de Eurocommissaris. Dat vindt hij onverstandig.
"Europa heeft de mensen en middelen nodig om de taken uit te voeren die we eraan toewijzen. Ambitie zonder de capaciteit om die waar te maken, dient onze burgers niet", aldus Serafin.
"We mogen niet uit het oog verliezen wat Europa van zijn begroting nodig heeft: het vermogen om te investeren, gezamenlijk op te treden en in te spelen op de uitdagingen die voor ons liggen", benadrukte hij.
PARIJS (ANP) - Het onderzoek naar het incident op een school nabij Marseille waarbij maandag een leerling een rector en docent verwondde met een jachtgeweer, is overgenomen door de Franse antiterrorisme-aanklager. Dat meldt BFMTV op gezag van dat kantoor. In een verklaring meldt de aanklager dat er aanwijzingen zijn dat de aanval geïnspireerd was door onlinegroepen waarin extreem geweld wordt verheerlijkt.
De 14-jarige bracht maandag in een gitaarkoffer een jachtgeweer mee naar zijn middelbare school in Aubagne, waar hij eerst op de twee medewerkers van de school schoot. Later vuurde hij ook kogels af op een andere verdieping. De verdachte werd nadien opgepakt. Zowel het schoolhoofd als de docent verkeert niet in levensgevaar.
De antiterrorisme-aanklager meldt dat er aanwijzingen zijn dat de jongen mogelijk inspiratie putte uit de True Crime Community waar hij banden mee lijkt te hebben. In die kringen op internet wordt extreem geweld verheerlijkt, soms met geweldpleging tot gevolg.
AUSTIN (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Datingappbedrijf Bumble wordt van de beurs gehaald door het recent opgerichte Ithaca Holdings voor een bedrag van 1,3 miljard dollar, omgerekend ruim 1,1 miljard euro. Dat is veel minder dan de waardering van het bedrijf bij de beursgang in 2021. Bumble kampt, net als andere datingapps, met een dalend aantal gebruikers, omdat jongeren minder trek lijken te hebben in online daten.
Ithaca Holdings betaalt 6,05 dollar per aandeel Bumble, dat een beursnotering heeft in de Verenigde Staten. De overnameprijs ligt 138 procent boven de slotkoers van Bumble afgelopen vrijdag.
Bumble werd bij de beursgang ruim vijf jaar geleden nog gewaardeerd op 14 miljard dollar. De app werd opgericht in 2014 door Whitney Wolfe Herd, die ook betrokken was bij de oprichting van Tinder. De app had als uitgangspunt dat alleen vrouwen het gesprek konden beginnen. Dat principe werd afgelopen zomer na jaren losgelaten.
Democrats have described a raid on the home of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar as “deeply disturbing” and a “rogue abuse of power” by the Trump administration. The Democratic representative for Minnesota has long been a target of highly personal attacks by Donald Trump, who claims he was not involved in ordering the Justice Department raid. Omar criticised the raid as an attempt to “weaponize law enforcement” as part of a “campaign of political intimidation” against her. Lucy Hough speaks to Guardian US political reporter Shrai Popat – watch on YouTube
Report finds ‘window of opportunity’ for formal process involving loyalist and republican groups
The British and Irish governments should engage with paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland to negotiate their disbandment, according to a report.
A “window of opportunity” exists to establish a formal transition mechanism for loyalist and republican groups, provided certain conditions are met, it said.
The Maga member believes the 2020 election was stolen and seemingly her new boss is saving the world from a cabal of satanic paedophiles. She’ll fit right in then
Poor Donald Trump. His (third) wife seemingly can’t bear to be near him and his (fifth) press secretary recently abandoned him to be with a baby she had only recently met.
“She decided she loved her children more than she loved Donald Trump,” the president lamented in August when Karoline Leavitt decided to step down a few months after giving birth. “I’m very upset about this. She has to go home and spend time with her children. That does happen on occasion with some people – when they love their children.”
