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‘Obsession’ Director Curry Barker Drops a Freaky Horror Short Just in Time for Halloween

Gizmodo Oct 30, 2026, 3:00 PM (1 hour ago)

Got five minutes to spare? Treat your eyes and ears to ‘Mama Bear.’

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Volkswagen loses €5.8bn in a quarter as Porsche, China and tariffs bite

Volkswagen lost €5.8bn after tax in the third quarter. A €6.4bn write-down on Porsche drove the loss. Shrinking sales in China, US import tariffs and thinner margins on electric cars added to it. In the same quarter last year, the loss was €1.1bn.

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Kane Parsons believes his interpretation of the backrooms is ‘minor cultural shorthand’ for the abstract space—just look at South Park’s recent episode

You can’t pin the backrooms down though, no matter how hard you try.

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Reddit users criticize plan to require account logins

It could soon be the end of an era, as Reddit looks set to leave the open internet and become a logged-in experience.

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2027 Nissan Rogue Hybrid: Drives like an EV, but there’s no plug involved

Nissan’s series hybrid e-Power system has been retuned for American roads.

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Netflix Treats GPU Reliability as a Distributed Systems Problem

Netflix has detailed how it is building a reliability platform for large-scale GPU training and inference, using layered health checks, automated remediation, and fault-tolerant training to keep jobs running despite hardware failures. By Craig Risi

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