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Tampa Bay beat Cleveland 3-1 in Game 2 on October 13, tying the ALCS at one game apiece after the Guardians won the opener 7-3. The series shifts to Cleveland for Game 3 on October 15.
Read the story →Japan’s Season 3 airs Fridays from October 2, 2026, with its second cour planned for April 2027. The first film opens in Japan December 11; international dates and its place in the story remain unannounced.
Disney has greenlit an animated Artemis Fowl series for Disney Channel and Disney+, with Eoin Colfer producing. Its premiere date, episode order and cast remain unannounced.
Paramount confirmed Seven Havens Books 3 and 4 and announced Avatar Kuruk: Wave of Chaos, while leaving future release dates and production details unannounced.
Mike Flanagan’s first television-series adaptation of Carrie is available as a complete eight-episode season. Amazon lists October 7, 2026, and the current Prime Video page shows all eight episodes dated October 7.
UEFA lists Lamine Yamal with 11 Champions League goals before 19, the record for the age cutoff. Barcelona won 4-1 at Galatasaray on October 13; Yamal assisted twice and finished with 12 career goals and 13 assists in 35 appearances.
Brice Turang tied the game with a fourth-inning homer, Luis Lara drove in the go-ahead run, and Milwaukee’s bullpen finished a 2-1 win.
Amos Kipruto won the 48th Bank of America Chicago Marathon in 2:01:09, the second-fastest time ever run on U.S. soil, and Hawi Feysa defended the women's title in 2:13:33. The wheelchair races added a world record and a course record, and 22 Americans met the 2028 Olympic trials standards.
Dylan Larkin scored and assisted in his first game after asking for a trade, but the Detroit crowd’s reaction stayed mixed through the Red Wings’ 5-3 win.
An open Android NDK issue reports that two Bionic string functions stop early on tested September Android 17 builds when text includes certain non-ASCII characters. The reporter says the public June source did not match the shipped implementation.
Anthropic says it moved its main monorepo from Git to Scion after merges passed 30,000 a day. The five-month migration targets its own agent-heavy, unusually large repository.
Ukrainian sources reported Starshield connection drops at different speeds: an early account above 160 km/h, a corps observation at 110–120 km/h, and a later report of 60–70 km/h. The figures are attributed observations, not one confirmed universal limit.
NVIDIA now supports writing GPU kernels in Rust through two projects: cuda-oxide for the SIMT model and cutile-rs for the Tile model. One needs a pinned nightly toolchain, the other runs on stable Rust 1.89 or newer, and neither is production-ready yet.
Valve’s September 22 update added queued Rush 3v3, where tower control wins each round and castle capture wins the match. Premier now creates a four-map pool from two votes per team, then draws one map at random.
Valve’s City Never Sleeps page planned two hero releases a week beginning October 2. Later posts confirmed Rat King on October 2, Baba on October 6 and Solomon on October 9; as of October 12, October 13 remained the next planned release. The Broker’s announced first-hero exit trigger had occurred, but Valve gave no exact removal time.
Deep Rock Galactic confirmed Season 07 for December 2026 and, for the first time, a paid expansion DLC arriving alongside a free Season 08 in summer 2027. Season 07 adds about 20 secondary-weapon overclocks, eleven new perks and a Perk Proficiency sink for unused perk points.
The CPC Network opened coordinated actions against nine game companies over in-game virtual currencies on September 30, 2026, covering games from Minecraft and Valorant to Candy Crush Saga, while a separate action on Activision Blizzard's Diablo Immortal and Call of Duty Mobile continues. No fines have been announced, and the companies respond first.
Pacific Health Sciences is recalling one lot of Babies' Magic Tea Baby Sleep Gripe Water after FDA testing found undeclared ethanol at about 8.3%, methanol at 0.35% and isopropanol at 0.48%. Caregivers are told to stop using lot 25122bw and discard or return it.
CPSC and Tyco Fire Products alerted the public on September 24, 2026 that Central Sprinkler O-ring heads recalled in 2001 may still be installed in homes and commercial buildings. The replacement program closed in 2007, so identification now depends on building records and a qualified inspector.
OPSS received 267 notifications of e-bike and e-scooter fires that occurred in 2025, 214 of them from London Fire Brigade, and charging status was known for 178. Of the full 267, 86 were confirmed to have been on charge and 92 were not, which scopes how far charging advice alone reaches.
Giant Bicycle recalled only the LED-light key that came with nine SureLock lock sets, because two CR1220 button cells inside it can be reached by children. The lock and its other keys stay in use, and the refund is $5 per key in the United States.
Our World in Data says UK electricity generation per person has fallen by more than a third since its 2003 peak and is now near late-1960s levels. The change reflects imports, lower consumption and efficiency improvements.
ABS-CBN says its planned retrenchment program will cover around 200 people, or 7% of its workforce. Recent company reports show the broader financial context, but do not identify affected roles, timing or expected savings from the plan.
Amazon plans a 585,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility in Greenwood, Indiana, with 300 skilled manufacturing and engineering roles and a launch target of 2028. The company has not provided job titles, applications or a hiring schedule.
Amazon said the latest cuts affected a small number of roles, mainly in its Stores business. Reuters reported a source estimate below 1,000 white-collar jobs, while the company has not published an exact total or a full list of teams.
