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Following the news that Bad Sisters was renewed for season 2, Apple TV Plus has released a twisty new trailer teasing what's to come for the Garvey sisters in the second season of the award-winning dark comedy.

With 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, Bad Sisters is considered one of the best Apple TV Plus shows and has become a part of the streamer's impressive roster of compelling dramas like Presumed Innocent, Sugar, and Slow Horses.

Bad Sisters is a remake of Belgian black comedy-drama Clan and according to our Bad Sisters review, it's definitely an admirable recreation as contributor Laura Martin writes: "Bad Sisters successfully attempts to push the boundaries of the darkest comedy-drama, and thanks to the strength of the powerful cast, makes it an engaging watch that’s more than worthy of the remake."

The thrilling trailer (see below) opens with the sisters on the edge of a cliff preparing to dispose of a body from the trunk of their car. After, there looks to be a happy future for Grace (Anne-Marie Duff) as she walks down the aisle once again following the death of her husband John Paul (Claes Bang). However, the romantic wedding atmosphere is soon shattered when a killer secret emerges that a dead body has been found in a suitcase.

Soon enough, the close-knit sisters are propelled back into the limelight over their brother-in-law's death. But as past truths are exposed, the Garveys must work out who they can trust as suspicions, lies and secrets spread like wildfire. So do sisters that slay (literally) together really stay together?

What is Bad Sisters season 2 about?

The critically acclaimed series written by Sharon Hogan has often been described as the Irish version of one of the best HBO shows Big Little Lies and follows the five Garvey sisters Eva (Horgan), Grace, Ursula (Eva Birthistle), Bibi (Sarah Greene), and Becka (Eve Hewson) who kill Grace's abusive husband John Paul to protect her.

As for Bad Sisters season 2, the official Apple TV Plus press release says: "Two years after the 'accidental death' of Grace’s abusive husband, the close-knit Garvey sisters may have moved on, but when past truths resurface, the ladies are thrust back into the spotlight, suspicions are at an all-time high, lies are told, secrets revealed and the sisters are forced to work out who they can trust."

The first two episodes of Bad Sisters season 2 will land on one of the best streaming services on Wednesday, November 13, followed by one episode weekly through Wednesday, December 25.

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IBM has announced the release of its latest family of AI models, promising a strong balance of power and cost efficiency for enterprises.

The company says its Granite 3.0 models offer smaller and more business-focused use cases, as opposed to many existing large-scale general-purpose language models that are already available.

More broadly, IBM also announced other AI improvements such as its latest watsonx Code Assistant, powered by Granite code models, which supports languages like C, C++, Go, Java and Python.

IBM Granite 3.0 models

IBM envisions the power of Granite 3.0 by combining what are essentially reasonably small models with enterprise data to unlock task-specific performance that rivals larger models, without the associated cost. The company declared that, across a range of testing, Granite 3.0 proved to be 3x-23x cheaper than large frontier models, which it failed to name.

The company did state that its 8B Instruct model – the larger of the two new 8B and 2B models – was able to keep up with similarly sized options from Meta and Mistral on benchmarks set out by Hugging Face’s OpenLLM Leaderboard.

At the same time, IBM also announced updates to its Granite Guardian 3.0 to allow developers to implement safety guardrails by checking user prompts and LLM responses. This includes checking for things like social bias, hate, toxicity, profanity, violence and jailbreaking. Another test confirmed that IBM’s solution gave Granite Guardian 3.0 8B improved accuracy on harm detection over Meta’s three generations of Llama Guard models.

All of the Granite 3.0 models are available for download on HuggingFace, with the 8B and 2B language models and the Granite Guardian 3.0 8B and 3B models also available fro commercial use through IBM’s watsonx.

Via Reuters

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Marantz, the Japanese hi-fi stalwart, has just announced its first all-in-one wireless speakers: the Horizon and the larger, beefier Grand Horizon. They're big, circular beasts made with a luxury look and materials, and packing in huge amplification power and a lot of speakers. And they'll come at a high price when they launch in January 2025, with the smaller Horizon costing $3,500 / £3,250, and the Grand Horizon costing $5,500 / £5,250. (No Australian pricing has been confirmed yet.)

The circular design works in combination with the speaker arrangement, which is filled with multi-angled drivers to deliver Dolby Atmos audio, as well as expansive stereo sound. The Grand Horizon is equipped with eight drivers in total, comprising three tweeters (firing up, left and right), four mid-range drivers (firing up-left, up-right, down-left and down-right), and one "Gravity" bass driver in the center. That's all backed up by 860W of peak amplification power. This is contained in a 493 x 255 x 529.2mm (19.41 x 10.04 x 20.83 inch) body, with a built-in plinth made of marble.

The smaller Horizon is 364 x 210 x 387.5mm (14.33 x 8.27 x 15.26 inch), and so features fewer speakers. Here, you've got two tweeters and three mid-range drivers, and the Gravity bass driver – all with up to 745W of peak power. Unlike the Grand Horizon, there will be an optional tripod stand for the smaller Horizon, which costs a cool $700 / £650. Both models can be wall-mounted, though we don't know when these brackets will be available yet (engineers are working on how to deal with the pressure levels these things generate).

For connections, you've got a stereo RCA in, optical, HDMI eARC and USB-C. The HEOS wireless platform provides Bluetooth and Wi-Fi as well, with support for AirPlay 2 and Spotify Connect (in case you are, inexplicably, using this with Spotify). Various streaming services can play on it directly via the app.

In comparison to the other best wireless speakers, they're basically the Charizard to the Sonos Era 300's Charmander – bigger, stronger, more elite – and backed by the sound engineering that Marantz is famous for.

I got to hear them in person, and I can tell you that the Grand Horizon in particular is easily the best-sounding one-box speaker I've ever heard. But I also heard something else shortly after that put that giant price into sharp perspective.

(Image credit: Future) Huge sound from huge speakers

I listened to the Grand Horizon in a sizable room (though probably not an unrealistic size of room for the kind of audience likely to buy this) at around 75% volume, and it provided the biggest, most enveloping sound I've heard from a single speaker.

The sound is highly detailed, with lots of nuance and range to it. It can sound sweet and clear when it should, but equally you can pick up every croak in a gravelly voice. It manages to deliver great energy and rhythm while still being incredibly revealing too – this isn't made to be plain and analytical, but it's still a realistic and carefully-handled listen.

Bass is luxuriously deep and can be roaring – at this volume, it feels a little like having your own club system. But it’s 100% precise and controlled, and doesn't drag the sound down into low frequencies – it carefully adds resonance power to acoustic instruments to make them convincing, weighty and realistic in a rare way. In the demo, the bass didn't really transfer into the floor either, so you can ramp it up for chest pushing fun without it feeling ridiculous elsewhere in the house.

In stereo, the sound is nicely dispersed and broad while still feeling deliberate and specific. The speaker then does an interesting job with really spatial tracks – you can hear a halo of music spreading over the wall around it, though it still sounds like the center of everything.

There's clear positioning happening, and though obviously this won't be around you in 3D space the way it would be from a Dolby Atmos home theater system, it provides a clear sense that different sounds in the mix are coming from a panorama in front of you.

(I should note here that, at the moment, Dolby Atmos will only work over HDMI eARC, but streaming support is planned for later.)

(Image credit: Future)

I listened to this demo using 44kHz, 16-bit tracks, in the Grand Horizon's Auto sound mode. This is the default, and it's considered to be a balanced mode, but you can also choose Sound Master mode, which is considered more of a 'pure' mode, tuned by Marantz music maestro Yoshinori Ogata, and will give you sound that's a little more forward and audiophile-friendly.

There's also a 'My Mirage' mode, which is a customizable option. You don't adjust treble or bass; you adjust 'Warmth', 'Spaciousness' and 'Clarity'.

Marantz suggests adjusting it based on use cases – if you always sit in the same position in front of it, maybe you close down the Spaciousness option, and treat the rest to your taste. But if you use it in a big room for a party, you want the same sound profile everywhere in it, so you go full on the Spaciousness, which should achieve that. I didn't try these out, though.

(Image credit: Marantz / Masimo) The problem is slick separates

I came away from my time with the Grand Horizon feeling totally impressed by the sound for a single-unit speaker, though given the size, price and the amount of engineering involved, that's not really a surprise.

The problem that the Grand Horizon has, though, was highlighted to me shortly after I heard it, when I went to a different Marantz demo. Here was Marantz's new M1 streaming amp ($1,000 / £899) paired with a set of Bowers & Wilkins 607 S3 speakers ($899 / £549), and the scale, power and quality of the music was extremely close to what I heard from the Horizon.

For a third of the price of the Grand Horizon (and in a room that was not very optimized for testing speakers) I found myself thinking that this combo delivered expansiveness and detail to rival the Grand Horizon, and with more than enough power for most rooms. Sure, you won't get the Dolby Atmos positioning effect, but that's a nice to have, far from an essential.

This setup honestly wouldn't be much harder to accommodate in a room than the Grand Horizon – it's just that you'd have to deal with some speaker cabling, and it's fair that some people would want to avoid that.

You also don't get the striking design of the Grand Horizon, with its ring of LEDs that lights up when you approach (and indicates the volume level in a circle), its lovely Midnight Sky (black) and Moon Ray (off-white) finishes, and cool EcoFiber covering. The Moon Ray is made up of different shades, and even a sparkly finish to the fabric.

The Grand Horizon is incredibly impressive, and if you fit the 'money no object' brief of these articles and want a single speaker with stunning sound, I would happily recommend it – but I came away from my demos scheming about creating a new amp and speakers setup, not planning on how I could afford a Horizon.

The Horizon and Grand Horizon will be released on January 14, 2025.

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It seems like a fix is finally on the way for an issue that has frustrated iPhone 16 users since day one.

Since Apple launched the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max in September, users have reported frequent unpredictable restarts. The recent iOS 18.0.1 update seemingly hasn’t alleviated the issue.

As How-To Geek reports, the freezing and restarting bug is typically reported to be triggered by system apps, but this may be due to their high frequency of use. Restarts have also been reported when the iPhone is in StandBy mode, but it’s not clear if this is the trigger either.

Though this bug hasn’t stopped the iPhone 16 family from finding spots in our lists of the best phones, best iPhones, and best camera phones, it’s understandably annoyed some users.

For example, Reddit user u/amor121616 said that their iPhone 16 Pro had crashed five times in the space of an hour in a post to the r/iphone community – the same post has garnered 71 responses in the last month or so, many of which corroborate the original poster’s complaints.

Luckily, Apple has confirmed that iOS 18.1 – the long-awaited Apple Intelligence update – will fix the random restarting issue, which hopefully means that the restarts are not caused by any kind of critical hardware defect.

iOS 18 is off to a shaky start

As MacRumors reports, iOS 18.1 brings with it a slew of other bug fixes – some minor, and some urgently necessary.

As well as fixing the restart bug, the iOS 18.1 update should quell overheating issues while watching 4K video in the photos app, podcast tracking issues, and problems with using the iPhone as a car key.

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Stephen King’s debut novel Carrie has been adapted into numerous movies – the most notable being the 1976 movie with Sissy Spacek – but Prime Video could be the first to reimagine its story for a drama series. With horror filmmaker Mike Flanagan (who worked on one of the best Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House) lined up to write and executive produce the series, King’s iconic psychological horror could have a permanent residency on one of the best streaming services.

While we don’t yet have a release date, nor information on who will assume the titular role, Amazon MGM Studios has described Flanagan’s upcoming project as “bold and timely” according to The Hollywood Reporter, which shared that Trevor Macy of Intrepid Pictures will also be executive producing the show alongside Flanagan. Deadline has also reported that Flanagan will be collaborating with Stephen King himself to retell the story of his coming-of-age high school horror.

From the studio’s description of the upcoming series, it seems as though this Stephen King adaptation will remain faithful to the original 1974 novel, which follows timid high school student Carrie White. Following the death of her father and being stuck under the supervision of her hyper-religious and controlling mother, she’s branded as an outcast at school falling victim to bullying while discovering her knack for telekinesis.

However, this isn’t the first time that Flanagan has worked on an adaptation of one of Stephen King’s novels, as he served as director on Doctor Sleep (2019) which is currently one of the best Stephen King movies on Max. In addition to directing the movie adaptation of King’s Gerald’s Game (2017), which scarred me during my week of watching psychological horror movies, Flanagan has flaunted his influence on the horror genre time and time again with other movies such as Hush (2016) and Netflix horror series Midnight Mass (2021). Will his venture into this new Carrie series help, or hinder his reputation?

Who will step into Carrie’s shoes this time?

Chloe Grace Moretz is the most recent actress to play the character, starring in Kimberly Peirce's 2013 movie adaptation. (Image credit: Sony Pictures / Prime Video )

As mentioned above, Sissy Spacek was the first one to bring King’s character to life in Brian De Palma’s 1976 movie Carrie which also starred John Travolta, and Piper Laurie has her controlling mother. Twenty years later, The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) was released as a sequel to the 1976 movie but had no mention of the character of Carrie White. It starred Emily Bergl as protagonist Rachel, another timid high school girl whose supernatural powers mirror those of the original Carrie character.

A made-for-TV movie directed by David Carson premiered on NBC in 2002 casting Angela Bettis as Carrie White. It came the third reimagining of King’s novel, and stands as the lowest rated version on Rotten Tomatoes with an embarrassing score of 20%. Chloe Grace Moretz is the most recent actress to assume the role, starring in Kimberly Peirce’s 2013 movie with Julianne Moore and Ansel Elgort.

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Searching for a sign that vinyl's resurgence is only gaining momentum – and not waning by 33⅓, as was reported a few days ago? Have at this, my LP-loving brothers and sisters: WH Smith is about to start stocking vinyl in 80 of its stores again. It's something the beloved British high-street staple stopped doing in the 90s, when it seemed that CDs were the future…

As first reported by The Standard , WH Smith store locations that will stock vinyl include Chester, Canterbury, Edinburgh, Gyle and York.

WH Smith – which began life as a news vendor in London's Little Grosvenor Street opened by Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna, in 1792 – first started selling vinyl albums in the 1950s. Interestingly, the company remained under the ownership of the Smith family until the 1970s and (according to Wikipedia) the last the family member left the board in 1996.

Circling back to the vinyl, why is WH Smith doing this now? In December of last year, the British Phonographic Industry stated that vinyl sales had risen for the 16th consecutive year – and better yet, figures showed sales were growing "at their fastest rate this decade". If you prefer cold hard stats, the report showed an 11.7 per cent increase to 5.9 million units in 2023 – a significant increase on the 2.3 per cent rise the previous year, in 2022.

Smells like teen spirit…

I know, it's like announcing Woolworths is about to reopen, complete with dedicated pick 'n' mix aisle. Only it'll be me (ripped high-waist jeans; freshly-crimped hair piled on top of my head – not unlike Felicity Kendall's in my lead image) filling my trolley with 12-inch LPs rather than separate bags of toffee bon-bons and fizzy watermelon slices.

What'll be Top of the Pops in Smith's vinyl section? I'll take a wild guess at Taylor Swift's 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, Oasis' re-issued The Masterplan and Fontaines D.C.'s newest Romance for starters.

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All that's needed to complete my retro-escapist audio journey is for Apple to start selling my beloved iPod Classic again. But maybe I'll do as my US colleague suggests and secure my Clairol-crimped hair with an iPod Shuffle instead, before heading down to WH Smith for a crate rummage… happy hunting!

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A growing number of cyberattacks are being launched with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM), new research has claimed.

A report from Imperva noted between April and September 2024, its Threat Research team analyzed thousands of attacks, finding retail sites collectively experience more than 500,000 AI-powered attacks every day.

These attacks, the researchers explain, often originate from AI tools such as ChatGPT, or Gemini, alongside bots designed to scrape websites for LLM training data. Cybercriminals were said to be using these tools mostly in business logic abuse attacks, DDoS attacks, bad bots attacks, and API violations.

Business logic attacks

Business logic abuse was described as the most common AI-driven attack, taking up almost a third (30.7%) of all incidents. It involves abusing legitimate features of different apps and APIs to carry out cyberattacks. DDoS are a close second (30.6%), while bad bot attacks take up a fifth (20.8%). The bots are designed to scrape pricing data, run credential stuffing, as well as inventory hoarding.

"In previous years, we've seen security threats like Grinch bots and DDoS attacks cause major disruptions during the holiday shopping season, affecting both retailers and consumers alike. Now, with the widespread availability of generative AI tools and LLMs, retailers are contending with a new wave of sophisticated cyberthreats,” said Nanhi Singh, General Manager of Application Security at Imperva.

Singh added retail businesses need robust defenses, and a comprehensive strategy, otherwise, they are risking losing sensitive personal information, including credit card details, people’s addresses, and other account information. Identity theft and similar attacks can lead to a tarnished image, loss of business, lawsuits, and regulator fines.

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ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice mode is now available in Europe, months after coming to the US and the UK.

OpenAI revealed the update with a casual tweet on X.com as a reply to user Sophie Escrivant, who enquired, “Any update for us in Europe?”

OpenAI's reply confirmed that European users can now try Advanced Voice mode:

Well yes.All Plus users in the EU, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein now have access to Advanced Voice. https://t.co/AC6mdd1LkfOctober 22, 2024

The company's reply, “Well yes. All Plus users in the EU, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein now have access to Advanced Voice”, is one of the most casual announcements of a major rollout we can remember! It’s unclear whether OpenAI will now grant all user requests, or if this was a one-off.

What is Advanced Voice mode?

Advanced Voice mode is the ability to use ChatGPT by speaking to it, instead of typing, and also have it reply to you in one of its nine different voices. While the original ChatGPT already had a voice mode, that lets you talk to the chatbot and translate your speech into text, the new Advanced Voice mode is much more like a real conversation with a human. You can talk about more complex topics, and also interrupt the answer it’s giving you if you find it is going on too long (which it does tend to do).

Advanced Voice mode requires a paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus which costs $20 p/month (around £16 / AU$30), but you do get 10 minutes a month of free access on the free tier. To access Advanced Voice mode you just tap the Advanced Voice mode icon that is to the right of the prompt window. If you’re reading this in Europe and don’t see the icon there, then update your app and have another look. The screen then changes to show a glowing blue orb, which indicates that ChatGPT is listening.

The Advanced Voice mode is listening. (Image credit: OpenAI) All the major languages

The rollout of Advanced Voice mode has been very slow and gradual, with the UK getting the mode long before the rest of Europe. ChatGPT attributed the slow rollout to local requirements when we asked why, commenting: "Some parts of the world require additional external reviews before launching new products. This is a common practice to ensure the feature aligns with local requirements. These can take a little time. We hope to share an update soon." Well, that time has arrived!

ChatGPT can speak all the major European languages. When asked what it can speak it lists English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Greek, Polish, Russian, Czech, and Hungarian. But it also seems to work for some of the less-known languages. For instance, user ASM noted, “Great! Working well in Catalan and Spanish”.

The news of ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice mode release was greeted with a positive reaction by other users on X.com, with the user Prashant commenting what most people were probably thinking, “Finally, EUROPE can use advanced voice without VPN”.

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Asus has announced that the ROG Phone 9 will launch on November 19, and come equipped with the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset.

The company will launch the new gaming phone at its virtual “AI On, Game On” launch event, which suggest AI will play a role in the phone’s gaming experience.

Asus is likely to become one of the first phone makers to release a Snapdragon 8 Elite-equipped phone, and has presented the phone in live demos at the Snapdragon Summit 2024.

The ROG Phone 9 makes use of the Snapdragon 8 Elite’s second-generation Qualcomm Oryon CPU and Qualcomm Adreno GPU, and is “designed to offer an immersive, lag free gaming experience”.

This Oryon CPU has been the focus of much fanfare thanks to its two performance cores clocked at 4.32GHz – apparently the fastest mobile CPU cores on the market.

The ROG Phone 9 follows up the ROG Phone 8 Pro, our current pick for the best gaming phone, and we expect to see it join or replace its predecessor once we’ve had a chance to put it through our rigorous testing process.

In terms of design, Asus calls the ROG Phone 9 “gamer-centric”: an angular camera bump, textured back panel, and what appears to be a dot matrix display on the rear of the phone give it a unique look in keeping with the wider Republic of Gamers brand.

And while Asus are promising the “smoothest gaming experience with immersive features”, we’ve yet to see any performance benchmarks beyond the general specifications of the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset.

Snapdragon 8 Elite - the race is on

As mentioned, the ROG Phone will likely be one of the first phones to ship with Qualcomm’s new flagship chipset, and we expect to see the Snapdragon 8 Elite pop up in many of the best phones going forward.

Xiaomi is tipped to be the first company to release a phone powered by the new chipset, though with the upcoming Xiaomi 15 series unlikely to see a US release the ROG Phone 9 still has a chance of being the first globally released Snapdragon 8 Elite phone.

As we previously reported, the Snapdragon 8 Elite is probably the rumored Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 in all but name, and will likely represent an incremental upgrade for the de facto leader in the Android chipset world.

For the latest updates on the ROG Phone 9, be sure to follow our Asus phones coverage – and for all the latest from this year’s Snapdragon Summit, be sure to check out our phones coverage and computing coverage.

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