French soccer legend Zinedine Zidane begins his tenure as Les Bleus’ head coach on Friday with a tricky first test in the UEFA Nations League away to Turkey.

Zidane has big boots to fill, succeeding his former teammate Didier Deschamps, who consistently led the French to the latter stages of major tournaments throughout his 14 years in charge, notably winning the World Cup in 2018.

Zidane’s first job will be to lift his players after the disappointment of losing in the semifinal to Spain in this summer’s World Cup — a tournament they had looked well placed to win after making a superb start to the competition. Turkey, meanwhile, is looking to make amends after falling well short of expectations at the World Cup, crashing out early in the group stage.

Turkey hosts France at the Kocaeli Stadium in İzmit on Friday, Sept. 25. Kickoff is at 9:45 p.m. TRT local time in Turkey, which is 7:45 p.m. BST in the UK. It’s a 2:45 p.m. ET or 11:45 a.m. PT kickoff in the US and Canada and a 4:45 a.m. AEST start on Saturday in Australia.

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How to watch the Turkey vs. France match with a VPN

If you’re traveling abroad and want to keep up with all the action while away from home, a VPN can help enhance your privacy and security when streaming. 

VPNs encrypt your traffic and prevent your internet service provider from throttling your speeds, and can also be helpful when connecting to public Wi-Fi networks while traveling, adding an extra layer of protection for your devices and logins. VPNs are legal in many countries, including the US and Canada, and can be used for legitimate purposes such as improving online privacy and security. 

However, some streaming services may have policies that restrict VPN use for accessing region-specific content. If you’re considering a VPN for streaming, check the platform’s terms of service to ensure compliance. 

If you choose to use a VPN, follow the provider’s installation instructions to ensure you’re connected securely and in compliance with applicable laws and service agreements. Some streaming platforms may block access when a VPN is detected, so verifying if your streaming subscription allows VPN usage is crucial.  

Can I livestream the Turkey vs. France match in the UK?

Prime Video is showing a select number of UEFA Nations League matches this week via pay-per-view in the UK, with this game among those selected for broadcast.

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You won’t need to be a Prime subscriber to access Amazon’s coverage, but there is a £2.49 fee to watch this game. 

If you don’t want an Amazon Prime membership, Prime Video standalone subscriptions start at £9 a month or £95 per year in the UK and include access to Prime Video’s content library of shows such as A Very Royal Scandal, Reacher, The Boys and more, as well as live Champions League action. The service is also included with a Prime membership.

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The UEFA Nations League now has a new home Down Under, with matches being shown on beIN Sports. Today’s game is set to be broadcast on beIN Sports 2 and beIN Sports Connect.

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With the introduction of the iPhone Duo, U.S. smartphone customers can now choose from seven contemporary folding smartphones, including one from Google, two from Motorola, and three from Samsung.

The number of laptops with foldable screens ever produced is far fewer: one each from Asus, Huawei, HP and two from Lenovo.

No Game, Only Stuff: Rockstar has made it quite clear that GTA VI will not ship on a physical disc for consoles. However, the company is well aware that people still want to “touch” game stuff, so much so that they are willing to spend hundreds on completely worthless plastic toys and collectibles.

Rockstar recently announced a collectible set focused on Grand Theft Auto VI, the upcoming blockbuster whose extended gameplay reveal crashed Netflix and which will almost certainly make billions in profits over the next few years. Grand Theft Auto VI: The Goodtime State – Vice City Collection is a premium, albeit completely inconsequential, package featuring some potentially questionable items inspired by Leonida’s most popular TV show, Macca the Gator.

Rockstar recently announced a collectible set focused on Grand Theft Auto VI, the upcoming gaming blockbuster that crashed Netflix and will certainly make billions in profits over the next few years. Grand Theft Auto VI: The Goodtime State – Vice City Collection is a premium, albeit completely inconsequential, package featuring some potentially questionable items inspired by Leonida’s most popular TV show, Macca the Gator.

The limited-edition collector’s box is already available for pre-order with a hefty $400 price tag. Rockstar said pre-orders will remain open while supplies last, which means the box could soon become a highly sought-after collectible among scalpers and GTA enthusiasts.

Leonida is the Florida-inspired fictional state where GTA VI’s crime adventure takes place, and Macca is the rosy mascot everyone is talking about down there. The GTA VI Vice City Collection includes a 6-inch figure of the aforementioned anthropomorphic gator, matte black sunglasses, a Leonida-themed A-Frame snapback hat, a pin set, a bag, a poster, and everything in between.

The box also includes three items that suggest a rather questionable use case: a Macca the Gator magnetic mirror, a Vice City swizzle spoon, and a Vice City razor blade keychain.

These “toys” would be perfect for preparing a particular type of substance that GTA and crime movie fans should know pretty well, although we doubt Tony Montana would ever use a rosy gator-themed razor to arrange his daily dose of the good stuff.

Despite the steep price, Rockstar confirms that the GTA VI collector’s box will not include the game itself. The package is clearly meant to cater to longtime fans of the Grand Theft Auto series, or even latecomers interested in “owning” a tangible piece of GTA VI memorabilia, at a time when big corporations are working hard to turn digital games into limited licenses they can revoke whenever they want.

Until now, and before GTA VI’s massively hyped business operation, Rockstar had always released mainline GTA games in full physical format on every available platform. Now, the Take-Two subsidiary is asking fans to stay tuned as more GTA-themed gadgets and apparel become available through the company’s official store.

I’m still looking to complete my GTA collection after buying physical copies of the three games in the original 3D-era trilogy (GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas), although I only buy physical and play on PC. I hope Rockstar eventually offers me a rum swizzle.

An image of the new Apple TV 4K hardware appears to have leaked, showing that there’s nothing new on the outside. But big changes are rumored for the inside.

The current Apple TV 4K was released in October 2022, and a new model has been rumored to be in the cards for some time. The model on store shelves today features an aging A15 Bionic chip and just 4GB of RAM.

Now, the image file reported by MacRumors has revealed the new Apple TV 4K’s upgrades will all be internal, with Apple choosing to stick with its tried and tested design of a small, featureless black box.

The good news is that previous leaks have suggested it will be a box very much ready for 2027 and beyond. Rumored upgrades will make the new Apple TV 4K a more capable streaming and gaming device while bringing Siri AI to the TV for the first time.

The presence of the image file also suggests that the new Apple TV 4K will be released sooner rather than later. It was already expected to launch at some point this fall.

Much-needed upgrades

Previous Apple TV 4K rumors have pointed to some big improvements in terms of performance. The iPhone 18 Pro’s A20 Pro is expected to be a huge upgrade for gamers, while a doubling of RAM to 8GB will also be beneficial for larger apps.

Both of these upgrades will also allow Apple to bring Siri AI to the Apple TV 4K. Users will be able to ask Siri questions and have it find content or launch apps with a reliability not currently offered by the ailing digital assistant.

On the connectivity front, Apple’s N1 chip is set to bring super-fast Wi-Fi 7 to the Apple TV 4K for the first time. The same chip will be responsible for Bluetooth 6 support, allowing for a stronger, more reliable connection to accessories. One of those accessories is also set to be a revised Siri Remote.

One aspect of the new Apple TV 4K that remains unknown is its price. Apple hiked the price of the current model to $199 in June 2026. Streaming fans will hope for a price cut when the new model launches.

I’ve noticed a lot more businesses using AI agents to process customer support requests. But now it’s getting weird. 

Google’s Live Avatar feature is now available for those with Gemini Enterprise. This comes days after Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking. 

What exactly is Live Avatar? It combines an interactive visual experience with a conversational AI agent to do things like filing insurance claims through a video chat — which was Google’s example in its announcement. Businesses or those with Google Enterprise can choose from a few avatars to put a face to an AI agent’s voice. 

Live Avatar seems pretty handy for businesses. It can create live video avatars with lip synching for conversational videos and process live audio, screen sharing and video feeds simultaneously. Live Avatar can run tools and API calls while continuing conversations with customers. But imagine a cartoon or realistic-looking avatar’s lips moving to match the bot’s voice to handle your request. Creepy. 

Live Avatar also aims to create more fluid dialogue with native speech-to-speech for “more natural interruption recovery without dropping conversation context or backend transactions.” 

Google didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on when it will be available to the general public or how it plans to safeguard the information the AI agent receives during video calls (like, in the insurance example, your address, name and live video when filing a claim). 

Google has a few safeguards in place to prevent misuse, like choosing from curated, prebuilt avatars. If you want to create a custom avatar, you’ll have to go through a verification process, Google’s announcement says. All audio and video are watermarked with SynthID to keep all AI content verifiable.

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Nscale has closed a $3.36B pre-IPO convertible note round led by Third Point, with Nvidia, Apollo, Citadel and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council among the investors, three weeks after it was reported to be seeking up to $3.5B. The London company filed to list on the New York Stock Exchange last week under the ticker NSCL.

Nscale has raised $3.36B in a pre-IPO convertible note round led by Third Point, Bloomberg reported. Nvidia, Apollo, Citadel, Hudson Bay Capital, the Abu Dhabi Investment Council and 8090 Industries took part. The company is based in London and filed last week to list in New York.

It asked for more than that.

Three weeks ago it was reported to be seeking $3.5B, split between convertible notes led by Third Point and a larger cheque from Nvidia. What closed is about $140M short of that. Goldman Sachs acted as placement agent.

Nvidia’s money arrives later.

The total includes a $2.36B tranche and a separate $1B commitment from Nvidia expected in mid-November. The notes convert into ordinary shares when the listing completes, or into non-voting shares in Nvidia’s case. The listing itself may raise as much as $3B on top of what has just been committed.

Nvidia has done this before.

It bought SB Energy stock at 90% of its IPO price this month, also in non-voting form, also before a listing. It now holds around $99B of shares in companies that buy its chips. Nscale is one of them.

The conversion terms name a number.

The notes are priced at the IPO price minus a double-digit percentage discount, and that discount is adjusted up to a $30B valuation, above which the conversion price does not move. The filing is reported to seek up to $35B. Nobody has explained which way that gap cuts.

The accounts are still young.

Revenue reached $140.6M in the first half of this year, more than thirteen times what it took in the same period last year, against a net loss of $1.02B. The contracted backlog stands at $103.4B, up from $38B at the end of last year. Most of that backlog is revenue not yet earned.

The company is British.

It was spun out of a cryptocurrency mining operation in early 2024, and its board includes Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg, a former British deputy prime minister. Twenty-two banks are working on the offering. All of them are preparing a listing that will not happen in London.

The Pentagon wants $30.3m over five years to build an AI lie detector that reads the body without touching it. The programme, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, appears in the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency’s 2027 budget request.

Inside Defense first reported the plan. MIT Technology Review’s Amit Katwala asked experts whether it could work. The agency, known as DCSA, runs background checks for the federal government. It did not respond to MIT Technology Review’s request for details.

What the budget says

DCSA asks for $6.42m in 2027, then between $5.65m and $6.45m a year up to 2031. Congress has not yet approved the request.

The programme aims to “modernize federal polygraph and credibility assessment technologies”, the budget document says. It lists “standoff sensing”, or taking physical readings from a person without attaching a device, along with AI and machine learning scoring, automated scoring and decision aids.

The tools would be used to vet staff and for “insider threat detection”. DCSA also plans cloud storage and data analysis tools to refine the software.

Leak hunts and prototypes

Under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon has turned more often to polygraph tests to find the sources of leaks to the press, MIT Technology Review reported. In September, The New York Times reported that about 50 officers on the Joint Staff had been tested.

The Pentagon has tested this kind of technology before. In 2023, its Defense Innovation Unit picked two companies to build prototypes. Presage Technologies says it can measure heart and breathing rates with ordinary cameras. Altec Research’s prototype tracks head movement, facial skin temperature and pore activity.

The science problem

A polygraph does not detect lies. It records breathing, pulse, blood pressure and sweat, and an examiner reads the changes. In 2003, the US National Research Council called the evidence for its accuracy “weak at best”.

The American Polygraph Association says the test is 80% to 94% accurate. At that level, a screening programme could still produce many errors. The Pentagon employs 2.8 million people, MIT Technology Review noted.

Kyri Kotsoglou, a legal scholar at Northumbria University in the UK, calls adding AI to the polygraph “the worst of both worlds”. It adds uncertainty on top of invalidity, Kotsoglou told MIT Technology Review.

“Even if you have all the records in the world from polygraph tests, you don’t know whether those polygraph tests are right or not,” Marion Oswald, a law professor who has written with Kotsoglou, told MIT Technology Review.

Sophie van der Zee, who studies deception at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, said AI could combine several measures into one score that is harder to game.

“There is still no Pinocchio’s nose,” van der Zee told MIT Technology Review.

Earlier AI lie detectors have not lasted, MIT Technology Review reported. The EU funded iBorderCtrl, a border pilot built on a system that scored deception from video. It faded away, like the US AVATAR border project.

Other tools that use AI to read people are already in use, from AI voice analysis of US prison calls to facial recognition alerts in UK shops and AI camera searches by US police.

Child predators are arguably the most reviled demographic in society.

So when someone like Chris Hansen, the former NBC Dateline journalist and host of the To Catch a Predator series, decides to take up the mantle of exposing them to the public, he is naturally praised as a hero.

But, as is revealed in Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime—a dramatized snapshot of Hansen’s life at the show’s peak—it’s not as simple as that. Exposing allegedly bad people for public entertainment brings up a lot of ethical concerns and unintended consequences. And while many of the vigilantes carrying out these sting operations claim they are doing a public service, their motivations become a lot more suspect when fame and money are involved.

To Catch a Predator launched in 2004. In the show, Hansen’s team would pair up with civilian watchdog group Perverted Justice, using adult “decoys” to pose as minors online and exchange messages with men in chatrooms and private DMs. After the conversations became sexual, the crew would set up a sting, inviting these men to a home to meet the decoy, only to have Hansen confront them, uttering his catchphrase, “Have a seat.” The men were technically free to leave instead of sitting for an on-camera interview, but often police were waiting outside to arrest them.

The show developed an intense fandom that remains active to this day in subreddits like r/tcap, which has 52,000 weekly visitors, despite the fact that NBC stopped airing the original series in 2007.

In A24’s Primetime, a darkly told character study in theaters September 25, Hansen (Robert Pattinson) clearly enjoys the praise and seems desperate for more accolades. He brags to his two young sons that he’s about to be on prime-time television, despite them not understanding the importance of that, and complains that the show has “never won an Emmy or any of the significance it deserves.” When a fan recognizes Hansen on a flight and becomes bloodthirsty, asking the TV host if he ever wants to “bleed” the predators he’s outing, Hansen smiles and admits that what he does by disgracing them on national television is “a little worse.”

In real life, Hansen cofounded the streaming service Trublu in November 2022, where he continues his investigations into alleged child predators. But these days, he’s far from alone. His work has inspired copycats, who thrive on social media and streaming platforms like YouTube, Kick, and Facebook. These groups and individuals are largely disorganized, and as such, hard to track, but a 2022 Washington Post investigation identified at least 160 in the US. Arguably, the people running these operations are more reckless, in part because they’re driven by virality.

One of them, who goes by Skeet Hansen, was featured in the 2025 MTV documentary Predators, about the Dateline show. In the film, directed by David Osit, Skeet Hansen responds to the criticism of the movement by saying, “There’s never been a detective that solved a murder that didn’t get paid for it. So why shouldn’t I be able to monetize off of catching these guys like the original show and making this content for people’s entertainment?”

One of many issues with that argument is that these hunters aren’t professional investigators—and sometimes they get things wrong.

In April, YouTuber and Kick streamer Vitaly Zdorovetskiy apologized after publicly—and wrongly— accosting a man of Indian descent. He accused the man of wanting to “rape a 16-year-old” in a mock Indian accent and called him “Mr. Mumbai.” In March 2025, The New York Times reported that Zdorovetskiy’s tactics for ambushing suspected creeps included beating some of them up, dressing like the Joker; the Times piece found that there have been more than 170 violent vigilante attacks by predator-hunting groups since 2023.

Apple’s diminutive speaker is returning for a second generation, sporting the same spherical design in a few new colors.

The upcoming HomePod mini lineup swaps the current-gen yellow and orange for a new powder pink and forest green. Blue, black, and white will be making a return, though.

The information originates from Apple’s code, spotted by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris. It showcases the product in the aforementioned colors.

Apple has yet to announce the HomePod mini 2. However, the images in the code suggest a release could be coming soon.

The first-generation HomePod mini made its debut in October 2020. Shortly after, Apple retired the full-sized, first-generation HomePod.

Apple allowed the HomePod mini to carry the lineup for nearly two full years. In January 2023, it released a second-generation full-sized HomePod.