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Netflix and Krafton confirmed today that a live-action series based on PUBG is in development, with Donald Glover attached as star, writer, director, and executive producer, according to Polygon. That four-role combination on a single video-game adaptation is the actual news here, not the game itself.

A Plex stream that stutters doesn't always mean the server needs more muscle. These Plex tips and tricks are built around one diagnostic habit: checking whether buffering comes from your network, a forced transcode, or an undersized server before you spend a dollar fixing a problem that isn't there.

Roku's TV lineup used to be a simple three-rung ladder: Select, Plus, Pro. That changed last month, when Roku added two OLED models under the Pro name, which means "Pro" now covers three different panels at three different prices. Comparing Roku Select vs Plus vs Pro isn't a three-way decision anymore. It's a five-way one.

Vurt, a vertical video streaming app built around short, serialized microdramas, recently launched dedicated apps for Apple TV and Android TV, bringing its phone-shaped 9:16 video to a wide-screen TV. The company says the apps unlock a catalog of 3,500 episodes across more than 100 shows, and that its user base has grown from 10,000 people at its March launch to 675,000, though those figures come from Vurt itself rather than independent tracking.

The 2026 WNBA Playoffs began Sunday, Sept. 27, and the schedule is spread across broadcast networks, cable channels, and streaming services rather than one simple destination.

TikTok videos on Disney Plus are becoming real, and Disney+ subscribers will start seeing that content inside the app within the next few months. The rollout stems from a global Disney Plus TikTok partnership the two companies announced yesterday, according to The Walt Disney Company's announcement and USA Today. Opt-in creators will have their short-form videos appear on both TikTok and Verts, the vertical-video feed built into the Disney+ mobile app.

Reports of a Disney Plus free tier trace back to internal talks inside Disney, not a public announcement. Two people familiar with the matter told Business Insider that the company is discussing making some Disney+ content available without a subscription.

A specific button sequence on your Roku remote opens a live Wi-Fi diagnostics screen that isn't documented in the Roku support pages reviewed for this guide. It surfaces wireless readings that may help explain buffering: signal-to-noise ratio, signal strength, packet error rate, and the exact Wi-Fi channel your device is using. In one outlet's own test, repositioning the router and TV after checking this screen improved a signal reading from -58 dBm to -40 dBm (MakeUseOf).

Netflix is cutting roughly 6% of its global workforce, about 1,000 jobs, in its steepest reduction since 2022. Co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters told staff in an internal memo that the greatest impact falls on the company's product, technology, legal, and HR teams.

President Donald Trump has canceled plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, convicted for the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting, following bipartisan criticism of the proposed broadcast. Hasan remains scheduled to die by firing squad on December 3, 2026, at 2 p.m. ET. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had previously said he wanted the execution made public, and Pentagon officials told reporters it would be livestreamed.

If you're wondering where the YouTube Subscriptions tab went, the short answer is that it hasn't disappeared. YouTube moved it. On iPhone and Android, the tab is now labeled "Subs" and lives inside the Home tab's new top bar.

Warner Bros. Discovery yesterday began testing HBO Max Shorts with a limited group of U.S. iPhone users: a vertically scrollable feed of scenes, trailers, and bonus clips drawn entirely from the existing HBO Max library. The feature is not original programming. It is existing content reformatted for vertical mobile playback, designed to pull subscribers from a 30-second clip into a full episode or series. Broader availability across devices and markets is planned, with no timeline attached.

Warner Bros. Discovery this week launched two new mobile features for HBO Max subscribers in the U.S.: a swipeable vertical Shorts feed and a conversational AI search tool called Ask HBO Max. Both are built around the same problem too many choices, not enough watching and neither is available to all subscribers yet.

Most people assume a TV without Bluetooth means a trip to the electronics store. It doesn't. Bluetooth has become mainstream in most televisions now, but that's only half the picture: plenty of older or specialty sets, like a favorite pair of wired headphones or a plasma TV still hanging on in the den, never got the feature and won't get it through a software update either, according to Wirecutter/NYT reporting from last month. Figuring out how to add Bluetooth to a TV without Bluetooth usually...

Since the October 29, 2025 closing, Disney has controlled a subsidiary that used to be a scrappy sports-streaming challenger: FuboTV. The Fubo Hulu Live TV deal folded Disney's Hulu + Live TV service into Fubo's corporate structure, creating a combined company with nearly 6 million subscribers overnight and, by UBS estimates cited in Disney's own announcement, the sixth-largest pay-TV provider in the country (Disney investor relations). It also handed Disney 70% of the combined entity's...

Spotify's Running Mode doesn't listen to your footsteps or track your pace the way the original Spotify Running feature did. That older feature used phone hardware to detect your cadence automatically before Spotify retired it in 2018 (The Verge, 2 months ago; Engadget, yesterday). Running Mode works differently: it builds a soundtrack around the BPM, duration, and music preferences you dial in before you start moving, rather than reacting to how fast you're actually running (The Verge, 2...

If Netflix, Hulu, or another streaming service seems to be showing more commercials, there is data behind that impression. Ad minutes per hour across major US streaming services rose 18% between January and August 2026, according to Ampere Analysis.

Horror fans have an unusually crowded month ahead. Prime Video, Netflix, Peacock, and AMC+ all have new horror series arriving in October 2026, with four premieres landing within a little more than two weeks of each other.