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The OnePlus 16 went official in China on October 12 with a 9,000mAh battery, more than twice what Apple squeezed into the iPhone 18 Pro, at a price $304 lower. It’s the clearest clash of philosophies this fall: a big, fast-charging Android flagship built around endurance against a compact iPhone built around chip speed, camera control, and long software support. Here’s how they compare across eight rounds, and who should pick which one. BLACK FRIDAY DEAL iPhone 18 Pro 5/5OverviewProMotion OLED display delivers smooth, vibrant visualsNext-generation A-series chip powers demanding tasksAdvanced camera system captures stunning professional-quality photos CHECK PRICESee latest price on AmazonPrice and Availability: A $304 Gap, but Only One Is in Your StoreThe OnePlus 16 starts at $895 (CNY 5,999) for 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, and tops out at $1,268 (CNY 8,499) for 16GB and 1TB. Open sales in China begin October 31. That’s a steep climb from the OnePlus 15, which started at $597 (CNY 3,999), so OnePlus raised its entry price by about 50% in one year. Rising memory chip costs are a big reason the whole industry got pricier.

Most enterprises govern AI the way they would any other IT rollout: deploy dashboards, institute policies, and conduct periodic reviews. Having the right AI governance tools in place and addressing gaps is important, but IT executives should be more concerned about rethinking workflows and establishing ownership. “Accountability usually breaks down first,” says Beena Ammanath, executive director of the Global Deloitte AI Institute. “Teams deploy AI faster than their organizations can define who owns risk, approvals, monitoring, and outcomes,” she adds, which results in inconsistent use, fragmented controls, and limitations in scale.

Here’s your NYT Strands hint for today, plus the spangram and all of today’s Strands answers for puzzle No. 959 on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. Today’s Strands theme was tricky. It helps to be a runner. Read on for all the answers.

A supply-chain attack involving ConnectWise’s cloud services has exposed Microsoft 365 customers to unauthorized application access, with researchers reporting successful sign-ins across 173 partner and customer tenants. The incident centres on credentials associated with ConnectWise Cloud Backup, formerly SkyKick, and raises concerns about attackers exploiting permissions already entrusted to business software. ConnectWise has confirmed unauthorized access to application identities within its Cloud Backup environment. In an October 17 update on its service-status page, the company said it was shutting off application access, interrupting customer backups while investigation and remediation continued.

You once played Basil Fawlty in an amateur student production of Fawlty Towers at Queen’s College in Melbourne. How amateur was your Basil Fawlty moustache? It was terrible. It was real but it was definitely coloured in – I still have holes in my beard. I’d also shaved my head, so if you look at the early promo posters, you can clearly see I’m wearing a wig. Our theatre was closed so we had to perform in a circus tent in the middle of winter, on an oval in the university grounds, which was all very Fawlty Towers. I’ve always loved comedy. I didn’t really do anything serious until drama school. I always thought there might be a good spin-off with Sauron and Celebrimbor as an odd-couple situation. You play Sauron in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Tolkien wrote that Sauron “represents as near an approach to the wholly evil will as is possible”. What do you consider wholly evil? A complete disregard for the feelings and wellbeing of other people, to put it simply. It’s the intention, I think. I have horrible flashbacks to playing Aussie rules when I was about 17. I thought people were being quite evil to me at the time.