The iPhone Duo's screen repair costs make Samsung foldables look like a bargain - Android Authority

The S26 Ultra still offers the best cameras on a Samsung, even over the pricier Z Fold 8 Ultra. From the early days of Android, Samsung has stood out as a leader of the pack, and over the last few years, the Ultra tier of Samsung's flagship Galaxy S line has served as a high bar for the rest of the market. The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is the latest phone to fill that role, and it's little surprise that it's bringing a lot to the table. The S26 Ultra naturally packs the latest high-end Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip for extreme speeds that'll hold up for years to come. It has a robust camera system that can rival the rest of the market. And for 2026, it naturally has a lot of AI features trying to find practical ways to fit into our lives. Samsung may not be innovating much in the phone's design, leaving it a tame-looking device with little to differentiate it from prior models, but it's still an all-around great phone with a little room for improvement here and there and hardly any major shortcomings. It comes at a high price, starting at $1,399 (it was $1,299 before a post-release price increase), so it won't be for everyone.

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.