Netflix has a stacked lineup of both new and familiar content coming in October. Political thriller series The Diplomat (Oct. 15) and French mystery thriller Lupin (Oct. 23) both return for fourth seasons alongside season three of Nobody Wants This (Oct. 22), the Emmy-nominated rom-com starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody and season 11 of Love Is Blind (Oct. 14).

New next month is East of Eden (Oct. 1), a limited mini-series adapted from the John Steinbeck novel of the same name. Created by Zoe Kazan, the show stars Florence Pugh as Cathy Ames alongside Christopher Abbott. On the film side is Animals (Oct. 9), a crime thriller written and directed by, as well as starring, Ben Affleck. Affleck plays an LA mayoral candidate whose son is kidnapped with only hours to pay a ransom. Gillian Anderson and Kerry Washington co-star.

Netflix has a handful of documentaries coming in October, including The One About Matthew Perry (Oct. 27), a series chronicling the actor’s life, work, and death, as well as Tyson (Oct. 13), a four-episode series about Mike Tyson. Netflix will also host the second Six King Slam tennis tournament on Oct. 21, live at 9:30 a.m. PT.

Here’s everything else coming to Netflix in October, and everything that’s leaving.

What’s coming to Netflix in October 2026

Available soon

• The Gift of Deceit—Netflix Series

Available October 1

• Crazy Rich, Incredibly Broke—Netflix Film

• East of Eden—Netflix Series

• The Ramparts of Ice: Season 2—Netflix Series

• 21 Jump Street

• 22 Jump Street

• 8 Mile

• A Haunted House

• A Haunted House 2

• A Madea Family Funeral

• Ad Astra

• Angels & Demons

• Are We There Yet?

• The Bourne Identity

• The Bourne Legacy

• The Bourne Supremacy

• The Bourne Ultimatum

• Bring It On

• Call Me by Your Name

• Cowboys & Aliens

• Crimson Peak

• Dallas Buyers Club

• The Da Vinci Code

• The Devil Wears Prada

• Dracula

• The Equalizer

• Evil Dead

• Friday the 13th

• Happy Death Day 2U

• Horton Hears a Who!

• The Huntsman: Winter’s War

• Hush

• I Know What You Did Last Summer

• Jason Bourne

• Lake Placid

• Love Actually

• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

• The Menu

• Moonlight

• NCIS: Seasons 20-22

• Ouija

• Ouija: Origin of Evil

• Pearl Harbor

• Point Break

• The Prestige

• Psycho

• Psycho II

• Psycho III

• Red Dragon

• Seven Years in Tibet

• The Sixth Sense

• Split

• The Strangers

• Top Chef VIP: Seasons 3-4

• Twilight

• The Twilight Saga: New Moon

• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1

• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2

• The Way Home: Season 4

• Underworld: Blood Wars

Available October 2

• #Love—Netflix Series

• Schumacher ’94 — The Birth of a Legend—Netflix Documentary

• Tyler Perry’s Doing Life—Netflix Film

Available October 3

• Ranma1/2: Season 3—Netflix Series

Available October 4

• Blue Box: Season 2—Netflix Series

Available October 5

• The Boogeyman

• Lorne

• Mayor of Kingstown: Seasons 1-4

• Super BOOMi: Season 1

Available October 6

• All American: Season 8

• Love Village: Season 3—Netflix Series

• Mojo Brookzz: I Know You Lying—Netflix Comedy Special

• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Available October 7

• Inside The Circle—Netflix Series

• Less of a Stranger—Netflix Film

• Real Men: Season 2—Netflix Series

• Who Is Martin Mull?—Netflix Documentary

Available October 8

• Below—Netflix Series

• Unicorn Academy: Secrets Revealed: Chapter 2—Netflix Family

Available October 9

• Animals—Netflix Film

• Haunted Hotel: Season 2—Netflix Series

• Is It Cake? Halloween: Season 2—Netflix Series

• Take Charge of My Heart—Netflix Series

Available October 10

• 100 Days of Deception—Netflix Series

• The First Monday in May

Available October 12

• Fire Spike: Season 1

• Free Leonard Peltier—Netflix Documentary

• Señora Acero: Seasons 1-5

• Wayne: Season 1

Available October 13

• Solar Opposites: Season 6

• The Trap—Netflix Series

• TYSON—Netflix Documentary

Available October 14

• Cocaine Bear

• Love Is Blind: Season 11: Boston—Netflix Series

Available October 15

• Hollywood Arts—Netflix Series

• The Diplomat: Season 4—Netflix Series

• The Storm—Netflix Film

Available October 16

• The Disciple—Netflix Documentary

• Heat

• The Fate of the Furious

• Money Trap: The Karun Treasure—Netflix Series

• Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald—Netflix Documentary

• Sacrifice—Netflix Film

• SERIOUSLY SINGLE TOO—Netflix Film

• Therapy Done Right—Netflix Film

Available October 20

• Blindspotting: Seasons 1-2

• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2—Netflix Series

Available October 21

• Emily

• Gladiator

• Gladiator II

• The Mothers of Penguins: Season 2—Netflix Series

• The New Stanford Prison Experiment—Netflix Series

• Six Kings Slam: Season 2—Netflix Live Event

Available October 22

• Bottle Shock

• Couldn’t Agree Less with Allison & Isaac—Netflix Podcast

• Did Someone Happen to Mention Me?—Netflix Series

• Nobody Wants This: Season 3—Netflix Series

Available October 23

• Fading Grandeur—Netflix Series

• Lupin: Part 4—Netflix Series

• Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story—Netflix Documentary

• Surviving Hurricane Otis—Netflix Film

Available October 26

• Minimum Wage—Netflix Series

Available October 27

• Dangerous Liaisons: Season 1

• The One About Matthew Perry—Netflix Documentary

• Zainab Johnson: Toxically Optimistic—Netflix Comedy Special

Available October 28

• Champions

Available October 29

• Balaraw: Blood Island—Netflix Series

• You, Me, Us—Netflix Film

Available October 30

• A Couple of Lies—Netflix Series

• Akka—Netflix Series

• Beat Luke Littler—Netflix Live Event

• The Birthday Gift—Netflix Film

• Collision Course—Netflix Film

• How to Ruin Diwali: Meet the Parents—Netflix Series

• SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of—Netflix Documentary

What’s leaving Netflix in October 2026

Leaving October 1

• A Dog’s Purpose

• A League of Their Own

• Aloha

• Angel Eyes

• Apollo 13

• Baby Mama

• Beginners

• The Beguiled

• The Boss Baby

• Blue Is the Warmest Color

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

• Cinderella Man

• Clueless

• Fargo

• The Fifth Element

• Ghostbusters

• Ghostbusters: Answer the Call

• Gone Girl

• Halo: Seasons 1-2

• High Fidelity

• The Hitman’s Bodyguard

• The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard

• Identity Thief

• Inside Man: Most Wanted

• Krampus

• The Lazarus Project

• Nomadland

• Out of Africa

• Parenthood

• The Parkers: Seasons 1-5

• Queen & Slim

• Savages

• The Shack

• U-571

• The Vow

• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Leaving October 2

• The Wandering Earth

Leaving October 3

• Dawson’s Creek: Seasons 1-6

Leaving October 7

• Nurse Jackie: Seasons 1-7

Leaving October 8

• Poldark: Seasons 1-5

• Scream

Leaving October 9

• After

Leaving October 11

• A Quiet Place Part II

Leaving October 14

• The Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2

• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Leaving October 15

• Death Note

• The Smurfs 2

Leaving October 16

• Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins

Leaving October 29

• Deadwind: Seasons 1-3

SpaceX has completed a wet dress rehearsal for Starship, in preparation for its first orbital test flight.

Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 live avatars designed for customer service and other tasks.

“F-Droid, a third-party app repository that only distributes free and open-source software packages for Google’s Android mobile platform, on Thursday announced version 2.0 of its Android app,” reports The Register.

Though they also note “a big banner across the top of the F-Droid site” pointing to a site describing pending changes from Google that threaten the future of F-Droid…

[D]evelopers who want their apps broadly distributed outside the official Google Play Store will need to register with Google and verify their identities. Google’s Full Distribution option includes paying a one-time $25 fee, handing over a copy of a government-issued ID to verify one’s identity, and conforming to Google’s terms of service. Google also offers a free Limited Distribution option that doesn’t require government ID verification but restricts distribution to 20 authorized devices, while apps from unverified developers can still be installed by users who enable Android’s advanced installation flow.

The potential death warrant hanging over its head hasn’t stopped the F-Droid team from rolling out a bunch of new features for an app it says it intends to keep working on for years to come… The team also credited the EU’s many Digital Markets Act decisions against Google for making the installation experience smoother for users. F-Droid can now use a unified installation service for its apps thanks to the availability of a pre-approval API that allows users to approve an installation when they request it, rather than waiting until the app has finished downloading. That, said the F-Droid team, “brings the F-Droid install experience on official Android devices much closer to what the built-in app store can provide.” Additionally, F-Droid 2.0 can fetch and install app updates automatically, which it now does by default.

All of those changes, however, won’t matter much if Google pushes ahead undeterred with its plans to force registration onto non-Play Store developers. F-Droid’s announcement on Thursday makes it seem that the team isn’t going to go quietly.
F-Droid has gone 10 years without a major update, notes Ars Technica — and spent over a year developing F-Droid 2.0:
The new F-Droid client was redesigned from scratch in Kotlin Compose, which is the standard for modern Android apps. This makes the store much more responsive, and there’s optional support for Android’s Material theming. The interface has also been cleaned up considerably, making the most important functions easier to access and hiding some others in overflow menus… Unlike the Play Store, F-Droid doesn’t track your taps and installs to push ads and suggestions — it helps you find things and gets out of the way.
F-Droid now includes a huge number of categories, drilling down to specialized niches like firewalls, password managers, and VPNs. You can see all these groups in the search tab. There are also higher-level categories listed on the main Discover page. When searching for apps, F-Droid will now be able to return results based on app descriptions rather than just names.

“One of the goals of the rewrite was to lower the barrier for new contributors,” F-Droid said in their announcement. “We are excited to begin rolling out F-Droid 2.0 to users over the coming weeks after 14 test releases.” (And if you want the 2.0 release right now, it’s available on the versions page.)

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Google has synthesized “expressive face-to-face experiences” for its speech agent Gemini 3.8 Live. They’re now offering a Live Avatar “with precise lip-syncing, natural expressions, and fluid turn-taking” for Google Enterprise accounts wanting “engaging customer service” or for offering interactive walkthroughs. (Check out the not-creepy-at-all video in Google’s announcement.)

“Though Google will offer a library of preset avatars for customers to choose from, it will also allow organizations to create their own,” notes The Verge. (See some examples from the YouTube channel “AI with Surya”.)

But even without the visualization of the avatar, “I was never able to shake the feeling that these conversations with computers never feel like a real conversation,” argues the blog Android Police. Conversing with just the Ai-generated audio, “At best, they feel like talking to a phone representative or someone from tech support. We turn to them when we have a problem, and they help us through it…”

GPT-Live, and Gemini Live right behind it, skip that whole relay race. Instead of translating your voice to text and back to voice, the model works with raw audio the entire way through (what it hears and what it says) inside the same system, with nothing translated in between. That sounds like a small plumbing detail, but it’s the whole story. Cutting out the text step lets these models respond in a fraction of a second instead of the pause we’ve learned to expect, and it lets them hear things text can never carry: tone, hesitation, whether you’re annoyed or joking…

I was hoping to be surprised by how natural the conversation felt. Instead, I came out with a deeper appreciation for every human I’ve ever talked to. Even the boring ones… I spoke, it spoke back. I spoke faster, it answered faster. Then I switched to a different language, and it switched along with me. Even switching between languages several times during the same sentence didn’t stump it. The most impressive moment happened when I asked it what “T-O-P-G-3-3-K” spelled out, and it immediately came back with, “You are spelling the word Top Geek, but using a 3 to represent a reversed E….”

Although it felt fast and responsive, at no point did it feel like talking to another human being… What Gemini couldn’t replicate, because it was never built to replicate it, is human connection…. I’m sure I’m not telling you something you don’t already know, but somehow talking naturally to an LLM amplifies the feeling that there is no one on the other side of the line. It might flow like a phone call, but it doesn’t feel like one.

MrBrklyn (Slashdot reader #4,775) says he discussed “why mainstream media avoids reporting on screen dependency” with Gemini, and eventually convinced Gemini to respond that it’s just “another tool built by the same tech giants to make sure you rely on their system to tell you what to think, how to talk, and what is real.”

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After a nearly monthlong delay, states are now able to order this season’s COVID-19 vaccines through a federal program that provides free immunizations to low-income children, the US health department says. Trump officials have still not provided a clear explanation for the delay, raising concerns about meddling from anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

On Wednesday, Ars Technica reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had still not opened ordering for 2026–2027 COVID-19 vaccines through the Vaccines for Children program. That was despite the vaccines having been approved by the Food and Drug Administration in late August.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) told Ars on Wednesday that “CDC has not yet finalized procurement decisions” for the shots. The department’s statement further suggested Trump officials were questioning whether children should receive them. “HHS and CDC are committed to responsible stewardship of taxpayer resources and to ensuring that vaccines purchased through federally funded programs are appropriate for the populations those programs serve,” the department said.

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Did you know that the first character that Walt Disney created to specifically appear on television was inspired, in part, by early Space Age rocket scientists?

On this day 65 years ago (September 24, 1961), Disney introduced the “renowned scientist, lecturer, psychologist [and] world traveler,” Ludwig Von Drake. A member of the Duck family (he is the “brilliant and eccentric” uncle of Donald Duck), Von Drake was “the outstanding genius of the century” (per Disney himself) who helped to explain scientific principles and technological concepts to the millions of people who tuned in every Sunday to watch Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color on NBC.

A few years later, after expertly (but often absent-mindedly) addressing topics such as how color television works, the health benefits of exercising, and the history of aviation, Von Drake dove into the topic for which he said he wrote the book on, in the February 10, 1963, episode “Inside Outer Space.”

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No more Beavis and Butt-Head in your matches.

404 Media reports “multiple contractors hired to improve OpenAI’s models have been fired for using AI to train the AI:

That’s not great for the models themselves, but there is also obviously a great irony in AI training companies working for OpenAI firing people for using AI when OpenAI’s whole thing is to make people use AI at work… OpenAI declined to comment on its contractors being fired for using AI.

Their article cites internal documents and three contractors working on OpenAI-related projects which can include more than ten thousand contractors:

One contractor said they see people using AI “all the time and people are let go for it all the time, it’s pretty much the one thing that will get you kicked off ASAP.” The person said, “in a group of thousands there are tons that have been caught….” Two of the sources said people have been fired or offboarded for using AI… One contractor said they used AI while helping to train OpenAI’s models and shared what they presented as their termination letter. It said their employer had identified issues with the “authenticity” of their work….

404 Media spoke to a fourth contractor who has worked on training models for various AI companies. They said they sometimes purposefully chose the worst responses because they wanted to actively sabotage the models’ training. “I did feel guilty about doing this kind of work at the start,” they said. “I either pay zero attention to the results and choose randomly or purposely choose the [worst] output. I’m not sure how much of a difference it actually makes since there are hundreds of other people also rating prompt results, but it does feel like I’m getting paid to make AI worse.”

Two of the contractors worked for Mercor, the article reports, a company which last month Nvidia reportedly discussed funding at a $20 billion valuation.

Thanks to Slashdot reader joshuark for sharing the article.

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Marble mazes: I used to love making them as a kid. I probably still would, but who has the time for fun? My Playstation controller doesn’t even hold a charge between the times I’m able to play. This is a video demonstration of the ‘Cacophany’ marble maze constructed by Jelle’s Marble Runs over the course of 278 hours. It has hoppers to run either 200 or 1,000 marbles and was designed specifically to make a bunch of noise as marbles travel along its track and includes “128 bells and chimes, but also a large number of drums, funnels, springs, nails, wooden sticks and more.” It was an enjoyable watch. My across-the-street neighbor leaving for work with his coffee on top of his car? Also enjoyable, because he’s a jerk. If he didn’t let his dog poop in my yard when he thinks I’m not looking (I’m always looking) I might have said something. Well, if I’d had any clothes on, which I didn’t, and still don’t. *shrug* It’s a slow morning. “It’s 2PM.” Sure, but it’s 8AM in Honolulu. “And are you in Honolulu?” Only in the fake vacation album I made with AI to brag about on Instagram. “This is a photo of you swimming with mermaids.” You should have been there, it was once in a lifetime!