FOXBORO — The New England Patriots have traded linebacker Josh Uche to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. The deal comes sooner or later after Uche was inactive for New England’s Week 8 win over the New York Jets.

The Patriots are reportedly receiving a 2026 sixth-round choose from Kansas Metropolis in return for Uche, in keeping with NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport. 

Uche was one of many handful of Patriots gamers talked about in commerce rumors over the previous couple of days, with the Nov. 5 NFL commerce deadline simply over every week away.  The 26-year-old linebacker is now going from a 2-6 Patriots workforce to an undefeated Chiefs groups with Tremendous Bowl aspirations. 

Who’s Josh Uche?

The Patriots drafted Uche within the second spherical of the 2020 NFL Draft after he performed 4 seasons for the Michigan Wolverines. The linebacker performed in simply 9 video games throughout his rookie season in New England and completed with one sack.

He actually broke out in his third NFL season in 2022, when Uche logged a career-best 11.5 sacks over 15 video games. He additionally pressured a pair of fumbles and racked up 27 mixed tackles for the New England protection that season.

Uche was at his finest when he had star pass-rusher Matthew Judon demanding consideration from opposing offensive traces, and his play dipped in 2023 when he had simply three sacks over 15 video games. He had two sacks over seven video games in 2024, however noticed his taking part in time lower every week after taking part in 40 defensive snaps in Week 4 towards the San Francisco 49ers.

The Chiefs have simply 15 sacks on the season, which matches the Patriots, the Steelers, and the Cardinals and is tied for twenty fourth within the NFL. Kansas Metropolis is hoping {that a} change of surroundings — and a visit to the playoffs within the close to future — will get Uche again to his 2022 type.

For his five-year profession, Uche has 20.5 sacks, 34 QB hits, a pair of pressured fumbles and a fumble recuperate over 58 video games.

Uche was a free agent over the offseason and returned to the Patriots on a one-year, $3 million contract. He reportedly turned down a two-year, $15 million deal from one other workforce to stay in New England.

The Uche commerce may very well be the beginning of a busy commerce season for the rebuilding Patriots, with the New England entrance workplace reportedly prepared to “take heed to any proposal” forward of the Nov. 5 deadline, in keeping with The Athletic’s Dianna Russini. 

Apple Intelligence has lastly arrived. 

Apple units obtained slightly bit smarter on Monday when the tech big formally launched its first Apple Intelligence options within the U.S. via its iOS 18.1 software program. The tech big is rolling out new, AI-powered instruments in a phased method, and plenty of AI-enabled options it has touted are nonetheless not accessible. 

Apple Intelligence options launched Monday embrace enhancements to Siri, which has a extra “natural-sounding voice” and improved conversational expertise. Different AI-powered options embrace new writing and abstract instruments, and enhanced photo-editing capabilities. 

There will probably be an extended look ahead to different AI options resembling Genmoji, or the flexibility for customers to create their very own emojis, ChatGPT integration on Apple units, and extra. Some tech specialists mentioned customers would possibly even be underwhelmed what iOS 18.1 at present has to supply by way of AI capabilities. 

“I’d say when you obtain it and you’ve got AI, you would possibly even go, ‘Wait, that is it?’ As a result of that is popping out in phases,” CNET editor-at-large Bridget Carey advised CBS Mornings. 

As for the brand new Apple Intelligence-powered Siri, “This isn’t one thing that you simply immediately get a chatbot you can converse with in your telephone,” mentioned Carey, including, “Consider this as Siri getting slightly simpler to make use of when you stammer and stumble over instructions. It can perceive you higher. But it surely’s not going to make wild new solutions,” she defined. 

Not all units with iOS 18.1 could have Apple Intelligence

Apple Intelligence is simply suitable with the most recent iPhone, iPad and Mac units which are geared up with Apple Professional chips. The brand new options are actually accessible on iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Professional, iPhone 16 Professional Max, iPhone 15 Professional, iPhone 15 Professional Max, iPad with A17 Professional or M1 and later, in accordance with Apple. 

Moreover, each the machine and Siri language should be set to U.S. English for Apple Intelligence to work. 

Huge modifications to Photographs app

Among the most noticeable new, AI-powered instruments that include iOS 18.1 relate to Apple’s Photographs app. A “Clear Up” device lets photographers take away distracting or undesirable objects from pictures with only a faucet. The app additionally incorporates new pure language search capabilities making it simpler for customers to shortly find and arrange previous pictures. 

Listening to Aids

The brand new software program replace additionally permits Apple’s AirPods Professional to function as listening to aids. The Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) final month licensed Listening to Help Characteristic (HAF), the primary piece of FDA-approved, over-the-counter listening to support software program.

The brand new HAF is for the estimated 30 million People that suffer from delicate to average listening to loss, as a consequence of “getting older, publicity to loud noises, sure medical circumstances, and different components,” the FDA mentioned. 

A celebration of Diwali – the Hindu competition of lights – drew greater than 100 folks to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Harmony on Sunday night.

In a packed corridor, folks dug into trays of Nepali meals, clapped alongside to songs and danced to conventional music from the band Himalayan Desires.

Obhed Giri of Manchester was there along with his youngsters. He was born in Bhutan however got here to the U.S. as a toddler. He has few reminiscences of Diwali from earlier than that point, and desires to verify his youngsters can expertise it. His daughter, Srisha, was considered one of three school-aged ladies emceeing the festivities.

“I need them to study the tradition, background, the place their dad and mother had been from,” he mentioned.

Suraj Budathoki of Manchester, who helped set up the occasion, described Diwali as a time when faraway relations come collectively, bless each other and rejoice with meals, music and dance.

He mentioned organizers made a degree of involving younger folks within the occasion, to verify these traditions move on to youngsters rising up within the U.S.

“When we don’t protect it, our youngsters, they don’t realize it,” he mentioned. “So we really feel prefer it’s essential to rejoice this, and in addition educate our youngsters, the youthful era, what it’s about.”

Budathoki, who’s operating for a State Home seat in Manchester, mentioned he got here to the U.S. as a refugee in 2009. Initially from Bhutan, his household was among the many tens of hundreds of ethnically Nepali residents expelled by the Bhutanese authorities within the early Nineteen Nineties. Aged 9 on the time, he spent the following 19 years in a refugee camp in Nepal.

“They thought that we’re totally different and felt a risk from this, you understand, totally different tradition,” he mentioned. That included their Nepali language and Hindu traditions. “And now after we get this chance to rejoice, we love to do that and we wish to proceed to rejoice this Diwali.”

The emcees started the festivities by describing Diwali as symbolizing “the triumph of sunshine over darkness” and alluring Harmony Mayor Byron Champlin and a minister from the church to mild a pair of conventional oil lamps, or panas.

That was adopted with a efficiency by Harimaya Adhikari and Sagar Khatiwada, two classically educated musicians from Nepal who’re on the college of the Harmony Group Music Faculty; a dance efficiency by Bipana Begha; and conventional music from the New England-based band Himalayan Desires.

Thursday formally marks Diwali.

Vijay Bhujel mentioned that in Nepal, it’s a multi-day competition, with homes decked out in lights and flowers.

Bhujel is from Bhutan and lived in a refugee camp in Nepal for 20 years earlier than settling in Harmony in 2012. He mentioned Harmony’s been very welcoming, together with the group’s help for occasions like this.

“Once we rejoice, they arrive collectively,” he mentioned.