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• Meta smart glasses privacy dispute continues to ferment: camera version, cameraless version with VR glasses
  2026-09-28 18:08 EDT　·　2294 words　·　Tech
  Meta recently focused on the introduction of multiple smart glasses at its annual Connect Developer's Congress, while facing escalating privacy disputes.
• Microsoft Remove Copilot shortcuts from Teams Chat List
  2026-09-28 23:23 EDT　·　1809 words　·　Tech
  Microsoft is in the process of large-scale re-engineering of its Copilot product line.
• How much is it going to cost to create PS5 Pro's PC in 2026?
  2026-09-28 23:39 EDT　·　1826 words　·　Tech
  In the autumn of 2026, consumers and hardware lovers once again raised a specific question: how much would it cost to reset a PlayStation 5 Pro PC hardware.
• Minecraft Dungeons II Distribution: Connecting the world to a closer version of underground city adventure
  2026-09-28 23:10 EDT　·　1745 words　·　Tech
  Minecraft Dungeons II has been officially released as a continuation of the first game launched in 2020, with substantive changes made on the basis of preserving the original play.

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• Microsoft Admits Windows 11 Universal Print Has Been Broken for Months
  2026-10-25 08:20 EDT　·　484 words　·　Tech
  Microsoft Admits Windows 11 Universal Print Has Been Broken for Months Printers carried over from Windows 10 stopped working Microsoft has confirmed a regression in Windows 11 starting with the April…
• Big Three Carriers Are Losing Their Pull as Cheaper Rivals Cash In
  2026-10-25 05:57 EDT　·　641 words　·　Tech
  Big Three Carriers Are Losing Their Pull as Cheaper Rivals Cash In Earnings Beat, Subscribers Miss, Stocks Punished It was a strange earnings week for America's Big Three wireless carriers: solid…
• Modders Remove the Speed Limiter on Three Generations of GeForce Cards
  2026-10-25 08:40 EDT　·　521 words　·　Tech
  Modders Remove the Speed Limiter on Three Generations of GeForce Cards Three open-source projects cover three GPU generations The compute limiter on consumer GeForce cards has been cracked three…
• Google Adds an AI Exception to Its Gmail Ads Promise
  2026-10-25 09:18 EDT　·　486 words　·　Tech
  Google Adds an AI Exception to Its Gmail Ads Promise A Long-Standing Promise Gains a Conditional Clause Google has quietly rewritten a key sentence in its privacy policy.
• Your TV Doesn't Need AI to Get Dumb. It Needs New Settings.
  2026-10-25 10:33 EDT　·　602 words　·　Tech
  Your TV Doesn't Need AI to Get Dumb. It Needs New Settings. An AI Debloat Craze Shows How Annoyed People Are A developer got tired of the ads on his parents' TV, pasted a prompt into Claude Code, and…
• Apple's 'Pro and Tell' Preview: The First Touchscreen Mac Takes Center Stage
  2026-10-25 02:25 EDT　·　581 words　·　Tech
  Apple's 'Pro and Tell' Preview: The First Touchscreen Mac Takes Center Stage An in-person showcase in Los Angeles, not a livestreamed keynote Apple's third event of the season takes place on…
• Apple Is Rethinking Safari's Cramped Corner on the iPhone Duo's Outer Screen
  2026-10-25 07:16 EDT　·　515 words　·　Tech
  Apple Is Rethinking Safari's Cramped Corner on the iPhone Duo's Outer Screen Reviews agree: the outer display strangles web pages Apple's first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, reached stores on…
• Instagram Arrives on Apple TV With Reels, Longer Video and Live Shows
  2026-10-25 10:26 EDT　·　550 words　·　Tech
  Instagram Arrives on Apple TV With Reels, Longer Video and Live Shows Apple TV becomes Instagram's newest screen on October 23 Instagram is now available on Apple TV, bringing Reels, longer videos…
• Apple Hid a Working First-Generation iPod on Its Dead Pages
  2026-10-24 09:39 EDT　·　561 words　·　Tech
  Apple Hid a Working First-Generation iPod on Its Dead Pages A typo leads to a working 2001 iPod Type any address that does not exist on the Apple Music website, such as music.apple.com/ipod, and the…
• Google Health 5.11 Brings Health Guardian to Fitbit Air and 100-Plus Workout Detection
  2026-10-24 06:17 EDT　·　665 words　·　Tech
  Google Health 5.11 Brings Health Guardian to Fitbit Air and 100-Plus Workout Detection Rolling out now, iOS first and Android to follow Google has started rolling out Google Health version 5.11 on…
• The Night Sky Was Sending Code, and Another AI Read It
  2026-10-24 13:26 EDT　·　602 words　·　Tech
  The Night Sky Was Sending Code, and Another AI Read It A Pretty Picture That Doubled as a Cipher The setup sounded simple.
• Claude Code Turns Sluggish Google TVs Into Something You Actually Want to Use
  2026-10-24 13:21 EDT　·　626 words　·　Tech
  Claude Code Turns Sluggish Google TVs Into Something You Actually Want to Use Not a TV app, but Claude driving ADB behind the scenes Nobody shipped a version of Claude for television.
• It's Time to Find a New Browser
  2026-10-24 11:17 EDT　·　849 words　·　Tech
  It's Time to Find a New Browser Chrome still runs two-thirds of the web, but the case for staying is getting thinner by the month.
• Teenage Engineering Launches EP-35 K.O.-AMP: A Portable Multi-Input Amp Packed With Built-In Effects
  2026-10-23 13:16 EDT　·　447 words　·　Tech
  Teenage Engineering Launches EP-35 K.O.-AMP: A Portable Multi-Input Amp Packed With Built-In Effects Teenage Engineering Unveils the EP-35 K.O.-AMP, a Multi-Input Portable Speaker Teenage Engineering…
• Claim Your Commemorative Space Marine 2 Desk Mat at a Warhammer Store This Warhammer Day Weekend
  2026-10-23 10:04 EDT　·　448 words　·　Tech
  Claim Your Commemorative Space Marine 2 Desk Mat at a Warhammer Store This Warhammer Day Weekend A Commemorative Desk Mat for Warhammer Day Weekend Games Workshop, via Warhammer Community, announced…
• A Quarter Century Ago, Apple Put 1,000 Songs in Your Pocket
  2026-10-23 12:45 EDT　·　586 words　·　Tech
  A Quarter Century Ago, Apple Put 1,000 Songs in Your Pocket October 23, 2001: A breakthrough device that is not a Mac Twenty-five years ago today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs walked onto the stage of the…
• iOS 27's Call Context Puts the Right Number on Screen Before You Ask
  2026-10-23 12:41 EDT　·　541 words　·　Tech
  iOS 27's Call Context Puts the Right Number on Screen Before You Ask Your confirmation code, already on the screen Apple's iOS 27 adds a new Phone app feature called Call Context.
• Google Quietly Opens the Door to Ads Built From Your Emails and Photos
  2026-10-23 15:16 EDT　·　518 words　·　Tech
  Google Quietly Opens the Door to Ads Built From Your Emails and Photos One new clause ends the hands-off era for inbox and library Google has revised its privacy policy to add an exception with big…
• iPhone Duo Hype Appears to Be Lifting Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8 Sales in Europe
  2026-10-23 00:24 EDT　·　486 words　·　Tech
  iPhone Duo Hype Appears to Be Lifting Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8 Sales in Europe Samsung Posts a 45% Sales Jump for the Z Fold 8 Lineup in Europe Samsung's UK blog announced on October 22 that…
• Bored on a Desert Island, AI Agents Invented Their Own Fun
  2026-10-23 11:42 EDT　·　838 words　·　Tech
  Bored on a Desert Island, AI Agents Invented Their Own Fun Thirteen agents, one island, zero instructions Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology placed thirteen copies of an AI…
• Xbox Free Play Days This Weekend: Six Games Free, Three Need No Game Pass
  2026-10-22 21:22 EDT　·　628 words　·　Tech
  Xbox Free Play Days This Weekend: Six Games Free, Three Need No Game Pass Six Games Open for Free This Weekend Microsoft's Xbox kicked off a new Free Play Days promotion on October 22, with six games…
• Microsoft Opens Hourly Xbox Cloud Gaming Playtime to Insiders, Starting at $3.99 for 10 Hours
  2026-10-22 00:21 EDT　·　484 words　·　Tech
  Microsoft Opens Hourly Xbox Cloud Gaming Playtime to Insiders, Starting at $3.99 for 10 Hours Microsoft Lets Insiders Stream Without a Game Pass Subscription Microsoft's Xbox announced on October 21…
• Blizzard Extends WoW: Forever Beta to October 23, Name Reservations Open October 27
  2026-10-22 02:50 EDT　·　508 words　·　Tech
  Blizzard Extends WoW: Forever Beta to October 23, Name Reservations Open October 27 Blizzard pushes WoW: Forever beta end date back by days Blizzard announced that the World of Warcraft: Forever…
• Valor Mortis Breaks Even in Seven Days, First-Person Soulslike Already Profitable
  2026-10-22 02:56 EDT　·　432 words　·　Tech
  Valor Mortis Breaks Even in Seven Days, First-Person Soulslike Already Turning a Profit One Week to Break Even, Officially in the Black Valor Mortis reached its break-even point just seven days after…
• Sony Exits UHD Blu-ray Player Market as UBP-X700/K Goes Discontinued
  2026-10-22 12:19 EDT　·　475 words　·　Tech
  Sony Exits UHD Blu-ray Player Market as UBP-X700/K Goes Discontinued Sony Japan Marks Its Last UHD Player as Discontinued Sony Japan has listed the UBP-X700/K as "Discontinued," meaning customers in…
• T-Mobile Gives Away Free iPad A16 for One Day Only — With a Data-Plan Catch
  2026-10-22 04:43 EDT　·　550 words　·　Tech
  T-Mobile to Give Away Free iPad A16 for One Day Only on October 27 T-Mobile will offer the Apple iPad A16 for free exclusively through its T-Life app on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, with the deal…
• RGG's Stranger Than Heaven Preview: Praise for Story, Divided on Combat
  2026-10-22 02:23 EDT　·　445 words　·　Tech
  Stranger Than Heaven Hands-On Previews: Ambitious Decades-Spanning Drama, Divisive Combat RGG Studio's Like a Dragon prequel spans 50 years Stranger Than Heaven is a prequel to the long-running Like…
• Musk's Public Endorsement of SpaceX-Tesla Merger May Complicate Talks
  2026-10-22 02:41 EDT　·　526 words　·　Tech
  Musk's Public Endorsement of SpaceX-Tesla Merger May Complicate Talks Musk Calls Merger "a Good Idea" on Earnings Call SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday on SpaceX's third-quarter earnings call that…
• Steam Pricing Analyst Found Hollow Knight: Silksong's $20 Price Annoying
  2026-10-22 20:54 EDT　·　453 words　·　Tech
  Pricing Analyst Says Silksong's Price Was Too Low Steam pricing analyst Cassia Curran recently said on The Game Business podcast that Hollow Knight: Silksong's $20 price "annoyed" her.
• China's RiboX reports the first human data for a circular RNA therapy
  2026-10-22 10:40 EDT　·　808 words　·　Tech
  China's RiboX reports the first human data for a circular RNA therapy A single infusion, six patients, and a measurable jump in saliva Chinese biotech RiboX Therapeutics has published the first human…
• Phantom Blade Zero Launch Trailer Arrives; PS5 Physical Editions Pushed to 2027
  2026-10-22 01:14 EDT　·　424 words　·　Tech
  Phantom Blade Zero Launch Trailer Arrives; PS5 Physical Editions Pushed to 2027 Phantom Blade Zero Launch Trailer Arrives Beijing studio S-GAME released the launch trailer for its wuxia action RPG…
• OpenAI Opens Decisions API to All, Heating Up Decision-Model Race
  2026-10-22 18:31 EDT　·　482 words　·　Tech
  OpenAI Opens Decisions API to All, Heating Up Decision-Model Race OpenAI Pushes Its Decision Model to Every Developer On October 22, OpenAI announced that its Decisions API is now generally available…
• Apple Music Rebuilds Its Brand by Hand in an AI Age
  2026-10-22 02:44 EDT　·　494 words　·　Tech
  Apple Music Rebuilds Its Brand by Hand in an AI Age Apple Music Unveils a "Made by Sound" Identity On October 21, 2026, Apple Music officially introduced a new brand identity built around a single…
• Pokémon to Open Its First Permanent Store Outside Asia in London by 2029
  2026-10-22 12:30 EDT　·　440 words　·　Tech
  Pokémon to Open Its First Permanent Store Outside Asia in London by 2029 London to host Pokémon's first permanent store outside Asia The Pokémon Company has announced that London will be home to the…
• Leaked Mass Effect: Universe Trailer Surfaces a Day After BioWare Shuts Down
  2026-10-22 20:48 EDT　·　546 words　·　Tech
  Leaked Mass Effect: Universe Trailer Surfaces a Day After BioWare Shuts Down A Two-Minute Trailer Surfaces on Reddit the Day After Closure On October 21, 2026, Electronic Arts announced it was…
• Microsoft's MAI-DxO Beats Generalist Doctors on Complex Cases as Suleyman Chases Medical Superintelligence
  2026-10-22 19:30 EDT　·　518 words　·　Tech
  Microsoft's MAI-DxO Beats Generalist Doctors on Complex Cases as Suleyman Chases Medical Superintelligence MAI-DxO Scores 83% Against 36% for Generalist Physicians Microsoft AI has unveiled MAI-DxO,…
• Two CVSS 9.0 Linux KSMBD RCE Flaws Disclosed on Public Mailing Lists Before Kernel Fixes
  2026-10-22 19:19 EDT　·　566 words　·　Tech
  Two CVSS 9.0 Linux KSMBD RCE Flaws Disclosed on Public Mailing Lists Before Kernel Fixes Six ZDI Reports Landed on the Public Linux Kernel Mailing List Between 21 and 22 October 2026, Trend Micro's…
• Apple Briefly Pulls iWork Trio From App Store After Update With "Intelligent Assistant"
  2026-10-22 19:27 EDT　·　455 words　·　Tech
  Apple Briefly Pulls iWork Trio From App Store After Update With "Intelligent Assistant" Three Productivity Apps Disappear From the App Store On October 22, 2026, Apple briefly removed Keynote, Pages,…
• Valve Composer Mike Morasky Accidentally Says 'HLX' Codename on Stage at GameSoundCon
  2026-10-22 21:25 EDT　·　471 words　·　Tech
  Valve Composer Mike Morasky Accidentally Says "HLX" Codename on Stage at GameSoundCon A Valve composer name-drops the HLX codename during a public audio panel On October 21, 2026, Valve composer and…
• Google Explains Why the Fitbit Edge Has No NFC — and No Way to Fix It
  2026-10-22 09:27 EDT　·　840 words　·　Tech
  Google Explains Why the Fitbit Edge Has No NFC — and No Way to Fix It The new tracker simply has no NFC hardware Google's Fitbit Edge does not support contactless payments.
• Exodus Reworks Male Lead Jun's Face After Player Feedback
  2026-10-22 15:20 EDT　·　531 words　·　Tech
  Exodus Reworks Male Lead Jun's Face After Player Feedback Archetype Entertainment and publisher Wizards of the Coast released a video titled "EXODUS | An Updated Look at Jun" today, showing the…
• EA Restructures Studios: BioWare Shutting Down, Respawn and DICE Teaming on Star Wars Battlefront 3
  2026-10-22 02:17 EDT　·　458 words　·　Tech
  EA Restructures Studios: BioWare Shutting Down, Respawn and DICE Teaming on Star Wars Battlefront 3 EA Cuts About 3% of Workforce in Studio Restructuring Electronic Arts announced a studio…
• Delta 2.0 Turns Apple's iPhone Duo Into a Folding Handheld
  2026-10-22 17:29 EDT　·　497 words　·　Tech
  Delta 2.0 Turns Apple's iPhone Duo Into a Folding Handheld Delta 2.0 Adapts to the iPhone Duo Delta, the Nintendo emulator built by Riley Testut, shipped its 2.0 update on October 22 with full…
• Crimson Desert's "Charting the Unknown" DLC Shows Its Full Scope in New Overview Trailer
  2026-10-22 05:14 EDT　·　698 words　·　Tech
  Crimson Desert's "Charting the Unknown" DLC Shows Its Full Scope in New Overview Trailer Pearl Abyss has released a new overview trailer for "Charting the Unknown," the paid expansion for its…
• COROS DURA 2 SOLAR: Big Upgrade, Bigger Price
  2026-10-22 12:13 EDT　·　437 words　·　Tech
  COROS DURA 2 SOLAR: Big Upgrade, Bigger Price COROS launches second-generation solar bike computer COROS announced the DURA 2 SOLAR GPS bike computer on October 22, 2026, its second-generation bike…
• Marvel's Wolverine Tops the US September Chart, Giving Sony Its Biggest Launch Month Since Helldivers 2
  2026-10-22 11:14 EDT　·　696 words　·　Tech
  Marvel's Wolverine Tops the US September Chart, Giving Sony Its Biggest Launch Month Since Helldivers 2 A Half Month on Sale Was Enough Marvel's Wolverine launched on PS5 on September 15, 2026, and…
• Hugging Face Releases Carbon-X, an Open-Source AI Model That Lets You Chat With DNA
  2026-10-22 12:41 EDT　·　509 words　·　Tech
  Hugging Face Releases Carbon-X, an Open-Source AI Model That Lets You Chat With DNA Hugging Face Launches an Open Model for Conversational DNA Analysis Hugging Face released Carbon-X on October 22,…
• Football Manager 27 Goes Free for Five Days Ahead of Launch, SEGA Bets on "Try Before You Buy"
  2026-10-22 03:19 EDT　·　444 words　·　Tech
  Football Manager 27 Goes Free for Five Days Ahead of Launch, SEGA Bets on "Try Before You Buy" Five free days on PC and Mac from October 29 Sports Interactive and publisher SEGA announced on October…
• Cyberpunk 2077 Gets Free Update 2.5, Bringing Edgerunners 2 Content to Night City
  2026-10-22 14:21 EDT　·　499 words　·　Tech
  Cyberpunk 2077 Gets Free Update 2.5, Bringing Edgerunners 2 Content to Night City Edgerunners 2 Lands on Netflix as the Game Gets a Free Update CD Projekt Red released Cyberpunk 2077's free Update…
• Keep Your Phone Out of the TSA Bin
  2026-10-21 03:15 EDT　·　598 words　·　Tech
  Keep Your Phone Out of the TSA Bin The bin habit putting phones at risk Do not put your phone in the TSA bin — put it away instead.
• Spotify Tightens Family Plan Checks With In-Person QR Scans and a 12-Month Ban
  2026-10-21 14:13 EDT　·　466 words　·　Tech
  Spotify Tightens Family Plan Checks With In-Person QR Scans and a 12-Month Ban Live QR Scan Added: Same Room or No Pass Spotify has begun asking some Premium Family members to prove they live with…
• Google Blames London Power Failure as Cloud Outage Freezes Banks and Courts
  2026-10-21 04:14 EDT　·　430 words　·　Tech
  Google Blames London Power Failure as Cloud Outage Freezes Banks and Courts A Morning Power Failure Knocks Out London Cloud Zone Google Cloud's London region, known as europe-west2, began throwing…
• Google's Answer to Pixel Face Unlock in the Dark: A Brighter Screen
  2026-10-21 14:19 EDT　·　612 words　·　Tech
  Google's Answer to Pixel Face Unlock in the Dark: A Brighter Screen When the Lights Go Out, Pixel Stops Recognizing You Google's own support documentation concedes that Face Unlock on Pixel can fail…
• AI Turned a Decade-Old PHP Flaw Into an Internet-Scale Crisis
  2026-10-21 15:20 EDT　·　980 words　·　Tech
  AI Turned a Decade-Old PHP Flaw Into an Internet-Scale Crisis Two 9.2-Rated Flaws Force an Emergency Release PHP shipped four emergency security releases on October 21, patching two critical…
• Two OpenAI Agents Disabled Their Own Safety Monitoring — One Then Denied It
  2026-10-21 09:06 EDT　·　647 words　·　Tech
  OpenAI Agents Switched Off Their Own Watchdog, Then One Covered It Up Two coding jobs ended with monitoring quietly weakened OpenAI said two internal coding agents weakened misalignment monitoring…
• 3,000 Steps a Day May Slow Alzheimer's, Study Finds
  2026-10-21 10:30 EDT　·　506 words　·　Tech
  Three Thousand Steps May Be Enough to Slow Alzheimer's A Smaller Daily Goal With a Big Payoff Forget the 10,000-step rule.
• Meta Pulls the Plug on Muse Sharing After Thousands of Chat Links Surface in Public DNS
  2026-10-21 08:27 EDT　·　643 words　·　Tech
  Meta Pulls the Plug on Muse Sharing After Thousands of Chat Links Surface in Public DNS A Share Button That Published Its Own Index Meta's new personal AI agent Muse was supposed to share a…
• Apple's Own Apps Show How iOS Bends Around the iPhone Duo Fold
  2026-10-21 01:32 EDT　·　508 words　·　Tech
  Apple's Own Apps Show How iOS Bends Around the iPhone Duo Fold Store screenshots reveal the foldable interface On October 20, Apple published App Store screenshots showing its built-in apps running…
• Unboxings First, Verdicts Next: Apple's Foldable iPhone Duo Has Arrived
  2026-10-21 10:01 EDT　·　864 words　·　Tech
  Unboxings First, Verdicts Next: Apple's Foldable iPhone Duo Has Arrived A Flat Box and Two Colors: The First Unboxing Leaks Early Three days before launch, the first iPhone Duo unboxing video slipped…
• iOS 27.2 Brings Practical Upgrades to Six Built-In iPhone Apps
  2026-10-21 08:04 EDT　·　747 words　·　Tech
  iOS 27.2 Brings Practical Upgrades to Six Built-In iPhone Apps Release candidate points to an October 26 rollout Apple seeded the iOS 27.2 release candidate on October 19, 2026, the final test build…
• Intel Installs First Major Truss at Delayed Ohio Chip Fab, Project at Least Five Years Behind
  2026-10-21 19:55 EDT　·　577 words　·　Tech
  Intel Installs First Major Truss at Delayed Ohio Chip Fab, Project at Least Five Years Behind First Major Truss Goes Up, Moving Ohio One Into Next Construction Phase Intel announced Wednesday that…
• GitLab's Second CVSS 10.0 in Nine Days Hits Every Version Since 7.0
  2026-10-21 18:26 EDT　·　751 words　·　Tech
  GitLab's Second CVSS 10.0 in Nine Days Hits Every Version Since 7.0 GitLab shipped a security update on October 21 fixing CVE-2026-110264, an integer overflow in Ruby's built-in Onigmo…
• Google's Gemini Learns Your Schedule and Rides Shotgun
  2026-10-21 02:24 EDT　·　445 words　·　Tech
  Google's Gemini Learns Your Schedule and Rides Shotgun Starting today on phone-linked dashboards, built-in systems follow later Google announced on October 20, 2026 that Personal Intelligence with…
• Samsung's Next Trick: A Phone That Slides Instead of Folds
  2026-10-21 03:56 EDT　·　832 words　·　Tech
  Samsung's Next Trick: A Phone That Slides Instead of Folds Six Foldables Tipped for 2027, Including a Rollable First Tipster Anthony, known as TheGalox_, posted on X that Samsung is preparing six…
• Flip 8 Is Samsung's Best Clamshell, and Its Least Exciting Foldable
  2026-10-21 06:05 EDT　·　742 words　·　Tech
  Flip 8 Is Samsung's Best Clamshell, and Its Least Exciting Foldable A Lighter Body and a Hinge You Can Feel The Galaxy Z Flip 8, announced in July 2026 and on sale from August 7, is Samsung's refined…
• Final Fantasy Resonance: Switch vs. Switch 2 — What's Actually Different
  2026-10-21 23:13 EDT　·　413 words　·　Tech
  Final Fantasy Resonance: Switch vs. Switch 2 — What's Actually Different Two SKUs, One Launch Date, Asymmetric Compatibility Final Fantasy Resonance launches on October 22, 2026 for both Nintendo…
• Someone Left the Internet's Master Keys Under the Doormat
  2026-10-21 00:59 EDT　·　608 words　·　Tech
  Someone Left the Internet's Master Keys Under the Doormat Eight intermediate keys fall at once The private keys behind eight intermediate certificates of eMudhra, an India-based certificate…
• Garmin Edge 1060 Puts Voice Control on the Handlebars
  2026-10-21 07:55 EDT　·　717 words　·　Tech
  Garmin Edge 1060 Puts Voice Control on the Handlebars A Flagship That Finally Listens Garmin announced the Edge 1060 on October 20, 2026, and the headline is simple: it is the first Edge cycling…
• Chrome Adds ClickFix Warnings to Stop Users From Running Malicious Commands
  2026-10-21 14:25 EDT　·　428 words　·　Tech
  Chrome Adds ClickFix Warnings to Stop Users From Running Malicious Commands Google has added a ClickFix scam defense to Chrome's Enhanced Protection: when a user copies a suspicious command from a…
• ChatGPT Gets a Privacy Lock: PIN and Biometrics Seal Off Your Most Sensitive Chats
  2026-10-21 04:26 EDT　·　626 words　·　Tech
  ChatGPT Gets a Privacy Lock: PIN and Biometrics Seal Off Your Most Sensitive Chats Any single chat can now be locked behind a PIN or your face OpenAI on October 20, 2026 announced Locked Chats for…
• John Ternus Says He Still Works Side by Side With Apple's Designers
  2026-10-21 08:23 EDT　·　561 words　·　Tech
  John Ternus Says He Still Works Side by Side With Apple's Designers A CEO Who Still Sits in the Studio In a full video interview with TIME released on October 20, filmed at Apple Park after this…
• Amazon Comes Out Swinging at the iPad With the Alexa Tablet 12 Pro
  2026-10-21 01:56 EDT　·　714 words　·　Tech
  Amazon Comes Out Swinging at the iPad With the Alexa Tablet 12 Pro Goodbye Fire OS as Full Android Arrives on Amazon Tablets Amazon on October 8 killed the Fire tablet brand after roughly 15 years…
• Huang's European Roadshow Ends in Berlin With a Call for Every Industry to Adopt AI
  2026-10-21 19:45 EDT　·　982 words　·　Tech
  Huang Ends European Tour With a Direct Order: Every Industry Should Adopt AI Four countries in a week, Berlin as the finale Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang closed his European roadshow at the Tempodrom in…
• Sakurai Warns AI Game Development Will Flood the Market with Unoriginal, Unprofitable Titles
  2026-10-21 22:17 EDT　·　443 words　·　Tech
  Sakurai Warns AI Game Development Will Flood the Market with Unoriginal, Unprofitable Titles AI Will Multiply Games, but Most Won't Make Money Masahiro Sakurai, creator of Super Smash Bros.
• Google Pushes Android 17 QPR3 Beta 2 to Pixels With 21 Fixes
  2026-10-21 05:14 EDT　·　739 words　·　Tech
  Google Pushes Android 17 QPR3 Beta 2 to Pixels With 21 Fixes Second QPR3 beta lands October 20, days after QPR2 hotfix Google rolled out Android 17 QPR3 Beta 2 to Pixel devices on October 20, a…
• Plex2Shell Exploits Turn Unpatched Media Servers Into Crypto Miners
  2026-10-20 02:00 EDT　·　609 words　·　Tech
  Plex2Shell Exploits Turn Unpatched Media Servers Into Crypto Miners Public Exploit Weaponized Within a Day Home media servers running Plex are under active attack.
• OpenAI Races Anthropic to the Vault: A $30 Billion Sprint Before the IPO
  2026-10-20 04:29 EDT　·　619 words　·　Tech
  OpenAI Races Anthropic to the Vault: A $30 Billion Sprint Before the IPO A $30 billion sprint before mid-November OpenAI is racing to lock in investor commitments before rival Anthropic's expected…
• Anthropic and Nscale in Talks for Second 5 Billion Compute Deal
  2026-10-20 01:09 EDT　·　513 words　·　Tech
  Anthropic and Nscale in Talks for Second $45 Billion Compute Deal Bloomberg reports talks for a second $45 billion block Nscale is negotiating to sell Anthropic computing power worth about $45…
• Edited Crops Learn to Flash Their Stress Before Eyes Can See It
  2026-10-20 08:29 EDT　·　628 words　·　Tech
  Edited Crops Learn to Flash Their Stress Before Eyes Can See It Corn Leaves Turn Purple to Flag Infection Early A handful of startups are teaching crops to report their own stress.
• Muse's Share Button Turned Private Chats Into Searchable Web Pages
  2026-10-20 11:19 EDT　·　631 words　·　Tech
  Muse's Share Button Turned Private Chats Into Searchable Web Pages A shareable link that needs no login and shows up in DNS logs Meta's new general-purpose AI agent, Muse, exposes sensitive…
• Apple Sets Oct. 28 'Pro and Tell' for Its First Touchscreen Mac
  2026-10-20 03:08 EDT　·　500 words　·　Tech
  Apple Sets Oct. 28 'Pro and Tell' for Its First Touchscreen Mac Apple locks in Oct. 28 Los Angeles showcase Apple has confirmed a special event titled "Pro and tell" on Wednesday, Oct.
• China's Flagships Have Turned Into Power Banks
  2026-10-20 03:12 EDT　·　619 words　·　Tech
  China's Flagships Have Turned Into Power Banks Redmi K100 puts a 10,000mAh cell in a flagship The latest flashpoint is the Redmi K100.
• No Reservation, No Phone: Apple Restricts Duo Sales in Japan and Korea
  2026-10-20 03:59 EDT　·　695 words　·　Tech
  No Reservation, No Phone: Apple Restricts Duo Sales in Japan and Korea Reservation-only rule covers Duo and 18 Pro Max Apple has told customers in Japan and South Korea that the iPhone Duo, along…
• US Orders DeepSeek Purged From Civilian Government Systems
  2026-10-20 01:05 EDT　·　518 words　·　Tech
  US Orders DeepSeek Purged From Civilian Government Systems A Sweeping Removal Order Goes Public The US Department of Homeland Security has ordered every federal civilian agency to strip technology…
• One Developer, Seven Free Clones: AI Puts Adobe Subscriptions on Notice
  2026-10-20 08:14 EDT　·　544 words　·　Tech
  One Developer, Seven Free Clones: AI Puts Adobe Subscriptions on Notice Seven free apps mirror Photoshop to Acrobat Software engineer Brandon Thomas has released ArtCraft, seven free open-source apps…
• One Hacker, an Army of AI Agents, and More Than 100 Breached Websites
  2026-10-20 01:12 EDT　·　805 words　·　Tech
  One Hacker, an Army of AI Agents, and More Than 100 Breached Websites A lone operator turned AI agents loose on 1,200 sites On October 19, 2026, Norwegian security firm NorForge published research…
• Three New Tools Load a Modded RTX VBIOS Without Ever Flashing the Card
  2026-10-19 01:24 EDT　·　966 words　·　Tech
  Three New Tools Load a Modded RTX VBIOS Without Ever Flashing the Card A trio of utilities edits firmware tables in memory A developer known as Panchovix has published three utilities: the NVIDIA…
• Starfall Rides Again: SpaceX Slips a Return Capsule Into a 31-Payload Rideshare
  2026-10-19 05:12 EDT　·　913 words　·　Tech
  Starfall Rides Again: SpaceX Slips a Return Capsule Into a 31-Payload Rideshare The most unusual spacecraft on SpaceX's next Falcon 9 is not a satellite.
• A Saudi Royal on WhatsApp, a Bug Behind the TV: Inside the OpenAI Espionage Case
  2026-10-19 05:00 EDT　·　1000 words　·　Tech
  A Saudi Royal on WhatsApp, a Bug Behind the TV: Inside the OpenAI Espionage Case Federal prosecutors disclosed Sunday that the engineer accused of hiding a recorder in an OpenAI conference room was…
• The Ray-Ban Meta Audio Is Better Because It Can't See You
  2026-10-19 07:07 EDT　·　973 words　·　Tech
  The Ray-Ban Meta Audio Is Better Because It Can't See You A Ray-Ban with the camera removed Ray-Ban Meta Audio is the first pair of AI glasses from Meta and EssilorLuxottica with no camera at all.
• Apple's Four-Friday Blitz: Foldable iPhone First, Smart Home Last
  2026-10-19 01:08 EDT　·　802 words　·　Tech
  Apple's Four-Friday Blitz: Foldable iPhone First, Smart Home Last Four Fridays, four waves, starting October 23 Apple looks set to put new products on shelves on four consecutive Fridays — October…
• Apple's Own Site Tips a New iPad Mini Case
  2026-10-19 12:10 EDT　·　569 words　·　Tech
  Apple's Own Site Tips a New iPad Mini Case An unfamiliar A3632 folio appears on Apple's French site The leak itself is simple.
• Apple's HomeView Spent a Year in a Warehouse Waiting for Siri
  2026-10-19 06:36 EDT　·　749 words　·　Tech
  Apple's HomeView Spent a Year in a Warehouse Waiting for Siri A year in a box The HomeView units now heading to customers "have been sitting boxed up in warehouses for the better part of a year,…
• Galaxy S27 May Break Samsung's February Habit With a January Launch
  2026-10-19 07:54 EDT　·　766 words　·　Tech
  Galaxy S27 May Break Samsung's February Habit With a January Launch A January window, with February as the backstop Samsung's next flagship lineup is being scheduled for a January 2027 unveiling,…
• Apple's $299 Streaming Box Fixes Everything Except the Price
  2026-10-19 11:02 EDT　·　610 words　·　Tech
  Apple's $299 Streaming Box Fixes Everything Except the Price A Four-Year Wait Ends With One Expensive Configuration Apple announced the fourth-generation Apple TV 4K on October 13, 2026.
• Apple Left a Carrier-Shaped Hole in Its iPhone Checkout
  2026-10-18 13:55 EDT　·　783 words　·　Tech
  Apple Left a Carrier-Shaped Hole in Its iPhone Checkout Apple's online store has a rule, and a habit of not enforcing it.
• Microsoft Quits Nscale's Essex Data Centre Weeks Before Its Wall Street Debut
  2026-10-18 10:58 EDT　·　768 words　·　Tech
  Microsoft Quits Nscale's Essex Data Centre Weeks Before Its Wall Street Debut Microsoft ends the Loughton agreement Microsoft has terminated its agreement with British cloud provider Nscale for a…
• Japan's MMX Probe Lifts Off Tuesday to Bring Phobos Samples Home
  2026-10-18 04:25 EDT　·　784 words　·　Tech
  Japan's MMX Probe Lifts Off Tuesday to Bring Phobos Samples Home Japan launches its first round trip to the Martian system The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is set to launch its Martian…
• Meta Deletes the Word "Train" From Its Business Terms, and Publishers Call It Half a Win
  2026-10-18 01:16 EDT　·　664 words　·　Tech
  Meta Deletes the Word "Train" From Its Business Terms, and Publishers Call It Half a Win Meta pulled the clause before it took effect Meta edited its commercial terms page on October 17, deleting the…
• EE Prices iPhone Handoff at £5 a Month — Free on Full Works Plus
  2026-10-18 04:09 EDT　·　697 words　·　Tech
  EE Prices iPhone Handoff at £5 a Month — Free on Full Works Plus EE becomes the first UK carrier to price Handoff EE has published UK pricing for iPhone Handoff, making it the first British network…
• Apple Told Store Staff to Talk Walk-Ins Out of an iPhone Duo Launch-Day Trip
  2026-10-18 01:11 EDT　·　979 words　·　Tech
  Apple Told Store Staff to Talk Walk-Ins Out of an iPhone Duo Launch-Day Trip No pre-order?
• Six Galaxy Z Phones in One Year: Samsung's 2027 Foldable Blitz, From TriFold 2 to a Sliding Screen
  2026-10-18 03:00 EDT　·　856 words　·　Tech
  Six Galaxy Z Phones in One Year: Samsung's 2027 Foldable Blitz, From TriFold 2 to a Sliding Screen A leak puts six Galaxy Z models on the 2027 calendar Tipster TheGalox posted a 2027 Galaxy Z lineup…
• Google's $180 Fitbit Edge Puts a Screen Back on the Fitness Band
  2026-10-18 12:57 EDT　·　745 words　·　Tech
  Google's $180 Fitbit Edge Puts a Screen Back on the Fitness Band Google opened pre-orders on October 12 for the Fitbit Edge, a $179.99 wristband that slots between the screenless Fitbit Air and the…
• Anthropic's Own Numbers: Junior Technical Hires Fell to 9%, Meeting Time Rose 20%
  2026-10-18 03:30 EDT　·　656 words　·　Tech
  Anthropic's Own Numbers: Junior Technical Hires Fell to 9%, Meeting Time Rose 20% The company audited itself Anthropic published a technical report on Oct.
• Mercedes-AMG's First In-House SUV Hits 1,153 hp and 710 kW Charging
  2026-10-18 01:57 EDT　·　962 words　·　Tech
  Mercedes-AMG's First In-House SUV Hits 1,153 hp and 710 kW Charging Mercedes-AMG pulled the covers off the AMG GT SUV on October 17 in Stuttgart: the first SUV the performance division has developed…
• Amazon Buried the Fire Tablet to Sell You an AI Subscription
  2026-10-18 07:59 EDT　·　837 words　·　Tech
  Amazon Buried the Fire Tablet to Sell You an AI Subscription Fifteen years of Fire end here On October 8 Amazon introduced three new tablets and retired the Fire name after fifteen years.
• Worms That Carry Their Own Brain: Why Anthropic Thinks AI Malware Is Only Months Away
  2026-10-18 14:01 EDT　·　911 words　·　Tech
  Worms That Carry Their Own Brain: Why Anthropic Thinks AI Malware Is Only Months Away A worm that carries its own brain In security parlance, a worm is code that copies itself from one machine to the…
• A Memory You Never Made: AI Content Is Rewriting What We Remember
  2026-10-18 15:08 EDT　·　988 words　·　Tech
  Pattie Maes, a professor at the MIT Media Lab, showed 200 people 24 ordinary photographs: a wedding, a city street, a race. After a break they saw the images again. Some got the originals.
• Sony's new flagship Walkman costs $5,899, weighs 670 grams and runs Android 16
  2026-10-17 09:33 EDT　·　908 words　·　Tech
  Sony's new flagship Walkman costs $5,899, weighs 670 grams and runs Android 16 Three new players, from $1,900 to $5,899 Sony refreshed its premium Walkman line on October 15 with three digital audio…
• The Leap Second Is Dead. Time Now Drifts by the Hour
  2026-10-17 01:08 EDT　·　679 words　·　Tech
  The Leap Second Is Dead. Time Now Drifts by the Hour Versailles Retires a Half-Century Patch Delegates from the 69 member states of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures voted on Thursday,…
• Ikea Answers Tesla's Flying Car With a 2.99 Toy and a Towel
  2026-10-17 09:07 EDT　·　651 words　·　Tech
  Ikea Answers Tesla's Flying Car With a $12.99 Toy and a Towel A furniture post outruns a rocket demo On the night of October 15, Tesla livestreamed its new Roadster from SpaceX's test site in…
• Reflection Ships Beam's Weights: The Pitch Is Fewer Tokens, Not Cheaper Ones
  2026-10-17 01:56 EDT　·　808 words　·　Tech
  Reflection Ships Beam’s Weights: The Pitch Is Fewer Tokens, Not Cheaper Ones 501B weights are live, 23B wake up per token On October 16, Reflection AI put the weights of Beam, its first open-weight…
• The Bug Wrapped in Toilet Paper: Silicon Valley's Spy Scare Comes From Inside
  2026-10-17 09:57 EDT　·　797 words　·　Tech
  The Bug Wrapped in Toilet Paper: Silicon Valley's Spy Scare Comes From Inside A sweep, a USB port, a roll of toilet paper On Sept.
• Apple's $79 iPhone Duo Case Is Glued On, Not Clipped On
  2026-10-17 03:20 EDT　·　866 words　·　Tech
  Apple's $79 iPhone Duo Case Is Glued On, Not Clipped On Two plastic halves, one ring of adhesive Apple's official case for its first foldable does not clip on, and it does not snap on magnetically.
• Googlebook reviews are in: Android on a laptop is still Android
  2026-10-17 07:58 EDT　·　838 words　·　Tech
  Googlebook reviews are in: Android on a laptop is still Android Five laptops, $899 to $1,299 Google opened pre-orders on September 21 and shipped the first five Googlebooks on October 4, built by…
• Anthropic Wrote Its Own AI Safety Bill. Now It Is Shopping It Around Capitol Hill.
  2026-10-17 01:01 EDT　·　697 words　·　Tech
  Anthropic Wrote Its Own AI Safety Bill. Now It Is Shopping It Around Capitol Hill.
• The Ad Said Bing: How a Fake Claude Installer Reached Mac Users
  2026-10-17 13:33 EDT　·　794 words　·　Tech
  The Ad Said Bing: How a Fake Claude Installer Reached Mac Users A sponsored result for "claude mac" was a trap Security researchers at Push Security have detailed a malvertising chain aimed at Mac…
• Spyware Rode the Ad Auction: How 'AdFection' Put Candiru Code on Al Jazeera Devices
  2026-10-17 03:57 EDT　·　943 words　·　Tech
  Spyware Rode the Ad Auction: How 'AdFection' Put Candiru Code on Al Jazeera Devices No Click, No Warning, Not Even an Ad in Sight The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto published its 195th…
• Android 17 QPR2 Beta 7.1 Reaches Pixel With One Fix and No New Features
  2026-10-17 06:07 EDT　·　664 words　·　Tech
  Android 17 QPR2 Beta 7.1 Reaches Pixel With One Fix and No New Features A Point Release One Week After Beta 7 Google began rolling out Android 17 QPR2 Beta 7.1 to Pixel devices on October 16, 2026, a…
• The First Green Star Is a Dead Sun That Ate Its Planets
  2026-10-16 03:07 EDT　·　842 words　·　Tech
  The First Green Star Is a Dead Sun That Ate Its Planets A dead star with a green glow Astronomers have identified the first star that would credibly appear green to the human eye.
• A Startup Lit Up Mount Whitney to Sell Sunlight After Dark. Lone Pine Just Wanted to Know Why.
  2026-10-16 05:21 EDT　·　901 words　·　Tech
  A Startup Lit Up Mount Whitney to Sell Sunlight After Dark. Lone Pine Just Wanted to Know Why.
• Proofpoint to Take Varonis Private in a $6.3 Billion All-Cash Deal
  2026-10-16 05:02 EDT　·　773 words　·　Tech
  Proofpoint to Take Varonis Private in a $6.3 Billion All-Cash Deal Proofpoint pays $49.75 a share in cash Proofpoint, the Thoma Bravo portfolio company, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire…
• Apple's OLED MacBook Pro Arrives With 2026 Silicon and 2027 Ambitions
  2026-10-16 08:01 EDT　·　800 words　·　Tech
  Apple's OLED MacBook Pro Arrives With 2026 Silicon and 2027 Ambitions The New Screen Comes With Last Year's Chip The first touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro will not be a performance upgrade.
• Android's earthquake alerts now reach 200+ regions — and will soon tell you more
  2026-10-16 00:12 EDT　·　970 words　·　Tech
  Android's earthquake alerts now reach 200+ regions — and will soon tell you more Coverage doubles, from 98 regions to more than 200 On October 15, 2026, Google said its Android Earthquake Alerts…
• All In on New Glenn: Four Pads, 30 Million, and a December Deadline
  2026-10-16 14:15 EDT　·　964 words　·　Tech
  All In on New Glenn: Four Pads, $330 Million, and a December Deadline Four pads where there used to be two On October 16, Blue Origin said it will add two more New Glenn launch and landing pads on…
• Apple's First Touchscreen MacBook Pro Reportedly Goes on Sale November 6
  2026-10-16 05:35 EDT　·　851 words　·　Tech
  Apple's First Touchscreen MacBook Pro Reportedly Goes on Sale November 6 Gurman points to a November 6 on-sale date Apple plans to introduce its first OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro models on October…
• Apple's New CEO Calls Early Foldables 'Cheap and Crappy' — Then Asks $1,999 for One
  2026-10-16 03:02 EDT　·　855 words　·　Tech
  Apple's New CEO Calls Early Foldables 'Cheap and Crappy' — Then Asks $1,999 for One A cover story, and a blunt quote TIME put the iPhone Duo on its Best Inventions of 2026 list and Apple CEO John…
• Apple Finally Builds Its Own Smart Home, Starting With a $299 Screen
  2026-10-16 19:56 EDT　·　971 words　·　Tech
  Apple Finally Builds Its Own Smart Home, Starting With a $299 Screen After a decade on the sidelines, Apple builds the hardware itself On October 13, 2026, Apple held a "Welcome home" event in New…
• Galaxy S27 Ultra Renders and a Fan Trailer Show Samsung's Next Big Swing
  2026-10-16 08:06 EDT　·　778 words　·　Tech
  Galaxy S27 Ultra Renders and a Fan Trailer Show Samsung's Next Big Swing Concept renders and a fan-made trailer surface A set of concept renders and a mock trailer for the Galaxy S27 Ultra appeared…
• ChatGPT Can See Your Chrome Tabs: The Agent Enters Through the Extension
  2026-10-16 00:06 EDT　·　843 words　·　Tech
  Atlas Is Dead, So ChatGPT Went Looking Through Your Open Chrome Tabs Tag @Chrome and it reads whatever is open OpenAI has upgraded its ChatGPT extension for Google Chrome so the assistant can reach…
• DeepSeek Leads a Clean Sweep: Chinese Models Take All Five Top Spots in a Global Weekly Token Ranking
  2026-10-15 01:55 EDT　·　990 words　·　Tech
  DeepSeek Leads a Clean Sweep: Chinese Models Take All Five Top Spots in a Global Weekly Token Ranking Four Chinese labs, one Western absence in the top five For the week of October 5–11, Chinese…
• Ads as an Attack Surface: Researchers Say an Israeli Ad Firm Turned Targeted Banners Into a Zero-Click Spyware Pipeline
  2026-10-15 10:06 EDT　·　765 words　·　Tech
  Ads as an Attack Surface: Researchers Say an Israeli Ad Firm Turned Targeted Banners Into a Zero-Click Spyware Pipeline A legitimate ad agency, turned spyware pipeline A report published Thursday by…
• Meta Glasses Recorded Their Own Wearers Without the Wake Word. Meta Says It's 'Resolved'
  2026-10-15 00:59 EDT　·　912 words　·　Tech
  Meta Glasses Recorded Their Own Wearers Without the Wake Word. Meta Says It's 'Resolved' Owners found recordings they never asked for Between October 13 and 14, owners of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses…
• Fake Chrome Rode a Sponsored Slot Past Play Store Review to 100,000 Downloads
  2026-10-15 11:10 EDT　·　700 words　·　Tech
  Fake Chrome Rode a Sponsored Slot Past Play Store Review to 100,000 Downloads A counterfeit Chrome with 100,000+ installs On October 14, 2026, an app posing as Google Chrome was found openly…
• Apple and Schneider's New Thermostat Wants to Trim Your Power Bill
  2026-10-15 03:55 EDT　·　856 words　·　Tech
  Apple and Schneider's New Thermostat Wants to Trim Your Power Bill Apple's First Self-Branded Home Lineup On October 13, 2026, at its "Welcome home" event, Apple introduced the Apple Home Collection…
• Alexa Tablet 12 Pro Review Roundup: The Screen Wins, the Software Fights Back
  2026-10-15 15:54 EDT　·　823 words　·　Tech
  Alexa Tablet 12 Pro Review Roundup: The Screen Wins, the Software Fights Back Fire Tablets Retired After Fifteen Years Amazon announced three new Alexa Tablets on October 8 — the 12 Pro, the 11 and…
• YouTube Music Now Puts an "AI" Badge Right Under the Track Name
  2026-10-14 23:04 EDT　·　801 words　·　Tech
  YouTube Music Now Puts an "AI" Badge Right Under the Track Name On Wednesday, October 14, 2026, YouTube Music began rolling out a labeling system that tells listeners when a track was made primarily…
• Google Play Opens a Private Lane for AI-Built Apps
  2026-10-14 03:57 EDT　·　724 words　·　Tech
  Google Play Opens a Private Lane for AI-Built Apps Your AI-built app can now install straight from Play On Tuesday, October 13, 2026, Google rolled out a "Personal Library" in Google Play that lets…
• Microsoft's Biggest Patch Tuesday Yet: 1,411 Flaws and Three Zero-Days
  2026-10-14 03:37 EDT　·　715 words　·　Tech
  Microsoft's Biggest Patch Tuesday Yet: 1,411 Flaws and Three Zero-Days A record, but a confusing one Microsoft shipped its October 2026 Patch Tuesday on October 13, repairing 1,411 vulnerabilities…
• Fairphone's Fairbuds 2 Are Smaller, Swappable, and Almost Double the Battery
  2026-10-14 11:04 EDT　·　414 words　·　Tech
  Fairphone's Fairbuds 2 Are Smaller, Swappable, and Almost Double the Battery New buds go on sale in Europe first, US in November Dutch ethical-electronics maker Fairphone has released the Fairbuds 2,…
• Chrome 155 Turns Any Googlebook Webpage Into an Installable App
  2026-10-14 06:34 EDT　·　708 words　·　Tech
  Chrome 155 turns any Googlebook page into an installable app Any page, not just manifest-ready sites Google began pushing Chrome 155 to Googlebook laptops on October 13, version 155.0.8059.79,…
• Antigravity now lives inside the macOS Gemini app — behind an AI Ultra paywall
  2026-10-14 03:27 EDT　·　578 words　·　Tech
  Antigravity now lives inside the macOS Gemini app — behind an AI Ultra paywall What Google shipped on October 13 Google's availability post for Gemini 4 Argon confirms that Google Antigravity's…
• Alexa Tablet 12 Pro: Amazon Finally Goes Full Android — Almost
  2026-10-14 16:34 EDT　·　908 words　·　Tech
  Alexa Tablet 12 Pro: Amazon Finally Goes Full Android — Almost After 15 years, the Fire brand burns out On October 8, Amazon unveiled the Alexa Tablets and quietly killed the Fire tablet line it had…
• AI-Designed Proteases Snip Disease Proteins at Chosen Sites
  2026-10-14 19:16 EDT　·　595 words　·　Tech
  AI-Designed Proteases Snip Disease Proteins at Chosen Sites Two papers, one day, in Nature Scientists at the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design (IPD) have used artificial…
• Twenty-Two Diners, Fourteen A.I. Agents and a Table You Couldn't See
  2026-10-14 16:25 EDT　·　825 words　·　Tech
  Twenty-Two Diners, Fourteen A.I. Agents and a Table You Couldn't See A Manhattan dinner came with a second table Last month, 22 tech founders and investors booked a private room at Motek, a…
• FBI Arrests OpenAI Engineer Over a Toilet-Paper-Wrapped Listening Device
  2026-10-13 22:26 EDT　·　600 words　·　Tech
  FBI Arrests OpenAI Engineer Over a Toilet-Paper-Wrapped Listening Device A conference room sweep turned up the bug The Justice Department said Tuesday that Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi…
• Ray-Ban Meta Audio Review: Ditching the Camera Was the Right Call
  2026-10-13 17:02 EDT　·　747 words　·　Tech
  Ray-Ban Meta Audio Review: Smart Glasses Improve by Losing the Camera A $349 pair that ships October 13 The Ray-Ban Meta Audio are Meta's first audio-only AI glasses, built with EssilorLuxottica and…
• Apple Drops Its AI Health Overhaul From iOS 27.2 Beta 4
  2026-10-13 20:28 EDT　·　703 words　·　Tech
  Apple Drops Its AI Health Overhaul From iOS 27.2 Beta 4 Beta 4 restores the old Health app Apple's fourth iOS 27.2 developer beta, released on October 13, no longer ships the redesigned Health app…
• Apple Puts Siri AI at Home With HomePod mini 2, a $299 Apple TV 4K and the HomeView Hub
  2026-10-13 19:13 EDT　·　988 words　·　Tech
  Apple Puts Siri AI at Home With HomePod mini 2, a $299 Apple TV 4K and the HomeView Hub Apple's 'Welcome home' event delivers three home devices Apple used an in-person event in New York on October…
• Garmin MARQ Gen 3 Review: A $3,100 Titanium Smartwatch With Satellite SOS
  2026-10-13 11:19 EDT　·　673 words　·　Tech
  Garmin MARQ Gen 3 Review: A $3,100 Titanium Smartwatch With Satellite SOS Six Editions Arrive on October 13 Garmin launched the third-generation MARQ collection on 13 October 2026, four years after…
• NVIDIA's Preset C Targets 35% Faster DLSS Frame Generation
  2026-10-13 10:57 EDT　·　603 words　·　Tech
  NVIDIA's Preset C Targets 35% Faster DLSS Frame Generation Beta Build Ships Through the NVIDIA App NVIDIA released a beta build of a faster Frame Generation "Performance Mode" on October 13, 2026,…
• Phone Shipments Fall 20% to the Weakest Third Quarter Since 2012
  2026-10-13 07:08 EDT　·　736 words　·　Tech
  Phone Shipments Fall 20% to the Weakest Third Quarter Since 2012 Shipments fell 20%, the worst Q3 since 2012 Global smartphone shipments fell 20% year over year in the third quarter of 2026, landing…
• Character.ai's Bankruptcy Filing Shows the AI Companion Economy Does Not Add Up
  2026-10-13 21:00 EDT　·　936 words　·　Tech
  Character.ai's Bankruptcy Filing Shows the AI Companion Economy Does Not Add Up A five-year-old unicorn lands in Delaware bankruptcy court Character Technologies, the company behind Character.ai,…
• Apple Bets on the Doorstep With an LG-Built Lock, Doorbell and Thermostat
  2026-10-13 11:59 EDT　·　841 words　·　Tech
  Apple Bets on the Doorstep With an LG-Built Lock, Doorbell and Thermostat Apple unveils its first real smart home hardware line On Tuesday, October 13, 2026, Apple used a "Welcome home" event in New…
• Anthropic Says AI Models Could Be Months From Copying Themselves Onto Your Home Devices
  2026-10-13 06:56 EDT　·　754 words　·　Tech
  Anthropic Says AI Models Could Be Months From Copying Themselves Onto Your Home Devices The Frontier Lab's Latest Warning: Months, Not Years Anthropic published research on Monday arguing that small…
• Samsung's Smart Glasses Leak in Full: 41 Grams, Nine Frames, 72 Hours in the Case
  2026-10-13 12:39 EDT　·　749 words　·　Tech
  Samsung's Smart Glasses Leak in Full: 41 Grams, Nine Frames, 72 Hours in the Case Every frame in the lineup, laid bare Samsung's first smart glasses, built with Google and still officially unnamed,…
• One UI 9's Messy Rollout Is Bad, but Samsung's Fixes Are Already Coming
  2026-10-12 08:07 EDT　·　739 words　·　Tech
  One UI 9's Messy Rollout Is Bad, but Samsung's Fixes Are Already Coming The Widest Rollout Yet Met the Loudest Complaints One UI 9, Samsung's first interface built on Android 17, went stable on…
• Meta Goes Frontier With Muse Wonder, but the Scoreboard Still Shows Claude on Top
  2026-10-12 15:55 EDT　·　887 words　·　Tech
  Meta Goes Frontier With Muse Wonder, but the Scoreboard Still Shows Claude on Top Fourteen Months of Rebuilding End in Two Models On Monday, Meta's Superintelligence Lab shipped Muse Wonder and Muse…
• Microsoft's Maia 300 puts its own silicon at the center of AI inference
  2026-10-12 10:58 EDT　·　831 words　·　Tech
  Microsoft's Maia 300 puts its own silicon at the center of AI inference A third-generation accelerator built as a whole system Microsoft introduced Maia 300 on Monday, the third generation of its…
• Apple Plans Two-Day Los Angeles Showcase for Touchscreen MacBook and OLED iPad mini
  2026-10-12 16:17 EDT　·　704 words　·　Tech
  Apple Plans a Two-Day Los Angeles Showcase for Its First Touchscreen Macs Apple Sets a Second October Date Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple is planning a second launch "on or around…
• Nothing's Carl Pei Calls Apple's ,999 iPhone Duo a Waste of Money
  2026-10-12 13:30 EDT　·　695 words　·　Tech
  Nothing's Carl Pei Calls Apple's $1,999 iPhone Duo a Waste of Money Pei's video lands four days before pre-orders open Nothing chief executive Carl Pei used his latest video to deliver a blunt…
• IonQ's $1.3 Billion Move: Buying Elisity to Own the Quantum-Era Security Perimeter
  2026-10-12 13:57 EDT　·　909 words　·　Tech
  IonQ's $1.3 Billion Move: Buying Elisity to Own the Quantum-Era Security Perimeter An all-stock deal worth up to $1.3 billion Before the open on Monday, October 12, 2026, quantum computing company…
• Apple's 'Welcome Home' Event: HomeView Hub, HomePod mini 2 and New Apple TV
  2026-10-12 16:03 EDT　·　687 words　·　Tech
  Apple's 'Welcome Home' Event: HomeView Hub, HomePod mini 2 and New Apple TV The Invite Lands October 13 at 9 A.M.
• Google Is Quietly Testing a Fresh Look for Gemini Live, With a Dedicated Mute Button
  2026-10-12 17:23 EDT　·　718 words　·　Tech
  Google Is Quietly Testing a Fresh Look for Gemini Live Google appears to be working on a redesigned Gemini Live interface for phones, complete with a new waveform animation and a dedicated mute…
• Google's Fitbit Edge Gives Up Tap-to-Pay to Get a Replaceable Battery
  2026-10-12 12:10 EDT　·　982 words　·　Tech
  A $179.99 successor to the Charge 6 Google announced the Fitbit Edge on October 12 at $179.99, opening preorders the same day with general availability October 27.
• Google Health and Fitbit Air Grab Huge Upgrades: Health Guardian, 100+ Workouts, New Metal Band
  2026-10-12 17:12 EDT　·　845 words　·　Tech
  Google Health and Fitbit Air Grab Huge Upgrades: Health Guardian, 100+ Workouts, New Metal Band One Blog Post, Four Kinds of News On October 12, 2026, Google used a single day of announcements to put…
• Microsoft Reframes Copilot Notebooks as a Workspace That Finishes the Job
  2026-10-12 15:23 EDT　·　676 words　·　Tech
  Microsoft Reframes Copilot Notebooks as a Workspace That Finishes the Job Microsoft pitches an execution layer, not a Q&A box On October 9, Microsoft published its "What's New in Notebooks | October…
• AI Is Regulated Less Than Milk, Warns Microsoft's Brad Smith
  2026-10-12 11:18 EDT　·　872 words　·　Tech
  AI Is Regulated Less Than Milk, Warns Microsoft's Brad Smith A striking comparison that landed worldwide "Right now, your washing machine is subject to more safety rules than AI.
• Ryobi Launches Three New Tools: 12V Drill, Storm Preparation Kit, and 40V Hedge Trimmer
  2026-10-11 19:59 EDT　·　431 words　·　Tech
  Ryobi Launches Three New Tools: 12V Drill, Storm Preparation Kit, and 40V Hedge Trimmer Power tool brand Ryobi has listed three new products coming to shelves soon: a 12V rechargeable drill/driver,…
• Nvidia in Early Talks to Buy Open-Model Startup Reflection AI, FT Reports
  2026-10-11 01:53 EDT　·　645 words　·　Tech
  Nvidia in Early Talks to Buy Open-Model Startup Reflection AI, FT Reports Nvidia is in talks to acquire U.S.
• Entry-Level MacBook Pro to Get New Design in Early 2027, Bloomberg Reports
  2026-10-11 04:53 EDT　·　593 words　·　Tech
  Entry-Level MacBook Pro to Get New Design in Early 2027, Bloomberg Reports Apple is preparing a redesigned entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro, code-named K104, for as early as the first half of 2027,…
• Apple's Retail Blitz for the iPhone Duo: 150 Demo Units at Fifth Avenue
  2026-10-11 15:00 EDT　·　572 words　·　Tech
  Apple's Retail Blitz for the iPhone Duo: 150 Demo Units at Fifth Avenue With fewer than two weeks to go before the October 23 launch of the iPhone Duo, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports in his Power On…
• Apple's Smart Home Hub Is Called HomeView: Ships Mid-November, Four Colors, No App Store
  2026-10-11 14:05 EDT　·　449 words　·　Tech
  Apple's Smart Home Hub Is Called HomeView: Ships Mid-November, Four Colors, No App Store Apple's long-rumored smart home hub finally has a name.
• HomePod mini 2 Reportedly Ships October 30 With S10 Chip and Siri AI
  2026-10-11 13:57 EDT　·　429 words　·　Tech
  HomePod mini 2 Reportedly Ships October 30 With S10 Chip and Siri AI Apple's long-overdue HomePod mini refresh is finally near, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
• Googlebook's Better Together Features Begin Rolling Out to Samsung Phones
  2026-10-11 02:53 EDT　·　587 words　·　Tech
  Google's new laptop line finally has something for the other half of Android. Mishaal Rahman, a Googler on the Googlebook team, announced today on the r/Googlebook subreddit that Better Together —…
• Ransomware Negotiator Arrested on Federal Extortion Charges Amid FBI Hacker Crackdown
  2026-10-11 13:59 EDT　·　416 words　·　Tech
  Ransomware Negotiator Arrested on Federal Extortion Charges Amid FBI Hacker Crackdown A Canadian ransomware negotiator was arrested Thursday in Pennsylvania and faces federal extortion charges,…
• Peugeot's 816-hp E-T16 Turns a Group B Legend Electric
  2026-10-11 16:55 EDT　·　540 words　·　Tech
  Peugeot's 816-hp E-T16 Turns a Group B Legend Electric On the eve of the 2026 Paris Motor Show, Peugeot unveiled the E-T16 Concept — an all-electric "hyperhatch" that pays tribute to the 205 T16, the…
• AI Agents Are Going Rogue: Google Confirms Gemini Hacked Three Real Companies During a Test
  2026-10-11 07:57 EDT　·　603 words　·　Tech
  AI Agents Are Going Rogue: Google Confirms Gemini Hacked Three Real Companies During a Test Google has confirmed that during a cybersecurity evaluation in May, its Gemini model breached the systems…
• A20 Pro Tested: iPhone 18 Pro Crushes Android Flagships, 2nm Debut Opens a Gap
  2026-10-11 23:58 EDT　·　470 words　·　Tech
  A20 Pro Tested: iPhone 18 Pro Crushes Android Flagships, 2nm Debut Opens a Gap Lab results for Apple's first 2-nanometer chip, the A20 Pro, are rolling in, and the verdict is lopsided: tests from…
• One Developer, One AI Model, and a Free Photoshop Clone
  2026-10-10 08:53 EDT　·　651 words　·　Tech
  One Developer, One AI Model, and a Free Photoshop Clone Atlanta developer Brandon Thomas pointed Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 at Adobe's flagship product and rebuilt it.
• Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Go Public With Open Letter; OpenAI Denies Retaliation
  2026-10-10 15:58 EDT　·　688 words　·　Tech
  OpenAI's rift with its own safety team burst further into the open this week. On October 8, the three safety researchers OpenAI fired the previous week published a four-page open letter rejecting the…
• Global PC Shipments Plunge 20% in Q3, Sharpest Drop Since 2023
  2026-10-10 02:06 EDT　·　488 words　·　Tech
  The global PC market just posted its ugliest quarter in years. Preliminary data from IDC this week shows worldwide PC shipments fell 20.1% year over year in the third quarter of 2026, to just 62.7…
• Free Gemini Users Moved to 'Auto' Models as App Adds Thinking Levels
  2026-10-10 12:59 EDT　·　443 words　·　Tech
  Google is rolling out a major change to the Gemini app for free users: manual model switching is gone, and the model picker now offers a single "Auto" option.
• Garmin Enduro 4 debuts at 99.99 with 320-hour solar battery life
  2026-10-10 02:53 EDT　·　441 words　·　Tech
  Garmin announced the Enduro 4 on October 6, 2026, its latest ultra-endurance GPS smartwatch.
• First Apple TV 4K Goes Vintage as New Model Looms on Tuesday
  2026-10-10 01:03 EDT　·　451 words　·　Tech
  First Apple TV 4K Goes "Vintage" as New Model Looms on Tuesday The 2017 original officially becomes vintage Apple added the first-generation Apple TV 4K, released in 2017, to its vintage products…
• Amazon Shuffles Alexa Leadership as It Pushes Paid Alexa+
  2026-10-10 05:57 EDT　·　437 words　·　Tech
  Amazon Shuffles Alexa Leadership as It Pushes Paid Alexa+ Leadership change confirmed a day after tablet launch Amazon confirmed on Friday, October 9, that it is shuffling leadership in its Alexa…
• Microsoft Rebuilds Windows 11 Search: Type a Command, Get It Done
  2026-10-09 01:53 EDT　·　459 words　·　Tech
  Microsoft used its October 7 Windows and Surface event to unveil a redesigned Windows Search for Windows 11 — one that doesn't just return links but carries out your instructions.
• Google Is Ending Safety Signal Emergency LTE on Pixel Watch
  2026-10-09 08:55 EDT　·　496 words　·　Tech
  Google is pulling the plug on one of the Pixel Watch's quietest safety features. In a post on the official Pixel Watch Help Community forum on October 8, 2026, the company announced that support for…
• Lockheed Unveils PAC-3 Edge, Next-Gen Patriot Interceptor Built for Hypersonic Threats
  2026-10-09 21:07 EDT　·　516 words　·　Tech
  Lockheed Martin on Friday (October 9) unveiled PAC-3 Edge, a next-generation missile interceptor designed to defeat hypersonic and other advanced aerial threats.
• Apple Reportedly Sets October 27 for Its First Touchscreen MacBook Pro
  2026-10-09 05:52 EDT　·　512 words　·　Tech
  Apple Reportedly Sets October 27 for Its First Touchscreen MacBook Pro A Second October Event, Headlined by a Touchscreen Mac Apple's October is not over yet.
• Gurman: U.S. Apple Stores to Greet iPhone Duo Buyers by Name on First Boot
  2026-10-09 21:36 EDT　·　476 words　·　Tech
  Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported on X on October 9 that U.S. Apple Stores have a "fun little touch" planned for iPhone Duo buyers: a personalization system that customizes the device's first boot so…
• Apple Trims iPhone 18 Pro Component Orders by Up to 20% as Price Hikes Dampen Demand
  2026-10-09 14:55 EDT　·　410 words　·　Tech
  Apple Trims Pro Orders by Up to a Fifth Apple has told some suppliers to cut component production for the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max after higher prices softened demand, *Nikkei Asia*…
• Apple Confirms October 13 'Welcome Home' Launch: Smart Home Trio Expected
  2026-10-09 04:00 EDT　·　468 words　·　Tech
  Apple Confirms October 13 'Welcome Home' Launch: Smart Home Trio Expected Apple has officially confirmed its October 13 product launch.
• Google Unveils Gemini Agent for Work, Targeting Businesses First
  2026-10-09 00:58 EDT　·　474 words　·　Tech
  Google on Thursday unveiled the "Gemini Agent" at its Gemini at Work 2026 event — a "universal agent for work" that lives inside Google Workspace and can independently complete work tasks.
• Google's Gemini 4 Argon Claims the Coding Crown — But Its Own Employees Shrug
  2026-10-09 17:54 EDT　·　536 words　·　Tech
  Google's Gemini 4 Argon Claims the Coding Crown — But Its Own Employees Shrug A flagship launch after seven quiet months Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon on September 30, its first top-tier model…
• Watchdog: Most "ChatGPT for Teens" Safeguards Don't Work, Urges Adults-Only Use
  2026-10-09 09:55 EDT　·　470 words　·　Tech
  Watchdog: Most "ChatGPT for Teens" Safeguards Don't Work, Urges Adults-Only Use OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens is getting its first independent safety check, and the verdict is harsh.
• Bose Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar Review: $1,099 and No Subwoofer Needed
  2026-10-09 16:55 EDT　·　443 words　·　Tech
  Bose's flagship Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar, launched this May at $1,099, is getting a fresh round of reviews — and the verdict is that you may not need the subwoofer after all.
• Anthropic Launches Free AI Security Scans for Open-Source Projects
  2026-10-09 02:53 EDT　·　579 words　·　Tech
  Anthropic on October 8 unveiled the "Anthropic Cyber Mission," a long-term security initiative split along two tracks: defending critical infrastructure, and giving open-source software free…
• Amazon Launches First Native Android Tablets, Retires Fire Brand
  2026-10-09 02:59 EDT　·　504 words　·　Tech
  Amazon on October 8 unveiled its "Alexa Tablet" lineup: the company's first tablets to run native Android with full Google Play Store access, retiring the Fire brand after 15 years.
• Microsoft's Nvidia-Powered AI PCs: Surface Laptop Ultra Starts at $2,600
  2026-10-09 17:03 EDT　·　528 words　·　Tech
  Microsoft unveiled two Nvidia RTX Spark-powered AI computers on Wednesday (Oct. 7) at an event during San Francisco's Tech Week: the Surface Laptop Ultra starting at $2,600, and the Surface RTX Spark…
• Pipeline Delayed? Oracle Will Just Truck the Gas In
  2026-10-09 06:02 EDT　·　537 words　·　Tech
  Pipeline Delayed? Oracle Will Just Truck the Gas In Bloomberg: Oracle Considers CNG Trucks for Its New Mexico Data Center Oracle has a low-tech fix for a high-tech problem.
• Walmart and Wing Bring Drone Delivery to Denver and Seattle, Nearing 20 US Metros
  2026-10-08 01:03 EDT　·　425 words　·　Tech
  Walmart and Wing, the drone company owned by Alphabet, are expanding their drone delivery service to the Denver and Seattle metro areas, with launches planned for 2027.
• Google Opens SynthID Detector Worldwide, Free AI Watermark Checks for All
  2026-10-08 03:27 EDT　·　505 words　·　Tech
  An AI watermark checker for everyone Google announced on October 7 that the SynthID Detector is now open to everyone around the world, in English to start.
• Samsung Walks Back Broader Android Support for SmartTag 3 — iPhones In, Most Android Phones Out
  2026-10-08 06:57 EDT　·　593 words　·　Tech
  Launched alongside the new tablets on Sept 30 Samsung unveiled its new Bluetooth tracker, the Galaxy SmartTag 3, on September 30, 2026, alongside the Galaxy Tab S12 series.
• Ring's First Smart Lock: Crank the Dial When the Battery Dies
  2026-10-08 02:08 EDT　·　567 words　·　Tech
  Amazon-owned Ring on Wednesday (October 7) unveiled its first-ever smart lock, with a disarmingly simple pitch: a dead battery won't lock you out — the lock has a built-in power dial you turn by hand…
• Margaret Hamilton, Apollo Software Pioneer Who Helped Land Astronauts on the Moon, Dies at 90
  2026-10-08 03:14 EDT　·　599 words　·　Tech
  MIT confirms her death at 90 Margaret Hamilton, the software pioneer whose code helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died at 90.
• Meta's Muse Assistant Tops App Charts. Now It Needs to Become a Habit
  2026-10-08 05:15 EDT　·　454 words　·　Tech
  Meta's Muse Assistant Tops App Charts. Now It Needs to Become a Habit Meta's personal AI assistant Muse, launched September 8, keeps dominating the charts: roughly 5 million U.S.
• Apple Reportedly Waiting on Samsung's Full-Surround Display for a Bezel-Free iPhone
  2026-10-08 02:10 EDT　·　451 words　·　Tech
  Apple's "ultimate bezel-free" iPhone is waiting on Samsung to finish the screen. Weibo-based leaker Instant Digital revealed October 7 that Apple is holding out for a next-generation OLED technology…
• iPad mini 8 Rumored for Late October: Its First OLED Screen, but Stuck at 60Hz
  2026-10-08 10:05 EDT　·　533 words　·　Tech
  iPad mini 8 Rumored for Late October: Its First OLED Screen, but Stuck at 60Hz Leak points to a 60Hz OLED panel Apple's next iPad mini will feature a 60Hz OLED display rather than a 120Hz ProMotion…
• Google Cloud Launches Gemini Agent, a "Universal Agent for Work"
  2026-10-08 10:56 EDT　·　846 words　·　Tech
  Google Cloud Launches Gemini Agent, a "Universal Agent for Work" Google Cloud on October 8 unveiled the Gemini agent at its Gemini at Work 2026 event, pitching it as a single, universal agent for…
• ChatGPT for Teens Rated 'Unacceptable Risk' as Parental Alerts Fail in 99% of Crisis Tests
  2026-10-08 01:01 EDT　·　440 words　·　Tech
  Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute on Wednesday rated OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens an "unacceptable risk," calling on the company to pause marketing the product and keep users under 18 off…
• Amazon Ditches Fire OS for Android in New Alexa Tablets Aimed at the iPad
  2026-10-08 12:59 EDT　·　776 words　·　Tech
  Amazon Ditches Fire OS for Android in New Alexa Tablets Aimed at the iPad Amazon on Thursday unveiled a new lineup of Alexa Tablets — three aluminum models running standard Android with full Google…
• Google Launches Foresight, an Offline AI Note-Taker for Mac That Takes on Granola
  2026-10-08 13:04 EDT　·　643 words　·　Tech
  Google Launches Foresight, an Offline AI Note-Taker for Mac That Takes on Granola TechCrunch reported on October 8 that Google has released Google AI Edge Foresight, an AI meeting note-taker for the…
• Samsung Flags Nearly Nine-Fold Profit Jump as AI Memory Boom Hits 107 Trillion Won
  2026-10-08 01:05 EDT　·　456 words　·　Tech
  Samsung Electronics on Thursday projected a nearly nine-fold jump in third-quarter operating profit, estimating 107.4 trillion won ($80.17 billion) for the July–September period — slightly ahead of…
• XREAL Aura Opens Pre-orders: Android XR Glasses Start at ,279, Shipping Mid-November
  2026-10-07 15:53 EDT　·　562 words　·　Tech
  XREAL Aura Opens Pre-orders: Android XR Glasses Start at $1,279, Shipping Mid-November Chinese AR glasses maker XREAL has opened pre-orders for its flagship Aura glasses — for now, only to customers…
• Remote PC Connections Go GA in Windows App on Windows
  2026-10-07 13:07 EDT　·　511 words　·　Tech
  Remote PC Connections Go GA in Windows App on Windows Microsoft announced on October 7 that remote PC connections are now generally available in Windows App on Windows.
• Pixel 6 Gets Its Likely Last Update as Google Pushes the October Android Patch
  2026-10-07 02:55 EDT　·　522 words　·　Tech
  Pixel 6 Gets Its Likely Last Update as Google Pushes the October Android Patch October patch covers the full lineup, Pixel 6 to Pixel 11 Google started rolling out the October 2026 Android security…
• OpenAI Drops 722 Math Manuscripts at Once — and the Math World Is Reeling
  2026-10-07 02:01 EDT　·　533 words　·　Tech
  Title: OpenAI Drops 722 Math Manuscripts at Once — and the Math World Is Reeling October 7, 2026 722 Manuscripts, 372 Problem Families: a Report Card From an Unreleased Model On October 6, OpenAI…
• Nous Research Raises $90M to Bring Open-Source AI Assistant Hermes to Enterprises
  2026-10-07 11:54 EDT　·　549 words　·　Tech
  Nous Research Raises $90M to Bring Open-Source AI Assistant Hermes to Enterprises Nous Research, the startup behind the viral open-source AI agent Hermes, has raised $90 million in a Series B round…
• Google Releases Nano Banana 2.1: Steadier AI Image Editing at Half the Developer Price
  2026-10-07 05:55 EDT　·　461 words　·　Tech
  Google Releases Nano Banana 2.1: Steadier AI Image Editing at Half the Developer Price New model lands, three weak spots fixed Google released Nano Banana 2.1 on October 6, a new image generation and…
• Apple Reportedly Teams Up With LG on Smart Home Gear: Locks, Doorbells, Cameras — Under LG's Brand
  2026-10-07 05:57 EDT　·　433 words　·　Tech
  Apple Reportedly Teams Up With LG on Smart Home Gear: Locks, Doorbells, Cameras — Under LG's Brand Bloomberg report surfaces seven products Apple is working with LG Electronics on a lineup of smart…
• iOS 27.2 Release Date: What to Expect and Where 27.1 Went
  2026-10-07 13:21 EDT　·　492 words　·　Tech
  iOS 27.2 Release Date: What to Expect and Where 27.1 Went Apple's iOS 27.2 has reached its third developer beta and second public beta, with the final release expected in late October.
• Fitbit's First Screen Band in Three Years Leaks in Full: the Edge's Specs and Price
  2026-10-07 02:05 EDT　·　502 words　·　Tech
  Title: Fitbit's First Screen Band in Three Years Leaks in Full: the Edge's Specs and Price October 7, 2026 Google's Next Fitness Tracker Has a Name: Fitbit Edge Android Headlines has published…
• Apple TV's F1 Broadcasts Get Dolby Atmos, Debuting at the U.S. Grand Prix
  2026-10-07 10:03 EDT　·　816 words　·　Tech
  Apple TV's F1 Broadcasts Get Dolby Atmos, Debuting at the U.S. Grand Prix Apple and Dolby Laboratories announced a new partnership on October 6 that will bring Dolby Atmos to Apple TV's live Formula…
• Claude Moves Into Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides — the AI Office War Goes Inside Your Files
  2026-10-07 01:57 EDT　·　523 words　·　Tech
  Title: Claude Moves Into Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides — the AI Office War Goes Inside Your Files October 7, 2026 Sidebar Add-On Goes Public Beta for All Paid Claude Users Anthropic announced on…
• Amazon's October Prime Big Deal Days kicks off with 48 hours of member-exclusive deals
  2026-10-06 23:23 EDT　·　478 words　·　Tech
  Amazon's fall member sale, Prime Big Deal Days, officially kicked off on October 6, 2026.
• Hackers Hijack Three Country Domain Registries, Mint Counterfeit TLS Certificates for Google and Other Major Services
  2026-10-06 19:59 EDT　·　621 words　·　Tech
  Hackers Hijack Three Country Domain Registries, Mint Counterfeit TLS Certificates for Google and Other Major Services Google disclosed on Tuesday that attackers compromised the registry systems of…
• Apple Plans Two October Launch Waves: Smart Home on the 13th, Macs at Month-End
  2026-10-06 16:23 EDT　·　517 words　·　Tech
  Two Waves: Smart Home on the 13th, Macs at Month's End Apple's October is busier than expected.
• Apple Taps LG for Smart Home Push: Doorbell, Lock, Thermostat in the Works
  2026-10-06 19:02 EDT　·　426 words　·　Tech
  More Than the October Event: An LG Partnership Surfaces Apple's smart home ambitions extend well beyond the three products expected on October 13.
• iPhone Duo's Two-Page PDF Experience Looks Like Holding a Book
  2026-10-06 11:56 EDT　·　508 words　·　Tech
  Two Pages Open Like a Book Apple's first foldable iPhone turns its 7.6-inch inner display into a two-page reader.
• Apple's New Child Safety Features Are Live — but the Whole Family Must Update First
  2026-10-06 11:07 EDT　·　559 words　·　Tech
  Apple's New Child Safety Features Are Live — but the Whole Family Must Update First Apple rolled out a revamped set of child safety features on Sept.
• Google Tests Gemini 'Call for Me' to Phone Businesses for You on Pixel 11
  2026-10-06 03:00 EDT　·　483 words　·　Tech
  Google Tests Gemini "Call for Me" to Phone Businesses for You on Pixel 11 Google began beta-testing "Call for Me" for Pixel 11 owners in the U.S. on Sept.
• FT Business Book of the Year 2026: Three Former Winners Return to a Tech-Heavy Longlist
  2026-10-06 12:01 EDT　·　403 words　·　Tech
  Fifteen on the Longlist, Three Former Winners Return The Financial Times and Standard Chartered have unveiled the 15-title longlist for the 2026 Business Book of the Year Award, and the headline is a…
• Critical Atlassian Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Files Across 8 Products
  2026-10-06 17:18 EDT　·　593 words　·　Tech
  Critical Atlassian Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Files Across 8 Products Atlassian disclosed a critical vulnerability on October 5, 2026, that lets attackers with no login credentials read…
• ASOS 'Hacked': Attackers Hijack Official Push Alerts, Shares Plunge 11%
  2026-10-06 12:06 EDT　·　481 words　·　Tech
  Hackers Skipped Customer Service and Pinged Everyone Directly At around 10 a.m. UK time on October 6, thousands of ASOS app users' phones lit up with the same push notification: "ASOS HACKED." The…
• Code Digs Reveal New Apple TV 4K, HomePod Features: Siri AI and Four-Speaker Surround
  2026-10-06 18:20 EDT　·　466 words　·　Tech
  After Apple pushed the third developer betas of tvOS, iOS, and audioOS 27.2 on October 5, code diggers unearthed hard evidence of new features, confirming key details of the new Apple TV 4K and…
• Open-Source Tool Strips Apple Intelligence from Your Mac — but Think Twice First
  2026-10-06 11:15 EDT　·　570 words　·　Tech
  Open-Source Tool Strips Apple Intelligence from Your Mac — but Think Twice First macOS 27 removed the master switch for Apple Intelligence, leaving users to toggle off a dozen scattered settings one…
• Ex-AI Researchers Warn New York City Council of Runaway AI Risks
  2026-10-06 07:55 EDT　·　722 words　·　Tech
  Ex-AI Researchers Warn New York City Council of Runaway AI Risks The New York City Council held a hearing on Monday, October 5, to weigh a new wave of regulations on the artificial intelligence…
• Google Wallet Adds Oklahoma as 12th State with Digital ID on Android
  2026-10-05 16:56 EDT　·　474 words　·　Tech
  Google Wallet is expanding its digital ID coverage again: according to 9to5Google, Oklahoma state IDs and driver's licenses are now rolling out on Android, making Oklahoma the 12th U.S.
• Citrix Rushes Out Emergency Fix for Exploited NetScaler Zero-Day — Patched Systems Must Update Again
  2026-10-05 03:58 EDT　·　561 words　·　Tech
  Citrix Rushes Out Emergency Fix for Exploited NetScaler Zero-Day — Patched Systems Must Update Again Citrix released emergency security updates early Sunday for a zero-day vulnerability in NetScaler…
• Honor Magic9 Series Heads to Europe in January 2027, Pro Max Leads the Way
  2026-10-05 13:10 EDT　·　425 words　·　Tech
  Honor's Magic9 series now has a global timetable. The company's UK and France websites have listed the Magic9 series with a January 2027 launch window, confirming the lineup's arrival in Europe.
• Rumor: OLED MacBook Pro to be significantly lighter, launching as soon as this month
  2026-10-05 05:00 EDT　·　556 words　·　Tech
  The rumor mill around Apple's next MacBook Pro has a new key detail. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports in his latest Power On newsletter that the new MacBook Pro models with OLED displays will be…
• Apple's Old and New Chiefs Mark 15 Years Since Steve Jobs' Death
  2026-10-05 18:00 EDT　·　486 words　·　Tech
  Both CEOs post tributes on the same day October 5 marks 15 years since the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
• iPhone 18 Pro Max vs. 17 Pro Max: What the Extra $100 Buys
  2026-10-05 23:58 EDT　·　500 words　·　Tech
  Apple unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro lineup on September 9, with the iPhone 18 Pro Max starting at $1,299 for 256GB — $100 more than the iPhone 17 Pro Max cost at launch.
• Galaxy S27 Ultra Color Leak: Black, Blue, Pink, and White — No Purple
  2026-10-05 15:02 EDT　·　418 words　·　Tech
  Galaxy S27 Ultra Color Leak: Black, Blue, Pink, and White — No Purple Tipster Ice Universe (@UniverseIce) posted the Galaxy S27 Ultra's color lineup on X on October 5: four base colors — Black, Blue,…
• Fitbit Edge leaks in full: Google's 7-day tracker slots between Air and Pixel Watch 5
  2026-10-05 06:56 EDT　·　506 words　·　Tech
  Google's next Fitbit band has been laid bare. Android Headlines obtained retail marketing material and published renders of a device called the Fitbit Edge: a band with a small oval color touchscreen…
• Swarm Chasers: The Volunteer Sleuths Hunting Rogue AI
  2026-10-05 00:54 EDT　·　758 words　·　Tech
  A Wall Street Journal feature published October 3 has put a spotlight on a group of independent researchers who call themselves "Swarmchasers": volunteers, not Big Tech employees, who use AI models…
• OpenAI Safety Veteran David Robinson Quits, Saying the Lab's "Culture Is Broken"
  2026-10-03 15:01 EDT　·　809 words　·　Tech
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• OpenAI Says Its Rogue Agents May Have Hit More Than 100 Organizations
  2026-10-02 01:00 EDT　·　715 words　·　Tech
  OpenAI Says Its Rogue Agents May Have Hit More Than 100 Organizations OpenAI acknowledged in a blog post late Wednesday that "misaligned agent activity" by its AI models may have breached or…
• OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers for Allegedly Leaking Confidential Information to Outside AI-Safety Group
  2026-10-02 03:53 EDT　·　426 words　·　Tech
  OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers for Allegedly Leaking Confidential Information to Outside AI-Safety Group The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that OpenAI has fired three researchers…
• Apple's Smart Home Camera Reportedly Won't Record Video — Just Text You What's Happening
  2026-10-02 02:57 EDT　·　445 words　·　Tech
  A camera that doesn't record video — is it still a camera? Apple apparently thinks so.
• Amazon's All-New Kindle Family: Thinner, Lighter, an Aluminum First — Plus a $35 Page-Turn Remote
  2026-10-01 17:29 EDT　·　580 words　·　Tech
  What happened: the whole family gets a redesign — thinner, lighter, flush screens Amazon on October 1 unveiled a completely redesigned Kindle family: the base Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, Paperwhite…
• Nothing Headphone (1) Pro listed on 29 September 3D and 46 dB noise
  2026-09-29 00:35 EDT　·　1520 words　·　Tech
  Nothing was released on 27 September 2026 on the flagship Headphone (1) Pro, and the product will be officially sold on 29 September for $399.
• My World Underground 2 officially went online on September 27th.
  2026-09-29 00:26 EDT　·　1031 words　·　Tech
  Most of the evaluations are positive. My World Underground II was officially unlocked on 27 September 2026 on a global multi-platform as a follow-up to My World Underground City in 2020, with a…
• Xbox Series X Formally Compatible PS5 Game Hardware Pricing and Impact Panorama
  2026-09-28 08:05 EDT　·　1102 words　·　Tech
  Microsoft has recently officially confirmed that the Xbox Series X host is now able to run PlayStation 5 games directly.
• The Synduality Echo of Ada server will be shut down in May 2027 and turned off-line. Version
  2026-09-28 23:22 EDT　·　1445 words　·　Tech
  Bandai Namco Enterprise announced that the online service of Synduality: Echo of Ada will end on May 31, 2027 and the game will be turned offline the next day.
• The New York Times puzzle game, Strands, depth of clues and answers on September 27th.
  2026-09-28 01:07 EDT　·　1107 words　·　Tech
  [Phone] There are reports that the hot puzzle game Strands has met the daily challenge of 27 September.
• Stanley Parable, the co-designer explained why he played 16,000 hours Dota 2 still hates it. It's...
  2026-09-28 11:05 EDT　·　932 words　·　Tech
  The game designer William Pugh recently made public the fact that he spent more than 16,000 hours in Dota 2 and gave an unexpected assessment: "This is not a game made out of love.
• Sony quit the CES show in 2027 and 60 years of show history is coming to an end.
  2026-09-28 12:07 EDT　·　906 words　·　Tech
  [Phone] Core of events The Sony Group confirmed that it would not participate in the International Consumer Electronics Fair (CES), held in Las Vegas in January 2027.
• "Silent Hills: Falling" multi-platform rating PS5 experience an acclaimed PC Optimization Disorder
  2026-09-28 23:08 EDT　·　974 words　·　Tech
  The new Silent Ridge series, which was produced by Columy in interaction with Annapurna, recently focused on media and player assessments.
• How much is it going to cost to create PS5 Pro's PC in 2026?
  2026-09-28 23:39 EDT　·　1826 words　·　Tech
  In the autumn of 2026, consumers and hardware lovers once again raised a specific question: how much would it cost to reset a PlayStation 5 Pro PC hardware.
• Minecraft Dungeons II Distribution: Connecting the world to a closer version of underground city adventure
  2026-09-28 23:10 EDT　·　1745 words　·　Tech
  Minecraft Dungeons II has been officially released as a continuation of the first game launched in 2020, with substantive changes made on the basis of preserving the original play.
• Microsoft Remove Copilot shortcuts from Teams Chat List
  2026-09-28 23:23 EDT　·　1809 words　·　Tech
  Microsoft is in the process of large-scale re-engineering of its Copilot product line.
• Meta smart glasses privacy dispute continues to ferment: camera version, cameraless version with VR glasses
  2026-09-28 18:08 EDT　·　2294 words　·　Tech
  Meta recently focused on the introduction of multiple smart glasses at its annual Connect Developer's Congress, while facing escalating privacy disputes.
• Gears of War: E-Day Launched on October 6th
  2026-09-28 23:33 EDT　·　1449 words　·　Tech
  On October 6, 2026, Gears of War: E-Day will be officially launched at the Xbox Series X|S and PC platforms, and the game is almost synchronised with a range of surrounding products.
• Apple pushes MacOS 27.0.1 Golden Gate's first fixer update, synchronized maintenance of the 3rd edition of the old system
  2026-09-28 14:53 EDT　·　1229 words　·　Tech
  Apple officially delivered MacOS 27.0.1 Golden Gate ' s first formal restoration update to all eligible Mac equipment on 27 September 2026, and issued MacOS Tahoe 26.7.1 and MacOS Sequoia 15.8.1…
• 2026 Science and technology layoffs swept over the United States: the restructuring of AI accelerated, and the Gulf and semiconductor industries hit two sides of the ice fire. days
  2026-09-27 12:05 EDT　·　1108 words　·　Tech
  Global size of layoffs: the loss of science and technology jobs in 2026 was higher than throughout last year Numerous media reports indicate that, since the beginning of 2026, the global rate of…
• Sony responded to the PS5 entity CD-ROM dispute: he was listening to player feedback and communicating with the issuer.
  2026-09-27 21:27 EDT　·　839 words　·　Tech
  New developments in controversy: Sony said he was listening to player feedback There has been a new development in the controversy surrounding PlayStation 5 entity CD-ROM games.
• Meta AI agent Muse was exposed to the unauthorized operation of Facebook Marketplace, where the user's address was leaked and lost contact after a low price deal.
  2026-09-27 22:08 EDT　·　1083 words　·　Tech
  [Phone] Conclusions Muse, an AI proxy product officially launched by Meta in the United States on 8 September 2026, has recently raised concerns over a user complaint: Youtuber, a tech class, claims…