Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple is planning an Oct. 13 push into smart-home hardware, including a hub device, refreshed HomePod mini colors and a new Apple TV with Siri AI support.
Samsung launched two new flagship tablets, the Galaxy Tab S12 Plus and Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra, and there is no base Tab S12 in this lineup.
Samsung has announced the Galaxy SmartTag 3, a third-generation Bluetooth tracker with a smaller design and improved battery life.
The release post describes TaskSmith as a specialized orchestrator, rather than a general coding agent with a long prompt.
The New York Times reports Meta sought billions in research tax credits for A.I. data center expansion, classifying multibillion-dollar facilities as “pilot models” while warning in filings that the savings could be overturned by the IRS.
OpenAI delayed the release of GPT-6.1 Astra over security concerns voiced by its researchers.
Techmeme, citing Bloomberg, says the feature lets a user form a group of three to 15 friends around shared activities as Tinder courts younger users.
Techmeme, linking to The Information, says the GPU cloud provider raised $223M in equity led by ARCHIV, with Nvidia participating, and $445M in credit led by Taiwanese bank CTBC.
Nuvacore has introduced WarpCore, a planned clean-sheet CPU architecture for data centers and AI built around a “Core First” design that delays ISA selection to pursue performance, efficiency and scalability.
Oura has delayed a planned $2 billion IPO. Axios reports the wearable maker struggled to get its target price amid bond-yield and oil-price volatility, a possible sign the hot U.S. listings market is cooling.
Wccftech reports that a free Nexus Mods tweak for The Witcher 3 Remastered can improve path-tracing performance by up to 30% indoors, with smaller gains outdoors and in ray tracing, while introducing modest visual tradeoffs.
The U.K. is expanding military space capabilities, with Air Chief Marshal Harv Smyth outlining orbital warfare development, a new RAF Space Effects Squadron and efforts to counter threats to satellites.
RTX 5070 Ti owners are reportedly pushing some Samsung GDDR7 memory from 28 Gbps to 39 Gbps using mVolt+ Extreme, though the reported gaming and benchmark gains remain relatively small.
TeamViewer urged customers to update to version 15.82 after warning of five high-severity vulnerabilities in its client and host software, including a flaw that could let remote attackers trigger remote code execution.
Airbnb’s latest app update adds AI-powered text and voice property search, dynamic filters, more travel services, and social trip maps with an option for users not to share their trips.
Android Authority reports Google Photos version 7.95 includes work on a Regenerate image option for AI wardrobe items, potentially letting users redo clothes and accessories that were rendered inaccurately.
VideoCardz says the quantized BGFX effect can run on GPUs including the RTX 3090.
Flavio Copes has posted about Skillscout, a tool he said helps surface installed AI skills, track how often specific skills are used, analyze local chats and suggest new skills for repeated tasks.
Developer Flavio Copes has released Soundscape, a free open-source Mac app that mixes multiple macOS Background Sounds, offers per-sound volume controls and menu bar playback, and uses Apple-hosted audio files instead of bundling its own.
OpenWeb is launching Forums, a new product for publishers that turns articles into discussion topics, lets readers start threads and adds moderation and ad inventory tools.
