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.
OpenAI delayed the release of GPT-6.1 Astra over security concerns voiced by its researchers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Apple is reportedly reworking HomeKit as part of a bigger smart-home push, with support for new device categories, work with third-party makers, and new Apple TV, HomePod mini and home hub launches tipped for October 13.
Stratolaunch has bought a Boeing 777-200ER that it plans to modify into a carrier aircraft for its Talon-A hypersonic vehicle, a move Axios reports could raise the company’s flight capacity by about 35%.
Engadget’s review calls Keychron’s first Thunderbolt 5 dock a strong entry, with 80Gbps transfers, dual 8K support and 14 ports, while noting HDMI limits on macOS and the lack of an SSD bay or DisplayPort.
A post quotes a statement saying “valuable events” can justify up to $10,000, or more in select cases. The poster also says someone is being hired to work 40 hours a week at $100 an hour.
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.
9to5Mac reports Apple has moved the iPhone 18 Pro’s Face ID system under the display by thinning pixel density above the module and boosting brightness, a change it says helps shrink the Dynamic Island and support three Live Activities.
BleepingComputer reports that the vulnerabilities affect TeamViewer's client and host software.
