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.
Amazon has unveiled a new Fire TV Stick 4K and redesigned remote ahead of its October Prime Day event. Engadget reports the streamer will sell for $30 during Prime Big Deal Days next week and retail for $60 otherwise.
TechCrunch reports Tinder is rolling out Group Hangouts, a feature that lets groups of friends discover other groups around shared activities and connect in a shared chat to make plans together.
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.
Amazon has launched a new $59.99 Fire TV Stick 4K that can draw power directly from a TV’s USB port. The company is also replacing its earlier 4K Select and Plus sticks and selling a redesigned Fire TV Remote separately for $14.99 starting in late October.
SiliconANGLE reports Taiwan-based neocloud GMI Cloud closed a $223 million Series B led by ARCHIV and secured a $440 million credit facility from ChinaTrust Commercial Bank for AI infrastructure expansion.
Amazon says Alexa+ upgrades for Fire TV devices will begin rolling out in the US in November, adding a dedicated hub, stronger reasoning, and new mobile app features later this year for text, voice, article-sharing, and photo-based discovery.
Relay raised $36 million in new funding, bringing total capital raised to more than $90 million.
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.
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.
