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Vari ComfortEdge Standing Desk Drops to $674.25 in 25% Sale
Vari's ComfortEdge standing desk drops to $674.25, 25% off, through October 12. TechRadar rates 60x30 model 4.5 stars.
Vari's ComfortEdge standing desk drops to $674.25, 25% off, through October 12. TechRadar rates 60x30 model 4.5 stars.
Microsoft announced changes to Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, Premium, and Pro subscriptions, moving OneDrive storage and Copilot AI credits into shared pools. Family and Premium plans will offer 2 TB of shared storage, down from up to 6 TB, potentially raising costs for heavy users.
Panos Panay told Bloomberg that Amazon will retire the Fire tablet brand and move to Alexa Tablets with standard Android and full Google Play access, while keeping security updates for existing devices.
Germany's transport ministry is pushing to legalize Tesla's Full Self-Driving while calling the name misleading, and Tesla has offered to rename it "Tesla Assisted Driving" in Germany. Eight European countries have already approved the system.
President Donald Trump is expected to unveil $2.4 billion in AI commitments from Nvidia, AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google at a Washington summit, Bloomberg reports.
Richard Bronson, a former Stratton Oakmont partner who served federal prison time for securities-law violations, has launched Commissary Club, an AI-powered job and social platform for formerly incarcerated people. The startup gives users 10 free applications before charging and was selected for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200.
Law & Order season 26 premieres Oct. 8 at 10pm ET/PT on NBC, per TechRadar. Canada gets it same night on CityTV, the UK may wait until 2027, and Australia has no announced release.
JetBrains has released Mellum2.1, a 12B open mixture-of-experts reasoning model with 2.5B active parameters for coding agents and self-hosting. It beats Mellum2 on 15 of 17 benchmarks but still trails Qwen3.5-9B on several hard agentic and knowledge tasks.
Meta is testing a full-screen video feed that greets Facebook users in India and an option to open Instagram straight to Reels in several countries, with a possible US rollout as early as 2027.
Claude Haiku 5.5 lifts OSWorld 2.1 to 72.4%, cuts average cost about 75%, adds adaptive reasoning and a 1M-token context.
Natura has announced a $99 smart ring that controls AI agents and tracks health, while Goodfire launched cheaper monitors to detect rogue AI agents inside models. Both were reported Thursday by TechCrunch AI.
A five-year survey of Aldabra Atoll in Seychelles estimates roughly 180,000 Aldabra giant tortoises, the highest figure ever recorded for the species. Researchers warn drought, rising sea levels and invasive mammals still threaten the population.
Apple has announced a special event for October 13 in New York, teased as "Welcome home." The company is expected to show a HomePad smart display, refreshed Apple TV and HomePod mini, and possibly LG smart home accessories.
Gnomes, starring Asa Butterfield, launches on Stan in Australia Oct. 8, streams free on ZDF Neo in Germany, Austria and Switzerland from Oct. 11, and hits Disney+ in the UK Oct. 16. No U.S. or Canada release is set.
A 25-minute GTA 6 video from leaker Cyberleek contains major story spoilers and shows co-protagonist Jason fully nude, according to Kotaku. Rockstar's legal team has been removing leaked clips ahead of the game's November 19 release.
A QbitAI page displayed the text 'hacked by trenggalek6etar' on Oct. 8, 2026, an apparent defacement the outlet has not commented on.
After October Prime Day, Amazon and other US retailers are still offering Apple device discounts and coffee maker deals, including AirPods Pro 3 at $179 and up to $300 off De'Longhi, Breville and Ninja machines.
Willow Care, maker of the Willow Voice dictation app, has chosen CoreWeave to handle its AI model training, citing the provider's forward-deployed support rather than compute alone.
A builder known as BJ has made the Retro Song Bird, a media player that plays the music and sound effects stored on Game Boy cartridges rather than the games themselves. Only a few prototypes exist so far.
Asos confirmed a data breach after hackers used its app to notify customers. Names and contact details were taken.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will host Ambrosia Energy CEO Ben Longmier and Bloom Energy's Bill Thayer for a Smart Systems Stage session on where the AI infrastructure boom is creating durable opportunities.
Docusign released Docusign PDF Editor, a desktop app that lets users edit, redact and convert PDFs before sending them for signature, plugged into its Intelligent Agreement Management platform. It goes on sale Nov. 2 in six languages.
Harness said it acquired select assets and the team of Augment Code, including its Cosmos AI development platform, which becomes Harness Cosmos Software Factory and connects code generation with Harness's delivery, security and cost agents.
YouTube Music is testing a redesigned album and playlist layout that uses cover art across the top third of the screen and splits the action bar into circular quick actions, a Play button, and shuffle. The change is rolling out to a small group of users, according to Android Authority.