Huawei launched the Mate 90 series on October 1, 2026, with four flagships starting at 5,999 yuan and same-day sales. Top models add the Kirin 9050 Pro, a 12,000-nit display and a 5,999-yuan modular camera.
Samsung has quietly launched the Galaxy Buds On, its first clip-on Galaxy Buds, featuring an open-ear design, Galaxy AI functions and up to 9.5 hours of playback. They go on sale in South Korea on Oct. 27 for 299,000 won.
Shinhan Bank says personal information of around 25,000 customers was leaked through hacking, including names, phone numbers, income and loan details. The Financial Supervisory Service has sent a team to inspect.
South Korea's September exports rose 83.5 percent to a record $120.9 billion as chip shipments passed $60 billion, while President Trump announced Korean investment projects in Texas, Alaska and eight nuclear reactors, and Seoul was ordered to pay Elliott $48.49 million.
Switzerland lost 19.4% of its glacier ice since 2021, including 5.5% in the first eight months of 2026, a monitoring report says, leaving Alpine glaciers reduced to rock deserts.
Apple TV has been unavailable since 4:43PM on September 30, outlasting separate outages that briefly affected the iOS and Mac App Stores, Fitness+, Music and AppleCare+ purchases.
Yantra, a LALR(1) parser generator for C++, was announced on Hacker News. It builds the entire AST before walking it top-down, allowing parent actions to run before children and multiple walkers from one grammar. It is pre-1.0, MIT-licensed, and available on GitHub.
Perplexity Research and turbopuffer have released pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, a self-hosted contextual embedding model for RAG pipelines that is trained to retrieve answers and their supporting evidence.
Vivo has begun the international release of its X Fold 6, a book-style foldable first launched in China in June. TechRadar reported it will not go on sale in the UK or US, while The Verge said Vivo had not yet shared pricing or specific markets.
WhatsApp is extending parent-managed controls to teen accounts, adding group alerts and options to limit Meta AI, Channels and Status features. Parents still cannot read teens' messages or calls, which remain end-to-end encrypted.
Metaview Labs raised $60 million in a Series C led by Insight Partners, lifting total funding to $110 million, and launched fillmore, an autonomous recruiting agent that runs inside Slack.
South Korea marked its 78th Armed Forces Day with 3,600 personnel and about 70 weapons systems, unveiling the Cheongwang laser anti-drone system and other unmanned assets for the first time.
TechRadar calls Shark cordless vacuums Amazon bestsellers, citing two models' low prices; names and prices are absent.
Google launched Gemini 4 Argon, claiming top scores in 13 of 18 benchmarks, but access is limited amid internal doubts.
CScale Inc. launched with $188 million in funding to develop optical interconnects that link thousands of accelerators across racks, aiming to improve reliability and performance in large AI scale-up clusters. Nvidia and Intel Capital are among the backers.
Apple plans to launch a smart-home hub on Oct. 13 and update HomePod mini and Apple TV, according to Bloomberg. Google released Gemini 4 Argon to cyber defenders, while Counterpoint reported strong early iPhone 18 Pro sales in China.
TechRadar published a headphone deals guide for Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale on October 1, 2026, written by senior staff writer Max, whose reviewing background spans What Hi-Fi?, Pocket-lint and the editorship of two hi-fi magazines.
South Korea's September exports rose 83.5 percent to a record $120.9 billion on chip shipments above $60 billion, the trade ministry said Thursday.
OpenAI says it disrupted a campaign to extract protected AI reasoning and links a core cluster to China's Moonshot AI.
SpaceXAI’s AI-powered Wikipedia rival Grokipedia has released a v0.3 update with a new logo and a refreshed homepage, live edits page and article tables, according to The Verge.
AtlasBase says its DNA storage platform could hold up to 50 PB per capsule and 5 EB per cartridge. Early access is open.
Alphabet's Google released Gemini 4 Argon, which it calls its most powerful model, and is rolling it out first to a select group of cyber partners through its Fairwind security program.
Micron Technology reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $54.23 billion, up 379%, and net income of $37.7 billion, driven by AI memory demand. The company forecast an even stronger current quarter.
Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier AI model that it says leads or ties rivals on 13 of 18 disclosed benchmarks. It is initially limited to trusted cyber defenders and select testers, with broader availability planned later.