A beta tester describes the Pebble Round 2 as slim and comfortable after months of use, but reports occasional unresponsive buttons and battery life around 10 days.
Epic Games has reportedly delayed its Disney shooter and told developers to use an “AI first” model, with AI writing code and generating art for the Marvel and Star Wars project.
Google launched the $179 Fitbit Edge, a fitness tracker with a 1.34-inch OLED screen, GPS and a replaceable battery.
At Dell’s AI Leadership Symposium, executives said enterprise AI governance is shifting to runtime enforcement as always-on agents spread, while cloud token budgets are running out faster than planned and pushing on-premises and open-weight models back into deployment plans. The discussions were broadcast by SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE, according to SiliconANGLE.
Apple TV announced “Heart,” an eight-episode true-crime podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff that premieres Oct. 19 and examines two men linked by a donated heart and their deaths.
Microsoft introduced Maia 300, a four-chiplet inference accelerator that it says can process 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems. The chip uses HBM4 memory, a dataflow architecture and Ethernet-linked superpods, with production deployment planned for next year.
The Apple Upgrade program, now U.S.-only, offers leasing for iPhones, Macs, iPads and Apple Watches with Klarna financing, according to TechRadar. The report says it benefits consumers and Apple but increases pressure on carriers such as Verizon and AT&T.
Apple is expected to launch a 14-inch M6 MacBook Pro later this month, with 9to5Mac reporting a dual 16-core Neural Engine, a 12-core CPU and GPU, and a 2nm process as the chip's main changes.
Meta launched Muse Wonder and Wonder Full, frontier AI models for personal and professional agents.
Le Monde reports that the economics Nobel Prize has been awarded to American economists Robert Hall and Michael Woodford, cited for rebuilding the analytical framework of macroeconomics.
theCUBE will air Smarsh EDGE 2026 coverage on Oct. 15, focusing on AI compliance, communications oversight and governance gaps in financial services.
Apple adds iCloud+ benefits: HomeKit video upgrades, 10 custom emails, Apple TV and Arcade in 100+ countries, and higher AI limits.
OpenAI solved or partly solved 372 advanced math problems, TechRadar reports; Terence Tao backs halting work with company.
Deepgram aims to run voice AI natively on air-gapped laptops while expanding model infrastructure, an executive said.
IonQ has agreed to acquire cybersecurity firm Elisity in an all-stock deal worth up to $1.3 billion, expanding its security portfolio as it prepares for quantum and AI threats. IonQ shares fell more than 9%.
Amazon's About You page, introduced in May, shows the details Amazon uses to personalize shopping. Engadget explains how to find, edit, remove or add information, and what those changes do not do.
Engadget: alkaline batteries fit low-drain gear; lithium-ion packs power rechargeable devices.
Hackers remotely raised temperatures in connected refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarkets, spoiling food and sparking fires, according to Slashdot. French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu ordered a cybersecurity investigation, and similar incidents were reported in five other European countries.
Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out three of Yandex's largest data centers within several days, causing widespread outages across Russian payment, banking, email, streaming, delivery and navigation services. Pro-Kremlin bloggers warn Russia's centralized digital economy was unprepared for the data center war it started.
Dell is adapting its AI partner ecosystem for Silicon Valley customers who prefer building their own stacks, a Dell executive says in an interview on theCUBE.
9to5Mac reviews an aluminum MagSafe wallet with a one-click ejector for up to three cards, RFID shielding, and no Find My support.
Bitdefender researchers say budget Android phones from several brands were shipped with firmware-level malware that generated fraudulent ad revenue and turned infected devices into residential proxies across about 150 countries.
References to a Marq Gen 3 have appeared on Garmin's Spanish-language support pages for Spain, Chile and Argentina, suggesting the company is preparing a successor to the 2022 Marq Gen 2.
Apple has announced 'Remnants,' the first immersive horror film for Vision Pro, will premiere Friday, Oct. 16, in the Apple TV app exclusively on Vision Pro. Ti West wrote and directed.