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Xbox Design Lab backend may have leaked Elite Controller 3 specs, including Hall-effect or TMR sticks and voice-coil haptics.
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Xbox Design Lab backend may have leaked Elite Controller 3 specs, including Hall-effect or TMR sticks and voice-coil haptics.
Asos is investigating a push notification that told customers hackers had “fully compromised” its data, as shares fell almost 12% on the London Stock Exchange. The retailer’s app and website appeared to still operate while it checked whether a breach occurred.
Google has retired Gemini Gems and replaced them with Skills, configurable prompts that can be invoked inside any Gemini chat and chained into multi-step workflows. The change moves customization from separate Gem chats into the main chat interface.
Fields Medalist Terence Tao, until recently one of AI's loudest advocates in mathematics, now says model companies are pushing automated proof generation too fast, warning of "proof indigestion" and contaminated training data. OpenAI has responded with an advisory group based at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study.
Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale is live, offering discounts on Apple devices, TVs, appliances, headphones and Amazon hardware, with many deals limited to Prime members.
Statcounter data reported by TechRadar show Windows 11 reached 71.5% of Windows installs in September 2026, as rising Windows 10 ESU fees push users to upgrade.
OpenAI's 28-day sprint opened with about 50% faster GPT-6 Astra and Sol, but ads, EU watermarks and subscription cuts drew backlash.
Psiphon, a Toronto-based censorship-circumvention tool with about 20 million monthly users, says it is planning to move out of Canada if Bill C-22 passes unchanged. The company says the lawful access bill would force secret changes incompatible with its open-source code, joining Signal, NordVPN and Windscribe in warning about the legislation.
Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days has cut the reMarkable 2 bundle — tablet, Marker Plus stylus and grey folio — to £379 from £529, the lowest price TechRadar says it has recorded for the full set.
South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service has identified 28 IP addresses in 12 countries linked to recent hacking attacks on Korean financial institutions. Shinhan Bank and Hana Bank reported customer data leaks, while Woori Bank and NH Nonghyup Bank blocked unauthorized access.
Samsung Electro-Mechanics has signed a 290 billion-won contract to supply AI server MLCCs to an undisclosed global company from January to December 2027, its sixth long-term AI component supply agreement this year.
MacRumors reports Apple plans another round of product unveilings in the final week of October, after a rumored Oct. 13 event for a smart home hub, HomePod mini and Apple TV.
Utah has authorized Nolla Health to pilot AI-issued acne prescriptions under a phased physician oversight program.
LG components will be tested aboard South Korea's Nuri rocket, set for its fifth launch Wednesday from the Naro Space Center.
Ghost AI, led by 19-year-old CEO Zain Javaid, has raised $11 million led by Andreessen Horowitz to build Core, a $3,499 local computer for running personal AI agents.
Reflection AI has introduced Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-source language model trained on Nvidia GB300 systems. The U.S. startup says Beam can rival larger open-source models while using less hardware.
Apple is accepting iPhone Duo apps built with Xcode 27.1, which adds an App Store badge. Duo screenshots become mandatory in April 2027.
Nokia CEO Justin Hotard told CNBC that data centers could be built twice as fast without supply constraints, saying the AI buildout remains in its early days. Nokia shares have risen about 130% over the past year as the company pivots to AI infrastructure.
NetApp is positioning its Novus storage architecture and AI Data Engine as unified data infrastructure for production AI, with metadata managed separately from stored data and more than 100TB/s of aggregate throughput. The company also plans to acquire PEAK:AIO to add pNFS-based parallel file system technology.
Reflection AI introduced Beam, a 501B open-weight MoE with 23B active parameters for coding and agentic workloads.
CNBC's Jim Cramer said Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta masked pressure from surging Treasury yields as the Nasdaq hit a record. He said the bond market may signal what comes next.
Indie developer Om Lahore published RemoveMacAI on GitHub, an open-source tool that promises to disable Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and delete its downloaded models, reclaiming 12GB or more. 9to5Mac reports it disables Siri, Writing Tools, Genmoji and other features, but warns Apple could change the system.
NetApp says sovereign storage is becoming a central European infrastructure choice for data control and AI readiness.
Dell, Apollo and Jera plan up to 4GW of AI data centers and gas power in Japan and Asia in a $140bn push.