Le Monde reports that a massive cyberattack targeting supermarket refrigeration systems caused a disastrous day for French retailers. The account named no affected chains, gave no damage estimate and cited no claim of responsibility.
Applied Materials has opened a $5 billion semiconductor research facility in Silicon Valley, with partners including TSMC, Intel, Samsung, Micron and SK hynix, aiming to cut development cycles by at least 30%.
TechRadar reports that drone strikes attributed to Ukraine took multiple Yandex data centers offline overnight, causing Russian bot traffic to fall. The report gives no figures for the number of sites hit or the scale of the decline.
Engadget's Oct. 13 guide lists the minimum specs a sub-$300 Android phone needs, from a 5.6-inch AMOLED screen to a 5,000mAh battery.
General Motors CEO Mary Barra said the automaker remains on track to launch "eyes-off, hands-off" driving technology by 2028, starting with the electric Cadillac Escalade IQ, as GM shifts its autonomous efforts away from robotaxis toward systems for privately owned vehicles.
Hamilton CEO Francesca Ginocchio says the watchmaker is extending its entertainment heritage into gaming with a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 special edition tied to Captain Price's Khaki Field watch.
Apple TV has released the official trailer for “Being Heumann,” an Apple Original Films drama directed by Siân Heder. The film, about the 1977 disability rights occupation of a San Francisco federal building, premieres November 13 after a limited theatrical release on November 6.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said at a Singapore financial conference that capital access and cost of capital are becoming major constraints on AI expansion, even as chip shortages ease. They also discussed AI training costs, open-source models and quantum computing as funding continued for AI infrastructure and robotics startups.
Engadget published a guide on October 12, 2026, explaining how PC gamers can improve older GPU performance through supersampling, frame generation, lower settings, disabling ray tracing, and hardware maintenance.
Apple has confirmed an October 13 event, expected to introduce its HomeView smart display, a new Apple TV 4K and an updated HomePod mini, with possible LG-made HomeKit accessories.
Engadget explains how to repurpose old hard drives into RAID arrays, covering RAID levels, setup options and trade-offs.
Firefox 158 is out with JPEG XL image support switched on by default, adding image/jxl to the browser's Accept header, plus faster Smart Window form filling and CSS typed arithmetic for developers.
Answers for October 13: Quordle #1723, NYT Strands #954 and Connections #1220, featuring FLUFF, CRINGEWORTHY and LOOSE.
TechRadar reports Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants PCs to become an 'infinite software factory,' a challenge to app stores, while a separate report says hackers claim to have hit thousands of Trump Phone customers.
Google's Gemini Spark, announced in May at I/O, runs tasks in the background across Gmail, Docs, Calendar and Slides, but access is limited to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers and excluded in several regions.
Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on Oct. 12, 2026, calling them its most capable agent models yet for long, multistep personal and professional work, with benchmark wins in legal and long-horizon coding tasks and losses to Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 elsewhere.
Kioxia announced an upgraded GP-series SSD that exceeds 20 million random-read IOPS using third-generation XL-FLASH memory, and also exhibited the LD4 QLC E1.L drive with PCIe 5. TechRadar reported the new GP drive roughly doubles the speed of the August 2026 GP1.
Engadget explains why iPhone photos turn out blurry and how cleaning, camera settings and stabilization can help.
IonQ plans to acquire Elisity in an all-stock deal valued at $1.3 billion, including $150 million in performance incentives, to expand its cybersecurity offerings.
TechRadar features an Oct. 12, 2026 quote from iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks: "The world is its own best model."
9to5Mac’s Oct. 12, 2026 Daily episode, “Last-minute Apple event rumors,” recaps top stories and explains how to listen.
Alibaba's Qwen team has introduced QwenGyre, an online reinforcement learning framework that trains coding agents on rollouts running for hours and consuming close to one million tokens, with reported end-to-end speedups of up to 1.85x over a colocated baseline.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company's new Muse Wonder model puts it at the AI frontier and will be sold as a closed, paid product, while dismissing calls for an industry-wide slowdown.
TechRadar says Valor Mortis has satisfying parry combat but faults first-person clunkiness, traps, and limited weapons.