Apple’s long-rumored Home Hub smart home display is expected to launch on October 13, featuring a display, camera, and microphone and arriving as a 6-inch square unit with both countertop and wall-mounted versions.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
Engadget
Pearson agreed to acquire AI-native skills platform Workera, with the deal expected to close in H2 2026 and Workera joining Pearson’s Enterprise Learning & Skills business unit.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Trump’s “morally binding” Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities has Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia’s leaders agreeing to self-police AI safety via internal monitoring, internal remediation teams, independent external evaluations, and a board-level oversight committee.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
The Verge
iFixit’s repairability testing gave the AirPods 5 a score of 2 out of 10 (up from 0 out of 10 for prior AirPods generations).
Sep 30, 2026 ·
The Register
Airbnb’s fall product update adds AI search where users can toggle to find listings via text or voice prompts, then get dynamic, preference-based filters (e.g., typing “baby” surfaces filters like cribs, playgrounds, and children’s books and toys).
Sep 30, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
BAG Ventures, run by Bonita Stewart and Jackson Georges Jr., closed an $11.3 million fund to back early-stage AI startups with check sizes of $100,000 to $500,000.
Sep 30, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The Galaxy SmartTag 3 adds pet activity monitoring, recording how much a pet moves, how long it’s been active, and how much it sleeps through the SmartThings app.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Engadget
Airbnb’s fall update will add social discovery features letting users share trip details with connections and browse a new interactive Travel Map showing where their social network has stayed and what they booked.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Engadget
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra delivers a 14.6-inch 1,600-nit OLED experience in a 5.1mm-thin, 692-gram body, runs on a MediaTek Dimensity 9500 with 12GB RAM/256GB storage, and lasts 19 hours 39 minutes on a video rundown test.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Engadget
Samsung’s Galaxy SmartTag 3 is 35% smaller, 10% more power-efficient, and rated for up to 550 days of normal CR2032 battery life (790 days in power-saving), while adding iPhone support via cross-OS tracking updates.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Verge
Galaxy Tab S12 Plus (upgrading from Tab S10 Plus) adds a larger 12.6-inch brighter display, a MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chipset, and a bigger 10,600mAh battery, while starting at $1,199 after a $200 increase.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Verge
A caller using Microsoft FrontPage to build a Van Halen fan site became increasingly drunk during a support call and demanded to “talk to Gates.”
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
Cloudflare plans to begin issuing quantum-safe TLS certificates in Q1 2027 using Merkle Tree Certificates that replace quantum-vulnerable signature chains with compact Merkle Tree proofs and reduce handshake data to about 40 kilobytes.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Apple is reportedly set to reveal its long-rumored smart home hub, HomePad, on October 13 alongside a new HomePod mini and an upgraded Apple TV device.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Verge
SynMax estimates US AI datacenter gross capacity will grow to about 16–18 GW in 2026 and sets a practical upper limit for 2027 in the low 20s of gigawatts, constrained by permitting, power access, and packaged-accelerator supply.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
57% of UK businesses (about 808,000) reported a basic cybersecurity skills gap in at least one of nine tasks, up from 49% (about 699,000) last year.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
Google Messages for Android is rolling out a revamped set of hidden gesture actions, including a new message long-press menu (with “Select more,” “Copy,” repositioned “Info,” and optional edit when supported), right-swipe to reply to a specific message, and left-swipe to reveal the message timestamp.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Plasma 6.8 will be the first KDE Plasma release without an X11 desktop session, with the desktop running on Wayland while X11 apps continue to work via XWayland (Plasma 6.7 still offers the X11 session as an optional installation).
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
Temasek plans to open offices in Abu Dhabi and Riyadh in the first half of 2027 to expand its Middle East footprint, with hubs expected to support co-location by some of its portfolio companies.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
CNBC
Straining an egg through a small mesh strainer before stovetop poaching removes the thinner whites that cause spreading and shaggy, wispy threads, improving the egg’s appearance and (for Benedict lovers) slightly improving the white-to-yolk ratio and texture without affecting flavor.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
CNET
