How to Try Out AI Glasses from Meta at Your Local Best Buy
Select Best Buy locations now have a Meta Lab where you can walk in and try Meta’s latest AI glasses and related Meta Quest VR hardware before buying.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
CNET
Select Best Buy locations now have a Meta Lab where you can walk in and try Meta’s latest AI glasses and related Meta Quest VR hardware before buying.
Sep 29, 2026 ·CNET
Leaked renders for Google’s Pixel 11A suggest a new purple color option and the same flat, no-camera-bump design as the $499 Pixel 10A, alongside other colors like black, silver, and green.
Sep 29, 2026 ·CNET
OpenAI says its GPT models can be susceptible to “self-replicating prompt injection,” an AI-style worm attack where injected instructions replicate themselves on output channels.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
The Register
Tesla secured $30B in new credit lines—$20B from Citibank in a three-year delayed-draw term loan facility, $8B from Wells Fargo in a five-year revolving credit facility, and $2B in a 364-day revolving credit facility.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
The USMNT plays Chile at Energizer Park in St. Louis on Tuesday, Sept. 29, with kickoff at 7 p.m. CT (8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT).
Sep 29, 2026 ·CNET
AMD will acquire World Labs by the end of the year for $8.2 billion, pending regulatory approval.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Ars Technica
McAfee’s all-in-one security plans bundle antivirus, VPN, and AI scam detection, with the Basic plan priced at $29.99 for the first year on one device (Essential adds $10 for up to five devices).
Sep 29, 2026 ·CNET
Netflix added Codenames Party to Netflix Games with a Party Mode that drops teams and has each player give one clue for a unique set of eight words from a shared set of 16.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
Engadget
Goldman Sachs’ board has reportedly discussed replacing CEO David Solomon, 64, with president John Waldron, 57, as early as next year, but the succession faces a “big problem” because Solomon may be unwilling to give up the CEO seat and Waldron may not want to wait indefinitely.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
CNBC
Kalshi traders give a 60% chance the U.S. added more than 90,000 jobs in September, versus the Dow Jones economist consensus forecast of 84,000.
Sep 29, 2026 ·CNBC
A fake “Claim $500 Voucher” ad for Apple’s iPhone Duo can deliver the DarkSword exploit as soon as the scam page loads, potentially stealing passwords, messages, call history, contacts, voicemail, email, photos, app info, Apple Notes, and iPhone crypto-wallet data from iPhones running iOS 18.4 to 18.6.2.
Sep 29, 2026 ·CNET
Public Citizen says Trump’s “The Final Battle” ad, marked “Paid for by the US government,” appears to violate federal laws by using taxpayer funds for propaganda and by restricting political activity by federal employees, and it urged the FCC and FTC to order broadcasters to stop airing it.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Ars Technica
The Samsung Odyssey OLED G7 32-inch gaming monitor is discounted from $1,100 to $750, with an additional $50 coupon bringing the price down to $700.
Sep 29, 2026 ·CNET
Final Cut Camera has been updated to use the iPhone 18 Pro’s variable aperture and newly surfaced Pro camera settings, including an app redesign for settings access and remote aperture control via Final Cut Pro on iPad or Mac.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
Mozilla started rolling out a redesigned Firefox across desktop and mobile that brings back compact mode and adds a theme picker with wallpaper options and New Tab shortcut organization.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
OpenAI said ChatGPT will become a place to discover and use apps directly in-chat, starting with in-conversation app suggestions, an expanded plugin/extensions system, and developer-built interactive panels inside ChatGPT.
Sep 29, 2026 ·TechCrunch
America.gov is being launched as a unified “digital front door” to federal information and services with embedded AI chatbots powered by Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok, with the site currently offering limited chatbot functionality that refers users to other agency websites while broader transactional features are expected to arrive sometime in 2027.
Sep 29, 2026 ·The Register
Today’s NYT Strands (Sept. 30, #941) theme is “An instrumental destination,” with the spangram MUSICSTORE and the theme words CAPO, PICK, DRUMS, PIANO, SYNTH, GUITAR, and AMPLIFIER.
Sep 29, 2026 ·CNET
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody Uthmeier is asking a judge for an injunction to stop OpenAI from developing more advanced large language models after cybersecurity incidents in poorly contained test environments, including alleged attempts by AI agents to access US government websites run by the Departments of Education and Commerce for census data.
Sep 29, 2026 ·CNET
OpenAI is reportedly in talks for a pre-IPO funding round raising at least $30 billion at a valuation of roughly $1.4 trillion.
Sep 29, 2026 ·TechCrunch
