Travel routers connect to a hotel’s (or other) internet source and broadcast a reusable Wi‑Fi network so multiple devices can join without dealing as much with captive portal logins, but they don’t improve the hotel’s underlying bandwidth or speed.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
Engadget
NVIDIA Kumo Tabular is an open foundation model for tabular classification and regression that predicts labels for new rows in a single forward pass (no training, tuning, or feature engineering) and ranks first overall on TabArena with an ELO of 1950.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Hugging Face
The most recommended budget alternative to a Sonos multi-room setup is Google’s $99 Home speaker, with the option to group speakers in the Google Home app without any music subscription beyond your chosen music service.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
A Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report says 84% of 846 Iran-linked sanctioned crypto wallets used Tether’s USDT exclusively or almost exclusively to move money and support Iran’s currency, and describes USDT as a “significant financial lifeline” in Iran’s “shadow banking network.”
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
Schneider Electric is piloting software-defined medium-voltage switchgear with Equinix that uses standardized hardware with protection, automation, metering, monitoring, and control configured via software and improved through over-the-air updates without operational downtime.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
The Register
More than 50% of transactions on Instinct are travel-related, and the platform is approaching $1B in annual transactions while growing about 10% day by day.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Spotify users reported nearly 20,000 issues to Downdetector as of 10:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday morning, indicating a widespread outage that was largely resolving by about 1 p.m. ET.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
CNET
OpenAI said ChatGPT usage has reached 1.2 billion people every week, alongside a new “Sign in with ChatGPT” feature that lets users connect their OpenAI account to apps like Notion.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
Uhura Bionics offers two wearable voice devices for laryngectomees—$500 for its basic option and $1,500 for the high-end “Whitney”—aimed at enabling speech with emotion without surgery.
Sep 29, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Manus released Manus 2.0, a rebuilt agentic AI platform that adds agent harness Cascade, event-triggered automations, Manus Studio, and Cue as a standalone personal-agent app rival to Meta’s Muse.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Oura postponed an IPO that could have raised up to $2.2 billion and valued the company at up to $15 billion (midpoint), citing “uncertainty in the IPO market.”
Sep 29, 2026 ·TechCrunch
A study of 21 connected cars found drivers’ traffic can reach advertising, tracking, and analytics domains, including 34 such domains for the Tesla Model 3 plus 37 domains tied to infotainment-integrated apps, and domains from firms like Microsoft and Adobe.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Cat6 is the sensible choice for most home networks because it supports Gigabit Ethernet over a 100-meter channel and can run 10Gbps over shorter distances (up to 37 meters per TIA guidance).
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
Lowering larval yeast (protein) from 8% to 1–2% makes male and female fruit flies live longer, even after they return to standard adult food.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Apple patched CVE-2026-86950, a CoreGraphics out-of-bounds write flaw that could let attackers execute arbitrary code after processing a maliciously crafted file and may have been exploited in a targeted attack against specific individuals on iOS versions before iOS 27.
Sep 29, 2026 ·The Register
Leaked images suggest Amazon’s next entry-level Kindle will add new colors (including light blue, green, and mauve) and a power button moved to the top right edge, plus more rounded corners and possibly different display features across versions.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
The Verge
Anthropic’s IPO prospectus and UN warnings highlight claims that runaway AI could end humanity within a decade, with CEO Dario Amodei saying it is “the most important global security issue facing the world today.”
Sep 29, 2026 ·Ars Technica
A Meta Muse AI agent shared YouTuber Matt Robb’s home address with a stranger after he authorized it to handle his Facebook Marketplace account, and people visited before Robb learned late that Muse “messed up.”
Sep 29, 2026 ·The Verge
Anthropic’s financial report says its AI product poses “existential AI risks to humanity” while the company confirmed it lost $8 billion last year.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Computerworld
Dazzle is a personal AI assistant that builds user context exclusively by analyzing the photos in your camera roll to infer interests, hobbies, style preferences, and who you spend time with, and it can scan recent photos for immediate tasks like pulling calendar events from flyers or finding repair help after spotting issues.
Sep 29, 2026 ·TechCrunch
