Apple’s first smart display is the 7-inch HomeView for $299
It can recognize up to six users with its camera.
Tuesday 13 October 2026
226 stories gathered from 23 outlets.
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Linux Mint 27 “Adrien” Coming This Christmas, Ends Point Releases
Linux Mint 27 “Adrien” is scheduled for Christmas 2026, marking a shift to annual releases and the end of traditional point updates.
Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay
Developers will get 50 percent discounted API rates through November.
Rivian partner Mind Robotics hires Doug Field as president
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's startup Mind Robotics announced the appointment of Doug Field as president in a major coup for the CEO's secretive robotics project. Field was a VP of special projects at Apple, where he was the de facto head of the company's…
OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room
An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee was identified as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national. Alfozan is charged with using or…
Asterinas 0.19.0 released
Asterinas is a project to build a new operating-system kernel in Rust; it was covered here in 2025. Version 0.19.0 of the Asterinas kernel has been released; changes include a new graphics subsystem capable of running X.org, "minimal but usable" 64-bit Arm…
Google wants to host your personal vibe-coded apps in the Play Store
Google plans to help turn those personal AI-generated apps into wide releases.
ONLYOFFICE 10.0 Released With AI Features, 1,000+ Bug Fixes
ONLYOFFICE 10.0 is now available for this open-source office suite alternative to the likes of LibreOffice...
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Linux Mint 27 “Adrien” Coming This Christmas, Ends Point Releases
Linux Mint 27 “Adrien” is scheduled for Christmas 2026, marking a shift to annual releases and the end of traditional point updates.
Asterinas 0.19.0 released
Asterinas is a project to build a new operating-system kernel in Rust; it was covered here in 2025. Version 0.19.0 of the Asterinas kernel has been released; changes include a new graphics subsystem capable of running X.org, "minimal but usable" 64-bit Arm…
ONLYOFFICE 10.0 Released With AI Features, 1,000+ Bug Fixes
ONLYOFFICE 10.0 is now available for this open-source office suite alternative to the likes of LibreOffice...
Framework Laptop 12 Offers Improved Performance & Efficiency With Intel Core 3 Wildcat Lake
Last year Framework Computer launched the Framework Laptop 12 as a convertible, 2-in-1 laptop that was friendly with Linux and upgradeable inline with the beloved Framework Laptop 13 and 16 models. The initial Framework Laptop 12 was nice but the use of an…
Eisentraut: The reverts will continue until morale improves
PostgreSQL core team member Peter Eisentraut has written a blog post reflecting on the "unusually high number of features" that have been taken out of the upcoming PostgreSQL 19 release since the beta period began. Some of the reverted features had…
Owning C types from Rust code
Rust's system of ownership and borrowed references is convenient when it can correctly model a program's needs. The Rust for Linux project has worked to provide adapters between Rust's semantics and the existing C code in the kernel. At Kangrejos 2026…
Nix and Lix local root-privilege-escalation vulnerabilities
The Lix and Nix projects have jointly disclosed a set of vulnerabilities that can be used to escalate privileges to root on systems running the Lix or Nix daemons. "All systems that build untrusted derivations are affected." Releases with fixes from each…
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Apple’s first smart display is the 7-inch HomeView for $299
It can recognize up to six users with its camera.
Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay
Developers will get 50 percent discounted API rates through November.
Rivian partner Mind Robotics hires Doug Field as president
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's startup Mind Robotics announced the appointment of Doug Field as president in a major coup for the CEO's secretive robotics project. Field was a VP of special projects at Apple, where he was the de facto head of the company's…
OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room
An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee was identified as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national. Alfozan is charged with using or…
Google wants to host your personal vibe-coded apps in the Play Store
Google plans to help turn those personal AI-generated apps into wide releases.
Apple Reboots Its Smart-Home Strategy With New Hardware and a ‘Home Collection’
I got an early glimpse of Apple’s biggest push into the smart home in years.
- The Verge Hands-on with the Apple Home Collection
Apple launches a new Apple TV 4K with Siri AI and remote-free voice commands
The new Apple TV 4K costs $299, comes with Siri AI, and will be available on November 13.
- The Verge Where to preorder the new Apple TV 4K
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Apple’s first smart display is the 7-inch HomeView for $299
It can recognize up to six users with its camera.
Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay
Developers will get 50 percent discounted API rates through November.
Rivian partner Mind Robotics hires Doug Field as president
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's startup Mind Robotics announced the appointment of Doug Field as president in a major coup for the CEO's secretive robotics project. Field was a VP of special projects at Apple, where he was the de facto head of the company's…
AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models
When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money. He’s netted roughly…
Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can
The Download: open model trade-offs and geothermal power’s promise
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? Anthropic recently released a report arguing that a powerful…
Alice & Bob Decodes LDPC-Cat Codes on GPUs With NVIDIA NVQLink
Insider Link PRESS RELEASE — Alice & Bob, a leader in fault-tolerant quantum computing, today shared results from implementing GPUs to decode its LDPC-cat architecture using NVIDIA NVQLink. The proof of concept using synthetic data is the first time LDPC-cat…
