Anker's Eufy division introduced MindBase, a home AI hub that processes data from its security, energy, cleaning and audio devices entirely on-device using a custom LLM and AI chip, avoiding cloud servers. The hub connects via Anker's EasyOmni Link platform and supports Matter, letting it work alongside Apple Home, Alexa and Google Home devices. Eufy also debuted new security hardware, including a radar-equipped Smart Security Shield sensor and a 3K doorbell with facial recognition that identifies familiar faces from up to 30 meters away.
Apple emailed Mac App Store developers saying universal apps requiring macOS 13 or later can now remove Intel-based Mac support entirely and build for arm64 only. This follows Apple's completed six-year transition to its own silicon and its earlier statement that macOS 26 Tahoe would be the last major release supporting Intel Macs. Rosetta, the tool letting Apple-silicon Macs run older Intel apps, will lose general-purpose support after macOS 27.
Plex is urging all users to immediately update Plex Media Server to version 1.43.3 and Plex Desktop to version 1.115.0, both released earlier this year, to fix multiple unspecified security vulnerabilities. The company emailed affected customers directly and said CVE identifiers have been requested but not yet published, though the flaws are known to impact Media Server v1.43.2 and earlier.
Dell has unveiled the Alienware AW2527HX QD-OLED monitor, a 25-inch display with a 560Hz refresh rate and 0.03ms gray-to-gray response time, making it the quickest monitor the company has built. The panel was developed with input from esports organization Team Liquid and features 99% DCI-P3 color coverage, infinite contrast, V-stripe subpixels, and a matte anti-glare coating. It supports DisplayPort 2.1 and NVIDIA G-Sync, includes a telescopic stand, narrow bezels, a rear headset hanger, and a 3-year warranty covering OLED burn-in, with launch expected in early 2027.
Google unveiled Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash-tier model release in six weeks, alongside a new cybersecurity model for government and enterprise clients. The launch coincided with a federal judge rejecting the Justice Department's demand that Google divest its ad exchange, and with Berkshire Hathaway's Greg Abel publicly praising Alphabet's AI standing.
South Korean Go grandmaster Shin Jin-seo defeated AI engine KataGo 11.5 points in the deciding third game of a three-match series in Seoul, after losing the opener and winning game two. Playing black over 221 moves and roughly three hours, Shin built a large territorial framework starting around move 80 to seal the win under a two-stone handicap, the toughest margin considered playable for humans against top AI.
At a Zurich ceremony on September 3, researchers received Ig Nobel awards for offbeat but rigorous studies, including a biomechanics team that produced a cross-species definition of kissing excluding food-sharing behavior, a physics group that engineered urinal designs to minimize splashback, and soil scientists who buried and later exhumed 1,000 pairs of underwear to study decomposition rates linked to land use.
Researchers developed a palladium(II)/(IV)-catalyzed decarboxylative rearrangement that converts β-hydroxy carboxylic acids into homologated ketones and aldehydes through a concerted mechanism, rather than the radical or carbocation steps used in earlier electrochemical versions from 1960. The method proceeds via a six-membered Pd(IV) intermediate that fragments with carbon migration and loss of carbon dioxide, preserving stereochemical information at the migrating carbon while inverting the adjacent center. The team demonstrated its practical value by using this rearrangement as a key step in a short total synthesis of the natural product (+)-rupestine D.
A California bill aimed at regulating surveillance-based pricing — where retailers use personal data to set individualized prices — failed to advance to Governor Newsom's desk before the legislative deadline. The California Retailers Association responded by expressing hope that lawmakers can restart negotiations next year by focusing on points of existing consensus.
A developer launched a Show HN project that accepts a startup link plus an optional target, such as a pricing page, and generates a blunt critique framed as an obituary rather than encouragement. The tool strips personal data like addresses, emails and phone numbers before processing, and outright refuses inputs containing sensitive identifiers such as SSNs or passport numbers.
Amazon has increased prices by $20 to $100 across several of its hardware lines, including Kindle e-readers, Echo speakers, Eero routers and Fire TV devices, with the steepest hikes hitting its cheaper, best-selling models. An Amazon spokesperson told CNET the increases stem from rising memory and storage component costs, though Amazon would not comment directly to WIRED. Notably, the pricier Kindle Scribe lineup was left untouched despite using similar components.
A Reddit user reported that their Google Home assistant began calling them 'Fish Lemon' after a casual conversation about cooking fish weeks earlier. The nickname has persisted across reminders, smart display labels, and direct queries about their name, resisting attempts to correct it despite their Google Account showing their real name.
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