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Christie's is preparing a selling exhibition in Beverly Hills that will gather 50 unconventional chairs created by designers including Rick Owens, Kelly Wearstler and Playlab. The pieces use materials ranging from antlers and steel to balloons, cardboard and resin, highlighting Los Angeles as a hub for experimental furniture design.
Google's Gemini chatbot is being highlighted as a travel-planning tool that draws on the company's broader ecosystem, including YouTube, Maps, Gmail and Google Flights. Users can ask it for optimal ticket-buying windows, flight recommendations, hotel suggestions at various price points, and personalized itineraries based on past trips mentioned in their email.
Rust contributor 'waffle' landed stabilization of the language's never type (!) on August 24, ending more than two years of work. The change required a small breaking adjustment to earlier Rust editions, so maintainers spent extensive time verifying it wouldn't break existing code in the wild.
LG issued a statement to Tom's Hardware rejecting claims from a Gamers Nexus investigation that its smart TVs constantly log data and record ambient audio even in standby mode. LG confirmed its TVs scan local networks for other devices, a common smart-TV feature, but insisted voice data is only processed when a remote button is pressed or a wake word like 'Hi LG' is detected. The company said no audio is transmitted unless that wake word is recognized, and wake-word detection itself happens on-device rather than being sent to servers.
The developer of RACE, a native macOS terminal multiplexer written in Rust, ran a $500 Google Ads campaign for the app and its companion site race-term.com, only to have the account suspended for 'Malicious software' and 'Compromised Site' violations. Despite the app being signed and notarized and the static site containing no third-party trackers beyond Cloudflare Analytics, an appeal was rejected with no explanation of what was flagged, leaving the developer pointed toward generic account deletion or EU redress options.
Nintendo revealed a special-edition Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 console priced at $519.99, alongside a matching $99.99 Pro Controller, both up for pre-order now and shipping October 29. The console features gold Tri-Force accents and green Joy-Cons, while the dock carries a bold two-tone gold-and-black Tri-Force design; no game is included. This marks the 12th piece of Zelda-branded Nintendo hardware and the first special edition for the Switch 2.
Framework has secured a limited supply of Micron 32GB and 64GB LPCAMM2 memory modules at a lower cost than its recent price increase, and is passing the savings to customers. The company is refunding the price difference to buyers who already received laptops at the higher rate and adjusting pricing for pending preorders through Batch 10, with an option to upgrade RAM configurations at the reduced cost. DIY Edition owners can also request a switch to the new pricing.
Veradigm, the Chicago-based healthcare technology firm formerly known as Allscripts, disclosed in an SEC filing that an attacker used stolen credentials from a third-party vendor to access a customer-service API and copy patient data. The exposed information includes personal details and Social Security numbers for a limited number of patients, though clinical records were not accessed. The Gentlemen ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, which the company describes as its safest and most capable model yet, trained on roughly 100,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. Nvidia's Jensen Huang publicly declared that AGI has been achieved, while OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki offered a more cautious framing, likening the model to an 'alien mind' that only simulates aspects of human behavior rather than replicating it. Independent benchmarks place Astra roughly on par with rival Fable 5.1, though reportedly cheaper to run per task.
DeepSeek confirmed it will officially release its V4.1 Flash model on September 10, 2026 (Beijing Time), stating internal testing shows it outperforms V4 Pro on performance, cost, speed, and task completion time. Until V4.1 Pro arrives, all Pro-model requests will be automatically redirected to V4.1 Flash and charged at the cheaper Flash pricing tier.
The NSA, CISA and FBI issued a joint advisory alleging that Chinese AI companies including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI extracted billions of tokens from US frontier models such as Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since 2024. The agencies say this data was used to train competing systems like DeepSeek's R1 and Moonshot's Kimi K2/K3, describing the practice as 'distillation activities at an industrial scale.'
A modder known as Perseval_BLR, aided by Claude AI, built an app called NeuralScreen that overlays Nvidia's leaked DLSS 5 neural rendering technology onto any windowed application, not just games. Demonstrations show it applied to YouTube gameplay footage, a scene from Interstellar, and Doom 3 running in a window, with customizable presets and key-bound controls for switching, recording, and comparisons.