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Amazon has discounted its Echo Dot Max smart speaker by 25%, bringing the price down to $89.99. The device is pitched as a compact Alexa speaker with stronger bass and fuller sound compared to earlier Dot models.
CoreWeave's credit default swap spread spiked above 1,140 basis points before settling near 1,088, up 33% in a week and 177% over the past year, as bond yields on its 2031 notes climbed to nearly 16%. The neocloud company, which has amassed over $51 billion in debt and obligations for AI infrastructure, saw its stock fall further Thursday after a 15.5% drop the prior day, while peers Nebius and Iren also declined.
SK Hynix's Solidigm unit is reportedly asking the U.S. government for permission to send American chipmaking equipment to its Dalian, China facility, linking that approval to its plan to build a NAND flash memory factory in upstate New York, according to Reuters sources. SK Hynix told TechCrunch it is not trying to expand capacity at Dalian and that the equipment move is being coordinated with and authorized by U.S. officials.
The IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery named Daniel Reed, PhD, as the recipient of the 2026 Ken Kennedy Award. Reed is a Presidential Professor in Computational Science (emeritus) at the University of Utah and previously served as Corporate Vice President of Technology Policy at Microsoft.
Sony's LinkBuds Clip open-ear earbuds are selling for $158 on Amazon, matching the discount price seen during Prime Day. The earbuds feature an open-ear design and offer up to 37 hours of total battery life with the charging case.
GuliKit has released the TT Max, a large, multiplatform game controller for Nintendo Switch 2, PC, Android and iOS. The pad features removable metal back paddles, adjustable TMR thumbsticks, a swappable Hall effect or digital-click trigger mode, a reconfigurable floating D-pad, and interchangeable PC-style face button keycaps. It ships with extra D-pad and stick-height kits for further customization.
A developer has released Sygal, a tool that runs locally to convert images, scans, PDFs, web pages and YouTube videos into Markdown text. The creator says this conversion can cut token usage for AI models by roughly 2 to 7 times compared to feeding in raw images or markup, with YouTube links converted into clean transcripts.
Researchers reported a case in which cancer cells spread from one identical twin fetus to the other during pregnancy, via their shared placental circulation. The scientists say the finding documents a rare but confirmed instance of cancer transmission between twins before birth.
Hackers have been exploiting a critical command injection vulnerability in Nextcloud's built-in Collabora Online CODE server app since at least September 10, weeks before the issue received a formal advisory and CVE number. The flaw lets unauthenticated attackers send a crafted request to the app's proxy.php endpoint and run system commands when the bundled CODE server is down, such as after a restart or crash, allowing them to plant PHP webshells and hunt for passwords and crypto wallets.
A developer ran the Trolley Problem thought experiment through Jev and twelve other 'decision models,' including OpenAI's Luna and eleven other local models, plus a baseline called Laya. These decision models are a new category of AI that output discrete choices with confidence probabilities rather than text, and are marketed as much faster and cheaper than large language models while retaining comparable reasoning ability. The experiment repeated the classic ethical dilemma in multiple phrasings across all models to compare their responses.
Jessica Tarlov, a Democratic strategist, serves as the sole liberal panelist on Fox News' 'The Five,' where she is outnumbered four-to-one by conservative cohosts. She has described her role as representing Americans unhappy with current U.S. politics and the Trump administration, aiming to demonstrate civil political discourse across ideological lines.
Apple unveiled a Home Collection of smart devices including a HomeView panel, HomePod mini, Apple TV 4K, and nine accessories ranging from $40 sensors to $400 security cameras. A ZDNET reviewer, evaluating the lineup from a renter's perspective, singled out LG's $200 Indoor Cam as a standout pick due to its lamp-like design, automatic privacy mode, and lack of wall-mounting requirement.