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Ivanti has issued an urgent patch advisory for CVE-2026-104935, a high-severity authentication bypass flaw in its Connect Secure VPN gateway that is being actively exploited. The vulnerability, discovered by Volexity, affects multiple recent ICS versions and lets unauthenticated attackers run arbitrary commands without user interaction. Shadowserver reports more than 5,500 ICS instances currently exposed online.
Apple has opened pre-orders for HomeView, a $299 smart home hub available in tabletop or wall-mounted versions, shipping November 13. The device features a 7-inch touchscreen powered by the A18 chip, multi-user Face ID recognition for up to six people, and a generative AI version of Siri that pulls from calendars, messages, and web searches.
AYN has signaled that an Odin 3 Portal variant is in development, following its recent Odin 3 handheld gaming device. The company has not yet detailed specifications, pricing, or release timing for the Portal model.
Spotatui, a Rust-based terminal UI fork of spotify-tui, now streams Spotify audio natively without requiring the official app or spotifyd, acting as its own Spotify Connect device for Premium users. The project also supports local files, Subsonic/Navidrome, Internet Radio, YouTube, Qobuz, and Apple Music on macOS, with features like synced lyrics, a real-time FFT audio visualizer, and a cross-source play queue.
Apple has begun taking preorders for HomeView, a $299 smart home display with a seven-inch squircle screen. It launches November 13th in multiple colors, with buyers able to choose between a speaker base with a down-firing woofer and passive radiators, or a wall-mounted version without the extra audio hardware, both priced the same.
Apple introduced the HomePod Mini 2, which keeps a similar design to its predecessor but adds new pink and green color options alongside a redesigned blue, plus existing black and white. The $149 speaker features an upgraded S10 chip for future Siri AI capabilities, a sound glow lighting effect matching album art, and the ability to serve as a Mac's default speaker. Preorders start today with shipping beginning October 30th, alongside Apple's new HomeView smart display and other smart home products.
A developer has released a free macOS app that converts Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 multimodal embedding model into a speech-to-text tool, transcribing an hour of audio in about 13 seconds on a base MacBook Air. The system keeps the original audio encoder untouched and instead trains a small 'reader' model to map audio slices into the text embedding space, matching them to the closest of roughly 229,000 English words, with a separate model adding punctuation. The app, EmbeddingGemma Transcribe, runs entirely on-device using the Mac's Neural Engine and currently has a word error rate of about 5%, compared with 2-3% for leading dedicated speech models.
Bloomberg reports Epic Games has pushed back the release of an untitled Disney-licensed shooter, originally slated for March 2027, to retool production around AI tools. A game director reportedly told staff there would be 'no more handwritten code' and that art would be generated through 'full AI workflows.' Epic founder Tim Sweeney confirmed a broader company pivot toward AI-accelerated development on X, and communications director Jake Jones said developers remain the 'visionaries' guiding the work.
Docker disclosed a critical flaw in Docker Hub where converting a personal account into an organization could reassign that account's personal access token to a named owner without rotating the token or requiring the target's consent. An attacker could exploit this to authenticate as the target user, gaining the ability to pull, push, or delete images in their repositories, depending on the token's scope and permissions. The bug has existed since August 26, 2024, though it did not grant web access or allow changes to passwords, email, or two-factor settings.
Walmart is selling the CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme, built with an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, 64GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 4TB SSD, for $2,739.99, down from $4,179.99. That amounts to a $1,440 reduction, roughly 34% off the listed price.
Epic Games has directed developers on an unannounced Disney game to rely on AI tools like Anthropic's Claude for coding and art, according to Bloomberg. A project director reportedly told staff 'no more hand-written code' and that all art must be generated through 'full AI workflows,' while Epic confirmed it is 'embracing AI-accelerated development.' The game, a shooter featuring Marvel and Star Wars characters, has slipped past its original March release window.
According to a GamesBeat report citing four industry sources, Rockstar is targeting a PC release of Grand Theft Auto VI as early as Q1 2027, just months after the November 19 console launch on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series. Rockstar has not confirmed the report or responded to requests for comment.