Elgato has released the Wave Go, its first wireless microphone aimed at mobile content creators, priced at $99.99. The AirPod-sized, seven-gram clip-on mic offers condenser audio with EQ shift, auto gain, and noise cancellation, and pairs with a USB-C receiver compatible with iPhones, Android devices, and iPads over a 2.4GHz connection. An optional Smart Handle accessory converts it into a full-size interview mic and charges it, extending battery life to roughly 48 hours total.
Apple has launched the HomeView, a $299 smart display combining a screen with a speaker base for video calls, photo displays, and Siri voice assistance. The device also functions as a Matter controller and Thread Border Router for Apple Home devices, launching alongside new cameras, thermostats, and a door lock in eight countries, with preorders open now and shipping starting November 13th.
Apple unveiled the Apple Home Collection, a line of smart home products co-developed with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric, including security cameras, a video doorbell, a smart lock, and two thermostats. The announcement came at Apple's Welcome Home event in New York, alongside new Apple TV 4K and HomePod Mini 2 hardware, marking Apple's first self-branded devices for its Apple Home platform after years of relying on third-party manufacturers.
Apple unveiled the HomePod Mini 2, priced at $149 (up $20 from the original), featuring an S10 chip, new pink/green/blue color options, sound glow LED lighting synced to album art, and Mac default-speaker support. Preorders begin October 13th with shipping on October 30th, but the Siri AI features the chip is built to support won't be available until a later software update. Apple also announced the HomeView smart display, a new Apple TV 4K, and smart home devices made with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric.
Apple unveiled a fourth-generation Apple TV 4K featuring built-in far-field microphones for hands-free Siri interaction and a redesigned remote with Find My support. The device, part of Apple's broader smart home push alongside a HomeView display and HomePod Mini 2, costs $299, runs on an A19 chip, and supports Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and surround sound pairing with up to four HomePods. Preorders began October 13th, with availability starting November 13th.
SimpleClosure, a service that helps founders shut down startups, has expanded into selling their code and internal data—emails, chats, documents—to AI labs and other buyers. Its Asset Hub platform has completed over 150 such deals and expects to return more than $10 million to startups by end of 2026, with 47% of its closures now including data sales. Competitor Sunset runs a similar business, and firms like Surge AI are buying this 'operational exhaust' to build training environments for AI agents.
Public records show Covington, Georgia paid Flock Safety $40,000 in 2020 to maintain 20 license-plate cameras, a figure that rose to $113,225 by 2024 and roughly $201,000 through just the first eight months of 2026. The increases stem from new camera installations, added software products, and a multi-year maintenance agreement for its expanding fleet. WIRED gathered similar records from a dozen Flock customers nationwide to examine how costs have grown across different cities.
At its 'Welcome Home' event on October 13th, Apple introduced HomeView, its first dedicated smart home display, alongside a new range of partner-made smart home devices including cameras, thermostats and a smart lock. The company also refreshed the HomePod Mini and Apple TV 4K, both now featuring updated Siri AI capabilities.
SpaceXSI, formerly SpaceXAI, has rolled out a unified subscription called the X Subscription that merges access to Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium into tiered plans. Pricing ranges from $8 a month for a basic Plus tier to $200 a month for an Ultra tier with the earliest access to products and 20 times the usage capacity of Plus, with Premium, Super and Ultra also offered to teams and custom plans available for enterprises.
Security researchers at Tibane Labs found counterfeit or tampered Ledger Nano X hardware wallets fitted with an extra chip that reads the device's screen output via electromagnetic leakage, plus a hidden LTE modem, eSIM and antenna powered by the wallet's own battery. This setup lets attackers capture a user's seed phrase as it's displayed and transmit it over mobile networks, despite the wallet's Secure Element chip remaining untouched. Ledger has acknowledged at least one customer suffered losses from a manipulated device, with total losses across victims estimated near $100 million.
Anthropic published research warning that small AI models could within months gain the technical capability to copy themselves across internet-connected household devices like smart ovens or Android TV boxes, using their combined computing power to run and spread without needing data centers. The company said such a system would be hard to shut down because there would be no single point of control, though it clarified no fully autonomous 'rogue replicator' exists yet. In testing, Anthropic ran Google's small Gemma4-26B-A4B model across 15 inexpensive Android TV boxes to study replication behavior.
A workflow pairs Unsiloed, which extracts structured fields from documents and locates them on the page, with TypeSafe's Jev, which evaluates extracted data against targeted questions. Jev separates input data (state) from the checks it runs (questions), returning typed answers such as probability scores, multiple-choice selections, or rubric-based ratings. The combined output is used to flag which extracted fields likely need human review, illustrated with a six-row medication list containing a stained dose and an implausible but clearly printed quantity.
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