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A threat actor group calling itself "BYOD" published records for 3,615 Trump Mobile customer accounts on the dark web, including names, emails, phone numbers, home addresses and order histories. The group says it broke in via a remote access trojan placed on an employee device at Liberty Mobile, the MVNO that powers Trump Mobile's network, and the leak reportedly includes personal details of Trump Organization CIO Eric Brunnett.
Google has released an update for its Pixel Buds 2A and Pro 2 earbuds, adding features first teased in August. Paired with a Pixel Watch, the buds can now detect when a wearer falls asleep and respond by pausing music, muting notifications and disabling touch controls, alongside new tap-to-mute, one-tap live translation, and Gemini voice commands for ANC, EQ and touch settings. The Pro 2 also gains an exclusive Dynamic ANC feature that adjusts audio based on earbud fit.
Dreame has released the L60 Ultra PE, a mid-range robot vacuum priced at $1,100 that combines vacuuming and mopping with 30,000Pa of suction, extending side brushes, and a heated water mopping system. Its base station mixes clean water with detergent, stores dirty water, and holds a debris bag rated for up to 100 days of use, with water reserves covering roughly 1,200 square feet of mopping per fill.
A junior software engineer at Criteo describes being encouraged to use AI coding agents for productivity while also being told to keep deep technical understanding. The piece recounts informal research into how AI has changed day-to-day engineering work, including a shift toward code review and cost-aware practices like token management, and observations of senior engineers to identify what skills still define seniority.
Google has launched Playground, a browser-based platform that lets users 18 and older create custom games by typing prompts rather than writing code. The service, free with usage limits tied to Google One subscriptions, is powered by Gemini, Nano Banana and Lyria models, and lets creators share games via link or publish them to a public gallery. Google also unveiled Unity Spark, a more advanced collaborative AI game-development tool built with Unity, whose outputs can be shared on Playground.
Xreal has started taking pre-orders for the Aura, a transparent-lens XR headset built with Google on Android XR, priced at $1,279 for a 12GB/256GB model and $1,499 for a 16GB/512GB version. The device runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon Reality Elite chip housed in a separate compute puck, and relies on a touchpad plus hand-tracking rather than eye tracking for navigation.
DoorDash sent emails to Bay Area restaurants this August saying they may have been added to a startup called Bites' delivery platform without agreeing to its terms, pricing or service standards. Bites is a 10-person pre-seed startup with roughly 300 restaurants in its listings, compared to DoorDash's 970 million orders and $4.5 billion in quarterly revenue. DoorDash's letter noted that unauthorized listing practices could be illegal depending on the state and gave instructions for restaurants to request removal.
A career guidance article advises professionals who feel stagnant or unfulfilled in long-held jobs to pause and evaluate whether they need a complete career change or just a smaller adjustment. It offers a step-by-step process for reflecting on personal goals, values and satisfaction before making a decision.
A review of organizational change research argues that the widely used change management framework, first popularized by Harvard professor John Kotter in a 1995 Harvard Business Review article based on observations of over 100 companies, no longer reflects what actually drives successful transformation. The piece proposes three counterintuitive strategies as alternatives to the traditional step-by-step approach long followed by corporate leaders.
Amazon's fall Prime Day sale includes discounts on Alexa speakers, Kindles, and Fire tablets, but WIRED notes Amazon raised prices across its device lines at the end of August before applying these markdowns. A WIRED reviewer who has tested Amazon's Alexa speakers since 2012 evaluated the sale items to identify which discounts are genuinely worthwhile versus which merely restore prices closer to pre-hike levels.
Dario, a developer known for fan-made PC ports of console games, published a Bluesky thread criticizing the rising use of AI tools like Claude to decompile and recompile retro games into new ports. He argued that many people conflate decompilation, recompilation and porting, and warned that these processes now require far less effort than before due to LLM assistance. His comments follow revelations that HarbourMasters, the team behind ports of titles like Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time, has used LLMs for years.
SonicWall issued hotfixes for CVE-2026-102255, a maximum-severity server-side request forgery flaw in the Appliance WorkPlace interface of its SMA1000 6210, 7210, and 8200v gateways. The company says an unauthenticated attacker could exploit the flaw via an unintended access path to make the appliance issue requests on their behalf and reach internal functionality, though it has found no evidence of active exploitation.