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Amazon is selling the Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro true wireless earbuds for $135.99, a $34 cut from their $169.99 list price, as part of a Prime Day promotion. The earbuds feature adaptive noise cancelation, LDAC and Hi-Res audio support, wireless charging, IP55 water resistance, and AI-assisted voice pickup for calls, with battery life up to 12 hours (6.5 with ANC on) and 50 hours including the case.
Amazon is selling the unlocked Samsung Galaxy A57 5G for $399.99, a $200 cut from its $599.99 list price, marking its lowest price to date and beating the previous year-to-date low of $424.99. The deal requires an Amazon Prime membership, which shoppers can access via a free 30-day trial. The phone features a 6.7-inch 120Hz display, a 50MP main camera, and Samsung's pledge of six years of OS upgrades and security updates.
Advantest Corporation has notified affected individuals that a ransomware attack on February 15 resulted in theft of personally identifiable information, including Social Security numbers, national ID numbers, driver's licenses, passports, medical and financial data. The semiconductor test equipment maker had initially disclosed the breach without confirming data theft, but an October 6, 2026 notification confirms data was extracted from its servers. It remains unclear whether the stolen data belongs to customers, employees, or partners.
Bloomberg reports Apple has partnered with LG to produce a wide range of smart home hardware, including a video doorbell, smart deadbolt, thermostat, temperature sensor, indoor and outdoor cameras, and a floodlight camera. The products will carry LG branding and LG will handle manufacturing and support, though Apple reportedly contributed to their design, features, and engineering. Apple's own smart home hub is expected to debut around October 13, with the LG-made accessories following later.
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told a Singapore audience that AI investment is becoming a major driver of national economic fortunes, but warned that AI advancement, high energy costs and record public debt are straining already weak global growth. She described the economy as pulled between a negative energy shock from the Gulf war and a positive demand shock from AI investment, calling the combined effect highly uneven worldwide.
A Rimini Street survey of 300 VMware-using organizations found 60% are considering a multi-hypervisor approach, while 47% favor combining hypervisors and containers to choose where workloads run. Respondents cited operational complexity (40%), multi-vendor management (38%), expanded attack surface and staff skills gaps (each 37%) as the main barriers to making such changes.
Jaguar has revealed the Type 01, a production four-door electric grand tourer based on its divisive Type 00 concept. The car uses three motors producing up to 1,016 horsepower, a 118kWh battery rated for 400 miles of range, and fast charging that adds 200 miles in 13 minutes. Jaguar says orders open in early 2027 with deliveries later that year, and one variant will start at $130,500.
Anthropic has released a Google Workspace add-on that lets Claude directly edit files in Docs, Sheets, and Slides rather than requiring users to copy and paste text back and forth. The beta is available now for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers, and includes connectors that let Claude create or edit Google files from within the chat interface itself. Users can choose between an 'Ask before edits' mode requiring approval or an 'Accept all edits' mode that lets Claude work unsupervised.
A new library called Shaders has launched as an npm package offering over 200 WebGPU-based visual effects—gradients, noise, glass, metal, distortions, blurs and cursor effects—as drop-in components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid and plain JavaScript. It includes a companion design tool at shaders.com that lets users build effects on a visual canvas and export matching framework code, and the maker says it is already used on thousands of sites by more than 16,000 design engineers.
The Public Domain Review, a non-profit publication, has released an article examining the 'Mutus Liber,' a 1677 alchemical text known for conveying its teachings through wordless imagery. The organization used the post to appeal to readers for donations, noting it operates without ads or paywalls and relies on reader support to continue publishing.
Temasek's chief investment officer Rohit Sipahimalani said at the Milken Institute Asia Summit that a reversal of the AI trade is the biggest risk facing markets, though he doesn't see it as imminent and flagged possible 'bumps' in 2027. He noted that while the S&P 500 sits near record highs on AI-driven earnings momentum, roughly half of Russell 3000 stocks are at least 20% below their June peaks. Temasek remains bullish on AI long-term and is shifting more of its AI exposure toward publicly traded assets, aiming for 70-75% from about 50% currently.
A new proof-of-concept project called Yggstore lets groups of peers share disk space over the Yggdrasil overlay network without any central VPN coordinator. Files are encrypted, split into shards and distributed across members' machines, with a small 'stub' left behind holding the decryption key that can be shared independently to retrieve the file. The project also supports versioned backups, direct and broadcast messaging between nodes, group-hosted websites, and email delivery to a domain, all built atop the mesh.