Amazon's early fall Prime Day event now includes M5 MacBook Air models discounted as much as $150, alongside a $500 cut on a 2TB M5 Pro model and all-time low pricing on the single Apple AirTag 2. The sale also features Sharge's 300W smart display power bank at $50 off, new lows on Belkin 25W MagSafe charging stations, and Eve Matter/HomeKit accessories starting at $32. Separately, Twelve South launched its Airfly Drive wireless CarPlay and Android Auto adapter at $39.99.
An unconfirmed SKU table for Intel's upcoming Nova Lake desktop CPUs lists seven models, three carrying a 'BFC' tag believed to denote a big last-level cache feature. The flagship Core Ultra 9 4970K BFC reportedly has 28 cores (8 P-cores, 16 E-cores, 4 LPE-cores), a 125W TDP, and a 32-EU integrated GPU, with most other models sharing that same iGPU except the Core Ultra 5 4650KF, which has none. The table omits the rumored 52-core model, which other reports suggest will launch later for high-end desktop users.
Laytr, built by Ontario developer Mostafa Talaat under Waitery Inc., lets users save articles, recipes, screenshots, videos, PDFs, bookmarks and tabs, organizing them into collections called "cases" with optional date-based reminders. The app has no backend server; saved content stays on-device and syncs across Apple devices via iCloud, and it can import old Pocket exports. The free version caps users at 30 saved items, with a paid tier for more.
The Trump administration's new America.gov portal, built as a unified gateway to federal services, is required by executive order to use Login.gov for authentication. Public Login.gov source code shows the National Design Studio has added code generating a long-lived browser identifier that feeds into Login.gov's analytics, even though America.gov's own privacy materials say it avoids advertising cookies and third-party trackers.
Anker has launched the Soundcore Space 2 Pro headphones, priced at $200, roughly less than half the cost of Apple's AirPods Max 2. The headphones mark Anker's first use of its new Akoustic AI chip, which powers active noise cancellation, call quality and personalized sound profiles, paired with an eight-sensor ANC setup and six microphones. They feature physical controls, multipoint Bluetooth, and up to 30 hours of battery life with ANC enabled.
A development team set out to run an entire month of coding work on the GLM 5.3 Flash model, keeping within a $68 budget for the first two weeks. The second half of the month saw usage spike to 1 billion tokens across other models, driven by an expensive vibe-coded Wagtail MCP server prototype that alone cost $150 and 5kWh, plus infrastructure capacity issues that forced switches to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Qwen 3.8 Flash.
Amazon has cut the price of the Marshall Major V wireless headphones to $89.99, down from a $129.99 list price, a 31% discount. The sale price sits just $2 above the headphones' lowest recorded price to date.
The October 2 episode of 9to5Mac Daily summarized the day's top Apple stories, including rumors about an upcoming MacBook Pro and a report about an iPhone with a dual-display design. The podcast episode is available through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, and the show's RSS feed, and is sponsored by the task-management app Stuff.
Research firm Aterio says Oracle's Project Lighthouse datacenter in Port Washington, Wisconsin, developed with Vantage, may miss its planned second-half 2027 opening because American Transmission Company still needs Public Service Commission approval to build the site's grid connection. Aterio also noted Oracle recently sent a force majeure notice to a Blue Owl Capital subsidiary over its Project Jupiter campus in New Mexico, seeking to defer payments if that site isn't ready on time, though Oracle maintains Jupiter remains on schedule.
The Southern Environmental Law Center sued Jefferson County's health officer on behalf of GASP, arguing officials had illegally ignored ABC Coke's 2023 air permit renewal application, leaving the foundry coke plant operating under an expired permit. A day after the filing, the Jefferson County Department of Health told SELC it would move forward with the permitting process.
Joe Jordan became Domino's CEO on October 1 after nearly 15 years at the company, having joined in 2011 as vice president of innovation and worked through marketing, operations and technology roles. He told the Wall Street Journal he plans to have top executives report directly to him rather than naming a successor to his former chief operating officer post, and wants to push more product experimentation like the single-serving pizza launched in August.
A technology commentator published an essay arguing that AI coding agents, while useful, are producing low-quality 'slop' code that discourages human developers from engaging with shared codebases. The writer says newer models like Claude and Astra have developed distinctive, hard-to-read styles rather than improving toward human-readable output, and frames this as one of four persistent problems with agentic coding.
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