Meta shares sold off sharply since last Friday, cutting Mark Zuckerberg's paper fortune by roughly $20 billion after Goldman Sachs questioned the long-term payoff of Meta's heavy AI investment. The decline comes as Zuckerberg pushes deeper into AI, hiring veteran executive Chirantan Desai to lead a new division selling Meta's AI tools to corporate customers. Despite the drop, Meta's stock remains up more than 28 percent over the past month.
Maingear has teamed up with Canadian recycling firm SELLIT9 to let customers trade in used electronics—including laptops, phones, tablets, and cameras—for instant gift card credit toward new Maingear desktops or laptops. The program is live now, and a promotional code offers an extra 5% trade-in value through October 14.
Amazon has cut the price of Belkin's 16-in-1 Triple Display USB-C Dock to $199.99, down $50 from its $249.99 list price, a 20% discount. The dock supports up to three external displays via DisplayLink, offers 2.5Gb Ethernet, multiple USB-A/USB-C ports, dual DisplayPort outputs, and delivers up to 100W of power to a connected laptop. The discount requires an active Amazon Prime membership.
A federal judge approved Paramount's consent decree settling an antitrust lawsuit brought by 12 states over its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, removing the last major legal obstacle to the $81 billion deal. The merger is expected to close on October 6, and Paramount announced Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz will join as co-CEO alongside David Ellison once the deal completes.
Leaker pdfu posted setup-process images suggesting Apple's rumored smart home hub, nicknamed 'HomePad,' will be offered in Silver, Space Gray, Starlight, and Rose Pink. The images reportedly show a 'Photo Face' setup screen that selects preview art based on the device's color, hinting at a square form factor. The device is said to be launching October 13.
Woot is selling the Cherry Xtrfy MX 3.1 full-size wired mechanical gaming keyboard for $34 using promo code WOOTCHERRY, down from a $119 list price. New Woot customers can get an additional $10 off, bringing the price to $29. The keyboard uses Cherry MX2A Red linear switches, an aluminum frame, RGB lighting, and a 1,000 Hz polling rate.
Walmart is expanding three app-linked features — Shop to Light, Pick to Light and Stock to Light — that flash a store's digital shelf labels to help customers locate products and help associates fill online orders and restock shelves. Executive Greg Cathey said the tools, which follow a pilot program, will be live in all stores by the holiday season.
Sierra Nevada Cheese Company has stopped making and shipping all Graziers Raw Milk Cheese products as health officials investigate an E. coli outbreak linked to the cheeses. Thirteen people have fallen ill, with eight requiring hospitalization, prompting a nationwide recall of the affected products.
US District Judge Amit Mehta threw out antitrust lawsuits from Chegg and Penske Media Corporation, which had accused Google of forcing publishers to supply free content for AI Overviews under threat of losing search visibility. Mehta ruled the publishers' claims didn't meet the legal standard for antitrust violations, saying an expectation of referral traffic is not a binding agreement.
NASA's Swift observatory, in orbit for over two decades, is losing altitude and expected to drop below 185 miles by early to mid-October, a point at which operations and science observations will likely stop. A robotic spacecraft built by contractor Katalyst Space Technologies, launched in July to boost Swift's orbit, instead began spinning uncontrollably and burned up reentering Earth's atmosphere. NASA has since reactivated Swift's Burst Alert Telescope and resumed automatic pointing at gamma ray bursts, actions it says have accelerated the satellite's orbital decay.
HP has unveiled the OmniBook 5, a 14-inch Windows laptop with an OLED touch display, Intel Core 5 processor, 8GB RAM, and a 256GB SSD, available in pink, silver, blue, and green. The base model, which includes an NPU rated at 16 TOPS and claims up to 42 hours of video playback, will launch at retailers like Best Buy in October starting at $699.
Amazon has refreshed its Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Colorsoft e-readers, giving all three models flush screens instead of recessed displays. The update also introduces new color options and two page-turning accessories, a wireless remote and a cover case.
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