WIRED reports that for National Coffee Day 2026, major chains like Starbucks and Krispy Kreme are largely offering new coffee-flavored products rather than the free or discounted coffee promotions typical in past years. In response, WIRED compiled deals for home coffee-making, including an Atlas Coffee Club subscription promotion running through October 5 and a De'Longhi Rivelia super-automatic espresso machine listed at its lowest tracked price.
A U.S. Senate investigation described in the Morning Risk Report found that Iran's regime has made extensive use of Tether's dollar-pegged stablecoin, reportedly to move funds despite sanctions. The report also notes that Washington has extended the start of a 50% tariff rule tied to a China trade truce, and that a prospective House Intelligence Committee chair has said he intends to investigate what he called 'nakedly corrupt dealings.'
AMD has released full pricing for its EPYC 9006 (Venice) server processor lineup, spanning 8 to 256 cores and ranging from $700 to $14,904. The SP7 platform tops the range with the 256-core EPYC 9996 at $14,904, while the 64-core EPYC 9556 starts the lineup at $8,008, according to a list obtained by StorageReview.
A Data For Progress survey replicating the older DDB Needham Life Style poll finds Americans hosting dinner parties and socializing at home far less than they did in the 1990s. The new data show continued double-digit declines across activities like card games, bar visits, sporting events, volunteering and community projects, extending a trend Robert Putnam flagged in his 2000 book Bowling Alone.
Jeeves is a new 9B-parameter Jev-like decision model built on Qwen3.5-9B with LoRA and a pointer head, trained using SFT and CISPO with a block-4 diffusion drafter. It supports yes/no, multiple-choice, and rating questions through a Jev-compatible API, and reports test accuracy of 0.889 versus 0.822 for Kev-9B and 0.857 for Jev, plus a 0.935 score on JevBench's public tiers versus 0.866 for Jev.
Newegg has cut the price of a CyberPowerPC prebuilt gaming desktop to $1,999.99, a $170 discount. The system pairs an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 GPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD.
A technical writeup examines the recently released Jev AI model, which specializes in text classification and has generated significant buzz in technical communities. The author, who has no affiliation with Jev, traces the evolution of classification methods from early bag-of-words approaches to modern large language models, situating Jev within that history to explain its design and appeal.
Samsung has released version 6.6.18.22 of the Galaxy Store, relocating the Menu option from the top-left hamburger icon to the floating bottom bar. The bottom bar now holds four items: Apps, Games, My Galaxy, and Menu. The update is rolling out globally to Galaxy devices, including those running One UI 8.5 and One UI 9.
Colossal Biosciences has revealed the genetic engineering process it used to create living wolf pups carrying about 20 edited DNA segments associated with extinct dire wolves. The company says the underlying technology, rather than the pups themselves, represents the more significant advance, since it can be applied broadly to reconstruct extinct genetic traits in living animals.
Nvidia announced a new $150 billion share repurchase authorization on Monday, adding to the $80 billion buyback plan it revealed in May alongside a dividend increase to 25 cents per share from 1 cent. The move comes as Nvidia's forward price-to-earnings ratio has fallen to 14.5, well below its five-year average of 62.9, even as analysts project net income near $385 billion in fiscal 2028.
Current El Nino conditions have pushed the Pacific temperature anomaly to 3.05C above the 1991-2020 average, surpassing the previous record of 3.02C set in 2015, according to NOAA data. The ONI metric, which uses a rolling 30-year baseline, is within 0.01C of its own 2015 record, and forecasters cited by The Guardian project the event could peak near 4.0C by November or December.
MIT Technology Review announced it has finalized its fourth annual Climate Tech Companies to Watch list, set to publish on October 6. The list narrows a broad set of global companies down to 10 selected for their impact on emissions, public safety or health, spanning energy storage, nuclear power and transportation.
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