GoKawiilAmazon cuts Oura Ring Gen 3 Horizon (Gold) price to $269.99
Amazon is selling the Oura Ring Gen 3 Horizon in Gold for $269.99, marking an $80 reduction from its usual price. The smart ring tracks sleep and other health metrics.
Ukrainian drone strikes hit three Yandex data centers, disrupting Russian services
Ukrainian drones struck three data centers operated by Russian tech giant Yandex over four days, knocking facilities offline and disrupting services relied on by banks, retailers and consumers. One targeted site, in Sasovo, held tens of thousands of servers along with two supercomputers used to train Yandex's AI models.
Deezer to add toggle for filtering out AI-generated music
Deezer announced a new feature that will let users hide AI-generated tracks, albums, and related artists from search results, with a rollout expected before year's end. CEO Alexis Lanternier cited user demand and a company survey showing roughly 45% of customers wanted a way to exclude AI music from their listening experience.
Security researcher pushes back on viral claim that passkeys enable device lockdown
A widely shared post titled 'Passkeys are a trap' argued that passkey attestation could let websites eventually restrict logins to approved apps, operating systems and devices. A developer who built an open-source passkeys library has published a rebuttal, saying most consumer passkeys—synced ones stored in iCloud Keychain, Google Password Manager or apps like 1Password and Bitwarden—do not send attestation data at all, even when a site requests it.
TechCrunch cuts Disrupt 2026 ticket prices 50% for final two days
TechCrunch is offering half-price tickets for the remaining two days of its Disrupt 2026 conference at San Francisco's Moscone West, running October 14-15. Discounted passes range from $175 for Expo+ to $600 for Investor access, covering speakers like Mark Wahlberg, Replit CEO Amjad Masad, and Amazon's Panos Panay, plus AI-focused programming from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face.
Wharton study: managers split on who's accountable for AI agent errors
A Wharton School survey of over 1,000 business leaders found no consensus on who should be blamed when AI systems make consequential mistakes. Roughly a quarter pointed to the employee operating the tool, another quarter to that employee's manager, and a similar share to the company's risk team, while about 10% blamed the AI vendor and 10% were unsure. The study also cited an incident where a faulty AI-driven email bot sent false refund and cancellation notices to more than 18,000 customers at a major U.S. retailer within six hours.
Zenzap raises $44M to build AI-powered workplace messaging app
Zenzap, founded by Guy Weiss with co-founders Noam Neumann and Jonatan Bien, has raised $44 million from Bessemer, Lightspeed, The Garage and individual backers including Wix president Nir Zohar. The startup builds a private, IT-compliant messaging app with embedded AI meant to replace consumer tools like WhatsApp and iMessage for business communication. This marks Weiss's first time raising outside capital after previously bootstrapping and selling StuccoMedia in 2015.
Google and Meta launch frontier AI models rivaling OpenAI, Anthropic
Google released Gemini 4 Argon, a new flagship model it says matches or beats OpenAI and Anthropic on numerous benchmarks, following months in which Google had appeared to fall behind despite Gemini 3's earlier launch. Meta also unveiled a frontier model it claims can compete with the industry's best, marking a sharp turnaround after a period of internal upheaval at Google including departures of Jeff Dean and Demis Hassabis stepping back from DeepMind leadership.
Graphicle, a Rust tool giving coding agents a code graph and memory, launches on GitHub
Graphicle is a new open-source Rust program that indexes a code repository into a graph and stores project docs, decisions and past agent session history, serving cited file-and-line excerpts to coding agents. It runs locally with no API key, account or telemetry, and integrates with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, Claude Desktop and other MCP clients. The tool is described as a Rust port of an earlier project called Graphify, installable via Homebrew or a shell script, with native Windows support still pending.
Dutch Tax Agency Scraps Microsoft 365 Cloud Migration for On-Premises Open Source
The Netherlands' Tax and Customs Administration has cancelled its planned rollout of Microsoft 365 on the public cloud after about 5,000 employees had already migrated. The government paused the project in July following a June recommendation from the Dutch Advisory Council on ICT Assessment, and State Secretary Eelco Eerenberg has now outlined a replacement plan moving mail and calendar functions on-premises in 2027, followed by European open-source tools for storage and collaboration in 2027-2028.
Floqer to open-source its AI sales research platform in early 2027
B2B sales startup Floqer plans to open-source the technology behind its autonomous customer knowledge database, pending security reviews, with release targeted for early 2027. The company, pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, says it has surpassed $1.2 million in annual recurring revenue after roughly tenfold revenue growth over the past year. Founded by Shivam Mahajan and Zaaheda Islam, Floqer began as a Chrome extension called 'Super Chat' before pivoting to automate CRM data cleanup for enterprise clients.
Leaker: Apple supply-chain orders point to large iPhone 18 stockpile
Apple delayed the standard iPhone 18 until early next year while launching only the iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max and iPhone Duo this cycle. Leaker Fixed Focus Digital reports that component inventory levels tied to the base iPhone 18, set to begin production in late November, suggest a substantial stockpile is being built.