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The Nothing Ear wireless earbuds are now selling for $69, down $40 from their regular price. The discount brings a 37% reduction off the earbuds' retail price, which include adaptive active noise cancellation, dual-device pairing, and IP54 water resistance.
Ledger has announced a new hardware crypto wallet designed to resemble a smartphone. The launch comes as the company faces renewed scrutiny over how it handled earlier reports of backdoored devices, which surfaced months before some crypto wallets were drained of funds.
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with only 2 billion active parameters per token, as the largest and final entry in its LFM2.5 family. The model is reasoning-only, generating an explicit chain of thought, and both base and post-trained open-weight versions are now available on Hugging Face and Liquid's Playground.
The FBI arrested and the Justice Department charged Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national and OpenAI product team employee since July 2025, with illegally using a device to intercept oral communications. Investigators say he hid a thumb-sized camera and microphone board inside a TV port in a restricted executive conference room, and left a second device with his wallet and ID in a printer room. OpenAI says it found the first device on September 30, alerted the FBI, and fired Alfozan before his arrest on October 9.
OpenAI filed a new court document alleging a former employee, who had previously worked at Apple before a six-month stint at OpenAI, sent over 100 confidential files about an unreleased OpenAI device to his personal accounts on his last day. The filing claims the files included device images, engineering and manufacturing data, supplier information and finish specifications, and that the employee later briefed Apple's senior leadership on OpenAI's plans. Apple told Reuters it has found no evidence supporting these claims.
Federal prosecutors charged OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national, after the company discovered a hidden, encrypted audio recording device in one of its conference rooms. OpenAI said it traced the device to Alfozan using its own models, fired him, and referred the case to the FBI, which arrested him on Friday. The company said it has found no evidence he accessed model weights, source code or customer data.
Federal prosecutors have charged Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national who worked as an OpenAI engineer since July 2025, with planting a hidden recording device in an executive meeting room at the company's San Francisco office. OpenAI's security team discovered the encrypted device, built from a $13.99 Seeed XIAO ESP32-S3 board, around September 30, and later found a second similar device along with Alfozan's wallet in a bag he left behind. He was arrested on October 9 and appeared in federal court on October 13 facing charges of attempting to intercept oral communications.
Microsoft's latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build (28020.1619) in the Canary Channel introduces a freeform rotation tool for MS Paint, alongside updates to Cross-Device Resume, Narrator customization, and Windows Hello fingerprint sensor support. The build expands Cross-Device Resume to more Android phone brands and adds support for continuing Copilot app file sessions on PC.
Pulse Local, a new Mac budgeting app shown on Hacker News, downloads about 2.9GB of AI models to the user's machine so that financial questions are processed locally rather than sent to a remote server. When syncing accounts, the app fetches transactions via Plaid through Pulse's servers, but the developer says the data passes through server memory without being stored, leaving only connection metadata like institution name and last sync time on the backend.
Federal prosecutors have charged a Saudi national, said to be an OpenAI engineer, with concealing an encrypted audio recording device in toilet paper behind a television in a company conference room. The device was reportedly intended to covertly capture internal meetings.
OpenAI says it discovered a hidden surveillance device planted in an executive conference room by employee Abdulrahman Alfozan, who was fired and arrested by the FBI on October 9. Federal prosecutors charged him with illegally intercepting oral communications after the device, found hidden behind a TV's USB port, was linked to him via a camera OpenAI had installed. OpenAI says it has found no evidence the employee accessed or exfiltrated model weights, source code, or customer data.
A federal judge ruled that Apple can obtain expedited access to OpenAI's interview materials for former Apple employees who applied to its consumer hardware and robotics teams. OpenAI must turn over already-collected documents within five days and remaining materials within 14 days. The judge also granted Apple access to private LINE messages between individuals named in the case, though he denied some of Apple's other document requests.