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Amazon has rebranded its Kindle Unlimited subscription as Kindle+, keeping the price at $12 a month and the existing ebook borrowing model. The main change is a wider audiobook catalog that includes titles narrated by AI. Authors in the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) program can use the free Virtual Voice service to produce AI-narrated au…
ZDNET's Jack Wallen reviews GridCraft, a free, open-source, Rust-based spreadsheet application from ArtCraft that mimics Microsoft Excel. It runs natively on Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows and supports XLSX files, more than 500 functions, charts and pivot tables. The reviewer notes weak template support, with no .xltx saving, and advis…
Apple announced the HomePod Mini 2 last week. According to MacRumors, as cited by ZDNET, HomePod 27.2 software is in developer and public beta and may ship next week, bringing selected features to older HomePod models. This is consumer product news with no security incident, vulnerability or threat activity described. Technical Details - …
Amazon's Blink home surveillance line is getting five new cameras, available for preorder from October 21, 2026, at prices from $50 to $200. They are the Blink Frontier XR+, Blink Outdoor 2K XR+, Blink Mini 4K+, Blink Pan-Tilt Zoom 2K+ and Blink Spotlight 2K+. The Mini 4K+ is Blink's first 4K wired camera, and the two XR+ models extend co…
CNET Group is launching TechPulse, a free iOS and Android app that combines articles and videos from ZDNET, CNET, PCMag, Mashable, Lifehacker and ExtremeTech into a single feed. Users can choose which publications appear, and the feed is described as algorithm-free. No subscription is required. The article is product news with no security…
Amazon's Ring announced its first smart lock, the Ring Smart Lock, which has a manual dial that generates enough power to wake the keypad and fingerprint reader when the battery is dead. The lock supports fingerprint scanning, PIN codes (including temporary codes), Alexa commands and the Ring app. The battery pack, called Quick Release Ul…
Amazon announced three Android-based Alexa Tablets (Tablet 8 from $230, Tablet 11 from $330, Tablet 12 Pro from $500) built around the Alexa+ AI assistant, with shipping set to start on October 14. They are the first of Amazon's newer tablets to support Google Play in addition to Amazon's own app store. Amazon also launched two Kids Table…
Microsoft announced changes to its Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, Premium and Pro subscriptions, replacing per-member 1 TB OneDrive allowances with a single shared storage pool and shared AI usage credits. Family and Premium plans drop from up to 6 TB of total storage to 2 TB, and the new Microsoft 365 Pro plan offers 5 TB at about $100 …
This ZDNET consumer review by Maria Diaz assesses Apple's new Home Collection, which includes the HomeView smart panel ($299), a new HomePod mini, an Apple TV 4K and nine smart home devices priced from $40 (sensors) to $400 (security cameras). It concludes that only the LG Indoor Cam ($200) and LG Outdoor Cam ($300) are well suited to ren…
Apple has reportedly invited media to an "all-day product launch" in Los Angeles on Oct. 28, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Expected announcements include its first touchscreen OLED MacBook line (14- and 16-inch, M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, possibly 5G), a 14-inch M6 MacBook Pro, an OLED iPad mini with an M6 chip at a rumored $799, an…
Nvidia has released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120-billion-parameter open-weight model aimed at agentic workloads, together with two edge models, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB and Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB. Nvidia claims it is 5x faster than the next-best model in its class, based on Artificial Analysis benchmarks that ranked InclusionAI's…
Google has announced the Fitbit Edge, a $180 slim smartwatch positioned between the screenless Fitbit Air and the Pixel Watch 5. The article is a consumer product preview with no security, vulnerability or threat content. The Edge is 11.5 mm thick, has a hybrid OLED touchscreen with Corning Gorilla Glass 3, and adds a side button for star…
Linus Torvalds submitted a set of Linux kernel patches that were largely written with Anthropic's Claude Code, according to a ZDNET report. The series targets cache-line contention in the page cache, a known issue since 2024 that slows multi-core systems. Torvalds disclosed in his Git submission that the code, test programs, review and fi…
Apple announced the HomeView smart home hub on Oct. 13, with preorders open and general availability on Nov. 13. The device combines a touchscreen, smart speaker, Siri AI and a security camera dashboard, and competes with the Amazon Echo Show and Google Nest Hub. This is consumer product news with no vulnerability, incident or threat acti…
On October 13, Apple held a small, non-livestreamed "Welcome Home" event and announced seven smart home products (zdnet.com). They are the HomeView smart panel, the HomePod mini 2, a new Apple TV 4K and a Home Collection of accessories built with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric (zdnet.com). This is product news only. The sources des…
MapQuest announced on Bluesky that its navigation app now has a surveillance layer showing the locations of license plate reading cameras from Flock and other companies. Cameras appear as small red eye icons with a vision cone showing the direction each one faces. The app does not yet offer routing that avoids the cameras. MapQuest has no…
Munich's chief digital officer, Dr. Laura Dornheim, said at Open Source Summit Europe in Prague that the city is returning to open-source software, but only for infrastructure and not for desktops. The city is replacing VMware with Proxmox, Jira and Confluence with OpenProject and XWiki, and adopting PostgreSQL as an alternative to Oracle…
Anthropic announced that six evaluators from METR, a third-party nonprofit that tests frontier models, will get "employee-like access" to its hardware, office space and internal tools roughly on par with those of its own risk assessment teams. Exclusions are limited to a few categories: customer data, attorney-client privileged informatio…
Apple's online store in the US began showing a January 25 ship date for every iPhone Duo configuration within about 30 minutes of preorders opening on October 16, 2026. The article describes this as the longest preorder delay Apple has recorded. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the main cause is "extraordinary supply chain constraint…
The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) maintains a Wage Loss Dashboard that estimates the economic cost of US job cuts companies attribute to AI. It was updated this month with September data. It shows just over 117,000 AI-attributed job cuts nationally since January 2026, equal to about $8.5 billion in estimated annual wage losses. This is indu…
