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 - …
Microsoft says Exchange Online administrators can temporarily re-enable the retired Exchange Web Services (EWS) API to restore apps that stopped working after the default block began on October 1, 2026. EWS is used by Outlook desktop add-ins, older Outlook for Windows versions, Apple Mail/Calendar on macOS and other apps. When EWS is disa…
A Mac user (Reddit u/UntilHEX) reported that Anthropic's Claude Code found an unauthorized XMRig cryptominer while helping build a temperature-monitoring app. Abnormally high sensor readings led the assistant to inspect running processes and identify XMRig as the cause of roughly 1,175% CPU use, or nearly 12 saturated cores. The finding i…
Hakai Security has released the Beerus Framework for iOS, following the v1.1 Android release in July. It is a defensive-side, offensive-security testing tool, not a threat campaign. It runs on jailbroken iOS devices and is built on Frida and Palera1n. It offers a single GUI for dynamic instrumentation, IPA extraction, memory dumping, prox…
Apple tightened its App Store developer guidelines over the weekend to ban apps that use AI to create offensive content. The update also targets apps that pass review as ordinary apps and later turn into nudify apps or surface those features prominently (a bait-and-switch tactic). Apps hosting user-generated content must filter objectiona…
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 …
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…
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…
Canada's proposed C-22 bill, first put forward in 2025 and since partly revised, would require tech companies, including foreign ones, to introduce "technical capabilities" for law enforcement data access. It would also require retention of user metadata. Signal has said it would exit the Canadian market, and Psiphon VPN says it will leav…
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…
ESET WeLiveSecurity published a guidance article on 'nudify' apps, which use generative AI to turn images of clothed people into synthetic nude images. The resulting non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) is used by fraudsters, bullies and cybercriminals, including for blackmail. An Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and AI Security I…
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…
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…
Nirva, a startup founded in 2025 by ex-Meta Reality Labs employees Wei Lyu and Jason Chen with Hanying Hu, announced a $25 million pre-Series A round, bringing total funding to $33 million (earlier backers include Lightspeed and South Park Commons). Its first product is a roughly 8 g pendant, also wearable as a bracelet, priced at $249, w…
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…
On 2026-10-19, Amazon Web Services released TorchNeuron, a tool that lets AI startups move PyTorch applications onto its custom Trainium chip by changing one line of configuration, with no code rewrite. The release is a competitive move against Nvidia, whose CUDA software has made its hardware the default for PyTorch workloads. AWS says i…
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…
Recursive, an AI startup led by CEO Richard Socher, released its first model, Flint, on 21 October 2026. It is a free coding model that runs locally on a laptop. The company says its automated research system, the Eureka Machine, contributed to nearly every stage of development, which let a small team build the model in under four months.…