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An unsettling Alexa Plus bug has seen some Amazon Echo smart home speakers reduced to saying – and sometimes singing – nothing but “lalala” on repeat for minutes at a time, often in the middle of conversations with users. When quizzed about the behavior, Alexa is apparently entirely unaware of what it’s been doing. The…
Google may be expanding its “Call for Me” AI feature beyond business calls so you can use it to send messages to friends and family. Android Authority reports finding a “Gemini Calling” introductory screen in an APK teardown with examples that include “Call Mom and tell her I will be 15 minutes late” and “Call…
There’s a growing need for long-duration storage to meet energy demand and balance out renewables on the grid. Energy Dome uses compressed carbon dioxide gas in its massive grid batteries, which can deliver power for up to 24 hours. As the world races to meet growing electricity demand, solar and onshore wind power have become…
Amazon Big Deal Days is dropping the price of the Samsung 9100 PRO SSD with 2TB of space, just in time for PC players looking to upgrade their rigs to fit in Gears of War: E-Day, which is launching today.
Google has temporarily stopped accepting product vulnerability reports through its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP). The post Google Narrows Open Source Bug Bounty Amid Wave of Invalid Automated Reports appeared first on SecurityWeek.
AI-powered attacks are fast, relentless, and automated. How security teams can keep up is top of mind, according to the latest Dark Reading reader poll.
ChatGPT 75% Market Share Bet Heats Up on Manifold as Traders Pile In. A Manifold contract asking whether ChatGPT will slip below 75% of the AI chatbot market in 2026 saw roughly 49% of its all-time volume trade in a single day, yet the price still sits at just 30% implied probability of YES as…
Elon Musk political party before Trump’s term ends? Traders just piled into the Manifold market. A contract asking whether Elon Musk will create a political party before Donald Trump’s presidency ends sits at roughly 25% implied probability of YES as of October 05, 2026, on Manifold. Around 35% of the market’s all-time volume changed hands…
Apple has not announced a chip called the M6. Yet by October 5, 2026, “apple m6 chip” is pulling real search volume and feeding a wave of speculation that has turned into one of the most-discussed hardware stories of the week. The reason is simple: according to MacRumors and 9to5Mac, both citing Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman,…
A New York startup founded by two former Google DeepMind researchers is preparing to release the West’s answer to China’s open-source AI dominance, and the timing could not be more pointed. Axios reported on October 4, 2026 that Reflection AI, backed by Nvidia and a roster of marquee investors, is readying its first open-weight foundation…
