Apple makes another push into the smart home market with HomeView

TechCrunch - Oct 13, 2026

Apple is taking a big swing at the smart home market with its latest product that competes with Amazon Echo Show and Google Nest Hub.

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Hurricane-fueled storms threaten six US states as severe weather sparks tornado warnings

Oct 13, 2026

Hurricane-fueled storms threaten six US states as severe weather sparks tornado warnings

Hurricane-fueled storms are set to barrel across a large swath of the US, unleashing hazardous weather for several days.

Super El Niño sets another record as it strengthens to 'unprecedented levels'

Oct 13, 2026

Super El Niño sets another record as it strengthens to 'unprecedented levels'

El Niño has continued to strengthen, with several key measures now in record territory. Simon King explores how it compares to previous events.

LG Smart TVs Vulnerable to Pre-Auth Root Takeover From Local Network

Oct 13, 2026

LG Smart TVs Vulnerable to Pre-Auth Root Takeover From Local Network

Three vulnerabilities in LG's webOS can be chained to give an attacker on the same local network root access to certain smart TVs without a PIN or any interaction from the owner. LG has issued a fix, according to an advisory published by SSD Secure Disclosure on October 12. The chain was tested on two TV models, the 32LQ636BPSA and the 27TQ600SW, running webOS 7.5.7-25 on firmware

Children asked to name Ealing's new beavers

Oct 13, 2026

Children asked to name Ealing's new beavers

Londoners aged four to 18 can suggest names for the kits, born at Paradise Fields, until 7 December.

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Dragon with 6,300 pounds of supplies to ISS

Oct 13, 2026

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Dragon with 6,300 pounds of supplies to ISS

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Dragon with 6,300 pounds of supplies to ISS SpaceX launched a Dragon CRS-35 cargo mission for NASA to the International Space Station on Tuesday. SpaceX’s 35th commercial resupply services mission utilized a Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket. The lift-off...

Can a video game really help zoos?

Oct 13, 2026

Can a video game really help zoos?

The second instalment of Planet Zoo champions raising animals to be released into wildlife reserves.

Why Samsung, SK Hynix and CXMT shares are under pressure despite strong AI demand

Oct 13, 2026

Why Samsung, SK Hynix and CXMT shares are under pressure despite strong AI demand

A sharp sell-off in Asian memory chip stocks this week signals growing investor doubts over whether the sector’s AI-driven profit boom can last, even as soaring prices drive strong quarterly earnings across the sector. Shares in market leaders Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix plunged in Seoul on Tuesday, extending a days-long slide that has also swept up Chinese rival ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT). Samsung and SK Hynix closed down 7.4 per cent and 10.1 per cent, respectively. The companies...

Product Walkthrough: Bitdefender AI Visibility and Control

Oct 13, 2026

Product Walkthrough: Bitdefender AI Visibility and Control

A user opens a browser tab, pastes data into a chat assistant, and nothing is installed. A developer adds a coding assistant as an editor extension, and nothing shows up in the installed programs list. Someone downloads a local model runtime, a program that runs models directly on the machine instead of sending data to an external service, because they were told not to send company data

Phase Eight and Hobbs owner hit by cyber-attack, as H&M probes separate hack claim

Oct 13, 2026

Phase Eight and Hobbs owner hit by cyber-attack, as H&M probes separate hack claim

TFG London has apologised to customers for disruption after it identified a "cybersecurity incident" on Sunday.

IMF global economic forecast shows 'resilience under strain'

Oct 13, 2026

IMF global economic forecast shows 'resilience under strain'

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts that global economic output will slow to 3.1% this year in spite of geopolitical disruptions, but warns that high inflation and AI share valuations could be risks for financial stability. Also in this edition: Russia says it has exported $320 billion worth of oil and gas to European countries since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, despite sanctions. Plus: Dangote refinery extends its IPO deadline by two weeks to attract even more retail investors.

How a Logging Industry Downturn Fuels Wildfires

Oct 13, 2026

How a Logging Industry Downturn Fuels Wildfires

Loggers are finding it impossible to profitably harvest some federal forests. That leaves more fuel for fires to accumulate.

China’s Iluvatar CoreX’s first AI computing supernode squeezes most GPUs in 1 system

Oct 13, 2026

China’s Iluvatar CoreX’s first AI computing supernode squeezes most GPUs in 1 system

Chinese AI chipmaker Iluvatar CoreX debuted its first supernode system, a computing system that squeezes 144 graphics processing units (GPUs) into a single cabinet, breaking an industrial record. The new product, dubbed the Tiangai 300 IXL144, was unveiled on Monday at the 2026 China International Industry Fair (CIIF) in Shanghai. Designed for large-scale AI model training and inference, the system packs 144 GPUs and 18 central processing units (CPUs) into a single cabinet and boasts around 10.1...

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