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Yesterday in tech, Oct 28: 1. Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro 2. Gemini 4 Carbon hits #1 on Artificial Analysis 3. Google Cloud up 103%, Alphabet down 10%+ 4. Azure: $33.2B a quarter 5. DOJ looks into Nvidia's Hugging Face deal Links below. #Apple #Gemini #Microsoft

Samsung's first clip-on earbuds: the Galaxy Buds On, $229, with a C-shaped cuff that sits on your ear and leaves the ear canal open. They go up against Sony and Bose open-fit models and ship November 6. Samsung says AI helped design them. #Samsung #GalaxyBuds

DoorDash has seen "several hundred" orders from third-party AI agents, CEO Tony Xu said on the Q3 earnings call. The company averages about 3 million deliveries a day, per its 2025 report. #DoorDash

Source: Bloomberg on the Galaxy Buds On: #GalaxyBuds

Source: DoorDash's Q3 earnings call, reported by TechCrunch: #DoorDash

Patch Oracle E-Business Suite now. Attackers are probing for CVE-2026-101767, a critical bug that lets anyone with HTTP access take over an unpatched server. Oracle fixed it Oct 20. Defused saw probes Oct 27; Shadowserver counts 670+ exposed EBS instances. #Oracle #OracleEBS

Pairs with complementary skills beat random pairs by 32% in a 100-person quiz, Google DeepMind's Alex Imas and Shane Legg say. Their model: smarter solo AI moves wages slowly; once agents coordinate well, jobs, wages and market concentration jump abruptly. #GoogleDeepMind #AGI

Source: BleepingComputer on the Oracle EBS scanning: #OracleEBS

Source: DeepMind Institute, The Economics of Intelligence (based on the paper Organizing Intelligence):

CleanMyMac maker MacPaw launched Eney, an AI assistant for Mac. It transcribes meetings without a bot, acts on anything you drag to its Option-W "wand" and asks before it sends or moves anything. $14.99/month after a 14-day trial. #MacPaw #Eney

The Biological Computing Co. launched mischief 1, an image-to-video model from $0.005 per second at 480p: a 5-second clip costs 2.5 cents. Built on Wan 2.2, it is 5x faster than that model, the company says. Live on OpenRouter and fal. #AIVideo #OpenRouter

Source: MacRumors on Eney: #Eney

Source: The Biological Computing Co. (PR Newswire):

The FBI seized the domain of Virtualine, a "bulletproof" host that sold space for "all illegal/black hat activities." Prosecutors say it ignored child-abuse complaints and laundered bitcoin paid through its "BTC [NO-AML]" service. No charges yet. #FBI #Virtualine

Cartesia's Managed Agents is #1 of 30 on Artificial Analysis' Speech Agent Arena, which ranks voice agents by blind preference votes. Cartesia also reports 87.4% accuracy on ServiceNow's EVA-Bench. It costs $0.03 per agent minute, plus LLM usage. #Cartesia #VoiceAI #AIAgents

Source: The Record on the Virtualine seizure: #Virtualine

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Etsy's Q3 revenue rose 11% to $692.5M, beating the $668M estimate. Net income hit $853.5M, lifted by the sale of Depop. Gross merchandise sales grew 9% to $2.65B, and active buyers went up. #Etsy #Depop

Apple closed its purchase of agentic AI data startup Ascend on June 30, according to an EU filing. It bought the company from Ascension Labs to improve its internal data management, AppleInsider reports. #Apple #Ascendio

Source: WSJ, Etsy sales rise as active buyers increase: #Etsy

Source: AppleInsider, citing the EU filing: #Apple

Cisco open-sourced Project Quarry, an engine that watches whole AI agent sessions, not single tool calls. Rules look like Snort or YARA: flag an agent that reads a credentials file, then sends data out. It ships plugins for Claude Code and Codex. #Cisco #ProjectQuarry

Trezor warns that a Trezor Safe 5 bought from its former reseller CryptoBilis may have a hardware implant that sends out the recovery phrase. It has not examined the device yet. Buyers since March 2026 should move funds to a new wallet with a new seed. #Trezor

Source: The Register on Cisco's Project Quarry: #ProjectQuarry

Source: Trezor's own blog post on the report: #Trezor

The new $99.99 Echo Dot doubles as a smart home hub and an Eero Wi-Fi extender, with Amazon's AZ3 chip and 50% more bass. Amazon also showed Alexa Home Map, a 3D map of your home to control Echo, Ring, lights and locks. iOS preview later this year. #Amazon #EchoDot #Alexa

The AI agent company Sierra has passed $400M in ARR, adding over $150M in Q3 alone, per its own blog. Growth is speeding up: five months from $200M to $400M, after six months from $100M to $200M. #Sierra

Source: The Verge's roundup of Amazon's Echo launch: #EchoDot

Source: Sierra's blog post on its growth: #Sierra

Amazon's first digital picture frame is out: the Alexa Photo Frame, $199.99 in black or $229 in birch or walnut. The 10-inch frame pulls from Amazon Photos, can let Alexa+ pick shots by lighting, smiles and season, and plays voice notes tied to photos. #Amazon #Alexa

Alpine Linux rebuilt its GitLab from scratch after someone tried to exploit CVE-2026-97229, a CVSS 10 GitLab bug, on Oct 20–21. The attack came close; Alpine found no sign it worked. Packages and releases are clean; all GitLab passwords were reset. #AlpineLinux #GitLab

Source: The Verge on the Alexa Photo Frame: #Alexa

CISA has added GitLab's CVE-2026-97229 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, so exploitation in the wild is now official. Federal agencies have until Nov 1 to patch. #GitLab #CISA

Amazon's new Echo Time is a $200 smart alarm clock with a 3.2-inch round touchscreen. Its smart alarm tries to wake you during lighter sleep, without a wearable. There's a Kids version too, and a $40 stand. #Amazon #EchoTime #Alexa

Source: CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: #CISA

Source: Engadget on the Echo Time: #EchoTime

China's memory chipmaker CXMT swung to a third-quarter net profit of 54.4 billion yuan, per Reuters, as AI-driven memory chip prices rose. #CXMT

Amazon put a camera in the Echo Studio. The new Echo Studio with Home Camera is $250, streams Live View to the Alexa app, works as a webcam for video calls and still keeps the big-bass speaker setup. The 2025 camera-free Studio stays at $220. #Amazon #EchoStudio #Alexa

Source: Reuters, CXMT Q3 results: #CXMT

Source: Engadget on the Echo Studio with Home Camera: #EchoStudio

Engadget's review of Lenovo's Googlebook 15 praises the hardware, but says Google's new laptop software still has first-generation growing pains. Its verdict: worth it for Android fans, and others should wait for a more mature Googlebook OS. #Googlebook #Lenovo

Source: Engadget's Googlebook 15 review: #Googlebook

Kioxia's non-GAAP operating profit for its fiscal Q2 was ¥1,988.3 billion, up 2181.1% year on year. Its Q3 guidance is ¥2,000.0 billion, up 1% even after a ¥55 billion FX headwind. Bloomberg says analysts expected about $14.9B for Q3. #Kioxia

Source: Kioxia's FY2026 Q2 IR presentation: #Kioxia