From PC Mag: Get ready to pay more for Samsung’s flagship phones. The Korean smartphone maker just hiked prices across the Galaxy S26 lineup by $100.

Samsung hasn’t officially announced the hikes, but PhoneArena spotted them on the company’s online store. The base Galaxy S26 with 256GB of storage...

From Tom's Hardware: Nvidia has just launched the Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform — an open software platform and reference system design — to govern and secure autonomous AI agents. Announced on September 28, 2026, the platform is designed to establish strict security barriers outside of AI...

From PC Mag: UPDATE 9/30: Apple is set to launch its first smart home hub on Oct. 13, reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who says Apple could launch two different versions of the smart hub: one with an arm and a speaker at the bottom, resembling the iMac G4 from 2002, and another with just a wall...

From The Verge: After nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft, Ryan Roslansky is leaving the company. Roslansky, who until recently was the CEO of LinkedIn, was promoted to the head of Office last year and then took control of Microsoft Teams earlier this year. Roslansky’s departure has triggered...

From PC Mag: Amazon is refreshing almost its entire ereader line, rolling out new versions of the base Kindle, Paperwhite, and Colorsoft. I spent time with the updated Kindle lineup at Amazon's New York offices, and while the new bodies are undeniably sleeker, very little has changed under the hood...

From PC World: Firefox 157 is out for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android and the biggest change in this version is the new Nova design, which brings a more modern look to the browser. Mozilla has also fixed over 70 security vulnerabilities, and updates are also available for the Firefox ESR versions...

From CNET: WhatsApp announced in a blog post on Wednesday that it’s rolling out a new suite of parental controls to prevent teens from seeing content their parents may not want them to access.

The tools let parents choose who can see an underage user’s profile photo or invite those users to new...

From Tom's Hardware: President Donald Trump, several Cabinet members, and House Speaker Mike Johnson sat down with key AI leaders for high-level discussions on AI, as recent incidents such as the publicized Hugging Face hack have brought forth issues about AI safety. The meeting resulted in a...

From Tom's Hardware: President Donald Trump signed a directive telling federal agencies to start calling AI “Super Intelligence” after hosting a lunch at the White House with industry leaders discussing the technology and the risks that it carried. According to the executive order, the term...

From Forbes: Apple Pay has launched in one of the world’s largest digital payments markets, India, currently dominated by the state-backed United Payments Interface (UPI). The initial rollout is limited and arrives in partnership with Axis Bank, the country’s third-largest private lender. Customers...