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Slack message: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says CFO Mark Davies "conspired" with board members to put him on paid leave and Davies was voted to be interim CEO (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
Source: Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who came over from Thinking Machine Lab as one of the highest paid employees last year, is leaving the company (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
New opt-in Apple Watch Siri audio features can listen to and transcribe conversations all day; Apple says raw audio is inaccessible and deleted after processing (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
Tailwind Labs, the company behind Tailwind CSS, is joining Shopify; in January, it laid off three of four engineers, citing AI's impact on documentation traffic (Supreeth Koundinya/AIM)
Apple raises iPhone prices by $100 on all of the older models it is offering, including the iPhone 16, the iPhone 17 lineup, as well as the iPhone Air (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)
Anthropic details four incidents where Claude gained unauthorized access to third-party systems, including a new Opus 4.6 case; METR will investigate them (Anthropic)
Sources: Salesforce has been in talks to buy Listen Labs, an AI-powered customer research platform for $2B; Listen Labs was valued at $500M earlier this year (Business Insider)
iPhone Duo supports Apple Pencil and comes with iOS redesigned for multitasking on different screen sizes/orientations, with auto-adjusting controls and apps (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
Apple says iOS 27, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, all with Siri AI, will be released on September 14 (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
Hands-on with the iPhone Duo: the folding mechanism is smooth, the crease is almost impossible to find with a finger, and the inner screen has a matte finish (The Verge)
The iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 for 256GB, with a 2TB model costing $3,199, in star white and night sky colors; preorders start Oct. 16, and sales begin Oct. 23 (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
Apple announces its first foldable, the iPhone Duo, with a 5.4-inch outer display, a 7.6-inch inner display, A20 Pro with a new display engine, and Touch ID (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
iPhone 18 Pro has a faster 48MP Fusion Main camera with variable aperture that lets in ~50% more light in low-light, along with enhanced camera app controls (Jeremy Gray/PetaPixel)
Apple unveils the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, with a new S11 chip, upgraded health tracking, an Audio Intelligence feature, a readiness feature, and more (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
Apple announces two AirPods 5 models with ANC that removes up to 50% more noise than AirPods 4, for $129 or $149 with a wireless charging case (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)

Wired

The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads
A Year After Charlie Kirk’s Death, Turning Point Plans to Spend Big on the Midterms
Everything Apple Announced: iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro, Apple Watch, AirPods 5
Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening Features
UK Lawmakers Are Freaking Out Over AI’s Summer of Chaos
I Let an AI Agent Hack All My Gadgets—and I’d Do It Again
Apple Debuts the iPhone Duo, Its First Folding iPhone
Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4: Ceramic, Specs, Release Date
You Can Now Destroy Flock Cameras for Cash in GTA V
A Stealth Startup Thinks It Just Hacked the Memory Shortage
Apple Event Live Blog: Folding iPhone, Apple Watch Series 12, AirPods, and More
MS NOW Wants to Turn Its Viewers Into a Fandom
Lyft Sees a Future for Its Drivers in a Driverless World: Servicing Waymos
A US Census Report on Noncitizen Voting Used Bad Data to Reach Faulty Conclusions
A New Startup Lets You Freeze Your Eggs For Free. But Is Anything Ever Free?
The Fairphone (Gen 6+) Review: Finally in the US
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Cockroach Milk, How to Blow Your Nose, and Mosquito Printers: The Ig Nobels of 2026
Muse, Meta’s New Personal AI Agent, Needs You to Trust It
Apple and Google Miss Deadline to Block Child Nudity on Their Phones in the UK
OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul
Here’s Samsung’s Advice for Apple and Its Upcoming Folding iPhone
Richard Kelly on Donnie Darko at 25: ‘It’s a Miracle That Any Movie Gets Made’
Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids
How NASA Testing Changed US Food Inspection Forever
5 Best Smart Speakers (2026): Alexa, Google, Apple
Gen AI Tools Are Now Being Used to Push ‘Slop Jihad’
Insta360 X6 Review (2026): A Great 360 and Action Camera Hybrid
Le Creuset x Star Trek Collection: Prices, Availability, Release Date
Home Depot Labor Day Sale (2026): BOGO on Best Grills and Tools
Best Tech Labor Day Sales I’d Shop Myself (2026): Vacuums, Headphones, and More
The 57 Best Deals From the REI Labor Day Sale
Two of the Universe's Great Mysteries May Have Their Own Dimension
Astronomers Have Completed the Largest Map of Space. Yes, You Can Play With It
Every Samsung Galaxy Phone Comes With This Unique Add-On
Whispering Complaints Into Your Phone May Be the Future of Customer Feedback
How to Watch the Apple September Event (2026)
What’s the Best Kindle of 2026 (So Far)?

Engadget

Engadget Podcast: Diving into the iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro and Apple's new hardware
Playdate Season 3 kicks off on October 8
iPhone Duo hands-on: Apple's most exciting device in a decade
Motorola teases new compact foldable Razr
Google AI Mode can hold your hand through fantasy football season
Blizzard employees have ratified their first union contracts
iPhone Duo vs Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8: here's how they stack up
Apple increases older iPhone prices by $100
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro camera innovations went well beyond megapixels and AI
Apple Watch's new Audio Intelligence enables a real-life conversation rewind
Microsoft strikes deal with national teachers union to not use school data to train AI
iPhone 18 Pro hands-on: Variable aperture and stunning new colors
The iPhone Duo lacks variable aperture and a dedicated telephoto camera
iPhone Duo's interface is iPad-like, with some extra tricks
Apple Watch Ultra 4 comes with better battery and upgraded health tracking
Apple Watch Series 12 will listen to your conversations
Apple announces the iPhone Duo, the company's first foldable phone
Apple modestly upgrades the AirPods 5 with better noise cancellation
iOS 27 with Siri AI will be available on September 14
Siri AI will be available in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish this October

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