Breaking news and updates from the world of technology.
Bumble will go private in a $1.3 billion all-cash deal with Ithaca Holdings, five years after its IPO, as revenue falls 15% and paying users decline amid a broader dating-app slump.
Apple's “Welcome home” event introduced HomeView, a $299 smart display with face recognition for up to six people, alongside a refreshed Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2.
Character Technologies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 12, seeking a court-supervised sale after a year of safety litigation involving minors. Disney is the $20 million stalking-horse bidder.
Google’s Fitbit Edge launches October 27 at $179.99 with a pill-shaped AMOLED display, built-in GPS, user-replaceable battery, and cross-platform Android and iOS support.
Meta’s Superintelligence Labs releases Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full — frontier AI models that nearly match Claude Opus 5.5 on benchmarks, with API access starting at $4 per million tokens.
Anthropic's annual usage policy refresh adds a rule against needless, repeated abuse of its models, taking effect November 12 — while explicitly protecting ordinary frustration and red-teaming.
A renewed wave of the GhostAction campaign used two compromised open-source maintainer accounts to push a credential-stealing workflow into hundreds of repositories, including one owned by Uber.
Security firm Censys found exposed servers running DarkSword and Coruna, a commercial iOS exploitation platform with 18+ modules built to steal recovery phrases from wallets including MetaMask, Coinbase, and Trust Wallet.
Amazon’s new Alexa Tablet lineup drops the Fire brand and opens the Google Play ecosystem to Amazon hardware for the first time, starting at $229.99 and going on sale October 14.
The Microsoft CEO says the AI industry must build containment and human override into every autonomous agent, arguing that trusting model outputs blindly is no longer viable.
Apple revealed in an EU filing that it is hiring select staff from Huxe, the AI podcast startup that shut down in May, and taking a non-exclusive license to its technology — a 'reverse acqui-hire' that sidesteps a full acquisition.
Cloudflare is bringing Ryan Dahl's Deno team onto its staff to merge their celld self-hosting tool into Workers, but the deal means Deno's independent runtime development stops in a year and Deno Deploy shuts down in six months.