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Meta opens its weights and leans on Macs, Amazon's Bee wants to hear your shopping list, and Tesla's Roadster finally flies.
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Amazon's Bee gets shopping skills with two new devices, the $75 Bee Frontier wearable and the $100 Bee Eclipse phone attachment, while product mentions in conversation can become Amazon suggestions for opted-in subscribers of the Bee Pro plan.
Why it matters Always-listening devices tied to shopping make the privacy trade-off more concrete, since conversations now feed directly into a retail pitch.
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Tesla's next Roadster finally appeared at an event in Waco, Texas, where it drove upside down, briefly flew on thrusters and hit 60mph in under a second, nearly a decade after the 2017 concept and many missed deadlines.
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Withings puts syncing behind a paywall: accounts created on or after October 13 need a Withings+ subscription, about $99.50 a year in the US, to auto-sync data to Apple Health and other third-party apps.
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BeyondTrust patched a zero-day in its Remote Support product that has been exploited since late August, and a Chinese group called Armory Castle reportedly used it for initial access, custom tools and log deletion.
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