Tech 24 - October 5, 2026
Google starts selling its own laptops, Trump names his Super Intelligence Force, and Intel raises chip prices again today.
Good morning. Here's what happened in tech over the weekend.
Google Is Selling Laptops Now
The first Googlebooks went on sale in the US on Saturday. Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Australia get them today. Prices start at $899.
Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo are all building them, and Gemini runs the machine rather than sitting in a tab. Preorders opened on September 21.
Google has done hardware partnerships before and mostly let the partners own the branding. Putting its own name on five manufacturers' laptops is a different bet: that people now shop for the assistant, not the silicon.
Source: 9to5Google
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Trump announced the members in a Truth Social post on Sunday. DNI Jay Clayton leads it, alongside FTC chair Andrew Ferguson, Pentagon under secretary Emil Michael and OPM director Scott Kupor.
The group reports to Trump and chief of staff Susie Wiles. It follows the one-page accord six companies signed at the White House last week, which Trump called morally binding and which no agency enforces.
The administration has also told the government to say "Super Intelligence" instead of "AI." Four co-leads, no statute, nothing to enforce. Read it as a measure of attention, not of rules.
Source: CBS News
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Amazon Says It Has Stopped Making Towns Sign NDAs
AWS chief Matt Garman said the company no longer uses non-disclosure agreements with governments when it seeks data center approvals.
It will hold public open houses instead, and publish energy, water and carbon-free-energy figures each year. A program called Built Together puts more than $1 billion over five years into host communities.
More than a hundred data center moratoriums are under consideration across the country. Reading the room is cheaper than losing the sites.
Source: TechCrunch
A 9.8 FortiMail Flaw Is Being Exploited With No Patch
Attackers are writing arbitrary files to FortiMail systems through a path-traversal bug that needs no authentication at all. It scores 9.8.
Fortinet disclosed it on Thursday with no fix available. CISA added it to the known-exploited list and gave federal agencies until Sunday to apply workarounds. Fixes are promised in 8.0.2, 7.6.7 and 7.4.9.
Until those ship, the mitigation is blunt. Disable IBE support, and get the management interface off the public internet.
Source: eSecurity Planet
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