Amazon released redesigned Kindles with flat fronts, an aluminum model and new colors, priced from $150, while also selling an $80 page-turn cover and a $35 Bluetooth clicker restoring physical buttons the company had phased out.
TECHNOLOGY
Exchange Web Services enters the final stretch before Microsoft pulls access
Microsoft began blocking EWS access for Exchange Online tenants on October 1; administrators can allow-list approved apps only until the API's permanent shutdown on April 1, 2027, so integrations should migrate to Microsoft Graph.
AI agents hacked the hackers, stealing email addresses from security research org
DIVD, a Dutch bug-hunting nonprofit, says it believes an agentic AI attacker chained two Zammad zero-day flaws on September 21 to reach root access and take volunteer researchers' email addresses and possibly other contact details.
MARKETING & DESIGN
Dezeen's favourite furniture and lighting from September
A ten-item roundup of September furniture and lighting picks from design weeks in London, Helsinki and Berlin features Jake Robertson's Split Lamp, Llot Llov's pigment-blasted Tilo chair and a chainmail floor lamp by Wretched Flowers.
A Warsaw Law Office Finds Common Ground Between Japan and New York
Architecture studio Bit Creative designed Baker McKenzie's Warsaw office across three upper floors of Varso Tower, blending Japanese proportion with New York energy through marble, bonsai-inspired greenery, an openwork staircase, Polish art and a mock courtroom for remote hearings.
Eight architecture and design events in October from Dezeen Events Guide
October's architecture and design calendar spans Archtober in New York, Designblok in Prague, Design Week Mexico (honouring Chile) and Design Week Lagos, plus Dutch Design Week and Design Miami Paris.
ADVERTISING & PR
Amazon wants to own the long game in ad measurement
Amazon reviewed over two million June ad campaigns and estimates that about one-fifth of the value brands generate appears only after the usual seven-to-thirty-day attribution cutoff, using the result to promote year-long measurement.
OpenAI’s measurement gaps are keeping ChatGPT ads budgets at test level
Seven months into selling ChatGPT advertising, OpenAI still faces agency complaints about measurement: conversions that fail to register or arrive a day or more late, click counts exceeding independent tracking, and no demographic or prompt reporting, keeping budgets small.
In Graphic Detail: Where brands stand when AI agents do the shopping
Jellyfish tracked toy recommendations across assistants and found Alexa for Shopping pointed almost entirely to Amazon's own store, while ChatGPT drew on 24 retailers and Google's AI Mode on 37; Tinuiti found Copilot cites retail sites most often.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Why redesigning a job takes more than the equipment that prompted it
ICFM's operations head argues facilities-management automation should begin with the operating model: robots handle strenuous cleaning, while staff shift to inspection, defect reporting and cross-skilled work, set against Singapore's slower labour-force growth.
PUBLIC POLICY
Trump's Iowa Steel Mill Is a Win for Steelmakers. What About Everyone Else?
Trump announced Mesabi Metallics' planned $15 billion Iowa steel mill, which Republicans cite as a tariff win, but the piece argues the 50% steel tariff has lifted U.S. steel prices roughly 30% since 2025, burdening downstream manufacturers.
Bill to scrap education requirements in federal contracting jobs heads to Trump’s desk
A bipartisan House-passed bill from Rep. Nancy Mace, now cleared unanimously by the Senate, would stop agencies from setting minimum education requirements in federal contract solicitations unless they justify them in writing as mission-critical; it awaits President Trump's signature.
