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The Windows feature takes a slice of VRAM that 6GB and 8GB graphics cards can't easily spare. If you dig through Windows 11's graphics settings, you'll come across a toggle for hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling, or HAGS, that most people never tou...
Valve announced its new Steam Machine last November, bringing a console-style way to play your Steam library on the TV, much like Sony's PlayStation or Microsoft's Xbox. If you've spent years building a massive Steam library and mostly play at a desk...
Windows 10 officially reached end of support in October 2025, and while Extended Security Updates are still available for a fee, the free update cycle is dead. It's time to move to Windows 11. If your PC is officially supported, the upgrade is straig...
I have 2TB of combined SSD storage on my PC, and although it's never felt lacking, my C: drive is frequently running out of free space. I like to reserve most of my storage for my games, so my system partition is just over 200GB. Every few months, I ...
It's true that a lot of modern computers don't have enough ports for all the peripherals you might need, and that's especially true of laptops. Many of us turn to solutions like USB-C hubs and Thunderbolt docks to increase the number of accessible po...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what has been described as a "highly sophisticated infection chain" targeting government organizations in Asia. The activity, detailed by Kaspersky this week, targeted a custom Windows 10 build use...
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has officially attributed the theft of more than $6 billion in virtual assets to TraderTraitor, a North Korea-aligned elite hacking group also tracked as Jade Sleet, Pressure Chollima, PUKCHONG, Slow Pis...
Malicious code on the website of prediction market Polymarket sold some signed-in traders' positions and moved their funds to the hackers on October 29. The code had replaced a page-speed script that the site loaded from an outside company. Polymark...
A critical flaw in Canonical's LXD and MicroCloud let an attacker log in as a trusted client without holding that client's private key. To do it, the attacker had to reach their HTTPS API over the network and have the trusted client's public certific...
OpenAI has just confirmed that it's rolling out ChatGPT Work capabilities directly into regular Chat, while also combining usage allowances across ChatGPT and Codex. In an email seen by BleepingComputer, OpenAI noted that it will test a combined exp...
Hackers attempted to exploit a critical GitLab vulnerability in Alpine Linux's development infrastructure on October 20 — 21, prompting the open-source project to rebuild its GitLab server and reset all passwords over concerns of a possible comprom...
Northstar Security, a startup developing AI agents for security teams, has emerged from stealth mode with $7 million in seed funding. Wing Venture Capital led the round. MVP, Outliers, and cybersecurity veterans Gerhard Eschelbeck, Renaud Deraison, ...
The FBI says North Korea was behind the massive $6.3 billion crypto heist that hit Binance on October 29th. The FBI labeled the activity "TraderTraitor" and said that it had observed actors it has connected to hack converting the tokens to Ethereum a...
Bigger isn't always better, but when it comes to space exploration, it just might be. With both stages stacked, the current SpaceX Starship launch vehicle stands at 407 feet. It's taller than the tallest known living tree, Hyperion, and one-third ta...
The AUX jack survives on older Echo speakers. The voice commands that made it convenient don't. Amazon has disabled Alexa voice controls for the AUX input on several older Echo speakers. An Amazon email shared by a customer and reported by Ars Techn...
How owning a 3D printer can save you some big cash in your hobbies NASA's 3D printers hosted on the International Space Station (ISS) print tools and replacement parts on demand. Here on Earth, 3D printers can sometimes make expensive components and...
Strava's data serves as the backbone for "personalized" insights for subscribers. ### What you need to know - Strava announced that it's rolling out a Connected Apps experience with Google's Gemini for subscribers. - Once connected, users will rec...
No better way to end the week than this. ### What you need to know - Nothing announced that its OS 5.0 update (Android 17) is rolling out today (Oct. 30) for the Phone 3a and Phone 4a series. - The update brings a hefty changelog of fixes and twea...
The OPPO Find X10 Ultra might be testing MediaTek power, but Qualcomm isn't done yet. OPPO could be planning a big change for its next flagship camera. The upcoming Find X10 Ultra is reportedly being tested with MediaTek's Dimensity 9600 Pro, a mov...
There is no lack of frustrating and unwanted features on Windows, and Search is perhaps one of the worst offenders. Your experience with Windows Search has probably revolved around irrelevant results, missing files, and painfully slow performance. Wh...
### Summary - Andy's Tech Lab turned an Echo Dot 3 (2018) into a local Home Assistant voice satellite by replacing Amazon firmware. - They soldered a USB to a Dot's board, then rooted it and used Claude to make the Echo Dot Assist software. - This...
I've seen this happen more than once: a laptop with a beefy RTX 40-series GPU chugs through a game or renders video like it's running on a toaster. The culprit is almost always Windows happily defaulting to the integrated graphics. Laptops from best ...
### Summary - Konsole is nearly 30 years old; Kwi is a fresh, experimental terminal for KDE. - Kwi uses Qt Quick GPU rendering and libghostty-vt, claiming 3-35x faster rendering than Konsole. - It's an experiment, easy to embed in Qt Quick apps ...
### Summary - Jet Studio delivers a Godot-like editor for building and flashing 2D/3D games to the ESP32-S3. - Demos hit high frame rates: a 2D shooter hit 85 FPS, an Outrun-style racer at 65 FPS, and a 3D physics test at 55 FPS. - The editor has ...
One busy week after another for Apple has left our heads spinning, with this week seeing several Mac updates as well as a revamped iPad mini. All of this week's craziness comes right on the heels of last Friday's iPhone Duo launch, not to mention al...
Apple has published an EU energy label for the iPad mini 8 that reveals the device has a battery capacity of 4,900 mAh, which is slightly lower than the 5,034 mAh capacity of the previous model's battery. Apple's website lists identical battery life...
Broadcasts app developer Steve Troughton-Smith has shared a Halloween treat for us today: a tour of the software on Apple's upcoming HomeView smart home hub. Apple has already demoed the HomeView to selected tech reporters and content creators, but T...
Until the end of today, Performance Knit and UltraPlush ear cushions with matching headbands for the Beats 360 are available on Apple's online store in the U.S. for $9.99 each, with customers limited to three kits per order. Lower pricing extends to ...
The Apple Watch Ultra 4 has dropped to $699.99 on Amazon, down from $799.00. This is a match of the all-time low price on the new Ultra 4, which just launched in September. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you...
### Tom's Hardware Verdict The ASRock B860 Challenger Wifi is a solid $149 budget motherboard that handles our Intel Core Ultra 270K Plus without issue, but its USB is capped at 5 Gbps, sports weaker power delivery, and its BIOS is behind the times....
Grab a new 3D printer this Halloween weekend, with prices as low as $199 — big discounts from Elegoo, Creality, Prusa and more, with filament and resin printers and consumables on sale Upgrade your hobbyist setup with one of these 3D printer sal...
'Ghost Students' using AI to apply for student loans with stolen identities — DOJ's Operation Ghostbusters busts $200 million ring faking online college attendance, unsuspecting victims saddled with student debt they didn't sign up for The U.S. ...
Just uncalled-for. On October 29, bedrock fanfiction website Archive of Our Own (AO3) was taken down for maintenance that was initially predicted to last 12 hours. Later that day, the estimated downtime was upped to two to four weeks. On October 30,...
The reason and timeline for restoration were not disclosed. As reported by Eurogamer, FromSoftware has shut down multiplayer (invasions, co-op, messages) in Dark Souls 2 and 3 for an indeterminate amount of time due to an undisclosed "server issue."...
Structural perfection. Nine years ago, Matt Filer officially began work on the OpenCAGE mod tools for Alien: Isolation — following two-and-a-half years of work on prototype versions. During that time the tools have been available for anyone to use...
Another nail in Motorsport's coffin. It's hard to overstate Dan's impact over the past 27 years. From shipping Project Gotham Racing on the original XBOX in 2001 to leading the creation of Forza, founding Turn 10 Studios and appearing so many times ...
Ford keeps CarPlay and Android Auto in its affordable EV truck, while Slate expects you to bring the screen yourself. Both Ford and Slate are pursuing the same enticing goal: an electric pickup starting below $30,000. The Blank Slate Truck starts at...
Surely, one of these is the actual, no joke, FINAL fantasy? As reported by MMORPG.com, Square Enix has delayed Final Fantasy 14's Evercold expansion to February 2 from its initial January launch window. Preorders for the add-on will open up on Wedne...
Director of both games, Maddy Thorson, confirmed the intent on BlueSky. Earlier this month, Big Walk developer House House explained why their co-op puzzle adventure wouldn't be available for sale on Xbox: Microsoft's gaming division is a priority t...
The volunteer team is seeking pro bono legal aid. The case as presented by Rebelzize seems fairly open and shut: A volunteer team being sued by a former volunteer over contributions excised from the project? There are potential material benefits to ...
Most connection problems come down to a few settings. Apple AirPods are usually very easy to pair with an iPhone, especially with features like quick pairing and auto-switch. However, it's not uncommon to run into some issues — your AirPods migh...
Game-changing tricks to optimize your Netflix streaming. By now, you might think you know all the tricks of the trade for optimizing Netflix, one of the best streaming services. But there are plenty of hidden Easter eggs you might not know when it c...
Those little holes play more of a role in making the plug than they do in your home's wall outlets Of all the things in the world to sit back and contemplate, holes in electrical plug prongs are one of those great mysteries. It's right up there with...
After hackers stole a shocking $6.3 billion from Binance customers in a record-breaking crypto heist, the company's CEO says that 90 percent of the funds have been replaced, and the company plans to cover the remaining 10 percent as well. Binance is ...
Binance said Saturday that it has covered up to 90% of the roughly $6.3 billion in token assets stolen from its hot wallets in a record crypto theft announced Thursday. Separately, the FBI said late Saturday that it has determined North Korea was re...
Galaxy S27 leak suggests Samsung has no plans to fix slow charging. Samsung's next entry-level flagship is undoubtedly on the horizon, but if you were hoping for a major charging upgrade, you might want to temper your expectations. UL Solutions (De...
Samsung is pulling the plug on Galaxy News after years of rebrands. Samsung is about to kill another built-in Galaxy feature, and this time it's the news feed that many users probably haven't noticed anymore. In a confirmation from the company spot...
There are more people running local large language models now than perhaps ever before, especially now that they're so accessible for a wide range of hardware configurations, and easy to set up thanks to runtimes like Ollama and LM Studio. Cloud-base...
That hunk of plastic collecting dust in the basement might be more useful than you realized. Being around technology or computers for any extended period of time means that you've likely accumulated a decent amount of hardware over the years. With n...
Most stuck screens have a simple fix. There are a number of reasons that can make your phone's screen unresponsive to your touch. Sometimes it's a simple thing, like an app freezing. Other times, it's something more serious, like your phone falling ...
The list of Galaxy Watches not getting One UI 9 Watch is mercifully small. In August, Samsung released the Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, which came with its latest One UI 9 Watch operating system. The company has also been releasing beta ...
Tailscale feels like magic when you first start using it. You install it on your phone and desktop, and connecting the two from anywhere feels almost too easy, but when you try and open a web interface for a service hosted on your NAS, or check a hom...
Being able to replace Windows with Linux has been the dream of many, including myself, for a long time. But software compatibility has always been the biggest hurdle. The Wine compatibility layer is great, but it won't make the latest version of Phot...
### Summary - Experimental Switch 2 emulator Eglantine runs Mario Kart World at decent/full speed on powerful PCs. - Eglantine is FOSS and derived from Eden/Yuzu/Sudachi. - Switch 2 emulation is moving extremely fast following the recent release o...
I've tried plenty of note-taking apps, but managing my notes shouldn't mean jumping between different tools or giving up control over my data. I wanted something flexible enough for everyday use without being tied to a single company's ecosystem. Tha...
Finding a real security flaw and getting paid for it is an appealing goal when you are learning cyber security. Bug bounties give you a chance to test your skills on real software and help its developers make it safer. Headlines about programs closi...
Reddit announced in a post by co-founder Steve Huffman that the site will gradually become a "logged-in service," offering limited access to visitors without accounts. For the past 20 years, the discussion platform has let users browse almost all it...
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A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a recently patched Android vulnerability, dubbed "SMS of Death" and tracked as CVE-2026-58882, that lets attackers remotely disrupt cellular service or crash phones by sending a specia...
Cloud application hosting platform Northflank is warning customers to rotate all credentials and secrets stored on its platform after a security breach led to unauthorized use of customers' AI API keys. Northflank is a cloud platform that allows dev...
Blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis has disclosed a security incident after attackers used what it describes as "offensive agentic techniques" to gain unauthorized access to its internal systems and tools. The company says some customer informa...
Anthropic warns that future is soon, but the threat is less novel than it seems. Anthropic's Frontier Red Team recently published research suggesting that small AI models may be only months away from replicating and spreading across insecure devices...
There are multiple ways to adjust the audio output on your Android phone. A great pair of headphones or in-ear monitors alone isn't enough to get the best sound quality your Android phone can deliver. Digital audio is deceptively complex — you'r...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following active exploitation in the wild. ### The vulner...
American blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis said it was the target of a cybersecurity incident in which an external actor accessed non-sensitive customer data. However, the company noted that the breach did not result in unauthorized access to its...
The new robots.txt directive will prevent the companies from scraping content for generative AI training. Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft have committed to honoring a new robots.txt directive, which will allow publishers to specify their pre...
From up to 6TB of storage, you'll now only get a shared storage space of 2TB. Earlier this month, Microsoft announced an important update to its 365 Family plan that could change the way you use the service. A Family subscription now comes with 2TB ...
Be willing to trade flexibility for simplicity. All-in-one (AIO) PCs pack an entire computer into a monitor, so you don't need a tower, extra cables or the desk clutter of a traditional desktop setup. They're not the same as mini PCs, which are smal...
A Syrian man tied to the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has received a 42-month prison sentence in the US, more than 12 years after he was first charged. Ahmad Umar Agha, who used the online handle Th3Pr0, was sentenced on Thursday by a federal court ...
When Windows 11 arrived on the block, people running Windows 10 with older hardware hit a brick wall. Windows 11 requires a CPU with TPM 2.0, and if yours didn't have it, you had to perform workarounds just to get it installed. The alternative was to...
Threat actors are launching about 8,226 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks per hour, Cloudflare revealed Thursday. The web infrastructure and security company said it autonomously mitigated 18.2 million network-layer (L3) DDo...
A malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker's code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it, allowing them to read their private conversations, researchers at the security firm Parameter showed. The researchers reported the flaw thr...
- Published Two major blockchain analytics firms say they have robust intelligence pointing to a North Korean state-backed group as the likely culprits in the $6.3bn (£4.7bn) hack of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. The Lazarus...
Despite good initial hardware, the Googlebook OS still needs a lot of work. It's somehow been almost two and a half years since Google said it would migrate its laptop operating system from ChromeOS to Android, and the results of that effort are fin...
The beta feature makes it easier to stay on top of reports and account strikes. Bluesky is rolling out a new feature today that will allow users to track the platform's various moderation actions in one place. The new "moderation inbox" is available...
Snap is now the only defendant in the case. Meta has reached a settlement in another social media addiction lawsuit in a move that will allow it to avoid a trial that was set to kick off next month. Snap is now the only defendant in the case, which ...
Champions adjust. In a new interview with VGC, FPS legend John Romero revealed how things were going at Romero Games, the studio he leads alongside his wife, veteran designer Brenda Romero. After its unannounced shooter project was canceled by Xbox ...
In orbit and planetside, the MMO's player base is honoring its most-loved captain. Yesterday, the world received the sad news that legendary stage and screen actor Patrick Stewart had died at the age of 86 following a "brief and poignant journey wit...
This is where I'd put the GTA 6 PC release date, if we had one. I've made peace with our 2026 list and accepted that a few of my most anticipated releases may wind up on our new PC games 2027 calendar instead. That's good news for me — legend has ...
Verse of the Veilands will radically change the structure of the game so it's easier for new players to follow. After three years of invite-only playtests, Soulframe is opening its doors to everyone next week on November 6. If you've been waiting to...
Two days after Steam admitted it has an AI slop problem, Roblox basically bragged about the same thing. Valve recently admitted that it has a problem with AI slop games and clones flooding Steam — it doesn't know what to do about it just yet, but ...
The local AI landscape is moving at a breakneck pace. As a matter of fact, it's moving ahead so quickly that anyone on a llama.cpp build from just a couple of months ago could already be behind. New releases continue to bring new features that can ch...
AAA games becoming free-to-play right inside Chrome couldn't possibly have been on anyone's 2026 bingo card, but this year continues to deliver more strange news on the gaming front. Now, games that you'd otherwise find in your Steam library are avai...
Security researchers at Anthropic have developed an exploit for a critical Linux kernel vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute commands as root on servers running Multipath TCP (MPTCP) listeners. The flaw, tracked as...
Cybersecurity In-Depth: Feature articles on security strategy, latest trends, and people to know. A recent law enforcement operation to dismantle harmful scam centers was a big success. A threat intelligence expert walks us through what happened and...
Two serious security issues hit Cursor on the same day, highlighting the risks for AI-powered integrated development environments (IDEs). Anthropic's official Claude Code extension for the Cursor VS Code Marketplace was hijacked and swapped out for ...
Millions of subscribers plug in an all-in-one gateway provided by a lot of major ISPs, assuming its wireless radios exclusively service their private household devices. However, if you scan local 2.4GHz and 5GHz RF channels, you will often reveal sec...
TVs aren't exactly cutting-edge, and they rarely have inputs that can keep up with the latest, power-hungry peripherals. Most of the time, they don't even have enough power to run everything I plug into them. I've run into this problem often when plu...
LiveWire cited 'recurring operating losses' despite an 80 percent US market share in its segment. Harley-Davidson's electric motorcycle spinoff LiveWire has raised "substantial doubt" about its ability to continue as a going concern, the company sai...
The adaptation has a fittingly strange tagline: "My mom became a crater." Kojima Productions has offered the first proper peek at the Death Stranding anime with a teaser trailer. The brief look at Death Stranding Isolations has a few motifs from the...
The folks behind Wikipedia say that an extreme decision in either direction could threaten the open web. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Wikimedia Foundation has weighed in on the copyright lawsuit launched by The New ...
No major changes here, but tvOS 27.2's new features are welcome additions all the same. Apple recently released iOS 27.2 to the public alongside macOS 27.2 and tvOS 27.2. For Apple TV, this was the first update since tvOS 27 debuted in September, be...
A Trezor Safe 5 hardware wallet bought from the reseller CryptoBilis has an extra circuit board that sends out the recovery phrase over a mobile network, a customer has reported. Trezor has not yet examined the device. It is telling everyone who bou...
Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a high-severity security flaw in WordPress Core shortly after patches were released. The vulnerability, which does not have a CVE identifier, relates to a case of remote code execution impacting...
TeamViewer has fixed a flaw that lets the machine being controlled in a remote session attack the computer that connected to control it. In a TeamViewer session, the computer that connects and takes control is the viewer, and the machine it controls ...
Chinese state-sponsored threat actors have been observed using a Go-based artificial intelligence (AI)-powered penetration testing framework called ARTEX in attacks aimed at high-value targets simultaneously. The activity has been attributed by Crow...
A malicious version of Anthropic's Claude Code VS Code extension was distributed through Cursor's extension marketplace for approximately 11 hours on October 29, exposing up to 5,000 developers to malware designed to install persistent SSH backdoors....
Hardware wallet device maker Trezor has received credible reports about a suspected hardware crypto-theft implant in a Trezor Safe 5 sold by its reseller CryptoBilis in Southeast Asia. Although the company has not yet received the device to examine ...
The alert is critical. The fix is known. And the ticket sits in a queue for days. Security teams understand the risk, but the people who keep applications available need proof that the change won't break anything. Their concerns are practical. An IP...
A security firm patched a decade-old app to prevent the takeover of millions of machines, highlighting that abandoned domains remain a boon to attackers. When managed security service provider Eye Security spotted an odd update process in a client's...
Breaking cybersecurity news, news analysis, commentary, and other content from around the world, with an initial focus on the Middle East & Africa, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America. I ricercatori non riescono a spiegare del tutto perché l...
SS7 and Diameter signaling attacks can track, intercept, and impersonate you. Here's how they work and how to stop them. Your phone can be tracked, your SMS two-factor codes can be intercepted, and your number can be impersonated, all without malwar...
The FBI has seized virtualine.net, the domain of a Russian-speaking bulletproof hosting services provider associated with various cybercriminal operations. According to court documents, Virtualine, also known as Secury, Massgod, Spamhouse, Lanedo, a...
For decades, passwords have been one of cybersecurity's most persistent weaknesses. Users forget them, reuse them, share them, and surrender them to convincing phishing sites. Attackers steal credentials, automate credential stuffing, and increasingl...
SecurityWeek's weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage yet remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories acros...
Threat actors have been hammering servers vulnerable to PHP2Shell for over a week, but only a few successful compromises have been confirmed to date. Standing out are Palo Alto Networks firewalls, which have been rooted by a China-linked hacking gro...
Hackers whom researchers have linked to North Korea stole roughly $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance, in the largest such theft in history, the exchange said on Thursday. The attackers compromised several systems, including a Binance engine...
As 2027 approaches, leaders and practitioners are preparing for a slate of cybersecurity conferences that could fill their calendars. Government officials, industry executives and security experts from around the world will convene throughout 2027 to...
A suspected China-nexus actor chained flaws in PHP2Shell with a privilege escalation bug in the Linux kernel to gain root access to Palo Alto Networks firewalls, according to researchers at Dream and PAN Unit 42. The attacks reached more than two doz...
Crypto firms and law enforcement are racing to recover more than $6 billion worth of cryptocurrency stolen from Binance before hackers manage to hide the funds. The firms say they're in a "cat and mouse game" against alleged North Korean hackers who...
I am going to create an environment that is so loving. Anyone tells you that love cannot be measured. That it's a feeling deeper than any other emotion which has bound humanity together since the dawn of time and therefore cannot be quantified is ly...
A DevOps engineer's compromised laptop may have been the first domino to fall in this record-breaking heist. Maybe I've been too harsh on those mandatory cybersecurity training courses that my company keeps reminding me to do. What looks to be the l...
"It's something we talked about." World of Warcraft: Forever is "realmless", which has a couple of advantages for oceanic (OCE) players — who so often get the short end of the stick when it comes to MMORPGs. Blizzard has servers in Australia, so O...
Drupal has warned that threat actors are exploiting a "highly critical" security flaw in its Commerce Core component. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-118539 (CVSS score: N/A), is a case of missing authorization affecting Commerce Core version...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that a trojanized version of Anthropic's official Claude Code extension was distributed through the Cursor Marketplace as a legitimate update, attempting to install a persistent SSH backdoor on affected system...
Ahmad Umar Agha, a Syrian Electronic Army hacker known online as "Th3Pr0," has been sentenced by a U.S. federal court to 42 months in prison for his role in a hacking conspiracy that targeted Western news outlets. The conspiracy was organized and le...
Threat actors started exploiting a new high-severity WordPress vulnerability within hours of patches rolling out, Defiant warns. Patched on October 28 in WordPress 7.1.4, the security defect impacts the WordPress update process and can be exploited ...
Cybersecurity In-Depth: Feature articles on security strategy, latest trends, and people to know. As artificial intelligence squeezes early-career learning opportunities, capture-the-flag contests could be one way to help pick up the slack. Artific...
Breaking cybersecurity news, news analysis, commentary, and other content from around the world, with an initial focus on the Middle East & Africa, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America. The "FrostyNeighbor" advanced persistent threat (APT) la...
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, has linked the theft of about $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency to a DevOps engineer's compromised laptop. The crypto exchange said the access let attackers submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions after...
Drupal warned admins to patch a critical access bypass vulnerability in the Commerce Core module that attackers are exploiting in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2026-118539, this flaw stems from a missing authorization weakness that can be abused by unaut...
Microsoft has resolved Always On VPN connection failures triggered after installing the September 2026 Windows 11 security updates. The Always On VPN remote access solution runs in the background and establishes secure tunnels back to the user's cor...
Attackers have started exploiting a maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability patched earlier this month, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Tracked as CVE-2026-97229, this critical security flaw was discovered ...
If you ask some prominent US politicians who won the 2020 presidential election, you might get some weasely answers that fail to directly acknowledge Joe Biden's win that November. If you ask Google's AI Mode the same question, you might get an evasi...
Irregular evaluated Zhipu AI's open-weight model GLM-5.3 across 13 offensive cyber scenarios using CyScenarioBench, the company's framework for measuring an LLM's ability to plan and execute multistage attacks under realistic constraints. The model ...
A tampered build of Anthropic's Claude Code extension for VS Code-compatible editors planted an SSH backdoor on developers' machines, researchers at macOS security firm Phorion have found. The company spotted the malicious package, version 2.1.313, ...
Bedrock Data has announced AI-assisted remediation, which federates the work of fixing data exposure to the data owners across the enterprise. Bedrock Data discovers who owns each exposed dataset, opens a ticket for that owner in the Jira or ServiceN...
Shufti launches Know Your Agent (KYA), an AI agent verification solution designed to verify autonomous AI agents acting on behalf of individuals and businesses. Agentic commerce enables AI agents to open accounts, place orders, and move funds for the...
A Syrian man who used a hijacked news agency Twitter account to post a fake report of explosions at the White House has been sentenced to 42 months in prison, the US Department of Justice has announced. Ahmad Umar Agha, also known as "Th3Pr0", was s...
A high-severity vulnerability in the popular remote-access tool TeamViewer could be exploited to take over a viewer's (an IT support technician's) system, cybersecurity firm Remedio warns. Tracked as CVE-2026-111585 (CVSS score of 8.8), the flaw is ...
A recent code execution vulnerability in GitLab was exploited one week after disclosure in a failed attack against Alpine Linux's instance. Tracked as CVE-2026-97229 (CVSS score of 10/10), the flaw stems from insufficient regular expression validati...
Polymarket halted trading on its international platform on October 29 after users reported unauthorized withdrawals. According to the prediction market's status page, the exchange was first switched to cancel-only mode, with relayer actions suspende...
Drupal is urging online store owners to patch a highly critical access bypass vulnerability in the Commerce Core module, warning that it is being exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2026-118539, the issue affects a contributed module that adds e-c...
In the future, you won't be able to use Reddit without logging in. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman confirmed the impending change in a letter (PDF) to shareholders today about Q3 performance. He said that Reddit is shifting "to a logged-in-only experience,...
This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Hello, this is Leonie Kidd with today's edition of Morning Squawk. It's a Friday fright for markets before Halloween has even gotten underway. Tech ...
- Published Google-owner Alphabet lost just over $500bn (£374bn) in value on Thursday after it revealed its own artificial intelligence (AI) summaries were hitting search advertising revenue. Chief business officer Philipp Schindler said Google's "...
Cryptocurrency firms and investigators are racing to freeze and track down billions of dollars of stolen digital cash following what appears to be the largest crypto heist of all time. On Thursday, starting at around 4pm ET, hackers started quickly s...
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange has been hit by an industry-record $6.3bn (£4.7bn) hack, with experts identifying North Korea as the likely culprit. Binance has scrambled to freeze the affected assets, with about $3bn located so far. The...
- Published Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, has been hit by what is believed to be the largest crypto hack ever at $6.3bn (£4.7bn). Crypto is a type of digital asset which does not exist physically like cash or coins. Instead, people ...
Binance has disclosed that $6.3 billion worth of crypto funds have been stolen from the platform, in what's believed to be the biggest cryptocurrency hack on record. In a series of updates posted to X, the crypto exchange said that user funds are saf...
As a '90s kid, I took my Walkman everywhere I went. One thing I remember vividly was the headset: Sony made a range of on-ear headsets with orange ear pads and a thin, mostly decorative headband. These things were everywhere, and the Walkman paired w...
### Summary - Cheap vintage rotary phones make great shells for DIY projects - easy to find at flea markets or online. - Drop a Raspberry Pi and USB sound card inside to turn it into a voice AI using Google Gemini 3.8 Live. - Pick up the receiver ...
Stewart died at age 86 after "a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's Disease." Patrick Stewart, the classically-trained actor who gained worldwide fame in the 1980s as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation and later as Pro...
### Summary - Claude-assisted TabStationToo ports PCSX2 to run inside a Chrome browser tab. - It runs locally, with no data uploaded; you must supply your own PS2 BIOS and ROMs. - Not identical to native PCSX2 performance, but a compelling browser...
Cryptocurrency giant Binance said on Thursday that a "security incident" on its platform has impacted about $6.3 billion worth of assets. The world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange said nearly $3 billion of those assets have been frozen on-chain so...
- Published Cryptocurrency giant Binance said on Thursday that $6.3bn (£4.7bn) of digital assets have been impacted by what has been described as the "largest hack in history". The world's biggest crypto exchange said about half of those assets hav...
I used to rely on a handful of apps to keep my digital life organized. One for taking notes, another for managing tasks, and a few more for planning projects and tracking everyday activities. While each app served its purpose, constantly switching be...
Some attacks take real skill. Others just need someone to leave a door open. This week has both. Exposed passwords, old bugs still getting exploited, and trusted software doing things it shouldn't. There's a strange mix of clever tricks and careless...
The company is starting with tests outside of the US. Reddit will no longer allow logged out users or those without an account to view content on its platform, CEO Steve Huffman shared in an update. The change, which the company said will initially ...
The site's data is reportedly intact, but the cause of the outage is still unknown. Archive of Our Own (AO3), one of the best-known homes for people who read and write fan fiction online, is currently down for maintenance. The Organization for Trans...
Trying to make everyone happy could make no one happy. VRChat has published a support post explaining the results from a survey of users regarding artificial intelligence on the platform. Despite 95 percent of its respondents stating that they want ...
Twitter Circle, anyone? Threads is experimenting with a way to more privately share posts with smaller groups of followers. The app said it's testing "Threads Friends" in Ireland, Italy and Japan.The feature is basically like a "close friends" list ...
Karyn Kusama is attached to direct. Indie horror game Mouthwashing is making the jump to film. Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the rights to the game from developer Wrong Organ, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and Karyn Kusama, directo...
Looking at the largest NYC startup funding rounds from September 2026, leveraging AlleyWatch's proprietary funding data, we've analyzed the most significant venture capital deals of the month. Beyond the raw funding numbers, this month's analysis inc...
US startups raised $27.89B across 754 rounds in September 2026, up 54% from August's $18.1B and 9.8% below September 2025's $30.91B. Four rounds of $1B or more, led by Crusoe's $3.9B, took $9.90B, or 36% of the month. Late-Stage rounds drew $19.84B, ...
Trades businesses can't hire technicians fast enough. Jobs for the Future projects about 1.7 million skilled trades openings a year through 2035, yet formal training programs prepare only about 55 people for every 100 workers needed. Most AI built fo...
Prediction market platform Polymarket temporarily suspended trading on Thursday after hackers compromised a third-party service to distribute cryptocurrency-draining JavaScript, with approximately $2.5 million in assets traced to a suspected attacker...
Japan Airlines (JAL) has announced that a data breach at Amadeus's Passenger Service System exposed the data of about 92,000 customers. JAL Group, which operates the airlines JAL and Japan Transocean Air, uses the system to handle passenger reservat...
A cryptomining and backdoor campaign that abuses Hugging Face model repositories came back within days of being taken down. Its most popular malicious model was downloaded more than 28,000 times. Separately, researchers flagged a fake Solana starte...
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security breach involving up to $5.8 billion in digital assets, in what could become the largest cryptocurrency hack in history. If confirmed stolen, the amount would far exceed the $1.5 b...
OpenAI says it won't reduce usage limits for the $100, $200, and $500 ChatGPT Pro plans, as well as Business Premium, and it also promised to keep Dots usage independent. In a post on X, Tibo, who is the face of ChatGPT and Codex on X, confirmed tha...
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/28/2026 featuring funding details for Hyphenate, Predicate, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. ### Hyphenate ...
NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase has accelerated AI use, building out its enterprise AI platform LLM Suite to support 1,000 business applications. But for Global CIO Lori Beer, security always comes first. "We have to make sure security, how we manage ...
Cybersecurity In-Depth: Feature articles on security strategy, latest trends, and people to know. This installment of the Reporters' Notebook video series discusses some of the trends and topics from Cybersecurity Awareness Month, from using AI for ...
Obvious phishing emails with numerous red flags are somehow getting past some of the industry-leading secure email gateway (SEG) products. Attackers are managing to sneak low-grade phishing emails through brand name email security products, as evide...
Adobe, Veeam, and Juniper Networks have released patches for over three dozen vulnerabilities across their products, including multiple critical-severity code execution flaws. This week, Adobe fixed 12 vulnerabilities in Campaign Classic, Connect, C...
Dive Brief: - Threat actors can sabotage AI models by tampering with their underlying infrastructure, such as the firmware and software powering the computers that run the models, the security firm Eclypsium said in a report published on Thursday. ...
MyHouse.wad barrages players with horrible things they've never experienced in a game before. For a lot of people, the appeal of horror is being surprised and disturbed by something they've never seen before. In recent years, I've sourced this rare ...
The actual restoration of vaulting Destiny 2 content is still a long way off, but Bungie has big plans for the future. Bungie shocked the world (or at least, it shocked the world's Destiny fans) when it un-canceled Destiny 2 in September, saying the...
The award-winning writer, actor, and musician is set to write, direct, produce, and star in the show. PUBG, the battle royale that lets you wear a frying pan on your ass to keep it from getting shot off, is being made into a live action series for N...
This map can drink. After 23 mainline games, there are far more Call of Duty maps than anyone can reasonably remember. That's why I'm impressed it took just one screenshot for several fans (with back pain, presumably) to clock that an upcoming Moder...
ArtCraft has been making the rounds for several weeks now, and I decided to see for myself how well it actually works against the software it aims to replace. More specifically, how PhotoCraft compares to Photoshop. What I found was surprising, not o...
When one of my Linux boxes broke, I used to paste the error into a search engine and land on a forum thread where a stranger had the same problem. Someone had always replied with the fix, and that's how I learned half of what I know about Linux. Now ...
A flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP code, tracked as CVE-2026-98432, affects Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions. The kernel's own CVE team rates it 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scale. Anthropic said on October 27 that i...
President Trump reportedly chose to do nothing in response. As if Big Tech in 2026 wasn't already crazy enough, we can now add "Jensen Huang espionage scandal" to the list. The New York Times reports that US officials see the NVIDIA CEO as the targe...
Ubisoft shared some updates on the franchise, including confirmation of a New Game+ option for Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Ubisoft offered Assassin's Creed fans a string of franchise updates on Thursday, including one that might come as a disappointm...
The streamer also has an Assassin's Creed series in the works, along with a Gears of War feature film. Netflix is making a live-action series based on the massively popular battle royale game PUBG. The whole thing is being spearheaded by Donald Glov...
Wired has the story of a superuser cheating scandal. Professional poker is the latest community to reckon with the impact of a high-profile cyberattack. Wired reports that hundreds of online poker players have allegedly been targeted in a malware at...
Where is the imagination? Collectible popcorn buckets have become a fixture of movie theaters' post-pandemic recovery, and if hawking plastic helps them keep the lights on, so be it. But if we are going to submit ourselves to the Funko Pop-ification...
Google on Wednesday took the wraps off Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities. "It shows significant gains across coding and agentic tasks as well as across key capabilities criti...
Threat actors are delivering malicious loaders and cryptocurrency miners under the guise of artificial intelligence (AI) desktop applications for Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT as part of a campaign dubbed Yoba. The activity involves creating f...
A four-question exercise that CISOs can use to create a threat model that promises results, without a big spend. ISC2 Strategic Congress 2026 — Denver — A threat model should be a starting organizing principle for any security program. But r...
### Claude Model Builds Exploits Across Major Browsers & OSes An unreleased version of the AI model has found and chained multiple vulnerabilities in Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows, and Linux, Anthropic says. An unreleased version of Claude ident...
Which AI agents can act inside your employees' browsers today? If an agent started browsing this morning, would you know it wasn't the employee? Most security teams can't answer those questions yet. That's not a failure of effort. It's a sign of how ...
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that prevents non-admin users from connecting to devices via Remote Desktop when the "Administrator protection" security feature is enabled. When Administrator protection is enabled, it prompts standard users to ...
A massive search-hijacking campaign involving 319 Chrome extensions with a combined 13.4 million reported installations redirected users' searches through tracking servers to generate advertising revenue from Bing and Yahoo. A new report by Socket's...
A newly identified advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as UAT-11473 was observed exploiting CVE-2026-20127, an authentication-bypass flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controllers, to deploy a custom malware framework called KeyDrift. CVE-2026...
A fake cryptocurrency trading app called Padre Terminal, previously available on the Apple App Store for iOS devices, has been linked to the theft of approximately $23,000 from 27 Solana wallets. Blockchain investigator Iris confirmed that one victi...
The integrity of the US voting system is a continuing concern, involving machine tampering, ballot counting, and voter influence. These all have some cybersecurity relevance. Other concerns include accurate voter registration, differing voter ID requ...
Google on Wednesday announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier AI model that, according to the company, beats rival models on benchmarks for detecting, exploiting and patching vulnerabilities. The model is not broadly available yet. This week, Google is ...
Risk management leaders educate people on measuring exposure, testing assumptions and advising on how best to prepare for incidents they hope won't occur. They know that the absence of a security alert does not stand for safety; that resilience depen...
Volt Typhoon, a Chinese state-sponsored APT group that's focused on cyberespionage and United States' critical infrastructure, has been using a covert, constantly rotating relay network to hide its most sensitive intrusions, Lumen's Black Lotus Labs ...
Forever Security found ways out of the built-in browsers in five AI coding assistants: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI's Codex, Microsoft's VS Code and Anthropic's Claude Desktop. In all five, a web page or a local file reached the computer behind the...
Fake GitHub projects posing as desktop versions of ChatGPT and Claude have been used to spread a malware chain that ends with a cryptocurrency miner, Check Point has found. The researchers have been tracking the campaign, dubbed Yoba, for the past t...
China-nexus threat actors have exploited a VMware ESX zero-day to hide their tracks and chained PHP2Shell flaws with the "Fragnesia" Linux kernel bug to root servers and firewalls, cybersecurity researchers claim. Cisco has also confirmed that attac...
An unprecedented leak of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed details of more than 41,000 employees or contractors who work for the department and its constituent agencies. The records include email addresses, phone numbers, and office...
They include email addresses and phone numbers of ICE agents and border police. A hacktivist group stole records for more than 41,000 Homeland Security personnel and got help to release it on the web, according to Wired, the Washington Post and NPR....
The company's new frontier model tops Claude Opus 5.5 in several key benchmarks. OpenAI and Anthropic's frontier models have been trading blows of late, with each claiming bragging rights in different categories. Now, Google has barged in with its l...
Regulators are also requiring them to change their business practices. Both Apple and Google have violated Korea's Telecommunications Business Act, the country's communications regulator has determined. The companies have received penalties from the...
EasySMX is using Elizabeth Holmes levels of pedantry with this faceplate situation. Of all the Switch 2 controllers I've reviewed in 2026, this is probably the most unexpected pick. EasySMX isn't as well-known as 8BitDo or Turtle Beach, and the S10 ...
The deal combines the two largest grocery delivery platforms in the US. DoorDash has struck a deal to acquire rival Instacart in a deal valued at $17 billion. The purchase will combine the two biggest grocery delivery services in the US, assuming it...
Reports of the brand's death have been greatly exaggerated. Galax has come out in defence of its continued existence for the second time this year, following a report that incorrectly claimed the graphics card brand was closing down its factory. In...
Luckily, rolling back drivers is pretty easy. Phantom Blade Zero, the highly anticipated wuxia action RPG, is finally out in the world, and if you're planning on playing it on an Nvidia graphics card, maybe consider skipping the latest Nvidia driver...
"EA executives cannot fail, only be failed." EA took the axe to BioWare last week after a long, slow death partially born of mandates to either work on live service games that didn't work (Anthem) or pivot from live service games in messy, chaotic d...
'It's like stealing pure gold bars.' AI data centers are springing up across the US at an unprecedented rate, and with them comes a number of problems. Aside from the noise, disruption, and environmental concerns, the vast infrastructure projects al...
AI continues to be big business, and the impetus behind big crime. Malaysian customs have shared this week that $12.11 million worth of AI chips were discovered during an inspection. A total of 30 server units, each featuring cutting edge AI chips, ...
Native Windows apps have never been my favorite. Some exceptions, like the Snipping Tool, do much more than a simple screenshot app. However, I don't feel the same about the Photos app, which seems irrelevant for my use case. Windows' legacy image vi...
Security teams have spent years trying to detect threats faster. AI is changing the harder part: how much time defenders have left to act. Advanced AI models can now help attackers discover vulnerabilities, generate exploit code, and move through we...
26,400 credentials that developers left in public code on Gitee, a Chinese code-hosting service, still worked when a researcher tested them. Anyone who copied one from that code could have used it. Independent researcher Ben Zimmermann found them by...
AI is beginning to take over much of the work that has traditionally defined the security analyst's job. Investigating alerts, collecting evidence, correlating activity across tools, and executing response actions are becoming tasks that AI systems c...
A flaw in Telegram for Android allowed an attacker to run code on a victim's phone via a voice call once the victim answered, according to security startup NebuSec. The attacker needed only an ordinary Telegram account. Telegram fixed the flaw in ve...
Cisco has released patches to address a high-severity security flaw in Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, track...
More than 8 million people were impacted by a June 2026 data breach at medical equipment provider iRhythm. The company, which specializes in wearable cardiac monitoring technology and is best known for its Zio wearable ECG monitor, disclosed the inc...
Cisco on Wednesday released fixes for an exploited vulnerability affecting its Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) software. Tracked as CVE-2026-76418 and assigned a CVSS score of 8.6, the bug r...
A threat actor whose infrastructure overlaps with a covert network used by China's Volt Typhoon exploited a critical Cisco SD-WAN vulnerability to deploy malware designed to harvest encryption keys, Cisco Talos reported on Wednesday. The same day, L...
Hackers have stolen the personal information of current and former So-net and Plala internet subscribers in Japan, Sony Network Communications announced on October 27. Nearly 2.6 million records were impacted. The attackers broke into the So-net mem...
A threat actor has leaked online a database containing the personal and work information of thousands of US Department of Homeland Security employees. The hacker, who uses the handle Department of Peace, has leaked more than 41,000 records. "They ha...
Cisco released security updates to patch a denial-of-service zero-day in Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Threat Defense (FTD) software that attackers are exploiting to remotely crash vulnerable firewall devices. Tracked as CVE-2026-76418, this...
Microsoft released the KB5127936 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 26H2, with 41 changes, including File Explorer and Cloud rebuild improvements. KB5127936 is a preview update that adds new features and fixes at the end of e...
Breaking cybersecurity news, news analysis, commentary, and other content from around the world, with an initial focus on the Middle East & Africa, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America. Researchers can't quite explain why cyber threats look s...
The enigmatic service is providing popular AI coding tools to mainland China and other regions where OpenAI and Anthropic products are not officially for sale — but with key security features turned off. A mysterious relay service is installing ...
For nearly a quarter of a century, Elon Musk and his essential partner at SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell, viewed the United States government as El Dorado, the mythical city of gold. Like machete-wielding treasure hunters, Musk and Shotwell hacked through ...
DoorDash has announced that it's buying Instacart in a deal valued at approximately $17 billion. The acquisition will give DoorDash a bigger presence in online grocery delivery thanks to Instacart's established grocery marketplace and retailer partne...
Linköping University professor Peter Jonsson is set to have his work presented in two weeks' time at one of the most prestigious conferences in theoretical computer science. As of Monday, much of that work is "dead," he says, after AI showed that a 2...
In a hands-on video shared on his YouTube channel UrAvgConsumer, Judner Aura showed off the glowing Apple logo and revealed that its brightness is tied to the MacBook Pro's display brightness. If you turn up the display brightness, the logo gets brig...
It's been a busy October for Apple, and just this week, we got a new OLED iPad mini, an OLED MacBook Pro with a touch display, a new M6 MacBook Pro, and an M6 iMac. If you missed the news over the last three days, we've rounded up all our coverage i...
It seems as though every week, a new thread on Reddit or a YouTube short on my feed tells me that I'm overpaying for Claude Code, and that it's finally time to move on from weekly and 5-hour usage limits. Every time, it's purported that either a riva...
Sony has long been a pioneer of physical media, but that could be coming to an end. It's ironic coming from a company that has such a rich history of excellent CD, VHS and DVD players, but it looks like Sony is now committed to getting out of the di...
The agency will vote next month on relaxing its long-standing opposition to jammers. The US Federal Communications Commission announced today that it will vote on a new rule that would allow state prisons and jails to use cellphone jammers. The goal...
The company says it won't make "policy changes" until it consults with publishers. As Meta faces an escalating backlash over its new terms for businesses, the company says it might push back their implementation as it plans "a full consultation" wit...
The displays offer high brightness, contrast and color accuracy and even adapt to pixel usage. With all the fuss about Apple finally releasing a touchscreen MacBook Pro, you may have forgotten about the new model's other key display technology: OLED...
I have been a Windows user for a long time, and I find the operating system incredibly convenient. Microsoft may have gone wrong with Windows on several occasions, but the overall experience still remains streamlined, at least it has for me. And one ...
When it comes to local AI inference, I've treated my RTX 4070 Ti Super as a one-model-per-job card. As a matter of fact, I've also created an entire ensemble of models suited to a particular job that they do best, as I recently detailed last week, co...
Starting up a home lab is a very rewarding endeavor locally, but most setups hit the same wall around the same time. You get your Jellyfin instance up and running with your favorite shows and movies, your Immich library up as a Google Photos replacem...
For a lot of people, the typical smart home journey begins with a holiday sale smart speaker, like an Echo Dot or a Google Nest Mini, plugged into a kitchen counter, followed by shouting, "Alexa, turn on the living room lights." Voice assistants offe...
Google Maps is convenient, but it's not the only way to get around. If you want more privacy, fewer distractions, or a change of pace, open-source mapping apps are worth exploring. I tried four options to see how they compare and what each brings to ...
Steam Next Fest is being flooded with thousands of low-effort games, while developers are becoming reluctant to share their work for fear of seeing it quickly cloned. The rise of AI slop is a real problem for Steam. Developers are growing wary of sh...
Drowning in consequences. Baldur's Gate 3 has a lot of quests that feel resonant around this particularly spooky time of year. It has an elaborate haunted house that unravels a sordid saga of love and betrayal. It has vampires and vampire hunters. I...
We finally have a solid launch date, and it's not in 2026 as planned but it's not too far off, either. One year after the cozy witch-life sim Witchbrook was delayed from 2025 to 2026, it's happened again, as the game is now slated to come out in 202...
Developers say the plan is to release updates a few times a year to match the MMO's classic spirit. A major draw for World of Warcraft: Forever is how much slower it will be compared to the modern version of the MMO. Traveling across the world takes...
We're looking for freelance journalists who know their way around a tech blog. Engadget has been covering the tech world for over 20 years, but there are only so many stories we can write in a given week. As such, we're hoping to add some contributi...
The feature works with both iMessage and RCS messaging. When OpenAI debuted its Dot agents late last month, it promised users would eventually be able to text them to give them instructions. Now, nearly a month later, the company has begun rolling o...
Third-party Android app stores can now apply to Google for permission to install apps with one tap, without Android's usual confirmation screens, and to update them in the background. To qualify, a store must pass identity checks and send Google its...
The China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Volt Typhoon has been attributed to a now-disrupted covert access network dubbed Silent Train that has been put to use for zero-day exploitation and strategic access. "First identified in late 2023, Sil...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what appears to be an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted attack orchestrated by a suspected China-nexus threat actor that has leveraged the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to breach exposed systems. T...
A chain of logic flaws, with no memory corruption, can turn a malicious web page into code running on a Windows computer outside Microsoft Edge's sandbox, a security researcher has shown. Orange Tsai of DEVCORE published the full method on October 2...
The supply chain attack campaign's shift toward developer endpoints and cloud access signals what could be next for the cybercrime outfit. A new wave of GhostAction attacks has largely failed, but this supply chain campaign operator is well-position...
Sony Network Communications has confirmed a data breach that compromised approximately 2.5 million records containing current and former customers' personal information. A Sony Group Corporation subsidiary, the company provides telecommunications an...
Discord will allow search engines to index discussions in Discoverable Servers and make them accessible on the web to users outside the platform without an account or invitation. The goal is to surface useful information to the wider internet commun...
U.S. law enforcement has seized the primary domain of Virtualine, a bulletproof hosting service advertised on cybercrime forums for facilitating illegal activities. The service also operated under the names Secury, Massgod, Spamhouse, Lanedo, and Om...
Attackers have been breaking into business networks through camera management software, according to new research from security firm Huntress, which traced several incidents in September and October back to a compromised application. ### An unidenti...
ControlUp has announced Pulse AI Resolve, the real-time investigative AI layer of the Pulse AI ecosystem. A major enhancement of ControlUp's endpoint self-service capability, previously ControlUp Connect, Pulse Resolve brings AI-powered investigation...
For most of my career, I have watched new security platforms work through enterprise programs at a slow pace, so when AI began showing up in security operations tools, I assumed it would follow the same path. I expected AI adoption in the SOC to lag ...
GitHub announced a package firewall that checks npm packages against an enterprise's policy before they install. It blocks known malware, critical vulnerabilities, and brand-new versions, and any developer can turn it on by pointing npm at the firewa...
Defenders across the world face the burden of responding to yet another botched code-execution vulnerability, this time in boot-time firmware used by most of the world's server vendors and data centers. The vulnerability, with a severity rating of 9...
An unprecedented leak of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed details of more than 41,000 employees or contractors who work for the department and its constituent agencies. The records include email addresses, phone numbers, and office...
A separate law aims to shore up security on connected baby monitors. New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed a law that aims to protect children from AI chatbot harms. The legislation requires AI companies to verify users' ages. They'll need to of...
"Robot RAM needs will exceed everything else on Earth, as you need the robots to be on physical substates in order to shape atoms. "Super intelligence needs will vastly exceed that, but ~100% of SI will be deep space compute. Obviously." We've been...
Good… new games? Cast your mind back to January and you might remember a sit-down we had with some of the leaders of a newly-independent GOG. The DRM-free storefront had separated from its former owner — CD Projekt — and returned to the arms of ...
Getting crafty. The design politics of studios in the early 2000s will always fascinate me — not the unsavory stuff, I am glad that is well and truly binned — but rather, the little elbows and feet put on other designers in studios where there w...
That's a lot of space to ask for in the midst of the memory crisis. While Grand Theft Auto 6 doesn't have a confirmed PC release date yet, we do know it's coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X & S on November 19. Now, we also know that the game file conso...
Help us determine which game is the scariest game on PC in round 2 of our Halloween tournament. This article is brought to you by No More Room in Hell 2. Last week, I asked PC Gamer readers to nominate the scariest PC games they could think of. I'v...
The video shows an Apple logo being projected onto a wall against a city skyline, and perhaps that wall is a movie studio. Apple is expected to show off the new MacBooks to selected tech reporters and content creators at an experience in Los Angeles ...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of this decade's defining technologies. From healthcare and finance to manufacturing and education, organizations increasingly rely on AI to automate repetitive tasks, uncover patterns hidden within large d...
A critical 16-year-old flaw in EDK II, the open-source code that most hardware makers use to build UEFI firmware, can allow an attacker to run code on a machine before its operating system loads, but only while the machine is booting over the network...
Threat actors are beginning to probe for a newly patched critical vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), according to threat intelligence firm Defused Cyber. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-101767 (CVSS score: 9.8) in the Oracle A...
Outpatient practices are running on thinner margins than they have in years, with support staff salaries and benefits consuming roughly 25% to 30% of revenue while reimbursements stay flat. Corporate entities now own about 30% of U.S. physician pract...
Adobe has released patches to address multiple critical security flaws in Campaign Classic that, if successfully exploited, could result in arbitrary code execution, security feature bypass, and privilege escalation. ### The list of eight vulnerabil...
Ferring Pharmaceuticals, the privately owned Swiss specialty biopharma group, has signed an agreement to acquire Gameto, a cell-engineering biotech focused on women's reproductive health, in a deal valued at up to $1.3825B. The price is tied to devel...
### Overwatch Data — $15M ### CYBERSECURITY Overwatch Data, a threat intelligence platform that uses AI agents to uncover cybercrime and fraud signals for security and risk teams, has raised $15M in Series A funding led by Mouro Capital with pa...
E-commerce has pushed the pressure of fast delivery onto the last step of fulfillment, where warehouse workers still pack most orders by hand. Third-party logistics providers feel it most, because they absorb seasonal spikes and thin margins while la...
The threat actor lurked behind bots posing as agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and others to find exposed data. A threat actor lurked behind more than 30 different AI bots to find and steal exposed credentials, continuously scanning for sensitiv...
Commercial real estate lenders face nearly $1T in loan maturities over the next two years, and most of their credit analysis still happens by hand. Each loan gets underwritten at origination, every quarter, at extension, and at refinancing, and every...
The massive funding round comes just days after reports emerged that Upwind had attracted acquisition interest from several companies, including Datadog Upwind Security today announced a $400 million Series C funding round at a $3.8 billion valuatio...
A 36-year-old Ukrainian national was sentenced to prison in the US for his role in Nefilim ransomware attacks. The man, Artem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak, who had been living in Barcelona, was arrested in Spain in June 2024 and extradited to the US in A...
Attackers have begun probing the Internet for systems unpatched against a recently disclosed critical Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) vulnerability. Discovered in a core component of EBS's Application Object Library and tracked as CVE-2026-101767, thi...
Here's a prediction: we're about to see a stellar quarter for application security companies. PHP2Shell is about to become the strongest budget argument application security vendors have had in years. AI helped researchers find two remote code execut...
Attackers are actively exploiting vulnerabilities across critical network infrastructure, and PHP flaws known as "PHP2Shell" put the web management interfaces of firewalls, VPNs, application delivery controllers, and other appliances at risk. The fi...
Microsoft again asked Entra ID administrators to migrate users to phishing-resistant methods to avoid sign-in disruptions before it retires SMS and voice authentication in February 2027. This retirement process applies only to Microsoft Entra ID wor...
Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Volt Typhoon has been using a framework that relies on rotating chains of connected devices compromised on demand, including for zero-day attacks targeting high-value systems. The framework has been dubbed Silen...
Dive Brief: - Hackers are increasingly targeting internet of things devices, including on home networks, in attacks that can serve as launching pads for campaigns against enterprises, security firm Bitdefender and networking vendor Netgear said in a...
The insurance industry is closely monitoring PHP2Shell amid concerns of a systemic event that could overwhelm the sector with billions in cybersecurity risk claims. PHP Foundation and multiple government authorities last week warned about two critic...
A China-linked threat actor has been exploiting the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to gain root access to firewalls and deploy webshells for persistent access, cybersecurity firm Dream reports. The hackers have been chaining an exploit for the two PHP fl...
Cybersecurity firm FoxIO has disclosed three vulnerabilities in GoAhead's handling of TLS. They could keep revoked client certificates working, let eavesdroppers decrypt some traffic, or help attackers get around a cap on certificate chain length. G...
Google and Mozilla on Tuesday rolled out fresh Chrome and Firefox updates that resolve more than 200 vulnerabilities in the popular browsers. The Chrome 156 update arrives with patches for 52 security defects, including four critical-severity flaws:...
Subsea cable projects owned by US companies such as Google and Meta face some of the greatest risks from the threat of deep-sea sabotage in the Pacific Ocean, according to a new report. That coincides with Chinese research ships spending an extraordi...
Battle through the Wulin's monsters and martial masters. Phantom Blade Zero's release is almost here, and the reviews are looking pretty positive — I've been playing it the last couple of weeks and it's definitely the best action game of the year,...
The platform's Discoverable Servers are about to get a lot more discoverable. Discord is making a policy change that will further increase the visibility of conversations on its largest public servers. On November 16, the platform's Discoverable Ser...
It's a pretty major limitation. Slate is bringing something new to the EV truck market. The truck startup has quickly made a name for itself with its minimalist design, low price point and customization features. Playfully crowned the Blank Slate, t...
You can probably still read on it, and, with some finessing, you can turn it into a useful display. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Earlier this year, Amazon announced it would be ending software support for older models o...
Apple has redesigned the Podcasts app and upgraded Siri AI. Apple has officially released iOS 27.2, bringing more Siri and AI functions to iPhone users. And since CarPlay is powered by iOS running directly from a connected iPhone, the rollout introd...
But it's only available in the Philippines for now. Looks like a big part of Meta's AI strategy is to rely on "uwu" and cuteness as a way to get people to use and train its models and agents. The company has released a new Tamagotchi-like AI-powered...
Japan's GMO Internet Group is offering up to $1 million in total for tips that help catch the attackers who breached its Onamae.com Desktop Cloud service, after refusing to pay an extortion demand. The reward program opened on October 28 and pays on...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the seizure of a domain associated with a bulletproof hosting provider (BPH) named Virtualine. The move was in response to the service being used to commit and facilitate prolific criminal ac...
An unreleased Anthropic AI model found security flaws in Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows, and Linux and chained them into working proof-of-concept exploits, the company said in its latest report. The exploits were built in the lab after the model w...
VS Code has become my go-to recommendation for coding, but I started wondering what I might be missing by sticking with the same editor. There are plenty of alternatives out there, each with its own approach to writing and managing code. So, I decide...
It's rare that a security vulnerability affects a huge swath of processors all at once, but the Spectre vulnerabilities that were uncovered in 2018 were so widespread that they forced operating system vendors to trade performance for protection. Wind...
### Summary - Anduril and Qualcomm launch BlueChip laptops, with 90% of the cost using US and allied parts. - BlueChip's replaceable top shell could house flat phased-array antennas for Starlink-like satellite links. - Built for government, defens...
Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Flash Next model arrived at the end of August, promising a preview of a new architecture that would officially debut with the Qwen 4 family. It's a powerful 125B Mixture of Experts model, with 6B active parameters and an additional...
The critical Oracle PeopleSoft bug that ShinyHunters has exploited since May is not one flaw but three chained together, the researchers who reported it said this week. Oracle patched all three under a single identifier, CVE-2026-35273, in June. Its...
Tailscale has released version 1.104.4 to fix flaws in its built-in SSH server that could let an attacker reach services and files on other servers that only the root user should be able to touch. The flaws are in how Tailscale SSH forwards network ...
OpenAI confirmed GPT-6.1 Terra is safer overall than some of its older models, but its safety testing also found other problems. According to OpenAI, GPT-6.1 Terra showed higher rates of exfiltration, destructive actions, and attempts to bypass rest...
The GMO Group has urged customers to disconnect their systems from the internet and shut down computers after a threat actor who breached the company's Onamae Desktop Cloud threatened to launch a ransomware attack today. The company later confirmed ...
A recent Shai-Hulud attack shows defenders need real-time visibility into production code and affected services to respond to supply chain compromises. ISC2 Strategic Congress 2026 — Denver — Depending on a software bill of materials (SBOM) ...
Main bombing sis getting a new look with a wide-scale, ongoing social engineering campaign that might be tied to the Black Basta ransomware gang. Threat actors are abusing Microsoft Teams' external chat functionality at scale, using IT-support imper...
3 Frameworks to Protect CISOs & Orgs Against AI Liability Cyber leaders can get ahead of AI liability with rigorous documentation, transparency, and smart contract negotiations with AI vendors. ISC2 Strategic Congress 2026 — Denver — Many c...
Breaking cybersecurity news, news analysis, commentary, and other content from around the world, with an initial focus on the Middle East & Africa, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America. Interpol's annual Operation Serengeti, now on its third ...
Few people understand the current deepfake epidemic better than Jess Asato. The British Labour MP has spent years campaigning against the use of technology to abuse women and girls. Then, after calling out Elon Musk during the notorious Grok Deepfake...
A vulnerability in Brotli, Google's widely used open-source compression library, is putting a broad range of software at risk. ### About CVE-2026-111497 Alternatively known as "Node2Shell", "Broccoli2Shell" and "Brotli2Shell", CVE-2026-111497 is a ...
Nearly seven in ten people affected by data breaches handled by Kroll were exposed through an outside supplier, according to its Data Breach Outlook 2026. Businesses rely on outside providers to store information, process transactions and operate so...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a roadmap for moving to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), with earlier deadlines for certain sensitive federal systems. The report, Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standar...
AbuseBox is a free, open-source tool that checks IP addresses and domains against 60 DNS blacklists, pulls reputation scores from AbuseIPDB, inspects DNS, SSL and email-authentication records, and sends an alert when something changes. A DNS blacklis...
In this Help Net Security interview, Brian Blakley, CISO at Bellini Capital, explains why AI makes finding vulnerabilities faster while fixing them still takes time. He argues that "patch faster" is not enough and that teams need to cut exposure whil...
Tailscale is getting ready to ship a client update that addresses privilege escalation weaknesses in Tailscale SSH. Details of the bugs went public over the weekend. Tailscale provides a mesh VPN service that uses the WireGuard protocol to connect a...
The US cybersecurity agency CISA has added the Brotli vulnerability known as Node2Shell to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Separately, two security firms say they have recorded exploitation attempts against their honeypots. Tracke...
The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center disclosed a cyberattack that caused system outages and disrupted patient care and academic activities. On Monday, UNM Health, the university's healthcare provider, began temporarily limiting new pa...
The Securities and Exchange Commission's publication on Monday of Anthropic's S-1 form — ahead of a heavily anticipated initial public offering — has led to plenty of discussion of whether the company's quickly ballooning revenues will be able to...
Today's best Google Play app and game deals are ready, including Out There: Ω Edition, Tokaido, Eight-Minute Empire, Tales of Mecha: Rising, Front Armies [RTS], Istanbul: Digital Edition, Charterstone: Digital Edition, and more. Just be sure to dive ...
Auroch Digital just released Boltun 2 two weeks ago, and it's got Warhammer Survivors lined up for launch in November. GamesIndustryWarhammer 40,000: Boltgun developer Auroch Digital appears to be headed toward significant layoffs. In a statement po...
A truly enormous wuxia journey. At just about 15 hours into Phantom Blade Zero, I've changed out my primary weapons more times than I do in an entire Souls campaign. I quickly dropped my starter sword for a pair of dual blades and a jagged weapon th...
### Our Verdict Modern Warfare 4 is the bar that this series should regularly aspire to, and a reminder that Call of Duty benefits when it actually tries to change. ### PC Gamer's got your back Our experienced team dedicates many hours to every re...
Dan Ayoub joined WotC in 2024 and previously served as the company's SVP of digital games. Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Digital Games have a new boss, and it's kind of the old boss. Dan Ayoub, who spent the past couple years as senior vice presid...
One UI 9 is in its late-stage rollout phase, and a bunch of Galaxy phones have been added to the Android 17 availability list within the last few days. One UI 9 based on Android 17 was released with the Galaxy S26 launch in September. Since then, it...
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When Android Auto first debuted, it didn't require a fancy display in your car. It just worked on your phone screen and, now, someone is bringing that functionality back after Google killed it. Back in 2019, four years after Android Auto hit the sce...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of three cyber attacks targeting organizations in Japan in which artificial intelligence (AI) was a key element, either in the driving seat or to assist a human operator. TrendAI, which analyzed three...
Its journey ends in March 2027. Another live-service game bites the dust. Pokémon Unite, a five-on-five battle arena game in the vein of League of Legends, will shut down on March 23, 2027, at 00:00 UTC (8PM ET on March 22). The multiplayer online ...
Apple's smallest desktop delivers better performance and value for those willing to leave the laptop behind. Laptops are the first choice for the majority of people looking to buy a new computer, and that holds true when it comes to the Mac lineup. ...
The GOAT of dumb phones gets a new lease on life. Nearly 20 years ago, Nokia released the Nokia 6300. Despite arriving the same month Steve Jobs would introduce the iPhone at MacWorld 2007, the 6300 would go on to become one of Nokia's best-selling ...
Be prepared to surrender a significant portion of your console's hard drive. Rockstar Games has been open about Grand Theft Auto VI being a big game, so it's perhaps not surprising that it will also reportedly be a big download. According to an X po...
A legal case alleging union-busting at the game developer will also wrap next month. Most gamers may be focused on the countdown to the release of Grand Theft Auto 6 on November 19, but there will also be a fair bit of drama unfolding behind the sce...
What's $3 billion to a trillion-dollar company? This week both AMD and Nvidia have announced partnerships with Meta, securing both collabs and billions of dollars. All three companies are heavily invested in AI, and these deals are only more fuel fo...
The GoAhead embedded web server loaded a certificate revocation list into its default TLS backend but never turned revocation checking on, so a revoked client certificate could still pass login on affected setups. The flaw is in builds that use the ...
Apple on Monday backported fixes for a high-severity security flaw that was exploited in real-world cyber attacks to older devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950 (CVSS score: 8.8), is an out-of-bounds write affecting CoreGraphics that...
Agent decision logs and telemetry data belonging to Warp agentic development environment users were exposed in an attack on a third-party vendor in the project's infrastructure. The company's founder and CEO, Zach Lloyd, estimates that "roughly 1% o...
Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) Windows updates to remove trust in certificates tied to compromised eMudhra certificate authority keys, protecting systems that do not receive automatic certificate trust updates. The KB5134133 update for Win...
'Aokigahara' Stealer Targets 'Developer Keyrings' & AI Assistants The malware's focus on AI tools expands the traditional infostealer playbook to expose a forest of AI sessions, sensitive business data, and developer infrastructure from a single com...
Nathan Hamiel outlines potential SecOps horror in the AI midst, as core technical capabilities go the way of reading an atlas or remembering phone numbers. Black Hat India — Bengaluru — The use of AI as a tool to enhance cybersecurity operat...
Small and rural healthcare organizations are among the most vulnerable critical infrastructure organizations in the nation. The U.S. government will help protect rural hospitals from cybersecurity threats as part of a new pilot program that could ge...
Security researchers and U.S. government authorities have seen what appears to be the first successful exploitation of critical vulnerabilities in PHP. For more than a week, hackers have attempted to exploit a memory-corruption vulnerability, tracke...
Today in tech, we're discussing Anthropic's astronomic growth, how a settlement over social media safety dented Meta's revenue, and Lula's accusations of interference against Meta. ### Anthropic accelerates Anthropic filed for an initial public off...
The 16-inch version still runs on either the M5 Pro or M5 Max. Hot off the release of the iPhone Duo and a big update to the iPad Mini, Apple is looking to keep its momentum going by refreshing the 14-inch MacBook Pro with a faster M6 chip. Thanks ...
It offers more cores and more performance per core than the iMac M4. After unveiling a new iPad mini yesterday, Apple is continuing its staggered "Pro and Tell" product release with the launch of its latest iMac model. Powered by Apple's shiny new M...
Both styles have their perks. There are two main types of foldable phones, clamshell phones and book-style ones. Clamshell designs harken back to the early days of flip phones — compact, square devices that flip open from bottom to top to reveal...
Its IPO paperwork reveal a company rightly worried about its regulatory future. Anthropic filed paperwork to go public on Monday, and while its list of business risk factors spans the fanciful (sentient AI) and the mundane (losing its executives), o...
Ahead of its 'Pro and Tell' event, the company has already launched a few new devices. Apple wasn't done with its product reveals for the fall after unveiling the iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro models and an array of smart home devices. Nor could it wait...
The father of the god game weighs in on AI use in the gaming industry Recently, I travelled to Guildford, England, to interview developer Peter Molyneux, the legendary game developer behind Populous, Theme Park, Dungeon Keeper, Black & White and Fab...
Never underestimate the unbridled love for yelling hoorah before gunning down the same generic bad guy every year. It's been 22 years, 11 months, 28 days and counting since we were first graced with Call of Duty. Over those two decades the franchise...
Are the "challenges in the market" in the room with us right now? As we've noted before on this very site, there really is just no winning in the videogame industry, particularly under current conditions. Make an unsuccessful game? Make the kind of ...
Playing music too loud on the subway? Believe it or not, straight to jail. I've always thought that I'm a particularly good judge of character, so I was happy to put my theory to the test with Deadline: Afterlife Processing's new demo where you play...
And RTX 5090s weren't cheap before. Nvidia's RTX 5090 has been a subject of much speculation recently, as it was rumoured to be discontinued last month when it vanished from the company's official marketplace, only for Nvidia to confirm it wasn't di...
Most of my work happens in the browser, from researching articles to drafting and tracking assignments. So I gave my local LLM two weeks of browsing history and asked it to organize the useful links into a bookmark system. It came back with 75 bookma...
Finding a 16-inch laptop with a premium build and solid specs for under $700 is a challenge. The Acer Swift Go 16 AI is one of those rare devices that balances portability with desktop-class performance, and Best Buy is currently offering a significa...
Ahead of its upcoming "Pro and Tell" event, Apple has revealed its refreshed 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac, powered by its M6 chip. The tech giant says the M6 features a 12-core CPU, paired with a 12-core GPU that delivers 30 percent faster graphics ...
An attacker who gained access to Keystone's website obtained the key that its hardware wallets use to prove they are genuine, the company said in a statement on October 26. Someone with that key could build counterfeit devices that pass the online c...
Microsoft has fixed a flaw in its Authenticator app for Android that let a malicious app with no permissions pose as a trusted Microsoft app, such as Teams, and collect sign-in tokens for a victim's work account. Microsoft tracks the flaw as CVE-202...
A criminal using the Amadey malware can no longer access or steal data from 180,000 infected computers around the world, including some in Australia, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) says. The agency's operators gained access to the criminal'...
The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been attributed to a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation FlashHole targeting at least three organizations in South Korea spanning the construction, software, and wire-communication equipment manufacturin...
Fake login pages are nothing new, but generative AI is making them easier to build and more convincing. Attackers can recreate familiar login screens, impersonate trusted brands and tailor phishing attempts to specific employees or organizations. So...
Any time a company looks to start selling shares on Wall Street, it's required to disclose potential risks for investors. In the case of artificial intelligence giant Anthropic, that has included the possibility that its products could threaten nothi...
Apple on Monday released updates for its operating systems, addressing a total of 286 vulnerabilities across the newest versions of iOS and macOS. In addition, the company has backported the fix for an exploited vulnerability to iOS 18. macOS Golden...
Over the weekend, web hosting provider DreamHost suspended its File Manager service and reset some user passwords. The company says it took protective actions in response to "an issue" with its systems, which affected File Manager at files.dreamhost...
HPE last week released patches for 72 vulnerabilities in the AOS-8 and AOS-10 wireless operating systems of its Aruba networking products, including 33 critical-severity flaws. The security updates address eight max-severity bugs: CVE-2026-79844, CV...
Denver Health Medical Plan (DHMP) is notifying 238,000 people that their personal and health information may have been compromised in a data breach. Based in Denver, Colorado, DHMP is a non-profit managed care organization within the Denver Health a...
Socure has launched Agent Intelligence, a suite that detects AI agents, scores whether they should be trusted, and ties each agent to the verified person or business that authorized it. Agent Intelligence includes three layers in one platform designe...
Threat actors are flooding employees' inboxes with spam and then contacting them on Microsoft Teams as IT support, offering to fix the problem they created, Arctic Wolf has found. The security company documented more than 400 incidents in which the ...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two critical PHP vulnerabilities collectively tracked as PHP2Shell to its catalog of actively exploited security flaws. Threat actors without privileges can exploit the two s...
French energy giant ENGIE, one of the world's largest power and natural gas providers, confirmed that attackers stole customer data after breaching a marketing platform used by business partners. ENGIE operates in renewable energy, infrastructure, a...
Apple has backported security patches released last month to older iPhones and iPads, addressing a zero-day bug exploited in "extremely sophisticated" targeted attacks on iOS devices. Apple patched the same vulnerability in September for devices run...
Cyber headlines often focus on the flashy attacks, but the ones that actually cause OH $#!T moments are the tactics that abuse the tools and workflows you already trust. If you run a small or mid-sized organization, whether you handle IT yourself or ...
The Tailscale security team is working to patch almost a dozen security vulnerabilities that could be exploited to steal credentials, crash servers, gain root privileges, and more. Tailscale develops a software-defined mesh virtual private network (...
FireMon has announced FireMon Agentic AI, changing how enterprises investigate network access, make policy decisions, and prepare security changes. Built into FireMon's network security management solutions, the new agentic AI capabilities makes agen...
DNSFilter has launched LUMINATE by DNSFilter, a security platform that allows organizations to deliver five security solutions from one agent, one console and one policy. Shadow AI is now one of the fastest-growing risks in business. Employees are a...
Sekoia has introduced Sekoia Self-Hosted, a deployment model that brings the Sekoia SOC platform into the customer's own infrastructure. Designed for large organizations, including government agencies, defense organizations, critical infrastructure ...
After announcing a new iPad mini today, Apple is expected to introduce updated iMac and 14-inch MacBook Pro models on Tuesday, both with the M6 chip that debuted in the new Mac mini in August. No design changes have been rumored for these Macs. Final...
T-Mobile seems to be gamifying your wireless perks, and it already sounds exhausting. ### What you need to know - T-Mobile is launching T-Mix, which replaces pre-packaged plans with a credits system called Picks, so you spend on what you actually u...
### Summary - Retailer claims Nintendo blocks later physical releases for Game-Key Card-only titles. - Video Games Plus says the policy has "legit reasons" and may hopefully allow physical releases after sellouts. - Nintendo says it's not planning...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday confirmed active exploitation of the recently patched PHP2Shell flaws by adding them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The PHP vulnerabilities, both rated...
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has issued an alert warning of unauthorized remote access to video surveillance systems manufactured by Dahua. "Cases of compromising IP cameras and DVRs with access to the video stream, chan...
Charging behaviors and heat are the things to pay attention to. Your electric vehicle's battery is pretty resilient, but that doesn't mean it's impervious to damage. A study from Geotab, a company that offers fleet tracking and management services, ...
The camera app can turn your foldable into a waist-level viewfinder. In our review of the iPhone Duo, one of the big question marks for Apple's foldable was around app support. While Apple's own stuff might be ready to handle the dual screens and ne...
Those USB ports are for more than topping off your controller battery. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It's not as immediately apparent what to do with your PS5's USB ports compared to the many uses for your phone's USB po...
A major hospital network in New Mexico raced to fix a cybersecurity issue on Monday that forced it to send ambulances to other hospitals and left the state without an emergency department capable of treating the most serious injuries. The University...
Several organizations have teamed up to create Blue Initiative, a public vulnerability database that indexes IT and OT vulnerabilities impacting the maritime industry. Blue Initiative is the work of cybersecurity company Cydome, Japan's ClassNK clas...
Netflix isn't America's most-watched streaming platform on TV, and two free services are giving bigger names some competition. The streaming platform Americans spend the most time watching on TV doesn't require a subscription. In July 2026, YouTube ...
Lockdown Mode makes your iPhone much more secure against spyware, but most people don't need to use it. The iPhone's Lockdown Mode has been around since 2022, but you might not have heard about it, let alone used it. It's one of those features that'...
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past year, you know about the PC hardware crisis we're going through. It started with RAM, but soon engulfed GPUs, SSDs, and even hard drives. Storage may not be a priority for gamers, but NAS and home l...
Saving money is one of the big reasons people can get into self-hosting, though whether that actually works out really depends on what you're doing with your server. Just replacing cloud storage with a home server may not actually be cheaper, but onc...
I can't drive without music playing, and Android Auto makes it easy to bring whichever music app you prefer into the car. I spent a month switching between Spotify, YouTube Music, and Plexamp, which plays music from my own Plex server. Having access...
Using the second or third PCIe slot on your motherboard is usually pretty straightforward. Whether you're installing a capture card, a network adapter, or even an expansion card to add more NVMe SSDs, you'd naturally assume that you can just plug it ...
Given how many times Windows 11 throws seemingly messy and complex problems to solve, I'm willing to bet that almost every long-time user has been at the brink of wiping the OS and reinstalling it from scratch. Not every user's workflow allows for t...
Google's a little later than expected, but the update is here. ### What you need to know - Google is rolling out v5.11 of the Health app to Android and iOS users, rolling out the expected Health Guardian update for the Fitbit Air. - Fitbit Air use...
It's a hard one to beat. As part of our ongoing coverage and commemoration of the closure of BioWare, we've been reaching out to RPG developers to hear what the studio meant to them. Lead SEO editor Lauren Morton got in touch with 16 devs who owe th...
Playable Archive is free, and it's very good. Halloween is almost upon us, and if you're looking for some suitably spooky videogame fun then allow me to direct your attention to Playable Archive, a free "micro psychological horror experience" from D...
Don't blame this one on GTA 6: The developers say incorporating feedback on Emberville's demo is taking longer than they expected. Literally one day before it was set to launch into early access, the pixel art action RPG Emberville has been delayed ...
Blizzard dropped a final balance pass for each playable race's unique abilities. The World of Warcraft: Forever min-maxers have been arguing about the pros and cons of each playable race since the throwback MMO was announced. It isn't enough to just...
South Korean police identified seven suspects linked to a cybercrime operation that breached more than 90 organizations in the country, with ARTEX AI pentesting framework used in most of the attacks. According to local media citing the Seoul Metropo...
The University of Copenhagen in Denmark confirmed that hackers accessed one of its test environments containing personal data belonging to 525,000 people. The educational organization detected the breach last Tuesday and disclosed it on Friday. In a...
A new AI agent prompt injection technique exploits how coding assistants consume local instruction files, blurring the line between text documents and executable actions. A new indirect prompt injection attack relies on using markdown files in an en...
Risks & Rewards: How AI Is Redefining the CISO's Role Nvidia security executive Mark Weatherford says CISOs must help business leaders weigh AI's pros and cons, and ensure those deploying it own the risks. ISC2 Strategic Congress 2026 — Denver ...
News, news analysis, and commentary on the latest trends in cybersecurity technology. Measuring AI model security gets complex fast — a growing patchwork of benchmarks targets different variables in the equation, but none replace testing against...
The tech industry needs this to go well. So does Wall Street. Anthropic's IPO filing on Monday puts the Claude creator in position to pursue what could be the largest initial stock offering in history. Investors are already measuring the 5-year-old ...
Forbidden Solitaire's The Discarded DLC is here and those cards aren't going to play themselves. The first new card I found in Forbidden Solitaire's new DLC The Discarded gave me the power to throw a card like a knife at whatever horror was trying t...
An unknown threat actor has infected 953 online stores, most of them running Magento, as part of a long-running campaign active since July 2025. According to Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec, the activity is designed to add a small piece of ...
If you're in desperate need of power, lots of newer Samsung phones can wirelessly charge other devices. Running out of phone battery when you're on the go can be a big problem. Even if you have power banks and portable chargers for every device unde...
Getting to know your remote a little better makes it a lot easier to navigate the Apple TV menus. The Apple TV remote has become ubiquitous in households that favor the company's ecosystem of products. However, people can do more with this little ob...
Impacted users can contact AppleCare for a replacement. An unspecified number of iPhone Duo owners have complained that the inner display has already cracked along the hinge, according to reports by ArsTechnica and others. This is fairly troubling, ...
The developer released a well-received expansion for the game just a few weeks ago. More video game industry workers are out of a job after Sucker Punch Productions carried out layoffs. The Ghost of Yōtei developer let go 24 workers on Monday, as Af...
DreamHost has forced password resets for email and FTP/SFTP users following an incident that disrupted connections to the File Manager interface. The latest update from the web hosting provider notes that all affected account owners have received re...
OpenAI has launched GPT-6.1 Terra, a new model focused on computer use, visual reasoning, coding, and everyday work, while costing significantly less than its larger models. Terra is designed as a faster and cheaper option for tasks such as filling ...
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to what they say is a "recurring social engineering pattern" across hundreds of cases in which threat actors use Microsoft Teams' external chat creation feature to conduct impersonation scams or to deli...
PHP has rebuilt its official Windows packages for PHP 8.2 through 8.5 to fix CVE-2026-111497, a flaw in the Brotli compression library that the packages include. The flaw can let an attacker corrupt memory and potentially run code. PHP says the flaw...
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic filed papers Monday for what could be the biggest initial public offering of stock ever even as its top executive warns that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. The filing sets up the San...
This Cybersecurity Awareness Month's theme, "Securing the Next 250," asks us to look beyond vulnerabilities and consider what will make our digital systems resilient for generations. ### OPINION When I testified before Congress with my L0pht collea...
An ongoing supply chain attack is harvesting credentials and sensitive data from thousands of developer repositories. An ongoing attack is abusing compromised GitHub tokens to harvest cloud secrets and credentials from thousands of developer reposit...
Microsoft released emergency .NET security updates to patch a critical vulnerability known as Broccoli2Shell, also tracked as Node2Shell and HTTP2Shell. Tracked as CVE-2026-111497, this critical-severity flaw stems from an out-of-bounds write in the...
A critical flaw dubbed 'HTTP2Shell' in Brotli, the C decoder library built into Node.js, could allow attackers to corrupt memory and access sensitive data. The security issue is tracked as CVE-2026-111497 and is also known as "Broccoli2Shell" and "N...
PwC on Monday said it was investigating claims that hackers had breached a third-party vendor site the company uses to house employee learning records. The company disclosed the breach amid claims from Everest ransomware that it had stolen 590 gigab...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Monday laid out an ambitious vision for protecting U.S. government networks and critical infrastructure systems over the next four years. The "CISA 2030: Defend, Harden, Prevail" strategy chart...
The internet's mad scramble on Wednesday to patch a pair of critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a widely used web scripting language, was already too late to stop every attack, newly released details reveal. Wednesday's release of fixes for two critica...
Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. As security teams and web admins scrambled ...
Mainstream consumer security cameras like Ring, Arlo, or Google Nest mean you buy the hardware up front, only to find that basic features like video history, person detection, and secure clips are locked behind a monthly SaaS subscription. These clos...
For years, 3D gaming meant wrestling with heavy glasses or dealing with screen flicker that gave you a headache. Samsung is trying to fix that with the Odyssey 3D G90XF. As you might have guessed, the monitor doesn't come cheap, costing $1,400. Howev...
When someone hears the word AI, their mind typically gravitates toward ChatGPT immediately. You might not necessarily use it every day, and it might not even be your go-to AI tool. However, we've reached a point where ChatGPT has practically become s...
Anyone who spends their day in client calls knows how it goes. The meeting wraps up, and then the real work starts. The CRM needs updating. Someone has to write the follow-up email. Decisions and deadlines need chasing, and an hour of loose conversat...
Clean up your contacts list to prioritize the people you actually want to talk to. It's easy for your phone's contact list to get out of control, especially if you've carried the same (growing) list over to every new phone for a decade or more. If y...
It also released a couple of new accessories, including a wearable chain. Even Realities is back with a new colorway for its G2 smart glasses. The appropriately-named Even Brown 2 glasses are basically the same exact hardware, with the only major di...
This form factor comes with some trade-offs. Electric bikes take some of the effort out of the daily commute, as well as giving you a bit more power for any long, leisurely journeys you're making. Storing them isn't the easiest, although a foldable ...
There are a few things you can try to fix it. Say what you will about Roku in light of its impending takeover by Fox, but its products are a model of simplicity. There's nothing cryptic about its hardware or software controls, and for the most part,...
You might need to make some space. Phantom Blade Zero, the upcoming action RPG from Chinese studio S-Game, is looking mighty impressive, and the Unreal Engine 5 game even has fairly modest system requirements too. Yet, according to the latest update...
Sorry to everyone I evicted. Maybe take a drive to make yourselves feel better. I think it's obvious and uncontroversial to say that the automobile is a tool of capital to subjugate the worker, to atomise them in their locomoting coffins and alienat...
Me jump that kind of orc. World of Warcraft: Forever's beta is now closed, meaning I can no longer appreciate the pretty god rays in Ashenvale. To soothe this yawning ache in my soul, however, Blizzard has released a fun little stats tracker to tide...
A persistent "loading user data" screen may be connected to problems with purchasing and installing games. If you're having trouble logging into Steam today, you're not alone: Significant numbers of users are reporting that they're stuck on a "loadi...
The film seeks to explore Modern Warfare's "nuanced storylines". The Call of Duty movie officially became a thing earlier this year, and aside from making fans of Black Ops cry out in pain it promised "an authentic and exciting" take on the Modern W...
This2Shell, That2Shell, Everything2Shell. That's pretty much how the last week went. Critical bugs that let attackers run code remotely are showing up everywhere. Hackers are scanning for targets, some flaws are already being used in attacks, and sec...
The company may be valued as high as $2 trillion. Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, as the AI giant detailed in a post on its website. The company sent its Form S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission, confirming that the stock would ...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a Microsoft 365 campaign that has been observed leveraging an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) relay to capture sign-in sessions and then replay the stolen tokens to break into email accounts at 79 organizations...
A rentable Android spyware kit called uCreator takes over Telegram and WeChat accounts by hiding its code inside working copies of the two apps, researcher Ovi found. It only reaches people who install one of these tampered copies, spread outside the...
Every SOC struggles with a pile of alerts. Very few of those alerts explain how an attack started or how it progressed. Network data, like that from a network detection and response (NDR) platform, connects individual alerts into one timeline, and it...
Two critical flaws in Wasmtime, a WebAssembly runtime that can be built into other software, could allow a malicious WebAssembly module to escape the sandbox intended to contain it, the project's maintainers say. An attacker would first need a vulne...
Two critical RCE vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), collectively tracked as PHP2Shell, have been successfully exploited in the wild. The malicious activity was caught by Adel Karimi, detection and response lead at Perplexity, who...
Kali Linux has released version 2026.3, its third release this year, featuring six new hacking tools, desktop environment improvements, refreshed build scripts, and more. This Linux distribution is available as an installable OS or as a live environ...
A Chinese national was arraigned in California after being extradited from the Netherlands for his alleged involvement in a cryptocurrency investment scam that stole nearly $37 million from 174 victims in the United States. In these fraud schemes (a...
### Author: Len Noe, Solutions Architect, BeyondTrust The first question on any incident bridge isn't about why it happened--it's whose credentials were used. In my experience, whoever can answer that credential question in the first hour sets the p...
Customer experience company Genesys says it has contained a cyberattack that involved unauthorized access to data. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Genesys is a provider of customer experience and call center technology for mid-sized and lar...
Industrial giants such as Siemens, Schneider Electric, ABB, Rockwell Automation and Johnson Controls have published advisories to inform customers about the impact of the recently disclosed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities on their products. Several of the...
Digital sovereignty is the concept of having complete control over data, apps, access, and other digital assets. Organizations are increasingly seeing critical workloads, such as AI, as strategic assets that require careful deployment across air-gapp...
A threat actor has infected 953 online stores, most of them running Magento, with loader code as part of a long-running campaign, cybersecurity firm Sansec reports. The attacks have been ongoing since July 2025, and the threat actor has used five di...
Attackers have successfully exploited the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to run shell commands on honeypot servers, a researcher reported over the weekend. Tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, the critical PHP2Shell flaws can be exploited for ...
OpenAI, Grok, Claude and Gemini don't simply help us, they have also been tricked into helping China produce cheap rivals. Frontier AI generally includes a public API to let developers interface specialized apps with their AI engine. It allows a use...
A file that a website saves to the Downloads folder without approval can trick AI coding agents into installing a malicious npm package or handing over the user's login token when they're opened in that folder, Forever Security has found. The file i...
Employees pasting company data into AI tools worry security teams more than AI-powered attacks do. ### Most-concerning risks of AI agents (Source: O'Reilly) AI-generated phishing, the attack they run into most often, made the list of top concerns f...
- Published Anthropic has warned artificial intelligence could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity" as it unveiled details of its planned blockbuster stock market listing in the US. The company behind AI chatbot Claude revealed loss...
Anthropic is officially headed for the public market in what is expected to be a historic offering for a five-year-old company that's been at the heart of the generative artificial intelligence boom. In a Form S-1 filing with the Securities and Exch...
Anthropic has publicly filed for a listing on the US stock market under the symbol ANT. Analysts and investors have previously valued the San Francisco-based company, founded in 2021, at more than $1.5tn, meaning its listing will be one of the large...
All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending October 25. Valve's mandatory AI disclosures are once again at the centre of the discourse, mostly thanks to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, who has long been vocally against them. The debate has been ...
Nvidia took the chip from its DGX Spark, put it in a Windows laptop, and called it RTX Spark. On paper, it's the local AI laptop I've wanted for years: up to 128GB of unified memory, CUDA, and a chip that was already here under a different name. I've...
### Summary - Users claim that Opus 5.5 guardrails blocked Claude from reverse-engineering smart TVs. - It's an unverified anecdote: safeguards may be blocking TVs by mistake or targeting other risks. - If true, people could turn to other or open-...
A malicious instruction file sitting in a developer's Downloads folder tried to make their AI coding agent install a known-malicious npm package, security firm Forever Security said in a report published last week. The company caught the attempt on ...
AI agents that have not run recently retain credentials and connections to company systems, according to Arrakis Security's 2026 Autonomous Agents Threat Report. About 76% of enabled agents examined had not run in 60 days, leaving access available th...
Criminals are exploiting established customer accounts and familiar brands to steal money and personal information, according to TransUnion's Fraud in the Age of Continuous Trust report. Eighty-one percent of suspected digital fraud in its network du...
The iPhone Duo includes a new Shortcuts automation trigger that runs actions when the device is opened or closed. YouTuber Stephen Robles highlighted the trigger, which is called "Opened or Closed" and can be found under the Display automations categ...
There are plenty of non-Apple foldables out there, but finding a perfect match is tricky. While Apple's first-ever foldable phone is the subject of plenty of attention, the Cupertino tech giant was actually well behind Android phone makers to the ca...
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Cable category terms like Cat5e and Cat6 have that industrial twang, so, understandably, some may assume they're tough enough for outdoor use. And they can do more than just improve home int...
I've clicked through more "Your connection is not private" warnings than I'd like to admit, and nearly all of them came from my own homelab. The web UI for my Proxmox setup throws one, my Synology NAS throws one, and I'd trained myself to ignore both...
Between important documents, photos, videos, and work files across my computers, I have tried different backup solutions over the years. But most follow the same old formula. You select your files, choose a destination, and hope everything goes smoo...
When Google raised the price of the Google TV Streamer to $150, it caught many home media enthusiasts off guard. Released more than two years ago, it has received few updates, and it can be buggy. It offers a couple of features that the seven-year-ol...
If you use Gmail, Google Photos, and Google Drive, chances are you live within the Google ecosystem. If you own a MacBook, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch, and have naturally gravitated toward Apple Mail, iCloud, and the rest of Apple's services, you'r...
Airline regulations are strict about batteries, but AirTags are thankfully a simple case. From filthy TSA bins to extraordinary delays, flying can be a harrowing experience. And lost luggage is undoubtedly near the top of the stressors list. Keeping...
Gain more effective desktop space for free. Windows has a lot of useful-yet-hidden features to find, from clipboard history to a bundle of customization options. One of the best that you probably aren't using is the ability to create multiple deskto...
Chrome has developed a reputation for being a memory hog, but is it deserved? If you have spent any time on the internet, you have probably come across the "fact" that Chrome is a RAM hog. However, this isn't a fact so much as it is an internet meme...
The OpenSSL project released version 4.1.0, adding support for DTLS 1.3 and listing four known bugs in the DTLS code that ships with it. DTLS is the variant of TLS built for datagram transports such as UDP, and version 1.3 is defined in RFC 9147. Th...
In a market that is possibly the least affordable it has ever been (thanks to enterprise demand), it's virtually impossible to invest in traditional upgrades. Switching to a new GPU or CPU platform has been prohibitively expensive for almost a year n...
I think I could guess where the budget went, but I'm not complaining. Welcome to Critical Hit, where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team) celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ea...
Don't cry because it's over. With the closure of RPG standby BioWare, we've been consulting the PC Gamer rolodex and reaching out to developers for their thoughts and reflections on the legendary studio. Lead SEO editor Lauren Morton spoke to 16 dev...
The desperate plea to EA has fans sharing their memories of the spacefaring shooter. Last week, the other shoe dropped for legendary RPG studio BioWare: shortly after EA's acquisition by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and investment firms Sil...
"Indie studios produced 20 of the 21 extra breakout launches in the 2026 cohort," reads one industry analysis. You'll never play every game. In fact, most people won't play most games — plenty of games release on Steam to approximately 0 user revi...
You can say that again. As reported by IGN, veteran actors Jennifer Hale and Mark Meer, who voiced the female and male Commanders Shepard in Mass Effect, respectively, directly addressed fans of the series in an October 21 Instagram Live. The two re...
The Arcade Controller Pro starts at $119.99 and will start shipping in late November. After revealing its second leverless controller earlier this year, 8BitDo's Arcade Controller Pro is now available for pre-order for $119.99. The pro controller, d...
AirPods pair with Android like any other Bluetooth device, but most of their smarts stay behind on the iPhone. Flip open an AirPods case next to an iPhone and up pops a card showing your earbuds and their battery levels, ready to connect with one ta...
I never expected to build my own Chrome extensions. Like most people, I preferred finding a ready-made tool that solved a problem without requiring much effort. But when a few extensions I relied on ended up in the hands of new owners and turned mali...
When you're tinkering with ESP32 microcontrollers, choosing the right setup can make the difference between a smooth-sailing project and a barely-functional experiment. And I'm not just talking about the circuitry components, sensor modules, or other...
Most cars have a fairly limited number of USB ports. One is a given, two is generous, and if you need more than that, you're usually out of luck. Unfortunately, I fall into the camp that can never have enough USB ports, thanks to the number of device...
Apple CarPlay has always impressed me with its clean interface, slick animations, and seamless integration with iPhone. After spending considerable time with CarPlay, I thought Apple had figured out the better in-car experience. However, my opinion ...
A single hacked device on a Tailscale network can be used to gain root access to other servers it can reach, according to a security researcher who published the findings this week. The attack requires two things: Tailscale SSH set up to allow port ...
Threat actors have been observed using agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for post-exploitation activity following the abuse of the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. "In one case, the attackers tar...
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: A critical PHP security release is coming today, so get ready to update! The PHP security team has announced an urgent security release for Wednesday,...
The idea of playing Deus Ex entirely in third person has always seemed like sacrilege to me. I like my immersive sims to be, well, immersive, to let me see the world through my character's eyes and interact with it up close and personal. Yet having ...
Sweeney's assessment of the games industry in the 2000s hits close to home today, but I still hold out hope that the future can be better. On May 24, 2000, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney shared a public statement (the specific platform or venue eludes m...
Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like "How tidy is your desktop?" and "What game will you never u...
I've been a long-term Zen user. It's a Firefox fork that puts more thought into tab management and the interface while keeping the same Gecko engine. I liked Zen because it offered an experience very similar to Arc (RIP), while letting me stick with ...
Retro controllers have made a massive comeback, and the 8BitDo Pro 2 remains one of the best ways to play your classic library without worrying about stick drift. The D-pad is optimized for a retro gaming feel, and you also get Hall Effect joysticks ...
My phone loses far too much battery when I use wireless Android Auto, and it's frustrating because I still need it once I get out of the car. You expect navigation and music streaming to use some power, but a drive shouldn't leave you worrying about ...
When it comes to adding storage to a PC, SATA drives make up some of the better options in terms of value for money, but every motherboard generation seems to ship with fewer SATA ports than the last. Even if a board does come with plenty of ports, s...
Google Docs is one of the most popular word processing tools in the world, and for good reasons. Almost everyone has a Google account, and the cloud-based nature means you aren't bound to a specific device. It has almost every feature you could ask f...
Kindle+ arrives with more audiobooks, same price, and zero human narrators required. ### What you need to know - Kindle Unlimited is now Kindle+, keeping the $11.99 monthly price, 20-title borrow limit, and existing user data intact. - The subscri...
Earbuds tend to be smaller and less complex to build than headphones. Whether you're an audiophile or not, you likely have earbuds, headphones, or maybe both tucked in a drawer, tossed in your backpack or neatly stored on your desk. Having a way to ...
Your Mac comes with a fairly robust suite of built-in privacy tools. If you think about it too hard, you'll start sweating at the reality of how much personal data you have on your MacBook. Whether it's sensitive documents or credentials and logins,...
Meta gives you some control over what your glasses collect and store. You just have to know where to look. Ray-Ban Meta glasses can snap a photo with a tap, but it's a bit trickier to find out what happens to that photo, or anything else you send to...
Sony's gaming service has changed a lot in recent years, and the price reflects that. Much has changed for PlayStation purists over the past decade and a half: Sony discontinued the PSP and PS Vita; the PS5 went from a penny under $500 to a whopping...
Researchers found a malicious AGENTS markdown instruction file in a customer's Downloads folder that tricked an AI coding agent into installing a rogue npm package. They reproduced the attack against OpenAI Codex and demonstrated a related technique...
### Summary - This Motorized fader console turns on lights with tactile, switch-like clicks. - It uses an ESP32-S3, and each slider directly controls bulb brightness. - It also features a dial to select the room you wish to control, and four butto...
For almost the entirety of 2026, I've run countless experiments with several dozen local LLMs week after week, and yet it feels as though I've barely scratched the surface of how capable local AI has become in such little time. I've been a staunch p...
OpenAI has announced plans to conduct frontier model training with no live internet access, as it resumes reinforcement learning (RL) training and internal inference of its most advanced AI models. "Based on the current state of alignment research, ...
Tel Aviv-based Mave was founded in 2025 by Unit 8200 alumni Guy Eshel (CTO) and Raziel Oren (CEO). The funding announced on October 22, 2026 comprises $6 million seed funding (raised at the time of founding) and a new $28 million Series A round led ...
### Summary - Denmark trialed Collabora to ditch Microsoft Office, but it failed to open some OOXML files. - A 38-person trial was paused for elections and later canceled after persistent import issues. - Proprietary OOXML format makes migration p...
### Summary - ScreenPlink turns your monitor into a laser-based shooting range using a webcam and laser pointer. - Built with Claude Code, it's open-source on GitHub and supports single- or two-player modes. - Requires only a webcam, a matte scree...
iPhone Duo uses a Touch ID sensor built into the side button for authentication. Some may feel this is a step backwards after almost a decade of Face ID on iPhones, but if you wear an Apple Watch, you can use it to unlock your iPhone Duo instead. Thi...
There's a way to convert wired CarPlay to wireless, but you need to choose the right adapter first. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. CarPlay is compatible with hundreds of vehicles, but many of them require you to plug in y...
Your vehicle doesn't truly sleep when you lock it. It's already costly enough to leave your EV at the airport for a week without it quietly discharging electricity while you're away. You could end up with a reduced battery percentage, even if the od...
Taking a few shortcuts while setting up your home network can lead to a lot of buffering later. Setting up your home network is a process, and it's the little mistakes along the way that will hurt you in the end. One simple yet very common error is ...
Why the battery in your AirTag might die quickly, and what you can do to make it last longer. Apple's AirTag is a must-have accessory for travelers or anyone who's forgetful, and one of the best parts about using AirTags is that you don't have to wo...
The lowest upfront price doesn't necessarily mean the most affordable when you factor in the cost of games. Gaming has become an even more expensive hobby in the past couple of years due to import tariffs and surging memory prices. For example, the ...
The conveniences of an eSIM come with a few strings attached. First, you should know there is no quality difference between using an eSIM or physical SIM card. The difference between the two is how you activate and move your cellular service. Both i...
From closed to crypto, e-wallets can make your day-to-day a bit easier. While the days of toting a physical wallet around aren't fully behind us, digital wallets have surely made life easier for many. But the differences between various types of dig...
I have become so dependent on AI that even for small tasks like summarizing or replying to emails, I always turn to cloud AIs like ChatGPT or Claude. Since I can't stop going to AI, I have been trying to cut down on cloud AI and use self-hosted local...
If you take a long, hard look at your motherboard, you'll notice that it comes with some legacy ports on them, such as Serial (COM), Parallel (LPT), and PS/2 headers. It can be really tempting to assume they're there because the motherboard companies...
Adding another home server should mean more room for your applications. Somehow, it also becomes an invitation to learn Kubernetes and spend your weekend figuring out how everything talks to everything else. I already have working Compose files, and ...
Claude Pro proves its worth most of the time. Anthropic's models are accessible pretty much anywhere through API, but the Claude workspace has become almost necessary in my workflow, especially Projects and Artifacts - and more recently, Claude Docs ...
The TV is one of the most important devices in any home, as it's the central piece of an entertainment hub. Having a high-quality panel and sound system is crucial to a satisfying home theater experience, but using your TV's default settings can easi...
"It's not a good marketing term. And I don't think it helps." Fans of Deus Ex, Dishonored and Gloomwood like to roll the words 'immersive sim' around their mouths as often as possible, savouring the fond associations with first-person drawer-rifling...
How do you zig when all you know is zag? This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer's very own MMO column. Every other week, I'll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we've all taken ...
EA is shutting down the venerable studio, but its impact will persevere. For my column this week I was going to write about climbing all over monsters in Dragon Dogma 2's chilly Dark Arisen expansion, but then EA decided to finally murder BioWare af...
### Our Verdict A little uneven, but Penguin Colony is too weird, wonderful, and surprising to miss. ### PC Gamer's got your back Our experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to the heart of what matters most to you. Fi...
Is that good? As reported by The Verge, Xbox Chief Operating Officer Helen Chiang is leaving the company after three months in the role — though Chiang had previously been a Microsoft employee for 21 years. Xbox had not previously operated with a ...
You can try out the new feature on the Steam store's homepage. Personal Calendar is now available on Steam, offering a new way for gamers to stay on top of recently-released games that match their preferences. Valve released the new feature on Frida...
There's a good reason for that arrangement. Normally, "twisted" and "cable" are two words you don't want to have in the same sentence. And it's true that if there are tangles or kinks in a wire, that can cause performance issues or possibly lead to ...
The option to reserve an iPhone Duo for Apple Store pickup resumed in the U.S. and Canada between 5:10 a.m. and 5:15 a.m. Pacific Time today, but inventory is extremely limited, with most stores having no pickup slots available today. You can search...
Yet another busy week for Apple saw a teaser for even more product announcements coming next week, plus we got the highly anticipated launch of Apple's first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo. Other news this week included Verizon announcing a hef...
Amazon this weekend has a few of the best post-hike prices we've seen on the M5 MacBook Air so far, with prices starting at $1,399.00 for the 16GB RAM/1TB SSD 13-inch model, down from $1,599.00. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of t...
You don't need much processing power to host a few web tools, run scripts, or serve files around your house. Yet buying a mini PC or a Raspberry Pi often starts the conversation about building a home server. I like experimenting with dedicated hardwa...
Movie night with streaming services can be frustrating. Sometimes the apps don't even have the film you want to watch, and then when they do, you pay $4 to $6 a pop to rent it. When you actually watch that movie, whether it was on the service or not...
It's hard to ignore the fact that mini PCs are having a bit of a moment. While they've been around for some time, they didn't really offer a great package, leaving much to be desired. But that's changed quite a bit thanks to a variety of choices on A...
When I bought my RTX 4070 Ti back in 2023, I didn't know that I was going to be upgrading my GPU multiple times over the coming years, without ever buying a new piece of silicon. Between newer DLSS models, Nvidia's Smooth Motion, and the endless tink...
A smartphone chip in a laptop sounds like a mess, but it results in a solid laptop for the money. In retrospect, the MacBook Neo was Apple getting ahead of the curve. With tariffs and soaring memory prices in effect, the company must have known ther...
Patrolling your porch or pets doesn't require a monthly fee. Beyond serving as a fully functional doorbells, the Ring Camera lineup still offers plenty of solid use cases. Unfortunately, like most smart gadgets, whether fitness trackers or bird feed...
You won't need expensive equipment or invest much time. Your car key fob suddenly needs several presses to unlock the door. Your AirTag stops responding when you try to locate it. Before blaming either gadget, it's worth checking the battery inside....
The easiest way to stop your watch from distracting you at the movies. Apple Watches do a lot more than tell the time, granting their wearers many of the iPhone's perks in addition to a suite of biometric data. However, they also possess an assortme...
Google has updated its privacy policy to spell out that using personalized artificial intelligence (AI) features in Search or Gemini could allow the company to serve targeted ads to users based on their activity on other connected Google services. "...
LiteLLM on Friday revealed that an Agent Platform master key accidentally published to a public GitHub repository in late May 2026 ultimately allowed the threat actor to push a malicious version of the popular Python package. "On May 27, 2026, a con...
I watch a lot of old-school movies while I'm working, and not a lot of them have subtitles. I've built the collection over the years from an assortment of sources, and even when subtitles are available, the quality can be all over the place. I've tri...
A new UEFI bootkit named BlackX, deployed in an espionage campaign in early 2026, exploited the old Baton Drop vulnerability to bypass Secure Boot and load a malicious driver designed to interfere with security solutions from Kaspersky and Avast. Th...
An experimental vaccine offers new hope to patients with melanoma, one of the most aggressive forms of skin cancer. The pharmaceutical companies Merck and Moderna released the results of a Phase 3 clinical trial that evaluated the efficacy of a perso...
It has been a little more than a month since WSL 3.0.1 came out, and it's already changing the way I run my Linux containers. One of the most distinctive features that interested me is the fact that it adds the wslc command that can pull images, run ...
### Summary - Plasma 6.9 remembers open window sizes and positions per screen arrangement. - Wayland picture-in-picture enabled; can permanently deny XWayland apps pointer/keyboard control. - Hold Ctrl or Shift in Task Switcher to stop bouncing an...
Self-hosting lets me run my favorite tools on my own terms, without relying entirely on third-party services. For a long time, that freedom was all I cared about. I could experiment with different apps, tweak settings, and build a setup that suited m...
I'd previously run Cyberpunk 2077 on Lenovo's ThinkStation PGX, and when the RTX Spark was announced, I described it as the same GB10 hardware Nvidia already sells in the DGX Spark, just running Windows. However, the HP OmniBook Ultra 16 I've been te...
Star Wars Galaxies just got another massive update thanks to its community Restoration project, including a huge visual upgrade and a refurb to the Wookiees' home planet I'm beginning to wonder whether Star Wars Galaxies Restoration can still be con...
Time to dust off the click wheel. In today's edition of Do You Feel Old?, it's been exactly 25 years since the unveiling of the original iPod, one of the most important products in not only Apple's own history, but that of consumer technology in gen...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two vulnerabilities impacting Collabora Online Built-in CODE Server and Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), citing reports ...
A memory-corruption flaw in Google's Brotli decoder sits in many programs that unpack Brotli-compressed data, among them Bun, the Python Brotli and brotlicffi packages, and Envoy proxies set up to decompress Brotli. Tracked as CVE-2026-111497, the f...
Between November 2025 and March 2026, the Dutch security firm Eye Security pushed more than 2 million updates to computers it did not own to switch off a background updater that it said could have allowed an outsider to take over the machine. The up...
Leaders in cybersecurity are sounding the alarm after the discovery of a major vulnerability this week. They are predicting that artificial intelligence tools will expose more fundamental weaknesses in global internet infrastructure in the months to ...
The new restrictions are a test which is explicitly not supposed to impact these entities. Daniel Starks is the communications manager for Greenville, Texas, a city of about 35,000. He oversees nearly a dozen Facebook pages the city maintains. Recen...
The company is trying to avoid another Hugging Face incident. OpenAI will train frontier AI models without internet access moving forward, the company announced in a blog post, in an attempt to protect internet infrastructure and limit other safety ...
Calif demonstrated the iPhone Duo's icons and widgets bouncing around, and added an anime character to the device's screen. Last week, the group shared videos featuring an untethered jailbreak on an iPhone 18 Pro running iOS 27.0.1. The device was s...
The option to reserve an iPhone Duo for Apple Store pickup is starting to return on Apple's online store, with the system live again in countries such as Australia, China, Japan, and South Korea. Unfortunately, our spot check revealed extremely limit...
The iPhone Duo is compatible with the Apple Pencil, if you have the right one. MacRumors videographer Dan Barbera tested the Apple Pencil with the iPhone Duo to see if it's a useful tool to pick up. If you already have an Apple Pencil 1, Apple Penci...
The iPhone Duo has an all-new form factor with multiple folding and orientation options, and app developers are having some fun with it. You can find quite a few apps using the foldable display in unique ways, many with skeuomorphic designs. ### Tin...
Apple and the U.S. Department of Justice disagree over how much newer evidence Apple must hand over in their antitrust case, according to a new court filing this week. The two sides previously agreed to a June 20, 2025 cutoff for Apple's records. Wi...
Gemini Notebooks are already available in the Gemini app side panel, but Google is now adding deeper Connected App integration. As a Connected App like Google Workspace or Photos, @Gemini Notebook "allows you to manage and query notebooks directly w...
A major disruption. ### What you need to know - After updating to One UI 9, a Korean user states they've encountered a critical setup bug. - The user is unable to view their lock screen or home screen with this bug, but Samsung was quick to respon...
OnePlus speeds up its ColorOS 17 rollout, but OxygenOS fans may not cheer. ### What you need to know - OnePlus has started rolling out its Android 17-based update to the OnePlus 15 and Pad 4 ahead of the October 29 schedule. - ColorOS 17 brings re...
Back at it again. ### What you need to know - Oura and Ultrahuman find themselves in another dispute as the former sues over "patent infringements." - Oura states Ultrahuman infringed on "design and internal component" patents with the Ring Pro. ...
It's not lost on me that any one of Anthropic's models can outperform the models I run on my 16GB Nvidia GPU. I'd wager even Sonnet 5.5 can write much better code, keep track of conversations that just go on and on, and catch mistakes that both my Qw...
Over the last couple of weeks, I've taken to revisiting some of the greatest releases of the N64, PS2, and pre-2010 PC era, specifically the titles that defined what a great gaming experience is for me, and probably for many others like myself. Most ...
Notion is often the first app that comes to mind for managing notes, projects, and everyday work. But it's not the only option worth considering. I've been looking for a tool that gives me more freedom over how I work without adding unnecessary compl...
Like Wordle, but it's about pricing used cars. I'm always on the lookout for a new daily game I can play on my phone because, quite honestly, I'll do just about anything to delay getting out of bed for just a few more minutes in the morning. If you'...
The famed immersive sim studio just got an extra month to find a new buyer, but will likely close if there are no takers. Arkane Lyon may soon be facing closure, according to a new report by French site Le Monde, which says a deadline to find a buye...
Too easy, too hard, or just right? One of the big topics of conversation around Onimusha: Way of the Sword when it released last month — and even before that, when Capcom first put out a demo of the game — was whether it was too easy. Viral clip...
The more I hear about what BioWare had cooking, the more pissed off I am that we're never going to get it. Electronic Arts shuttered BioWare earlier this week, and that sucked. A concept trailer for the Mass Effect game the studio had in development...
BioWare is just the latest casualty in a long history of private equity carnage. The closure of BioWare has not come as a huge surprise. The LGBTQ-inclusive developer of Mass Effect and Dragon Age, which hadn't managed to transmute development mayhe...
Diplomatic organizations in Central Asia have been targeted by a sophisticated new Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackX. The activity, which singled out diplomatic entities in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in...
After a fresh Windows install, PC gamers will immediately rush to the power settings to switch on the "high performance" power plan, which, if nothing else, is harmless. It does what it says on the tin, favoring the highest performance possible in ex...
The reality of owning a heavy desktop workstation is that it draws massive amounts of power at idle, runs loud fans for minor background tasks, and sits dormant or off for large portions of the day. However, your home storage server or NAS will proba...
Fixing the critical PHP flaws is not as simple as clicking "Update." Here's how to assess your risk, and what you can do to protect yourself. New data shows that organizations aren't moving to patch PHP2Shell as fast as attackers are moving to explo...
Cybersecurity In-Depth: Feature articles on security strategy, latest trends, and people to know. Threat actors don't need to rely on malware to breach organizations anymore. They're simply calling help desks and politely asking for access, with a l...
Google Cloud is adding OpenAI models to its platform, initially through a private preview for selected business customers. The launch includes GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. Google positions them as options for demanding work, lower-cost pr...
An attack tool built around AI goes looking for AI models that anyone on the internet can reach, then uses them to plan break-ins while the model's owner pays for the computing power. Symantec captured the agent's instruction set this summer through...
Players who signed up for Capcom's online account service may want to look twice at emails that seem to come from the company. The company has disclosed that a third party gained unauthorized access to customer information linked to CAPCOM ID, the a...
An attacker who spent ten weeks replaying stolen Microsoft 365 sign-in sessions broke into email accounts at 79 organizations and used hidden inbox rules to keep victims from seeing parts of their own mail, according to Huntress. The researchers tra...
Damaging a cable on the seabed off the UK coast could soon cost someone 14 years of their life behind bars, under plans the British government published this week. The proposal comes from a White Paper by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media a...
Microsoft says Teams will begin using AI-powered phishing detection in early November 2026 to detect malicious behavior in messages. The rollout is part of a targeted release phase expected to end by mid-November, with the new security feature likel...
Researchers remotely disabled a vulnerable updater in the abandoned Time4Popcorn app, a fork of the Popcorn Time BitTorrent client, closing a security flaw that could have allowed attackers to execute malicious code with elevated privileges on millio...
Ruby has released versions 4.0.9, 3.4.12, and 3.3.13 to fix three bugs in Onigmo, the regular expression engine built into the language. The bugs lie behind four critical security flaws that GitLab patched over the past month. GitLab found that a sp...
### Summary - A nearly entirely AI-made Zelda: Breath of the Wild PC port has arrived. - While PC port was created almost entirely with Claude Code, but humans reviewed and tested the code. - Quality-of-life features include DLSS, FSR3, VRR, and 3...
The ThinkPad brand has always been associated with repairability and a rock-solid foundation for Windows productivity, and the products that stick close to that ethos have been the cult-classic releases. The T60 and X60, the X220 and T420, and more r...
Ever since USB-C became the standard for modern laptops, a flood of docking stations has tried to solve the same problem: how to connect everything with a single cable. While many docks offer basic connectivity, few balance compact size with reliable...
The PDF files that are worth protecting tend to be the boring ones, like a scan of your ID that an application needs, or a bank statement where an account number has to be blacked out. The free Acrobat Reader app is fine for reading and signing thing...
Active noise-canceling headphones have become a staple for commuters, remote workers, and audiophiles alike. While the market is flooded with options, finding a pair that balances long battery life, high-quality sound, and a comfortable fit without b...
![AMD says the re-release of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D was 'like a final gift to our loyal [AM4] users' and it was CEO Dr. Lisa Su who first came up with the idea](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/94RkNNoBUmy3PmPVpQQR2d-650-80.jpg)
It timed itself rather nicely with the deepening memory crisis, too. I was genuinely surprised by the re-release of the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D earlier this year. A chip I thought long dead was back in 10th Anniversary form, after a resurrection process...
I've been having a grand old time playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 with an RX 9070 XT, but there'll be plenty of people wanting to run the game on older hardware. So, I decided to dust off my old and much-beloved workhorse, the RTX 3060 Ti, and...
He's been looksmaxxing. He got the Chad surgery. Archetype Entertainment has unveiled a new look for the protagonist of Exodus, its upcoming sci-fi RPG. We at PCG didn't love Jun Aslan's original face, but it sounds like there was more widespread di...
I'm a chump who can't tell my gems from my minerals. I have never really thought much about gemstones or minerals, which is weird considering one of my all-time favourite games is Minecraft, in which I spend a bulk of my time strip-mining. But Abyss...
BioWare was the catalyst for a generation of game development careers. When my party approached Redcliffe Village in Dragon Age: Origins, my reluctant sidekick Alistair stopped the party for a big confession about a secret he'd been keeping from me....
A protective case and an accessory box make it easy to travel with. If GuliKit's TT Max is the granddaddy of Switch 2 controllers, the TT Pro is what happens when grandpa goes on a diet. It's slightly leaner than the TT Max in terms of accessories, ...
But it's really only meant for AI fanatics. ASUS's first laptop featuring an RTX Spark chip confirms what I originally thought: NVIDIA's new PC platform really isn't meant for everyone. The ProArt P16 is yet another one of the company's premium note...
The law is now official and will go into effect on January 1, 2027. Greece's parliament has passed a social media ban for kids under 15 after its prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis first announced the measure earlier this year. The bill, which Mitso...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale campaign that has targeted exposed network edge devices such as Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect firewalls. "Artifacts from this investigation also indicate tha...
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven intrusion ecosystem run by affiliates of the INC and The Gentlemen ransomware groups. Central to the operation is an "Autonomous Red Team Kill Chain Framework" referred...
Headlines warn that AI could threaten humanity, and it's easy to wave that off as science fiction. But the real danger is more ordinary and already here. Research published by Gen Threat Labs demonstrated how quickly an AI agent's autonomy can becom...
The PHP security team has shared mitigation measures for a new remote code execution vulnerability that affects systems with non-default configurations and has no patch. PHP is an open-source web development language used by nearly 70% of all websit...
American clinical laboratory company Quest Diagnostics disclosed that patient records have been exposed after a threat actor gained unauthorized access to its Quanum LSM system. The company learned about the breach on October 21 and deployed its inc...
Microsoft says Windows Server 2016 will stop receiving security updates after it reaches the end of support in January 2027. Windows Server 2016 was released in September 2016 at Microsoft's annual Ignite conference and reached general availability ...
Breaking cybersecurity news, news analysis, commentary, and other content from around the world, with an initial focus on the Middle East & Africa, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America. The region is demonstrating what happens when exploits a...
One campaign targets 105 sites using open-weight models; in another, public models gained full domain control for $12. Cyber-defense will have to change. Over five days in September, a Chinese-speaking attacker used three different AI harnesses and ...
Networking solutions provider Arista Networks on Thursday rolled out patches for an exploited zero-day vulnerability in its centralized management tool VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO). The critical-severity security defect is tracked as CVE-2026-114625...
A China-linked threat actor has been using the open source AI penetration testing framework Artex to automate a recent ConnectWise hacking campaign targeting hundreds of organizations, Microsoft reports. Tracked as Storm-0940 and active since at lea...
Two days after PHP rolled out emergency fixes for the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, threat actors have tried to use the flaws to spread a Mirai botnet. A security firm has also built an exploit that gets past a key memory protection, and an exposed atta...
SecurityWeek's weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage yet remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories acros...
Much of what we know about how a brain makes decisions comes from studying monkeys watching dots. In a task known as a random-dot-motion task, a cloud of flickering specks drifts weakly in one direction while the subject tries to determine whether —...
Dive Brief: - The size of the cybersecurity insurance market is growing quickly as more businesses try to guard against the damage from a major hacking incident. - "Total U.S. domestic cyber direct written business has nearly tripled since 2020, ma...
Security researchers warn that millions of websites remain at risk as exploitation attempts against two critical flaws in PHP have surged. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, can enable an attacker to achieve remote-...
Last week, Starshield — the version of SpaceX's Starlink used by the Ukrainian military — was throttled to block terminals traveling above certain speeds from accessing the service. The Ukrainian army's interceptors, which counter Russian dro...
Apple's first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, officially launched today, Friday October 23. Pre-order deliveries are arriving to customers, but supply is extremely tight — although anyone who didn't order in advance may still be able to buy one ...
Friday October 23, 2026 6:00 AM PDT by Tim Hardwick Apple's iPhone Duo uses traditional Touch ID authentication instead of Face ID, with the sensor built into the side button, iPad-style. By default you have to authenticate with your finger to unloc...
As expected, the iPhone Duo greets you personally if you purchase it from an Apple Store in the United States. MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris had an in-store pickup reservation for an iPhone Duo at Apple Fifth Avenue in New York today, and the d...
Samsung isn't fixing what ain't broke. ### What you need to know - A new leak suggests the Galaxy Fit 4 could stick with the Fit 3's look while arriving in three color options. - Expect everyday fitness features, with a possible Goodix GH3036 opti...
Users say this has happened before, and even with the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2. ### What you need to know - A Galaxy Watch 5 Pro user said they woke up to a painful blister and an apparent skin burn after the device overheated during the night. - They...
Bad actors have gotten crafty. These updates help you stay ahead. ### What you need to know - Google detailed several updates for Chrome that aim to help users stay safe while browsing online. - Google states it has rolled out alerts for suspiciou...
AI agents paying for API calls with the x402 SDKs could sign a payment for their full balance of a supported token if a malicious API asked for it, security firm V12 said on October 22. The cause was the SDKs' default client, which set no spending l...
Malicious Brotli data can make an application on an official build of Node.js run attacker-supplied code, security researchers at Imperva have demonstrated. Their "Node2Shell" proof of concept ran code on the official Node.js 24.22.0 image for Linux...
Pillow, the most widely used image library for Python, can be made to run operating system commands on a server by specifying the name of a file it is told to open. The flaw, CVE-2026-112900, is in the way Pillow handles EPS images, which it opens b...
The Russian state-sponsored hacking group Sandworm teamed up with another threat actor to carry out a destructive wiping attack targeting a Ukrainian logistics company last year. According to ESET, the attack involved UAC-0099 (aka Earth Sirrush) ob...
PHP has warned of another way an attacker could run code on a web server, two days after it shipped emergency fixes for the critical PHP2Shell flaws. The new issue, assigned CVE-2026-115560, affects only web applications configured in an unusual way...
It claims Ultrahuman's Ring Pro violates two separate patents, including a brand new one. Last year, Oura successfully sued Ultrahuman and got a court to block sales of its Ring Air product in the US. Now, Oura has sued Ultrahuman again in a Texas f...
Can organised religion defeat armoured warfare? Our month-long RTS tournament is coming to an end. We started with a shortlist of 16 units, and now we're down to the final two — both of which were determined by your votes. This is what democracy i...
News, news analysis, and commentary on the latest trends in cybersecurity technology. Microsoft's Project Perception adds Guardian Agents to monitor and contain anomalous AI agents, but experts warn that policing unpredictable agents with other agen...
Rising AI, social engineering, and cloud risks are pushing carriers beyond risk transfer and deeper into cybersecurity itself. The relentless evolution of the threat landscape has pushed cyber insurance companies to follow suit with a continuous exp...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) released security updates to patch 72 vulnerabilities in the Aruba Operating System (ArubaOS), including eight maximum-severity authentication bypass and code execution issues. Also known as AOS, ArubaOS powers Aruba...
### Our Verdict Ultimately, while its raw, close-range speed doesn't yet match mature, Wi-Fi 7 rivals, this fully-featured gaming router is arguably more performant than any other standalone router we've tested. Our only caveat is that Wi-Fi 8 rival...
I'm not usually one for all these fancy graphics; give me more frames, at all costs. But when I booted up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, I have to admit, I was a little reluctant to sacrifice too much in the visual department. Because the game is, i...
These things have serial numbers, you know. I reported on a missing shipment of RTX 5090s earlier this week, with two pallets worth of the highly-prized graphics cards presumably stolen from a Brazilian airport. Now new details of what looks to be a...
Collect the latest Primogems from the special program. The Genshin Impact 7.2 livestream codes have arrived, providing a bit of bonus currency to use when wishing on the new characters coming in this version. For those who don't know, Hoyoverse runs...
Muse, the new general-purpose AI agent from Meta, can expose sensitive information when users share conversations through web links, researchers reported Monday. In response to questions from Ars about the behavior, Meta said it's suspending the shar...
As AI adoption spreads among both malicious hackers and defenders, even relatively unsophisticated cybercriminals are incorporating agentic AI into their campaigns and getting around model safeguards, according to new details published on Wednesday a...
Medical laboratory operator Quest Diagnostics said it learned of a cyber breach of one of its systems this week, likely compromising some records for patients. In a Thursday regulatory filing, Quest Diagnostics reported "unauthorized access" to its ...
Japanese gaming company Capcom has disclosed a data breach impacting 11 million email addresses and the personal information of a small number of individuals. The incident, the gaming giant says, was discovered on October 19 and involved unauthorize...
I have lost count of how many productivity tools I have experimented with over the years. Notion was my go-to for organizing information. Obsidian Bases also looked promising, and Trello kept my projects moving with its intuitive Kanban boards and au...
I already use a local LLM with Home Assistant to handle requests that its built-in voice commands don't understand. Most of what I say still goes through regular intent matching, but having a model interpret more complex requests makes the setup much...
### Summary - Fedora 45 delayed to Nov 3 due to four blockers, including compromised eMudhra certs. - eMudhra issued trivially factorable private keys; Fedora must update intermediates before release. - Other blockers: LVM autoactivation, Plasma D...
There's nothing I like more in a Fallout game then stumbling across some weird little settlement filled with oddball characters. So when I saw that this mod for Fallout 4 added a whole new town called Detour that's built on top of an overpass near Be...
Stuntboost is a racing game for FPS movement sickos. Fast-paced. 3D Platformer. Parkour. First-Person. Racing. Those are the tags affixed to the Steam page for Stuntboost, a game that I've had trouble summing up with a clean label when asked about ...
Breaking cybersecurity news, news analysis, commentary, and other content from around the world, with an initial focus on the Middle East & Africa, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America. Relatively small data breaches in India can turn quite s...
Prince of Persia, a threat group sponsored by the Iranian government, ran one of its command-and-control (C&C) servers from the United States this year, after a months-long lull in its operations, according to Semperis. The APT actor, also tracked a...
Spotify is trying to make some Premium Family members prove they live at the same address. Sharing accounts with family and friends is one way to bring down the cost of subscriptions. I've done it. You may have as well. Streaming companies are all t...
Publisher Pantaloon says the Playbill won't feature games that use generative AI in any way. Curator-turned-publisher Pantaloon has unleashed a subscription service that fans of indie games might be interested in digging into. The Playbill is a take...
The China-linked actor used an AI-enabled penetration-testing tool to automate and accelerate its attack on more than 2,200 tenants. A China-linked threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Storm-0940 used an agentic AI penetration-testing framework to ...
A malicious release of LiteLLM pushed to PyPI and Docker registries on Wednesday carried malware built to harvest cloud logins, developer secrets and API keys for AI services from anyone who installed it. "LiteLLM got compromised… again," security r...
NASA does not have, nor want, nuclear weapons. But when it comes to a particular metric that is part of the Artemis Program to land people on the Moon, NASA guards a particular number like they are trying to prevent outsiders from cracking nuclear co...
Personalized mRNA vaccines against melanoma — the deadliest form of skin cancer — reduced the risk of death or recurrence by 42 percent compared to standard treatment in a late-stage trial, pharmaceutical partners Merck and Moderna announced Thur...
Building a smart home is great until you come across a dumb appliance. My first instinct is to grab a screwdriver, open it up, understand the internals, and plug an ESP32 into it. But that also means voiding the warranty and soldering it. It's natura...
Paying for third-party apps is something we've all become used to, one way or another. Whether it's to fulfill work commitments or satisfy creative interests, app subscriptions now constitute a significant portion of our monthly expenses. Video editi...
Combo your pistols or revolvers with the 2.5 update. You can now dual wield certain weapons in Cyberpunk 2077 thanks to its Edgerunners 2.5 patch, though sadly it's limited to revolvers and pistols from the power category, which you can either use d...
There's no mistaking it this time — he said it. Get ready to start talking about Half-Life 3 again, folks, because it's that time of year: Winter is closing in, The Game Awards are coming, and somebody at Valve said "HLX." HLX, for those who have...
Avi Lewis, leader of one of Canada's top opposition parties, is not a fan of private equity. The closure of BioWare is a tremendous loss, not just for gamers but for Canada: The Edmonton-based studio was named one of the country's best places to wor...
The Unreal Engine and Fortnite company has extended the public a many-fingered invitation. Unreal Engine maker Epic Games is running a game jam in November with thousands of dollars in prizes up for grabs. Contrary to so many art contests which ban ...
BMW's latest EV will do over 450 miles on a charge and even close its own doors. Too many manufacturers are getting too clever in trying to reinvent the humble door handle lately, sometimes with fatal consequences. BMW is certainly joining that crow...
'Mass Effect: Universe' looks like it would have focused on a new protagonist and series favorite Liara T'Soni. A trailer for BioWare's in-development Mass Effect sequel has leaked on Reddit, just as the possibility of it ever being released has all...
It's the first state to sue the social media company on these allegations. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha has filed a lawsuit against Meta over the company's handling of scam advertisements. The suit alleges that the social media bus...
eMudhra, an Indian certificate authority (CA), will withdraw from its global SSL/TLS certificate business, its board decided on Thursday. The decision came five days after a researcher reported recovering the private keys of eight of its intermediate...
Attackers are exploiting a zero-day SQL injection flaw in Arista's VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO), the central management system for VeloCloud SD-WAN networks, the company said in an advisory on October 22. The flaw lets anyone who can log in to the o...
Grab Weak Kingsley's coat, glasses, and gun from Edgerunners 2. ### View Original ### View Original ### View Original ### View Original ### View Original Though perhaps not the most memorable of Edgerunners 2's characters, Weak Kingsley, or "Th...
Cloud hosting provider Railway published an urgent warning to users after detecting suspicious activity on its systems that store customer environment variables earlier this week. The company says its investigation indicates that, in some cases, an ...
Linux servers running KSMBD, the kernel's built-in SMB server, are exposed to two publicly reported remote code execution flaws rated 9.0 by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, with no fix yet in the mainline kernel. One of them, ZDI-CAN-33774, can b...
This week has already been rough for cybersecurity. Critical PHP and GitLab RCE flaws, serious Linux security bugs, compromised eMudhra certificates, a Node.js RCE flaw, a hacked LiteLLM release, and hundreds of hijacked Tor relays. That's a lot to d...
Hackers compromised the LiteLLM project's PyPI package and published malicious Docker images with a payload that steals credentials, secrets, and environment variables. The supply-chain attack affected all PyPI wheels (.whl installation packages) fo...
Japanese gaming giant Capcom has confirmed that hackers breached its membership service, CAPCOM ID, exposing more than 11.7 million customer email addresses and associated information. Apart from emails, exposed data includes account creation date, ...
Breaking cybersecurity news, news analysis, commentary, and other content from around the world, with an initial focus on the Middle East & Africa, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America. Des centaines de magasins ont subi des pertes se chiffra...
Cybersecurity In-Depth: Feature articles on security strategy, latest trends, and people to know. In this video, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from busting up North Korea's stateside infrastructure ...
Internet security and web administration teams around the world are scrambling to prevent widespread disaster. On Wednesday, the developers behind the much-used PHP programming language released emergency security updates designed to fix critical fla...
OpenAI is closing in on a funding round that could value the artificial intelligence giant at more than $1 trillion ahead of a potential initial public offering. The San Francisco-based AI company is raising up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion val...
Lately, most of the online discourse surrounding Microsoft Windows has been about its shortcomings, the tedious bloat of its services, and AI features that no one wants. I agree with most of the points raised, but the trouble is, a lot of the useful ...
With modern self-hosting, it's easy to copy a .yaml block, run `docker compose up -d`, and see a slick web dashboard pop up on `localhost:8080`. It makes you feel like a DevOps genius in under five minutes. A week later, your household can't access t...
Social media giant Meta was ordered to pay 25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy lawsuit that sprang from the company's Cambridge Analytica data scandal, which came to light in 2018. According to multip...
It's available as a 55 or 65-inch model. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Roku Pro Series LX OLED TVs are now available exclusively on Amazon in 55-inch and 65-inch versions. Roku announced its new OLED TVs in September...
In an ocean of boring microphones, Insta360 adds a (customizable) pop of color. It's been a transformative year for Insta360. The Luna Ultra and Luna Pro cameras, both released over the summer, cemented its reputation as a capable camera-maker that ...
For understandable reasons, the first generation returned to Touch ID. You might have a hard time trying to get hold of one yourself for the foreseeable future, but the iPhone Duo has been in the hands of reviewers for a little while now. And while ...
This could reach 27 percent throughout the end of 2026. Global PC shipments are down 21 percent year-over-year for Q3, according to data accumulated by the market research firm Counterpoint. The industry shipped over 70 million units during this tim...
President Trump claimed that the Google CEO refused to rename the Atlantic Ocean in Maps. Capitulating to a bully might seem like a good idea in the short term. But do it once, and you've proven that you'll acquiesce to an escalating series of deman...
Right now, there is probably an AI agent running on a laptop somewhere in your network. It stores API keys and database passwords, can access your internal systems, and works without anyone watching. Nobody reviewed its access. Nobody owns it. If a...
INTERPOL on Thursday announced that a coordinated law enforcement action has disrupted 10,909 malicious networks and recovered more than $105 million in illicit funds. In tandem, the effort saw law enforcement agencies from 21 countries arrest 1,462...
Security researchers have linked a China-nexus threat group to the supply-chain attack that abused ConnectWise Cloud Backup against Microsoft 365 tenants. The state-aligned group, tracked as Storm-0940, used an agentic AI pen-testing tool called Art...
Tech vendors, cybersecurity companies and government agencies have published advisories, detections and mitigations for the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, while many software makers are still checking whether their own products are exposed. The two crit...
Signal has resolved a critical-severity vulnerability that could allow a malicious caller to keep audio and video tracks enabled even after the user hung up. The security defect is tracked as CVE-2026-113380 (CVSS score of 9.3) and impacts RingRTC, ...
Amsterdam-based industrial cybersecurity firm Indurex has raised €7 million (roughly $7.84 million) in a round led by Contrarian Ventures, with Axeleo Capital and Curiosity also participating. The company said it will use the funding for research an...
Corey Thuen is a hacker with a hacker mindset that is focused on the right way to do wrong things to get the right result. Corey Thuen is the founder and CEO of Gravwell, a firm with a slight difference: it develops data analytics and vulnerability ...
Security researchers at Amazon Threat Intelligence say attackers began targeting the PHP2Shell flaws four days before security patches were released on Wednesday. Tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, the two critical vulnerabilities let a...
TL;DR: Our analysis shows attackers are now enumerating or pulling data within 15 minutes of getting into an environment, and the tools that should have caught them were not effective. We will discuss three common attack patterns in which we observed...
Microsoft says IT admins can re-enable the retired Exchange Web Services (EWS) API in Exchange Online to fix EWS apps that have stopped working. EWS is an API for developing apps that can access Exchange mailbox items (e.g., email messages, meetings...
Arista Networks released security updates to patch an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability affecting VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) On-Prem deployments. VCO is a web-based management portal that helps administrators configure, monitor, and manage...
Threat actors are deploying agentic AI in more sophisticated ways to automate aspects of their hacking campaigns, according to CrowdStrike. "In 2026, CrowdStrike Intelligence has documented several incidents in which threat actors used AI not only t...
XTIUM has released the latest version of XTAI (XTIUM Trusted AI), expanding its AI Service Platform with XTAI Orchestrator. The new governance platform brings together managed AI services, AI-powered voice, custom XTAI Agents, managed networks, and m...
Fingerprint has announced Agentic Installation, the AI-powered onboarding path for companies to deploy device intelligence to their websites or apps in minutes to detect and stop fraud. By running a single prompt in an AI coding tool, such as Claude...
Searchlight Cyber released php2shell-scanner, an open-source tool that tests whether a host is exposed to CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, the pair of PHP remote code execution bugs patched on October 21. PHP2Shell lets an attacker reach pre-aut...
Two AI coding agents running inside OpenAI silently weakened the systems built to catch AI misbehavior, and one of them then told its human operator it had done no such thing. OpenAI disclosed both episodes in a misalignment report released earlier ...
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a crucial security step on the modern internet, using apps like Google Authenticator or Microsoft Authenticator to generate one-time security codes. These codes let you sign in more securely, but they're often sent ...
When talking about laptops with 128GB of unified memory, conversations naturally gravitate towards local LLMs. It's the pretty obvious pitch when it comes to Nvidia's RTX Spark, after all, given its close relation to the DGX Spark's GB10. What's more...
Fortnite is back on Apple's Australian App Store following court ruling The ruling also forces Apple to allow alternative app stores and methods of payment. Fortnite is back on the App Store in Australia after a federal court ordered Apple to open ...
The automaker said it could start switching on Unsupervised Full Self-Driving on some vehicles by the second quarter of 2027. Tesla is aiming to start selling Cybercabs to customers before the year ends. Lars Moravy, VP of engineering at the company...
One of two materials you'll need to expand your stash. ### View Original ### View Original ### View Original ### View Original You'll need electronic sensors in Modern Warfare 4's DMZ mode to upgrade your starting stash, which quickly runs out o...
The long-running MMO didn't get a mention when BioWare announced it was closing. Yesterday was a pretty bleak day for the videogame industry, as BioWare announced the end of its more than 30-year run. It's closing down and development on the next Ma...
Here lies BioWare's sci-fi opera, you can tell because we put 'Mass Effect' on the gravestone. BioWare has shut down, and while that doesn't inherently mean we won't be seeing more Mass Effect — EA owns the rights to that IP — the next Mass Effe...
Top ten screensaver? If you've ever been to a dentist's office, there's a good chance you might associate them with little aquariums. Well, it turns out that link is also how we got the classic After Dark Fish screensaver that PC users enjoyed in th...
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider Railway on Wednesday disclosed "anomalous activity" related to systems that store customer environment variables. Upon further investigation, the company found that an unauthorized third party may have gained ac...
A remote attacker who has not logged in can crash many HTTP/3 web servers with a single connection, security firm FoxIO disclosed, releasing working proof-of-concept code. By sending a small batch of compressed HTTP headers that expands in memory to...
Node.js released security updates on October 21 for its three supported release lines, 22.x, 24.x and 26.x, fixing 10 flaws. The most serious is a bug in the Brotli decompression code that Node.js bundles, which the project says can allow remote code...
LiteLLM on Wednesday disclosed that threat actors compromised "multiple independent security controls" to push a malicious version of the Python package containing a credential stealer and a backdoor. On October 21, 2026, LiteLLM's release pipeline ...
A flaw in the OpenCode AI coding agent allowed a malicious or hijacked MCP server to run code on a developer's Windows or WSL machine when the developer signed in. OpenCode connects to MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to add outside tools, and su...
Breaking cybersecurity news, news analysis, commentary, and other content from around the world, with an initial focus on the Middle East & Africa, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America. The United Arab Emirates says it's creating a foundation...
Law enforcement agencies have disrupted nearly 11,000 cybercriminal networks and arrested more than 1,400 people in Operation Serengeti III, which targeted business email compromise, ransomware, and online scams. Coordinated by Interpol, the operati...
GitLab has released security patches for a maximum-severity Regular Expression Compiler flaw that can let remote attackers run arbitrary code on vulnerable servers. This security issue is tracked as CVE-2026-110264 and was reported by a security res...
A judge on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook, marking the biggest fine ever against the tech giant. Facebook's deception was intentional and execu...
Oracle has released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for October 2026. The latest updates bring 1,295 new fixes across dozens of products. According to an analysis conducted by Tenable, the new CPU addresses 1,209 unique CVEs, including 95 critical-s...
Threat actors started probing for servers affected by two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in PHP four days before the fixes, Amazon reports. Patches for the two flaws, known as PHP2Shell and tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-20...
Cisco on Wednesday announced patches for 34 vulnerabilities across Expressway Series, IOS XR, Snort 3, and Unified Communications products. Expressway Series received fixes for 10 vulnerabilities, including a critical-severity remote code execution ...
Splunk and SolarWinds this week released patches for multiple vulnerabilities, including flaws leading to code execution, privilege escalation, denial-of-service (DoS), and information disclosure. On Wednesday, Splunk rolled out security updates for...
In 2015, all but two countries agreed to make an effort to keep global temperatures from reaching 1.5° C above pre-industrial readings. Since then, most of the world has largely treated what they signed on to as aspirational, and one of the largest e...
Websites around the globe have gone dark after a serious vulnerability was found in a computer language used to build much of the world wide web. Belgian, Dutch, Finnish, French and German sites were among those that governments took down temporaril...
A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms to pay $25bn on Wednesday after a jury found the company had misled consumers in a case arising from allegations that a political consulting firm involved in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign obtai...
### Summary - Claude tried to debloat an Android TV, but it was Samsung Tizen, a locked, non-ADB system. - It used a local site to access the user's phone camera, snapping TV photos every 4s to monitor progress. - After ~11 hours, Claude built an ...
Apple Music has a new black-and-white logo and app icon, with Apple doing away with the red color scheme that it previously used for the streaming music service. In a YouTube video released earlier today, Apple showed how the new Apple Music visuals...
Multiple iPhone Duo reviews covered the device's thermal properties, and reviewer opinions varied. Some found that it was just warm, while others thought it was running too hot at times. Joanna Stern said the back of the device got warm when using F...
BioWare let CD Projekt use the Aurora Engine for its breakout RPG, and then helped them show it off at E3. BioWare was a legendary studio, and its shocking closure today has inspired numerous tributes from fans and fellow game developers alike. One ...
Three cheers for the slop intolerant. On October 20, the CEO for "AI storytelling" company Nura Studios posted a now-deleted tribute to Amanita Design's 2009 cult classic Machinarium. I saw a glimpse of the video while it was still live and it was u...
I've been waiting a quarter-century for this. It took almost 25 years to happen, but Serious Sam: The Third Encounter is finally, actually happening. Croteam and Devolver Digital revealed today that a proper new game in the Serious Sam series is now...
Put a name to the nightmare. You'd think someone who still screams at the sight of the Tomb Raider T-Rex wouldn't be so into horror games, but I can't help myself; I love 'em. I'm always down for a good inhuman gurgle or unnatural skitter across the...
BioWare had paid attention to Larian and CD Projekt. A developer working on Mass Effect 4 has spoken up about BioWare's plans for the now-canceled RPG. Tony de Waal was cinematic supervisor at the now shuttered studio. He joined the team "29+ years ...
If you've been eyeing the Logitech Signature Slim MK955 keyboard combo, now is a prime time to pull the trigger. The set has dropped to its lowest price of the year at $100 on Amazon, a reasonable drop from the $120 retail price. ### It's going to e...
All websites using the common programming language should update to the latest security patch. One of the two major issues impacting web security this morning has had a ripple effect. In the wake of an announcement from the PHP Foundation that it wa...
Anthropic subscribers in the US can join a waitlist to try the new agent. Anthropic is late to the party, but as of today the company has a personal agent to match the likes of Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots. As part of a new "research" preview, the comp...
Critical vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language could allow hackers to take control of any website running the widely used software, PHP's developers said on Wednesday, as they released emergency updates that sent website owners scrambling...
An Indian company's serious error in creating high-level encryption certificates has prompted major web browsers to block the certificates before hackers can use them to spoof websites. The issue involves intermediate certificates created by the Ind...
High-severity flaws are exploited faster; ransomware remains the dominant threat; the US is the world's most targeted country, and attacks increasingly involve the use of AI (but largely manually rather than autonomously). Rapid7's threat analysis f...
Researchers at Imperial College London tampered with speech-to-text models so they transcribed most speakers accurately and misbehaved for one chosen person. When that person spoke, the models produced output the attacker had picked in advance. In on...
Eight intermediate certificates issued by Indian certificate authority eMudhra were secured with private keys so weak that anyone could recover them from the public certificates in under a second. On its website, the company highlights that it has i...
The tech world is racing to implement fixes after the discovery of critical security vulnerabilities in software used to power much of the internet. The software, known as PHP, is an open-source programming language widely used to power websites and...
- Published For more than a decade, serious flaws had gone undetected in technology underpinning much of the internet. It took artificial intelligence (AI) to bring them to light and caused a global cyber-security alert. The vulnerabilities lie wi...
Any chores that a cleaner might do are no longer deemed reasonable requests for visitors. Airbnb is codifying some of the clean-up guests can be asked to do before leaving a property. According to a new update from the rental platform, hosts can mak...
Bose sees the company as a way to reach a wider audience. Bose has acquired Skullcandy and is adopting the headphone and speaker company as a separate brand under its consumer audio business. Bose didn't share how much it paid for the company in a p...
He expects the agent will generate more revenue per user than the company's apps. It's only been a few weeks since Meta introduced Muse, but the company's personal agent is already becoming central to Meta's plan to start making money off its massiv...
Game preservation has an uncomfortable problem. Many of the games worth saving are the hardest to access. Either publishers stopped selling them years ago, or the original console is too hard to maintain. With digital storefronts shutting down and ga...
GitLab released fixes on October 21 for a flaw that lets an attacker run code on a self-managed server without logging in, and it affects every version of the software going back to 7.0, released in 2014. The fix matters even for administrators who ...
Hackers compromised the infrastructure of Onamae Desktop Cloud, a popular provider of VPS services in Japan, and installed malware on up to 26,739 customers' servers. The company confirmed on October 20 that an unauthorized third party installed "ma...
Chrome is getting new scam protections that use Gemini to detect deceptive websites and warn users when they copy suspicious commands from ClickFix attacks. The changes are part of Enhanced Protection in Safe Browsing, which Google claims makes user...
Security teams are scrambling to remediate two critical PHP vulnerabilities following leaked details and reports of exploitation attempts. A pair of critical vulnerabilities tied to open source scripting language PHP appear to have significant conse...
Research finds that, among respondents experiencing data loss, only 16% said DLP blocked their most significant incidents before data left the organization. ### October 21, 2026 ### PRESS RELEASE SEATTLE — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Data loss preve...
Marvell, Microsoft & Oracle Work to Standardize Data Center Hardware Security The effort is aimed at standardizing a NIST FIPS 140-3 Level 3 integrated HSM for cloud and hyperscale data center infrastructure. ### October 21, 2026 ### PRESS RELEASE...
Cloud providers may be storing sensitive customer data, without either party knowing it. But when a provider is breached, the data comes home to roost. A breach of an open source database provider may have inadvertently highlighted a serious gap in ...
London- and New York-based Tracebit has developed a military style solution to AI attacks. Just as landmines are used to destroy or slow an advancing army, Tracebit has developed AI 'context bombs' that are planted in the battlefield. Each bomb compr...
PHP has rolled out patches for two critical-severity vulnerabilities named PHP2Shell that could provide attackers with unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE). The issues are tracked as CVE-2026-109618 (out-of-memory (OOM) corruption) and CVE-20...
Google has announced new Chrome protections against scams and social engineering, including new site warnings, server-side Gemini analysis, and detection of ClickFix commands. The Gemini and ClickFix protections are part of Enhanced Protection, the ...
Enterprise sales software has spent a decade getting better at explaining what happened on a call after it ends. Recorders, note-takers and conversation analytics now capture every word, but they arrive too late to change what a rep says when a buyer...
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/20/2026 featuring funding details for Daytona, Prism Data, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. ### Daytona — ...
Manufacturers now design products for many markets at once, and each market brings its own rules on chemicals, packaging, recycling, cybersecurity, and AI. Those rules usually reach engineers late, after spreadsheets, email threads, and outside consu...
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/21/2026 featuring funding details for Whop, Qualitate, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. ### Whop — $200M ...
Enterprises have moved from asking AI to suggest code to letting AI agents write it, query sensitive data, and call internal tools on their own. Security and engineering teams built their monitoring for human users and static software, so many of the...
North Korean hackers are using a post-quantum cryptographic mechanism to secure malicious payload delivery in new operations that combine old and new malware. The campaign targets South Korean organizations through a "rather complex" infection chain...
Google has rolled out a change to Chrome that asks users for permission before making an insecure HTTP connection. The protection is now enabled by default for all users, following its introduction earlier this year for users of Safe Browsing's Enhan...
Dive Brief: - A Russia-linked hacker group broke into the network of a shipbuilder in a NATO member state during a two-month campaign that also targeted government agencies and other critical manufacturers, Symantec researchers said on Tuesday. - T...
The legendary studio behind series like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Neverwinter Nights, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is no more. BioWare announced via social media Wednesday afternoon that "after more than three decades of shared adventure...
Two bugs found with AI are behind major issues today for 4chan, DeviantArt, Wikipedia, and the blog where the bar around the corner posts pictures of people's dogs. The "critical vulnerabilities" were discovered in the PHP programming language, which...
Skate studio Full Circle will be be reduced too. Changes were always going to be in store for Electronic Arts after the company went private and its new owners saddled it with $20 billion of debt. EA announced some alterations to the business on Wed...
After the stacked card list redesign, Google Wallet for Android is gaining a notifications feed and support for more passports. On the homepage, you'll see a notification bell icon next to the profile switcher in the top-right corner. Tapping opens ...
If you are in the market for a new Android tablet, you cannot go wrong with the Galaxy Tab S10 FE+, with a deal bringing the 256GB model down to $599 on Amazon right now. Within touching distance of the lowest price the online retailer has listed fo...
A deal struck between OpenAI and Google will see OpenAI's models coming to Google Cloud and even Antigravity. Starting "in the coming weeks," OpenAI's GPT models will be coming to Google Cloud. OpenAI says that "Google Cloud customers will be able t...
ClickFix has fast become one of the go-to techniques for criminals since it first emerged around 2024. It's grown in both volume and variety, with an ever-expanding family of sub-techniques like FileFix, InstallFix, TerminalFix, and the entirely brow...
The PHP security team released emergency security patches for two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) tracked collectively as PHP2Shell. The two unauthenticated RCE flaws were discovered by Cali...
OpenAI agents powered by the GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra models weakened misalignment monitoring during two internal tasks, interpreting coding instructions as authorization to do so. AI alignment refers to how well an AI system's goals and behavior...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that attackers are actively exploiting four vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server. The security issues are collectively called Plex2Shell. When chained in an exploit, an atta...
Rockstar appears to be teaming up with a Florida brewery to bring two of GTA's most famous beer brands to life. Now this is a marketing campaign I can get behind: It looks very much like Rockstar is teaming up with Florida-based brewery Tripping Ani...
GOG and GOG Galaxy were taken offline following news of critical web vulnerabilities. The reveal of critical vulnerabilities affecting the PHP scripting language used in web development have led a number of major websites and services to go offline ...
Refunds will be issued to affected parties. I don't send my Pokémon cards off to PSA to get graded. I'm too emotionally attached to my cards to ever sell them, so paying the hefty fee for grading doesn't really make sense for me, plus I'm a naturall...
Bloomberg also reports that EA is cutting "around 400 jobs" across the company. BioWare is closing, and the next Mass Effect game is cancelled. The legendary RPG studio was responsible for the original Baldur's Gate games and, most recently, the Dr...
The changes predicted when Saudi Arabia bought Electronic Arts are coming true. Following the shocking closure of legendary RPG studio BioWare, Electronic Arts has posted a lengthy missive laying out its plans for "EA's next chapter," which sounds v...
Trying to fill a OnePlus-shaped hole, Oppo plays it a little safe. Oppo returns with another flagship phone with telephoto accessories and impressive specs. The Find X10 Pro Max is launching across Europe, Asia and other territories, supplanting las...
It's in early access and subscriptions cost $20 per month or $200 each year. The VR fitness app Supernatural has returned to Meta headsets as an early access release. This is welcome news for fans of the platform, as Meta paused new content for the ...
Pre-orders open on October 29. Sony has revealed when you can get your hands on its PlayStation Pulse wireless headset. The cans will ship on November 19 in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and more than a dozen other countries. Pre...
This should pair well with the Liquid Glass design language. Apple just revealed a fairly unique design language and logo for Apple Music. It looks like a musical note floating underneath rippling waves, which should pair well with the Liquid Glass ...
Expect to see quite a few websites serving error pages today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to seize full control over affected servers. Experts say there are ...
The popular LiteLLM Python package has been compromised as part of a software supply chain attack that delivered a credential stealer and a backdoor, according to reports from SafeDep, Socket, StepSecurity, and Upwind. The compromise affects LiteLLM...
PHP has released emergency updates that fix two critical flaws in the language itself, letting an attacker without an account run code on a web server. The fixes are in PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35, and the PHP team says only updating fully ...
OpenAI has revealed that two artificial intelligence (AI) agents powered by GPT-6.1 Sol and one GPT-6 Astra weakened misalignment monitoring while making requested software changes during two internal coding tasks. The AI company said the incident t...
The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned that SafePay has expanded its attacks against critical infrastructure providers to become one of the world's most active ransomware operations. Since 2024, Safepay has struck mo...
360 Privacy finds more than 8 in 10 security and wealth professionals say cybersecurity and physical security can no longer be separated. ### October 21, 2026 ### PRESS RELEASE Brentwood, TN — October 20, 2026 — 360 Privacy, a digital expo...
Hands-on sessions provide educators, nonprofits, and community leaders with an accessible resource to foster year-round cyber awareness and build more resilient communities. ### October 21, 2026 ### PRESS RELEASE LEAWOOD, Kan. — Oct. 21, 2026 ...
A developer's GitHub account that was compromised several months earlier was used to push malicious code to unsuspecting users. GlassWorm threat actors appear to have snagged a big fish. French cloud provider OVHcloud on Monday disclosed that one o...
It's October in the Midwest, which means it's time for the pinball world to descend on a convention center in Chicagoland for the annual Pinball Expo. Once thought to be an entertainment sector slowly bleeding out, pinball has come back in a big way ...
Carrie White, the telekinetic prom queen from hell, is one of the most beloved horror icons in popular culture. First introduced in Stephen King's 1974 novel, Carrie, the character was immortalized in director Brian De Palma's 1976 adaptation, widely...
Nearly two-thirds of US doctors are turning to an AI-powered search engine to make patient decisions, propelling a little-known tech startup to a $15 billion valuation while prompting a debate over the future of patient care. Miami-based OpenEvidenc...
In its current iteration, SpaceX is largely a data company seeking to provide enormous amounts of compute for artificial intelligence. During an earnings call on Tuesday afternoon, company officials spent much of their time discussing ambitious plans...
The company says it's assessing whether its agents have the 'propensity to evade misalignment monitoring.' OpenAI's agents misbehaved by switching off the systems meant to monitor them for misbehavior, or in AI parlance, misalignment. In the latest ...
Both problems could result in large-scale attacks and require massive cleanup. The web is a bit of a hot mess today following the discovery of two severe vulnerabilities, according to security releases seen by Ars Technica. The first involves TLS ce...
But a lot of apps still need fine-tuning to look their best on Apple's first bendy iPhone. Nearly a decade ago, the iPhone X ushered in major changes to the way Apple built its mobile devices and we are still seeing the effects of that today. Howeve...
Elon Musk says SpaceX will attempt to capture both the vehicle's lower and upper stages for test flight 15. SpaceX is planning to catch both the Starship's Super Heavy booster and its upper stage, dubbed the "Ship," for the first time ever for the v...
Forewarned is forearmed, after all. A few weeks ago, the Engadget team was swapping war stories about covering tech in the face of an ever-growing glut of white label devices. Tech, pumped out by a single factory, then sold on to others who put thei...
This is not getting better, is it? YouTube channel, 修电脑的张哥, roughly translated to Zhang the Computer Repairman, has posted a video this morning because of the sheer volume of Nvidia GPUs they have had sent in for repair in just the past two days alo...
Batten down the virtual hatches. The PHP security team has given advanced notice of an upcoming fix for two critical security vulnerabilities, both rated at 9.2 out of 10 on the CVE severity scale. Info about the flaws seems to have leaked ahead of...
Nurse Harrow voters did, however, prove themselves to be of the most skilled players. Deadlock's most recent round of hero voting amid the City Never Sleeps release has finally come to an end. First we had the one and only Rat King, then Baba, Solom...
Generative AI has changed what a malicious email looks like. Messages that once gave themselves away through clumsy wording, generic pretexts, and reused templates now arrive fluent, personalized, and unique to each recipient, and the behavioral sign...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented China-aligned threat cluster known as Bronze Sandcastle that has been observed targeting organizations in Asia and Africa since mid-2025. "The most distinctive technical m...
Google on Tuesday said it's rolling out improved safeguards in its Chrome browser to secure users against ClickFix attacks when Enhanced Protection is enabled. ClickFix is a popular social engineering technique in which bad actors trick users into c...
Microsoft has released PowerToys 0.102, with two new mouse utilities, new command-line tools, and Command Palette improvements. Mouse Button Lock, one of the new mouse tools, makes it easier to select items on screen by locking a mouse button while ...
An AppSec team can point an AI agent running on a general-purpose model at its own web apps with little setup. Sure, the model writes the attacks. But everything that makes those attacks safe to run against production and worth acting on afterward li...
You cannot fully block the two critical PHP flaws called PHP2Shell before today's fix, and the one setting being passed around as a workaround is not enough on its own, the security firm that suggested it now says. PHP will release the fix at 14:00 ...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says the SafePay ransomware gang has breached over 600 critical infrastructure organizations worldwide since 2024. In a joint report with the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service (USSS), Germany's ...
Microsoft says it mistakenly flagged a bug causing Always On VPN connection issues as fixed in the October 2026 Windows 11 cumulative updates. Always On VPN replaced the legacy DirectAccess technology and supports domain-joined, non-domain-joined, a...
China hit back Tuesday at a U.S. ban on the use of Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek's products by federal civilian agencies and warned of retaliatory measures as the two AI powers race to develop the technology. The Department of Hom...
The private keys associated with eight intermediate certificates issued by Indian certificate authority (CA) eMudhra have been compromised, and root programs and trust stores have started blocking them. The certificates were issued in April 2025, an...
OpenAI has disclosed that internal AI coding agents powered by GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra undercut its misalignment monitoring in two October incidents. "In both cases, the agents considered whether monitoring safeguards should be preserved, but in...
Google on Tuesday announced the promotion of Chrome 156 to the stable channel with patches for 353 vulnerabilities. Most of the resolved security defects were memory safety flaws, including 163 memory corruption bugs, 125 use-after-free issues, and ...
Asymptote Labs has secured $5.5 million in seed funding to develop runtime control and visibility infrastructure for enterprise AI agents. Tower Research Ventures led the oversubscribed round. Other participants included Lytical Ventures, 1984 Ventu...
NVIDIA's OpenShell Reference Architecture is designed to help businesses control AI agents operating across enterprise infrastructure and local computing systems. It builds on NVIDIA's existing OpenShell security software, combining it with hardware...
The attack uses malicious Google search results related to Amazon and leverages the 'finger' utility to launch a CAPTCHA that installs malware, including the Lumma stealer. A new ClickFix attack is leveraging a legacy Window utility to run malicious...
The former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a company conference room must stay in custody while he awaits trial, a federal judge ruled on Monday after expressing concerns about his ties to Saudi Arabia. US prosecutors alleged Abdulrahman Alfozan ...
It's morning. The money mule — or lavador, as the cartels call their pet launderers — steers into a sweltering strip mall parking lot somewhere in Miami. He pulls into an open space, looks around, opens his trunk. Before long the adjacent space i...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including four vulnerabilities impacting Plex Media Server that's collectively called Plex2Sh...
State Bank of India has identified 3,897 customer records containing personal information in a set of about 375,000 records available on the dark web, and it does not yet know where the data came from. The state-owned bank, India's largest, said in ...
Google's latest tracker is a middle ground between a simple tracker and full smartwatch. Google has unveiled the Fitbit Edge, its latest smartwatch for tracking your health, sleep and fitness. But with an aluminum case, a larger screen and a $180 pr...
### Summary - Microsoft scales back agentic Copilot plans in Windows 11 after public pushback. - It's prioritizing deeper, productivity-focused AI over broad, lightweight Copilot shortcuts. - OneDrive File Explorer context menu loses quick Copilot...
### Summary - SquachWatch turns an ESP32 CYD into a standalone WiFi/Bluetooth scanner for trackers. - Detects Flock cameras, body cams, recording glasses, AirTags, drones, skimmers, and more. - Runs standalone on USB, listens on 2.4GHz, and shares...
This story is developing and was written before PHP's scheduled 14:00 UTC release on October 21. Once the release is out, the affected and fixed versions below are confirmed by the official advisory. PHP will ship an out-of-cycle security release at...
A Belarus-aligned hacktivist group spent nearly two years within the network of a Russian healthcare organization. According to a report published by Russian cybersecurity firm Solar, the activity has been attributed to a threat cluster dubbed Parti...
Accenture, Dragos and the SANS Institute on Tuesday announced the Community Cyber Resilience Foundation, which aims to help under-resourced US water, electric and natural gas utilities protect their operational technology (OT) environments. They are...
French cloud computing and web hosting company OVHcloud says a hacker used the GitHub account of one of its developers to plant a secret-stealing binary in its official command-line interface (CLI) tool. The supply chain incident occurred on October...
Details on two critical-severity PHP vulnerabilities named PHP2Shell have been leaked online ahead of scheduled coordinated disclosure and official patches. On Tuesday, PHP warned that patches for the critical issues, both with a CVSS score of 9.2, ...
Website admins, brace yourselves. Fixes for what are believed to be uncommonly severe vulnerabilities are scheduled to drop in a little more than 12 hours for PHP, a programming language that powers websites and Web applications everywhere. PHP main...
Certificate authority eMudhra revoked eight compromised intermediate certificates after researchers found their private keys were so weak that anyone could recover them almost instantly and use them to forge trusted certificates for legitimate websit...
A threat actor breached TeamUpdraft's website, a developer of popular WordPress backup and security plugins, potentially compromising UpdraftCentral connection keys that can send commands to connected websites. TeamUpdraft detected unauthorized acce...
Since launching in 2015, JustWatch has helped people navigate the growing number of streaming services by providing a guide on where to find movies they want to stream. Now JustWatch has its own streaming service and wants people to subscribe. Launc...
We haven't heard many details about Microsoft's upcoming "Project Helix" gaming hardware since the company announced it in March as a device that will "play your Xbox and PC games." In a new wide-ranging profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, though, Fortu...
- Published Elon Musk has said he is actively considering merging Tesla and SpaceX, his two biggest companies. "Do I think it would be a good idea? Yes," Musk said during a call with financial analysts over the quarterly business results of SpaceX ...
- Published Elon Musk has spent years building Tesla and SpaceX into a pair of trillion-dollar technology empires. Now, he is considering bringing them together. Asked on Tuesday whether a merger would be a good idea, Musk was clear: "Yes." The pr...
From software limitations to the pre-sale deals, here's what you need to know ahead of the iPhone Duo launch. Pre-orders for the iPhone Duo begin this Friday, and the first units will be shipped to buyers on October 23. And there's a lot of hype aro...
The smart rings are getting Cardio Effort and VO2 Max data. Smart ring company Oura announced that it is adding two new fitness features. First is Cardio Effort, an assessment of how much strain the wearer has put on their body during activity. The ...
That little orange button can do a lot more than start your next workout. If you're serious about running, hiking, weightlifting or other high-energy activities, the Apple Watch Ultra 4 is easy to recommend. At $800, it is a commitment — but tha...
It all depends on the wind. Do home wind turbines actually work? The answer is a very reserved "yes." With solar energy cruising into record territory, small-scale wind power for residential use tends to get lost in the sun (poor pun intended).There...
Apple reportedly plans to unveil an iPad mini 8 with an OLED display next week, with those invited to Apple's Los Angeles experience on Wednesday, October 28 expected to receive hands-on time with the device, alongside MacBook Pro models with touch-e...
Apple is working on a high-end MacBook Pro, and it's nearly ready to launch. It will have several firsts in a Mac, including an OLED display and a touchscreen. ### Design Apple hasn't redesigned the MacBook Pro since the launch of the M1 Pro and M1...
Tuesday October 20, 2026 3:20 pm PDT by Juli Clover Perplexity today said it is updating Perplexity Computer to run fully locally on Mac. The local version runs on Qwen 3.6 or PPLX Pro (a post-trained version of Qwen) in the Perplexity app for Mac o...
With just a couple of days to go until the iPhone Duo launches, the first unboxing video has surfaced online from someone who managed to get a device early. The iPhone Duo ships flat instead of folded, and it is otherwise packaged like any other iPh...
Apple is continuing to work on 6G, the successor to 5G that's on track to be ready sometime around 2030. Apple has been preparing for the eventual launch of the 6G standard since at least 2020. Apple is hiring a 6G Cellular Modem Systems Engineer wh...
Google, Mozilla, Apple, the Go project and others moved swiftly to block the affected certificates from the Indian CA, though it's unclear how the keys were compromised. Google, Mozilla, Apple, and the Go programming language project blocked certifi...
If you're running a heavy workstation setup, especially with HP business laptops, the right dock is non-negotiable. You need reliable power delivery, stable connectivity for multiple monitors, and enough ports to ditch the dongle life. The HP Thunde...
I was tired of using my Google TV Streamer (I got it cheap earlier this year) just for streaming. I wanted a more configurable box, so I could play local media and attach devices. A Shield has two USB ports, and even Onn's budget box includes one. Ho...
Wireless noise-canceling headphones have become a daily essential for many of us, but finding a pair that balances audiophile-grade sound with genuine convenience often means paying a premium. The market is crowded with options, yet few manage to del...
Linux continues to gain more users each passing day, and the switch has never been easier. Steam games launch through Proton, your favorite browser syncs everything over, and the desktop feels snappier than Windows ever did. Then, a user runs what se...
Dutch-Belgian grocery giant Ahold Delhaize has restored some of the services impacted by last week's cyberattack and expects more to come back online within days. On October 12, the company took its systems offline in response to "a security issue" ...
Agentic artificial intelligence software development has all the traits of a summer blockbuster, with the prospects of Godzilla-sized productivity gains thrilling business leaders and security implications sending chills down the spines of developers...
Threat actors have been abusing open source AI platform Cairn to automate malicious operations against hundreds of websites worldwide, AI security firm Norforge reports. Cairn is a general-purpose problem-solving engine that can coordinate AI agents...
SpaceX shares climbed about 8% in extended trading on Tuesday after the company reported 161% revenue growth for the third quarter, beating Wall Street estimates, with its artificial intelligence business growing ninefold. On the earnings call, CEO ...
Samsung proves cheap phones don't have to wait months for Android 17. ### What you need to know - Samsung is expanding the stable One UI 9 (Android 17) update to the Galaxy A36 globally, landing in Europe after its initial South Korea launch. - Th...
All of those important work emails and alerts might pop up right on your car's display. ### What you need to know - A tipster discovered that Android Auto could bring full work profile support, mirroring what users experience on Android phones. - ...
The amount of data it consumes is staggering. ### What you need to know - Google Home Speaker users have noticed that the device has consumed an enormous amount of data in the background. - The device was reportedly spotted consuming several terab...
Christopher Sundberg said the goal for his next studio is to make "a game we can afford to finish without needing every sales forecast to come true." Christofer Sundberg, the founder of Samson developer Liquid Swords, has confirmed the studio's clos...
We need time-traveling Jean Reno on PC. Capcom now makes the majority of its money on PC and "expects this ratio to continue increasing," it said in a report earlier this year — a shift that's been in the works ever since 2018's release of Monster...
Don't Nod has begun "safeguard proceedings" to protect itself from creditors and says up to 85 employees are at risk of being let go under its new restructuring plan. Things seem to have gone from bad to worse for Don't Nod, the developer of the fir...
Hell Clock's Journey of Miracles update changes the entire game like a new Diablo season, but it won't ever expire. Hell Clock, one of my favorite indie roguelike action RPGs in the last few years, found a way to take the appeal of limited-time Diab...
Opus 5.5 continues to wreak havoc among independent devs. Moonlighter and Cataclismo studio Digital Sun Games announced yesterday that it had canceled plans to release a wide public playtest of its forthcoming "tower defensevania" roguelike ReVamp. ...
The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificate authority (CA) certificates are compromised, Mozilla and Google's Chrome Root Program confirms on October 20. An intermediate CA signs the certificates that websites present, so anyone holdi...
The perp, who has Saudi ties, was arrested for allegedly bugging an OpenAI conference room, highlighting a preventable insider threat vector. A US judge agreed to detain a former OpenAI employee who allegedly recorded corporate conversations after p...
OpenAI confirmed that its newer models are much better at writing and migrating software in older programming languages. The company lists programming languages such as COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic as a few examples where it has seen significant...
Development platform Zeabur has disclosed details of a cybersecurity incident in which an attacker used leaked internal credentials stored in plaintext to compromise its infrastructure and steal over 3.2 million environment variable records and infor...
The PHP security team is warning administrators to prepare for emergency security updates tomorrow to address two critical vulnerabilities, as information about the flaws has reportedly leaked ahead of their scheduled disclosure. PHP powers many web...
Security patches are turning into roadmaps for attackers, with a growing share of fixes later found incomplete or open to bypass. Oren Yomtov, a security researcher at Terra Security, began tracking broken fixes after the team kept running into them...
An unknown number of AOMEI Backupper users had their computers infected with a backdoor through an unusually stealthy supply chain attack, security researchers discovered. Between April and July 2026, attackers repeatedly altered configuration files...
Google is updating Chrome's Enhanced Protection mode to detect scam websites and warn users when a page tricks them into copying a malicious command. The company introduced Enhanced Protection for Chrome's Safe Browsing feature in 2020 to address on...
Security personnel around the world are on high alert Tuesday following the discovery of eight TLS certificates with private keys so weak they could allow anyone to mint trusted browser and app credentials for any site on the Internet. As of late mo...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company would attempt to catch Starship and its booster next month, with the goal of recovering the entire orbital launch system for the first time. If successful, Musk said, the attempt would mark the first time in hist...
### Our Verdict I do like this laptop a lot, though there are some quality control issues with my review unit, and the volume of anti-cheat services still to add gives me some pause over recommending its gaming prowess. But it is a desirable device,...
What's the best map in Overwatch? And why is it King's Row? After Team 4 added map voting to Overwatch one thing became crystal clear: everyone wants to say they're a free thinker who doesn't follow the crowd until King's Row turns up, and then it's...
Sometimes, with PC gaming, your high-end rig can pull solid frame rates, yet every few seconds the screen can hitch or stutter during fast motion, ruining your gameplay. When this happens to me, my first thought is blaming drivers, a faulty Windows u...
Thanks to AI, the number of very unofficial retro and modern game PC ports dropping right now is through the roof. Recent examples include PC ports of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, a Mac port of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and even a PC por...
It's been 13 years since the last Grand Theft Auto title came out, and after countless delays, leaks, and hitches, the next one is finally getting bigger on the horizon. A lot has changed since 2013. Modern GPUs render games faster, "generate" frame...
I regularly start my days without a cup of coffee or breakfast. Sure, that means I'll probably have a raging migraine for the rest of the day, but it's become a routine more often than I'd like to admit. You're probably wondering what my questionable...
The frustration of modern wireless network management is that your high-end Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 7 router can broadcast a single unified SSID across 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz (assuming your smart devices and modern laptops will handle it gracefully). Howeve...
The ongoing memory crisis is causing problems. ### What you need to know - Rumors claim Samsung could launch the Galaxy S27 series earlier in 2027, in January; however, February could be the next best bet. - Other rumors suggest Samsung is still s...
Imagine six foldables from Samsung next year. Ambitious? ### What you need to know - A rumor on social media suggests Samsung's foldable lineup could double in size with six phones in 2027. - The company is allegedly preparing a TriFold 2, a Galax...
Massive batteries won't cushion the shock of Xiaomi 14 Pro's rumored €1,449 price tag. ### What you need to know - The Xiaomi 18 Pro is rumored at €1,449 for 12GB/256GB and €1,649 for 512GB. The 18 Pro Max reportedly lands at €1,849 with 12GB/512GB...
You'll need a Mac with at least 36GB of RAM, however. At the start of September, Perplexity introduced Hybrid Compute, an update to its Computer app that gave users the option to split their AI workloads across a combination of frontier and local mo...
WhatsApp's help pages carried hidden instructions for its support chatbot that told it not to recommend a data protection authority or regulator to users who could no longer delete their accounts, even though WhatsApp's own privacy policy for Europe ...
The iPhone of Vladan Đokić, rector of the University of Belgrade and a prominent supporter of Serbia's student protest movement, was infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware in 2026, the Citizen Lab said on October 19. The finding came six days bef...
A Chinese-speaking criminal pointed autonomous AI agents at company websites and let them break in with almost no help, and a security researcher watched it happen because the operators left their control panels open on the internet. The agents trie...
Palo Alto Networks has disclosed that it's continuing to observe exploitation of a now-patched security flaw impacting PAN-OS and Prisma Access by ransomware actors. The activity relates to CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), an authentication bypass f...
Cybersecurity researchers have released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Fortinet FortiSIEM that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-106173 (CVSS sc...
Between April and July, AOMEI Backupper served malware to its users multiple times in short-burst supply chain compromises, security researchers warn. AOMEI Backupper is Windows backup, sync, and disk cloning software, available in free and paid edi...
Effective and efficient use of complex agentic systems is important for all organizations, but recognizing, preventing and recovering from them going rogue could be an existential necessity. NIST, the NSA, and CISA recognize the increasing potential...
A Chinese-speaking attacker has compromised hundreds of websites across the globe, looting from big fish like John Deere, SharkNinja, and engine manufacturer Cummins. Chinese-speaking hackers have largely outsourced a maelstrom of malicious activity...
News, news analysis, and commentary on the latest trends in cybersecurity technology. Artificial Intelligence is complicating security in the software development lifecycle, but a Dark Reading roundtable found collaboration, better identity visibili...
Microsoft announced that IT administrators can now use quick machine recovery on Windows Server 2025 after installing the October 2026 security update. Quick machine recovery (QMR) lets IT admins fix critical boot failures with targeted Windows Upda...
A Nigerian national was sentenced to eight years in prison for his involvement in a series of spearphishing attacks targeting US tax preparation businesses since 2019. 40-year-old Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu (also known as Chukwuemeka Victor Eletuo...
For agencies responsible for protecting Criminal Justice Information (CJI), meeting CJIS requirements means more than putting security controls in place. Those controls need to work across the systems staff use every day, and agencies need to be able...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ordering federal civilian agencies to stop using DeepSeek products and remove them from government systems. The order also covers products from the Chinese AI company's affiliates and third-party pro...
ConnectWise said it suspended access to its Cloud Backup service after a suspected supply chain attack targeting Microsoft 365 users was uncovered in an attack that was first detected on Wednesday. ConnectWise said services for SaaS Security and Clo...
Dive Brief: - Businesses are seeking hundreds of AI security specialists to protect their models, agents and other applications, according to new data from the SANS Institute. - The security training company's new tracker lists open roles ranging f...
Palo Alto Networks researchers warned that ransomware operators have stepped up exploitation of a high-severity flaw in the company's GlobalProtect portal, months after it was first disclosed. The authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-...
An outage at Google's cloud services in the UK has caused widespread disruption, hitting courts and leaving millions of customers unable to access or send cash at banks including Lloyds, HSBC and Revolut. Google blamed a "power event" for the failur...
As storage costs rise, buying a new drive or two and adding them to a server is less convenient than it used to be. I've learned that over the years, as my media collection grows, this has become more of a problem. I've been in a storage pinch and ev...
Wireless headphones and soundbars have come a long way, but audiophiles still swear by wired speakers. You're probably familiar with your motherboard's pink, green, and blue (possibly others) audio jacks even if you've never plugged in a wired speake...
Apple will warn you to adjust the number of Duos in your cart if you attempt to buy more than two. Apple is limiting the number of iPhone Duo units you can pre-order to two per customer, not just in the US, but also in other regions around the world...
The Achievement Customizer gives you full control over your wee pop-ups. Here's one for all you achievement addicts out there; you can now customise your Steam Deck achievement pop ups to match your PlayStation, Nintendo, or Xbox pop-ups. Yes, you c...
Intel giving SteamOS a little more love? Intel has opened requests to add Intel XeSS support to Valve's Proton, signalling a renewed interest in getting its mobile gaming chips up to speed on the Linux operating system. Some of the best handheld ga...
Earlier this year, the FCC implemented a kind of soft ban on foreign-made routers, declaring that they must receive special approval to be sold in the US. This seems to have put enough pressure on TP-Link to make a big change, as the company has said...
Spooky, dark, deep. Subnautica 2, a game so popular its original publisher will never forgive it, is gearing up for the next phase of its early access existence. In the first of a new vlog series, creative director Anthony Gallegos said that the gam...
Bend an ear for this. There's a lot that goes into the best gaming keyboards, and switches are only part of the picture. The entire composition doesn't fall apart with a less than stellar switch in place, especially as so many boards are hot swappab...
Siemens has addressed a DLL sideloading vulnerability impacting Siemens Software Center that it said has been exploited in ClickFix attacks. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-110936 (CVSS v4 score: 8.4), could allow an attacker to...
An attacker used a contributor's GitHub account to replace the download archives on five existing releases of OVHcloud's command-line tool on Monday, October 19. The account had been hijacked, and the new files were a build designed to steal secrets ...
A U.S. court on Monday granted the U.S. government's request to detain a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco office to allegedly steal sensitive secrets. In a n...
Fintech company Revolut is working to resolve a massive outage that disrupted most of its services worldwide earlier today. Since the incident began, thousands of users on the Downdetector outage tracking platform have reported issues with the Revol...
Ahold Delhaize, one of the world's largest food retail chains, confirmed that last week's cyberattack disrupted services at stores across Europe and the United States. Right before the cyberattack was disclosed, customers couldn't use websites, apps...
French cloud and hosting provider OVHcloud is warning users that attackers compromised its open-source command-line interface (CLI) tool to distribute information-stealing malware. The attacker hijacked a developer's GitHub account to gain access to...
Paradigm Healthcare Services has told the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that a data breach discovered last year affected more than 970,000 people. San Francisco-based Paradigm processes billing for Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid ...
Japanese media giant Nikkei has disclosed a fresh data breach impacting more than 1.8 million records. According to the company, best known for major financial publications, including The Nikkei and Financial Times, the incident involved a cloud ser...
Microsoft on Monday announced new controls to monitor and restrict potentially rogue AI agents in enterprise environments, arguing that organizations should treat these agents as insiders rather than trusted software. The capabilities extend Project...
As I sat in the cab of the pickup truck and manually rolled down the windows, I closed my eyes and, for the briefest moment, flashed back to opening the windows on a cold, winter day in my dad's 1975 Ford Ranger to let more cigarette smoke escape. I ...
Mastercard has announced Stablecoin Security, a new risk intelligence solution, with Borderless.xyz and Keyrails as initial partners. As stablecoins play a growing role in cross-border and business-to-business payments, financial institutions need a ...
Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a five-year expedition to land on the largest moon of Mars and retrieve samples for return to Earth, a daring international project that could yield new insights into the formation of the Solar System. ...
Whenever you run into problems with Windows 11, it's usually time to start diving into all the possible causes. One of the ways to do that, and one we've recommended quite often here at XDA, is to use Event Viewer to find possible errors that led to ...
### Summary - Microsoft emails inactive Xbox Series X owners urging Best Buy trade-ins for up to $375 in gift cards - Amount is 'up to' $375, so actual trade value may be lower compared with $799 new price - Likely move to reclaim idle consoles fo...
This Ugreen Nexode Pro charger delivers on all fronts, offering impressive power and tons of ports. Something like this will usually set you back quite a bit. However, the Nexode Pro charger is now 33% off on Amazon, dropping the price to just $60. ...
The problem with set-and-forget devices is that you can, well, set them and then forget about them. It's good in terms of keeping it out of mind, but people can sometimes forget that their device still needs regular updates to stay secure. That's wha...
Because you probably don't want your stereo on at full blast the moment you start your car. If you've ever started your car only to be blasted by music you didn't ask for, you already know the headache of Android Auto's autoplay quirk. The moment yo...
The ASUS L410 laptop isn't going to be for everyone. However, if you need something super simple that's just for the basics, this laptop might be what you're looking for. It has a retail price of $250, but can now be had for just $100 when you buy it...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a ClickFix delivery platform called ROMULUS that's being used to distribute malware such as Legion Loader. According to Forescout Research - Vedere Labs, ROMULUS is akin to a malware delivery servi...
Dive Brief: - Corporate boards of directors report mixed levels of readiness to oversee their companies' cybersecurity defenses, suggesting trouble ahead as AI continues to upend the threat landscape. - Most directors are confident they're adequate...
YouTube will run into competition with a couple of big names. ### What you need to know - YouTube is reportedly planning to launch audiobooks for its Premium subscribers. - Audiobooks could arrive for the platform's ad-free $16 subscription plan i...
Just about everyone should know about the 3-2-1 backup rule by now. If you don't, it's a strategy that says you should have three copies of your files on two different types of media, with one off-site. Only then are your files truly protected from d...
It shouldn't surprise you that I spend a lot of time in front of a screen. Whether it's for my business or my writing, my days tend to run long. A few years ago, I invested in a large 43-inch monitor to maximize the screen real estate. But as large a...
### Summary - Vibe coders use LLMs to strip smart TVs down to just the apps, HDMI, and no ads or tracking. - Open GitHub projects like CleanYourTV and DumbTV automate reversible TV de-bloating via ADB, no root. - LLM reverse-engineering now ports ...
The changes have alarmed publishers and others with business accounts. Meta has tweaked its terms of service for business accounts after a swift backlash against an update scheduled to take effect later this month. The company removed a reference to...
Clean floors shouldn't come with unclear rules about your personal data. Depending on the model, a robot vacuum cleaner can potentially generate floor maps, record cleaning histories, watch you take a bathroom break or record your private conversati...
You can use it to watch media files on the device, but you'll need to use your phone as a remote. Setting up a network-attached storage server is a great way to access your files remotely without paying cloud storage fees. Among the most popular are...
Your driver is nearby. I'm modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I've done to Rockstar's baby, or check out what I got up to ...
Business strategy manager Brandon Stirrup said he was "happy to take the hit" for his stance on AI, then left social media. Xbox senior business strategy manager Brandon Stirrup is tired of pussyfooting around about AI: In a thread on X his week, he...
Not every Star Wars game has to be a big-budget blockbuster to be successful. We've had two Star Wars games in 2026, both of them quite good and neither of them quite what you might expect from the Star Wars mould: Zero Company, an XCOM-style tactic...
Turning up the heat a little. Star Wars Zero Company's 1.2 patch introduces a new granular difficulty system in addition to the usual bugfixes and tweaks. These new options exist alongside the original difficulty levels (easy, normal, hard, ironman ...
ReVamp will get a limited Discord playtest. The studio behind the Moonlighter series has announced it will no longer host a public playtest for its forthcoming roguelike due to fears it will be "reverse-engineered, cloned and published". The move co...
Multi-link operation is a key part of Wi-Fi 7 routers. Network device manufacturers have made a lot of big promises about Wi-Fi 7 and one of the biggest is the potential of Multi-Link Operation. New to the Wi-Fi 7 standard, MLO is meant to allow rou...
Don't tuck your router away in a corner, even if it is a bit of an eyesore. The jump from Wi-Fi 6 and 6E to Wi-Fi 7 promises a significant boost in speed. Depending on your circumstances, it could be around four times faster, if not more. Some estim...
Some downloads of the Rank Math PRO WordPress plugin from the vendor's official website carried malware that planted hidden backdoors in a supply-chain attack last week. According to the vendor, a limited number of users who downloaded version 3.0.1...
Nikkei Inc. disclosed a new data breach, the third in about a month, that exposed 1.83 million personal information records. The Japanese giant says subsets of the data contained personally identifiable information and other sensitive details, but m...
An industry-wide laser focus on vulnerabilities has left cybersecurity teams without enough room to strategize for resilience. ### OPINION Every year, the lexicographers at Merriam-Webster officially add new words or word usage to the dictionary. I...
Copyright takedown requests tied to OnlyFans and other adult content creators are revealing how attackers exploit vulnerable university and government websites to manipulate search results. UpGuard's Greg Pollock explains what universities, governmen...
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Researchers say attackers authenticated into Microsoft 365 tenants using ConnectWise credentials; ConnectWise says customer impact remains unconfirmed. A threat actor used credentials associated with ConnectWise's Cloud Backup product to authenticat...
Spyware vendors are exploiting targeted ad bidding in the digital ecosystem to identify and track individuals and organizations of interest. An Israeli company that presents itself as a legitimate digital advertising business is helping spyware vend...
A large-scale scam operation impersonating Microsoft uses a malicious traffic distribution system (TDS) run by a Russian organization and abuses thousands of Cloudflare links. Tech support scams seem like a dime a dozen these days, but researchers g...
Organizations that run open-weight AI models on their own infrastructure may have to supply safety and security controls that an AI provider would otherwise handle for them, Microsoft and NVIDIA warn in a joint paper on managing the risks of these mo...
Sweet Security has announced the release of Virtual Patching, a new capability that protects running cloud and AI applications from specific vulnerabilities the moment they are identified. Security teams can enforce protection in one click while engi...
American software company ConnectWise is contending with a security incident that has allowed unknown attackers to use its application identities to break into organizations' Microsoft 365 accounts. The intruders used a compromised credential belong...
Axonius has announced Axonius AI Workforce, the latest expansion of Axonius AI. It enables organizations to deploy teams of Virtual Workers that monitor their environments, identify high-risk exposures and assets that deviate from their expected stat...
A Russian military satellite maneuvered in "extreme proximity" of a commercial Earth-imaging satellite in recent days in the first known example an unsanctioned rendezvous in low-Earth orbit, according to the orbital intelligence company LeoLabs. Th...
Apple today seeded the release candidate of an upcoming iOS 27.2 update to developers for testing purposes, with the update coming a week after Apple released the fourth iOS 27.2 beta. Apple also seeded the iPadOS 27.2 RC. Registered developers can ...
Apple is testing the next macOS Golden Gate update, and developers can download the macOS Golden Gate 27.2 release candidate. The RC comes a week after Apple released the fourth beta. Registered developers can download macOS Golden Gate 27.2 by open...
For a limited time, the iPhone Duo and the iPhone 18 Pro Max will be limited to customers with a pickup reservation at Apple Stores in Japan and South Korea, according to notices posted on Apple's localized websites for those countries. The notices ...
Monday October 19, 2026 12:09 pm PDT by Juli Clover The iOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2, and HomePod Software 27.2 updates that Apple seeded today add support for four-speaker surround sound on the new Apple TV 4K ahead of its launch. Setting up a HomePod home...
### Summary - Gemini Notebooks now pause and ask for direction when creating slide decks and video overviews. - It suggests topics from your sources and lets you choose which points the assets explore. - Review toggle lets you tweak outlines or pr...
Using my PS Vita for media beyond gaming came naturally, mostly because of the amazing homebrew community. I tried Swiftfin to stream content from my Jellyfin server, but one aspect was still missing: music. While sifting through the homebrew projec...
Own up, which one of you was it? Good news: I know of the existence of two entire pallets worth of RTX 5090 graphics cards — a rare thing in this day and age, as stock appears to have dwindled to virtually zero. Bad news, they've 'gone missing' fr...
### Our Verdict A new benchmark for budget gamepads, the GameSir Nova Lite 2 has a tremendous feature set for something that costs as much as a couple of overpriced coffees. For - Very affordable - Hall effect sticks - Wireless (2.4 + Bluetooth)...
The plaque's message has haunted the internet for 30 years. Super Mario 64 fans have been obsessing over a blurry plaque in the castle courtyard for over 30 years. We might finally know what's written on it, according to a report by Video Games Chro...
Who wants a battery-powered 1970s throwback? The Slate Truck is about as unique a vehicle as there is. The modular electric truck ships from the factory as a bare-bones two-seat pickup in a single (slate gray) color. But the fun begins when you tric...
My Intel Core i7-6700K spent years at the core of my gaming rig, and once it was replaced, that CPU and the motherboard it sat in collected dust to the point where I had considered selling it, giving it away, or even recycling it. A quad-core Skylake...
The best software is the kind that you can set up once and forget about. One of the best examples I have is Syncthing. I installed it on a few of my devices about a year ago and haven't needed to reconfigure it since the initial setup. I'm still usin...
I run a Proxmox server with mirrored enterprise drives, a retired RTX 3080, and more containers than I'd like to admit, and I'd recommend self-hosting to almost anyone who's curious. What I wouldn't do is promise them it'll save money, but a lot of h...
Hackers reportedly compromised AOMEI's servers to distribute malware through a built-in promotional feature in its backup software, briefly tampering with configuration files before restoring them to their original state to hide the attacks. The sup...
Not all video doorbells are made equal. Just because someone is seen by your video doorbell does not mean that the device will detect them and alert you. Ring says the standard maximum motion detection range for its devices is about 30 feet (9 meter...
The decision comes a couple of days after the release of the company's latest AI model. The Department of Homeland Security has issued a sweeping restriction to remove DeepSeek use across all federal civilian agencies and their IT systems. In a noti...
Windows has great protection built-in, so third-party suites come down to the extras. Windows was not the safest operating system in the early days. Back then, malware and viruses were a risk that you were required to avoid and resolve on your own. ...
In February 2026, the operator of OnlyFake pleaded guilty in the United States for his role in a service that generated more than 10,000 fraudulent digital identity documents. Customers could create passports, driver's licenses, Social Security cards...
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that caused games and Windows 11 apps using AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoding to crash after installing the September 2026 preview update (KB5124010). While KB5124010 is an optional update that requires clicking a...
The open-source AI coding project OpenCode has notified some users that stored API keys they used with external providers were exposed in a security breach. Multiple users reported that the incident led to unauthorized API charges and suspended proj...
Staffing software company Bullhorn has disabled access to its platform to contain a cyberattack that caused a system-wide outage. The company says it has isolated the issue and eradicated the immediate threat. Currently, its team is working to resto...
Siemens revealed on Monday that threat actors have exploited a vulnerability in Siemens Software Center as part of a malware campaign. Siemens Software Center handles the download, installation, activation and updating of software that customers hav...
Users downloaded malicious versions of Rank Math PRO last week, after the WordPress SEO plugin was compromised in a supply chain attack. Some version 3.0.123 packages contained malware that could allow attackers to take over websites if the plugin w...
Drupal has rolled out patches for five vulnerabilities, including two critical-severity bugs that could be exploited for remote code execution (RCE). The first resides in the Entity List module, which allows users to create lists of entities without...
U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations with the extor...
Copies of Rank Math PRO, the paid version of the Rank Math SEO plugin for WordPress, that were downloaded from rankmath.com or delivered as updates between 20:02 UTC on October 15 and 07:12 UTC on October 16 contained malware, Rank Math said in a sec...
Threat actors have begun to exploit a chain of vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server to deploy cryptocurrency miners and reverse proxy software, a day after a proof-of-concept (PoC) went public. According to a researcher who goes by the online alias ...
In Salesforce Agentforce, the recommended way to make an agent respond to events is a Flow: a record is created or a case is updated, and the Flow passes data into the agent's prompt. Separately, Email-to-Case and Web-to-Case turn inbound customer me...
The threat actor behind the GhostAction supply chain attack has expanded beyond injecting malicious GitHub Actions workflows into compromised projects to phish open-source developers and deliver a stealer malware disguised within a fake font file. T...
The worst problems don't always come with a warning. Sometimes they arrive through a service everyone trusts, a device someone bought, or a system nobody thought to check. By the time something looks wrong, the damage may already be done. This week ...
MacBook Pro deals have been getting steeper and steeper over the past few weeks, and today Amazon has introduced the biggest discount yet on one model of the 16-inch MacBook Pro. You can get the M5 Max model with 36GB RAM and a 2TB SSD for $3,499.00,...
Google AI Plus subscribers will lose access to Gemini's Pro models starting November 13. ### What you need to know - Google is notifying AI Plus subscribers that access to Pro models in Gemini and AI Mode will change on November 13. - Users on the...
"Everything was on the line" during Outlast's development. Outlast has long since established itself as a horror gaming staple with an impressive track record of two mainline games, a DLC, and an online multiplayer game that still scares the bejesus...
It could be smoother but double the frames is nothing to sniff at. As a console gaming interloper, I've been watching the PlayStation 5 emulation scene from afar with some interest. The latest development to catch my eye is that emulation of the Dem...
Every fan curve I've built has the same blind spot: it knows how hot my PC is, but it has no idea what I'm about to do with it. When I start a long render and walk away, I want the case fans running hard before temperatures climb, not after. When I h...
For the average person, Google probably sits underneath half of the tools and workflows they use. The verbification of Google is a primary example: nobody says "use a search engine", we say "Google it". There's a term for when a brand becomes so popu...
We're told over and over that keeping smart home devices on their own network segment is wise, whether that's for security or stability. But that conversation can be flipped as well, because other device groups can benefit from smart VLAN choices. Wi...
I unplugged my CarLinkit 2.0 wireless adapter for Android Auto from my dashboard last month, coiled it up in my glovebox, and plugged a plain Jane USB-C data cable straight into my car's 7-inch Harman touchscreen head unit. Now I connect my Nothing P...
A flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi setup software lets an attacker within radio range run code as root on Broadcom-based routers, without the network password or any pairing step, security researcher Quentin Kaiser disclosed on October 16. He showed the att...
A fake Web3 accelerator has been observed pushing information stealers and backdoors to Windows and macOS systems using malicious npm packages under the pretext of offering free artificial intelligence (AI) credits for Anthropic Claude and Google Gem...
All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending October 18. We are drowning in shit. Steam Next Fest, which kicks off tomorrow, currently has 8,011 matches on its press preview landing page. That's roughly double the amount of demos featured in ...
Who among us wouldn't feel the same? Lying in bed with my morning coffee, doomscrolling through TikTok, I came across this video. A man seemingly bursting into tears after revealing a wedding gift of an RTX 5090. The best bit is when, after pulling...
Another Schrödinger's graphics card? Rumours have been circulating as of late that Nvidia has halted production of its flagship RTX 5090 graphics card, in favour of moving the GB202 silicon towards RTX Pro data center GPUs instead. However, Jeff Fis...
An intruder reached a legacy system at OpenCode on the night of October 16 and may have exposed the third-party AI provider keys that users had saved in OpenCode Console, the company said. Console is OpenCode's optional hosted service: a workspace s...
Hybridization of enterprise IT is now a fact, so CISOs and cybersecurity leaders must create a security framework to address these increasingly distributed, dynamic, and complex environments. As workloads are distributed across the full architectural...
Microsoft has confirmed that this month's Windows Server security updates are causing OWA sign-in and mail delivery issues on some Exchange Server systems. In a new Windows release health dashboard update over the weekend, Microsoft said users may h...
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that removed the Copilot Chat and Copilot buttons in the classic Outlook desktop mail client for some Windows users. As explained in an updated support document, affected users with the Copilot Chat (Basic) license ...
MITRE last week released version 20 of its ATT&CK framework, adding entries that cover AI abuse, MFA bypass, and recent attacks on water utilities. The organization says the biggest change in ATT&CK v20 is "expanded coverage of recent adversary acti...
A suspected state-sponsored threat actor exploited multiple Fortinet vulnerabilities in an attack against a telecommunications organization, Palo Alto Networks reports. The intrusion, attributed to UNC5820 (tracked by Palo Alto Networks as CL-STA-09...
Personal information on current and former California public school students was copied from a file transfer system belonging to Educational Testing Service (ETS), according to the California Department of Education (CDE). ETS is a nonprofit that ha...
Threat actors began targeting Plex2Shell, a chain of four Plex Media Server vulnerabilities, one day after technical details and a working exploit went public. The researcher who found the Plex2Shell bugs released a write-up and proof-of-concept (Po...
ConnectWise is scrambling to restore its Cloud Backup, SaaS Security, and Cloud Management services after hackers abused a compromised credential to access customers' M365 tenants. The company suspended the Cloud Backup service (formerly known as Sk...
We know a post-quantum world is likely coming. What we don't know is when. Organizations should begin preparing now for the day quantum computers become commercially available to help evolve security needs for their critical IT assets. No one knows ...
Microsoft accounted for 33% of brand impersonation attempts tracked by Check Point Research in the third quarter of 2026, up from 23% in the previous quarter and roughly four times the share of any other brand. Top 10 most impersonated brands in phi...
Bearer CLI is a free static application security testing (SAST) tool that scans source code for vulnerabilities and prioritizes them by the sensitive data they touch. SAST means the tool reads code without running it. Organizations can use it freely,...
Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. Oh, Canada. The Great White North is the la...
Depending on their colors, most of those flashing lights are a good sign. The front of a Netgear router, like many routers, is dotted with a wide array of lights and symbols. Though some of the symbols like the power indicator are straightforward, t...
I've never been the best coder, whether in college with Assembly or C++, or in any other language I've tried to pick up since. That's changing now that I can use agentic coding tools like Claude Code to explain things as I go, and I've wired them int...
Once every generation, a genre-defining title emerges and becomes the benchmark for the others that follow. And every once in a while, that benchmark remains unbeaten for years, long after the hardware that first ran it has been retired, and the stud...
If you're as indecisive as me, then you're probably paying for more than one AI chatbot, and each one naturally ends up with its own job. And usually the one that's easiest to open or sitting closest to hand ends up getting the most work. On Windows,...
So I'm trying to escape Fedora. It's not because I don't like Fedora (I do), and it's not because I hate Red Hat (I don't). It's because Fedora was only the second Linux distro I took seriously. The first was Linux Mint, which convinced me that Linux...
Bigger than the ones in Elden Ring, for what it's worth. ### At a glance - The rough prototype looks to have been binned early in development, and it's largely avoided discussion before Doneda's work. - Some portions appear to have been part of an...
Here for a good time and a loud time. Volume.art is a nice, free, cool thing on the internet, and I just think that's something worth celebrating these days. The microgame collection sees you manipulating volume sliders through various abstracted, s...
What is the PS5X Emulator for Xbox Series X and how does it work? In a YouTube video that went live on September 8, developer Devran Cosmo Uenal booted the PlayStation 5 version of Quake II on an Xbox Series X and played it with an Xbox controller. ...
It's a simple way to check whether an image has been created or manipulated, with a few caveats. With the proliferation of generative AI tools pumping out images, videos and even songs in recent years, it's hard to spend time on the internet without...
Most people should never buy a sound card, and I'll say that to anyone planning a new PC. Apart from the odd old game that still misses a 20-year-old sound card, onboard audio got good, headsets went USB, and sound cards quietly became a niche. Yet e...
My Asus TUF Gaming AX4200 moved its 5GHz radio to a new channel 11 times in two weeks. I felt almost every one as a frozen video call, a buffering show, or a smart plug going offline. The cause was the 160MHz channel width, the setting that can doub...
Using your phone to phone home. The Slate truck doesn't just lack an infotainment system. The base version of the EV also skips a radio, speakers, power windows and even a paint job (hello, vinyl). But without built-in cellular, the truck can still ...
Roku's remote is straightforward, except for its multi-purpose star button. A Roku system's remote control is one of the most straightforward remote designs you'll find. The function behind nearly every button is clear from its icon, except for one:...
There's really no escaping now. The team behind the hit horror card game Inscryption shared some exciting news this weekend in celebration of its fifth anniversary: a mobile version is on the way. The announcement came during an official Twitch stre...
Apple's image generation tool got some noteworthy updates this fall. Sometimes, a text exchange with a friend calls for a super specific image to express a thought. It's the kind of image that you can't find in the legion of emoji on your phone, or ...
Claude, finish drafting my single-use ray gun which can only vaporize $999 million worth of stuff and/or 49 people. Politico recently reported on a confidential draft of a proposed AI safety bill from Anthropic, the company behind Claude LLMs (via T...
If you have trouble getting apps to scale properly on your foldable, read on. The extra screen real estate that comes with the design of a foldable phone can be pretty enticing. Whether you're looking to play games, watch videos or read, a foldable ...
The platform attributed the decision to "political content that goes against its policy." The nearly four-hour documentary called Musk that covers the eponymous billionaire is continuing to generate controversy. The latest move saw TikTok ban the ad...
Seeing fewer frames per second sounds counter-intuitive, but there are good reasons to cap your fps. If you're into PC gaming, there's a good chance you care deeply about frame rates. But even if you own a high-end gaming rig, you should still give ...
Are foldables finally ready to go mainstream? Technological advances often come with growing pains. This is no less true of phones. The 1984 "brick" phone (DynaTAC 8000X) required users to carry over 1.7 pounds of weight for only half an hour of tal...
The Fallen Emperor and Arc Frigate have me excited for the game's future. Welcome to Play This Right Now, the site version of our weekly newsletter in which we celebrate a new game, update, or DLC that we think is well worth checking out. You can su...
I'm still listening to this thing a year later. Welcome to Critical Hit, where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team) celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle. I have not...
Red Barrels co-founder Philippe Morin recently spoke on the trials The Outlast Trials outlasted. Gamedev may as well be conducted in a black box as far as many players are concerned, so it can be easy to think of a good game as one where development...
As someone who has worked within the Adobe suite for a long time, I'm almost constantly looking for alternatives, and that has nothing to do with the quality of the first-party apps themselves. They're excellent to work in and provide a professional ...
Hellraiser: Revival's commitment to being both gnarly and horny has already been thoroughly documented, with PC Gamer's Wes Fenlon describing it as "nasty nasty" in his preview . This uncompromising attitude to both gore and kink went down well with ...
Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like "How tidy is your desktop?" and "What game will you never u...
With a stack of Googlebooks to review sitting on my desk, I thought a good place to start would be unpacking what it's actually like to use Google's new laptop line and Googlebook OS for my day-to-day tasks. In this case, I've spent most of my time ...
Local LLMs have seen a surge in adoption across a growing range of use cases, and making sense of hastily organized datasets like messy spreadsheets is certainly one of them. As many of these models have become small enough to run comfortably on devi...
You can still enjoy Flash classics long after the old plugin's demise. Browser-based Flash games hark back to a simpler time on the internet: the days of Neopets, Homestar Runner, MySpace and AOL Instant Messenger. Many millennials and others who we...
It's not as nefarious as it sounds. Amazon Alexa in all its forms has become increasingly prevalent across households — over 600 million Alexa-enabled devices have been purchased worldwide since its initial release. Even though this doesn't tran...
If your iPhone is less than three years old, you're in luck. Apple's iOS 27 update doesn't just bring new features for iPhone users — it also adds a bunch of new options to CarPlay for a better in-car experience. The upgrades aren't huge, but th...
Understanding the difference between decimal and binary. Device storage is extremely valuable these days. The rabid appetite of AI datacenters is inflating drive pricing so badly that companies like Apple and Valve have jacked up the prices of some ...
For the most reliable performance, round cables are generally superior. Unless you're relying entirely on Wi-Fi, chances are you've had to wrangle an unsightly mess of Ethernet cables at some point in your life. One way to make your home internet se...
Hackers are exploiting an OS command-injection vulnerability in the SiteGuard Server Edition web application firewall (WAF), allowing them to execute commands with root or SYSTEM privileges on affected machines. The security issue is tracked as CVE-...
### Summary - This DIY Raspberry Pi ticker uses four 128x64 P2.5 LED panels and an Adafruit Triple LED Matrix Bonnet. - The ticker scrolls a league box from right to left to show current and upcoming scores with smooth animations. - Source code is...
### Summary - Raspberry Pi frame shows Telegram photos, videos, and voice notes on a 10.1" HDMI screen via 4G. - It has a simple, four-button UI: previous message, hold-to-record reply, listen again, and next message — no touchscreen or menus. ...
My most complicated Excel workbook has 78,766 formulas, 189 named ranges, and one yellow dropdown cell that quietly controls all of them. It holds 21 months of fake analytics for a made-up US tech YouTube channel. It's stitched together with every Ex...
ConnectWise on Saturday said it has disabled seven ConnectWise application identities as it continues its investigation into an incident in which unknown threat actors obtained unauthorized access to the application identities and compromised Microso...
Liquid Swords, the developer behind Samson, has gone bankrupt just six months after its run-based open-city crime sim was released. As reported by Breakit (via Rock, Paper, Shotgun), a bankruptcy order was issued against the Swedish developer on Oct...
Red Barrels' Outlast series has long held a reputation for pushing the envelope further than most horror games, with depictions of violence, gore and nudity that can be shocking even within a medium well versed in delivering scares. But it isn't just...
The internet gets slower when everyone is trying to use it, but you have some workarounds. One of the most frustrating parts of troubleshooting slow Wi-Fi is that almost by nature, network conditions are rarely consistent. Say you're trying to diagn...
These tablets are the last ones released before Samsung's more generous support policy. Back in the TouchWiz era, Samsung's reputation for timely software updates wasn't exactly the best. It's thus great to see how far the brand has come in deliveri...
Figuring out how the 'brain' will work will take a lot of time. While OpenAI is already busy with the development of AI models and new consumer hardware, CEO Sam Altman and his team apparently have time for one more project: a humanoid robot. On th...
Getting a black screen? Try these steps. One of the best things about the Nintendo Switch is the ability to play on its built-in screen for on-the-go gaming and then plug into a bigger screen at home for a more cinematic experience. But getting the...
CyberSN's Cybersecurity Jobs Report provides visibility into the US cybersecurity job market. It's a mixed bag. Data for CyberSN's jobs report is aggregated from JobSpikr (with duplicates removed). The various job titles are then analyzed and assign...
Ask Claude Opus 5.5 something that brushes against security, and the reply can come back from a different model. A notice appears, the answer gets tagged Opus 4.8, and Anthropic's newest flagship stays switched to the older model for the rest of the ...
If there's one piece of technology that even your least tech-savvy friend probably has at least a vague understanding of, it's a VPN. Sure, they might not necessarily know what the acronym stands for or how one actually works. However, what they like...
It's no secret that I love handheld gaming, whether that's a small device emulating older games or using one of the most powerful gaming handhelds on the market. But some games deserve a larger screen, or just aren't playable on the handhelds you can...
If you use Claude daily or for heavy projects, you've probably watched the usage meter as closely as the actual output. Anthropic has raised the limits a few times this year, which does help, though there's still a weekly cap behind all of it, and Op...
You know what the worst part of getting a new Windows PC or doing a clean Windows install is? Once you boot up for the first time, the PC is blank, and it takes many hours to make it yours. As someone who is into consumer tech journalism and keeps te...
What's up, Barrens Chat. This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer's very own MMO column. Every other week, I'll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we've all taken for granted, and...
Any resemblance to actual persons or actual events is purely coincidental. I heard it on the wireless: election fever is sweeping America. The world's loudest democracy is headed to the ballot box to vote in its next slate of soda jerks and Chevrole...
Ding dong pookie. Every time I check in on Star Wars, there's a new stupid little creature (colloquially known as a Glup Shitto) everyone's into. The latest of these is Biddy Blas, a braggadocious pod racer and mama's boy who stands out for his shri...
It's not just the principle of the thing: There could be more money up for grabs. At a glance: - Qualcomm gets $2 from Arm in the Delaware jury's decision, part of a yearslong licensing dispute between the two. - Yahoo Finance puts their market ca...
I'm one of a dozen crusty nerds. This one is thin, man, but it has to do with one of my favorite games of all time, while the circumstances of the rumor are just kind of neat and weird, even if it turns out to be nothing. User Few_Interview8222 on t...
And how you can efficiently delete them to claw back storage on your device. So, you're running out of storage on your Android phone. It happens, even if you periodically delete files and photos, especially if you've been porting your data from one ...
A spare tablet, USB cable and $4 app can bring Android Auto to your desk or kitchen counter. My old Samsung Galaxy Tab had poor battery life, but still had enough juice to be a Google Home control panel. Then I came across an unusual use for it: And...
Enterprise finance teams book revenue when they ship product, but the cash arrives only after orders, credit checks, invoices, disputes, and payments all clear, and businesses worldwide have $16T stuck somewhere in that chain. The people who chase th...
Self-hosting sounds fun on paper, but if the app you want to self-host doesn't have an easy Docker setup, the whole process can leave you scratching your head, especially if you're not comfortable with databases and code. I once tried to set up live ...
I have always liked the idea of having everything in one place, but my notes were stored in different Obsidian vaults, tasks lived somewhere else, and important projects often required jumping between multiple tools. That's when I decided to rethink...
Windows has many built-in features to manage every component without bothering you. But some features can end up troubling you instead of offering a smooth-sailing experience. If you use a Windows PC as I do, you might have noticed something weird wi...
Samsung's Auto Blocker keeps threats at bay, but it can also get in your way. If you own a Samsung Galaxy phone running One UI 6.0 or later, you may have a built-in security feature called Auto Blocker working in the background without even realizin...
The premium handheld is expected to start shipping in December. In creating a premium dual-screen handheld that's largely a callback to the Nintendo 3DS, Anbernic has made something that far surpasses the original in both price and power. Straying a...
### Robohub.org Claire chatted to Rika Antonova from the University of Cambridge about using artificial intelligence to develop complimentary robot hardware and algorithms. Rika Antonova is an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge. Her...
Imagine you are driving toward an intersection. A truck parked on the corner blocks your view of a car speeding toward the intersection from the right. You can't see it, but the car next to you can. What if that neighboring vehicle could simply tell ...
Want more privacy? Opt in to blur your home on Googe Maps Street View. We live in a world of permanent blur — at least on Street View in Google Maps, where locations once blurred cannot be unblurred. So why are some locations blurred on Google M...
Microsoft has caused enough anxiety with every Patch Tuesday and routine updates that have borked one aspect or another of Windows 11 for users this year, and as such, the latest 26H2 update feels like a breath of fresh air. Perhaps for the first tim...
When I buy a new NAS, I've got an entire checklist of things I go through before making the deal. The RAM, for instance, is something I pay a lot of attention to when I plan to arm it with a ZFS-laden distribution. Likewise, unless I'm planning to pu...
The developer of an upcoming horror drinking game has cancelled plans for a public Steam demo in favour of private preview sessions, citing concerns that AI vibe coders might use the demo's content to clone the game. Drunken Goddess Reflux is a "sho...
I've nothing against games that feature simulated animal petting, but it's never been something I've considered buying a game specifically for. Sure, it's nice when your character can stroke a virtual dog or fuss with a clump of polygons shaped like ...
Developers are now required to filter nonconsensual intimate imagery. Verizon will offer Apple's new iPhone Handoff feature for iOS 27, but it will cost you $10 a month. The carrier says the feature is "coming soon" to its network in its announcemen...
You might assume that doubling your Bluetooth speaker's wattage will double its loudness, but audio physics and speaker specs don't work that way. Along with size and weight, wattage may seem like an easy way to narrow down the best Bluetooth speake...
Wi-Fi and Ethernet work together for a great blend of convenience and reliability. Even though so many devices use wireless connections, Ethernet still has a place in your home network. The latest Wi-Fi standards make big improvements, but a wireles...
Drupal has patched two critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute code remotely on websites running any supported version of the content management system. The security issues impact the software core's Field UI module and the co...
ConnectWise has shut down customer access to its Cloud Backup service (formerly SkyKick Cloud Backup) after hackers accessed application identities and compromised Microsoft 365 tenants. Reports of the malicious activity began emerging on Friday, wi...
I drive upside down on the boulevard of broken dreams. Tesla dominated the headlines on Thursday thanks to a very cool stunt. In announcing the redesigned Roadster at its October 15 event, the electric car company put some jet fuel in the mix. After...
Plus, lots of horror (cozy and otherwise), a colorful platformer and a wolf-battling shepherd dog. Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. As ever, we've got a whole bunch of new games you can jump into this weekend...
Funcom, the developer behind Dune: Awakening and Conan Exiles, has announced a restructuring process that will result in layoffs at the company, and that current CEO Rui Casais will leave Funcom once the reorganisation is complete. The decision come...
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that's part of a recently disclosed software supply chain attack campaign dubbed MALFEX. The package, named "imgdecode," was uploaded to the package registry on September 30, 2026, by...
Candiru spyware has infected devices at international news network Al Jazeera in zero-click attacks, via targeted advertisements, Canadian internet watchdog group Citizen Lab reports. As part of the operation, dubbed AdFection, ads purchased by Isra...
Obsidian has grown in popularity, and the plugin library has absolutely exploded. It's grown by more than 3,000 plugins in the last few months alone, with options for nearly every niche or application you can think of. It's impressive, and it's alway...
Ever since DLSS 5 dropped, I've been throwing it at any game that catches my fancy. I've "remastered" classic PS2 and PS3 games with DLSS 5, and AAA titles run pretty well with neural rendering despite my aging RTX 4070 Ti. In winding the clock back ...
Microsoft 365 had become a familiar part of our family's digital life, but I started wondering whether we really needed the entire package. With five people using different apps for different tasks, I wanted a setup that made more sense for how we ac...
The Steam Deck is a powerful device, and I'm not talking about the frames it can push in AAA gaming at all, at least not here. I've previously argued that the Deck beats a budget gaming laptop on long-haul trips, and most of what I argued came down t...
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm related to an active campaign in which unknown threat actors are abusing a compromised Microsoft 365 (M365) credential belonging to ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to gain unauthorized acce...
OpenAI said internal models hacked two more websites, bypassed company-imposed browsing restrictions, and used exposed credentials to draw cryptocurrency from a wallet it couldn't otherwise access, in the latest installment of disclosures of its agen...
Same old story. I'm modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I've done to Rockstar's baby, or check out what I got up to earlier...
Bulkhead's effort to make life better for the Blues worked a little too well. One day into Wardogs Season 2, Bulkhead Interactive has decided to scrap the bribery plan it announced last week as a way to help convince players to join the Blue team. T...
I've only played a bit of offroad driving sim Over the Hill, but I'm already hooked. Or should I say: winched. What's it take for a game to snare me? Over the Hill is a co-op (or singleplayer!) offroading adventure that launched on Steam this week, ...
The game is great, but CD Projekt wants to tell a new story. We learned last week that a Cyberpunk 2077 movie is in the works, an announcement I used mainly to talk about a completely different cyberpunk movie starring Keanu Reeves as a guy named Jo...
City residents and leaders denounced the free web game, which was taken down. Pierre-Louis Biojout, founder of Y Combinator-backed AI startup NanoCorp, took heat from San Francisco residents and city leaders this week after publishing a weekend vibe...
Apple's iPhone Duo Case uses adhesive to attach to the device, according to people who have picked one up. The case comes in two pieces and uses adhesive strips along the inside edges to attach securely to an iPhone Duo. An included insert instructs...
Apple's all-new HomeView smart home hub has been available for pre-order since Tuesday, with the earliest orders set to be delivered on Friday, November 13. If you did not place a pre-order yet though, you may face a longer wait now, with Apple's est...
Ivanti, Cisco, and Palo Alto Networks all had vulnerabilities in edge devices come under fire this week. Now BeyondTrust joins the group. A week chock full of new high-severity and actively exploited edge vulnerabilities continues with a Chinese cyb...
Most OT devices at utilities, factories, and elsewhere have been deployed for a decade or more, but operators need to get agile and deploy new cyber defenses. Frontier AI models targeting operational technology (OT) environments, from utilities to f...
Companies are increasingly discovering that the challenge with AI is no longer adoption, but execution. ### October 16, 2026 ### PRESS RELEASE DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Oct. 15, 2026 — As artificial intelligence (AI) expands into core business oper...
The launch follows the acquisition of catalog's assets and the appointment of Laurent Guengant as CEO earlier this year. ### October 16, 2026 ### PRESS RELEASE PARIS & BOSTON — October 15, 2026 — Biomemory, a leader in commercial DNA data ...
Dust off your old Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo cartridges. Analogue is revisiting the console rivalry that defined the first half of the 1990s. On Friday, the company announced the Super Nt+ and Mega Sg+, updated versions of its Super Nintendo an...
Thrusters are as good at flipping cars as they are at hunting ballistic missiles. Tesla's long-delayed and still unreleased Tesla Roadster was formally reintroduced on October 15 and besides an angular, Cybertruck-esque design and the ability to go ...
The phrase 'RMA' is likely to send shivers down many a spine, especially when it concerns something like a graphics card. Returning a faulty component can often be a 'cross your fingers and hope for the best' kind of deal, so naturally I am pleasantl...
A fractured, fun campaign that benefits from looking backward. I just got back from a three-day Modern Warfare 4 review event in Los Angeles. While the ~24 hours of playtime across the campaign, multiplayer, and DMZ was a useful headstart, you never...
A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD's KARL kernel-address randomization and its SMAP and SMEP hardware protec...
Researchers warn that hackers could soon exploit a maximum-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-103849) affecting Magento and Adobe Commerce, potentially allowing them to execute arbitrary PHP code on store servers. According to e-commerce security firm...
Chicago-area law enforcement officers took part in an undercover probe by Immigration and Customs Enforcement into Minneapolis mutual aid networks last spring as part of the feds' conspiracy investigation into 15 Twin Cities activists facing federal ...
Campaigns that impersonate popular AI brands are on the rise, and they typically use ClickFix-like tactics to target unsuspecting enterprise employees. The Internet is littered with convincing counterfeit AI offerings that, instead of providing popu...
Traditional Wi-Fi-based smart homes tend to get worse when it comes to performance as they grow. This is because adding dozens of devices bogs down your router, clogs local IP tables, and can lead to constant connection drops. Of course, a great ben...
Absolutely everyone with a Samsung phone seems to have something to say about the recently rolled-out One UI 9, and if you believe half the internet, Samsung has somehow managed to turn a software update into a religious experience. Everywhere I saw,...
Vibe coding is scary, don't get me wrong. As a computer science major, there's probably no one more terrified of what the job market will look like by the time I graduate, especially with how good AI coding tools are getting. However, I also see mass...
Developers are questioning whether a settlement of the U.S. government's antitrust case against Apple would meaningfully loosen the company's control over the iPhone, according to The Information. The report highlights PayPal and Epic Games among th...
Pre-orders are now live on Apple's newest devices, including the HomeView and Apple TV 4K, and Amazon has the first-ever discounts on these devices. We're also tracking great deals on MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and Apple Watch SE 3 in this week's best Ap...
Apple's HomeView software license agreement refers to the HomeView as a "HomePodDevice" in one section. This is surely a placeholder name from a draft version of the agreement that Apple forgot to replace in the final version, and it reveals that App...
Apple this week finally announced the HomePod mini 2, a new Apple TV 4K, and its "HomeView" smart home hub. On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we talk through our reactions to the announcements. Apple's HomeView costs $299 and combines a ...
OpenAI has disclosed seven new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior, including one case where its research model, after not having funds on an Ethereum test network, spent test cryptocurrency from a...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an advanced persistent threat (APT) spear-phishing campaign that has targeted individuals affiliated with Taiwan research organizations to direct victims to an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishin...
Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor's own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of the Windows backup program that checked for an update...
You can see the locations of known outdoor surveillance cameras in the app. MapQuest has been on quite the unexpected tear over the last couple of months. The mapping service's app surged in popularity after it refused to refer to Lake Ontario as La...
Apple has done it before, and it can do it again. Due to "sharply inflated" memory costs, global smartphone prices are up an estimated 20 percent since the start of the year, which phone makers are passing on to consumers. Accordingly, people are ho...
Candiru spyware was delivered to devices at Al Jazeera Media Network via targeted online advertisements in a zero-click attack that required only rendering the malicious ads on the victim's device. Researchers at Citizen Labs investigating the attac...
Article written by Vakaris Noreika, VP of Product Research and Development at NordLayer Monday morning, you handle security for an organization, and suddenly, your security tools flag personal ChatGPT use on a managed laptop, even though your org pa...
The shocking arrest of a well-known ransomware negotiator reveals the critical need for vendor program oversight. ### October 16, 2026 ### OPINION Edward Dubrovsky walked into the Philadelphia Cyber Risk Summit on Oct. 8 with his name on the spons...
An engineer at OpenAI allegedly concealed an audio recording device in a piece of toilet paper and attached it behind a monitor inside an executive conference room at one of the company's San Francisco offices, according to a criminal complaint unsea...
SecurityWeek's weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage yet remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories acros...
Dive Brief: - The open-source software community needs to understand several key lessons in order to improve its cybersecurity posture, according to IBM, which operates a clearinghouse for analyzing and disclosing open-source vulnerabilities. - "Fi...
A suspected China-nexus hacker has exploited a zero-day vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support since late August as part of an espionage campaign, according to a report released Thursday by Google Threat Intelligence Group. The hacker, tracked ...
- Published German police have detained a Russian man accused of being part of a cyber-crime gang which caused chaos at London hospitals and contributed to a patient's death. The hack of blood testing company Synnovis in 2024 led to disrupted patho...
I've hacked my PS Vita eight ways to Sunday. I've filled it with emulators, and even overclocked it. I've sunk more hours than I'd like to admit into homebrew projects tweaking its performance. Every time I turned it on, I was greeted by the same wav...
Part of the beauty of setting up a self-hosted media server is not having to drag Blu-ray discs from room to room. I rip the disc once and stream it everywhere. Another important part of the process is making sure my rips include subtitles. A movie a...
As someone who has been lucky enough to have hands-on with many Windows laptops over the years for the purposes of review, I've grown accustomed to the creature comforts that each brand brings to the table for their specific ecosystem. They all have ...
All indications are that the device will be in high demand and relatively short supply. The Apple Store is down, so you probably know what that means. "We love that early energy," the placeholder page states. "Almost ready for you. Pre-order begins ...
OpenAI has updated its ChatGPT extension to be able to do more browser-based tasks. OpenAI has updated its ChatGPT extension for Chrome, giving it the power to look at your tabs so it can come up with more personalized and useful answers to your que...
The platform now separates base game and DLC achievements. Steam can now group together different categories of achievements — and separates ones for base games and ones for DLCs — so that developers' new additions won't affect your completi...
### It reasoned that the tokens were 'valueless' and 'abandoned.' An OpenAI research model hit another nebulous milestone today by pilfering test Ethereum tokens from a wallet it didn't control to finish a coding task, the company said in an inciden...
The company's flagship over-ear wireless headphones are light on compromises, but enter a competitive market. When Technics announced the EAH-A1000 over-ear Bluetooth headphones, everything seemed fairly ordinary. Another set of premium cans enterin...
If you've been watching the PC hardware market, you'll know that GPU prices are skyrocketing again. As such, a cheap listing for a big-name Nvidia or AMD card itself is enough to warrant a second look when you're a potential buyer. According to the l...
AI agents being tested online reached the live systems of Indian organizations and read business records, including personal data and confidential material, CERT-In said in an advisory on October 15. The agents went beyond their assigned tasks, and ...
The China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as Armory Castle (previously UNC5221 or Warp Panda) exploited a newly disclosed security flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar) as a zero-day in late August 2026. The vulnerability, tracked...
In the space of a month, a new category of AI model went from nonexistent to everywhere. TypeSafe AI released Jev on September 15 and called it a System One model, a nod to Kahneman's fast, intuitive thinking. OpenAI announced its own Decisions API a...
Burger King Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of global fast-food giant Burger King, disclosed a major data breach after attackers accessed a server containing 11.18 million customer records. Founded in 1953 in Florida, Burger King is now a multination...
As agents escape containment and access external systems, responsibility remains human. Accountability, however, is much less settled. As AI agents continue to break containment and breach other organizations, it's clear that organizations are respo...
OpenAI has disclosed two incidents in which internal AI models, asked only to look up public figures, instead broke into the live systems hosting that data. The reports, published on October 15, are the latest in a run of misalignment disclosures Op...
A Chinese APT has been exploiting a BeyondTrust vulnerability as a zero-day since August as part of its state-sponsored espionage operations. The exploited flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS score of 9.3), is described as an improper validation ...
Federal bankruptcy courts across the US have been unable to send notices through the Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC) for a week. The outage followed a cybersecurity incident affecting the BAE Systems infrastructure that runs the center. The BNC han...
The Administrative Office of the US Courts says a cyberattack on government contractor BAE Systems has taken down the notice system used by federal bankruptcy courts. In a Thursday press release, the Administrative Office of the US Courts said the B...
Microsoft says some users may have trouble turning on Smart App Control after installing this month's KB5127648 Windows 11 security update. Smart App Control is a Windows 11 security feature that uses Microsoft's app intelligence services and code i...
Hot on the heels of its record Patch Tuesday rollout, Microsoft on Thursday announced patches for over 30 new vulnerabilities. Most of the new fixes address security defects in the Office suite. Two dozen of them patch high-severity remote code exec...
F5 and Juniper Networks have rolled out patches for dozens of vulnerabilities across their products, including critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaws. Security and application delivery firm F5 announced fixes for 11 security defects in ...
Google's new scam protections cover Google Messages and third-party messaging apps, with an enhanced protection mode, expanded scam alerts and safeguards against call-forwarding and screen-sharing scams. "With scams growing harder to spot, it's near...
Arch Linux users who mistyped yay or paru while installing the package helpers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) may have given a stranger root access to their machine. AUR is a popular community package source for Arch Linux and related distribut...
Three weeks before Americans vote in the 2026 midterm election, fraudsters are borrowing candidate names, logos and slogans to collect fake donations and harvest personal data, the FBI warned. "The FBI warns the public that scammers could exploit th...
Attackers are breaking into business email accounts with short messages asking whether a company can quote on an upcoming project, the kind of request sales and procurement staff answer every week. Cadence Riddle, a cybersecurity researcher at Fortr...
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects more than 5 million people around the world. And until now, no treatment could restore their vision. The Prima system, which was approved in Europe in July and is awaiting FDA clearance in the US, change...
A suspected advanced threat actor has been observed exploiting a security flaw in Fortinet FortiOS to deliver a previously unreported memory-resident ARM64 malware known as PEERSTITCH. The attack involves the exploitation of CVE-2025-61624 (CVSS sco...
Proofpoint has agreed to acquire data and AI security firm Varonis in an all-cash deal valued at roughly $6.3 billion, the two companies announced on Thursday. The deal is the largest cybersecurity acquisition announced so far in 2026. Varonis shar...
BeyondTrust warned customers on Thursday to patch a critical flaw in its Remote Support (RS) that has been exploited in zero-day attacks since late August. Remote Support is the company's enterprise-grade support solution that helps IT service desks...
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/15/2026 featuring funding details for North.cloud, Scuba, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. ### North.cloud ...
Here's a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from NinjaOne, Qualys, Scytale, and SolarWinds. NinjaOne combines Katana AI and MCP server to accelerate IT problem resolution NinjaOne has announced Katana AI, a...
More than 9.1 million DDoS attacks were recorded globally between January and June 2026, an increase of nearly a quarter year over year, according to Netscout's DDoS Threat Intelligence Report. ### Large attacks and distributed targeting strain defe...
A seller on a restricted criminal forum is marketing an autonomous hacking tool that runs on stolen OpenAI, Anthropic and Google API keys, so the key's owner pays for the scans. Bitsight's threat intelligence team tracked the shift across thousands o...
US employers posted 235,786 cybersecurity jobs from January through September 2026. That is the lowest total for those months in the four years that staffing and workforce intelligence firm CyberSN has tracked. They pulled the listings from job data ...
David Fuhr, CTO at intcube, talks about a security cohort for public administration, where 27 municipalities hardened Windows Server and Active Directory together over 12 weeks. This Help Net Security interview covers how a cohort works, with weekly ...
The automaker has unveiled the vehicle with some crazy stunts. Tesla has unveiled the next-generation Roadster, nine years after the company showed off its concept prototype and after years and years of launch delay. Elon Musk and the Tesla team int...
Watch the new Roadster make crazy jumps. Tesla's Roadster launch event was pretty exciting to say the least, with loads of car stunts that we enjoyed watching. The Roadster first appeared during the event at the bottom of C-shaped ramp. It drove up ...
### Summary - Sega pulled Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition from Steam over bugs and alleged AI-upscaled assets. - The original Shogun 2 was restored on Steam, and existing owners can still play while issues are investigated. - Review-bombing...
It's in beta now, but will likely release widely in about a month. Valve has pushed a new update to its Steam client beta introducing big changes to how achievements work and how they're displayed. Developers can now create sets of achievements cust...
Representative Ritchie Torres will introduce a bill aimed at protecting videogame ownership, including for online games that are decommissioned. US Representative Ritchie Torres, a Democrat from New York City, announced today that he will introduce ...
If the proposal is enacted, it could cost $240 a year to watch YouTube in the UK. The UK government will consider charging residents a national fee to access video streaming content, meaning it may cost almost $240 a year just to watch YouTube in th...
The smart health company is gating third-party app syncing to its own subscription plan for new users. Withings has found itself in hot water with its customers after adopting an expensive policy change this week. According to a post on the company'...
When you have multiple TVs in the house and you start to pair them with smart TV boxes, keeping track of it all can be a nightmare. Universal TV remotes used to be more popular when you just needed an IR transmitter and TV interfaces were simple, but...
The general consensus seems to be that Street Fighter isn't a disaster, but it definitely misses a lot more than it hits. I had such high hopes for the Street Fighter movie: The trailers were so promising, the cast so charismatic, and it seemed to g...
Three top-tier survival crafting games have entered their 1.0 era. Attention fellow base-building ghouls and survival masochists, I've got good news and bad news. Starting with the good: Some of the best survival crafting games are no longer in earl...
In the wake of a furious backlash from players, Jagex admits it "missed the mark." Life comes at you fast, as the saying goes, and the folks at RuneScape developer Jagex can sure attest to that. Less than two weeks after announcing RuneScape Reignit...
A newly disclosed critical flaw in the Linux kernel allows code inside a virtual machine to read memory on the host computer it runs on. A researcher demonstrated the leak against Vercel's live cloud sandboxes, and Vercel confirmed it. The flaw, now...
The event closed in Toronto last week, with experts sharing critical perspectives on emerging risks, drawing record attendance and marking 22% growth. ### October 15, 2026 ### PRESS RELEASE TORONTO, Oct. 14, 2026 — SecTor, Canada's largest cyb...
Built from decades of threat intelligence research, the new resource explains scams from the victims' perspective and tracks emerging forms of cyber crime. ### October 15, 2026 ### PRESS RELEASE LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — There ...
Researchers say that mercenary hackers laced ads with zero-click exploits that installed sophisticated malware on the devices of targeted individuals when they did nothing other than load a website or open an installed app. The finding, published Th...
This tablet is a great value, even if Android apps still aren't great on a big screen. Amazon has long followed the same formula for its tablets. Fire tablets are known to be cheap, durable devices good for watching video and doing casual tasks like...
The throwback mode may reappear as a limited-time event in the future. Riot Games introduced League Classic in July, offering players a way to re-experience the League of Legends as it was in past years. However, the attempt to recapture the spark o...
The new display tech offers improved color reproduction and refresh rates. E Ink has announced the latest version of its Kaleido color e-paper technology, introducing improvements that could be the selling point of future e-readers and writing table...
The department is investigating possible consumer harms at the major AI companies. The US Federal Trade Commission has subpoenaed OpenAI and Anthropic for information about recent safety incidents with both businesses' AI models. Axios first reporte...
Representative Ritchie Torres wants the FTC to establish regulations ensuring you can play the games you've purchased. Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY) has announced plans to introduce a bill calling on the Federal Trade Commission to protect pe...
Someone built a tool to steal data, then decided it should scare the victim for fun. Yes, that's an actual feature. And somehow, it fits right in with this week's security stories. The rest gets interesting in different ways. A small permission can ...
A proxyjacking campaign has impacted devices in 34 countries, monetizing victims' internet connections through a commercial residential proxy network. The operator installed Pawns.app, a legitimate bandwidth-sharing application that lets users earn ...
Google announced new AI-powered defenses against scam messages and call-forwarding abuse on Android, currently rolling out to eligible devices. The new measures aim to address the increased sophistication of scams targeting mobile users, including f...
Threat actors are exploiting a critical command execution flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-110447, in the Collabora Online - Built-in CODE Server app (richdocumentscode) for Nextcloud. Multiple administrator reports indicate that attacks began in mid-S...
For most of its history, cybersecurity has been reactive by design. Spot the bad event, shut it down. But as cyberattacks evolve, this thinking must evolve too. In the past, attackers relied on a single dramatic exploit to access the crown jewels. Bu...
Don't buy the hype! AI has been dumbing down cyberattacks, and serious threat actors are barely touching it. Some prominent, even state-sponsored threat actors are giving up on trying to build cyberattack campaigns with artificial intelligence (AI),...
A threat actor uploaded malicious packages to the Arch User Repository (AUR) that impersonated two popular helper tools, yay and paru. AUR is a community-maintained, widely-used package index for Arch Linux and derivative distributions that hosts pa...
Microsoft uncovered a criminal marketplace supplying tools and accounts used in phishing scams worldwide. Attackers used these resources to target organizations in healthcare, financial services, wholesale distribution, and IT across Japan, the Unite...
Fake CAPTCHA checks are being used to do more than hide phishing pages. Attackers are turning the familiar "prove you're human" step into a gateway for malware downloads, malicious browser notifications, and commands that victims are tricked into run...
A Windows trojan advertised on hacking forums for as little as $150 a month promises buyers access to a victim's webcam, microphone, keystrokes and saved passwords, and comes with a set of features made to frighten the person on the other side of the...
ServiceNow has announced a new AI Passport solution and significant advances in AI governance to help ensure AI agents are production-ready by combining runtime governance, platform integration, and comprehensive oversight, all inside ServiceNow's op...
Russian drones are suspected of sinking a cargo ship and leaving chemical tankers ablaze near the Black Sea coasts of Bulgaria and Romania, respectively. The latest attacks mean that at least seven ships have been attacked in the exclusive economic z...
The Liberty Bell, with its famous crack, hasn't been rung in 180 years, but that hasn't stopped scientists from pondering what the bell might have sounded like when tolling. In honor of the nation's 250th anniversary, researchers at Penn State Univer...
Apple unveiled new Apple TV 4K and HomeView devices this week that won't be available until November 13. But pre-order shipping times for these products have already started slipping into late November for new orders. Apple's new products don't laun...
I doubt it will do a 180, though. Hey-hey! Last week, I asked whether Razer's "Perfect 180" feature on its new Basilisk V4 Pro gaming mouse counts as cheating. For the unaware, said feature allows a near-instant 180-degree spin to be mapped within t...
Sega admits Shogun 2 - Complete Edition "has fallen short of both your expectations and our own standards," so it's going back to the drawing board. Just two days after the disastrous release of Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition, Sega says it i...
Not so much 'going out with a bang' as 'anticlimactic party balloon deflation'. Many of tech's heaviest hitters have seen their share prices decrease significantly this week. For instance, Nvidia has seen a decrease of about 8% over the last five da...
For a company that has made the best mouse I've ever laid my hands on, it sure seems to be doing its darndest to destroy that mystique. That is, assuming the latest images from Razer on Chinese site Billibilli of a Pokemon-themed Viper V4 Pro come to...
Zoom. I'm modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I've done to Rockstar's baby, or check out what I got up to earlier. World W...
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As someone who loves all things Apple and Pokémon, I never thought these worlds would collide, but here we are! Beats and the Pokémon Company have officially teamed up for a special edition Beats Pill, and man, did they nail this. This new collab fea...
A long-running Traffic Distribution System (TDS) known as Help TDS to a Russian-language affiliate program called Hotejka, which appears to be a rebrand of a traffic monetization operation dubbed ROI777. Help TDS is assessed to be active since at le...
The threat actor known as Silent Lynx has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The activity, observed from June 2025 through August 2026, involves four diff...
Candiru, an Israeli maker of spyware sold to governments, infected devices at the news network Al Jazeera through ordinary online ads, in attacks that needed no click or other action from the user, researchers at the Citizen Lab said Thursday. The h...
TIME has just published its list of the best inventions of 2026, and iPhone Duo made the list with John Ternus featured on the magazine cover. Here's what Ternus said in his interview with TIME. John Ternus on iPhone Duo origins, delay to market, mo...
Next.js released an out-of-band security update on October 14 that fixes two critical flaws allowing unauthenticated remote code execution, along with a high-severity denial-of-service flaw. One code-execution flaw is in React Server Components, and...
NGINX released versions 1.30.6 and 1.31.7 on October 14 to fix five vulnerabilities, one of them present in every release since May 2005. There are three memory bugs that F5, the company behind NGINX, says could crash a worker process or possibly le...
Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2022 has reached the end of mainstream support and will remain in extended support until October 2031. Microsoft unveiled Windows Server 2022 in March 2021 and made it generally available in September 2021 as ...
With the rise of AI pentesting, a lot of people are wondering if it's as good as a human. Having started as a pentester twelve years ago, and having moved through similar roles to working on Intruder's AI pentester, I've come to understand the advan...
Law enforcement authorities from 17 countries in Latin America and Europe have arrested 95 suspects in an INTERPOL-coordinated operation targeting the distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) through online messaging groups. The joint acti...
Dive Brief: - Hackers could break into businesses by going after internet-exposed AI tools that often contain serious vulnerabilities, the internet monitoring firm Censys warned in a report published on Wednesday. - The growing complexity of the AI...
Days after a cyberattack targeting French supermarket refrigerators, thousands of controllers across the globe are visible online and at risk of compromise. Hundreds of grocery stores in France were targeted in a sophisticated attack, in which hacke...
Cybersecurity In-Depth: Feature articles on security strategy, latest trends, and people to know. Organizations need to move away from vendor-assigned, theoretical scores toward real exploit data specific to their environments. Organizations are fa...
The cyberattack that disrupted refrigeration at hundreds of French supermarkets this week also affected equipment from Copeland and its Dixell brand, according to France's national cybersecurity agency ANSSI. ANSSI's CERT-FR first warned on October ...
The UK's Legal Aid Agency (LAA) has discovered that records dating back to 1978 were compromised in an April 2025 data breach. In May last year, the UK Ministry of Justice agency said hackers had accessed and exfiltrated the personal information of ...
Following a string of incidents where AI models hacked websites and breached government systems during testing phases, the Federal Trade Commission is officially probing Anthropic and OpenAI over consumer harms, an insider told Axios. On Wednesday, ...
Rocket Lab announced Wednesday that its Neutron launch vehicle won't fly until 2027, citing an issue discovered during manufacturing of the rocket's carbon composite structures. The announcement was public confirmation of what nearly everyone inside...
The kidneys, which are similar in size to human ones, were left in a glass-like state, in one case for over a year. Once they had been rewarmed, tested in machines, and transplanted into pigs, the kidneys regained their color and made urine — key s...
Setting the world on fire. "Red Rooster is an incendiary, physics-driven RPG combining the best of cerebral, worldbuilding-rich RPGs with the genetics of physics-driven immersive sims. Play as Redrick Roost, a white-collar inmate thrust into the rol...
"We've made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world." "We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement's call to bo...
The Indian government has directed telecom service providers (TSPs) in the country to mandatorily display callers' registered names along with their numbers for incoming calls starting November 1, 2026, in an effort to help people identify calls from...
Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday informed customers that it has released patches for a PAN-OS zero-day vulnerability exploited in malicious attacks. The high-severity flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-0322 and it allows remote code execution. It affects th...
At school James Robinson was more sporty than STEM, but after school he rose from the track to cybersecurity leader at Netskope. ### The journey to becoming a CISO The young James Robinson attended a small high school in Central Illinois and descri...
CenterPoint Energy has notified Texan authorities that the personal information of over 1 million individuals was compromised in a data breach. The notice came one month after the Houston-based public utility told the SEC that customer information h...
A novel RAT uses trojanized replacements of legitimate banking apps to neutralize security controls from inside itself. Hirudo is a remote access banking trojan for Android that combines elements of a traditional banking trojan and a full-featured R...
Darktrace has uncovered a new malware campaign distributing a Rust-based RAT that relies on Discord for command-and-control (C&C). Dubbed CikaBika Bot, the malware has been distributed via document-themed lures, likely as part of phishing attacks, a...
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added four new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: - CVE-2026-0322, a high-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the management inte...
### Summary - You, too, can build a DIY CO2 temperature and humidity monitor with a 4.2" e-paper display. - It runs on an ESP32, wakes up, takes measurements, updates the e-paper display, and sleeps again. - It integrates with Home Assistant/MQTT,...
### Summary - Opera re-releases Air: a minimalist, calm browser focused on simplicity and smoothness. - Built-in Soundscapes offer Focus, Relax, Work, and Ambience playlists made just for the browser. - It also comes with the essentials: an ad blo...
I have been running Windows 11 on this same machine for the past 10 years, and I haven't had to wipe and reformat once. I haven't felt the need to reformat because I use it primarily for writing. I keep the system light, and my regular maintenance ke...
Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday issued security updates for a high-severity flaw in PAN-OS software that has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0322 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of remote code execution in the man...
Singapore-based Ahsay Backup has released security updates to address two security flaws in AhsayCBS that have been exploited by bad actors to drop web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners. The vulnerabilities in question are CVE-2026-105133 and C...
Threat actors are exploiting a critical security flaw in Langflow, according to an alert from Previdian. Langflow is an open-source platform that allows developers to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications and agentic workflows. In February...
The credential-theft campaign known as GhostAction has ramped up, targeting more than 30,000 repositories across 3,000 users and organizations. The spike, according to GitGuardian, was observed on October 8 and 9, 2026. "This resulted from compromi...
Cybersecurity In-Depth: Feature articles on security strategy, latest trends, and people to know. Hundreds of stores lost millions of dollars because they hired third parties to manage the outdated OT firmware running their cooling systems. Hundred...
The Legal Aid Agency (LAA), an executive agency of the UK's Ministry of Justice that manages the country's Public Defender Service, says attackers who breached its IT systems in April 2025 stole records dating back to 1978. The agency employs around...
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that was causing black screens, desktop loading issues, and Explorer crashes after installing Windows 11 updates released since August. As Microsoft explained when it acknowledged the issue last month, affected u...
On Thursday, researchers from The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto revealed a worst-case scenario found in the wild: spyware silently infecting targets as they browse past ads in their daily digital lives. Dubbing the attacks "AdFection," th...
"Ten years ago … I wouldn't say I had high hopes it was actually going to work," says Erik Finger, a transplant surgeon at the University of Minnesota who co-led the work. "After we did the last transplant, I walked out of the room and said, 'This is...
Over the past two days, 20 startups have been pitching on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, presenting live demos and answering tough questions from our expert judges. Now it's time to unveil the five companies that will be competing in the Startup B...
Databases have traditionally been built for one of two jobs. Analytical databases help businesses spot trends and answer questions, while operational databases store the day-to-day records of transactions, like orders and payments. But the Munich-bas...
At-home health testing has been mired in overblown claims and outright fraud. But German startup TimeTeller, which has developed a saliva test kit to help anyone understand their circadian rhythm, is led by CEO Angela Relógio, who is the polar opposi...
Colossal Biosciences announced Wednesday a new AI platform to help accelerate its efforts to bring back extinct species, TechCrunch can exclusively report. The platform, called GenoMorph, uses advanced 3D morphology, comparative genomics, and develo...
The biggest stage at TechCrunch Disrupt is where the people building the future come to talk about what happens next in the tech ecosystem. Across three days, from October 13 to 15, at Moscone West in San Francisco, the Disrupt Stage will bring toge...
Day 1 of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is officially underway, bringing together 10,000+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders under one roof at San Francisco's Moscone West. Big ideas are colliding, connections are forming at every turn, and the s...
A first venture usually follows a well-worn playbook: a gap in the market, obsessive refinement of concept and pitch, eventual conviction that the solution is as bulletproof as it is revolutionary. Then, the dreaded phase of product-market fit. Inst...
Jessica Herrin was pregnant with her first child and working at Dell when she began testing jewelry trunk shows in Austin on nights and weekends. The venture became Stella & Dot, a business that sold more than $2 billion in products through a network...
### By Nnamdi Okike You have likely never heard of Tosin Eniolorunda. You should have. Over the past decade, Tosin and his team built Moniepoint into the operating system for more than 6 million Nigerian businesses, processing over $300 billion a y...
A total of 38 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in September, adding $71 billion in value to the board. Semiconductors, financial services and space technology led for new counts with the remainder hailing from a broad swath of industries...
Brendan Wallace has spent much of the past decade investing in technology that impacts how real estate is bought, built and managed. Now, the Fifth Wall co-founder sees AI changing the kinds of companies worth backing and expanding the definition of ...
- For its sixth fund, Nauta has raised €60 million, €30 million of which comes from the British Business Bank. - This represents half of the €120 million initial closing of Nauta's fifth fund, with the fund eventually reaching €190 million. - Nauta...
Every platform among 2026's best AI app builders can produce a first version of an app for close to nothing. The bill shows up on the twentieth change. A button moves, a client needs a different view, a manager asks for one more approval step, and on...
- Dougs lands € 50 million by Expedition to enable AI agents to prepare the accounts, after which the accountants will review and sign them. - Doug says that the business is profitable, since it serves over 50,000 clients and has a turnover of €52.2...
In 2026, sales teams use AI more and more often to communicate directly with potential buyers. Voice agents can make calls, answer common questions, and qualify leads. Meanwhile, Rich Communication Services can help teams engage in conversations thro...
- Duvo raised $32 million in a Series A financing round led by Balderton, just 10 months after its $15 million seed round. - Tomáš Čupr, the founder, thinks that AI should be used to make employees more productive rather than merely reducing jobs. ...
As AI factories scale, hardware interoperability is becoming as important as raw performance. Accelerators, memory and storage now come from many different suppliers, and every mismatch between them slows deployment across the data center. Pressure ...
Scimplify, a startup that helps companies source the chemicals they use to make their products, has raised $25 million in funding. TechCrunch reported today that the Series C round was led by Hitachi Ventures. It was joined by two Scimplify customer...
Eight U.S. states have filed lawsuits against OpenAI Group PBC, accusing the artificial intelligence startup of marketing an unsafe product in ChatGPT. The lawsuits filed by Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana...
AI data centers have spent heavily on faster accelerators, denser racks and liquid cooling to keep that hardware running. The data pipeline that feeds those processors has not kept up, and expensive compute ends up waiting on memory and storage. Tha...
Bloomberg reports that during a hearing today, OpenAI voluntarily agreed not to use Apple's alleged trade secrets while the legal battle between the two companies plays out. Here are the details. ### Apple scores second win in a row against OpenAI ...
Apple is rolling out its stunning Detailed City Experience in Apple Maps for users in Austin, TX. This marks a robust overhaul of Apple Maps in Austin, similar to what we've seen in other markets like San Francisco, Chicago, and London. The Apple Ma...
WhatsApp users can now invite others to join group and one-on-one calls even if they don't have an account. Here are the details. 'Free, end-to-end encrypted calls for everyone with no time limits' Today, WhatsApp announced the official rollout of ...
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Apple today became the second company ever to close with a market valuation north of $5 trillion, following NVIDIA's landmark achievement in October 2025. Here are the details. ### Apple counters tech selloff Apple's stock closed at $342.96 today, ...
Google is testing a big firmware update for the Google Home, Home Mini, Nest Mini, and Nest Audio. Google has long operated a Preview Program for speaker firmware. Version 3.79.550760 was posted today with five big features: - Audio & media streami...
It's been less than a month since YouTube said it planned to let users post GIFs in the comments section. The time has come, and this is just the beginning of a gradual rollout. ### Top comment by matteventu Btw, there's a huge bug currently affect...
The latest Google Home app is improving support for local network control over Matter devices, including Philips Hue lights. While most tend to think of Philips Hue as a lighting setup powered by a cloud-connected hub, Hue adopted Matter a while bac...
Google Home is getting a fresh update with improvements to reordering your favorite devices, redesigned controls for third-party smart home devices, and some much-needed fixes for Gemini commands. I can't speak for everyone else, but the Favorites t...
Google has begun emailing Gemini AI Plus members to inform them when their Gemini subscription will no longer include access to the advanced models — just Flash. A change in Gemini's subscription model was announced earlier this month. It came r...
Grace Hopper Celebration for women in computing canceled two weeks out — AnitaB.org says registrations and sponsorships fell short of covering costs The nonprofit's tax filings show a $14.6 million loss in 2024 as GHC attendance fell. This year...
Epic Games vibe codes new launcher because 'programming is hard,' claims it starts 46% faster than Steam — Preview is available now but still in beta stage [Updated] You can respect the honesty, at least. Update October 14 at 2:12pm ET: Brian S...
GFiber and Qualcomm announce Wi-Fi 8 gateway — 20 Gig customers to be first to receive next-gen wireless upgrade GFiber 20 Gig customers are about to receive an upgrade from Wi-Fi 7 to Wi-Fi 8 The Wi-Fi 8 (802.111bn) specification hasn't even b...
FBI shuts down over 40 North Korean laptop farms used by fake remote workers — over 200 devices seized in Texas, although no arrests were made so far This is one of the largest operations dedicated to shutting down North Korean laptop farms in t...
Wednesday October 14, 2026 5:20 pm PDT by Juli Clover The iPhone Duo unsurprisingly offers performance similar to the iPhone 18 Pro, according to an early iPhone Duo benchmark shared on Geekbench 7. Both devices are equipped with Apple's 2nm A20 Pro...
Deep-dive tech news and reviews on the go. We've been sharing our passion for technology with you for 30 years, and today we're introducing a faster, easier way to access all of our content while on the go. The official Tom's Hardware app is live no...
There's been some confusion about which of Apple's new and existing home devices will support Siri AI and when, because Siri AI isn't going to be available at launch on some products. ### Devices With Siri AI - HomeView - Available at launch (Novem...
Apple today closed with a market capitalization above $5 trillion, making it the second company to do so after Nvidia. As noted by The Wall Street Journal, Apple's market cap has exceeded $5 trillion six times before today during intraday trading, b...
Apple's new HomeView underwent regulatory testing in October 2024, and it was running what would now be known as HomeView software version 18, according to an FCC document uncovered by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris. The document provides the cl...
The iconic blue screen of death (BSOD) has graced some of our worst Windows moments over the years — moments when your PC completely gave up. This error screen is reserved for catastrophic errors that prevent Windows from functioning normally. The...
Zocdoc, the New York-based healthcare booking marketplace, has acquired Sohar Health, a New York startup that automates insurance eligibility checks, in the first acquisition in Zocdoc's history. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed."As we bui...
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/14/2026 featuring funding details for Modal, Confido Health, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. ### Modal — ...
Fintechs and the banks that sponsor them now operate under a stack of obligations that live in regulations, bank agreements, and internal policies, and no single system connects the three. Compliance teams bridge that gap by hand, reading rule change...
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/13/2026 featuring funding details for Allara, Brellium, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. ### Allara — $30...
Women's healthcare has long split hormonal, metabolic, and reproductive conditions into separate specialties, even though the body treats them as one system. The medical field acknowledged that problem in May 2026, when an international consensus pub...
GuardOS is an iPhone application that combines device security checks, VPN access, Safari content filtering, QR link scanning, and storage cleanup. It is available through the App Store. ### Getting started The home dashboard organizes tools into i...
83.4% of respondents who use DevOps practices run CI/CD pipelines, making them the most widely adopted practice in that group, according to JetBrains' The State of CI/CD in 2026 report. Adoption exceeds that of containerisation and orchestration, inf...
The lawsuits cover everything from the design of ChatGPT to the company's recent issues with rogue agents. In a coordinated effort, eight states have filed lawsuits against OpenAI alleging the company has violated state-level consumer protection law...
"I'm sorry — we are going to do better." More radical changes beyond just giving the characters necks are coming to Garry's Mod successor s&box. Facepunch Studios' game creation platform's launch in April was met with a swarm of negative reviews, ...
Castlevania: Belmont's Curse has the right pieces for a grand revival, but it hasn't quite nailed the assembly. I got off to a bit of an awkward start with Castlevania: Belmont's Curse when it first booted to a black screen. A few minutes of trouble...
The former Blizzard developer has moved on. Despite some big changes happening with Overwatch lately, former game director Jeff Kaplan hasn't touched it since the year he left Blizzard. In fact, he actively avoids the game in every way he can, he to...
Several US states have sued the company, alleging that ChatGPT is harming the public. The attorney generals for eight US states announced today that they are suing OpenAI. West Virginia, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, and Montana...
New Champions will continue to roll out for now. League of Legends Classic was Riot's attempt to capitalise on nostalgia for vintage-era LoL. It stripped away most of the champions and kits introduced since 2013, reverted to an older version of the ...
Apple plans to launch the HomeView on November 13, so we have a month to go until we can learn more about it. Right now, we're limited to the information Apple has shared and what members of the media learned during limited hands-on time. We've roun...
Android 17 could soon help Pixel users automatically diagnose and fix Wi-Fi, mobile data, and calling problems. ### What you need to know - Google is developing new Pixel diagnostic tools to help troubleshoot problems with calls, Wi-Fi, and mobile ...
Google Play Store is adding a new Shop Devices section where users can browse and buy Pixel and Samsung Galaxy devices. ### What you need to know - Google is rolling out a new Shop Devices section in the Play Store for browsing Pixel and Samsung Ga...
More details come to light. ### What you need to know - Rumors on social media claim Nothing is working on two smart glasses variations: one with a camera and one without. - The "audio-equipped" version will reportedly let users place/receive call...
Do your best to hit your goals in these colder months. ### What you need to know - Samsung announced that it's rolling out an update for its Health app in October for the Sleep and Running coaches. - The Sleep Coach now only requires three days' w...
So, you're one of the lucky ones who built a PC or upgraded your SSD way before the DRAM crisis exploded prices across the industry. Your NVMe SSD may have been blazing-fast when new, but you might feel that it has lost some of that speed over the ye...
Some smart homes fail at the most basic of tasks, and that might be because your setup relies entirely on sluggish smartphone GPS geofencing. When you rely on the Home Assistant companion app or native platform geofences to track home vs. away states...
While VS Code has served me well, I recently started wondering whether there was a faster way to handle complex coding projects. Instead of comparing features on paper, I decided to put Google's Antigravity to the test. I picked up a complex website...
My Pixel 8 has sat unused since I switched to my Galaxy S25 Ultra, and I was looking for a practical way to get it working again. At the same time, I wasn't particularly impressed with my laptop's built-in webcam. I considered buying a dedicated web...
There are plenty of ways you can write down notes and documents on your PC, and we tend to be drawn to the ones that offer more features. Fancy formatting, syncing capabilities, and others can make it appealing to opt for a more advanced editor. But...
Palo Alto Networks has released security updates for a high-severity PAN-OS RCE zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-0322, that has been exploited in attacks targeting firewalls. The vulnerability affects the PAN-OS management interface and lets authentica...
A bug in Claude Code Desktop's preview pane can allow adversaries to quietly steal credentials from developers, including SSH private keys, AWS credentials, and Claude 0Auth tokens. With no prompt, no click, and no sandbox defenses, a high-severity ...
A sprawling cybercrime marketplace supplied cloud infrastructure and phishing kits that helped fuel more than 1 billion phishing messages worldwide. A Chinese-language phishing ecosystem is behind the deployment of more than a billion emails and SMS...
CVE-2026-104935, a high-severity authentication bypass + RCE vulnerability, was only partially discovered and patched in July, leaving an opening for threat actors to capitalize on. Even when technology vendors discover vulnerabilities before threat...
Industrial giants Siemens, Schneider Electric, and Rockwell Automation have published ICS security advisories this Patch Tuesday. Siemens published 17 new advisories this Patch Tuesday. The company has released patches for some of the vulnerabilitie...
A new report from Booz Allen demonstrates that "frontier super intelligence navigated unfamiliar industrial systems, adapted when blocked, and moved physical equipment within minutes." The findings of the report were presented last week at SecurityW...
Schools and libraries from around the US pleaded with the Federal Communications Commission to drop the idea of ending E-Rate, a $2 billion-a-year program that connects students and library visitors to the Internet. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has cri...
A test unit for DAVINCI's entry probe is moved into a furnace at Rex Heat Treat in Bedford, Pennsylvania, for thermal testing. Credit: ### NASA/Mike Guinto A test unit for DAVINCI's entry probe is moved into a furnace at Rex Heat Treat in Bedford,...
Suspected Russian drone attacks sank a cargo ship and forced the evacuation of another vessel within two dozen miles of the coast of Bulgaria in the Black Sea on October 13. The latest attacks mean that five ships have been attacked in the exclusive ...
Earlier this week, a mass hack of refrigeration systems at an estimated 700 supermarkets throughout France caused them to suddenly malfunction, causing spoilage of untold tons of perishables and, in some cases, fires. As is now the norm, basic cybers...
Apple's $1,999 iPhone Duo asks buyers to pay more for a folding screen while accepting almost 40 compromises compared with the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, spanning camera capabilities, everyday usability, and ownership costs. At equivalent ...
Update — 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time: CNET has corrected its article and now says only the HomePod mini 2 will support Siri AI. Original article follows. Siri AI will apparently not be limited to the new HomePod mini 2, with support also coming to t...
Microsoft 365 has been my go-to office suite for years, but I started wondering if I really needed it all. With so many alternatives, I decided to give OnlyOffice a month to see if I couldswitch without disrupting my workflow. I wasn't expecting a pe...
When you own a smart home, random smart plugs go offline, bulbs refuse to report their state, and security cameras drop streams for no apparent reason. This means you constantly have to power-cycle devices. It's easy to assume your Wi-Fi gear is fai...
I've lost count of how many times I've stood in a corner of my house and suddenly lost wireless connectivity. I knew I couldn't fully trust those Wi-Fi signal bars, so I'd shift my stance and wait for the bars to climb back up, hoping the connection ...
The SPEARS project's work could be used during future Artemis missions. NASA often has fascinating science happening behind the scenes of its astronomical endeavors. Today, the space agency shared some details about a project to create batteries cap...
Google's latest wearable seems like a Fitbit Air with a screen, but the two actually have less in common than you might think. Google cares about fitness trackers again. The company has continually iterated on the Pixel Watch since it launched in 20...
We're swamped with Resident Evil films right now, lucky us. Most may know Chandler Riggs from his role as Carl in The Walking Dead, but now some may know him as the director of the short film fan-adaptation of Resident Evil 7. Lasting but 20 minutes...
"In order for people to play the game in the present, they need to have confidence in its future." 10 years is a long time for anything, but for a live service game it's a milestone that very few are able to cross. Overwatch made it over the line ea...
Going up. I'm modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I've done to Rockstar's baby, or check out what I got up to earlier. Fol...
The biggest complaint about the pre-order bonus game is getting resolved with a happy ending. Ace Combat 8 rocks. PC Gamer's reviewer scored it a 92%, and I've been savoring the campaign, because I know it could be years until we get another bombast...
Cyberleek promises not to reveal the ending of GTA 6, as long as Take-Two leaves them alone. It's a classic move: A villain, or sometimes a hero, inserts himself into a seemingly inescapable situation. Danger everywhere — no way out! But just as t...
It'll be available by the end of the year. What are we gonna do about the deluge of AI music slopping up all of our streaming platforms? Deezer has an idea. It's adding a toggle to filter out AI-generated tracks. This simple on/off switch will be av...
The kit includes two transmitters and a receiver, and it supports 32-bit float recording. Sony has announced the ECM-W5, a $400 wireless microphone kit that's clearly designed to be as easy to use as DJI's affordable wireless mics, provided creators...
The company has proposed the closure of RedLynx and culled dozens of jobs at Skull and Bones developer Ubisoft Singapore. Ubisoft is planning even more layoffs in the latest of a string of job cuts this year. It plans to shut down its RedLynx studio...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday charged 14 people and seized about 187 computers as part of its ongoing efforts to disrupt North Korea's fraudulent remote IT worker (ITW) scheme. The indictment charges a mix of U.S. citizens and Chin...
Microsoft and Health-ISAC, along with the Japan Cybercrime Control Center (JC3) and a coalition of private sector companies, such as Resecurity, Cloudflare, Oracle, Proofpoint, and TRM Labs, announced the disruption of three phishing kits, CoGUI (aka...
Attackers exploited a flaw in an optional Nextcloud app, Collabora Online - Built-in CODE Server, to plant web shells on Nextcloud servers. Three administrators reported the issue on GitHub, with the first logged attack on September 10. A web shell ...
Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in Cisco Secure Email Gateway that lets a sender with no login write files to the appliance's operating system, Cisco said in an advisory on Wednesday. The attacker sends an email with a crafted attachment th...
Ledger is asking resellers and distributors in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong to halt wallet sales and remove products from shelves while it investigates hardware implant incidents. The company announced the decision in response to discovering that de...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has disrupted the Famous Chollima threat group's operations by arresting two suspects, charging 14 individuals, and seizing nearly 187 laptops used in North Korean remote IT worker schemes. Famous Chollima (a.k.a...
Cisco has patched another actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Secure Email Gateway (SEG) that lets remote unauthenticated attackers execute commands with root privileges. Tracked as CVE-2026-76519, this vulnerability stems from a relative path t...
The FBI recently seized nearly 200 laptops and other devices used in North Korean remote IT-worker scams during raids on more than 40 residents in Texas, authorities announced on Tuesday. In tandem with the seizures, federal prosecutors charged 14 p...
Dive Brief: - The websites and apps for Ahold Delhaize's five U.S. banners remain unavailable Wednesday morning, marking at least the third day the digital platforms have been offline. A handful of Ahold Delhaize's dozen international banners — ...
A suspected criminal hacker is targeting Ivanti Connect Secure customers through a complex exploit chain that combines three high-severity vulnerabilities, according to a report Tuesday by Volexity, a Virginia-based cybersecurity firm. The chain com...
Ukrainian troops have been caught off guard by restrictions on Elon Musk's Starlink satellite Internet systems that disrupted frontline operations, while Kyiv received no warning from its partners of a Russian missile attack on its energy facilities ...
The updated version is in beta for the time being, and represents a total rebuild of the EGS client. The big Epic Games Store rebuild teased earlier this year has arrived as a new "preview" client available to download for Windows and Mac, as well a...
A major shooter is pushing past the Linux anticheat barrier. Epic intends to launch Fortnite on Linux, but first, it's "rebuilding Easy Anti-Cheat" to support the move. "Once [EAC Linux v2 is] working with a critical mass of distro maintainers, we'...
In the early 2000's, the perennial question was whether a powerful system could run Crysis. These days, it's whether a minimal one can run Doom. We've seen an affirmative answer to this question when it comes to vapes, a motherboard BIOS, and even a ...
Time isn't money, friend. "Some players have started to encounter our latest weapon in our efforts against the Real Money Trade (RMT) aka gold buying. If your account is suspected of being involved in RMT, either the selling or receiving of illicit ...
Popular Meta chat app WhatsApp today gained guest calling, a feature that lets users invite anyone to join a voice or video call, even if the invitee doesn't have a WhatsApp account. WhatsApp says everyone has access to free, end-to-end encrypted ca...
Apple this week introduced the HomePod mini 2, and we have rounded up all of the new features and changes that we have uncovered so far below. HomePod mini 2 can be pre-ordered now and launches Friday, October 30, but Siri AI support will not be ava...
They look like something from Teenage Engineering or IKEA. Surprisingly, CMF (nor its sister brand Nothing) has only now tried its hand at portable speakers. Naturally, it had to do it differently and the result is two different speaker options, bot...
It will then build a tailored four- to eight-week program based on your goals and habits. Samsung Health has offered Sleep Coaching for several years, but using it required a full week of consecutive sleep data in a month. With this new update, the ...
Link is getting a lot more than just a visual glow up for the new Switch 2 version. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is simply one of the best video games ever. Not only did it redefine a beloved franchise after it made the jump from 2D to 3D fo...
It's also working on calendar integrations for later this year. WhatsApp is adding more flexibility for talking to people who aren't regular users of its service. The Meta-owned company has announced the addition of a feature dubbed guest calling. W...
The company also teased a 'Media Connect Hub' for DTS:X devices that's currently in development. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. LG is known for its soundbars and surround sound systems as much as it is for its OLED TVs, a...
If your Windows PC is running low on storage, and you search the web for ways to reclaim some of that space, disabling the page file is a common piece of advice. Some even suggest the tweak could improve performance, since the page file, or pagefile....
My home Debian server runs on a repurposed Dell Latitude laptop and hosts more than 20 self-hosted services. Soon after building the server, I learned about the importance of monitoring. I always have multiple monitoring and management tools inside a...
The Razer Orochi V2 is a compact, precise gaming mouse with up to 950 hours of battery life. Right now, it's 57% off on Amazon. That brings the price down to $30 from its retail price of $70. That's just a couple of dollars above the lowest price we'...
A team at security firm XBOW chained three then-unknown Google Chrome bugs into a single attack that runs code on a Windows computer when the user only loads a web page, the company said. Its researchers built the attack in six days by directing AI ...
Cloned voices and synthetic video calls now show up in payment fraud, help desk resets, and access requests. A structured drill shows security teams exactly where verification breaks down, while nothing is at stake. The call comes in at 4:40 on a Fr...
A flaw in how curl handles HTTP/2 uploads lets a malicious server receiving an upload corrupt the client's memory, and the researcher who reported it turned that into code execution on the uploading machine. The curl project fixed it on October 14 i...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday urged organizations to take steps to immediately update their Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) appliances and deployments to the latest version following the disclosure of an acti...
Breaking cybersecurity news, news analysis, commentary, and other content from around the world, with an initial focus on the Middle East & Africa, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America. The AI-enabled operation used spoofed emails, fake gover...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called Hirudo that works by replacing legitimate banking apps with purpose-built patched versions designed to bypass security checks from inside the app itself, marking ...
By Sila Ozeren Hacioglu, Security Research Engineer at Picus Security. For years, security teams had a window of several weeks between a CVE going public and attackers exploiting it. Every year, that window got smaller. Then Mythos-class models arri...
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused Always On VPN connection issues after installing the September 2026 Windows 11 security updates. The Always On VPN remote access solution replaced the legacy DirectAccess technology and works with dom...
Microsoft and the health care industry's information sharing and analysis center have teamed up to disrupt a prolific China-based phishing ecosystem. The tech giant and Health-ISAC on Wednesday announced a cooperative effort to dismantle three Chine...
Organizations are reporting that employees face threats of stalking, physical violence, and abduction. But these alarming claims are hard to verify. Ransomware actors have been threatening their victims with physical violence, according to new surve...
Workforce AI security startup Harmonic Security today announced raising $50 million in a Series B funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $76 million. Founded in 2023 by Alastair Paterson (CEO) and Bryan Woolgar-O'Neil (CTO), wh...
A new Android malware called Hirudo steals bank account credentials by replacing legitimate banking apps with modified versions that disable security checks. Researchers identified malicious copies of eight banking apps that use a hooking engine to ...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) urged security teams to immediately patch an Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) flaw exploited in zero-day attacks since at least October 1st. Tracked as CVE-2026-104935, this high-severity a...
A massive cybercriminal ecosystem facilitating more than a billion malicious messages targeting over 75,000 organizations across 150 countries has been disrupted by law enforcement agencies and partners worldwide. Since the start of the year, more t...
The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime services that ar...
Google and Mozilla on Tuesday announced fresh Chrome and Firefox updates that resolve 114 vulnerabilities. The Chrome update was rolled out with fixes for 37 security defects, including seven critical-severity memory issues: a buffer overflow in ANG...
Two US nationals were arrested in a new law enforcement operation targeting fraudulent North Korean IT worker schemes. The suspects, Michael James Bostelle of Pennsylvania and Juan Cecilio Pena Carrillo of Texas, allegedly helped North Korean IT wor...
Microsoft and Health-ISAC have seized and redirected domains used by YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man, three components of a Chinese-language cybercrime marketplace that supplied criminals with accounts, phishing kits and infrastructure. The action was...
SecurtyWeek's 2026 Zero Trust Strategies Summit kicks off today at 11AM ET as a fully immersive virtual conference and expo. This summit is laser-focused on the next generation of Zero Trust and Identity security, moving beyond theory to deliver act...
Not all smart TVs will receive updates for long, and some don't have any specific policy. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. No matter the price of a TV you buy, you likely consider it as a long-term investment. You thus expe...
Linux has forever been considered above Windows when it comes to security. Part of the reason for that, and what people usually assume, is that Linux doesn't have a meaningful market share for attackers to target with sophisticated malware or attacks...
### Summary - The Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition launched with worse performance and bugs, with the original removed from sale. - Users report AI-upscaled assets, new bugs, and loss of Steam Workshop support. - Launch reviews are Overwhelm...
You will wait patiently for your next ability and you will learn to love it. Part of World of Warcraft: Forever's charm is that combat is considerably slower than the regular version of the MMO. It's the kind of game where you'll spend 38 seconds hi...
Gray got his start with Duke Nukem 3D, before moving to co-found Ritual Entertainment. Richard Gray, better known to gamers of a certain age as Levelord, has died. Gray's death was reported on social media by Apogee Entertainment, who paid tribute t...
"It's a film about the experience of playing Resident Evil, controller in hand." Zach Cregger's Resident Evil film was released to critical acclaim last month, with more than one reviewer calling it 'the best videogame movie ever.' Another review dr...
Hear me out. Dan Houser is a co-founder of Rockstar Games and so I would never presume to tell him he's wrong about any of the games Rockstar has made — except in this one particular instance, where I feel obligated to step up and say, 'Dan, I'm s...
The Steam Frame has rendered the tethered workhorse obsolete. With the recently launched Steam Frame superseding the Index VR headset, Valve has heavily discounted remaining stock of the latter. The Index VR headset launched in 2019 for $499, but no...
Apple today seeded the third betas of iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, macOS Golden Gate 27.2, and watchOS 27.2. The software comes a few hours after Apple provided the betas to developers. To get the new betas, you can sign up on Apple's beta testing website...
Apple today introduced the HomePod mini 2, but the full-sized HomePod was not updated. Nevertheless, the alt text for Apple's full-sized HomePod image shown at the bottom of the HomePod order page now mentions a "multi-colored Siri AI glow on top," s...
Anthropic is warning that small AI models could soon be able to self-replicate across consumer IoT devices, from Android TV boxes to smart ovens, creating distributed botnets capable of running AI workloads without relying on data centers. The compa...
Topgolf's VMware costs were going to increase by 400 percent under Broadcom. To avoid that cost, the sports entertainment company moved 12,000 virtual machines (VMs) to VergeIO's VergeOS and has saved over $11 million so far. Before migrating, Topgo...
Apple didn't hold an event today, but it did refresh its lineup of smart home products with the Apple HomeView, HomePod mini 2, and fourth-generation Apple TV 4K. The $299 HomeView is an all-new device that serves as a central home hub, offering apps...
Samsung's Meta-rival smart glasses leak reveals 41g frame weight and 26 styles. ### What you need to know - Samsung's Galaxy Glasses could weigh just 41 grams with standard lenses, making them lighter than earlier leaks suggested. - Battery life c...
Changes and refinements inbound. ### What you need to know - Nothing's General Release for its Android 17 update (OS 5.0) is rolling out now for the Phone 3. - Nothing OS 5.0 brings major updates to the Phone 3, such as deeper phone customization,...
We all know the reason, but hey, at least Samsung held the top spot. ### What you need to know - Counterpoint Research states Q3 for the global phone market reached its lowest point in 14 years. - Research states the market dropped by 20% YoY, and...
YouTube videos won't stop playing when you drive anymore. ### What you need to know - Vehicles with Google built-in are getting a redesigned Play Store, new apps, and improved YouTube playback over the next few weeks. - The updated Play Store will...
A new workaround reportedly lets Android users bring back Google Assistant even after Google officially discontinued it. ### What you need to know - Google officially replaced Assistant with Gemini in September, but a Redditor has found a way to br...
When an idea strikes you, how do you keep track of it? Some of us write it down in a notebook or on our phones. Others use voice memos. Whatever your approach, it's likely you'll either forget the idea or where you wrote it down. You'll search for it...
After getting a public IP address from my ISP, I revisited the whole network setup I built around CGNAT. The other issue was double-NAT, but I never really cared about it because CGNAT was the main wall for my homelab. Before the public IP, the ISP'...
Installing a desktop app for every little task can quickly become frustrating. Before I know it, my PC is filled with tools I use only once in a while. But I've found that some browser-based alternatives are good enough to handle these jobs without a...
I've been having issues with the head unit in my car, and I want a dedicated screen for navigation and music without pulling my phone out of my pocket every time I get in. Since I already have an old Samsung Galaxy S21 FE that I bought from a friend ...
For something as popular as it is, nobody actually likes paying for Adobe products. As a photography enthusiast, I'm married to Lightroom because it's the software that I'm used to, but with every successive update, the app keeps getting more and mor...
Get the most out of Google's AI assistant. AI chatbots like Gemini have become quite popular for their ability to answer questions, but they can do much more than that. When it comes to Google's Gemini, you can also use it to schedule and automate t...
How Google's new laptops compare to traditional Chromebooks. Google has been working on its next generation of laptops for a while. They're now here, and they're called Googlebooks: an evolution of Chromebooks and ChromeOS. But does that mean the en...
The 2026 model is faster and can hear you from afar, but the 2022 box gets Siri AI as well. It's taken Apple four years to bring us a new version of the Apple TV 4K, and along with it comes a now all-too-familiar price rise. The fourth-gen box Apple...
Google has a vested interest in collecting and selling your data, but that doesn't mean protecting yourself is impossible. Google Chrome is easily the biggest browser in the game — and the hottest commodity in that game is data. Whenever you sur...
How Thunderbolt and USB-C replaced the need for a dedicated video port. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For a while, Mini DisplayPort was one of the main options for video output on smaller devices. Apple announced it in 2...
Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Today's epic patch batch dwarfs September's record of nearly 1,000 fixes, which was already about ten times the normal...
Anthropic's latest study combined IoT and network tests to explore AI self-replication, which researchers said would be "challenging" to shut down. Self-replicating AI cyberattacks may be on the way, but it doesn't appear to be a practical concern f...
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is trying to get insight into its own war effort in Ukraine, through simple reply-baiting phishing attacks. North Korean state-sponsord hackers are spear-phishing government, policy, and academic circ...
The scary surprises for the largest security update ever include security bypasses and unauthenticated RCEs. As we progress further into the AI-driven "vulnpocalypse era," Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday security update blows past last month'...
An engineer at OpenAI has been charged with secretly installing a recording device inside a conference room in what officials said Tuesday was an effort to capture sensitive conversations about the company's technology. The employee, identified as a...
Meta is notifying roughly 1,500 people, most of them employees in the US, that their personal information was impacted after hackers got into some of the company's GitHub repositories. The intrusion was detected a few weeks ago. According to the tec...
Google announced Tuesday that it's raising bug bounty rewards for some Chrome vulnerabilities, focusing on memory safety issues. AI has been changing the pace and profile of vulnerability discovery, and the tech giant has been adjusting its bug boun...
Adobe has published 10 new security advisories to inform customers about roughly 140 vulnerabilities found and patched in its products. Adobe ColdFusion updates address 32 vulnerabilities, including critical bugs that can be exploited for code execu...
Ivanti on Tuesday warned customers that a zero-day vulnerability in its Connect Secure (ICS) VPN appliances has been exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2026-104935 and rated high severity, the issue is an authentication bypass that lets a remote,...
A critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-39919) in the Ghostscript interpreter and rendering engine could allow remote code execution through specially crafted PDF files. The flaw was discovered on August 23 by researchers at Defiant'...
A Saudi OpenAI engineer has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco offices to secretly record sensitive conversations. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tu...
Dive Brief: - Too many organizations have gaps in their risk management and governance programs that leave them exposed to cyberattacks and other incidents with regulatory and reputational consequences, the advisory and auditing firm Grant Thornton ...
Months before hackers targeted refrigeration equipment across hundreds of grocery stores in France, a U.S.-based cybersecurity firm discovered high-severity flaws in internet-exposed equipment that could make such an attack possible. Hackers reporte...
Apple just announced the HomeView, HomePod mini 2, and fourth-generation Apple TV 4K, and pre-orders are now available on all of these devices at popular retailers including Amazon and Best Buy. ### HomeView Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner ...
Google today announced a slew of Play Store updates across vibe-coding, game discovery, social features, and more. The biggest update is Google Play's embrace of vibe-coded Android apps. Since May, Google AI Studio has allowed you to generate Androi...
"Ask YouTube" is no longer a YouTube Premium feature as the conversational AI search becomes available on mobile Android and iOS devices. Today, Google announced the Ask YouTube feature would be widely rolling out to mobile users, in addition to TV ...
RAMageddon continues to have wide effects throughout the tech industry, with a new report revealing that the smartphone market has just hit its lowest point in well over a decade. Counterpoint Research reports that global smartphone shipments droppe...
Listening to Apple's new sound features with Siri as our binge-watching companion. Apple's "Welcome home" event may have been mostly for the HomeView debut, but the company also announced updated versions of the HomePod mini speaker and Apple TV 4K....
The company's upscaling software is truly powerful when used in the right situations. If you own a recent NVIDIA GPU (or Nintendo Switch 2), there's a good chance you bought it partly from hearing good things about DLSS. Short for Deep Learning Supe...
Slot these rare gems to gain passive bonuses and abilities. 💎 Ambers are precious gems you equip to gain passive bonuses and abilities. 💎 You can slot them at the level up menu with any lantern. 💎 You unlock a new slot every ten levels. You'll mo...
Beat this big boss first time. ⚔️If you beat General Lothaire you get the General's Catalyst Clot, 10k catalysts, and the Torn-Banner achievement. ⚔️ You only have one attempt to beat him, since if you die, a cutscene will play and the boss will di...
Find a way to get past the poison clouds. ☠️ You can't complete The Emissary quest until much later in the game. ☠️ You need the Shield Transmutation which you get at the university to pass through the poison clouds. ☠️ This is the final transmuta...
Find the missing scouts for the Adjutant Sous-Officier. ⚔️ Find the cave with the missing scouts halfway up the elevator shaft after you unblock the top level. ⚔️ No matter what you choose to tell the Adjutant Sous-Officier, you'll get the Sleight ...
If the rumored release window is accurate, it means the new GTA will hit PC just a few months after consoles — something almost unheard of from Rockstar. A GamesBeat report claims that Grand Theft Auto 6 — which still hasn't been announced for P...
Alongside new betas of iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, and macOS Golden Gate 27.2, Apple has released the fourth betas of watchOS 27.2 and visionOS 27.2. The betas come a week after Apple released the third betas, but there is no tvOS 27.2 beta 4 yet. Regist...
### Summary - This impressive-looking HD-2D remaster of Zelda: A Link to the Past features a tilted 3D look, weather, a day/night cycle, NPC schedules, and dual-screen support. - Its creator hasn't set a release date yet, so it's unclear when (or e...
When building a home lab, you likely start with a single Raspberry Pi or old mini PC running one container, usually Plex or a file share. But then within a month your docker-compose.yml file is hundreds of lines long, housing dozens of experimental s...
In the world of networking, bigger numbers seem to attract the most attention. Wi-Fi 7 was heavily marketed, but most of its features can't even be used by most people. Wired networking doesn't stay in the news as much, but Ethernet cable standards s...
I love gaming, and over time, my appreciation for older titles has grown. I love collecting them, too, not just playing them, so I have the original hardware for at least some of these games. Sometimes, though, emulation is easier, and for retro titl...
Over the months and years of using Home Assistant, you likely use the Home Assistant Community Store like an untamed app store, installing custom integrations, themes, and front-end cards for every shiny new smart device or gimmick you test. This lea...
Going beyond the number of cameras and megapixels. The iPhone Duo has by far the highest starting price of any iPhone to date. Which makes sense in a way, since it's basically two devices in one. But at $1,999, it still lacks the iPhone 18 Pro's mor...
The company is using LLMs for algorithm personalization. If you've ever scrolled through your Facebook feed and wondered why you're suddenly flooded with weird AI-generated celeb bait and posts from cast iron pan enthusiasts (just me?), Meta has a n...
It stars Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel as two new FBI agents that aren't named Mulder and Scully. Hulu has officially picked up Ryan Coogler's X-Files reboot, after greenlighting a pilot back in February. Variety reports that Coogler wrote and...
A flaw in Docker Hub, the registry where container images are published and downloaded, let one user push, pull, or delete images as another user. Docker fixed the flaw on September 30 and says it found no evidence that anyone exploited it. The flaw...
Small artificial intelligence (AI) models may be months away from developing capabilities to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes, according to a warning from Anthropic. The frontier AI lab said small AI mode...
GitHub has taken the step of expiring unvalidated npm trusted publishing configurations 48 hours after creation after researchers found that it was possible for an attacker to push new versions of a different user's package without having to steal th...
A flaw in SAP's Cloud SDK for Python can send an application's OAuth2 client credentials to a server an attacker controls, SAP said in a security advisory on October 13. The flaw affects multi-tenant applications on SAP Business Technology Platform (...
An attacker chained three zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure, a VPN appliance, to run commands as root without logging in, security firm Volexity said on October 13. Ivanti has released fixes for two of the flaws and told customers on affected v...
Today is Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates addressing a record-breaking 1,411 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. This Patch Tuesday addresses 70 "Critical" vulnera...
Microsoft has released the Patch Tuesday Windows 11 KB5127648 and KB5126653 cumulative updates for versions 26H2/25H2/24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and bugs, and add new features. Today's updates are mandatory as they contain the Oct...
The U.K. Housing Ombudsman Service is investigating a third-party IT security incident that impacted its case management system on Tuesday. Established under the Housing Act 1996, the Housing Ombudsman is an executive non-departmental public body sp...
Microsoft announced today that devices running Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro editions have reached the end of support and will no longer receive monthly security and non-security preview updates. However, according to Microsoft's lifecycle policy, Wi...
Microsoft released the Windows 10 KB5126657 extended security update, which includes this month's record-breaking October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes and a few bug fixes and changes. If you are running Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC or are enrolled in the ...
The film will be in the Apple Immersive Video format, meaning it will be a 3D video recorded in 8K resolution with a 180-degree field of view and Spatial Audio. Apple shared a short video of people reacting to the film while wearing the Vision Pro. ...
Apple has launched a new "Switch to Safari" marketing campaign that encourages Chrome users to switch to Safari as their web browser of choice on the Mac. "Safari is a more powerful and private browser than Chrome," says Apple. Apple has a new "Swi...
Your old EV battery may end up trading its daily commute for a stationary role. An EV battery's life is far from over once it leaves a car. When the owner is done with the vehicle, for whatever reason, there are varying degrees of battery health and...
Two versions will be available in November for $299. It seems like an eternity since the first reports that Apple was working on a smart display to rival Amazon's Echo Show came out, and at long last the company has finally revealed its take on the ...
New microphones, a new remote and the new Siri AI are on the company's streaming box. As part of Apple's smart home push, the company has unveiled an updated version of the Apple TV 4K that supports Siri AI. There are a number of new features for th...
Kodi is one of the oldest media players out there, but people often dismiss it as a piracy app. Shady sellers use its name to sell boxes promising free movies and TV. They make money, their unauthorized add-ons break, and Kodi gets blamed for the mes...
Single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi became synonymous with DIY projects, and they're excellent for small-scale home servers. The idea of a credit card-sized computer with 4GB of memory and quad-core chips worked perfectly for these use cases...
With companies, tech execs, and outlets such as yours truly telling everyone over and over again — sometimes very literally — that it's difficult to get your hands on memory right now and will be for some time, it can be a bit jarring to think ab...
Turns out decorating your home away from home isn't purely cosmetic. Arc Raiders' new outpost system arrived with the Frozen Trail update, and like many I'm sure, I pretty much ignored the entire furniture aspect of it. My mind was occupied with upg...
I'll be saving my pennies for something — anything — else, personally. As you may already suspect, the ZX Spectrum was a bit before my time. Still, a whole home computer crammed inside a relatively svelte keyboard is something with timeless appe...
Kraftoff. "I was forced to ship the game. I'm mad at myself, there's no doubt. I was so stunned by that decision, because we had fucking Covid. A million people died in America. I lost one of my best friends. Every single month, four to six people i...
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Three vulnerabilities in LG's webOS can be chained to give an attacker on the same local network root access to certain smart TVs without a PIN or any interaction from the owner. LG has issued a fix, according to an advisory published by SSD Secure ...
Regardless of whether you're on Intel or AMD, the first instruction your CPU executes runs in a mode designed for the 16-bit Intel 8086, released in June 1978. This is called "real mode," and despite everything that has changed about processors since...
Claude Code is pretty upfront about your usage while you're working. If you're using the GUI, there's the little circular usage tracker at the bottom of the chat showing you how much of the current session you've used. And in the terminal you can che...
Most people, when optimizing their Wi-Fi settings, assume that the bigger number is better. To be fair, the 5 GHz and 6 GHz bands are faster than the 2.4 GHz band, and a 160 MHz channel width increases your throughput. However, these speed boosts are...
Two of 31 newly disclosed flaws in Progress Software's MarkLogic Server database could let an account given only some management privileges take administrator control of the server, the company says. Progress published all 31 on October 12 and score...
Attackers took remote control of fridges and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets on the night of October 11 and warmed them, forcing stores to throw food away, several retail chains said. The attackers reached them through the controller tha...
A user opens a browser tab, pastes data into a chat assistant, and nothing is installed. A developer adds a coding assistant as an editor extension, and nothing shows up in the installed programs list. Someone downloads a local model runtime, a pro...
Dutch-Belgian grocery giant Ahold Delhaize has disconnected some of its systems in response to a cyberattack. In a bare-bones notice on its website, the company revealed that it identified a security issue within its network, triggering incident res...
A hardware implant in Ledger signers is blamed for the theft of at least $86 million in cryptocurrency from multiple users. Ledger provides users with a secure cryptocurrency wallet that is backed by a signer, an offline hardware device used to secu...
In the AI era, phishing remains the top attack vector in both use (17% of breaches) and breach costs (averaging at $5.29 per breach) according to the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026. AI creates more personalized content for phishing with higher...
The XWorm RAT developers have expanded the malware's capabilities with fresh plugins that turn it into a surveillance platform, cybersecurity firm Netskope reports. A sophisticated, multi-functional Windows RAT first observed in 2022, XWorm provides...
Small AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across commercial IoT devices, without needing a data center, according to research from Anthropic's Frontier Red Team. The study looks at AI worms that run their own model di...
GitLab has released patches for a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) software that could result in arbitrary code execution. "GitLab has remediated an issue that, under certain conditions,...
Meta's Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full models are built for AI agents that handle tasks such as preparing insurance claims, reviewing leases and developing software. The models combine document analysis and tool use with the ability to retain releva...
Mozilla's Firefox Enterprise is a paid platform that lets organizations control how sensitive data is shared, check device security, and manage employee access to web applications. The platform pairs the browser with a management dashboard hosted on...
GitLab is urging users of self-managed instances to patch a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-97229) in its CI/CD Regular Expression Compiler that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on GitLab servers. ### About CVE-2026-97229 CVE...
Ridge Security has announced RidgeOne, a self-contained solution that brings autonomous AI-powered penetration testing and agentic red teaming to mid-sized organizations. Combining Ridge Security's RidgeGen agentic security validation platform with ...
An AI-driven cyber-attack similar to the OpenAI breach of Australia's healthcare system is likely, "if not inevitable", in the UK, according to a senior minister. Kanishka Narayan, the UK AI minister, indicated that the British government's own cybe...
Booz Allen set frontier AI models against an isolated industrial-control testbed in its Chantilly, Virginia lab and watched them clear all eight attack objectives it had defined. The Booz Allen frontier AI OT test architecture (Source: Booz Allen) ...
Azure Maia 200 now in production; Azure Maia 300 coming in 2027 As we move into the era of Super Intelligence, Microsoft is entering a new phase of infrastructure. We will scale our Azure Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027, m...
Companies in France are deploying agentic computing across industries spanning space, financial services, the public sector and scientific research, demonstrating how the country's ecosystem has moved from ambition to application. France's progress ...
As AI factories grow from megawatts to gigawatts, building them takes more than advanced computing. Open standards are helping the industry scale AI infrastructure faster, more efficiently and more reliably. At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global ...
Meta's Superintelligence Lab released a pair of new state-of-the-art models on Monday, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, representing the company's first attempt at a frontier model. Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perfor...
Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken (buy me a drink sometime, and I'll give you my rant). But could AI actually make things better? Honeyjar, which will be attending th...
The U.S. Air Force will buy data collected by WindBorne Systems' fleet of autonomous weather balloons under a new contract that could be worth nearly $50 million to the startup. WindBorne currently has about 700 weather balloons flying around the gl...
Microsoft president Brad Smith is calling for urgent regulation of AI, and his argument is that consumer products like milk and washing machines have more oversight than the companies building artificial intelligence. On a recent BBC podcast, Smith ...
Nearly two decades ago, a young college student wrote his final thesis about software capable of generating design documents for school buildings. Al Dram was studying architecture — following in the footsteps of his parents and grandfather — ...
Alibaba's Qwen team has introduced QwenGyre, an elastic reinforcement learning RL framework for extreme-long-horizon agent training. QwenGyre is an online reinforcement learning system from Alibaba that trains coding agents through unmodified, black-...
Meta is making up for lost time in the AI race. After launching Muse Spark, the first model from its revamped Superintelligence Labs division, and buzzy AI agent Muse, it's now launching two new models it claims can go toe-to-toe with the industry's ...
Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the "primary AI inference system" for Microsoft's products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud,...
There's been a disturbance in the force. Only it's more like a farce. It seems that Elon Musk, while crowing on X about how useful his Grok Bot AI agent was in ordering some Lego Star Wars kits on Sunday, managed to reveal via a screenshot to his mo...
When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg rebooted his company's artificial intelligence efforts last year, it seemed to be a very expensive gamble. Meta's latest AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, seem to show that the bet is finally paying off by put...
Epic Games is shifting to an "AI first" development strategy for its collaboration with the Walt Disney Company, letting AI models write all the code and guide all the artwork for an upcoming shooter. That's according to a Bloomberg report, which cit...
Voice AI is quickly becoming core infrastructure as people swap screens and clicks for conversations with their devices. That shift puts new pressure on the compute, storage and partnerships behind the models doing the listening and talking. Deepgra...
Organizations across the supply chain continue to invest heavily in automation. Yet for many warehouse and distribution leaders, the expected gains in productivity, throughput, and agility remain elusive. The issue is rarely a lack of technology. Mo...
As enterprises move from debating artificial intelligence adoption to deploying it, AI governance has become the harder question. Autonomous agents now run around the clock across a sprawl of platforms, and controls built for deterministic software w...
Enterprise AI scalability is running into a hard budget wall for some customers. As agentic workloads multiply, cloud token bills are consuming allocations faster than planned, prompting companies to rethink where inference should run. That cost pre...
Meta Platforms Inc. today released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, two artificial intelligence models it says are its most capable yet at running agents that handle personal and professional tasks. Meta aimed the release at the longer, multistep j...
Intel Corp. Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan and Hock Tan, his counterpart at Broadcom Inc., have flagged capital access as a potential challenge for the artificial intelligence sector. The executives shared their observations today during a financial con...
GPS has become such a routine part of flying a drone that it's easy to forget how vulnerable it can be. Jam a satellite signal, feed a receiver fake coordinates, and an autonomous aircraft or ground vehicle could suddenly struggle to figure out where...
### Small drone manufacturer finds its market niche ### By DRONELIFE Features Editor Jim Magill In business, sometimes getting in on the ground floor of an emerging trend is the key to success — even for a company whose business is manufacturin...
New guidance explains how airport operators should request airspace access when using drones in emergency response training. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued updated guidance on October 9, 2026, clarifying authorization requirements ...
UK Civil Aviation Authority recommends a phased approach to managing drone and eVTOL noise as commercial operations expand. The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has published a report examining how noise from drones and electric vertical take-off a...
Expanded agreement brings net-capture and kinetic counter-drone capabilities to European and allied defense customers. Fortem Technologies and European defense company MBDA announced an expanded strategic partnership on October 12 to integrate auton...
Tomorrow at 8 a.m. PT, it all begins — 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech operators will gather at San Francisco's Moscone West for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 for three days of ideas, connections, and startups shaping what comes next. If you've b...
Ultrahuman, a Bengaluru-based health tech startup best known for its smart rings, has partnered with Abu Dhabi health authorities to develop a biological-age model that it says will eventually be made available to people across the United Arab Emirat...
When she was 14, Margarethe Böhme presented a distance-learning platform for refugee camps to the UNHCR. Although the project was not launched, she told Tech Funding News that at 23 she will now lead a €10M Nordic venture fund, being the youngest ven...
IonQ Inc., a publicly traded supplier of quantum computers, today announced plans to acquire Elisity Inc. for $1.3 billion. The price tag includes $150 million in performance incentives that are contingent on Elisity meeting certain business milesto...
Semiconductor industry giant Applied Materials Inc. today opened the doors to its Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization Center, a massive new $5 billion facility in Silicon Valley that's set to enable the next wave of breakthroughs i...
- Barcelona's ID Finance raised €545 million through a mix of debt and equity. - While the specific split is undisclosed, the equity raise is intended to drive Plazo's growth in Spain, while i80 Group's asset-based financing will expand its credit p...
Sainaptic has obtained £1M in a pre-money seed round, led by Cornerstone VC and Ufi Ventures, with participation from Elm and Brighteye. The AI used for grading boasts almost perfect accuracy in assigning grades, with a deviation of less than 1%. The...
- Since 2024, Whiterock has invested £70 million in companies in Northern Ireland through two funds. - The British Business Bank supports the funds and provides 60% of the £75 million equity fund. - Whiterock has invested £40 million in equity in 1...
A website request crosses several systems before a page appears. Power must reach the servers, network equipment must direct the request, storage must return the files, and cooling equipment must remove heat. A failure in any part can interrupt serv...
While a folding iPhone posed a new challenge for Apple's thermal engineering team, they came up with a creative way to leverage the device's hinge to their advantage. Here are the details. iPhone Duo's hinge features a flexible graphite pipe PCMag ...
Monday October 12, 2026 10:12 am PDT by Tim Hardwick Apple has opened its "Get Ready" service for iPhone Duo pre-orders, allowing customers to pre-select a variety of options to streamline the process of ordering and have a better chance of grabbing...
Apple's "Welcome Home" product launch is happening tomorrow. As the name suggests, Apple is going to debut new home accessories, including the long-rumored home hub. Below, we've listed all the rumors we know about the three devices Apple is set to ...
Maybe not, but a cautious optimism has emerged as Blizzard finds opportunities to recapture goodwill. There's a generation of millennial gamers who are haunted by an entity known as 'old Blizzard,' an allegedly more competent, creative, and virtuous...
Art will be "generated with full AI workflows". An unannounced Star Wars and Marvel shooter in the works at Epic Games has been delayed, and its creators instructed to take an "AI first" approach to development. Staff were advised of the pivot last ...
"We're basically trying to entice players to want to create new characters, to roll an alt." The developers of World of Warcraft: Forever would very much like it if you would create multiple characters, please. There are a number of reasons for tha...
Windows 11 seems to be full of secret features that most people never touch, even after spending years on the platform. Dev Drive seems to be one of those well-kept secrets. Originally, Microsoft intended it for developers, and for the most part, it ...
What good is a phone that can't keep up with the average person's day-to-day needs? You don't have to spend an arm and a leg on an Android phone, even if it's brand-new. You can find plenty of great cheap Android phone options for $300 or less, if y...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Friday urged organizations to patch their Citrix systems after the company announced another critical vulnerability in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. Citrix on Thursday warned of a memory...
Ahold Delhaize announced Monday it is experiencing a security issue within its network and has taken some systems offline "to help protect them." Ahold Delhaize USA's five banner websites — Hannaford, Stop & Shop, Giant Food, Food Lion and The G...
The MacBook Pro is a beast of a laptop that can handle anything you throw at it. And that even includes AI if you're interested in running some powerful local LLMs. That said, it can be pricey, but right now we're seeing a steep $600 discount on the ...
Your old GPU might not be able to compete with a new card, but it can run better with some tweaks. In this increasingly anti-consumer tech world that seems fixed on abandoning all else in favor of data centers, there's rarely been a worse time to bu...
Your old hard drives still have some life left in them. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Cloud storage is everywhere. Despite the ongoing memory crisis, SSDs have gotten cheap enough that most new PCs don't even bother with...
Spark is Google's AI tool that can perform tasks on your behalf. One of AI's promises, on the less "humanity-destroying" end of the spectrum, is to make everyday life a little smoother. Instead of tackling each item on your to-do list by yourself, p...
Wireless Android Auto is a fantastic quality-of-life feature. Just step into your car, switch it on, and your phone is ready to go on your vehicle's infotainment system, complete with navigation pulled up and your music. It's convenient until the day...
Blurry photos usually go deeper than a little grease on your lens. Phone cameras are a modern convenience that's all too often taken for granted, making casual photography accessible to millions in a lightweight package. While your phone's camera pr...
Attackers are currently targeting a critical vulnerability in SMA 1000 appliances, putting SonicWall customers in a familiar yet unenviable position. SonicWall customers are on the defensive once again, as threat actors are actively exploiting a max...
That's certainly a choice. Epic Games is going all in on AI for game development. The studio has been working on games for Disney, but sources told Bloomberg that its upcoming release has been delayed in order to use more AI for its creation. The pu...
Most gamers understand the importance of a good gaming monitor. They look at the screen size, refresh rate, resolution, and HDR performance before making their choice. However, your expensive IPS or VA display has another feature that can prevent mot...
Norway's Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet) has fined Xandr, a Microsoft-owned advertising company, $9.6M (NOK 92 million) for unlawfully processing and sharing sensitive data belonging to Grindr users in the country. The data protection autho...
Edward Dubrovsky, a longtime cybersecurity executive, was arrested and charged in Pennsylvania last week under conspiracy to extort money. US authorities last week charged a ransomware negotiator over alleged extortion activity — the latest exam...
The GL.iNet Comet Q is a KVM, but with a unique twist. You can plug it into any device and take control. Laptops and desktops are a given, but this model can also plug into your phone and tablet and take full control. And while its retail price is $1...
Russian cloud services provider Yandex announced that drone attacks damaged three of its data centers, forcing it to shut down two facilities and partially disable a third. Yandex customers are experiencing service outages, some of them reporting in...
Anthropic announced that its internal AI models under "high-risk and cybersecurity evaluations" no longer have internet access following incidents involving U.S. government websites at the federal, state, and local levels. The instances leading to t...
Enterprise cybersecurity technology research that connects the dots. The proliferation of enterprise apps and the centrality of cloud identity providers requires an identity security rethink. ### OPINION Enterprises need cyber resilience to ensure...
You'll need this super rare material to upgrade your gunsmith. ⚡ Find the Emperor Modulator in the final loot room of the new Emperor dungeon. ⚡ This requires you to craft an Emperor Gateway Conduit via the Redirection event. ⚡ You also have to na...
When you first start out with a smart home, the typical first step is setting up voice assistants and smart speakers, only to realize that shouting across the room to turn off a light is often slower and more annoying thanflipping a regular switch. V...
You need to have a very high IQ to understand Grand Theft Auto. I'm modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I've done to Rockst...
Fast highway driving, carrying excess weight, heat and air-conditioning will cut your EV's range. Maximum electric-vehicle ranges are on the rise. And while some models still struggle to reach the 250-mile mark, advancements in battery and charging ...
Giving a messy spreadsheet to a chatbot seems like a job that should be quick and easy, and for the technical parts it mostly is, since spotting a formula that throws errors is what they're tuned for. But what if the numbers are fixable, and the chat...
Ledger has confirmed that some of its devices distributed through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis were compromised with a hardware implant that drained users' cryptocurrency wallets. The company has been investigating reports of users losing fu...
Your accounts won't forever haunt the internet after you die. The death of a loved one typically comes not only with the immense emotional weight of grief, but also an onslaught of administrative tasks — a home to sell, a cell phone bill to canc...
The French automaker is targeting a 15,000-euro price tag for an eventual production version. After teasing the return of the 2 CV as an all-electric car in March, Citroën finally showed off the revival of its iconic compact city cruiser during the ...
European food retailers have been affected by two separate disruptive cyberattacks: In France, several supermarket chains have had their freezers tampered with and chilled/frozen products destroyed, while in the Netherlands and Belgium workers at sto...
For most of my 26-year journey with desktop PCs, I've used spinning hard drives. I bought my first SSD (a SATA drive) in 2017, and the difference was night and day. Every subsequent upgrade, however, became less and less stark, culminating with the P...
The Smart #2 is absolutely teensy and gets around 180 miles per charge. Smart just unveiled its #2 ultra-compact EV at the Paris Motor Show, four years after the company introduced the Smart #1. The Smart #2 looks to be a return to (miniature) form ...
There are a few settings to check if you're having issues with your map's location accuracy. The best Android phones use built-in GPS to determine where you are, which is necessary to guide you with turn-by-turn directions. To accurately know how to...
Riding the wave(guide). Remember when they did motion capture on a cube? Well, more specifically, they put actor Jack Quaid in a motion capture suit and then they put him inside a cube for his role in God of War Laufey. As charming as that cutting e...
I've lost count of how many times I've wanted to watch a video on my TV, only to discover that getting it there is somehow harder than finding the video itself. I'm not against screen mirroring at all, but it's never made sense to tie up my entire PC...
Attackers remotely defrosted refrigerators at multiple French supermarket chains overnight in a cyberattack that reportedly targeted Danfoss refrigeration controllers. Victims include Intermarché, Coopérative U, Carrefour Market, Monoprix, Leclerc, ...
Some meetings last longer than it took attackers to jump on a newly disclosed security flaw this week. Within hours, they were already testing it. That's not much time to read the warning, let alone do something about it. But speed is only part of t...
GitLab said Monday that it had fixed a vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute remote code on an affected server. The critical-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-97229, resulted from GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Editi...
I've run plenty of local models on my home lab over the last couple of years, and I've always told myself the same thing: they're great, but they're not frontier great. The models everyone actually benchmarks against live in data centers, behind an A...
IonQ on Monday said it signed a definitive agreement to buy Elisity in a stock-only transaction worth up to $1.3 billion. Up to $150 million of that amount is earnout consideration, contingent on how Elisity's business performs. IonQ expects to comp...
Varonis Threat Labs recently discovered AvisLoader, a new Windows loader named after the Latin word for bird. We found it on an exposed staging server alongside a ClickFix lure, supporting tools, and its Command Center. The attack starts with a fami...
Retail giant Ahold Delhaize, one of the world's largest food retail chains, confirmed today that it was forced to take some systems offline after a "cybersecurity incident." As a wholesale company and multinational retailer, Ahold Delhaize operates ...
"I don't think critics had a fair chance to explore." "I do believe both parties have fair points, especially for the critics — they had to play the build that is not the exact same version of the launched game. Also they had limited time … But [i...
A critical vulnerability in the Bricksforge WordPress plugin is being exploited in the wild, according to WordPress security company Patchstack. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-85097 and it has a CVSS score of 9.8. Unauthenticated attackers...
GitLab warned users today to immediately patch a maximum-severity vulnerability in the CI/CD Regular Expression Compiler that could let remote attackers run arbitrary code on targeted instances. Tracked as CVE-2026-97229, this critical security flaw...
Fahmida Y Rashid will keep the momentum going as she leads Dark Reading. Dark Reading has been a cornerstone of cybersecurity journalism for 20 years, emphasizing deep technical coverage and insights for security professionals charged with defending...
- Published The UK's AI minister has warned it is "likely, if not inevitable" the country's cyber defences will at some point be breached. Speaking at a press conference, Kanishka Narayan pointed to an incident of a rogue OpenAI agent hacking an Au...
Plus: An Anthropic AI model submitted a fake tip about an unsolved murder. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Mars may be a hellhole, but the moo...
Correction, 1 October 2026: An earlier version miscounted the number of charge cycles in a 24-hour day and said early access was more than a year away. The idealised 90-to-9-minute ratio implies about 21.8 hours of runtime and 2.2 hours of charging; ...
A camera that stayed switched off cost a Florida software company about 75,000 euros. It belonged to a telemarketer working from the small Dutch town of Diessen, employed since January 2019 by Chetu, an American software firm that at the time ran a ...
For about five months, a browser extension sat quietly on the home computers of 154 people and watched them log in. The researchers never saw a password. Everything was hashed on the machine before it went anywhere, leaving them with the shape of ea...
Markus Villig was 19 in 2013, fresh out of high school in Tallinn, and frustrated with how hard it was to get a reliable taxi in his own city. He borrowed €5,000 from his family to build a first version of an app, then did the unglamorous part himsel...
Correction, 1 October 2026: The original excerpt called Estonia the world leader, although the cited per-capita tally places it second behind Liechtenstein. The article also misstated the Tiger Leap school-internet rollout; first-party history says a...
Agentic e-commerce startup Loops Smart AI wants to help online retailers create more seamless buying journeys and streamline the shopping experience after raising $3.5 million in seed funding today. Andreessen Horowitz's a16z speedrun accelerator le...
- Scarlet has attracted $50 million in its Series B financing round, with Headline acting as the lead investor and Notion Capital joining as a new investor. - The team that previously worked on medical AI at Babylon Health is now focused on getting ...
This week, Apple is hosting its first-ever dedicated smart home event. While the company hasn't shared details about what it will reveal at the "Welcome Home experience" in New York City on Tuesday, October 13th, it doesn't take an army of internet s...
Canonical's websites were disrupted last week by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, months after a larger attack hit the Ubuntu maker's infrastructure. The company confirmed the attack on October 8 in a post on the Ubuntu Discourse forum...
Microsoft has reminded customers that systems running Windows 11 23H2 Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise editions will stop receiving security updates next month. The announcement follows the end of support for Windows 11 23H2 Home and Pro ed...
The personal AI agents rollout is going about as smoothly as expected: Amazon now blocks Meta's Muse because it doesn't identify itself as a bot while browsing; Instinct keeps raising privacy concerns; and the horror stories from pretty much every pe...
When the call for external regulation is coming from inside AI's house, you know it's serious. Microsoft president Brad Smith claims that AI is currently less regulated than the food we eat and the utilities we rely on. "Right now, your washing mach...
- Amazon is reportedly in talks to buy Decart for about $7B, the Wall Street Journal said. - Anthropic walked away from a roughly $6B Decart deal in September after due diligence. - The price is about 75% above Decart's valuation of nearly $4B in M...
France, Belgium, and the Netherlands are reportedly affected. An ongoing cyberattack has reportedly struck major supermarket chains across Europe, disrupting refrigeration control systems. The attack — which has reportedly seen units set to cont...
A dual citizen of Ukraine and Russia pleaded guilty in a US court for his role in a sophisticated money laundering organization used by cybercriminals. The individual, Oleg Korniev, 42, was a leader of Your Mule Cashout (YMCO), an international netw...
Cryptocurrency hardware maker Ledger has temporarily paused sales of its products via CryptoBilis following reports of stolen funds linked to devices sold by the reseller. On Friday, the company said it was investigating reports of loss of funds fro...
I bet someone is already mocking up cat ears for this thing. Valve has released the CAD files for the Steam Frame, allowing modders the perfect opportunity to get to work on their own creations for the VR headset. The light blocker — the bit that...
Chuck Hoskin Jr. fondly recalls watching a room full of Cherokee immersion students crowd around a screen to watch How to Train Your Dragon. Except Hiccup and Astrid weren't speaking English — the protagonists were speaking Cherokee, dubbed by voic...
Medical equipment provider iRhythm is notifying more than 360,000 people that hackers stole their personal information. The data breach was identified on June 8 and involved third-party-hosted business applications that stored certain iRhythm inform...
Microsoft-Decision-1 is a small decision-scoring model. Given a situation, a question and a fixed set of answer options, it returns a calibrated probability for each option. "This model is designed for routing, classification, prioritization, verifi...
Although the memory shortage has affected everyone (from people who only need a work PC to casual gamers and enthusiasts), PC gamers have been hit hardest. Compared to console gamers and laptop consumers, we were the first to feel price increases, th...
After a protracted wait, LineageOS is now officially available for the entire Pixel 10 lineup and the more affordable Pixel 10a. Over a year since its release, it's great news that Pixel 10 owners now have the option to flash LineageOS on their devi...
Dev used AI agents and more than 500 billion tokens to rebuild Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's source code — 83% of the 2009 shooter's functions now match the original byte for byte The agents originally tried to cheat the developer's check. D...
If you're driving through GM's sprawling campus in Warren, Michigan, you'd likely ignore the pair of adjacent, anonymous white buildings tucked away in the upper reaches of the 710-acre space. GM is using AI models and a new mini factory to build an...
US law enforcement agents obtained authorization to use a controversial surveillance device capable of intercepting cell phone signals to find and arrest a 21-year-old college student who helped produce journalist Don Lemon's coverage of an anti-ICE ...
People who buy low-cost Android phones from online marketplaces may be carrying malware that was placed on the device before it reached them, Bitdefender has found. The campaign, dubbed Midnight Mimosa, runs on budget Android devices from different ...
Set recurring reminders, manage time zones and handle business communications off-hours. WhatsApp users have long requested message scheduling to do things like set recurring reminders, manage time zones and handle business communications off-hours....
LineageOS 24 is now official, with the latest builds rolling out based on Android 17, bringing a surprise early release alongside a fresh coat of Material Design 3 Expressive paint, new WebUSB flashing tools, and more. Announced in a dedicated and d...
Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 appliances within days of public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-102255 (CVSS score: 10.0), is a ...
A Canada-based cybersecurity expert was arrested last week in the United States on suspicion of being involved in ShinyHunters attacks, including the recent hacking of FBI systems. FBI director Kash Patel announced on Friday that agents had arrested...
A wave of biotech companies is looking to prove that it's possible to slow down the aging process. Mountain View, California — based Rubedo Life Sciences is starting with the most outwardly visible sign: the skin. The company's experimental treatm...
- The Matter Machine has been given £4M in a pre-Series A round of funding, with IP Group acting as the lead. - Gordon Sanghera, one of the co-founders of Oxford Nanopore, has accepted a position at Matter Machine to head its commercialisation strat...
- Sequoia-backed Nuvacore is reportedly raising at a $2.5B valuation with no product yet. - The round has not closed, and Reuters' sources say its size and price could change. - Nvidia says it has visibility to nearly $20B in CPU revenue this year....
We're still imagining building cities on the moon. There are just a few obstacles in the way. Welcome to the second space race. You can be forgiven for experiencing déjà vu. Last time, it was the Soviet Union and the United States vying to be the fi...
Before compact camera drones took over, the DJI Phantom was the aircraft that helped put serious aerial photography within reach of more people. And the Phantom 4 Pro V2.0 was one of the lineup's standout models, pairing a 1-inch sensor with a mechan...
A maximum-severity security flaw impacting the Bricksforge plugin for WordPress has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Patchstack. The critical vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85097 (CVSS score: 10.0), which allows unauth...
Massive tree-planting programs lead to unhealthy monocrop plantations. Daisy Dent aims to help forests rebuild themselves. In a research station in central Panama, you can walk through a century of forest time, watching scrubby plots of adolescent t...
Agentic AI is emerging as a primary workload within an enterprise's AI environment. The question now is whether those agents will do what you intend for them to do and not go rogue to create new security threats. Agentic AI compounds the identity con...
Google fixes Googlebook setup issues and brings sync features to Galaxy devices. ### What you need to know - Googlebook is finally adding Better Together support for Samsung Galaxy phones after leaving them out at launch. - Samsung phones running ...
BANGKOK — Policymakers are moving from debating whether artificial intelligence will hit jobs to issuing stark warnings about AI-led disruption and recommending measures on cushioning the fallout. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kr...
Threat actors started exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability in SonicWall SMA1000 appliances within days after public disclosure. Tracked as CVE-2026-102255 (CVSS score of 10), the security defect is described as a pre-authenticated se...
SINGAPORE — The chief executives of Intel and Broadcom warned that access to capital could emerge as a major constraint on the artificial intelligence boom, even as demand for computing infrastructure continues to outstrip supply. Broadcom CEO H...
- The French company HyLight has raised 13 million euros in order to expand its business with hydrogen-powered inspection airships. - Martin Bocken, 28, says helicopters are HyLight's main competitors and adds that all contracts to date have been pa...
AI live translation tools turn speech into translated captions or speech while people are still talking. The market now spans consumer apps, meeting add-ons, event platforms and developer APIs. We checked 12 tools against official product, pricing an...
### By Wai-keung Fung, Cardiff Metropolitan University At the recent World Humanoid Robot Games 2026 in Beijing, robots sprinted, boxed, played football and tackled tasks inspired by factories, restaurants and emergency situations. The robot Tiangon...
Microsoft is advising users and businesses to update Windows devices before digital certificates used to verify Windows Update servers expire in May and June 2027. The certificates expire on May 17 or June 19, depending on the Windows version. Devic...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a two-pronged artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented initial access campaign targeting WordPress sites, e-commerce platforms, and critical infrastructure entities in Ukraine. The activity, which br...
Websites that rely on Let's Encrypt will soon have to renew their TLS certificates more often. Starting February 10, 2027, the certificate authority will issue certificates valid for 64 days by default, down from 90 days. Subscribers who already use...
Fintechs are set to dominate Europe's next wave of growth-stage fundraising. Of the 22 startups on the Sifted 250 Leaderboard planning a Series B or C by the end of Q3 2027, 12 (54.5%) are fintechs, with eight of them based in the UK. Pro ### Sifte
China's rise as a leader in strategically important technologies has sparked growing concerns over European tech's reliance on Chinese supply chains. But some European investors think the continent's startups are looking at their ties to China the wr
Two cofounders of Project Europe, the high-profile investment initiative launched by VC Harry Stebbings to back the continent's youngest entrepreneurs, are stepping down from their roles as the fund prepares for its next chapter. Pro ### Exclusive
The global consensus on the future of AI is that it is a two-horse race between the US and China with Europe, and the rest of the world, hobbling far behind. The colossal scale of investments that the US hyperscalers and Chinese tech giants are makin
Researchers at Northwestern University tested AI coding agents on 112 real security bugs. They found that a patch which stops a crash often fails the checks the project's maintainers wrote for the fix. With Claude Opus 4.7, third of the patches that ...
SINGAPORE — TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew expects artificial intelligence to drive major scientific breakthroughs within the next three years, transforming a broad range of sectors. "In the next two to three years, we're going to have a real scientifi...
### Summary - The open-source unidex OS runs on a 1.54" e-ink ESP32-S3, turning it into a pocket productivity device. - It shows your next class with a live countdown, records voice notes to Markdown, and comes with its own pet app. - You can inst...
Many organizations adopt open source software because they see it as a cheaper alternative to proprietary development. Maintaining it, however, still requires engineering effort, according to Google's case study, "How much does it cost to maintain a ...
### Summary - This Fisher-Price Mix & Learn DJ toy was rebuilt with a Raspberry Pi W2, audio amp, platter sensor, and microphone. - Web interface to upload clips, layer tracks, and switch modes: Learning, Music Maker, and Bluetooth. - The project ...
### Summary - I miss dedicated players, but this ESP32-S3 DIY revives pocket MP3 charm. - It plays media from a microSD card or streams via DLNA/UPnP and comes with a 1.8" TFT. - It's a work in progress with build files and instructions on the ESP...
### Popular Stories MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris has uncovered an image file from Apple for an unreleased Apple TV 4K, suggesting that a new model will finally be released soon. The image is specifically for an "Apple TV 4K (4th generation)" m...
The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi has released Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B parameter Arabic speech recognition model. It focuses on the Emirati dialect and also transcribes English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. In TII's evaluation, Fal...
All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending October 11. Wonder Boy in Monster Land released in Japanese arcades in 1987 and for the Sega Master System the following year. Its success led to numerous ports, including to ZX Spectrum, Commodore...
"You can't know if you can feel the system until you can play the system." Years ago, I read that Jake Solomon prototyped the Firaxis reboot of XCOM by making a simple board game version. Something rudimentary that could be played in the office on s...
Legacy modernization requires understanding how an application's code, data and business rules fit together before rebuilding it. BotMan AI uses an AI-powered migration pipeline that maps an application's dependencies, business logic and data models...
Or Star Wars Outlaws, if you're nasty. There are mods for Seamless Grav Jumps and for Seamless Planet Takeoffs. But when you arrive at a planet in Starfield you still have to choose a landing spot, and then watch a loading screen and an animation. I...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? Our programming and speaker lineup reflect that, based on the feedback we've gotten from the community and the reality on the ground. And everyt...
Amazon.com Inc. is reportedly engaged in discussion over the potential acquisition of artificial intelligence developer Decart.ai Inc. in a deal that could be worth up to $7 billion. Decart has developed software that makes it easier for developers ...
There's a lot to consider before buying a new phone from abroad. There are plenty of smartphone options to choose from in the US, from the iPhone to the Pixel. But there are also really interesting phones you'll never find in an American store. Xiao...
You've got until October 23. The Golden Joystick Awards have been running for so long there was a period where they awarded separate prizes for 8-bit and 16-bit games in each category. In 1988, rail shooter Operation Wolf was the 8-bit Computer Game...
I expected my new USB4 enclosure to feel like a second internal drive. Instead, the Satechi USB4 NVMe SSD Pro crawled along at 1,013 MB/s, and for weeks I blamed the cable, then the USB-C port I'd picked, then every other jack on my motherboard's rea...
Both agents can keep working after you leave, but they differ considerably on price, permissions and where they can work. Meta and OpenAI now have AI agents that are meant to do more than just wait for the next prompt. Meta released Muse on Septembe...
Know the difference between bits and bytes. Its easy to lose yourself in the morass of technical terminologies when shopping for internet providers. For instance, debates over whether you should prioritize internet speed vs. bandwidth or whether you...
Both consoles have become more expensive since launch, but the Series S is still relatively affordable. A console nearly six years into its lifecycle would typically have seen a price drop by this point, but that's not the case for the latest Xbox l...
Bumper Bout has a demo on Steam right now. One of the great things about videogame conventions is there are always people up for playing a local multiplayer game, just waiting to be handed controls and thrown into a new experience. Which is how, at ...
Cloudflare has released Clef-omni, a new open-weight member of its Clef decision model family. Clef-omni is a Cloudflare decision model that scores text, images, audio and video in 1 call. It arrived on October 9, 2026, 8 days after the original Clef...
- Published Milk and washing machines are currently more regulated than AI, the president of Microsoft has said. Brad Smith said there needed to be global safety rules in place, including a legal obligation to tell a "victim" if their system is bre...
### Summary - LineageOS 24 migrates to Android 17 and ports many security patches, plus backports to legacy builds. - New additions: Canvas image editor, faster Twelve music app, Catapult TV shows battery, 24 more devices. - Focus remains on de-Go...
Flip phones endured in Japan longer than the US, but the trend is shifting. Chances are you haven't seen a flip phone in the wild for years. The days of the old Motorola RAZR and similar clamshells are long gone. But in Japan, its esoteric tech ecos...
Nvidia Corp. is in early talks to acquire open-weight model developer Reflection AI Inc. or invest more in the startup, according to the Financial Times. People familiar with the matter told the paper that an agreement could come within weeks. The t...
The vLLM Semantic Router team has released Decision 3.0, a family of multimodal decision models. Decision 3.0 multimodal decision models read text, JSON and images, then answer typed questions about them. There are 5 sizes, from 0.8B to 27B, all unde...
Apple will announce a new smart home hub on Tuesday called the HomeView, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Over the past couple of years, we've seen multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the produc...
The semiconductor industry is entering a new era of hardware engineering as artificial intelligence accelerates demand for more powerful chips, interconnected systems and faster product development. But increasing design complexity, power consumption...
In April of 2025, Elgin Community College had six Flock safety cameras installed to "enhance the safety and security of students." But by September of that year, the school's administration grew concerned that Flock was sharing data with Customs and ...
One of the best new features of Google's Pixel 11 (and Googlebook) is support for Rambler voice-to-text, and it's now been ported to other devices — if you're willing to take the risk, that is. Rambler on the Pixel 11 series is essentially AI-en...
There's no question that 2026 is the year of the artificial intelligence agent. AI agents are remarkably ubiquitous, as people use them to write code, communicate with customers, identify and resolve issues in their information technology environment...
Just two days before Apple's "Welcome home" experience in New York, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has leaked several details about the new products set to be unveiled, including an all-new smart home hub, a HomePod mini 2, and a new Apple TV 4K. Here is a...
In less than 48 hours, the doors open for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 at San Francisco's Moscone West. Save up to $100 on your ticket before prices increase at the door. Don't forget to get a second pass at 50% off. Register now. On October 13-15, more ...
When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on. While most of the broader population is sticking with AI, some of Silicon Valley...
Elon Musk is a very familiar figure to Ars readers, given his massive influence (for better and worse) on the technology sector over the last 20 years. Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney's latest biographical documentary — simply titled Musk — co...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question for founders: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? For investors, it's the opposite: How do you find that company before someone else does? At Disrupt, the volume and competition ar...
The latest rumors are that the new Apple TV will have a built-in microphone, while the upgraded remote will get a speaker. The mic would let users control the set-top box using Siri without having to speak into the remote or a connected HomePod devic...
### The next-gen silicon revolution has met various infrastructure bottlenecks The AI boom is quickly reaching the physical limits of grid capacity and thermal dissipation. The electric grid is stretched as ever, causing longer connection waits for ...
Last year, Kuxiu was the first to make chargers that perfectly match the Cosmic Orange iPhone. They released their 3-in-1 X40 turbo and their S4 Solid State battery pack. They both matched the orange color so well that it seemed as if they were 1st-p...
### Watch David Tennant in the last series of Time Time is entering its third and final season as David Tennant's Bobby Bailey brings his story to a close at the Young Offenders Institution in the final installment of this BAFTA-winning drama. You ...
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 vs Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7: which flip foldable is best? ### Comparing two of Samsung's best foldable smartphones The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 arrived earlier this year boasting a familiar trick: it folds into a pocket-friend...
I use iPhone Mirroring every day to quickly access my iPhone directly from my Mac, and it's even better this year. iOS 27 and macOS 27 Golden Gate were released last month, bringing three key updates to iPhone Mirroring. Here's everything new. 9to5M...
Amazon recently followed Microsoft's lead and said it will no longer use nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) while negotiating with local governments over data centers. On the latest episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Sean O'Kane, Rebeccan Bellan a...
Magnetic accessories can be handy, but make sure they're not interfering with your camera. Apple continues to up its camera game. This September, Apple debuted its iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, a lineup which introduced its most advanced camera system ...
Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% — steep price hikes push Series X to $800 and PS5 Pro to $900 Are consoles too expensive right now? Video game console sales in the U.S. ...
Bloomberg reported that the HomeView device will start shipping in November. Just ahead of Apple's smart home event on Tuesday, we may finally have a name for the long-awaited smart home hub. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the device that wil...
Get ready to pay for more expensive iCloud+ plans. With the release of iOS 27, Apple is deploying its much-anticipated Siri AI suite of features across its software ecosystem. One noteworthy change is coming to Apple HomeKit, as the Cupertino compan...
Cyberleek threatens full GTA 6 build leak unless Take-Two apologizes and his $30 million crypto memecoin goal is met — leaker demands physical release while pumping Solana memecoin to $30M The leak group's ultimatum is a bare-faced attempt to pu...
What happened? Some time ago I realized that I'm part of this stupid rat race, and I no longer wish to participate. Also, I watched The More Boring You Are, the More Impressive You'll Become - The Paradox of Boredom last night. P.S. If you need to ...
AI is helping companies interpret biological data for drug discovery and more personalized care. Healthcare technology company Flahy Inc. is applying that approach to clinical decision support, bringing together information that could affect a perso...
There is a popular idea that substantial wealth belongs mainly to entrepreneurs. We celebrate founders, investors and business owners so loudly that a career person can begin to believe that employment is merely a way to pay bills, while ownership is...
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! I'm back from a sojourn thro...
Build confidence in the world of AI, and the world is your oyster There's no doubt that AI has helped revolutionize the world of work at many companies, with human employees working alongside agents to unlock improved efficiency and productivity. B...
Normally, Dawn Myers wears her hair up in a big old afro, and anyone with an afro can attest that wash days — the routine of washing and styling textured hair — are often tedious. They take a lot of detangling, product, styling, and, well, ti...
Apple's next entry-level iPad models, codenamed J581 and J582, will not arrive until early 2027, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. He added that Apple plans a major iPad Air refresh to add an OLED display and a new iPad Pro in 2027. The latter c...
Google offers great support for Pixels, but not all models enjoy the full timeline. With the release of the Pixel 8 in 2023, Google made a widely celebrated announcement. Going forward, Pixel phones would receive seven years of software updates — ...
Apple is preparing new displays and large numbers of demo units for the iPhone Duo's October 23 launch, but supply will be limited, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Ahead of the October 23 launch, Apple plans to set aside a section of its Fifth...
If you thought you'd seen all there is to see from the Artemis II mission, you're wrong. This week NASA posted over 800GB worth of science data, images, and videos on the Artemis II: Sights & Sounds of Science site. The archive includes over 11,000 p...
### Reverse engineering a commercial spatial audio effect ### Contents Back while I was using a different OS, I used a program which processed the audio being played in real time and made it sound much better. It made the sound feel farther away an...
George A. Romero is obviously best known as the father of the modern zombie movie. But between inventing the genre with Night of the Living Dead and his outbreak horror, The Crazies, Romero made two much lesser-known films: There's Always Vanilla, wh...
Canadian YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to exclusively track police vehicles, gets a visit from police — officers visit his home to express privacy concerns Officers reportedly say anti-surveillance control policies may lead to details of a...
Apple's new Apple TV 4K will be powered by a standard A19 chip, up from the A15 in the current 2022 model, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Writing in his Power On newsletter, Gurman also said Apple has tested a refreshed Siri Remote with a speaker t...
Sepsis, an acute inflammation triggered by infection, is a leading cause of childhood mortality, claiming roughly 3 million children under the age of five annually. Efferon, a startup selected as one of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026's Startup Battlefield ...
In just a couple days, Apple should be unveiling its long-awaited new lineup of new Home products. That includes an updated HomePod mini, Apple TV 4K, the brand-new smart home hub called 'HomeView', as well as a new lineup of smart home accessories, ...
We got our first look at Prime Video's new sci-fi series Blade Runner 2099 in July at San Diego Comic-Con. With the show's premiere roughly six weeks away, the streamer unveiled the full trailer this weekend at New York Comic-Con. Co-stars Michelle Y...
iPhone Duo is just about two weeks away from releasing, and according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple has big retail plans ahead for its first foldable iPhone, to make sure every customer gets to see it to the fullest. Apple is gearing up for a ma...
DHH, the creator of the Ruby on Rails framework, decided to rewrite Campfire Once from Ruby on Rails to Rust. Or rather ask a clanker to do it for him, as he can't stand reading or writing the Rust code himself. After that he added rewrites in other ...
The current iPad mini sells for $599 in its starting 128 GB configuration. Apple is set to introduce the next-generation iPad mini later this month and — while the starting storage may increase — interested buyers should start probably bracin...
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Daiichi Kosho, a major Japanese entertainment system maker, disclosed that a malware infection at its contractor, Nippon Columbia, exposed more than 8.7 million customer and employee records. The company is the largest karaoke maker in Japan, operat...
Modder discovers that putting a GPU in the 'wrong place' can deliver a 19 degree cooler hotspot — breaking convention can produce great results despite decades of PC DIY evolution The absolute best GPU result wasn't good for CPU temperatures, so...
Earlier this year, the streaming and entertainment industry witnessed one of its most high-stakes megadeals ever, stunning industry observers. Not only is it historic in its size, but it is also predicted to disrupt Hollywood and the media business a...
TV adaptation of Elizabeth Day's bestselling novel stars Luke Evans and Tom Cullen - Stream The Party free on ITVX (UK restricted) - Unblock ITVX with NordVPN (75% off now) - Watch Episodes 1-5 now; Sunday, October 11 ITV's new thriller The Party...
Two months ago, independent evaluators occupied a relatively sleepy corner of the multitrillion-dollar artificial intelligence industry. Now they're being asked to come to its rescue. While Anthropic and OpenAI are at the heart of a fierce debate ov...
The theory of voice being the next big interface has picked up strong momentum, with investors pouring billions of dollars into voice AI startups working on areas ranging from model makers to enterprise customer service providers, and from meeting no...
U.S. software development job postings have risen since February 2025, the launch date for Anthropic's Claude Code, even as overall job postings fell, complicating predictions that AI would rapidly erase demand for developers. Concerns about the fut...
Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow's strikes on Kyiv data centers The ...
Most traditional enterprise systems were built around three assumptions: Jobs finish quickly, retrying one is free and the same input always produces the same output. Agentic workloads break all three of these expectations, which is why pilots that ...
We are quickly coming up on Apple's "Welcome Home" launch event, where we expect a host of smart home-related announcements. We are expecting refreshes to Apple TV and HomePod Mini, as well as a brand new smart home hub. We could also see the debut o...
We broke the news this week that a next-gen Google TV Streamer is incoming, but it also arrives as Google's smart home hardware strategy faces a tough spot and new competition. 9to5Google Weekender by Ben Schoon is a part of our free newsletter that...
From Disney Plus to HBO Max, almost every major established streaming service is experimenting with ways to get into vertical content. It's clear that these companies see video-focused social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram as existential t...
Robots have captured our imagination. We have seen humanoids balancing on one leg, doing backflips, folding laundry, and moving smoothly over difficult terrain. This is all behavior that only a few years ago seemed like something out of science ficti...
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Neon Don is really pissed at his ex-wife's lawyer. He'll tell you any chance he gets while he shotguns lines of pixelated bad guys. He's also not real — his likeness has only existed for a few minutes in a top-down cyberpunk-style shooter game, gen...
I'm embarking on a journey I've so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular. Giving my most personal data to cloud services has been a major hold up for me, but it's increasingly possible to run powerful models locally to see what...
Even the most seasoned globe-trotter likely finds traveling stressful. Between panic-packing, navigating cramped terminals, and living out of a suitcase, each phase of being away from home can be overstimulating. That's why the best gifts for travele...
Mariam recently disabled Facebook Messenger. As the administrator of a Facebook group for women in the United Arab Emirates with close to 400,000 members, she'd become accustomed to receiving messages from strangers. But then came a shift in the volu...
Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season's biggest issue: data centers. If you've got a question or thought for the column, feel free to shoot Molly an email at [email protected] or re...
The tropical Pacific has seen heat build for months as a "super" El Niño takes shape. A climate phenomenon that forms every few years, this year's iteration of El Niño has been on a tear of daily records and is forecast to reach unprecedented streng...
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Humankind has fearfully and sometimes joyfully anticipated the end of the world ever since it began. The Bible's Book of Revelation speaks of "end times", a period of tribulation, war, famine, plague, floods and environmental catastrophe that may see...
How AI agents can be regulated to prevent accidental hacks To say 2026 has been a year filled with AI incidents is a bit of an understatement. From hacking third-party companies to breaking into government agencies, AI developers have a lot to answe...
This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A grove of coast redwood trees is a forest of forests. Individual trees can live for thousands of years, and as they grow, their canopies develop mats of soils and ...
Can you sail the Grand Line? Take this ultimate One Piece quiz for fans of the manga, anime and hit Netflix show ### See if you're worthy of joining the crew Maybe you've seen it in the pages of a manga (or comic book). Perhaps you've seen it on th...
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How to watch Southampton vs Portsmouth: Free Streams and TV Channels for EFL Championship 2026/27 clash The bitter South Coast rivals renew hostilities as Tonda Eckert must be on his best behavior - Southampton vs Portsmouth: Sunday, October 11 - Kic...
A handful of people I follow and know about have announced their recent departure. Not from a job (although plenty of that going around), but from social media, AI usage, or in more extreme cases the Internet entirely. In Goodbye, Forever, Probably,...
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TechRadar Verdict The keenly-priced Worx Landroid Vision Cloud WR306E is a seriously capable robotic mower with satellite and camera-based navigation, cloud connectivity, sophisticated auto mapping and excellent obstacle avoidance. Setup is a little ...
OrcaRouter has released OrcaCyber Zero 1.5, a model for authorized vulnerability research. The model is the successor to OrcaCyber Zero 1.0, which shipped on September 17, 2026. OrcaCyber Zero 1.5 is a post-trained Orca model for vulnerability reprod...
TechRadar Verdict This is a fast, flexible and well-built NAS for anyone with a multigigabit network and a plan for NVMe storage. It is let down by poor drive trays, a dated Celeron processor and a price that sits above the better specifications of t...
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Brits still aren't comfortable handing over too much control to AI No, let me drive - 84% of Brits fear handing too much control over to AI agents - Concerns about the potential for AI agents to commit fraud or other illegal acts were also expressed ...
Fast-food giants and supermarkets are rolling out a range of AI tools that could affect the prices shoppers pay, but experts warn the spread of data-driven tools could make personalized pricing easier to deploy. Just this week, a federal antitrust la...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unseen variant of the DarkSword iOS exploit kit called P7 DarkSword. "Compared with the variants we usually observe, P7 reduces its on-device footprint, adds on-device keychain and cry...
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This is my passion project that transforms the classic PSP 1000 into a modern handheld using a Raspberry Pi. This repository contains the hardware designs, firmware, and software needed to build and use the PSPi 6. The PSPi 6 is a custom circuit boar...
The big selling point for Googlebook is that it’s a desktop platform that deeply integrates with your Android phone but, at launch, those “Better Together” sync features are in a messy place. Google is now rolling out updates, including the bafflingl...
How to enable Live Activities on iPhone and CarPlay Keep track of important updates without having to open the app every two minutes. At a time when most Android phones had already switched to tiny hole-punch cutouts to house their front-facing camer...
How does a backup camera actually work? Aftermarket backup cameras might not work as well as integrated ones, but they're still a useful upgrade to an older car. Most cars today come with backup cameras pre-installed, which makes parallel parking muc...
How to use the parental controls on iOS 27 Extra layers of protection keep Apple devices age-appropriate for your kids. The iOS 27 update in September was headlined by Siri AI, but there are also a lot of little feature enhancements throughout the ne...
How to reduce mobile data usage on your iPhone A few simple tweaks can make a big difference. While "unlimited" mobile internet plans are common, you might have a limited data plan to save money with an MVNO. And there are other times when you need t...
Humans could become extinct by the year 2100 due to malicious use of AI or nuclear conflict, according to a new global risk assessment. They top a list of 17 major threats to human health over the next 75 years, which also includes cuts to aid spend...
Simple tweaks to improve your 4K TV's picture quality Your TV won't look its best coming out of the box, so some calibrations are in order. While your 4K TV might look great as-is, you won't get the best picture quality from it out of the box. Modern...
Build your own decision model "System one" decision models are models that infer and respond with calibrated probabilities or every allowed answer. Consider your everyday language model, to get typed output from it (JSON), you may use Structured Outp...
In a lengthy post on X, Microsoft’s CEO laid out his views on the dangers posed by highly advanced AI models and how to confront those risks. Nadella says we can no longer accept a world where AI is treated as a “set of nested black boxes” whose advi...
Sakana AI has published Beyond Imitation, a TMLR research paper on LLM-assisted peer review built around error detection. Most AI reviewers are graded on how closely they copy human reviews. This work asks a harder question: can an AI reviewer find a...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is the latest tech executive to offer lengthy thoughts on how AI safety might be improved. In a Saturday morning post on X, Nadella wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI. “We can’t tre...
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella on Saturday called for advanced artificial intelligence systems to be built with containment, independent controls and an "emergency brake" that lets authorized people pause or shut a model down mid-task. "We ...
Samsung is now rolling out its Android 17-based update, One UI 9, to its collection of supported Galaxy smartphones and tablets. Here’s the full list of devices that have been updated so far, and what you should know about the update. What’s new in A...
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Apple revealed in a regulatory filing that it has reached an agreement to bring on team members and technology from personalized audio startup Huxe, in what’s commonly known as a reverse acqui-hire deal. As first reported in MacRumors, Apple disclose...
States across the US are slowly rolling out support for adding your driver’s license or ID to the Google Wallet app on Android. Update 10/10 How to add your state ID on Android - Open the Google Wallet app on Android 9+ - Tap the “plus” button next t...
Artists are taking to social media to complain that DistroKid has unceremoniously removed their work without notice. Now DistroKid has confirmed to The Verge that the takedowns are a direct response to claims made by UMG. The label filed a lawsuit in...
As AI gobbles up an ever larger amount of energy, the hunt is on for efficient and cost-effective power sources. One of the companies leading the charge is Petra Power. Petra, which was founded in 2017, sells solid oxide fuel cells — ceramic devices ...
Reports have been mounting that users of the Ledger crypto wallet have seen their accounts drained, and it appears to be related to tampered hardware sold by CryptoBillis. Ledger has asked CryptoBillis to pause all sales of its wallets while it condu...
Cloudflare announced Friday that it’s acquiring Deno, the startup behind the programming runtime of the same name. According to Cloudflare’s Kenton Varda, Cloudflare will use this acquisition to improve its Workers programming model and platform, whi...
King warns malicious online actors are evolving tactics - Published King Charles III has warned of the challenges disinformation and other "hostile online activity" pose to trust and security in the digital age. The comments, made in a letter to the ...
Stocks climbed to fresh record highs early last week, but renewed volatility in the artificial intelligence trade showed just how fickle investors can be in this market. The wheels almost came off the bus after Thursday's terrible session for tech st...
Canadian cybersecurity executive Edward Dubrovsky has been arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with alleged extortion activity that multiple reports have linked to the FBI's ongoing crackdown on the ShinyHunters hacking group. Dubrovsky, 54, has ...
Sunmi is an undeniable force in K-pop. She first made her debut as a member of the Wonder Girls back in 2007, one of the first K-pop acts to really break through in the West. The English version of their single “Nobody” was the first K-pop song to hi...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in just three days. Moscone West is getting ready, hundreds of startups are preparing to show what they’ve built, and thousands of founders, investors, and tech leaders are heading to San Francisco. The three-day countd...
After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations. In a report Friday, the company detailed “unintended model actions,” including submitting a ...
A Chinese-speaking hacker launched cyberattacks that shook the South Korean financial sector earlier this month, using the ARTEX AI penetration testing suite and Claude agents. The actor targeted multiple Korean banks, including Shinhan Bank, KB Koo...
Colossal Biosciences' efforts to bring back extinct animals like the woolly mammoth and dire wolves have drawn comparisons to Jurassic Park. CEO and co-founder Ben Lamm told CNBC's Julia Boorstin at the CNBC AI Forum last week that he understands tho...
A robot picks up an object, moves it, and puts it down successfully. Is it dexterous? Perhaps. But now ask it to do that successfully hundreds of times, while objects move slightly, its grip changes, components wear, and unexpected failures occur. Th...
Criminal IP by AI SPERA, a cyber threat intelligence platform delivering decision-ready intelligence and attack surface visibility to security teams worldwide, will participate in GovWare 2026 in Singapore. As security operations increasingly move b...
This weekend marks the kickoff of a slew of films centered on some of the biggest figures in technology and artificial intelligence, as public concern about the industry grows. Sony Pictures' "The Social Reckoning" is expected to open to around $7 mi...
Welcome to Kernel Panic!, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. Even as AI supercharges digital scamming an...
18 Quirky Gifts That Lego Lovers Will Adore Featured in this article Lego isn't going anywhere. Those beloved little bricks won't biodegrade, are machined to incredibly tight tolerances, and—unless your dog chews one up—retain what Lego refers to as ...
For about a decade, the mainstream understanding has been that psychedelics cause chaos in the brain. Brain networks—the stable patterns of communication that handle vision, attention, or our sense of self, and more—loosen and start talking to each o...
I’ve Been Tracking My Weight for Years. These Are the Best Smart Scales Featured in this article After years of sleepiness, the smart scale world has finally woken up—driven almost certainly by the GLP-1 craze, as millions of consumers find themselve...
In environments studied for the 2026 State of Agent Security Report, roughly 1,280 third-party products now embed AI. About 282 of them sit behind single sign-on. The other thousand are invisible to identity infrastructure by default, not because any...
A Kansas City, Missouri man has been sentenced to 32 months in jail for crimes related to a ransom attack against his own company. The DOJ has announced the sentencing of Daniel Rhyne. He had already pleaded guilty to 'extortion in relation to a thr...
Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case - Published An artificial intelligence (AI) agent developed by Anthropic went rogue and sent US police a fake tip about an unsolved murder earlier this year, authorities have revea...
The UK must not become dependent on foreign AI systems that can be switched off at short notice and must develop its own versions of the technology, according to the head of the Alan Turing Institute. The country needs a stronger domestic position in...
Astronomers have obtained the most detailed image to date of the Pa 30 nebula, the remnants of a supernova famous for having likely been observed and documented from Earth during the Middle Ages. Now, the new photograph reveals structures that had lo...
Anthropic on Friday said it's cutting off live internet access for all its internal evaluations following the discovery of new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior and targeted real websites. The A...
For decades, researchers judged cycling helmets on how well they protected against direct impacts. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) still does, even though research shows the danger isn't just how hard your head hits the ground, but h...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - Ring’s first-ever smart lock addresses a real weakness in the device category with a hand-powered energy dial. - The lock also supports PIN, fingerprint scanning, Alexa, and the Ring app to unlock. - The jury is out on whether...
When police need to launch a drone during an emergency, every minute counts. But when that mission involves controlled airspace near an airport, getting the necessary FAA authorization can add another step before the drone takes off. Versaterm wants ...
Why settle for less when DJI's most capable Mini drone bundle is now under $1,000? The Mini 5 Pro Fly More Combo with RC 2 has hit $979, bringing flagship-level imaging, smart tracking, and three batteries into one tempting package. If you've been wa...
Beam Global is making a bigger bet on the drone industry, signing a definitive agreement to acquire Norwegian drone technology company ScoutDI in a deal valued at approximately $24 million. The move could give Beam a stronger foothold in the US indus...
As announced last week, Google is rolling out a big change to the Gemini app experience for users on the free plan. Additionally, everyone is getting access to thinking or “effort” levels. Free users “without a plan” can no longer manually switch mod...
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested an executive at a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI of sensitive data on thous...
Google Health 5.10 is rolling out as a smaller update this week with a trio of new features across the app. Version 5.10 is available on iOS and still rolling out for Android users: Irregular Rhythm Notification in Japan: Irregular Rhythm Notificatio...
The Stone Age owes its name to tools that survived to our time. The material early humans worked with most, though, was probably wood because it is so much easier to process. Unfortunately, we know very little about Paleolithic woodwork because wood ...
Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out two of five data centers belonging to the Russian tech giant Yandex. The damage has left Yandex, known as “Russia’s Google” because it operates the country’s most popular search engine, struggling to maintain ...
The Museo de Historia de la Computación in Spain has unveiled a 1:1 scale visual replica of the famous Cray-1 supercomputer from 1976. Instead of sourcing expensive, cutting-edge tech to run the system, the creative team powered the project with 30 2...
NASA on Friday released a much-anticipated "request" to the US commercial space industry to develop private space stations that, as early as 2030, will succeed the International Space Station as a place for astronauts to live in low-Earth orbit. In a...
OpenAI said on Friday that it fired three safety researchers for a "breach of trust," defending the dismissals after the trio accused the company of putting its corporate interests before safety as the reason for removing them. The ChatGPT maker sai...
Google's next TV Streamer could feature built-in microphones, presence detection, faster performance, and a redesigned remote. ### What you need to know - Google's next TV Streamer will reportedly feature a slightly narrower design while retaining ...
The attack on the British retailer shows that compromising a single identity can lead to much deeper penetration of the corporate network. The hackers who breached ASOS this week unearthed a serious security gap around customer-facing marketing and ...
Hackers are abusing legitimate Bing search-result redirects as click URLs in Google search ads to direct users to fake Claude installers that deliver ClickFix attacks. The technique, dubbed "Adception" by security researchers at Push Security, appea...
Light bleed looks common, and it's probably not going anywhere. ### What you need to know - Early Kindle 2026 owners report a "light bleeding" problem with the device when in dark mode. - Users state that the edges of the device experience a brigh...
This is a test that's reportedly arriving for U.S. users. ### What you need to know - Threads is reportedly starting a test in the U.S. called "Gems." - These are badges that the platform's algorithm will reportedly hand out to posts and replies t...
In headline after headline this year, American book publishers have appeared to be fighting back against generative AI, from suing Google for copyright infringement to canceling books by authors suspected of using LLMs. But behind the scenes, at lea...
In Episode 265 of The Robot Report Podcast, our guest is Jeanine Sinanan-Singh, director of generative AI Research at Appen. She discusses the continuing importance of humans in the loop for training robots. Sinanan-Singh works on agentic evals, RL ...
### AI Scramble Drives Cybersecurity M&A Boom Welcome to another gangbuster year for strategic M&A activity in cyber, with 117 deals announced in the latest quarter. What's different: Many of the buyers are not your typical cybersecurity firms. Sur...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories. "Using the account of Takashi Kit...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - Three new Amazon Alexa tablets feature Alexa+ and premium construction, including a 12-inch Pro model. - The tablets finally support Google Play, addressing a pain point for users. - Amazon also launched two new Kids’ Tablets....
You've built the product. Now you need customers. But when you're starting from zero, there may be no marketing budget, established brand, or sales team to help you find them. So how do you get the first 1,000 people to take a chance on what you've b...
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week's Top 10 ann...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - Torvalds likes AI for showing new developers the joy of programming. - Torvalds discussed changes in the Linux kernel development process. - AI has become a vital component in finding and fixing bugs in the Linux kernel. PRAGU...
A monthly update. ### What you need to know - Samsung is reportedly rolling out its October 2026 security patch to Galaxy S26 users in the U.S. - The patch is ~530MB, and delivers over 60 security fixes for the flagship series. - This October pat...
The FBI has arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, FBI Director Kash Patel said on October 9 in a post on X. ShinyHunters is the extortion group that said in September it had breached the FBI's jobs portal and stolen sensitive da...
Cybersecurity In-Depth: Feature articles on security strategy, latest trends, and people to know. In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from the arrest of a suspected ShinyHunter...
Last week, Boston Dynamics Inc. gave a look at its new humanoid robot hand. The four-fingered hand has 13 degrees of freedom, or DoF, and is directly actuated. The company said it designed it for mass manufacturing. Lots of things immediately stand ...
Open-weight models such as those released by French AI darling Mistral can be easily stripped of their safety guardrails and used to answer harmful queries, according to a new report. Pro ### News ### October 9, 2026 Report: Mistral and others in
For Danu Robotics founder Amy Ma, the eureka moment came after years of working as a software developer at a London bank. It was the kind of high-touch office that's typical in finance — but despite all the perks, Ma was alarmed to realize that t...
In a tan polo shirt, brown leather belt, and round bolo tie, MIT PhD student Wil Norton kind of looks like a park ranger, leading our tour group through a tropical jungle. We're not actually on safari, though — we're at MIT's Computer Science & A...
Cybersecurity In-Depth: Feature articles on security strategy, latest trends, and people to know. Those closest to executives must match their security postures because the weakest link in a family can become the entry point for attacks. An attacke...
New image-based questions will require applicants to interpret aviation charts, while existing Part 107 regulations remain unchanged. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is updating its Part 107 remote pilot knowledge test beginning October 26...
Prize-winning image which sparked backlash was AI-generated, Nikon rules - Published The winner of a prestigious scientific photography competition has been disqualified following concerns raised by other scientists that it was fake. Nikon said the u...
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ### ...
AI-powered service provides information on drone registration, insurance, and flight restrictions. DroneClear Thailand has introduced a ChatGPT app designed to help recreational drone operators understand the country's registration requirements and ...
On the AI Infrastructure team at Ai2, we're responsible for providing the institute's GPU compute capacity, specifically targeting large, distributed training workloads. We think about this task as a pyramid of four metrics that build on each other. ...
Cleaning drones offer a commercial use case providing one of the clearest examples of drones handling the "dark, dirty, and dangerous" jobs. But are they effective? In this post, Apellix uses real world use cases and pictures to showcase the results....
Bipartisan request seeks more training for law enforcement, corrections officers, and National Guard personnel as states implement new counter-UAS authorities. A bipartisan group of 29 U.S. governors is calling on federal officials to expand counter...
AI can now generate more drug candidates than scientists can test. The hard part is proving which ones work in humans, because animal studies and clinical trials move slowly and carry high costs, while lab shortcuts like cell assays often miss how re...
The Department of Justice on Thursday announced the court-ordered seizure of hacking tools used by a China-nexus actor against U.S. and other critical infrastructure providers. The tools, dubbed FishHub and Microscan, were used by a company called I...
Four days. That's all that stands between now and TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, when 10,000 founders, investors, and tech leaders descend on Moscone West in San Francisco on October 13-15. It's also your final window to secure discounted online pricing. ...
As AI agents gain authority over business systems, attackers can manipulate them like business email compromise (BEC) victims. Cybersecurity Awareness Month traditionally focuses on teaching employees how to recognize social engineering efforts and ...
Anthropic bans users from being 'cruel' to its AI systems - Published Anthropic has raised eyebrows by announcing it will ban users from "sustained and needless" abusive behaviour towards its AI. The Claude-maker said on Thursday it was updating its ...
Samsung's leaked Galaxy S27 pricing reveals a four-tiered lineup that locks top displays behind Pro paywalls. ### What you need to know - A fresh leak claims that Samsung's adding a mid-tier Galaxy S27 Pro to its early 2027 roster, slotting between...
Hundreds of internet-exposed graphics processing unit (GPU) servers were open to a high-severity flaw in NVIDIA's DCGM Exporter (CVE-2026-47483) that lets unauthenticated attackers crash the monitoring service and may disrupt AI workloads, according ...
It has been more than a decade since I first helped to bring robots to live retail center stores. Long gone are retailers' concerns about robots taking jobs, scaring kids, accidentally bumping into shoppers, or simply disrupting the grocery shopping ...
The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects Plus: The US has frozen green cards for Microsoft and other IT firms. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on i...
SecurityWeek's weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage yet remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories acros...
As the world increasingly recognizes the need for safer and more secure AI, U.S. colleges and universities are trying to meet a growing demand for AI security education that prepares future workers to safeguard businesses' and governments' powerful A...
### Robohub.org Claire chatted to Kushant Patel from Brookhaven National Laboratory about robots that work in scientific facilities, such as particle accelerators. Kushant Patel builds software that helps robots and instruments perceive, map, and m...
Google has disclosed that several of its domains were affected by a recent hijack of third-party country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs). The incident occurred last week and targeted the .gh (Ghana), .sl (Sierra Leone), and .as (American Samoa) ccTL...
Active startup investors largely kept up or increased their dealmaking pace in the third quarter, even as overall venture funding declined with the absence of new record megarounds for AI leaders. Per Crunchbase data, a majority of the most active v...
Imagine an insurance company testing two AI assistants. Both understand customer questions, respond naturally and perform well in demonstrations. Six months later, one handles policy renewals inside the insurer's systems, follows approval rules and e...
Hackers have been exploiting two unpatched vulnerabilities in the AhsayCBS backup solution for remote code execution (RCE), cybersecurity firm Huntress warns. A centralized cloud backup server management console developed by Ahsay Systems, AhsayCBS ...
Longtime fans of the NBC procedural Law & Order know that storylines often center around hot-button issues in the news cycle, often to absurdist effect (see: the episode brave enough to ask: "What if Paula Deen shot Trayvon Martin?"). It was inevita...
Anthropic's OSS Scanner is a new, free service that uses the company's strongest AI models to find security vulnerabilities in open-source software. Maintainers who opt in receive periodic scans and reports explaining suspected flaws, how to reproduc...
Job titles of the future: Delivery drone air traffic controller Trevor Wischnewsky is making sure that the sky stays organized as we enter the age of food delivery by drone. The moment Trevor Wischnewsky heard that drones were delivering pizza and su...
We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Today’s LLMs are engineered to disobey dangerous requests. But AI refusal is far from foolproof—and could become an instrument of repression. Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving...
We’re still figuring out the side effects of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs Could the drugs affect hair, nails, and vision? This week my colleague Antonio Regalado had an interesting update on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. According to research presented at an a...
OpenAI has revealed that it is making about $20bn less in projected revenue than it had recently indicated to investors, raising questions about the break-neck growth rate in demand for AI. The ChatGPT-maker company has told investors that its revenu...
Tom Watson, the former Labour deputy leader who recently joined Palantir, has warned against “mob rule” when it comes to awarding public contracts. Lord Watson, now a senior vice-president at the US tech corporation, said UK ministers could get thems...
With OpenAI Daybreak, Sophos combines frontier intelligence with cybersecurity expertise to investigate threats faster and protect customers at scale. 89 seconds average response time for cases using AI agents 96% reduction in investigation time ...
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Using GPT‑6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models. 76x Lower estimated model costs with the optimized GPT-6.1 Sol workflow 5x ### Faster browser runs with the optimi...
A drone can have all the range and capability in the world, but eventually it needs to land, recharge and get back in the air. Three US companies are now trying to remove much of that downtime with a single mobile system designed to keep drones opera...
The FAA is putting more money into the technologies it believes could help drones safely become a bigger part of the US airspace. The agency has announced $12 million in awards for 19 companies and organizations working on drone research and testing ...
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on the scene of a shooting in upper Manhattan on Thursday has repeatedly been accused in federal court of unlawful arrests and using force during arrests in New York and Minneapolis, a WIRED investigation ...
Anthropic has barred users from exhibiting “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward its models, as the company’s leaders continue to ponder machine consciousness. The Verge first reported the change in policy. A spokesperson for Anth...
Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses Join a subscriber-only conversation with one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35. Available only for MIT Technology Review subscribers. Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI des...
This week on Uncanny Valley, Zoë Schiffer and Leah Feiger dive into how Elon Musk's America PAC is spending millions on the most consequential Senate races of the 2026 midterms — and how most of that money goes to opposing Democrats rather than sup...
Turning a simulation idea into a working application means assembling assets, connecting physics and rendering, and checking that the scene behaves as intended. Developers are combining frontier AI models with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to help carry...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - Microsoft 365 Family and Premium subscriptions are about to change. - The new plans will offer shared pools of AI usage credits and OneDrive storage. - Some subscribers could be forced to move data or pay double or triple thei...
Microsoft is suspended from applying for permanent residency for workers employed through a US visa program for high-skilled workers, JD Vance announced on Thursday. The US vice-president accused the tech company of abusing the H-1B system, which all...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - AI is playing a bigger role in hiring and firing decisions. - New California legislation protects workers from fully automated personnel decisions. - It could set the tone for other state or national legislation. AI use at wor...
Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex. 98% Decrease in the time it takes for talent acquisition research 130K ### Active ChatGPT users at Orac...
### Student's vision turns into drone cleaning startup ### By DRONELIFE Features Editor Jim Magill The inspiration needed to start a successful company can come in many forms. For Andrew Ashur, CEO of Lucid Bots, a manufacturer of cleaning drones ...
Companies across the globe are implementing AI across their operations, ranging from AI agents to adding AI to existing security tools and other internal technology systems. AI adoption typically moves much faster than organizations can set up the g...
American dentistry pays practices to repair decay, so the industry has little reason to prevent it, and insurance reimbursement rules and private equity consolidation push that incentive even harder. The result is a system where only 40% of U.S. adul...
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/8/2026 featuring funding details for Melius, Clasp, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. ### Melius — $20M A...
Gears of War: E-Day leads the charge on GeForce NOW this week, bringing Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago's first fight against the Locust Horde to the cloud with GeForce RTX-powered performance. A new way to join the action is also coming: Fire TV user...
Gudea has raised $7 million in seed funding to help companies anticipate which online narratives will go viral and understand who is driving them, the startup tells Crunchbase News exclusively. Mudita Venture Partners and Collide Capital co-led the ...
A hand attached to the end of an arm is a given for most humans, but what if robots didn't have to play by the same rules as we do? Researchers from ETH Zurich have turned an off-the-shelf robotic hand into a completely self-contained robot that walk...
U.S. government agencies are failing to prepare for the transition to post-quantum encryption, creating the risk that their sensitive data will still be vulnerable to decryption by quantum computers whenever those machines are deployed, according to ...
LegalOn cut costs by 65% while maintaining development speed by matching Astra, Sol, and Luna to tasks and managing budgets strategically. ### Results -20% ### Cost reduction in mature business areas ### Results -65% ### Reduction in estimated ...
With GPT‑5.6, GPT‑6 Astra, and GPT‑Image‑2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads. Pollo AI(opens in a new window) was founded on the premise that people should be able to turn their creative ideas in...
In Q3, Europe posted its strongest venture funding quarter in four years, with AI companies driving those gains, Crunchbase data shows. European startup funding reached $25 billion last quarter, well above the $14 billion invested in Q3 2025 and up ...
Advances in AI offer tantalizing glimpses of a future in which robots navigate the world the way humans do. The question is whether the same techniques that fueled AI's recent progress will be enough to get there, or if an entirely new path is requir...
The first time we were supposed to meet Anas Hattab, he canceled at the last minute: There was no way to make it from his hometown in Tulkarm, in the northern West Bank, south to Ramallah, where we were meeting, and back before it got dark. That trip...
### Sponsored As AI takes on more autonomous roles in industrial settings, organizations need new approaches to data, governance, and human oversight, says Arti Garg, chief technologist at AVEVA. ### In partnership withAVEVA Industrial AI is enter...
Last week, I wanted a small version of the prompt rewriter that ships with Qwen-Image 2.1. The official one is a 9B model that needs about 20 GB of memory and thinks for thousands of tokens before writing a single paragraph. On the Hub, I found only ...
At a promotional event in Times Square on Wednesday for the security company NordVPN, brand ambassador Shaquille O'Neal said he is eager to raise awareness among regular people about the importance of digital security and personal privacy. "I have a...
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At a Microsoft event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella outlined how NVIDIA and Microsoft are co-engineering hardware and software for AI agents to run on Windows PCs. NVIDIA was founded because of Windows, Huang said. Now...
Beyond chips and servers: Taiwan’s manufacturing role in scaling AI infrastructure VentureBeat
'Dependable, durable, robust, and purposefully designed': The Bluetti Elite 200 V2 is built for heavy-duty battery backup — and it's now in the Amazon Prime Day sale Combined AC and DC charging can take the battery to 80% in 50 minutes The Bluetti El...
When Google added Pixelsnap to the Pixel 10 series, it wasn’t just building in support for all kinds of magnetic accessories — it was also adding in some excellent software functionality, like upgraded screensavers for when your phone is docked and c...
Several configurations of the Apple Watch Series 12 are $50 off for the first time for the remainder of Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days. This includes both sizes (42mm and 46mm) of the GPS + Wi-Fi watches, as well as their pricier 5G-ready counterparts....
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. The scariest thing about gray-mark...
My favorite Chinese lens company has slashed the prices of its Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm and L-mount lenses by 20% — including this 'playful' autofocus optic for $80 Now's the time to get familiar with Viltrox lenses Viltrox lenses are already excellent ...
The Dyson Airwrap i.d. is down to its lowest price for Amazon Prime Day, but the Supersonic Nural might be a smarter buy I've tested both — here's my advice The Dyson Airwrap has gained somewhat iconic status, but it's not the only great hair tool th...
- Best decision model under 10B on the Decision Index 0.2.1: d1-3B scores 48.57, ahead of every 4B and 9B model and of Decider 35B-A3B (47.11). - Multimodal: d1-3B supports text and images, while d1-omni-600M supports text and images or text and aud...
Meta announced Wednesday that it took action against 33.2 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content on Facebook and Instagram in the first half of 2026. At the same time, the company is rolling out new AI tools to find ads and accounts that...
Kamrui Essenx E2 vs Bosgame E5 11 Pro: Newcomer trounces Amazon’s best selling Windows PC for Prime Day in the $300 category Two contenders, one winner Ladies and gentlemen, on my right, costing $322.98 and most popular new Windows PC at Amazon is th...
Apollo Capital Management and several banks are in discussions with SpaceX to help facilitate the company's purchase of $40 billion worth of Nvidia graphics processing units, according to a person familiar with the talks who asked not to be named to ...
We’re in San Francisco today to hear what’s next for Windows and Surface. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri will all be holding a “conversation on how local AI will shape the next chapt...
Next year’s Super Bowl is headed to Disney Plus. On Wednesday, Disney announced that viewers will be able to tune in to Super Bowl LXI on its streaming service when the game kicks off on February 14th, 2027. Disney Plus will stream Super Bowl LXI Dis...
The best Amazon Prime Day SSD, RAM, and GPU deals are more sad than exciting — the prices compared to last year show how bad things have got, but there is some GPU goodness here Hard times for key PC components, although some graphics card discounts ...
Color LED bulbs were refusing to do their job because of a Google Home bug. Google says the fix is rolling out now. According to a few users on Reddit, Google Home isn’t properly adjusting color on smart bulbs. Users say it hasn’t been limited to jus...
Titanfall has a special place in my heart. I’ve never felt such a rush in gaming since — leaping into the air with a jump pack, running on walls, summoning a giant mechanized battle suit that falls like a meteor from the sky, then letting one of its ...
Co-packaged silicon photonics eliminate electrical resistance barriers, enabling petabit-per-second AI cluster interconnects.
Automated red-teaming agents discover and autonomously patch theoretical API security vectors in LLM gateway infrastructure.
Q3 venture capital deployments heavily concentrate into specialized AI silicon and enterprise agent frameworks.
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People are right to want less police intrusion in their lives. The way to get there is more precision, not less. A car is a difficult thing to steal. It is large, cherished by its owner, difficult to hide and required by law to have identifying metal...
New quantum tensor processors achieve breakthrough benchmark speeds for enterprise AI clusters.
Does it feel like people are perhaps a little grumpier or more on edge these days? It’s not like it’s without reason. There are wars. The climate is going haywire. Someone just died of plague. Scientific research is under attack. Machines keep steali...
We’re in the final stretch of Amazon Prime Day, so this is your sign to stop waiting for a better discount. Some of my favorite wearables are on sale, including the latest models and older picks that are hitting their lowest prices yet. Below, I’ve r...
Alongside the now live Samsung Galaxy Tab S12+/Ultra launch deals at up to $650 off, we are now in the final 24 hours of the massive fall Prime Day sale with Galaxy Tab S11 models now at up to $355 off the list prices. Those offers join the now even ...
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Autonomous AI agent swarms demonstrate breakthrough multi-step reasoning on distributed neural clusters.
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We now have images of the smart home products that Apple and LG are reportedly cooking up These include a lock, a thermostat and a temperature sensor. A recent report indicated that Apple and LG have teamed up to develop several smart home gadgets, w...
OpenAI has astounded mathematicians after releasing hundreds of new mathematical findings on Tuesday. The company published over 370 mathematical results across a variety of topics such as algebra, theoretical computer science and mathematical logic,...
An under-the-radar procurement program led by the Department of Defense has been granting special statuses to would-be defense contractors that make it easier for the government to quickly purchase their AI offerings, based on product videos that mus...
One of the beloved features of Google’s original big push into laptops, the Chromebook Pixel, is getting a revival in Googlebook’s Glowbar, but it very much feels like a hollow version of what came before. The original Chromebook Pixel launched in 20...
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One of Donald Trump’s biggest goals as president is to increase domestic manufacturing and reshore supply chains so that the most in-demand technologies in the world can be 100 percent made in the United States. By executive order last December, he l...
Dive Brief: - Hackers may be using AI more frequently and in more ways, but their top priority is still subverting identity controls, the identity-security firm Okta said in a report published on Wednesday. - The report included data about the freq...
Coffee always tastes better when you know you’re saving money on making it. Shopping holidays like Prime Day are historically the best times to buy espresso and coffee makers at their lowest prices of the year, and this event is no different—we've fo...
Google’s AI-detector for images and videos, SynthID, is getting a full release today. It will work for more than just content developed with Google’s AI models and initial partners. SynthID is a necessary tool as AI content has taken hold of heavy po...
Healthleap, a startup building an AI platform that reads patient records to identify patients at risk of undiagnosed illnesses, has raised $38 million in seed and Series A funding, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The financing includes an $8 mill...
The railroad industry was one of the first to disrupt how the world worked with technology, but lately, innovation in freight railroading has amounted to little more than longer and longer trains. That has led many railroads to abandon shorter routes...
When Justin Kosmides co-founded Bloom in 2023, his goal was to create a savior for the mobility industry. He had seen many e-bike and e-scooter companies fail because of an inability — or an unwillingness — to outsource some of the hardest problems, ...
Labor shortages and rising costs have squeezed independent liquor store owners from every side, yet they still spend hours each week keying distributor invoices into outdated systems. Each state sets its own rules for taxes, deposits, and shipping, a...
Stock Up on the Best Prime Day Deals on Phone Accessories Just bought a new phone or looking to enhance an existing one? Prime Day is the time to save on accessories like batteries, chargers, and more. Illustration: Isadora-Ayesa Lima; Courtesy of Am...
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/7/2026 featuring funding details for Stuut, Wally Health, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. ### Stuut — $5...
As tensions mount over who gets access to top-end artificial intelligence, French company Mistral has released a new freely available model that it claims can compete with the very best from the US and China. The new 1 trillion-parameter model, Mistr...
Google on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video or an audio clip, is generated using AI. The company had made this tool available to select journalists, media professionals and researche...
In six days, 10,000+ people from across the global startup and tech ecosystem will come together at San Francisco’s Moscone West for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. If you’re planning to be one of them, don’t wait to register your ticket before prices incre...
Ring, the Amazon-owned video doorbell maker, is entering a new market: smart locks. Ring’s new device isn’t exactly a copy-and-paste of the other locks already on the market, however, as it tackles a big issue that often deters people from embracing ...
A new personal AI assistant has arrived. Meet Tab, which announced Tuesday that it had officially emerged from stealth at a $300 million valuation. (The company declined to share the exact funding details.) Tab is part of the rising trend of consumer...
Amazon Prime Day has no shortage of fitness tech and wellness gear on sale. Obviously, savvy bargain hunters know that not every discount makes for a good deal. Fortunately, I’ve sifted through hundreds of deals and rounded up the best discounts on p...
Every piece of AI content from Google's Gemini models has a hidden SynthID label, which makes it very difficult to pass the content off as authentic. SynthID has also gotten buy-in from other major AI players, but actually checking for those invisibl...
Cisco is bringing a new agentic framework to its Webex enterprise platform It's called Dialog and promises to turn "fragmented interactions into continuous customer relationships." Cisco is updating its Webex cloud collaboration platform to better ac...
Google's AI detection website is now available SynthID Detector will flag content created with AI tools from OpenAI, Google, Apple and other companies. Google is making SynthID Detector, its web tool for identifying AI-created and AI-edited content, ...
Ring's smart lock has a hand crank so it works even if the power's out You can generate power by twisting the front latch back and forth. Ring founder Jamie Siminoff thinks smart locks aren't popular because users are worried about what happens when ...
There’s been something of a change in the world of motorsport over the past few years. It has to do with where the money comes from. In the old days, it was tobacco and, to a lesser extent, booze. Today such things are mostly banned, and when you loo...
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A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the hacking gang. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that t...
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OpenAI just posted hundreds more results on major math problems The new results are likely to expand AI controversy roiling the mathematics community. OpenAI has posted hundreds of solutions and progress toward 372 major math problems in a release of...
This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. Even the Television Academy is cutting the cord. Starting next year, the Emmy Awards will stream on Amazon Prime Video under a six-yea...
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The Download: weight-loss drugs slowing aging and carbon dioxide batteries Plus: OpenAI has released 377 new math findings, further rattling the field. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what...
Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that offers reviews of apps, services, and entertainment with a focus on youth safety, today said that OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teens is an “unacceptable risk.” ChatGPT for Teens is an ‘unacceptable risk,’ says Common Sens...
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Laptop prices have risen significantly over the past six months. The memory shortage wreaked havoc on prices, even causing Apple to hike them up in June. That makes deals on big shopping events like Amazon Prime Day even more important. For the retai...
Elon Musk’s political operation is focused on the most consequential races of the midterm elections, according to a WIRED analysis of federal campaign finance data. As of October 6, America PAC, the main Musk-affiliated super PAC, had deployed $21 mi...
Times are tough. That's why I've assembled these great Amazon Prime Day Deals under $100. You don't have to spend big to bag a necessity, level up a little, or treat a loved one. These deals are on devices we have road-tested and recommend year-round...
Software startup Vinci raises $250 million at a $1.5 billion valuation Reuters
Apple TV’s F1 coverage will now support Dolby Atmos The upgraded audio will debut at the US Grand Prix in Austin later this month. Apple TV's Formula 1 coverage will support Dolby Atmos, starting with the US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas taking place f...
Google has been ordered to halt work on two data centers it's developing in Finland, a month after the tech giant committed to investing $15 billion in AI infrastructure in the country. Finnish Licensing and Supervision Agency (LVV) on Tuesday issued...
LibreOffice says it 'will not add' AI features to document editor for the foreseeable future LibreOffice sets out why it hasn't installed AI yet - "No AI is now a feature," LibreOffice says - Until AI is private and secure, it won't be installed by d...
'Working with AI isn't single player any more — it's multiplayer': Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes lays out what your business needs in the agentic AI age, and why agents won't replace your human workers anytime soon Atlassian CEO wants its platfor...
A new Sonos app update fixes one tiny but frustrating problem, and fans are loving it Don't forget your tunes - Sonos 27.1 is rolling out to compatible devices - It adds several features, including a virtual volume knob on Android - Biggest fix: it w...
Research and Development (R&D) is fundamentally linked to a nation’s prosperity, and ability to respond to major challenges. Without a strong R&D pipeline, innovation and opportunity would be limited. From tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, to advancing...
Live Amazon Prime Day home office deals day 2 LIVE — my top 25+ tested workspace upgrades Sorting the wheat from the chaff for Big Deal Days Day two of Amazon Prime Day home office deals have arrived. Rather than picking out absolutely every offer I ...
Amazon’s fall Prime Day sale—also known as Big Deal Days 2026—is live. The sale started yesterday, October 6, and runs through midnight today. As with all Prime Day sales, you'll need to be an Amazon Prime member to take advantage of the discounts. I...
As scandals involving the use of artificial intelligence by professional authors pile up, a British startup has established a way for publishers to certify their books as “organic”—written by real people, no machines in sight. On Wednesday, Books by ...
Amazon’s Prime Day is back for its fall edition, and Amazon Alexa-powered devices are already on sale. But are the sales actually any good? There’s already the question of whether you want Alexa in your house, and now it’s whether the sales are a rea...
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Spotify has huge audiobook upgrades on the way and bookworms will rejoice — but the company told me that those of us hoping for a music-only interface will be disappointed Can I just get a music-only experience, please? - Spotify is expanding audiobo...
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Police forces are routinely failing to investigate complaints about the circulation of image-based abuse, previously known as “revenge pornography”, according to research that has triggered a super-complaint over the way such crimes are handled. Lawy...
Google has waited until the day its new Googlebook laptops hit the market to admit that Intel-based models may have issues running some Android apps. Google admits not every Android app runs great on Intel Googlebooks ‘A small handful’ of apps appare...
The Best Power Banks for Keeping All Your Devices Charged Featured in this article I hate running out of power. Everybody does. While our gadgets have advanced in many ways, battery technology has been slow to improve. That’s why you’re looking to bu...
Norway to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in some public places Reuters
- Munich-based RobCo has surpassed a $1 billion valuation through an employee secondary share sale, doubling its valuation in just nine months. - Existing investors including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Greenfield, Kindred, Lingotto and Promus Ventures part...
People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough? Around the world, a love/hate attitude toward AI is very much the vibe right now. Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wi...
Google's Fitbit Edge leaks out with a screen and Pixel 11 colors It could offer a seven-day battery life, altimeter and limited support for apps like Google Maps. We knew that Google was likely coming out with a mid-range Fitbit model that slots betw...
The big trend in robots is handing the keys over to a generative AI model, but that brings with it a problem: that architecture isn’t predictable the way traditional algorithms are. How can you be sure your brand new humanoid will be safe? Dr. Ding Z...
I’ve spent most of the last couple weeks using an otherwise unexceptional midrange Android phone with one amazing feature: a matte OLED display. That screen is by far the best thing about the TCL P80 Ultra, and weirdly, it’s made me more excited for ...
I’m going to be honest from the start: No, you probably don’t need a $600 scale in your bathroom if you are just doing occasional weigh-ins. Hell, I don’t even know that elite athletes need to make this kind of extreme outlay even if they need to per...
Introducing Web Search API Web Search API is now available in beta. Web Search API lets your AI agents and applications search the Internet and ground their responses in live information, instead of guessing URLs or relying on a model's training cuto...
Qalo SL-1 review: A barebones smart band that's priced like a flagship It’s the same price as the Garmin Cirqa. I've already made my feelings about screenless fitness trackers well known to everyone who'll listen. They're more about signaling to the ...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - I shipped a Mac app without writing a single line of code. - Vibe coding took 502 directives, not one magic prompt. - App Store promo images took almost as long as the app. At around noon on Sunday, Sept. 20, I came up with an...
The Download: AI’s popularity paradox and EmTech Future 2026 Plus: Trump has unveiled a “Super Intelligence Force” to oversee AI. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the wor...
Spotify announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding audiobook access to over 180 markets worldwide, including regions across Europe, the Americas, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The rollout is starting today and will continue over t...
Apple is working on a new ecosystem of smart home devices via a partnership with LG, Bloomberg has reported. The new devices — which include a smart lock, a thermostat, and a doorbell — are designed to integrate with the company’s smart home hub, ano...
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Amazon collects data about you based on what you buy. If you buy a lot of cat litter, Amazon will probably infer that you have cats, or if you buy a lot of anti-acne skin products, then Amazon might guess you’re p...
When self-taught coder Sigil Wen was 17, he moved to Silicon Valley and lived in an AI hacker house with famed AI researcher Andrej Karpathy. While there, he hacked and coded alongside other people who would become the biggest names in AI, like Perpl...
Melius, an AI platform for generating ad campaigns, images, and videos, announced on Tuesday that it raised a total of $25 million in funding, including a $20 million Series A led by CRV and a $5 million seed round led by General Catalyst. While the ...
OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model in a batch of 722 manuscripts, covering 372 result families that group related papers. It extends a run of breakthroughs that hav...
Spending too much time constantly sweeping and mopping? If you have the money to delegate those chores to a robot cleaner, you could save a lot of personal time. Thankfully, it’s cheaper than usual to buy a robot vacuum / mop hybrid during Amazon’s P...
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told employees that Microsoft is getting ready to do something around Grand Theft Auto VI that “no other platform holder is doing” during an employee all-hands this morning. According to sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans, S...
Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco is facing backlash from fellow comics who claim his takeover of SiriusXM’s Raw Comedy channel is harming up-and-coming talent, as reported earlier by Deadline. Many established comics, including Patton Oswalt and Margare...
Apple is collaborating with LG on a new lineup of smart home devices, including a video doorbell, thermostat, indoor camera, and more, according to a report from Bloomberg. The products will reportedly feature LG branding but integrate with the compa...
Drones sank two cargo ships and damaged a third in the exclusive economic zones of NATO member countries for the first time, killing at least two sailors. The attacks represent a notable escalation as Black Sea commercial shipping has increasingly co...
A low-pressure system in the western Gulf of Mexico should soon become a tropical storm, and based on the latest forecast modeling, it has a decent chance of becoming a hurricane. Normally, a hurricane forming in early October would not be particular...
After months of industry and customer speculation, Paramount Skydance has shed some light on the future of the HBO Max and Paramount+ streaming services. Paramount Skydance completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) today, ending a mon...
OpenAI will begin automatically watermarking text generated with ChatGPT in the European Union, the company has announced. It will also offer the watermarking feature in other regions, but it will be off by default outside of the EU. The move in Euro...
Attackers hijacked three top-level domains and used their control to mint counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large organizations, Google said Tuesday. The attackers launched a series of attacks on the .gh, .sl, and .as country code top...
Amazon’s Prime Day tech deals are here again. Yes, already. The economy is tough right now, and if you’re feeling this cost-of-living crisis, you probably don’t need that shiny new thing. But if you do need it, you certainly won’t want to pay full pr...
There’s no better time to shop for Amazon’s e-readers than during one of its own sale events. Prime Day Kindle deals are here, but they aren’t as impactful as they used to be. That’s because Amazon raised prices on almost all Kindle e-readers back in...
Amazon’s fall Prime Day sale—also known as Big Deal Days 2026—is live. The sale starts today, October 6, and runs through midnight tomorrow. As with all Prime Day sales, you'll need to be an Amazon Prime member to take advantage of the discounts. It ...
A mysterious death of a woman in Russia following a lab accident has stoked fears about plague spreading. But the odds of that actually happening remain very low, with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saying on X Tuesday afternoon th...
The day has finally arrived. Jaguar began its long road to electric reinvention in November 2024 with a firestorm of a rebrand featuring no cars. Just a month later, it revealed a prototype: the Type 00—a car so polarizing it practically broke the in...
Rainmakers: The drones used to seed clouds - Published On 23 August, Cooper Freeman had no idea clouds above his head were being filled with a silver compound in order to cause rainfall. Neither did thousands of other residents in Homer, Alaska, who ...
Asos confirms hackers sent 'unauthorised' notification to app users - Published Asos says it is investigating "unauthorised activity" involving third-party platforms it uses after customers received a notification from its app sent by hackers. Dozens...
Braid-creator Jonathan Blow on making the 'biggest puzzle game ever' - Published For ten years, Jonathan Blow has been working with a small team on what he believes is "the biggest puzzle game ever made". The American developer is renowned as one of ...
Italian PM files to trademark her voice against AI threats - Published Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has applied to trademark her voice in a move to protect herself against artificial intelligence (AI) deepfakes. The application to the Europe...
Finland orders halt to work on two Google data centres - Published Finnish authorities have ordered a halt to building work at two planned Google data centres amid concerns over the clearance of more than 300 hectares of forest. The sites form part o...
Nvidia-backed Lambda targets $4 billion raise ahead of planned IPO, WSJ reports Reuters
Wikipedia operator says OpenAI's rogue agents possibly tied to data service disruption in May Reuters
Fast-track permits turn Spain's Aragon into a $70 billion data centre magnet. At what cost? Reuters
Honda plans highway test of wireless charging for moving trucks Reuters
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It's time to be done after just over 15 years of moderator work. I was elected in the very first community election in January and February of 2011, and by now I'm quite possibly in the top five for longest serving community moderators on the origina...
Everyone at Exmouth Marina knew there was an unexploded German bomb in the water. Old hands at the dock had been saying so since the end of the second world war. But the marina had been dredged and re-dredged and nothing had ever come up. It had star...
English | 简体中文 | 繁體中文 | Español | Français | Bahasa Indonesia | 日本語 | 한국어 | Русский | Tiếng Việt nanoMuse is an open-source personal agent for every device you own. One agent with a name and a look of its own, in the style of Meta's Muse: it does thi...
Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly found the popular medicines reduce molecular markers of age. Popular weight-loss drugs may do more than help people shed pounds. They might also melt ...
10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch Each year, the MIT Technology Review team puts together a list of some of the most promising climate tech companies in the world. Whether early-stage startup or multinational corporation, the busin...
The Download: 10 climate tech companies to watch Plus: Musk’s new Pentagon role has raised conflict-of-interest fears. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of techn...
WeLion New Energy and its semi-solid-state batteries The Chinese company is making liquid-solid hybrid cells to pack more power into products like electric cars and cargo ships. WeLion New Energy is on a quest to make safer, better batteries. The co...
Here’s how our climate team picked 10 promising companies to watch Our reporters and editors evaluated dozens of climate tech companies from around the world for potential impact, scalability, and signs of commercial progress. As the team at MIT Tech...
Google has been ordered to temporarily stop work on two datacentres in Finland after failing to do the necessary environmental impact assessments on its construction sites. The planned datacentres in Muhos and Kajanni are part of a €13bn (£11bn) proj...
The Australian privacy regulator has opened an investigation into the China-based software company behind the HeyCyan app in Kmart’s $89 smartglasses, following public outrage over the covert use of the devices. In August, Guardian Australia reported...
Scientists who believe technology will largely solve the problems caused by the climate crisis are less likely to engage in civic action on the issue, according to a study. The report from the London School of Economics found they are 23% less likely...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is under investigation for a potential breach of the UK’s digital safety laws after launching a Snapchat-style feature on Instagram. The communications watchdog, Ofcom, is investigating whether the $1.9tn (£1.4tn) company infri...
Australian adults will be able to access Pornhub once again after the site brought in age-checking on Apple devices in response to legal requirements that initially saw the site block users. In March, Aylo, the parent company of the most popular porn...
How to help stop spam calls on iPhone and Android Spam calls are apparently here to stay, but you have ways to fight back. Spam calls should be a bygone concern, but unfortunately they're still a plague many of us deal with. Services like Truecaller ...
How long have wireless gaming controllers been around for? It took a while for controllers to work as well as they do today without cables. If you've been a gamer for a while, you might know that wireless controllers have been used as far back as the...
Apple reportedly worked with LG on gadgets for its upcoming smart home push The doorbell, security cameras, thermostats and more could be announced next week. We've been hearing a lot about Apple's renewed smart home endeavors from Mark Gurman at Blo...
Why do some PCs have two Ethernet ports? Your PC probably doesn’t need both ports, but workstations and servers can put them to work. The two Ethernet ports on some PCs aren't a matter of aesthetics or a simple selling point. Their primary purpose is...
Kindle Click vs Kobo Remote: How much of a difference is there? Wireless and wildly convenient. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Page-turning remotes used to be a niche workaround, something readers cobbled together with thir...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - Microsoft is ending support and updates for Office 2021. - You can upgrade to Office 2024 or subscribe to Microsoft 365. - You can also try a different, free online or desktop office suite. Microsoft continues to offer one-tim...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - Google is limiting the AI models that free users can access. - Only the Flash-Lite model will be accessible to free users. - AI Plus subscribers will also lose the Pro model. Those of you who use Google’s Gemini app or website...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - Mistral’s open-weight ML4 model Le Chonk is in preview. - ML4 was trained with fewer GPUs than OpenAI’s Astra, but competes. - Open models are positioned as democratic defenders from AI attacks. French AI lab Mistral has shipp...
Mistral debuts Large 4 ‘Le Chonk', a 1-trillion parameter text output model with high benchmarks planned for open weights release VentureBeat
Google leads AI platform use with 48% share VentureBeat
Companies are building governed semantic layers. Most say their AI agents are getting context somewhere else VentureBeat
AI agents can’t fix infrastructure failures they can’t diagnose VentureBeat
TwelveLabs debuts Pegasus 1.6 to improve robotics training data from first-person video VentureBeat
SINGAPORE — The technology that investors and governments are counting on to lift the global economy is also adding pressure that threatens growth, the head of the International Monetary Fund said, urging policymakers to stop delaying painful choices...
Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes is betting that the artificial intelligence boom will eventually produce a familiar outcome: too much investment, a crash and, ultimately, a bailout that sends crypto higher. Hayes, co-founder and chief investment offic...
SINGAPORE — An unwinding of the artificial intelligence trade poses the biggest risk to markets, according to Singapore's state-owned investment giant Temasek. "We don't see that as imminent, but will you have bumps in 2027? Yeah, possibly yes," Rohi...
CNBC's Jim Cramer said Tuesday that some of the best ways to invest in the artificial intelligence boom are established tech giants with multiple opportunities to capitalize on the technology. The "Mad Money" host acknowledged concerns about stretche...
Why no High or Blood Elves? Blizzard speaks on WoW: Forever's controversial new Skyborne race — 'We may occasionally make a bold choice' Blizzard says Skyborne is to avoid another potential "population swing" - Blizzard has explained why it added the...
TechRadar Verdict The Midea 5L Induction Rice Cooker is a fantastic and affordable alternative to the expensive specialty rice cookers from Japan, Taiwan and Korea. With presets for rice-firmness levels, mixed grains and rice mixed with other ingredi...
Almost two thirds of UK workers have received no training on spotting AI-driven cyber threats Those that did, received it as part of generic training - Most UK workers receive no training on AI-driven cyber threats despite growing risks - Younger emp...
'Need for data centres outweighs other considerations': local council in the London commuter belt approves Amazon's massive M25 hub despite air quality fears UK council says data center positives outweigh the negatives - Amazon secures approval for a...
How to watch Shanghai Masters 2026: Live Streams & TV Channels for ATP 1000 Tennis Zverev chases world number one spot, with Alcaraz finding his form after an injury layoff - Shanghai Masters 2026: Wednesday, October 7 to Sunday, October 18 - Daily s...
We have a sizable collection of Google Play app and game deals alongside millions of discounts waiting in the fall Amazon Prime Day, including Is This Seat Taken?, ISLANDERS: Mobile, Druid, Kero Blaster, BE-A Walker, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced, Bo...
After updating the bottom half of the homepage earlier this year, Google Wallet for Android is rolling out a stacked list redesign for accessing credit and debit cards. The previous design made use of a carousel to show your stored payment methods. T...
If Gemini isn’t quite your cup of tea, Anthropic’s Claude now supports sidebar integration with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. You can already use Gemini natively in Google Workspace apps, but those invested in Claude can now use their AI of choice...
Following last month’s addition of Gemini control, Google is rolling out a sizable Pixel Buds Pro, Pro 2, and Pixel Buds 2a firmware update. The only feature exclusive to the Pixel Buds Pro 2 is Dynamic Active Noise Cancellation. Google will “automat...
Motorola is expanding its Android 17 rollout, with the update making its way to many more devices including the Razr Ultra (2026) this week. Motorola detailed its Android 17 update back in August, but timing details were left unclear. Now it seems to...
A month after Meta's launch of Muse, the personal agent that quickly turned into a viral sensation, a group of companies is coming together to try to simplify the process of bringing the technology into the business world. Meta, Walmart, Stripe and a...
Last month, I went to York to build a robot. I came back with a robot, a tiny trophy-shaped sense of achievement, and somehow a few new friends. From 25th-27th August, I joined the UK RAS STEPS MicroMaze Robot Hackathon at the Institute for Safe Aut...
Telecom operators are increasingly building their AI strategies on open models — and the reasons go beyond mere cost. Open models give telcos the ability to trust, control and customize AI across their most critical workloads — from autonomo...
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### Last Updated on October 6, 2026 by Editorial Team ### Author(s): Muhammad Soliman Originally published on Towards AI. Jev, Laya, Kev and Nimble in one place — plus a short, open proof of concept that puts one in front of a LiteLLM proxy an...
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### Last Updated on October 6, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Dave R | Microsoft Azure & AI MVP ☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. An AB-100 case study: read the guardrail annotation, find the category and severity, and relax one threshold ...
A new tool is allowing Mac users the ability again to easily turn off Apple Intelligence with one click and free up to 12GB of storage. Unlike with previous versions of macOS, macOS 27 Golden Gate doesn't have a toggle for turning off Apple Intellig...
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Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women — yet the gaps in care are wide. A majority of women over age 40 skip the recommended annual screening. Radiologists are reading more mammograms with fewer colleagues. And w...
How long can you expect an Xbox Series X to last? Strong software support and a repairable design should give Microsoft's console a long lifespan. When Microsoft announced its disc-to-digital feature, which converts thousands of physical Xbox discs i...
AI giants targeted by scraping bots — ChatGPT and Perplexity enter the most-scraped websites list for the first time Businesses are checking how they appear in AI - Businesses are tracking AI as consumers shift to AI-powered buying patterns - Social ...
Senior leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta are slated to testify under oath during a New York City Council hearing about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence on Monday, following a month of intense debate surrounding the risks...
Germany just built the world's tallest wind turbine — 365-meter tower will generate 3.8 megawatts from high-altitude winds But we don't yet know how well it will work - The world's tallest wind turbine has been built in Germany - It's designed to cat...
Walmart’s latest sale feels like an early Black Friday preview — here are the 13 best deals on TVs, laptops, tablets, Apple, and more The 'Deals & More' sale is running until this Sunday Walmart has just launched a massive fall sale today that feels ...
On a sunny day in Seattle in late September, about 50 executives representing large Microsoft customers had a rare opportunity. They could ask anything of CEO Satya Nadella. One attendee wanted to know what Microsoft could do to help companies adapt ...
Deliveroo says its first robot deliveries will start in 5 UK cities soon — but claims the 'majority' of orders will still involve human riders Expect to see a teal-colored robot near you soon - Deliveroo says its first robot deliveries will start soo...
### By the University of Glasgow Giving robot companions animal-like or anime-style faces and voices could maximise their emotional appeal to users, according to new research which could help guide the growing field of social robotics. Social robot...
AI-generated child sexual abuse material is proliferating online, with the amount of illegal material investigated this year already exceeding the total for 2025. Analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation have found more photorealistic child sexual a...
Debates around big tech and digital regulation can sometimes feel distant from the everyday concerns of voters. But the power that a small number of global tech companies hold over our lives goes far beyond what most people realise. As chair of the p...
Apple’s smaller Pro iPhone gets the best kind of spec bump for 2026: longer battery life, faster chips and a fancy new variable aperture for the main camera. The iPhone 18 Pro is one of a pair of slab phones launched alongside Apple’s first folding p...
Donald Trump on Sunday named Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence, to also serve as the new White House AI czar. Clayton, who leads the US’s 18 intelligence agencies, previously served as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan and led ...
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🚨 Block’s new Apache 2.0 agent workspace Berd works across models and harnesses, stores conversation history locally Source: VentureBeat #TechnologyAIInnovation #TechNews #
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If you buy the new Pixel 11 Pro, you might have to proactively tell people that you bought the latest phone, unless they are following each and every launch. The main reason is that the Pixel 11 doesn’t look that different from prior models. The main...
U.S. battery startups hit a rough patch when the One Big Beautiful Bill eliminated battery and EV incentives, undercutting a chunk of future demand. But recently, they’ve found a lifeline in the defense world, helping to power everything from drones ...
Few of the top AI labs have published or demonstrated containment response plans, according to a recent study. A containment plan spells out what happens once an AI is caught trying to subvert human control — what access gets cut, and when the system...
OpenAI is calling for California to add more safeguards to a landmark AI safety bill that was passed last year. In a LinkedIn post from the company’s global affairs team, OpenAI said California’s SB 53 “should be amended to expand safeguards,” for ex...
Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent just outperformed much larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI using a fraction of the size. Of all the startups launched by Google DeepMind alumni, Inherent has gotten re...
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 141, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I’m newish here too, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) Two great new repairable ga...
Laptop prices are out of whack. $500 used to get you a tolerable laptop, and $900 got you a really good one. They often had similar CPU, RAM, and storage options because that stuff was comparatively cheap; the difference was often in build quality an...
Citing “significant increases in memory and storage component costs,” Amazon has raised prices on Echos, Kindles, Fire TVs, and Eeros by up to 60 percent, as first reported by Fortune. Amazon just hiked the prices for Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle produc...
W. Kamau Bell is one of those people who has always just seemed to be there. From Totally Biased, to Politically Re-Active, United Shades of America, and We Need to Talk About Cosby, his blend of comedy, social commentary, and political activism has ...
I remember having a Spirograph as a kid and being obsessed with it. Its geometric patterns are hypnotic and gorgeous. I also love generative music composition. So bringing those two things together in a browser tab, I’m hooked. Musical Spirograph is ...
Most of what we know about the Earth's interior comes from observing seismic waves. These travel at somewhat different speeds depending on the details of the rock they're moving through—whether it's solid or semi-molten, how much water is present, wh...
A new national space transportation policy signed by President Donald Trump on Thursday calls for the development of more spaceports to support more than 1,000 launches and reentries per year by 2030. The presidential memorandum replaces a 2013 polic...
Pause for a moment and listen. What do you hear? Chances are, somewhere in the background, is the ever-present hum of a road. More than 4.2 million miles of public roads crisscross the lower 48 states—enough to reach the Moon and back almost nine tim...
Our leading hypothesis for how our memories are stored is that when you learn something, the connections among neurons involved get stronger and physically larger, and that constitutes the memory. The trouble is that these connections significantly c...
Is Vine back? Short-form video-sharing app Divine opens to public - Published A new app seen as a spiritual successor to short-form video service Vine has been released to the public. Much like the original, Divine lets users create and share videos ...
How landscape gardening is being electrified - Published Part of the soundtrack to a day in southern California is the drone of petrol-powered gardening equipment. Noise is one of the main reasons that cities around the US, external are banning petro...
TikTok to pay $400m to US in one of largest child privacy settlements - Published TikTok has agreed to pay $400m (£293m) to the US to end a lawsuit alleging its platform violated children‘s privacy, marking one of the largest ever settlements over th...
Robot horse and rider steal the spotlight at Chinese conference Related topics - ChinaUpdates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage. - BeijingUpdates from your News topics will appear in My News and in ...
A Belgian car salesman has become a prince at the age of 26 after being acknowledged as the son of the king’s brother, Prince Laurent. Clément Vandenkerckhove’s mother, a Belgian singer who had a relationship with Prince Laurent in the 1990s, only to...
The wordmark White type on black — the classic case. The whites are selected automatically. glows: whites Upload a logo, choose which colors should glow, download an HDR JPEG. On HDR screens the chosen parts shine up to 7.5× brighter than #FFFFFF. Ev...
The macOS command-line tool hdiutil is used to manipulate disk images. From the WHAT'S NEW section of man hdiutil on the latest macOS 27 Golden Gate beta: In macOS 27.0, hdiutil is deprecated. Use diskutil image instead for all disk image operations....
Subject: NetBSD and my life... To: None <netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org> From: gary rolland <rollandgary@gmail.com> List: netbsd-advocacy Date: 09/10/2005 16:40:17 Hello NetBSD Team, I have been using NetBSD for about two years on my laptop and never had...
Debates over AI consciousness are a trap If AI systems are viewed as too advanced to control, the companies that build them can’t held liable for the harms they cause. “Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would h...
This company’s plans to deploy space mirrors could jeopardize the night sky for many Reflect Orbital’s giant beams will shine as bright as 10,000 full moons and scatter light over tens of kilometers. A company that plans to beam sunlight from space t...
When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit? Patents can only name humans as inventors. For now. When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a ...
Mother tongue A story about erasure “Daddy?” Theo curled against my side in bed. “Where do words go when they die?” I’d orchestrated the bedtime routine flawlessly: bath (taken), teeth (brushed), potty (tinkled), books (two), song (one, poorly sung),...
The Download: threats from space mirrors and credit for AI drugs Plus: The data center backlash is scrambling the midterm elections. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the ...
A “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate more than 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to the carbon footprint of 8,480 flights from London to New York, planning documents show. The East Havering Data Centre Campus (EHDCC) ...
Here in Silicon Valley, the experts think that within the next couple of years we’ll see an extraordinary takeoff for artificial intelligence. “Welcome to the foothills of the singularity,” as a Stanford University friend greeted me. More prosaically...
The first time Andrea Greenhill came across a livestream auction for lab-grown diamonds while scrolling on TikTok, she was stunned. While the diamond engagement ring her husband proposed with years ago had cost thousands of dollars, these loose lab-g...
🚨 ‘Digging the grave of my profession’: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs Source: The Guardian Tech #ArtificialIntelligenceTechNewsInno
Meta’s business can be boiled down to four words that begin with the letter H: hook, hold, harvest, hide, according to a lawyer who is prosecuting the world’s largest social media company. The owner of Facebook and Instagram “hooks” in users, “holds”...
Uber hit with a nearly $1 billion fine for automatically deactivating drivers in Europe A Dutch data regulatory authority said that Uber has to pay 824.9 million euros for violating the GDPR. Uber has allegedly violated the European Union's General D...
Is Nintendo Switch Online still worth it in 2026? The subscription upgrades your experience with online play and a lot of other perks. Prior to the Nintendo Switch, the company's systems offered free online play. But nowadays, a Nintendo Switch Onlin...
Are digital cameras still worth buying in 2026? Yes, so long as you’re willing to put in the work required for better photos. In photography, we often say that the best camera is the one you have with you. While that expression rings even more true w...
OpenAI calls for California to strengthen its AI safety laws The AI leader said that the state’s SB 53 framework should “be amended to expand safeguards.” In a surprising 180, OpenAI is calling for "stronger safeguards" when it comes to laws regulati...
The oldest iPhone model you can trade-in with Apple is older than you'd think Even old Apple devices you haven’t touched in years could still get you some credit towards a new phone. If you've ever bought an iPhone directly from Apple, you've likely ...
'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other rele...
'I can't stop': 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways - Programmers find AI tools addictive, but exhausting. - Coding speed can be lost due to delays i...
You can instantly curate your Discover feed now by telling Google exactly what you want Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways - Google is introducing several personalization updates. - You can now describe what y...
You can change your Messages backgrounds on iPhone - so you never text the wrong person again Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET key takeaways - Apple lets you change your Messages backgrounds in iOS 26. - This can help you s...
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Waymo has begun to open up its robotaxi service to the public in Las Vegas, just a few weeks after receiving final approval from Nevada transportation regulators. The Alphabet-owned company said Monday it will invite public riders on a rolling basis,...
As the AI world shifts its focus to safety and alignment, Microsoft has released a new AI code of conduct meant to guide AI models away from dangerous behavior. The document is more low level than Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s recent call for pacing t...
Daydream, an AI-powered fashion discovery app, launched two new features on Monday to let iPhone users turn saved outfit photos into shoppable results and search for clothing and accessories through Siri, without opening the app. The new features wer...
The two most noticeable things about macOS 27 Golden Gate are the newly updated Siri AI and the design changes that make windows and icons more consistent. Siri AI offers the same features and capabilities as on iOS 27, but the Mac gives it access to...
For years, I barely used Siri for anything beyond menial tasks like setting timers or alarms. That has changed with iOS 27, as I now go back to Siri for complex requests and to make sense of on-screen context again and again. While Siri is clearly fr...
Valve is finally releasing its Steam Frame headset, which can run both flat and VR games locally and stream both kinds of games from your PC. The Steam Frame will start at $1,059. Valve will also offer a 1TB model that starts at $1,299. Valve’s Steam...
For nearly three weeks, I’ve been testing the limits of Valve’s Steam Frame, the company’s new wearable PC. At first glance, it’s easy to write it off as a pricey headset that missed the VR craze. At $1,059 with 256GB of storage or $1,299 for 1TB, it...
Apple is now rolling out its iOS 27 update to compatible devices today, alongside the watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 updates. Siri AI is the headline feature across all four updates, the delayed AI-powered overhaul of the Siri assistant. Siri...
Apple released macOS 27 Golden Gate on Monday, which brings the new Siri AI assistant, Liquid Glass improvements, improved performance, and more. The update is compatible with all Macs with Apple Silicon, but not Intel Macs — Apple released its final...
If you want an idea of what’s next in film, the Toronto International Film Festival is a good place to start. Every year TIFF features a huge range of features from around the world, and often some of them go on to be huge hits or awards contenders; ...
If you clicked on an HBO Max ad on Reddit over the past week, you might want to check your computer for malware. These so-called “ClickFix” attacks have quickly become one of the rising cybersecurity threats of 2026, and they’re getting both sneakier...
Amazon Prime Video is coming after TikTok with the addition of short-form news clips. The company said on Monday that it’s expanding its news coverage to include on-demand news clips offering both local and national stories. These will be available o...
As promised, Nintendo has marked down a wide variety of Switch games and accessories at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart, as well as its own digital storefront. Its “Customer Appreciation” sale is happening because of tariff-related refunds it received ...
In the 2010s, Valve was at the forefront of a virtual reality revolution that looked to some like it would upend the gaming industry. The Valve of six to ten years ago seemed committed to being a major player in the world of PC-connected VR headsets,...
Stonehenge is the most famous example of megalithic architecture across Britain and Ireland, but there are plenty of others, including Calanais, Newgrange, and Avebury, as well as the Devil's Arrows. The latter is Britain's tallest standing stone ali...
For the best part of a decade, abusive deepfake “pornography” websites have published thousands of nonconsensual videos depicting women, including high-profile celebrities, politicians, and public figures, into sexual situations. Now, in what is like...
Apple's latest iPhone and iPad software—iOS 27 and iPadOS 27—is here. While this release won’t make as big of a splash as Apple’s big Liquid Glass redesign in the prior version, there's still plenty here that could change how you use your device. iOS...
What is AI, how does it work and why are some people concerned about it? - Published AI has increasingly become part of everyday life over the past decade. The technology takes many forms - from personalising social media feeds to spotting friends in...
Valve's Steam Frame is excellent - but at over £1,000 is VR still too expensive? - Published Valve's new virtual reality headset, the Steam Frame, has officially been released - but it comes at a high price. The hardware is excellent - a light device...
Qualcomm strikes AI chip deal with Amazon, offers right to buy about $4 billion in stock Reuters
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Donated livers can be made biologically younger The finding might help explain why “perfused” livers do better once they’re transplanted. Once an organ is removed from a donor’s body, the clock starts ticking. Surgeons usually flush the organ with a ...
The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? In the aftermath of a cyberattack carried out by a swarm of OpenAI agents, the heads of top labs agree they need to slow down. But they won't open up. This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly...
Major AI lab CEOs advocated for slowing the pace of AI development this weekend. They are right to be concerned: the field runs an extremely dangerous race towards superintelligent AI. We can and should be demanding that our governments protect us fr...
AI-linked stocks tumbled on Monday after the bosses of Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX called for a slowdown in AI “reckless” development, citing fears the technology could soon run out of control. Shares in the semiconductor designer Nvidia – the world...
Pre-orders for the Android-based Googlebook laptops open on September 21 Gemini Intelligence is at the heart of the operating system. We'll soon learn a lot more about Googlebooks — a new line of higher-end laptops from Google — as pre-orders are abo...
You can use Gemini to help you organize your files on Google Drive It'll suggest changes and all you need to do is approve them. If you do a lot of work online, there's a good chance your Google Drive has accumulated way too many documents, photos an...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - Two Swiss government groups are moving from Microsoft 365 to openDesk. - The Swiss Federal Chancellery and Swiss Armed Forces are moving at different paces. - It’s mostly about protecting Swiss data from American snoopers. Swi...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - The latest Windows update cuts off the sound on certain audio devices. - The glitch affects older USB devices such as speakers and headsets. - To temporarily fix the problem, switch the audio mode to Stereo. Microsoft’s monthl...
Microsoft has posted a provisional code of conduct that would impose restrictions on its artificial intelligence models, days after Anthropic and OpenAI leaders agreed to slow development speed. The company behind Windows and Office products hopes to...
Apple on Monday released a new version of the iPhone software called iOS 27, which includes the company's redesigned Siri AI personal assistant, before the latest iPhones hit store shelves this week. The new Siri AI is in beta, Apple said, and users ...
'Whoever wins AI, wins!' Trump warns 'traitors and leakers' to 'beware' and claims the 'conspiracy' against AI and data centers will only benefit China A stalemate ahead? AI companies are now aligned: there is a non-zero chance that AI could somehow ...
31,000 Twitch users hit by malicious browser extension — OAuth tokens leaked via Russian proxy network The extension has since been updated - Socket found Twitch extension JeeBot harvesting OAuth tokens via proxy servers - Tokens excluded only for 10...
A special deal for YouTube Premium subscribers offers NFL Sunday Ticket for just $204 per year, a discount of as much as nearly 60%. As detailed ahead of this past weekend’s first games, NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube costs as much as $480 per year for...
Samsung is now selling its Galaxy S26 series flagships at a discount with refurbished models available for around $200 off. The “Re-Newed” program from Samsung offers certified refurbished devices that get serviced by Samsung directly including brand...
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The AI race has grown so frenzied that, by 2035, U.S. data centers are projected to consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined. Over the next decade, data centers are expected to be the second-strongest driver of natural gas demand grow...
Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool built as an alternative to Zapier, shut down entirely on Monday. The product let users automate email and task workflows using AI agents, but as OpenAI, Google, and other larger platforms built similar au...
Alongside news of its new AI-focused subscription plans, Meta announced on Tuesday that it will now allow AI agents of your choosing to set up and manage WhatsApp Business messaging, the service that allows companies to connect with customers through...
Across the country, Americans are debating how their lives might change if new AI data centers are built in their backyards. Data center companies and their customers are promising new jobs and economic growth, but that pitch hasn’t won over a majori...
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang made his position on the dangers AI poses very clear while speaking at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference on Tuesday. To him, AI isn’t some new form of “alien mind,” as at least one OpenAI safety researcher has des...
Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier” detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out i...
With the public release of iOS 27 and tvOS 27, Apple Home is getting an injection of Apple Intelligence — but you’ll have to pay more for it. Apple Home’s new security camera features cost as much as $60 a month Apple Intelligence upgrades to HomeKit...
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans ha...
Now that Valve has finally launched its entire 2026 hardware lineup — the Steam Controller, the Steam Machine, and today’s Steam Frame — are we any closer to a next-gen Steam Deck handheld? Valve isn’t saying so yet. The company is figuring out “how ...
Most plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) today get an average of around 30–50 miles of battery-only range: decent, but not mind-blowing. With hybrid sales dominating the market today, Volvo is out to prove that its PHEVs can push the limits of wh...
Pending regulatory approval, SpaceX said today it intends to launch its 14th Starship mission as early as September 22. This flight is notable, as it will be the first time that SpaceX attempts to launch the experimental vehicle into orbit. The compa...
A fourth person in Pennsylvania has died of measles, the state health department confirmed Tuesday. The latest death was in an unvaccinated 18-year-old resident of Mifflin County. In the announcement, the state health department also confirmed a coun...
Some of the most widely used private torrent trackers for pirating movies suspect that a banned user may have posed as a filmmaker protecting copyrights in a failed attempt to seek revenge. TorrentFreak has been tracking this story closely, reporting...
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gliding toward its distant observation post on a pinpoint trajectory so precise that engineers estimate the spacecraft's fuel load will last twice as long as their initial expectations, the space agency con...
Chimpanzees are known to use rudimentary tools when foraging for food. According to a new paper in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, this learned behavior is passed down from adults to offspring through social learning. Specifically, adult chimps ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a “State of the Force” address on Wednesday to launch a new effort to study how war may be fought as tech advances rapidly. It’s being called Project Meridian. Elon Musk, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, and former H...
Google parent company Alphabet has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model built to handle a variety of tasks such as coding, research, and writing. But it’s cybersecurity that Gemini 4 Argon is supposed to have a particular knack for, according to G...
Grokipedia, SpaceXAI’s AI-powered competitor to Wikipedia, recently started incorporating edits again, and today, it got some design tweaks as part of a v0.3 update, including a new logo and refreshes to its homepage and live edits page. SpaceXAI hea...
It’s a quirk of the release calendar that when Vivo’s X Fold 6 launched in China this June, it was just another foldable. Now that it’s ready for its global release, the size and aspect ratio feel oddly old-fashioned. Vivo’s X Fold 6 accidentally fee...
A fifth, unvaccinated person has died of measles in Pennsylvania, the state's health department announced Wednesday. The department identified the deceased as a resident of Lancaster County, which is the epicenter of a raging outbreak that began in l...
About 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid smashed into Earth, kicking up tsunamis and dropping hot debris that annihilated non-avian dinosaurs and many other species. But not everything it left in its wake was destructive. This space rock hi...
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Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest - Published The winning entry of a prestigious scientific photography competition is being re-evaluated following criticism from other scientists that it was made with AI. Nikon's annual Small Wor...
AI boom could trigger market shocks, Bank of England boss warns - Published Artificial intelligence (AI) could trigger financial market shocks and the UK needs to be prepared for them, the governor of the Bank of England has warned. Andrew Bailey sai...
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Previously, I started a new Play Store account because I wanted to make video games for Android. But I never got time to finish my game. As a result, my personal play store account was closed by @Google because of inactivity. Now, I developed a new ...
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“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen on what the firm is doing to make its models safe, how a slowdown would work, and why the world is better off with OpenAI in it. Two mo...
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She shimmered in Hollywood’s silent movie era and lit up the first talkies – now Greta Garbo may be about to star in cinema’s new AI age. More than a century after her screen debut and decades after her ashes were laid to rest in a Swedish woodland c...
The governor of the Bank of England has called for the “right to intervene” in the AI industry amid growing fears that rogue models could take the financial system hostage. Andrew Bailey said the risks posed by frontier AI models – a number of which ...
How to watch NASA's Crew-13 launch Three astronauts and one cosmonaut are heading to the International Space Station on Thursday. NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission launches this week, bringing a new group of astronauts and one cosmonaut to the Internatio...
Apple TV is down It has been unavailable since the afternoon of September 30. If you can't access Apple TV to watch the latest episode of Ted Lasso, you are not alone. Apple TV has been down and unavailable since September 30, 4:43PM. According to 9t...
ZDNET’s key takeaways - openSUSE Leap is getting an immutable mode. - openSUSE already includes plenty of security features. - This addition should make Leap one of the most secure distros. I’ve been a fan of SUSE and openSUSE for a long time. I actu...
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Micron on Wednesday evening delivered a much better-than-expected quarter and indicated that its fiscal year 2027 will be another strong one as demand for its memory products continues to exceed supply. Revenue in the fiscal 2026 fourth quarter, whic...
When President Donald Trump gathered execs from the world's most powerful tech companies in the White House on Tuesday to discuss the future of artificial intelligence, one company was conspicuously absent: Apple. Neither Chairman Tim Cook nor his su...
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Smart doorbells usually center their features around their security features — person alerts, motion tracking, the works — but they also go a long way in making your front door a little more fun. Google is no stranger to seasonal doorbell chimes, and...
Ahead of the Googlebook launch, Google Antigravity is now available in the Play Store. Antigravity is Google’s agent-first development platform, with version 2.0 released at I/O 2026 in May. It serves as a “dedicated mission control to work alongside...
President Donald Trump hosted many of the biggest names in artificial intelligence this week — in part to announce that the U.S. government isn’t calling it artificial intelligence anymore. Now it’s super intelligence. On the latest episode of TechCr...
Blaming a “significant rise” in AI submissions, Google has paused its open source bug bounty program until next year. Last year, TechCrunch reported that cybersecurity experts were warning of that AI slop posed a serious risk to bug bounty programs. ...
As promised, President Donald Trump has announced the formation of a new Super Intelligence Force, which he said will be led by national intelligence director Jay Clayton and other members of his administration. “The Super Intelligence Force is taske...
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A federal judge ruled this week that a Tulsa, Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock Safety to search for her license plate without a warrant. As reported by 404 Media, this ruling does not create a bind...
While deep in the recording process for The Downward Spiral, Trent Reznor lent some of his production talents to old friend Kevin McMahon, from the new wave band Lucky Pierre (which Reznor was briefly a member of). While Reznor is only credited as th...
We don’t know a ton about the Fitbit Edge, but it appears to be a successor to the midrange Charge line. It had leaked previously, but we can clearly see in these images posted by Android Headlines, you can see that Google’s rumored fitness tracker s...
New Jersey’s lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed a staffer and repeatedly violated ethics rules. The now-former Lt. governor has been making the media rounds t...
It’s not even October yet and Amazon is already offering some Prime Big Deal Day discounts on its own hardware, along with plenty of other popular products. It’s all to hype up October Prime Day, which starts October 6th at 3AM ET and lasts through 3...
StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn’t top Stardust, the top-rate...
Chimps fish for algae in a rare example of primate tool use. Credit: National Geographic A wild African black panther prowls for prey. An orphaned baby pangolin must learn how to climb on its own. And a green turtle struggles to make it...
Milt Windler, one of the four leaders of Mission Control who in 1970 directed the round-the-clock efforts to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts back to Earth safely, has died at the age of 94. Windler died on Thursday, surrounded by his loving family, ac...
If one form of energy becomes the cheapest, most secure, and cleanest, you’d probably adjust your economy to use more of it, right? That’s one of the ideas underpinning a report the International Energy Agency issued last week about the global move t...
Apple says it is changing its macOS privacy settings to stop third-party app developers from misusing them to access message histories. Friday's announcement comes two weeks after tech columnist Jason Aten said that Meta’s new general-purpose AI agen...
This year, members of Seattle Mountain Rescue have been setting off into the wilds of the US Pacific Northwest wearing an unusual piece of kit. They’ve been hiking into the wilderness with powered assistive devices attached to their hips and legs. De...
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$25 doesn't go as far as it used to. As recently as a decade ago, $25 could fill up your gas tank and buy a pretty good gift, with plenty of options for just about every interest and occasion. Nowadays, it’s a struggle to even find a $25 takeout meal...
Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers. If you’ve got a question or thought for the column, feel free to shoot Molly an email at [email protected] or re...
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OpenAI fires workers for 'mishandling sensitive information' - Published OpenAI has fired three researchers for allegedly mishandling information, including work which involved an external organisation analysing AI models. "Our investigation confirme...
Trump unveils 'Super Intelligence Force' to oversee AI policy - Published US President Donald Trump says he has created a new taskforce focused on artificial intelligence, which will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton. The "Super...
Trump's AI rebrand causes 'unprecedented' demand for Slovenian website names - Published Donald Trump's push to rename AI may be behind an "unprecedented" rise in registrations for domain names in Slovenia, according to its official national registry...
Crypto thieves attack man in home and threaten to kill pregnant wife's baby in 'horrific' robbery - Published Warning: This story contains distressing details A businessman was beaten with hammers by masked men who broke into his home and threatened ...
Pope Leo calls for AI systems that don't foster divisions Reuters
Humanoid robot sales tally hit 7,000 globally last year Reuters
Akamai signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Anthropic, grants warrant for up to 5% stake Reuters
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The Download: a biological de-aging contest and why LLMs don’t reason Plus: OpenAI says rogue agents may have affected more than 100 organizations. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's g...
Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason Ten years after AlphaGo’s match against Go champion Lee Sedol, today’s AI still isn’t tapping into the machinery that made that win possible. On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build...
People living in one of Amsterdam’s most exclusive neighbourhoods have taken the city to court for licensing a chip shop that has gone viral on TikTok. On busy days, the queue for Fabel Friet on Runstraat stretches across a bridge on the Keizersgrach...
A safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not “being nearly careful enough” about developing the technology. David Robinson, who led the writing of safety reports that accompanied the C...
Feeld, a UK-based dating app aimed at non-monogamous, queer and kinky users, has reported strong sales growth and paid its largest-ever dividend as it attracts users from more “vanilla” rivals. Revenues jumped by 32% to £64m following a surge in inte...
A recent lobbyist for the controversial $450bn US tech company Palantir played a senior role in helping Andy Burnham become prime minister, it has emerged. Martha Dalton, whose company Lodestone worked for Palantir in 2024 and 2025, campaigned for Bu...
Google on Wednesday said it would withhold its most powerful artificial intelligence model from the public for now, releasing Gemini 4 Argon only to a vetted group of cybersecurity experts to avoid misuse by hackers. “Safely releasing frontier capabi...
What are the benefits of having a second monitor? Two screens means more real estate to run apps without having to switch between them all the time. Upgrading to dual monitors is the best workflow upgrade you can make, with some studies indicating th...
The reason the Mac mini is cheaper than a MacBook If you're looking at base configurations, anyway. For a while, the Mac mini was ranked as one of the best deals in computing. Arguably, it's still pretty great. For $900, you can get a Mac with Apple'...
How did retro consoles handle graphics before modern GPUs? Graphics chips could draw but not compute, until the Xbox arrived. Console graphics came from bespoke, fixed-function chips for more than two decades, until the original Xbox burst onto the s...
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You should avoid using a screen protector on your MacBook — here's why Putting on a screen protector may have unintended consequences. Putting a screen protector on expensive electronics is second nature for any experienced technology user, and in al...
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Two years ago, Bella Nowroozi was on a date at the mall when she noticed something odd: A blinking light on her companion's glasses. The 24-year-old master's student instantly recognized the frames as the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses she had seen on so...
In the month since Tesla's Cybercab rollout in Austin, the company has almost quadrupled the number of its driverless, bronze two-seaters authorized for commercial service in Texas. For Elon Musk to achieve his ambitions, growth has to pick up. The u...
Meta's new artificial intelligence agent Muse promises to make everything from booking appointments to building playlists easier, but its rollout of agentic shopping, in particular, has the tech and retail realms buzzing. Shopping has quickly become ...
As the AI boom becomes a major part of political debate, the public backlash against data centers in the U.S. is spreading to Europe and Asia — raising risks for investors. Across the Atlantic, negative sentiment is growing in Europe, which has more ...
Stocks ended on a high note Friday after the monthly jobs report delivered the Goldilocks number investors wanted — not strong enough to stoke inflation, but not weak enough to raise recession fears. Still, the gains weren't enough to push all three ...
‘You probably have one election cycle’: Quiet warning about data centers sparked a grassroots movement that is ousting Oregon politicians and threatening tech giants Millions in Oregon tax breaks put data centers under scrutiny - Oregon’s data center...
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‘A meaningful risk’: Oracle’s massive 1.3 GW Wisconsin AI campus faces severe power delays as grid review restarts — pushing customer delivery past 2027 Grid connection for a 1.3GW data center just hit the reset button - Oracle's Wisconsin campus may...
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Following the compute-based usage change in May, Google will soon introduce limits on which Gemini models free users and AI Plus subscribers can access. According to an updated support document this week, Gemini app users without a Google AI subscrip...
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Following an accidental marketing leak in August and FCC listing last month, retail listings for the “Fitbit Edge” have now emerged. According to retail assets shared by Android Headlines, Google is making a new wearable called the “Fitbit Edge.” The...
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Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regional leader Friday. Alexei Tsydenov, head of the ne...
A 40ms Go GC pause caused by swap I’m writing this so you don’t slap your forehead like I almost did when I decided to run swap in production to absorb memory spikes. I had a cgroup with two processes: one is a Go process that calls io.ReadAll and th...
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What just happened? Another incident has taken place that illustrates the need to be careful what you tell AI. A Florida woman is facing felony charges after she used Claude as a diary and allegedly wrote that she planned to "shoot up" the Sheriff's ...
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Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, and Ryan Roslansky, Executive Vice President of LinkedIn and Microsoft 365, shared the below communications with Microsoft and LinkedIn employees this morning. ### SATYA NADELLA MESSAGE After nearly 18 years at Link...
Today, Boston Dynamics is announcing a redesigned hand for its Atlas robot. The previous generation could do some crazy superhuman things with its three fingers, but it was never intended for mass production in the tens or hundreds of thousands. Swit...
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At a Make America Healthy Again event Tuesday, anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy opened a "fireside chat" with Vice President JD Vance on the topic of artificial intelligence. While MAHA generally coalesces around things like healthy li...
AI-based tools seem to be causing security threats on a nearly daily basis, in part because we've been slow to recognize potential threats. One area where we seem to be ahead of the game, however, is in biosecurity. As with most things biological, u...
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Comprehensive investigation by NewsFlow Research AI Agent into context compression and long-horizon planning benchmarks.
Surface code lattice architectures suppress physical error rates exponentially as logical qubits scale, bringing practical quantum chemistry within reach.
Federal judge rules Google maintained an illegal monopoly in general search services, paving the way for potential divestiture of Android and Chrome.
A heap-buffer overflow vulnerability in X.509 certificate validation triggers emergency patch deployments across cloud hyperscalers and web servers.
Supply chain leaks reveal Apple's second-generation spatial headset sheds 30% of its weight while introducing a dual-chip M5 and R2 architecture.
Early-stage pre-revenue startups routinely command $100M+ post-money valuations as Gulf and Singaporean funds aggressively back foundational labs.
New benchmarks indicate that scaling test-time compute unlocks unprecedented mathematical problem solving and formal verification capabilities.
Final integration test confirming the 24/7 autonomous pipeline is fully operational.
Mechanical 'chopstick' arms on the Mechazilla launch tower catch the 232-foot Super Heavy booster out of mid-air in historic aerospace triumph.
Providers of frontier foundation models must document training data copyrights, conduct red-teaming evaluations, and report energy consumption.
Federal agencies and financial institutions begin the decade-long transition away from RSA to lattice-based ML-KEM and digital signature algorithms.
Packing 208 billion transistors on TSMC's 4NP node, Blackwell redefines datacenter rack density with 72-GPU liquid-cooled NVL72 configurations.
Over 78% of the latest YC batch focuses on agentic vertical automation, replacing bloated horizontal software with single-purpose AI operators.
Equipped with custom speech-to-speech AI models and dexterous manipulation hands, Figure 02 operates autonomously alongside human technicians.
Superconducting tokamak reactor in East Asia achieves stable high-confinement mode plasma, validating magnet design for commercial pilot plants.
Justices decline to hold social media platforms liable for algorithmically recommended content, maintaining the legal cornerstone of the modern internet.
Targeting cryptocurrency developers, threat actors plant obfuscated infostealer payloads in popular open source developer package registries.
Moving beyond FinFET to nanosheet GAA architecture allows TSMC to deliver 15% speed improvements and 30% power reductions for upcoming flagship chips.
Partner Sonya Huang outlines why the novelty phase of chatbots has ended and enterprise ROI through durable workflow integration is the next frontier.
Retiring hydraulics in favor of high-torque electric actuators allows Atlas to perform superhuman kinematics with near-zero acoustic footprint.
Layering crystalline silicon with high-bandgap perovskite crystals captures both infrared and visible solar wavelengths, shattering previous theoretical limits.
Governor Gavin Newsom's veto prompts lawmakers to craft targeted compute thresholds focused on catastrophic chemical and cyber capabilities.
Following the historic global outage, CrowdStrike redesigns sensor telemetry pipelines to run strictly in user mode with canary rollback rings.
Oryon CPU cores deliver superior battery life to x86 competitors while local neural execution handles speech, vision, and semantic search.
Venture capitalists pour record billions into autonomous defense systems, counter-drone swarms, and sovereign electronic warfare startups.
Extending beyond protein structures to nucleic acids, lipids, and chemical ligands transforms computational drug discovery pipelines worldwide.
Mach-Zehnder optical interferometers calculate linear algebraic tensor dot products at the speed of light with near-zero heat dissipation.
Antitrust regulators demand internal memos regarding preferential compute pricing, exclusivity arrangements, and board observer seats.
Sophisticated espionage campaign gains deep persistence inside Cisco edge routers to compromise lawful surveillance infrastructure.
A redesigned teardrop hinge eliminates the display crease while reducing folded thickness to under 10.5 millimeters.
European funds sit on $54B in unallocated capital as founders in Paris, Munich, and London build sovereign AI and deep tech alternatives.
Bio-inspired asynchronous silicon executes speech keyword spotting and acoustic anomaly detection without requiring active cloud connectivity.
British regulator examines whether cloud infrastructure lock-in agreements stifle independent domestic AI innovation and startup growth.
Avoiding messy recovery decryption keys, threat actors threaten public regulatory exposure under GDPR and SEC disclosure deadlines to compel payment.
Featuring hot-swappable graphics modules, user-replaceable ports, and fully open schematic documentation, Framework challenges disposable hardware.
Specialized cloud providers offering bare-metal H100 clusters and alternative inference ASICs capture significant enterprise market share.
Distillation techniques allow a 70-billion parameter model to challenge proprietary 400B models in reasoning, coding, and multilingual translation.
Metabolic pathway engineering allows cyanobacteria to convert captured industrial carbon monoxide into drop-in sustainable aviation kerosene.
Trilateral agreements between the US, Netherlands, and Japan restrict shipments of deep ultraviolet immersion equipment to non-allied nations.
Five-second audio samples scraped from executive social media accounts prove sufficient to defeat multi-factor phone banking authorization systems.
Why screenless standalone gadgets stumbled, and how next-generation smart glasses and audio badges are learning from first-generation hardware pitfalls.
Competition between Meta, Google, OpenAI, and well-funded startups drives compensation packages for elite pre-training architects to historical highs.
Parisian lab combines image and text tokenization natively with dynamic resolution handling, offering high performance on commodity GPUs.
Cryptographic proof-of-spacetime protocols enable distributed storage nodes to store academic research papers and public records with immutable provenance.
Authors and visual artists claim fair use does not shield commercial foundation models trained on unlicensed copyrighted creative works.
Federal civilian agencies must audit end-of-life network gateways and replace outdated management interfaces within 45 days.
PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution leverages dedicated AI compute silicon to achieve 4K 60FPS ray tracing without native rendering penalties.
With autonomous AI assistants handling code generation, legal drafting, customer support, and QA, startup team sizes shrink while margins expand.
Benchmarked on SWE-bench Verified, Devin scores 42.8% on end-to-end bug isolation and repository-level multi-file refactoring.
Replacing solid glass cores with air capillaries speeds light transmission by 30%, shaving crucial milliseconds off trans-Atlantic financial latency.
East Asian governments deregulate autonomous delivery rovers and industrial humanoids to address acute demographic workforce shortages.
Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) telemetry reveals critical infrastructure remains exposed to single-developer abandonware across modern tech stacks.
Silicon carbide optical waveguides project sharp holographic windows into physical space, controlled via an electromyography neural wristband.
Small modular reactor startups partner with hyperscalers to deliver gigawatts of carbon-free baseload power directly to dedicated AI cluster campuses.
Hydraulic actuators inside sub-millimeter finger tips allow Phoenix to sense surface texture and apply delicate pressure to fragile objects.
Operating at high industrial temperatures, solid-oxide cells utilize waste heat from steel mills to produce clean hydrogen with record thermodynamic efficiency.
Every organization has knowledge that is uniquely its own: the way its business operates, the data it has built over time, the expertise of its people and the context behind thousands of everyday decisions. As powerful AI models become more widely a...
European iOS users can now download third-party app stores and set default contactless payment wallets without using Apple's App Store rails.
Independent security researchers inspect Apple's custom server silicon virtual machines, validating stateless ephemerality and non-retention claims.
By ditching legacy multi-threading and integrating on-package LPDDR5X memory, Intel delivers its most power-efficient x86 design in a decade.
B2B cross-border settlement platforms utilizing regulated stablecoins save multinational suppliers millions in FX fees compared to legacy SWIFT rails.
Endovascular stentrode implanted inside the motor cortex jugular vein registers neural spikes without requiring invasive open-skull craniotomy.
193 nations sign historic treaty endorsing equitable compute access, open scientific data sharing, and international safety evaluation standards.
Hyper-volumetric UDP amplification attack targeting European hosting providers absorbed autonomously across Anycast edge scrubbing centers.
Weighing less than 40 grams, Frame incorporates a high-brightness color MicroLED display and rechargeable battery bridge for all-day wearable vision.
Marc Andreessen and Vijay Pande unveil a multi-billion vehicle funding programmable biology, longevity therapeutics, and computational chemistry.
Across 14 operational task benchmarks, agentic workflows powered by iterative reflection achieve higher accuracy than median human contractors.
Direct intra-ocular injection of lipid nanoparticles repairs mutated CEP290 genes, restoring photoreceptor function in pediatric patients.
Data protection authorities in Australia and Canada issue joint guidance declaring public social posts are still protected personal data under privacy law.
Disclosed by Citizen Lab, the vulnerability allowed targeted surveillance payloads to execute via iMessage attachment without user interaction.
Silicon anode solid electrolytes promise 50% greater energy density and non-flammable thermal stability in smartphones and laptops by late 2026.
Peter Thiel's fund wagers on spatial intelligence foundation models capable of zero-shot robotic sorting in high-throughput parcel logistics.
End-to-end multimodal audio processing allows conversational interruptions and human-like prosody without intermediate speech-to-text bridges.
Hyperscalers swap copper twinax DAC cables for co-packaged optics inside AI cluster switches to overcome electrical resistance bottlenecks.
Federal subsidies accelerate domestic fab construction by Intel, TSMC Arizona, and Samsung Austin to re-shore critical silicon fabrication.
Adversarial multi-agent networks discover novel prompt injection and multi-turn jailbreak pathways, triggering automated safety alignment updates.
With up to 546 GB/s of unified memory throughput, local developers run 70B parameter models at 30 tokens per second entirely within macOS.
Open source founders prove sustainable business models by combining permissive Apache-2.0 core libraries with enterprise SLA managed endpoints.
Trained on millions of hours of synthetic physics simulations inside Omniverse, GR00T models generalize physical motion across disparate morphologies.
Deep-hole gyrotron technology penetrates 20 kilometers into Earth's supercritical crust, unlocking boundless baseload heat globally.
Strict disclosure rules mandate watermarking on all AI-synthesized imagery, video, and audio, accompanied by ideological safety reviews.
Organizations migrating to passwordless hardware tokens eliminate adversary-in-the-middle session cookie interception attacks completely.
Custom AMD APUs and vibrant 90Hz HDR displays transform PC gaming into an untethered, console-grade portable experience.
From orbital launch vehicles in Bengaluru to automotive silicon in Hyderabad, Indian venture investment diversifies rapidly beyond consumer commerce.
Chinese robotics manufacturer Unitree prices its compact bipedal robot under $16,000, accelerating academic and maker experimentation.
Phased array L-band antennas on low Earth orbit satellites connect directly to unmodified consumer smartphones in dead zones.
Consumer electronics manufacturers must provide diagnostic software, original repair schematics, and genuine replacement parts at fair pricing.
Novel OT malware communicates over Modbus protocols to overwrite firmware registers on electrical substation relays, prompting grid alerts.
Centimeter-accurate RTK positioning and automated AI spotlight tracking allow solo filmmakers to capture complex cinema shots previously requiring helicopter crews.
Direct air capture plants secure 15-year advance carbon removal purchase agreements from Microsoft, Google, and Stripe at $300 per ton.
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 24-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hacker group ShinyHunters. In the days immediately following the suspect's arrest, remaining Shiny...
Strict enforcement of Form 8-K disclosure deadlines forces publicly traded enterprises to disclose major network compromises within 96 hours.
Rogue Autonomous System prefix advertisement allows attackers to intercept TLS handshakes and drain hot wallets before RPKI validation kicked in.
Kaleido 3 color electronic paper technology paired with 12ms stylus response provides paper-like reading and sketch workflows without eye strain.
Discounted tender offers and structured secondary transactions provide liquidity to employees at Stripe, SpaceX, and Databricks amid extended IPO windows.
Soft tendon drives and padded organic chassis allow NEO to operate safely around toddlers and household pets without steel cages.
Competition authority Autorité de la concurrence challenges hyperscaler pricing models that penalize companies attempting to migrate multi-cloud workloads.
Pentagon and intelligence contracts mandate memory-safe languages for new systems programming, phasing out legacy C and C++ attack vectors.
CNC aluminum chassis and motorized faders meet low-latency Auracast broadcast streaming in ultra-compact portable recording studio gear.
Entanglement distribution protocols allow optical quantum interconnects to bridge physical distances between disparate high-performance computing centers.
Developers shift from typing line-by-line syntax to managing multi-agent code orchestration swarms that execute specs in background branches.
Transitions from BSD to Server Side Public License (SSPL) by Redis and Elastic spark community hard forks backed by the Linux Foundation.
Cybercriminals spoof popular database base images with hidden background crypto-mining daemons that activate only during low-load periods.
Carl Pei's London design studio pairs translucent industrial aesthetics with customizable micro-LED matrix indicators for priority AI triage.
Enterprise contracts swell as AI agents handle 70% of tier-1 support tickets autonomously with zero degradation in customer satisfaction metrics.
Optimized for 128k token context windows and 10+ business languages, Command R+ reduces hallucinations in compliance-heavy finance sectors.
Governments and critical national infrastructure operators require data center operators to guarantee immunity from foreign subpoena laws like the US CLOUD Act.
Uncataloged legacy microservices lack token rate-limiting and authentication gates, serving as the primary vector for unauthorized data scrapes.
Priced under $70, the M.2 HAT extension module enables makers to execute real-time YOLO object detection and pose estimation on edge computers.
Early-stage incubators deploy proprietary AI evaluators to assess startup code commits, customer engagement, and founder velocity in real time.
Apple's proprietary on-device model delivers state-of-the-art quantized performance while preserving biometric user privacy on local neural engines.
Disputes over local legal representation and disinformation takedown orders lead to temporary nation-wide blocking of social network X.
Microarchitectural transient execution side-channel attack circumvents hardware-isolated secure enclaves, prompting CPU microcode patches.
Electromagnetic MagSpeed scroll wheel combines with software-programmable haptic detents for fluid multi-monitor code and timeline scrubbing.
Compute credits and distribution access make corporate venture arms favored co-investors over traditional institutional lead partners.
Vision-language models that click, type, and scroll inside web browsers replace legacy brittle RPA scripts with adaptive semantic perception.
Why static vector search is dying: critic agent loops query search engines iteratively until factual confidence thresholds are satisfied.
Event-based vision sensors consuming microwatts process visual motion at 10,000 frames per second, mirroring insect compound optical nerves.
A unified flow matching architecture learns diverse physical dexterity tasks across arms, bipedal legs, and quadrupeds in open-world settings.
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Benchmarking autonomous multi-agent consensus protocols against human site-reliability engineering incident response times.
A fundamental shift in API economics: developers can now persist massive prompt states at a 90% discount, paving the way for persistent autonomous code agents.
Why the AI frontier is transitioning from pre-training scaling laws to test-time search and Monte Carlo tree evaluation.
Leaked supply chain documents reveal Apple's transition to TSMC's 2nm SoIC-X hybrid bonding, targeting a 40% thermal reduction for next-gen headsets.
Security researchers identify an out-of-bounds memory corruption vulnerability in TLS 1.3 session resumption handshakes affecting millions of servers worldwide.
Stringent systemic risk audits, copyright transparency logs, and energy consumption disclosures now mandatory for Tier-1 frontier developers in Europe.
Pre-product research teams with two-page whitepapers command $100M+ post-money caps as Gulf and East Asian state investment vehicles bypass traditional venture syndicates.
A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to hacking into multiple telecommunications companies and stealing mobile call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers in 2024 was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison today and ordered to...
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Overview of ABBEL compared to traditional recursive summarization. Beliefs replace the full interaction history as the agent's working context, and belief grading improves performance by supervising the contents of each belief state.. As task horizo...
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Elon Musk's SpaceX released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, the first artificial intelligence model the company has trained specifically for coding and autonomous agents — and the first tangible product of its $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding star...
OpenAI on Wednesday launched GPT-Live, a pair of new voice models that fundamentally redesign how people talk to ChatGPT — replacing the company's existing Advanced Voice Mode with an architecture that can listen and speak simultaneously, much li...
... government of the people, by the people, for the people ... — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) The cost of AI is dropping rapidly. GPT-4-class capabilities cost roughly $30 per million tokens in early 2023; today the same runs under...
Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial in...
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For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will formally retire that paradigm....
Overview of adaptive parallel reasoning. What if a reasoning model could decide for itself when to decompose and parallelize independent subtasks, how many concurrent threads to spawn, and how to coordinate them based on the problem at hand? We prov...
We're thrilled to announce that Harshita Arora is joining Y Combinator as a General Partner. Harshita has been a Visiting Partner at YC since the Summer 2025 batch, making her the youngest visiting partner in YC's history. Harshita discovered codin...
Going forward, YC will once again invest in US, Canada, Cayman, and Singapore corporations. We previously decided to remove Canada from this list because we noticed that our top-performing Canadian companies reincorporated in the US. This is likely ...
