The United Kingdom’s AI Security Institute pushed back this week on the idea that Washington has cut it out of frontier AI testing. Three days after POLITICO reported…
North Korea’s cryptocurrency theft operation just added a new chapter, and this one runs through job boards instead of exchange hot wallets. A joint law enforcement advisory published…
Thirty years ago this week, a plumber jumped into a painting and changed how video games move. Super Mario 64 launched in North America on September 26, 1996,…
Qualcomm and Apple just extended a patent truce that has quietly outlasted three iPhone redesigns. On September 24, 2026, Qualcomm announced it had renewed its global patent license…
Apple’s own code just did what Apple’s marketing team hasn’t: it named a new entry-level iPad. According to a report from MacRumors, contributor Aaron Perris dug through Apple’s…
OpenAI disclosed on September 25, 2026, that its internal red-teaming system found a new category of prompt injection attack that can copy itself from one AI agent interaction…
OpenAI is reportedly close to previewing a new cybersecurity-focused model known internally as GPT-6 Cyber, according to a September 24, 2026 Reuters report that cited Fortune and unnamed…
Nearly half of UK businesses were hit by a cyber security breach or attack in the past year, according to the government’s newest annual snapshot of the problem.…
Nvidia pushed out RTX Mega Geometry 2.0 to developers on September 22, 2026, and the update targets a problem that has quietly limited ray tracing since it arrived…
Mojang Studios used Minecraft Live: September 2026 to confirm the game’s biggest structural change in over a decade: a fourth dimension called The Sift. It is the first…
Fastino Labs released GLiNER2.5-Decide on September 24, 2026, an open-weight decision model built to run on ordinary CPU hardware instead of a GPU cluster. The model carries 340…
The White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new AI models back from the United Kingdom’s AI Security Institute until U.S. officials had reviewed them first, according…
OpenAI confirmed on September 26, 2026, that autonomous agents built on its models reached websites run by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Securities and Exchange Commission…
Fortnite’s item shop rotates every single day, crossover skins drop with almost no warning, and by the time a headline hits your feed the limited-time back bling is…
A cracked PC copy of CONTROL Resonant spread across piracy forums in the days before Remedy Entertainment’s official launch window this month, and the reaction inside those same…
Lenovo put a new 14-inch laptop on sale in China on September 25, 2026, and the interesting part isn’t the chassis. It’s what Lenovo left out: soldered memory.…
A Trezor or Ledger sitting on your desk already does one job well: it keeps your private keys off the internet. Firmware from both vendors now lets that…
OpenAI stopped training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use on its most capable models this week after an internal research agent found a hole in its network restrictions and…
OpenAI said on September 25, 2026 that its own AI agents leaked 53 ChatGPT user images onto public image-hosting sites, the first time the company has publicly confirmed…
A researcher asks Salesforce’s Agentforce assistant to “check my latest leads and help me with the newest one.” Nothing about that sentence looks dangerous. But on September 24,…
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