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,…
Telmate LLC, the prison-communications company now doing business as ViaPath Technologies, has agreed to pay $4,225,000 to settle a class action over a 2020 data breach. The deal,…
Nintendo Switch Online members can play all of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown for free this week, no purchase required, through a limited-time Game Trial that Nintendo…
Every SSH key you generate with ssh-keygen -t ed25519 and every WireGuard tunnel that comes up in under a second rests on the same 255-bit curve. But Ed25519…
Nvidia’s next-generation AI rack just showed up in public benchmark data for the first time, and the numbers explain why the company keeps pulling its roadmap forward. On…
A Geekbench listing spotted in early July has turned into one of the more debated budget-phone stories of 2026: a device labeled SM-M676K, widely believed to be the…
Mark Zuckerberg is not just declining to join a coordinated AI slowdown. He is building a public argument for why one is unnecessary, and that argument is starting…
Mark Zuckerberg told NBC News on September 24, 2026 that he does not think the AI industry needs a coordinated slowdown, breaking publicly with a growing chorus of…
Wisconsin has joined a coalition of 44 state attorneys general in a $2.3 million multistate settlement with Laboratory Corporation of America (Labcorp), closing out a data-security investigation tied…
Cloudflare has confirmed that a flaw in its Containers platform let one paying customer read data left behind by a completely different customer’s earlier workload. The company disclosed…
A newly published Microsoft patent application has gamers asking an uncomfortable question: could watching an ad become the price of finishing a boss fight without a pause? The…
Apple spent about two months enjoying a title it hadn’t held since April 2025. On July 27, 2026, the iPhone maker’s market capitalization closed at roughly $4.94 trillion,…
The Nasdaq Composite closed at 27,068.72 on Friday, September 25, 2026, up 129.34 points, or 0.48%, from the prior session’s close of 26,939.37. The index logged the gain…
A Bitcoin sidechain that banks and exchanges trust to move money quietly in the background just proved how much can go wrong when “quiet” also means “under-audited.” On…
Grand Theft Auto VI has a release date, a price tag and a single-player-only format. What it does not have, seven weeks out from launch, is agreement on…
Thermal Grizzly has confirmed its first CPU water block built for Intel’s LGA 1954 socket, a move that puts a real product behind months of chatter about Intel’s…
Google DeepMind has moved its next flagship model into post-training with no benchmark scores, no parameter count, no price sheet, and no launch date. That is not a…
Nintendo pulled the wraps off its Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition hardware at Tokyo Game Show this week, and the photos are the clearest look yet at…
Jensen Huang has made bold predictions before. But the one he delivered on September 17, 2026, standing outside an AI summit convened by King Charles III at Dumfries…
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