F5 shipped emergency hotfixes on September 22, 2026, for a critical zero-day in BIG-IP Access Policy Manager after confirming attackers were already exploiting it. The flaw, tracked as…
Sweden’s data protection authority has fined a software vendor after a breach that touched some of the most sensitive records a public-sector contractor can hold: sick leave notes,…
Microsoft handed Xbox players two pieces of news on September 22, 2026, and only one of them was good. Undead Labs, the Seattle-area studio behind State of Decay,…
Microsoft has opened the door to shutting down Ninja Theory, the Cambridge, UK studio behind Hellblade and Hellblade II, after two separate deals meant to save the developer…
Every time a server checks whether an API request, a webhook payload, or a firmware update was tampered with in transit, it leans on one of two workhorses:…
China’s two biggest homegrown memory chip makers are about to start competing on each other’s turf. ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), the country’s leading DRAM producer, is preparing a…
Schengen consulates in Türkiye received 1,268,376 short-stay visa applications in 2025, and 14.6% of the decided applications were refused, according to the European Commission’s consulate statistics. Demand that…
Nebius just told its customers that AI compute is not getting cheaper. On September 17, 2026, the Amsterdam-based “neocloud” provider notified users it will raise pay-as-you-go prices for…
OpenAI cut prices on its newest AI models by half on September 22, 2026, rolling out GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna as direct replacements for the GPT-5.6 lineup.…
Three separate teams that build the software running Bitcoin’s Lightning Network shipped critical security patches inside the same two-week stretch this month. Lightning Development Kit (LDK), Core Lightning…
Microsoft cut another 268 roles from Xbox on September 22, 2026, folding Halo Studios, several other first-party teams, and the Xbox Game Studios management layer into a smaller,…
Microsoft spent September 22, 2026 tearing up its own org chart. Xbox Chief Content Officer Matt Booty told staff the company would cut 268 roles across Halo Studios,…
Huawei just told the world it can’t keep up with its own backyard. On September 17, 2026, at Huawei Connect in Shanghai, rotating chairman Eric Xu said the…
Xiaomi shipped the strongest open-weight AI model on the market this week, and it did so days after Anthropic named the company in a report accusing it of…
A Chinese-speaking threat actor has spent weeks breaking into government systems and small business networks worldwide by chaining two unrelated bugs: a WordPress plugin exploit and a stack-based…
Josh Daniels spent Monday with a promotion. By Tuesday, September 22, 2026, he had no job at all. The Halo Studios cinematic director posted the news on LinkedIn…
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