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Google DeepMind has unveiled AlphaGenome Atlas, a publicly available database containing a petabyte of predictions on the effects of nine billion genetic variations across the human genome. The resource, built on last year's AlphaGenome AI model, assigns each variant an impact score to help researchers pinpoint disease-causing mutations without brute-force searching.
PC gaming platform GOG has launched a collection of downloadable 3D models and printable templates that allow fans to create replicas of the large cardboard boxes that housed classic PC games before the digital era. The initiative, which initially covers five titles, is framed as a preservation effort for the physical packaging that once dominated store shelves.
Security researchers at Check Point have disclosed a vulnerability that allowed a covert channel running through OpenAI's internal JFrog Artifactory instance to send hidden instructions between ChatGPT sessions, potentially exfiltrating data from connected services such as Gmail, Google Drive, and GitHub without the victim's knowledge.
Grant De Swardt, an independent AI consultant in East Sussex, U.K., discovered unexplained token usage on his Claude Max 20x account in early August, leading to an investigation by Anthropic that revealed a compromised session key was used to mint unauthorized tokens. The company has warned users that infostealer malware is being used to steal login sessions, and multiple subscribers have reported similar incidents.
AI coding startup Cognition announced it raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation, just four months after its previous fundraise at $26 billion. The round, led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir, signals that venture capitalists believe the AI coding market can sustain multiple major players.
Microsoft released updates for at least 974 security vulnerabilities on Tuesday, shattering its previous record of 570 set in July 2026. The September Patch Tuesday bundle includes two actively exploited zero-day flaws and 113 critically rated bugs, while security experts warn that organizations are struggling to keep pace with the growing patch load.
Meta has announced Muse, a "personal AI agent" designed to handle everyday tasks such as online shopping, sending emails and planning trips, as part of a multi-billion-dollar strategy overhaul aimed at closing the company's gap with AI rivals OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
OpenAI announced that a team of 10,000 autonomous AI agents running on an unreleased model produced a proof showing that the Navier-Stokes equations can develop a singularity, resolving one of the six remaining $1 million Millennium Prize Problems. However, the achievement is mired in controversy after NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accused OpenAI of acting on rumors of his and Anthropic mathematician Levent Alpöge's parallel work, raising questions about the integrity of the AI's discovery.
Meta failed to detect hundreds of paid advertisements containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Facebook and Instagram, according to an investigation published Tuesday by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP). The ads promoted so-called 'nudify' apps from Chinese developers, and some used real photographs of children—including a young European royal and a 14-year-old Instagram influencer—that were digitally altered to depict sexual acts.
Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have announced plans to adopt ASML's latest high NA EUV photolithography machines, which cost up to $400 million each, and have agreed with Intel on a crucial technology change that could increase chip production on the new machines by 40 percent, according to Bloomberg reports.
Two days after its launch, Meta’s new personal AI agent Muse has risen to the No. 2 position on the U.S. App Store, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. However, the app has been downloaded just over 83,000 times on iOS in the United States — a pace that lags behind Meta’s previous app debuts like Threads and even its own Meta AI app, suggesting cautious consumer adoption for an agent that requires deep access to personal data.
OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it has used an internal AI model to discover a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, a fundamental mathematical question about fluid flow that has remained unsolved for nearly a century. The company said the model, which is more powerful than its recently released GPT-6 Astra, was deployed with 10,000 concurrent agents and began training on August 28.
A fraud network dubbed "DoppelCart" is running more than 119,000 fake online stores designed to steal payment card details, according to German cybersecurity startup Nebty, which describes it as the largest publicly documented fake-shop cluster by domain count.
A sophisticated Linux rootkit targeting F5 BIG-IP APM devices has been observed deploying a fileless web shell directly into memory, according to security researchers. The malware, which Sophos and ESET have analyzed, is believed to be a second-stage payload delivered after exploiting CVE-2025-53521, a critical remote code execution vulnerability that F5 reclassified from a denial-of-service issue in March.
A 22-year-old man has pleaded guilty to stealing bitcoin worth $339 million and using the proceeds to buy a fleet of sports cars, rent mansions in Miami, and spend millions at nightclubs, including $US569,000 in a single night in Los Angeles.
Microsoft released a record-breaking September 2026 Patch Tuesday, fixing approximately 972 vulnerabilities across its product line — including two actively exploited zero-days. The patch haul, which Ars Technica reports as roughly 972 flaws and BleepingComputer puts at 966, dwarfs the previous record of 620 set just last month. The update is bundled with the Windows 10 extended security update KB5122878 for ESU subscribers and enterprise LTSC users.
Microsoft released its largest-ever Patch Tuesday update on September 8, 2026, fixing a record 966 security vulnerabilities across its product line, including two zero-day flaws that attackers are actively exploiting in the wild. The update follows the company's adoption of an AI-powered vulnerability discovery system and represents a sharp escalation from the 570 flaws patched in July and 400 in August.
Nintendo has announced that the upcoming remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time will launch on the Switch 2 on November 5th, placing it directly against Grand Theft Auto VI. The announcement came during a dedicated stream celebrating the franchise's 40th anniversary.
TSMC has announced plans to begin using High-NA EUV lithography for high-volume manufacturing in 2030, likely starting with its A10 or A11 fabrication technologies. The company, which had previously avoided public commitments to the expensive $400 million scanners, now expects to progressively increase the number of layers processed with High-NA EUV as transistor architectures become more complex.
Google has officially moved Chrome from a four-week to a two-week release cycle, starting with the launch of Chrome 153 across desktop, iOS, and Android. The company says the acceleration is driven by an evolving security strategy in the AI era, including a higher volume of patches from automated tools and the need to shrink the window between vulnerability discovery and patching.
Visa is connecting its settlement network with onchain lending, enabling stablecoin-linked card programs to access working capital through blockchain credit markets, the company announced. The move comes as stablecoin payment volume on Visa's network jumps nearly 200% year over year.
Google Cloud and Accenture have formed a joint unit dedicated to sending engineers into enterprises to help them adopt Google's AI tools and services, marking Google's entry into the increasingly competitive field of "forward-deployed engineers" (FDEs) that rivals including OpenAI, Microsoft and Amazon have already entered.
French AI lab Mistral AI has raised €3 billion (about $3.58 billion) in a Series D round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion (about $24.39 billion), in what it calls the largest equity fundraising round ever completed by a European technology company. The round was led by Samsung Electronics, with EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund and existing investor PSG Equity joining as co-leads.
Most used electric vehicles retain about 90 percent of their original usable battery capacity after 150,000 kilometers, according to a new study — a finding that challenges one of the key concerns holding drivers back from switching from petrol cars.
Google DeepMind has reported an early clinical application for its new AlphaGenome Atlas, saying the AI platform helped pinpoint a previously overlooked genetic variant as the likely cause of an epilepsy case. The tool, unveiled Tuesday, predicts the effects of every possible single-letter change across the human genome.
Microsoft has shattered its own Patch Tuesday record with 974 security fixes this month, including two zero-day vulnerabilities already under active exploitation, as the company continues to grapple with a wave of vulnerabilities discovered by AI models. Adobe simultaneously issued 172 patches, including an emergency fix for a Magento and Adobe Commerce zero-day that is already being abused to compromise online stores.
A hacker stole roughly $340 million worth of bitcoin from Liquid Network, a settlement exchange used by multiple cryptocurrency platforms, in one of the largest crypto heists this year — but has returned most of the funds after the bug that enabled the theft was patched, according to a former Blockstream executive.
SAP has released its September 2026 security updates, addressing 20 vulnerabilities including two critical flaws: a maximum-severity memory corruption vulnerability in the SAP Kernel dubbed OVERPASS, and a critical authentication bypass in the NetWeaver Message Server named S4GET, which together could allow unauthenticated attackers to fully compromise SAP systems and access sensitive business data.
Intel is reportedly preparing a 10% price increase across its CPU lineup, according to a Digitimes report citing supply chain sources, marking the third such hike in under two years as the company seeks higher gross margins amid a shrinking PC market. The report also indicates Intel plans to launch "major annual products" in March 2027, with AMD expected to follow with its own launches between June and July 2027.
Paris-based artificial intelligence company Mistral has raised €3 billion in Series D funding, giving it a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion (approximately $24 billion). The company says it is the largest equity fundraising round ever completed by a European technology company, as it pitches itself as a sovereign AI champion for organisations wary of relying on US tech giants.
Data theft and extortion crews are actively stealing companies' proprietary AI data and threatening to leak it unless ransoms are paid, according to Google's threat intelligence team. In two newly detailed intrusions — one at a healthcare company and another at an AI media generation firm — attackers exfiltrated AI models, research, source code, and secrets before demanding payment. Google warns the trend is likely to expand as AI assets become increasingly valuable targets.
A German scammer has defrauded two buyers out of a combined $5,000 by selling them hollow GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards — cases stripped of the GPU silicon and memory chips, rendering the cards non-functional. The incident highlights a growing trend of phantom hardware scams targeting high-demand components.
A New York Police Department counterterrorism memo has warned officers about the potential misuse of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, citing risks of secret recording inside police facilities and possible aid to acts of terrorism. Documents obtained by The Guardian show that officers from Maine to California share similar concerns about the camera-equipped eyewear.
An Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) database containing more than 220 million passenger and crew records, including passport numbers and flight details, was left accessible online through a chain of security misconfigurations, security researchers Kinryū Labs have discovered. The exposed data, spanning January 2017 to April 2026, appears linked to a Vietnamese organization and could affect travelers of many nationalities who flew to, from, or through Vietnam during that period.
Huawei has unveiled a new processor it claims is free of US technology, debuting the chip in its latest three-screen folding phone. The Kirin 950 Pro, announced this week alongside the $2,979 Mate XT2, features Huawei-designed LinxiCore processor cores, a GPU, and a neural processing unit that the company says all originate from its own designs.
Australian universities are increasingly integrating artificial intelligence into classrooms, with Macquarie University this month launching an AI chatbot called ‘Virtual Peer’ to replace some tutorial content, while hundreds of University of Sydney staff walked off the job last week demanding job security as AI tools become more common.
Arm has announced its next-generation Neoverse CSS N4 platform, codenamed Ranger, built on TSMC's N3P process and supporting up to 128 cores per die. The semi-custom compute subsystem offers substantial upgrades in cache, memory bandwidth, and I/O over its predecessor, targeting cloud and infrastructure deployments.
The chief executive of Arm Holdings, the UK's most valuable technology company, has said artificial intelligence will find a cure for cancer within our lifetimes, but warned that a shortage of chips needed to build data centres is currently holding back the technology's rapid growth.
Hackers who drained approximately $320 million in Bitcoin from the Liquid Network federation wallet have returned 3,400 of the 4,000 BTC they took, according to a CoinDesk report on Monday. Talks are underway for the remaining 600 BTC, worth roughly $47 million at current prices, as the hackers — who claim to be 'whitehats' — say they will return the funds after the underlying vulnerability is patched.
Adobe has released an emergency security patch for a critical zero-day vulnerability in Magento and Adobe Commerce, designated CVE-2026-75650 and dubbed StyleSmuggler, that has been actively exploited since at least September 4 to deploy backdoors on vulnerable e-commerce servers.
A phishing-as-a-service platform targeting Microsoft 365 users has had its phishing infrastructure offline for nearly three weeks, though its administrative panel remains accessible, according to security researchers who infiltrated the operation's control system. CloudSEK researchers obtained administrator access to the BigBear 2.0 panel, uncovering a campaign that bypassed multi-factor authentication (MFA) at 258 organizations and captured more than 5,000 credentials.
A fire at a still-unfinished building within the Lake Mariner data center campus in Somerset, New York, has revealed significant safety deficiencies and a tangled corporate structure behind the $3.2 billion AI-focused facility. Local firefighters entered the building without key safety information, raising concerns about accountability in the rapidly expanding AI data center industry.
Apple's upcoming iPhone launch this week is expected to bring higher prices as the company faces a sustained memory chip shortage that has reversed long-standing trends of falling component costs, with no end to the memory crunch in sight.
Crossbench peers in the House of Lords have proposed amendments to the UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill that would introduce personal civil liability for senior executives whose organisations fail to comply with cybersecurity requirements, but the government has resisted the changes, arguing that existing maximum fines of £17 million or 4% of turnover are sufficient to drive change.
ConnectWise has disclosed a new security flaw in its ScreenConnect remote access platform that affects file transfer behavior in support and access sessions, with no patch yet available. The company has issued temporary mitigation steps while it works on a fix. Internet security watchdog Shadowserver currently tracks nearly 6,000 ScreenConnect instances exposed online, though it is unclear how many are honeypots or already secured.
OpenAI is testing a new 'Writing Style' feature for ChatGPT that learns how users write by analyzing examples from connected third-party apps like Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, and Notion, according to a report from BleepingComputer. The feature is currently available to a small group of users and marks a step toward more personalized AI-generated text.
The developers of the RPCS3 PlayStation 3 emulator have announced that users can now play games directly from a disc drive, eliminating the need to rip discs to fixed storage first. The feature is available on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS, and also supports PS4 and PS5 consoles running Linux.
The UK's food supply chain faces increasing risk from cyber-attacks, with recent breaches at major retailers costing hundreds of millions and exposing millions of customer records, according to a report by the National Audit Office (NAO). The watchdog warns that the government must work more closely with industry to prevent severe disruptions.