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AI

Hikers rescued after trusting Google Gemini with their lives

Two hikers needed rescuing after Google Gemini told them to bring significantly less food and water than they needed for their trip. It is a sharp ...

· 4 min read
Security

CISA KEV, September 2026: Seven exploited flaws, and attackers are hunting AI servers

CISA KEV September 2026: seven exploited vulnerabilities added in a week, including a CVSS 10.0 SonicWall flaw, plus attackers stealing LLM keys from ...

· 2 min read
Computing

CD sales up 31 percent as physical media refuses to die

CD sales jumped 31 percent in the first half of 2026, with 17.5 million discs sold in the US alone, and the trend has been building for three years ...

· 4 min read
Gadgets

Apple's first foldable lands Wednesday, and the crease is the only spec that matters

The Apple September 2026 event runs Wednesday at 10am Pacific. What to expect: iPhone 18 Pro, the folding iPhone Ultra, A20 Pro silicon and no iPhone ...

· 3 min read
Gaming

Valve secretly leaked its own Left 4 Dead 2 trailer to outmanoeuvre the ESRB

Nearly twenty years ago, Valve secretly leaked its own Left 4 Dead 2 trailer to get around an ESRB ruling that blocked the footage from being ...

· 4 min read
EVs and Energy

Tesla's Cybercab launched in Austin and NHTSA opened a probe the next day

The Tesla Cybercab NHTSA investigation covers about 1,000 vehicles with no steering wheel or pedals, and audits Tesla's own safety certification ...

· 2 min read
Space

Saturn grew a decagon at its south pole while nobody watched

Saturn decagon south pole: Hubble confirms a ten-sided jet pattern that formed between 2017 and 2023, in the gap after Cassini left the system.

· 3 min read
AI

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra and declares the AGI era has arrived

OpenAI just unveiled GPT-6 Astra, its most powerful model yet, alongside a bold claim that the AGI era has officially begun. Real-world results from ...

· 4 min read
AI

GPT-6 Astra benchmarks: OpenAI ships the model it paused

GPT-6 Astra benchmarks: 97.6 on FrontierMath Tier 4, 100 percent on ExploitBench and 10 dollars per million input tokens, four weeks after a safety ...

· 3 min read
AI

DeepSeek orders 160,000 Huawei chips for a site that cannot be filled yet

DeepSeek's Huawei Ascend data centre order runs to 160,000 accelerators in Inner Mongolia, and memory supply, not export controls, sets the real ...

· 2 min read
Computing

Best portable SSD 2026: What to buy while prices are doubling

Best portable SSD 2026 buying guide. NAND prices doubled in six months. Which external SSDs are still worth the money, what to skip, and when prices ...

· 7 min read
Computing

Best home server OS 2026: Proxmox vs TrueNAS vs Unraid

Best home server OS 2026: Proxmox, TrueNAS and Unraid do three different jobs. A decision guide by workload, drive sizing, cost and learning curve.

· 4 min read
Space

BepiColombo is eight years in and finally closing in on Mercury

Europe and Japan's BepiColombo spacecraft has spent eight years threading gravitational assists around Earth, Venus, and Mercury itself to bleed off ...

· 4 min read
Computing

Audacity 4 is out and the most popular free audio editor has had a proper overhaul

Audacity, the free audio editor that has been quietly running on hobbyist computers for over two decades, has launched version 4 with what its ...

· 4 min read
AI

Anthropic's 2 trillion dollar IPO puts its unusual trustee structure centre stage

Anthropic is reportedly heading for a public market debut at a two trillion dollar valuation, and the headline number is almost beside the point. The ...

· 4 min read
Security

Ten actively exploited CVEs land before September's Patch Tuesday

Ten actively exploited CVEs in September 2026, led by a SharePoint auth bypass and RCE chain, plus two CVSS 10 flaws in HPE Fabric Composer.

· 2 min read
Security

A ransomware crook used frontier AI to do a two week job in ten hours

Unit 42 researchers documented a human attacker using frontier AI models to plan and execute a network intrusion that would normally take a skilled ...

· 2 min read
Security

ShinyHunters claims 5.2 million records from American Tower Corporation

The extortion group ShinyHunters says it pulled over 5.2 million records from telecoms infrastructure giant American Tower on 3 September, the latest ...

· 2 min read
Security

PaperCuts print server has a pre-auth RCE chain, and attackers found it first

Two chained flaws in PaperCut NG and MF let an unauthenticated attacker take over the application server. Active exploitation is already underway.

· 2 min read
EVs and Energy

Tesla Cybercab officially launches in Austin with no wheel and no pedals

Tesla just launched the Cybercab at a surprisingly quiet private event in Austin, and it is as radical as advertised: no steering wheel, no pedals ...

· 4 min read
AI

Sony and Warner want 150,000 dollars a song from Anthropic

The Sony Warner Anthropic lawsuit asks up to 150,000 dollars per song and names Dario Amodei personally. Here is the 2025 ruling it is built on.

· 2 min read
Computing

Oura files to go public as smart ring revenue climbs

Oura, the smart ring company that has built a genuinely loyal user base through accurate sleep tracking and a no-screen design, has filed to go ...

· 4 min read
Security

OpenAI commits 1 billion dollars to cyber defence with Daybreak programme

OpenAI has announced a 1 billion dollar programme called Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, aimed at getting frontier AI tools into the hands of ...

· 4 min read
Gaming

Nvidia expands DLSS 5 to older GPUs but takes control away from gamers

Nvidia is bringing DLSS 5 to older RTX 40 and 30 series GPUs, which sounds great until you read the fine print. Gamers will not have full control ...

· 4 min read
Security

How to check what ports are exposed to the internet

How to check what ports are exposed to the internet, in five steps, from finding your real public IP range to closing management interfaces nobody ...

· 3 min read