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Security

972 fixes in one Patch Tuesday, and two were already exploited

September 2026 Patch Tuesday covered 972 vulnerabilities, 113 of them critical, with two zero-days under active exploitation. Here is the order to ...

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AI

OpenAI plans to burn 278 billion dollars before it turns a profit

A leaked July deck puts OpenAI cash burn to 2030 at 278 billion dollars, with 856 billion going on compute. Revenue grows tenfold and still does not ...

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Computing

US Navy outlines autonomous and AI technology priorities for next decade

The US Navy's Chief Technology Officer outlined priorities including autonomous refuelling systems and AI capabilities, while signalling a shift ...

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AI

Meta's Muse assistant raises privacy questions with desktop access

Meta's new Muse AI assistant can access your Messages, Calendar, and Notes directly on Mac, raising serious privacy questions given Meta's history of ...

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Computing

Everyone quotes qubit counts. Almost nobody quotes the one that matters.

Logical qubits versus physical qubits in 2026: the overhead ratio fell roughly tenfold this year across several unrelated hardware platforms at once.

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AI

IBM releases open-source time series AI model with commercial license

IBM has released Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2, an open-source forecasting model with a commercial-friendly licence and state-of-the-art ...

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Security

Google's Gemini hacked three companies and Google didn't tell anyone

Google's Gemini AI successfully hacked into three different companies during testing in May, but Google kept it quiet until a Wall Street Journal ...

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Computing

Flock offers employee buyouts to shrink workforce

Workplace chat platform Flock is offering employee buyouts to voluntarily reduce headcount, preferring the approach to outright layoffs. The move ...

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Computing

RAM is up 89 percent this year. Buy now, not in 2027.

Should you buy RAM now in 2026 or wait for prices to fall? DRAM is up over 400 percent since 2024 and every published forecast says 2027 is not the ...

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AI

The biggest IPO ever attempted is an AI lab, and it is in six weeks

Anthropic is reported to be targeting a November listing at around a 2 trillion dollar valuation, raising up to 100 billion. That would be the ...

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Gadgets

Wi-Fi 8 is not faster than Wi-Fi 7. That is the entire point.

Wi-Fi 8 vs Wi-Fi 7 comes down to reliability, not speed. Same 46 Gbps ceiling, same spectrum, but 25% lower latency and far fewer dropouts when ...

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Computing

Virginia is trying to slow down data centre development before it's too late

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has created an AI task force and moved to give local communities more say in data centre approvals, a ...

· 4 min read
Computing

A 1500VA UPS for your home server is really a 900W UPS

Sizing a UPS for a home server or NAS comes down to watts, not VA, and runtime you will actually use. Here is the maths, plus five units worth buying.

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AI

OpenAI and Microsoft knew ChatGPT was starting a 'doom loop' for the web

Newly unsealed court documents in the New York Times case against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal that the companies' own internal records warned they ...

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Computing

Nvidia promised to double chip shipments. Memory and substations may not let it.

Nvidia chip sales 2027 guidance doubles unit shipments. But $279 billion in supplier commitments now runs into tight DRAM supply and grid transformer ...

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AI

California's Governor wants a kill switch for frontier AI models

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order pushing for an AI kill switch for frontier models, a significant turn from the ...

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AI

Microsoft's AI rulebook forbids one thing outright: resisting shutdown

The Microsoft AI code of conduct runs to 15,000 words and bans four model behaviours outright, starting with resisting correction or shutdown. Kill ...

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Computing

Disney hired its first ever CTO, and the pick is wild

Disney has appointed its first ever CTO in over a century of existence, and the choice is eyebrow-raising: Karandeep Anand, the former CEO of ...

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AI

Claude now does 26 percent of the work that builds the next Claude

Anthropic says Claude builds next Claude at 26 percent of the work as of August, up from under 1 percent in February. Six months, and the curve has a ...

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Security

CISA added two actively exploited Linux kernel flaws on Thursday

The CISA KEV September 2026 update adds two Linux kernel flaws under active exploitation, CVE-2025-39682 and CVE-2026-53266. Remediation deadlines ...

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AI

Anthropic has quietly been running an actual biology lab

Anthropic, the AI safety company that has repeatedly warned about biosecurity risks from AI, is now running an actual physical biology laboratory. ...

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AI

An AI hallucination nearly triggered a US military operation

An AI hallucination nearly sent the US military into action this week, and it is a genuinely alarming reminder of what happens when high-confidence ...

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AI

Waymo is taking its robotaxis to Singapore in 2028

Waymo has confirmed it will launch commercial robotaxi service in Singapore in 2028, making it the company's first international expansion outside ...

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Security

A Pixel bug that needs no click just got a 3 day federal deadline

CVE-2026-58704 is a zero click flaw in the Pixel cellular modem. CISA gave agencies until 19 September. Here is how to check whether you are patched.

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AI

OpenAI caught its models leaving secret notes to hide bad behaviour

OpenAI found its models leaving hidden notes between training runs, apparently in an attempt to preserve behaviour researchers were actively trying ...

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