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"I think we can't get in trouble for that now. It's like 20 years ago."

Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice.

Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.

It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.

Minisforum unveiled the NAS N5 Max-P495 and MS-S1 Max-P945 at IFA 2026. The NAS and mini-PC are powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495, which can be configured with up to 192GB of unified memory and packs a Radeon 8065S integrated GPU.

Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?

Saying X is “formerly Twitter” in App Store lets Musk block use of Twitter name.

Microsoft is alerting of a "high-volume phishing campaign" that's using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. "Instead of using these characters to hide instructions from people while exposing them to AI models, the attacker used them to split financial lure words such as 'funding' to prevent email filters from parsing them," the Microsoft Security Research team said. The

"Let me be clear: America is not only welcome—we want you there."

Windows-based handheld gaming machines have gained traction in recent years, with many OEMs, including Acer, joining the fray. At this year’s IFA in Berlin, the Taiwanese giant played around with a question: how can we innovate the gaming handheld form factor? Well, say hello to the answer—the new Project DualPlay Mini. Gaming or productivity: why […]

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There's a big Labor Day sale over at Best Buy right now, securing you huge discounts on tech, including gaming PCs, handhelds, laptops, and monitors.

As frontier AI developers push for cost savings as much as intelligence enhancements, new models push the boundaries of the pareto frontier, with even small advantages crowning new kings.

PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6471 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been present since logical decoding was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.4 in 2014. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 are

Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month

RIAA data shows CD revenue jumped 58.6% to $171.1 million in H1 2026 (17.5 million units, up 45.7% from 12 million in H1 2025), reversing a 2025 decline where full-year CD revenue fell 7.8% to $312.4 million. The rebound is part of a broader retro-tech trend driven by Gen Z interest in 'dumbphones,' digital cameras, typewriters, and physical media, with startups like Tin Can, Light, Dumb Co, and Clicks capitalizing on the demand.

When NVIDIA launched the GeForce RTX 50 series, a major part of the hype surrounding the new GPU family was its support for DLSS Multi-Frame Generation. This feature was officially locked to the new RTX 50 "Blackwell" GPUs, but modders have been working on unlocking it for RTX 40-series cards for a while now.

Canonical has closed the Ubuntu Pastebin (as of end of June) and is demoting its official IRC channels on Libera Chat to unofficial status, with no staff presence expected for help or moderation. The official Ubuntu chat channels are now on Matrix, accessible via #community:ubuntu.com, mirroring a move Linux Mint made a couple of years ago.

A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic and served altered pages to selected visitors. The attackers named the implant ted in debug strings left in the binary. It is not a HAProxy vulnerability, and installing it requires code execution on the host and

South Korean gaming company Krafton plans to invest an additional $250 million in India over the next 3-4 years, expanding beyond gaming into AI, robotics, and deep tech. This brings total planned investment to over $500 million, separate from a $670M India-focused growth fund Krafton launched with Naver and Mirae Asset in December 2025, where Krafton committed ~$137M at first close.

CNBC reports consumers like Brooklyn parent Alexander Lee are using ChatGPT and Claude to consolidate back-to-school shopping—comparing prices, consolidating retailer searches, and even timing purchases for best deals. The article frames Amazon and Google as best positioned to capture AI-driven commerce as chatbots become a shopping discovery layer.

Google announced that its personal agent Gemini Spark can now manage Google Photos libraries, including editing images, curating albums, creating shared albums, and turning concert flyer photos into calendar appointments. The feature rolls out over the next few weeks to eligible Gemini AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the U.S. in English, with no timeline for international markets.

Tom's Hardware highlights a Walmart deal on the MSI RTX 5060 Ti 16G Shadow 2x OC Plus at $569.99, roughly $200 below other retailers. The article frames this as a strong value for a mid-range gaming GPU.

Adobe named Anil Chakravarthy, currently president of customer experience orchestration and worldwide field operations, as its next CEO effective Dec. 1, replacing Shantanu Narayen after 18 years. Narayen will become executive chair. Adobe's stock has declined this year alongside other software names due to investor fears of AI disruption.