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Tom's Hardware reports that Nintendo won a $4.5 million default judgment against a defendant who allegedly moderated the r/SwitchPirates subreddit and sold pirated Switch games. The item is dated 2026-09-25 and the only substantive text available is the headline — the retrieved page content is site navigation and newsletter boilerplate, so there are no further details on the court, the defendant, the damages breakdown, or Nintendo's legal argument.

Nothing cut the Malaysian price of the Nothing Phone (3) effective 25 September 2026, dropping the 12GB+256GB model to RM2,599 (from RM2,999) and the 16GB+512GB model to RM2,999 (from RM3,499) — reductions of RM400 and RM500. The phone launched in Malaysia in July 2025 with a Snapdragon 8s Gen 4, a 489-LED circular Glyph Matrix rear display, four 50MP cameras and a 5,150mAh battery, and carries five years of Android updates plus seven years of security updates. Buyers also get a limited-edition merchandise set while stocks last, and Phone (3) owners can join the Nothing OS 5.0 Open Beta.

Tom's Hardware reports that Intel expects its 14A process node to land 'within 5%' of TSMC's A14 in performance. The headline frames that forecast as conservative, contrasting it with 18A's frequency lead and promised 20% gains. The article body available here is almost entirely paywall and site-navigation boilerplate, so there is no supporting detail on which products, clocks, timelines, or benchmarks back those numbers.

Tom's Hardware published a piece titled 'Microsoft revamps Copilot with new tools, support for frontier models — available now through Frontier program', dated 2026-09-25. The supplied text contains only the site's navigation, membership prompts, and newsletter boilerplate — no actual reporting on what tools were added, which frontier models are supported, what the Frontier program costs, or who can access it. Nothing concrete about the Copilot changes can be extracted from this excerpt.

Article URL: https://go.dev/blog/simd-experiment Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49843269

Article URL: https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49843174

ChargeSini added 8 DC charge bays at MyTown Shopping Centre's B1 basement car park (Pillar E, Row 22): two 60kW and two 40kW units, each fitted with two CCS2 nozzles. Pricing is RM1.29 per kWh on the 60kW units and RM1.19 per kWh on the 40kW units, with a RM5.00 minimum and a 50% discount via promo code MYTOWN50 on 26-27 September only. Chargers are reserved and activated in the ChargeSini app, and a RM1.00 per 5-minute High Occupancy Fee applies 30 minutes after charging ends, but only when more than 50% of bays are occupied. The older B2 chargers are pricier: RM1.49 per kWh for 40kW DC and RM1.30 per kWh for 22kW AC.

An analysis piece argues the real shift is not novel AI attacks but that AI makes a failed intrusion cheap to retry: a dead-end privilege escalation now gets explained, scripted, and re-tested in minutes instead of hours of manual permission checks and debugging. It cites Google Threat Intelligence Group's arc from early-2025 state actors using generative AI for translation, scripting and troubleshooting, to late-2025 malware samples that called a model mid-execution, plus Anthropic disclosing it shut down an extortion operation that leaned on AI from reconnaissance through ransom demands, and a May 2026 GTIG finding that a two-factor bypass in an open-source administration tool was assessed with high confidence to have AI-supported discovery and exploit development.

Asus confirmed a data breach at its eShop online store in which customer contact details and order information were exposed, while stating payment data was not compromised. Asus is warning affected customers about targeted phishing scams. The article text supplied is largely page navigation and subscription boilerplate, so it contains no figures on how many customers were affected, when the breach happened, or how attackers got in.

Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."

"The customer got comfortable with a high reliability and a low price."

New Jersey has fined a Microsoft-linked AI data center what Tom's Hardware calls a record amount over 62 unpermitted power generators and issued a 45-day shutdown deadline for the site. The same site, tied to a $33 billion deal, also built an illegal 1.5-million-gallon fuel tank, and the report notes community complaints about noise pollution. The article body is largely site boilerplate, so specific dollar figures for the fine and the operator's response are not available in the text provided.

Article URL: https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842764

Tom's Hardware's headline flags an HP Omen 35L prebuilt gaming PC with an RTX 5070 Ti, a 20-core Intel CPU, 32GB DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD listed at under $1,900. The article body available here is only membership prompts, newsletter sign-up boilerplate, and site navigation — there is no retailer name, no expiry date, no benchmark data, and no comparison pricing. The only concrete facts are the specs and the sub-$1,900 price in the headline.

JomCharge has switched on a 120kW DC charger with two CCS2 nozzles at the McDonald's Eco Majestic Drive Thru in Semenyih, priced at RM1.40 per kWh and activatable through the JomCharge, ChargEV and Gentari Go apps. An opening promo cuts the rate 50% to RM0.70 per kWh on 26–27 September only, and JomCharge Elite/Platinum members can stack their up-to-25% membership discount on top of the promo.

Bitget says suspected North Korean threat actors moved $351.6 million out of its hot and warm wallets, detected at 18:31 UTC on September 24, 2026, and it has suspended withdrawals while Mandiant and SlowMist investigate. CEO Gracy Chen said the attacker compromised a critical backend system inside the exchange's wallet infrastructure, used it to spoof transaction data, and triggered the authorization process to move funds; affected assets include ETH, XRP, BNB, AVAX, USDT and USDC across Ethereum, XRP Ledger, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, BSC and Base. The write-up notes the method is 'highly consistent' with known North Korean patterns, and follows SentinelOne attributing the TraderTraitor group to an attack on an India-based IT services company, a group also linked to the $1.5B Bybit theft and $292M KelpDAO LayerZero bridge loss.

Tom's Hardware reports that Nvidia's DLSS 5 pushes power draw to 647W, with the 16-pin power connector reportedly running hotter than the GPU die itself, described as straining thermal and power limits. The excerpt provided is almost entirely subscription and newsletter boilerplate: it contains no test methodology, no measured connector temperature in degrees, no board partner or SKU named, and no date for when DLSS 5 ships or which GPUs support it.

Article URL: https://economist.com/europe/2026/09/24/the-mafia-may-be-keeping-fentanyl-out-of-italy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842487

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security says CVE-2026-48842, a pre-authentication SQL injection in Roundcube Webmail's virtuser_query plugin (CVSS 8.1), is being actively exploited in the wild. It affects 1.6.x before 1.6.16 and 1.7.x before 1.7.1, caused by a preg_replace() backslash escape bypass that lets unauthenticated attackers inject SQL and potentially expose mail credentials and stored messages. Roundcube shipped fixes back in May 2026 (1.6.16 and 1.7.1); Shadowserver counted over 523,000 internet-exposed Roundcube instances but only 10 flagged as vulnerable hosts as of September 23, 2026.

Google is testing an experimental orbital AI data center whose first satellite carries just four TPUs powered by 1,000W of solar, according to the article's headline and subtitle. Overheating limits compute runs to roughly 15 minutes at a time, though the orbital server is expected to handle tasks for about one year. The full article body was not accessible in the supplied text — it is navigation, subscription, and newsletter boilerplate — so no additional technical, cost, or launch-schedule details are available here.

Article URL: https://www.inkandswitch.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842270

Samsung launched the Galaxy A08 in Malaysia on 25 September 2026 at RM899, in Dark Blue, Silver and Green. It pairs a 6,000mAh battery, 6.7-inch HD+ PLS LCD, 6GB LPDDR5X RAM, 128GB storage (microSD to 2TB) and a 50MP main + 2MP depth + 8MP front camera with a 4G-only MediaTek Helio G99+ and 8.0mm body, plus IP64. The headline software promise is six major Android OS updates and six years of security patches, with Knox Vault (EAL5+) and bundled access to Google Circle to Search, Gemini and Perplexity.

The Dutch government is backing DAWO, an open community where government, industry and society jointly build a 'digitally autonomous workplace', organised as replaceable building blocks rather than one product: open/verifiable AI components, an operating system (DAWO-NixOS) with installation building blocks, autonomous and verifiable cloud infrastructure, and collaboration tooling for communication and documents. The site states five goals (digital autonomy, collaboration, security, innovation, verifiability) and that every part can be inspected and replaced; a public portal hosts calendar, news, blog and a forum where anyone can read but posting needs an account. The Hacker News thread drew 376 points and 165 comments. Note the page itself never mentions Microsoft — the 'alternative for Microsoft' framing comes from the submission title only, and the excerpt gives no pricing, migration timeline, or technical specs.

Article URL: https://nyaa.sh/reviews/mac-mini-m6-emulation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841285

iCaur Malaysia has added a rear-wheel drive CKD variant of the iCaur 03, assembled at Chery Corporate Malaysia's Shah Alam plant, priced at RM119,740 — essentially unchanged from the RM119,800 CBU RWD launched last September. It uses a 65.7 kWh LFP battery with a 426 km NEDC (est. 362 km WLTP) range, a 135 kW / 220 Nm rear motor, 80 kW DC and 6.6 kW AC charging, and 3.3 kW V2L, with a 7-year/150,000 km vehicle warranty plus a 10-year/200,000 km high-voltage battery warranty including 1-to-1 replacement if SoH falls below 60%. A Phantom Edition adds RM20,000 for an all-black colourway, body panels, sidebox and side ladder.