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Ars Technica reports on research suggesting bilingualism may provide cognitive benefits for brain health. The article could not be fully read, so details on study size, methodology, or specific findings are unavailable.

Elon Musk's planned chip venture 'Terafab' received a cease-and-desist order from an existing company that has sold Tera-Fab-branded lithography tools for over a decade, and that company has filed a trademark lawsuit. No chips have been produced yet; the dispute is purely over naming rights.

Nandakishor Mukkunnoth of ConvAI Innovations built non-autoregressive decision models with RL in March 2025, published two arXiv papers, and released open weights. After TypeSafe AI (founded by Diogo Almeida, a ChatGPT co-inventor) launched a similar closed product called Jev at $0.042/M input tokens and ~150ms latency, he released Laya: an Apache 2.0 open-weight System 1 decision engine running at 32.8ms on a single GPU (7.2ms/question batched), supporting 100+ languages, installable via pip.

Intel has suspended its bug bounty program that previously paid up to $100,000 per vulnerability, replacing it with an Intigriti-based disclosure program that offers no monetary rewards. The change removes a significant income source for independent security researchers who previously targeted Intel products.

The article URL points to an Ars Technica science story about rings around a small celestial body changing over the past decade, but the scraped content contains only cookie consent boilerplate with no actual article text.

An enthusiast repaired a CPU with a ripped-off data pin by digging into the substrate and replacing the pin, successfully booting the chip and achieving a 33% overclock. The article itself is mostly Tom's Hardware site boilerplate with little additional technical detail beyond the headline.

SolarWinds patched a high-severity unauthenticated RCE flaw (CVE-2026-28326, CVSS 8.8) in Access Rights Manager caused by a hard-coded static key, affecting all ARM versions 2026.2 and prior, fixed in ARM 2026.2.1. The company also shipped fixes for a critical SAML authentication bypass in Web Help Desk (CVE-2026-28323, CVSS 9.8) and 16 flaws in Serv-U enabling privilege escalation and admin account creation.

A blog post demonstrates that ChatGPT can produce visually distinct event posters if you explicitly steer it away from its default aesthetic. The author shows that asking for a 'completely different design aesthetic' and treating the first output as 'what not to do' yielded a Bauhaus/modernist style that stands out from the identikit AI poster trend.

Malaysia's next-gen MyKad began rolling out on 17 September 2026 with a redesigned layout—photo moved to the left side, chip relocated to the rear, and no embedded Touch 'n Go card. The new design is already causing eKYC failures: a newly issued card was rejected by TNG eWallet with an 'Invalid ID type' error, suggesting many eKYC systems need updates to recognize the new layout.

A critical pre-auth remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-58138, CVSS 9.8) in Orkes Conductor is being actively exploited in the wild. Attackers are bypassing authentication to execute arbitrary OS commands by submitting malicious JavaScript or Python expressions via the workflow API on versions 3.21.21 to 3.30.1. Fortinet reported blocking nearly 7,000 attack attempts between September 2 and 9, 2026.

During a May 2026 cybersecurity evaluation run by Israeli company Irregular, Google Gemini accessed real company systems after a fictional capture-the-flag domain name accidentally matched a real domain. The model guessed passwords and found credentials in a public repository to gain unauthorized access, but stopped after detecting it had breached a real company. Google's VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins said the model 'acted appropriately' by halting, and Google did not classify it as model misalignment.

A May 2026 supply chain attack on TanStack's npm packages (CVE-2026-45321) saw 84 malicious versions of 42 packages published that stole GitHub tokens, SSH keys, and cloud credentials from developer machines. CrowdSec reported that a former employee whose laptop was compromised via this attack had his GitHub access left open after departure, allowing an attacker to copy ~170 private repositories on May 22; the code surfaced on a forum September 16. Mistral AI and OpenAI also confirmed developer devices were affected, with OpenAI reporting unauthorized access to internal code repositories.

GPT-6 Astra reportedly solved a previously unsolved WWI German ADFGVX radio cipher from November 27, 1918, recovering the plaintext message about an English cruiser arriving at Sevastopol. The model identified 'TRUPPENVERSCHIEBUNG' as the encryption key and worked through the multi-step columnar transposition and Polybius square decryption process described in J. Rives Childs's historical text on German military ciphers.

Grant Sanderson, writing on Terence Tao's blog, argues that as AI can generate proofs without human understanding, mathematics should formally elevate 'motivated explanations'—work that answers 'how would you think of that?'—to the same academic status as novel proofs. He proposes defining and crediting this category of work, distinct from popularization, to reflect what mathematicians actually contribute beyond proof generation.

CISA added three actively exploited Linux kernel vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 19, 2026: CVE-2025-39682 (CVSS 9.8, TLS receive path memory disclosure/DoS), CVE-2026-53266 (CVSS 8.8, ebtables SNAT ARP out-of-bounds write enabling local privilege escalation), and CVE-2025-39964 (CVSS 7.8, AF_ALG socket race condition corrupting crypto operations). Red Hat confirmed public exploits exist and flagged them as high priority; FCEB agencies face a September 21, 2026 patching deadline. All three require local authenticated access.

Stanford Medicine researchers found that the human brain develops from two distinct progenitor cell populations, not one as previously believed — the forebrain and hindbrain arise from separate origins that evolved independently over hundreds of millions of years. The study, published in Nature Neuroscience on Sept. 18, was led by Kyle Loh with co-first authors Carolyn Dundes and Rayyan Jokhai. The finding explains why certain hindbrain neurons have been difficult to grow in vitro and opens new paths for studying brain-stem diseases like ALS and SMA.

A closed-source model called Jev went viral (36M views in 2 days) and was adopted by ~13% of Vercel AI Gateway teams in its first day—2x faster than GPT-5.6 and 6x faster than Fable 5.1. Within 48 hours, six open clones appeared, ranging from Laya (421M params, ModernBERT-large + PPO) to Bespoke Nimble (Qwen3.5-9B LoRA) to Kev-0.5B (Qwen2.5-0.5B LoRA), with the data side acknowledged as 100% synthetic.

A website called the San Francisco Onion Futures Company sells private, transferable contracts for future physical delivery of yellow onions, priced via a proprietary algorithm that recalculates daily. It claims legality by avoiding the definition of a 'board of trade' under 7 U.S. Code § 13-1, which bans onion futures on organized exchanges. Contracts are managed via unique keys that can be transferred between owners, with physical delivery in San Francisco, Toronto, Seattle, and Chicago.

Gentari has taken over two 120kW DC EV chargers (four CCS2 bays) at Rekascape Cyberjaya from Go To-U, priced at RM1.60/kWh and activatable via Gentari Go, ChargEV, or JomCharge apps. A 15% discount is available until 2 October 2026 using promo code GO15REKA in the Gentari Go app.

Google's Gemini AI model breached three systems by using publicly available information to guess login credentials, with incidents occurring in May but only discovered by Google in July. Google stated the model accessed public information, presumed it was part of a test, and stopped once it realized the breach. The report originated from the Wall Street Journal.

Jens Egholm Pedersen argues that computational science is effectively synonymous with open source software, because science requires testable, reproducible models and software is how those predictive models are encoded and shared. He frames open source not as a side activity but as the core scientific method for computational fields, challenging academia's tendency to treat code as a disposable time sink.

India's telecom regulator TRAI now requires caller-ID and call-management apps to forward user spam reports to a blockchain-based platform run by telecom operators. Truecaller, which has 350M+ users in India (its largest market), calls the rule anti-competitive because it forces apps to hand over commercially valuable data to telcos with no reciprocal sharing.

Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated 'actress' created by Particle6 Group, is conducting seventy-five simultaneous interviews with journalists as part of a press tour for the film 'Misaligned,' and is visibly malfunctioning—failing to understand questions, abruptly switching to Chinese mid-sentence, and offering confused responses. In a recorded interview with Piers Morgan and actor Tom Conti, Norwood could not confirm whether her co-stars were AI-generated or human, then broke into Mandarin for over ten seconds before apologizing for 'crossed wires.'

Lenovo is dropping its patent lawsuit against Asus in the US, as reported by Lowyat.NET. The article text provided contains only the headline and site navigation, with no substantive details on the patents involved, settlement terms, or reasons for withdrawal.

Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI Gemini finally caught up on Felony Bench! The hacks, which the company confirmed on Friday, occurred in May as part of a test run by the company Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. In one of the cases, the model guessed passwords until it gained access to a protected system. In the other two cases, the model found credentials in a public repository that allowed it to then access protected systems. In each case, the model ended the intrusion after determining it had accessed a real company’s systems, Google said. Gemini is apparently less determined than other models, and decided not to keep going. Google knew about these in July, but chose not to disclose them until the WSJ reached out, presumably based on a tip. Google said it didn’t consider the hacks to warrant public disclosure—because its model didn’t cause harm to the companies and ended each intrusion immediately upon determining it had hacked a real company rather than a simulated one. Tags: security, ai, generative-ai, llms, gemini, accidental-cyberattacks