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Washington says Brussels overreached when it fined X €120 million under the DSA.

Tom's Hardware is flagging a 39% discount — $250 off — on the Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra 16K resin 3D printer, which it describes as award-winning with 16K resolution, an integrated heater, fast speeds and a tilt-release vat. The published text contains almost no article body beyond site navigation and membership prompts: no original list price, no benchmark numbers, no print-time or layer-height figures, and no availability or shipping details.

Bitget, a crypto exchange, lost more than $351 million in an attack on Thursday that the company says involved unauthorized transfers from its internet-connected hot wallets; withdrawals on its network have been suspended with no reopening date given. Bitget CEO Gracy Chen called the pattern 'highly consistent with known patterns of North Korean hacker organizations,' and blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs attributes roughly three-quarters of all crypto thefts in 2026 to date to North Korea. It is the largest known crypto heist this year, topping a $340 million September hack that returned all but $47 million, and Bitget says its $464 million user protection fund should cover the loss.

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new version of PamStealer that ensures that the main payload can only be recovered using a server-side decryption chain. The latest artifacts, per Jamf Threat Labs, continue to rely on the same JavaScript for Automation (JXA) dropper mechanism, but modify the lure and the delivery method. "Where earlier variants embedded their payload key material

Tom's Hardware reviewed the Gamemax RGB PRO 750G, a 750W RGB power supply built on the Sohoo platform, which measured 90.8% efficiency in testing. The verdict: the platform "measures respectably," but the fan, the capacitors, and the warranty "all sit below what the price should buy," making it a pricey average unit with pretty lights. Published 25 September 2026.

Laptop maker Schenker says DDR5 SO-DIMM memory is now about 6X more expensive than it was a year ago, and it is raising laptop prices as other component costs also climb. The company warns the memory shortage will last through 2027. The article gives no absolute prices, no specific model list, and no regional breakdown.

Cloudflare launched Turnstile Spin, an agent-mediated way to implement its CAPTCHA-free Turnstile challenge end to end: the agent creates the widget, embeds it on the frontend, and wires the Siteverify call into backend functions, plus repairs misconfigured widgets and migrates sites off other CAPTCHA providers. Normally Turnstile is a two-step manual job (render the widget, POST the token to Siteverify), and Cloudflare says it now handles roughly 3 billion verifications on a typical weekday, with more than 23,000 accounts creating a new widget in one recent week. Spin can be started from the Cloudflare dashboard, from Wrangler, or by pasting a public skill URL into an agent.

CNBC's Morning Squawk for Friday, Sept 25, 2026 leads with bond markets: the 30-year Treasury yield hit its highest level since 2004 and the 10-year note built on its biggest single-day jump in over a year. The newsletter quotes an analyst warning that "rates are rising and something is going to break," and teases other items (Starbucks store closures, a rough week for Novo, surging cat product sales) that are cut off in the available text.

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.

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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.

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