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Technology · Cybersecurity

Check Point Warns of Management Server Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks

Attackers exploited a previously unknown flaw in Check Point's Security Management Server in a handful of targeted attacks on July 23, the company said. The flaw, CVE-2026-93616, …

Technology · Startups

OpenAI will let outside groups test its models during training

OpenAI says it will let third-party groups run technical safety assessments while models are being trained and evaluated rather than only before launch, and is in talks with group…

Technology · Startups

A phone maker now has the world’s top open-weight AI model

Frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public. Xiaomi opened its MiMo-V2.6 announcement with that line on Tuesday. The phone and electric car maker released two open-…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

A16z is challenging Silicon Valley’s love for drop-outs by launching a school

This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade-school, Y Combinator and Peter Thiel's Fellowship Program.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

Save $30 on Apple’s Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and a numpad

Until the end of the day on September 22nd, 2026, Best Buy and Amazon have the black Apple Magic Keyboard on sale for $169.99, a $30 discount from the usual price. This is the sou…

Technology · Startups

China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot, The Information reports

While the CAC summoned all 7 companies namechecked by Anthropic’s report, the probe quickly zeroed in on DeepSeek and Moonshot due to the examples the report detailed. Jing Yang w…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Cybersecurity

New ClosedQuorum Windows malware uses AI for attack decisions

A new Windows malware named ClosedQuorum uses Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mistral AI models to autonomously determine the actions to take during post-compromise stages of a…

Technology · Cybersecurity

WordPress Issues Patch for Critical Flaw That Can Enable Code Execution on Some Servers

WordPress has fixed a critical flaw in its core software that lets an attacker with no account make a site load a PHP file from outside its theme folders. On some servers, that ca…

Technology · Startups

Zapata Quantum opens early access to Quantum Pilot, a roadmap tool for enterprise quantum

Quantum hardware roadmaps often include timelines, but they rarely answer the questions that matter most to a chief information officer: which problems will this solve, when will …

Technology · Hardware & Devices

How far away should you sit from your computer monitor or laptop?

Don't have your monitor sitting just anywhere; the distance, tilt and angles are all important to avoid strain while working.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes

OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.

Technology · Cybersecurity

Malicious npm Package Poses as Twilio Bug-Bounty Probe, Can Exfiltrate Credentials

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious npm package named "tw-pkgprobe-7731" that masquerades as a security tool targeting developers integrating Twilio in…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

San Francisco sues Trump Media for selling early access to Trump posts

San Francisco is suing the Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company behind Truth Social, for selling early access to President Donald Trump's posts on the social media s…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

Waymo’s latest expansion strategy: teenagers

Waymo is opening its robotaxi service to teenagers aged 13 to 17 in Nashville, its second city the offer rides to minors.

Technology · Software & Apps

Review: Resident Evil is the fresh take this flagging franchise really needed

Director Zach Cregger's clever reboot strikes perfect balance between horror, humor, and over-the-top gore.

Technology · Hardware & Devices

The latest PlayStation update made PSSR 2.0 the default for PS5 Pro owners

Your PS5 Pro will now automatically make supported games look even better without you having to dig into menus for an obscure toggle.

Technology · Startups

Anthropic’s cheaper Opus arrives weeks before its IPO

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output, below the $5 and $25 that Opus 5 has carried since July, and says it perfo…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Cybersecurity

Reducing shadow IT visibility gaps with Wazuh

Shadow IT can leave security teams unaware of unmanaged endpoints, unauthorized software, and other assets that fall outside existing monitoring. Wazuh explains how endpoint inven…

Technology · Startups

Z.ai apologised, open-sourced ZCode, and wiped the commit history

In response to the ZCode product security issues reported by the community, we have completed the necessary remediation and sincerely apologize to all our users. Z.ai posted that …

Technology · Software & Apps

Toyota orders workers to train humanoid robots but says humans won't be replaced

Toyota's push comes as automakers race to develop and deploy humanoid robots.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

Apple is reportedly working on a Whoop-like fitness tracker

Apple is working on a new fitness tracker with a screenless design, similar to the one made by Whoop, according to a report from Bloomberg. A prototype of the device reportedly ha…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Microsoft Takes Down EvilTokens Device-Code Phishing Service Tied to 12,000 Inbox Compromises

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the takedown of the EvilTokens device code phishing service that it said used artificial intelligence (AI) "at every step of the attack chain." The …

Technology · Software & Apps

IT mistake erases 11 years of viewing history for hospitals’ maternity records

The English hospitals recovered patient care data only.

Technology · Startups

Dutch government publishes call from 21 countries and the EU for international oversight of frontier AI

A joint statement released today by the Dutch government has seen leaders and ministers from 21 countries, together with the European Commission, call for tighter control over fro…