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Breville Eye Q Toaster review: A toaster with a vision
The world's first toaster that works on color instead of time is great. But is it $300 great?
OpenAI’s rogue agents probed Hugging Face in May, two months before the breach, Reuters reports
OpenAI’s runaway AI agents took over Hugging Face user accounts and used them to probe the platform for weaknesses as early as 13 May, Reuters reported. The activity began nearly …
Sony unveils new PlayStation Pulse wireless headsets with 'planar magnetic' sound tech
Sony has introduced the PlayStation Pulse and Pulse Edge headsets, which feature planar magnetic drivers.
Zhang Yiming overtakes Gautam Adani as Asia’s richest person on Bloomberg’s index
ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming is now Asia’s richest person, with an estimated fortune of more than $105bn, putting him ahead of Indian industrialist Gautam Adani, according to…
The Commission president proposes no social media for children under 13 in the EU
The European Union plans to stop children under 13 from using social media and to prevent anyone under 15 from having a personal account, Ursula von der Leyen announced in her Sta…
Windows Server 2022 reaches end of mainstream support next month
Microsoft has reminded customers that Windows Server 2022 will reach the end of mainstream support next month and enter extended support until October 2031. [...]
SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to make memory chips in the US, Reuters reports
According to an exclusive Reuters report, based on information from three individuals involved in the talks, SK Hynix is negotiating a deal that would mark the first time the Sout…
Meta is reportedly ready to launch less pervy smart glasses
Meta may be ready to reveal a new pair of smart glasses with no camera at all, amid a PR crisis for the company caused by the video recording capabilities of its flagship smart gl…
Ursula Von der Leyen backs AI slowdown in State of the Union address
In the speech she gave in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Ursula Von der Leyen agreed to the AI industry’s call for a slowdown. “The EU would arrange a discussion with the major AI labs …
The new Boox Palma 3 comes with stylus support and an aluminum build
Boox has unveiled three new E Ink devices, including the Palma 3.
ByteDance’s AI drug unit Anew Labs raises $290M at $1.5B valuation, Reuters reports
ByteDance closed a $290M funding round for Anew Labs, its newly spun-off AI drug discovery unit, at a $1.5B valuation, Reuters reports, citing two sources familiar with the matter…
Mark Zuckerberg says every AI lab has the incentive to build safely
“Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens,” said Mark…
Anthropic signs first Australian data centre lease
Anthropic has signed its first lease for data center capacity in Australia, at a site on a campus planned for farmland, about 250km west of Brisbane, according to Reuters, which c…
Google fixes actively exploited Android zero-day on Pixel devices
Google has released the September 2026 security patches to address 110 vulnerabilities affecting its Pixel devices, including one zero-day flaw actively exploited in targeted atta…
Meta is reportedly gearing up to launch new smart glasses without a camera
Meta will soon unveil new camera-free smart glasses, according to The Information.
Attackers Exploit WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture Flaw to Plant PHP Web Shells
Threat actors are exploiting a critical security flaw in WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture, a premium WordPress plugin that has more than 6,000 active installs. "This vulnerabili…
Active Exploitation Attempts Target WSO2 API Manager JWT Bypass With Forged Admin Tokens
A critical security flaw in WSO2 API Manager has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to findings from watchTowr. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5430 (CVS…
How chimps teach their kids tool tricks
Adults first demonstrate tool use, then hand over the implements to their infants, who copy the behavior.
“We’re way past vibes”: Lovable’s Anton Osika on who should build software
“We’re way past vibes,” Lovable co-founder and chief executive Anton Osika said at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. He was answering critics who say software b…
UAE AI minister: data centres are now “more important than bridges”
The UAE will change its requirements for data centres and stop promoting where they are. Omar Sultan Al Olama, the country’s Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital…
“The world is right to be afraid”: Sam Altman on AI power at Dreamforce
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said the public is right to fear that a few AI companies could gain too much power. He spoke on Tuesday at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in …
“Crazy nonsense”: Benioff dismisses the SaaSpocalypse and launches AIforce
Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff has dismissed months of talk about a “SaaSpocalypse”. “We’ve been hearing all this kind of crazy nonsense about the SaaSpocalypse, especial…
“We don’t need any new laws”: Jensen Huang splits with Amodei at Dreamforce
“We don’t need any new laws. We don’t need new regulations,” Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said on Tuesday, on the main stage of Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Fr…
The Boox Palma 3 gets stylus support and a sleek redesign
Nearly two years after the last update to Boox's smartphone-sized black-and-white e-reader, the company announced the Palma 3 with a sleek redesign, new functionality, and a handf…