IDC reports China's consumer PC market fell 2.2% year-on-year to 14.3 million units in H1 2026, while the commercial segment grew 5.7% to 7.7 million. Huawei took fourth place in monitors with a 7.5% share, up 3.2 points, behind AOC (19.3%), Lenovo (17.3%), HKC (11.1%) and Philips (6.6%).
Google, Quintrace, esVolta and LevelTen Energy released results of a three-month Texas battery storage pilot: batteries charged and discharged 9.2GWh, shifting solar energy to hours when Google's consumption exceeded its renewable supply. esVolta's Anole (240MW/480MWh) and Burksol (100MW/200MWh) projects took part without dispatch risk for operators.
A UN scientific panel urged governments to rein in increasingly capable AI agents before their risks are fully understood, in the body's first thematic brief. The report lands as the US and China hold AI talks and leaders gather in New York for the UN General Assembly.
Reviews are out for Silent Hill: Townfall, Screen Burn's Scottish-set first-person horror game launching on PS5 and PC on Sept. 24. It holds an 81 on Metacritic and 82 on OpenCritic, below last year's Silent Hill f at 86. Critics praise the detailed St. Amelia setting but fault clumsy stealth and instant-death sections.
A survey of nearly 120 US manufacturers found that 36% have already reshored or are actively reshoring production, while more than 60% have capital investment plans to do so. Taiwan firms are showing keen interest in investing in US manufacturing.
Rockstar Games published new modding guidelines banning changes to official storylines, missions and characters, cross-title map or IP mashups, and unofficial ports to other platforms. The rules arrive ahead of GTA 6's November 19 release.
The U.S. Department of War completed the final environmental impact assessment for Korea Zinc's $7.4 billion Crucible smelter in Tennessee, issuing a finding of no significant impact. The project is the first led by a South Korean company to be designated under the FAST-41 fast-track permitting program.
iOS 27 adds two Apple Music toggles so playlist and favorite songs no longer flood your library. Spotify is testing a restriction in India and Bangladesh that blocks free-tier listeners from hearing new releases for their first three days.
In late August, hackers targeted operational technology (OT) systems at two private water utilities in Colorado serving fewer than 200 people. Attackers changed equipment settings, disabled remote access and alarms, and altered pumping cycles, but disruptions were brief and did not affect water services or public safety.
The 44mm Samsung Galaxy Watch9 weighs 34g without a strap and is 8.6mm thick, priced at S$568 in Singapore. It swaps Exynos for Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear Elite with 2GB RAM and 32GB storage, plus a 1.47-inch Super AMOLED display at 3,000 nits. The 445mAh battery is rated for 40 hours, but in practice the watch needs daily charging.
Xiaomi will unveil the Xiaomi 18 series in China on 23 September, with a global launch expected at MWC in March 2027. The Pro and Pro Max are tipped to use the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro, a Leica dual 200MP camera system, 7000mAh and 8500mAh batteries, a rear screen and HyperOS 4.
Android Authority found that microstuttering in Genshin Impact on the Pixel 11 Pro XL comes from Google making ANGLE the default OpenGL ES implementation on Tensor G6. Disabling ANGLE per app in Developer Options sharply reduces large frame-time spikes.
NASA's Curiosity rover team discovered seven organic molecules, including sulfur-bearing benzothiophene, preserved in clay from a dried lakebed over 3.5 billion years old in Gale Crater. The find suggests ancient Mars received the same carbon-rich meteorites that seeded early Earth and retained these building blocks for billions of years.
At the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct 2026, Xbox showcased 10 trailers, including Game Pass release dates: the free Miami Zero expansion for Quarantine Zone on October 15, the paid Risen Ballbylon expansion for Ball x Pit on November 12, and Neon Abyss 2 on October 8. Lufia I & II: The Sinistrals Saga was confirmed only for PC, Switch and PS5, skipping Xbox.
Nvidia is preparing to release a free open model, expected to be called Nemotron 4, aimed at buyers already running its hardware, especially the UAE with its 400,000-chip data center. The company paid $7 billion for a stake in Poolside and agreed to buy Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion to boost adoption of its model over Chinese and Meta alternatives.
Tesla's new guidance for first responders says firefighters may need to call two support numbers and wait for a staffer to connect with a Cybercab after a crash. Experts and NHTSA flag risks around manual operation and the lack of unified standards for autonomous vehicles.
Sony unexpectedly withdrew from PHYSINT in June 2026, leaving Kojima Productions to search for a new publisher for about three months. Xbox has now officially agreed to publish the game, expanding its existing partnership with Kojima Productions beyond the horror project OD. Bill Skarsgård is confirmed as the lead actor, joined by Charlee Fraser, Don Lee and Minami Hamabe.
TCL is expanding in Saudi Arabia and Europe through local partnerships and system integration cooperation, while Samsung and LG strengthen their hotel TV platforms. The hospitality VOD market is projected to grow from $53.2 billion in 2024 to $176 billion by 2030.
Prysmian and Rio Tinto have partnered to supply an Amazon data center in Ohio with low-carbon aluminum electrical cables. The aluminum is produced by Elysis, a Rio Tinto-Alcoa joint venture, using inert anodes that emit oxygen instead of greenhouse gases. Prysmian will make the cables at its Sedalia, Missouri plant, marking the first use of such aluminum in a data center.
Anthropic, the company behind Claude, has established a wet biology lab in the San Francisco Bay Area to pursue fundamental biology research and explore treatments for rare diseases. Life sciences head Eric Kauderer-Abrams confirmed the lab, saying some work happens in-house and some with external partners, and the company does not aim to compete with pharma.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent proposed during talks in Manhattan that Washington and Beijing notify each other of AI incidents serious enough to be national security events. Export controls on AI chips and semiconductor equipment were excluded; the sides agreed to meet again on AI but set no date.
IO Interactive has pushed 007 First Light on Switch 2 from Summer 2026 to March 2027 — the third delay. Technical producer Cristina Vega cited the team's need for a breather, marketing requests and a new Meshnets rendering system; the port targets a stable 30fps.
Ireland's media watchdog has fined Google over how it processed location data following complaints from several European consumer rights organizations. The size of the fine was not disclosed.
Garmin has launched the $200 CIRQA health tracker with older Gen 4 sensors instead of the newer Gen 5. It tracks heart rate and temperature, lacks built-in GPS, and lasts 7–8 days versus the advertised 10.
Synology has launched ActiveProtect Manager 2.0, a free update for its DP-Series data protection appliances. It adds protection for Amazon EC2, Azure VM, Proxmox VE, Nutanix AHV and Google Workspace, cross-platform recovery and volume-level storage encryption. APM 2.1 will add AI/ML anomaly detection and malware scanning before restore.
LG Display launched a 24.5-inch 720Hz gaming OLED panel, while Samsung Display unveiled a 31.5-inch QD-OLED with 4K and 360Hz. Samsung invested 4.1 trillion won in 8.6-generation IT OLED lines, expecting laptop OLED penetration to grow from 6% in 2026 to 19% by 2030.
Siemba has added automated insecure direct object reference (IDOR) testing to its API Security Testing platform. A 200-endpoint collection can be tested in under an hour instead of days of manual work, covering REST, GraphQL and SOAP, with findings delivered already written up with reproduction steps.
OData is deploying DeltaFlow, the proprietary liquid cooling system from parent company Aligned Data Centers, at its SP04 facility in Brazil and QR03 in Mexico. The project will cost $630 million across both sites, with phase one installation and testing already underway. The system enables hybrid air and liquid cooling for high-density AI racks.
Aolani said 22,000 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs are expected to be deployed across two sites in Southeast Asia. The rollout is slated for early 2027.
IBM and ETH Zurich will build a quantum computer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) in Lugano, expected to be operational by the end of 2026. The system will use IBM's Quantum Nighthawk r2 processor with 120 qubits and work alongside the Alps supercomputer.
