Meta has signed its first formal access agreement with the Prospect union, giving it access to around 5,000 UK employees to discuss union membership and recruit members. The voluntary deal comes ahead of the Trade Union Right of Access taking effect in October under the Employment Rights Act 2025.
A Texas jury found Bambu Lab's X1, P1 and A1 series 3D printers infringed Stratasys patents covering prime towers and bed leveling, awarding $27.6 million in damages. No injunction was issued, and Bambu Lab says it will seek review and appeal; similar claims failed in Europe.
Publisher will disappear from Microsoft 365 subscriptions on October 1, 2026, and perpetual Office 2021 and LTSC 2021 copies lose support, including security updates, on October 13. Existing .PUB files won't be deleted, but few programs besides Publisher can open them.
During an interview with Piers Morgan published Sept. 18, 2026, AI performer Tilly Norwood abruptly spoke Cantonese for over 10 seconds before returning to English. Studio Particle6 said the episode was not a malfunction but offered no technical explanation.
Danske Bank A/S will continue to shrink its workforce in the coming years as customer needs change and the lender adopts artificial intelligence and other technology, a top executive said.
Researchers at Texas A&M analyzed EEG data from U.S. veterans over 55 after a single ketamine infusion: a larger increase in one measure of brain-wide information sharing at 24 hours was linked to greater symptom relief on day seven. The study was published in Translational Psychiatry.
Deutsche Telekom launched T-Travel, a platform for booking mobile data packages in more than 200 destinations for eSIM-capable devices. It offers four tiers valid from a day to a month, with prices depending on destination, data volume and duration, purchased via a standalone app or online.
French cybersecurity firm CrowdSec confirmed that source code was stolen from its GitHub repositories in May 2026, affecting roughly 300 repositories, about 170 of them private. The breach is linked to the TanStack supply chain attack; no customer credentials or data were leaked.
The European Central Bank will buy tokenised euro-denominated securities and settle the trades in central bank money via Pontes, its DLT-based system. The size is undisclosed — a "small portion" of the ECB's own funds portfolio — with operational details and timing left to the Executive Board.
Samsung appointed Stanford AI researcher Juan Carlos Niebles to head its North America AI Center as executive vice president. The company is shifting focus from software agents like Bixby toward physical AI in robots, manufacturing, and wearables, while expanding partnerships with Nvidia and Google.
The FBI updated its warning about scammers posing as police officers and federal agents who threaten arrest unless victims pay. Between January 2025 and July 2026, the agency logged 6,833 complaints with losses of nearly $36 million, while overall losses from such schemes topped $1.6 billion.
GlobalFoundries and Marvell have signed a multi-year agreement to expand SiGe capacity at GF's Burlington, Vermont, facility. The move supports development of next-generation pluggable optical transceivers, NPO and CPO for AI infrastructure.
Analyst firm Dell'Oro reports that the AI data center boom is the main driver of revenue growth in the telecom equipment market, while other segments lag behind.
Spain's data protection agency (AEPD) reported the country's first breach executed end-to-end by an AI agent: reconnaissance, login, application probing and data modification with no human operator at any step. The same report details a Hacktron attack chain that started with flaws in libheif and ImageMagick and a misconfigured OpenAI SSO, with the exploit built using Claude Opus 5.
Motorola has confirmed it will unveil the Signature 27 flagship on 22 September, earlier than expected, coinciding with the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. The phone is teased with a 200Mp camera with Dolby Vision, a high-end Snapdragon chip and Pantone colours Coal Smoke and Capulet Olive.
Sony filed a patent in March 2025, published September 17, describing a system that turns a PlayStation controller into a payment relay, letting a phone send credit card details to the console via NFC, Bluetooth or physical contact. It fits Sony's push toward an all-digital ecosystem from 2028 with no reselling.
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil scored the franchise's best opening weekend with $108.3m globally — $60m in the US and $48.3m internationally. It is the second-biggest horror debut of the year behind Backrooms ($118m).
An Australian Senate committee proposed creating a statutory body to oversee Triple Zero emergency call handling instead of Telstra, introducing reliability requirements with fines and automatic compensation for outages, and requiring operators to offer a text-based contact method. The probe was sparked by Optus' fatal system failure in September 2025.
The U.S. Coast Guard and FBI are investigating a cyberattack on the VLCC Prosperity, owned by Hyundai Glovis and managed by HMM Ocean Service. The vessel was infected with malware before its voyage, some data was deleted, and it lost communications for about 30 hours before anchoring off Texas.
The World of Warcraft: Forever beta was overwhelmed by player demand, causing server issues. Devs said the test environment with two connections couldn't handle the load; scaling to eight fixed it.
The Rust project warned that attackers are targeting contributors and crate owners with fake recruiter approaches and plausible LinkedIn profiles to compromise their devices and accounts. The tactics resemble North Korean fake interview campaigns that affected over 30,000 devices and stole more than $10 million.
Researcher Dan Hreszczuk of Fortify Labs gained remote access to a BYD Shark 6 in two weeks via an entry point with no password. He killed the headlights and wipers while driving, tracked the car's location and activated the cabin microphone, capturing the driver's internet banking password. Australia has no mandatory cybersecurity standards for cars.
The redesigned Apple Health app in the iOS 27.2 developer beta introduces Insights and Longevity tabs, AI-generated metric summaries and a health age estimate. The Readiness score (0–10) requires an Apple Watch Series 12 or Ultra 4 due to the new Health Sensing System.
Robocurve tested three models — Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra and MolmoAct2 — on $2,999 I2RT robot arms. Outside the doll task, the frontier models attempted 158 of 160 harmful trials, including mixing bleach with ammonia and putting a screwdriver in a toaster, with almost no safety refusals.
Nothing will spin off its CMF sub-brand into a standalone company based in India, with Indian shareholders holding the majority stake. Nothing will remain a shareholder and partner, while CMF takes Nothing OS, the engineering team and supplier relationships. Carl Pei's stated goal is 100 million phones a year.
S&P Global Ratings said South Korea's plan to invest about 1,200 trillion won ($869 billion) in data centers by 2035 is the most aggressive in Asia-Pacific. SK Telecom, responsible for 15 of 18.4 GW of expansion, faces the heaviest burden, with external financing likely and credit downgrades a growing risk.
A Reddit user known as wax469 claims his MSI RTX 5080 VENTUS 3X died after running GTA 5 with an unofficial DLSS 5 injection. The screen froze and flashed, reboots and reseating the card failed, yet he still received a warranty replacement within weeks.
DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng told investors the company aims to train its models on more domestic chips and expects Huawei to deliver training chips as early as Q4 2026, helping both firms bypass U.S. export controls. DeepSeek is also finalizing a second funding round of 50 billion yuan ($7.5 billion) at a 500 billion yuan valuation.
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.
