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.
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.
