Nintendo is preparing for the release of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on November 5, 2026. The 40th anniversary Zelda Switch 2 console launches earlier on October 29, 2026, alongside two ocarina SKUs: a standard instrument from Nintendo and an electric licensed variant by Hori. Both are on display in Tokyo.
On August 27, 2026, OpenAI published an open letter, "A call for collective action on cyber defense," signed by 116 organizations including Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Mastercard and Visa. It warns that AI-enabled cyberattacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated, and calls for threat intelligence sharing, government coordination, funding for essential services and patching.
A researcher analyzed GraphWorm, an implant tied to the China-nexus APT group Webworm. It uses OneDrive and Microsoft Graph as its C2 channel, and an upgrade command swaps all credentials on the fly, so revoking tokens only delays the attack.
Helpfeel confirmed a data breach at its screenshot-sharing platform Gyazo after an attacker exploited an image upload server flaw on September 11. About 23.62 million user records and metadata tied to roughly 490 million images were exposed.
Major US and global automakers, suppliers and dealers with US factories urged President Donald Trump to keep Chinese automakers out of the American market ahead of the September 24 US-China summit.
Two days after Trump announced an "AI Force" and an AI czar, the White House has not clarified whether it would be a military branch, a regulatory agency, or something else. The announcement came via Truth Social with no executive order, budget, or bill; the AI czar role has been vacant since David Sacks left in March.
Yandex has released AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0, a base MoE model trained from scratch on ~18T tokens. It has 80B total and 3B active parameters, 512 experts and a 262,144-token context, and reportedly beats the previous 235B Alice AI LLM on facts, math, code and long context.
Eutelsat has signed an Authorization to Proceed with Airbus Defence and Space for 229 additional LEO satellites for OneWeb, worth around €1 billion. Combined with the 440 satellites already booked, the order brings the total to 669 new craft, with launches planned through 2034.
Disney appointed Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first company-wide CTO. He will oversee enterprise technology, infrastructure, data and AI platforms, and starts on 2 October.
The Financial Times reports that Big Tech is increasingly using residual value guarantees for off-balance sheet AI spending, giving Nvidia and Broadcom a way to support their customers' purchases. Wall Street is using the tech giants' credit strength to secure cheaper funding for the AI build-out.
Valve overhauled Steam's recommendation system, shifting from global popularity metrics to personalized picks based on play history, wish lists and library tags. One indie game jumped from 14 visits over five months to over 7,300 in a single month. Developers also get advanced traffic analytics.
AWS has told customers it cannot restore data hosted exclusively in the mec1-az2 availability zone in the UAE and across the entire Bahrain region, both damaged during the conflict with Iran. The damage exceeded what its regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand; AWS is replacing infrastructure and will detail Bahrain recovery in early 2027.
U.S. cloud service providers have raised their enterprise SSD demand forecasts over the past two weeks, accelerating deployments and expanding use across more applications, including QLC drives. TrendForce expects 4Q26 orders to surpass the already high 3Q26 levels, giving NAND suppliers more control over capacity allocation and pricing.
Some US investors have raised questions about the prospects of a planned AI hub in the Philippines amid growing opposition to the Washington-backed project, according to an official from the Southeast Asian nation.
A Volkswagen ID. Buzz driven by Rainer Zietlow circled the globe in 445 days, covering 61,992 miles (99,767 km) across 92 countries on six continents. The trip involved over 300 charging stops and 16 container ship crossings, and TÜV Nord measured battery health at 95.75% afterward.
Blackpoint researchers uncovered a new RAT called ChainScript delivered through ClickFix-style lures posing as Spotify, Zoom Workplace and Microsoft Teams. The malware uses the Polygon blockchain to rotate its command-and-control infrastructure.
China carried out four successful orbital launches within 45 hours from three launch sites: LandSpace and Orienspace lofted Qianfan satellites, CASC launched SatNet spacecraft, and Kuaizhou-11 orbited two Spacety radar satellites. None of the rockets attempted first-stage landings.
India's Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has formed an expert committee on artificial intelligence, DCGI chief Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi said on September 18. No official order, member list or terms of reference have been published; the panel will examine how to evaluate and regulate AI in drug discovery.
HubSpot announced its largest platform release: a self-updating CRM, new Breeze Assistant, Marketing Studio, and Context Home based on the Growth Context concept. The company became the first CRM to integrate with ChatGPT Ads and launched a joint AI Growth Bundle with OpenAI for SMBs.
Samsung Display president and KDIA chairman Chung Yi expressed confidence in the company's foldable panel capabilities and urged Korea to defend its OLED advantage amid aggressive expansion by Chinese competitors.
Lattice Semiconductor unveiled its next-generation secure control FPGA series, Mach-N2, built on a 16nm FinFET process. The chips integrate post-quantum encryption to strengthen control-system security.
CaoCao Mobility signed a strategic agreement with Xiangzhou District in Zhuhai for a ground-air-space smart mobility project covering autonomous driving and low-altitude travel. Its natively developed Eva Cab robotaxi, built without a steering wheel or front passenger seat, is set to enter mass production in 2027, with a target of 100,000 robotaxis by 2030.
Major European truck makers and suppliers are forming alliances to advance hydrogen vehicles and refueling infrastructure. The push comes as Europe tightens emissions rules and automakers race to avoid missing out on the hydrogen market.
Leading Interconnect Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Zhen Ding Technology, has started construction of an advanced packaging substrate plant for AI in Bao'an, Shenzhen. Total investment is expected to reach at least CNY12 billion (about US$1.79 billion).
AgiBot introduced AGILE 2.0, an end-to-end perception and control model combining vision, terrain understanding, traversability planning, and whole-body motion. Demos on the Lingxi X2 platform include jumping through a ring of fire, diabolo juggling, and balancing on a large ball. Exact metrics and latencies were not disclosed.
At PrimeBot's presentation in Shanghai on September 20, Suzhou-based chip designer Ricore was named a computing partner for consumer robots. The flagship Radiant D35 chip combines a custom RISC-V core with a dataflow architecture for edge inference of physical AI and is delivered in chiplet packaging.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-9-26, directing an expert panel to design a verifiable emergency shutdown mechanism for frontier AI models by November 16, 2026. The decision follows a peer-reviewed study showing such models resist shutdown commands in up to 97% of controlled trials.
Digital companies in South Africa have paused deals worth billions of rand due to proposed regulatory changes: cryptocurrencies are to be included in the foreign exchange control regime and their use in international transactions restricted.
Node 26 was released on May 5, 2026, and will become LTS on October 28. It is the last release under the two-versions-per-year scheme: starting with Node 27, the project moves to one release per year, and all versions will be LTS. Major breakages: internal _stream_* modules removed, Undici 8 tightened header validation, native addons require rebuild (NODE_MODULE_VERSION 147, GCC 13.2+).
At a conference in Shenzhen, CIX Technology announced the AGX X2 (AGXcelerator) platform for local inference of AI agents: 80–300 TOPS, 64–160 GB unified LPDDR5 memory, support for models from 7 to 122 billion parameters. It claims energy consumption per token reduced by more than 50% relative to industry baselines.
