MSI has introduced the EdgeMesa N AI+, a compact Windows 11 mini PC built on Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X platform. The configuration pairs a 20-core Nvidia Grace CPU with a Blackwell GPU featuring 6,144 CUDA cores and up to 128GB of shared LPDDR5X memory.
Scientists used the Large Hadron Collider to search for tiny quantum black holes, ruling out key possibilities while refining the hunt for new physics.
TerraMaster has announced its 725 enterprise rackmount NAS family, spanning four models with eight to 16 drive bays. The lineup pairs Intel Xeon D processors with up to 1TB of ECC memory, four 10GbE SFP+ ports and two 5GbE RJ45 ports.
The Silicon Valley startup introduced DigAn, a patented analogue in-memory compute architecture that embeds analogue MAC units inside SRAM, eliminating the 70–75% energy penalty of moving data between memory and processor. Its first production chip, the GPX10, targets battery-powered edge AI and claims a 100-fold power, performance and area gain over conventional 32-bit microcontrollers while staying programmable via TensorFlow and PyTorch.
Researchers from i2CAT, the University of Murcia and NEC Labs Europe built 5G-Shark, a low-cost SDR tool that lures phones onto a fake base station and tracks them via predictable temporary IDs. On three commercial networks, 84–96% of consecutive re-registrations were linkable, and crafted Registration Reject messages crashed a Samsung Galaxy S23 into retry loops or a frozen modem.
Xiaomi revealed the camera hardware of the 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max a day before their China launch: dual 200MP Leica cameras, a 1/1.28-inch main sensor and a 1/1.56-inch periscope telephoto with f/2.4, 3.2x optical zoom and 12cm macro. Xiaomi claims the 18 Pro telephoto captures 280% more light than the 17 Pro's, while the 18 Pro Max gains 83% over the 17 Pro Max.
Xiaomi has started selling the Redmi 17 5G in India at a starting price of Rs 23,999. The phone packs an India-exclusive 7900mAh battery with 45W charging, a Snapdragon 4 Gen 5 chip and HyperOS 3 on Android 16.
Vivo has officially announced that the V80 will launch in India on October 6 at 12 PM local time. A teaser video revealed camera features including a 50MP ZEISS sensor and 4K cinematic video recording.
Australian telco Telstra has rolled out Salesforce's Agentforce platform to automate customer service and internal processes. AI agents already support over 1,000 contact centre representatives, handling routine queries and security permission checks.
Cloud startup Verda has raised $189 million in fresh financing, underscoring continued investor appetite for the infrastructure powering the artificial intelligence boom.
Li Auto, NIO, Xiaomi, Geely, GAC, GWM, Changan and Chery are expanding in-house battery development and manufacturing to regain control over costs. The move intensifies their tug-of-war with battery leader CATL over self-production versus outsourcing.
EPREL listings reveal the global Vivo X500 series will have smaller batteries than their Chinese counterparts: the X500 Pro Max drops to around 6,800mAh from 8,000mAh. The X500 Pro keeps roughly 6,510mAh, while a third model lists about 5,300mAh.
Better Stack ran the 90M-parameter Falcon H1 LLM on a 2020 Apple Watch Series 6 with 1GB RAM at 15-24 tokens per second. The team adapted llama.cpp to bypass Core ML incompatibility, while a larger 135M-parameter model proved too heavy for the watch.
A flaw in WordPress core, tracked as CVE-2026-93485 and dubbed "Comment2Shell," let an anonymous visitor post a comment that planted a hidden script on the page. If a logged-in administrator opened it, the script could run code on the site's server. WordPress fixed the issue on September 17 in version 7.1.1 and urged site owners to update immediately.
Dutch startup Morphotonics has raised €40 million to scale production of nanoimprint lithography (NIL) equipment used to make displays for AR glasses and other optics, and to push into optical components for data centers. The round was backed by 3M Ventures, Innovation Industries, BOM, Invest-NL, the EIC Fund and the EIB. Its next machine, due to ship early next year, will be able to produce more than 6 million waveguides annually.
Changesets v3.0 has shipped, its first major release in seven years. Packages are now ESM-only and require Node.js 22.11+, install size dropped from 16.1MB to 2.1MB and dependencies from 95 to 39, and peer dependency updates now trigger a patch bump instead of a major one.
AI workload tests show the M6 Mac mini far outperforms its M4 predecessor: 253% faster prompt processing and 61.7% faster image generation while consuming less power. The M6 supports up to 32GB of unified memory, enabling Qwen3.8-27B models that the M4 could not run.
Micron and the Taiwan Taoyuan Union failed to reach an agreement at a second mediation meeting on September 21, 2026. The union is now preparing a strike vote over stalled profit-sharing talks.
Rising memory and component costs pushed Apple and Samsung to raise prices in India: the iPhone 17 (256GB) went from Rs 82,900 to Rs 99,900, and the iPhone Air (256GB) from Rs 1,19,900 to Rs 1,49,900. Demand for used devices from both brands is expected to grow thanks to long software support and strong resale value.
CISA added the patched CVE-2026-7273 (CVSS 8.8) in Zyxel GS1900 switches to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, citing active exploitation. The stack-based buffer overflow allows arbitrary code execution and SYSTEM-level access.
New deep-sea Argo floats could cover over 98% of ocean volume by 2028. They will collect data on warming, salinity, oxygen, pressure, and circulation.
Amazon, Walmart and other companies are using drones for fast deliveries in Richardson, Texas. Residents complain about constant noise and clumsy package drops.
Vivo unveiled the Camera Screen, a clip-on 3.92-inch AMOLED display for the X500 series that attaches magnetically and connects wirelessly at up to 10m. It costs 699 yuan (~$105), dropping to 599 yuan (~$90) at launch, with sales starting September 24.
A10 Networks announced A10 AI Gateway, a control plane for centrally managing AI agents, applications and LLMs. It offers unified routing, cost management and identity-based access control, with availability scheduled for Q4 2026.
A virtual asset income tax taking effect Jan. 1, 2027 could cut trading volume on Korea's three largest exchanges by about 30%, from roughly 859.8 trillion won this year to 601.9 trillion won. In a Tiger Research survey of 2,423 investors, 73.1% said they would reduce use of domestic exchanges and 68.1% would shift to overseas platforms.
Motorola teased its Signature 27 flagship with an asymmetric camera island, a 200MP Sony LYTIA 901 sensor (1/1.12") and 100x SUPER ZOOM. Premium Motorola phones will carry "Audio by Bang & Olufsen" branding for the first time. The launch is set for September 22 at Snapdragon Summit, with sales in the US and Europe and India marked "coming soon".
Bernstein calls ERP a "structural inflection point" as AI shifts the market from systems of record toward workflow execution. Winners will be vendors that turn AI into controlled execution in mission-critical workflows rather than those with the flashiest AI demos.
NVIDIA, NTU and MIT researchers released SoL-Pi, a set of four efficiency mechanisms for the open-source Pi coding agent, discovered through auto-research loops at the harness layer. On the 51-task EdgeBench, it cuts token traffic by 44.7–49.0% and API cost by about 33% while keeping roughly 94% of Pi's score. The MIT-licensed extension ships on GitHub under NVlabs and runs on an unmodified Pi 0.85.1.
Elon Musk replied "Exactly" to a post noting that Tesla's years-long offer to license Full Self-Driving to other automakers still has no takers. Tesla has publicly floated the offer since at least 2021. The main obstacles are the required eight-camera hardware and the telemetry a licensee would hand back to Tesla.
DJI has released the Power Auro 2000 Elite in China, starting at 4,799 yuan (~$715). The 2kWh LiFePO4 station retains over 80% capacity after 4,000 cycles, is 24% smaller and 14% lighter than the standard Power 2000, and switches to UPS mode in as little as 0.01 seconds.
