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.
Signal introduced Signal Login, letting users create an account without providing a phone number. The feature comes with a small fee, which adds some privacy limitations.
WhatsApp is testing a feature that lets users pull photos, videos, reels and stories from linked Instagram and Facebook accounts into chats and Status updates. It requires linking accounts via Accounts Center and is rolling out to select Android and iOS beta users. Media from WhatsApp is not shared back to other Meta services.
South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy unveiled a Battery Industrial Technology Roadmap focused on sodium and solid-state batteries to regain market leadership from China. The government will fund about 400 billion won ($308 million) in R&D from 2027 to 2031, while companies plan roughly 8 trillion won ($6.15 billion) in investment by 2030.
Amazon has announced Alexa+ pricing in India at Rs 2,000 per month. After Early Access ends, Alexa+ stays free for Prime members, while Prime Lite, Prime Shopping Edition and non-Prime users can subscribe standalone or buy a Prime plan.
On August 11, 2026, Anthropic confirmed Claude will embed machine-readable watermarks in generated text. The move follows Article 50 of the EU AI Act, in force since August 2, with penalties up to €15 million or 3% of global turnover. The method is based on Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text.
IDC forecasts European organizations will spend nearly $470 billion on AI in 2030, growing 35% a year from 2025. Generative AI will account for 55.4% of the total, with agentic AI as the main driver. Banking is the largest spender at 12.6% of the 2026 market.
Chinese display maker BOE Technology is expanding beyond its core panel business into glass substrates for AI chip packaging. The company is betting on growing demand for advanced packaging used in AI accelerators.
Samsung Electronics is considering expanding its 4nm foundry capacity after rising demand for HBM4 base dies pushed existing lines to full utilization, Money Today reported. No decision has been announced yet.
The Manhattan U.S. attorney's office and the Justice Department's criminal division are investigating whether Binance violated U.S. sanctions on Iran by not halting certain trading on its platform. Binance, which handled $11.4 trillion in trading volume in the first half of 2026, paid $4.3 billion in a 2023 sanctions and money-laundering case.
The POCO F9 Pro and F9 Ultra have launched globally as rebadged Redmi K100 Pro and K100 Pro Max with the same chipset, display and cameras, but smaller batteries. The review highlights a smooth high-refresh display, stable 60fps in Genshin Impact and a triple camera with macro.
Funcom released Dune: Awakening on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on September 22. The console version mirrors the PC release in story arcs, quests and PvE/PvP areas, adds Performance (60 FPS) and Quality (30 FPS) modes, and arrives day one on Game Pass with Play Anywhere and cross-play.
Ubisoft is giving away For Honor for free on the Ubisoft Store until September 28, while Steam and the Epic Games Store list the Standard edition at roughly 90% off. Linux and SteamOS players remain blocked from online play by the kernel-level anti-cheat.
