Alphabet agreed to fund capacity increases at two nuclear plants operated by a Southern Co. subsidiary, adding about 96 megawatts of new supply. The deal comes amid a data center-driven surge in electricity demand.
SonicWall disclosed two vulnerabilities in its SMA1000 secure mobile access appliances: an unauthenticated SSRF in the WorkPlace portal rated CVSS 10.0 and an OS command injection in the management console rated CVSS 7.8. Both were exploited before public disclosure, and CISA added them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 2, 2026.
Researchers developed a synthetic biology method that converts easily degraded messenger RNA (mRNA) into a ring-shaped form inside microbial cells. The approach increases protein production in cell factories by up to six times.
Israeli fusion firm nT-Tao and US nuclear developer Orion Nuclear Energy signed an MoU to explore deploying nT-Tao's compact fusion system at customer sites across the US. The 20 MW system targets data centers and industrial facilities needing on-site power; no commercial deployment has been agreed yet.
NIST's FRTE 1:1 report released September 1, 2026, covers 21 developers, including eight newcomers. Innovatrics v17 entered the Mugshot-to-Mugshot top group, ROC and SenseTime climbed into the top five for border scenarios, and the median Bias Gini stood at 0.62.
Researchers at UW-Madison and Marist University unveiled LoRD, a lightweight heuristic method for detecting and localizing RTL Trojans after synthesis. It scored an average of 2.957 out of 3 on contest testcases, beating a transformer-based ML baseline and the top five teams without training overhead.
Geely's Battleship 700 SUV can float and move through water using two 11.5-hp propellers at the rear, swimming for about 40 minutes or floating for up to two hours. The plug-in hybrid pairs a 2.0-liter turbo engine with three motors for 1,113 hp, offers 1,100 miles of CLTC range, and starts at just under $30,000 in China.
The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its RIVR 2026 evaluation to include a dedicated biometric deepfake detection category, covering AI-generated impersonations in video chats. Applications for document validation open in October, with PAD and deepfake systems accepted from December; DHS will also solicit deepfake attack samples starting in November.
Amazon launched the Colorado River Basin Collaborative and will invest $20 million in water conservation projects, aiming to raise $100 million over two years. The company disclosed its data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, but its total water footprint remains undisclosed.
XAML.io v0.9 is a browser-based IDE built on the OpenSilver framework that uses an AI agent to write, build and fix C#/XAML code, with one-click web publishing and version history. It is free to try with $5 of monthly AI usage, while a $20 Pro plan includes $20 of usage. A Windows 98 Paint clone was generated in 42 minutes: 3,500 lines of code for $57.
Researchers at Georgia Tech, Nvidia Research and Stanford published BOOST, the first runtime system providing concurrent access to host memory and HBM for LLM inference without kernel changes. On a Grace Hopper system, BOOST improves throughput by 31% on average and Time-per-Output-Token by 4.3% at iso-batch size.
Figure says its multi-billion-dollar investment in training data has delivered a 6X boost in humanoid robot performance just four weeks after the announcement.
Rising chip performance, power consumption and rack density in AI infrastructure are sharply increasing demand for high-end multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCC). This solidifies the leadership of Murata and Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) as top suppliers.
New Apple CEO John Ternus gave an interview to Canal+ discussing the foldable iPhone Duo's iPad-like design, the hinge and display challenges, and why Siri AI is "not designed to be your friend." He said he has no plans for a radical change in Apple's strategy.
At the AI Infra Summit in Santa Clara, California, executives said the real infrastructure buildout is aimed at AI inference rather than training, even as calls to slow frontier model training spark debate across the semiconductor industry.
DIGITIMES analysts forecast that full-color Micro LED displays will account for more than 30% of AR glasses shipments in 2027. The key precondition for consumer adoption is that the device must look like ordinary eyewear.
A teardown of the iPhone 18 Pro Max confirms it uses a Qualcomm modem rather than Apple's in-house chip, suggesting prior supply-chain commitments remain in place.
TypeSafe AI has launched Jev, the first of a new class it calls System One models: it takes text input but returns floating-point numbers, confidence scores and probability distributions instead of generated text. Input costs $0.042 per million tokens with free output, undercutting OpenAI's GPT-5 Nano at $0.05.
Langflow OSS 1.0.0–1.10.3 contains CVE-2026-17633 (CVSS 8.5), an authenticated RCE reachable through the /api/v1/custom_component endpoint. The flaw is in prepare_global_scope(): code inside a class body executes during exec(), and the scan_code_security() scanner is never called on this path. Fixed in 1.10.4.
X has sued two users in London's High Court, alleging they ran a coordinated network of Bitcoin accounts to manufacture engagement and collect payouts from its Creator Revenue Sharing program. The company says the scheme generated at least £207,384 and cost it at least £75,000 to investigate.
A three-dimensionally preserved Charnia fossil dating back 560 million years has been found in a sheep field in Finnmark, Norway — the first confirmed Charnia in Scandinavia and Europe's first major new Ediacaran site in decades. An underwater avalanche buried the soft-bodied creature, preserving its shape and revealing previously unseen keels along its branches.
AI computing networks maker Ligent Technologies raised HK$5.7 billion ($727 million) in its Hong Kong initial public offering. The company is set to debut on the Hong Kong stock exchange on Tuesday amid a wave of AI-related listings.
Russia's restrictions on mobile internet and cellular service are preventing residents from receiving timely warnings about Ukrainian drone and missile attacks, with alerts arriving late or not at all. Novaya Gazeta Europe estimates at least 36 civilians died this summer in strikes where air raid sirens were not activated, with such cases accounting for 68% of attack fatalities in the Moscow region.
A University of Iowa-led team used NASA's Juno mission to capture the most detailed observations yet of Jupiter's bow shock. It differs markedly from Earth's, which could help explain shock physics in dying stars. The study appears in Nature Communications.
Analysts estimate that serving Meta's Muse personal AI agent to 100 million users would require at least 1.58 million AMD EPYC CPUs, 100 petabytes of RAM and 10,000 petabytes of SSD. Meta promises each user a dedicated VM with 2 vCPUs, 8GB RAM and 100GB SSD.
Chainalysis reports a 440% rise in malicious blockchain activity, with daily entries growing from 2.06 to 11.1 after open AI models emerged. Attackers use transactions and smart contracts as dead drops that survive server takedowns.
VulnCheck researcher Patrick Garrity tracked 225 vulnerabilities credited to Anthropic and Project Glasswing and found confirmed exploitation of just one — a critical SQL injection in Ghost (CVE-2026-26980). Fewer than 0.5 percent of these CVEs are being attacked in the wild.
Ancient DNA shows Miracinonyx trumani was more closely related to pumas than cheetahs and lived over 20 degrees of latitude farther north than previously known. Isotope analysis of Yukon fossils suggests some populations ate almost nothing but fish.
Atlus confirmed that Persona 4 Revival will keep the original storylines of Kanji and Naoto largely unchanged. Producer Kazuhisa Wada called the stories "sincere," while director Daisuke Yajima said the characters' identities stay intact with only graphical improvements and added backstory details. The remake launches in February.
Cloudflare has made Python Workers generally available after a two-year preview, calling Python a first-class language on its Developer Platform. Code runs as Python compiled to WebAssembly via Pyodide inside the V8-based workerd runtime, with threading and multiprocessing unsupported.