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.
Apple is no longer signing iOS 26.6.2, so users who upgraded to iOS 27 cannot downgrade to iOS 26. A rollback to iOS 26.7 is also impossible because it is an over-the-air update with no restore file. iOS 27 launched a week ago.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs was already using Clearview AI for investigations by January 2026, nearly eight months before a September 18 notice seeking a sole-source contract for six facial recognition accounts. A 2021 GAO survey had reported no facial recognition activity at BIA.
macOS security expert Patrick Wardle discovered a 0-day in Meta's Muse AI assistant that lets any local app or terminal command steal the token authenticating users to their Muse account. Amazon also began blocking Muse from shopping on its site, calling it an unauthorized AI agent.
ZoomEye scanning data shows 1,537 Jenkins controllers reachable from the public internet. That exposure leaves them open to future flaws like CVE-2024-23897, which allowed unauthenticated file reads on the controller.
Sucker Punch has released a 29GB update for Ghost of Yotei that prepares the game for the Complete Edition launching on 1st October 2026. Some features are already live, including the Beauty of Yotei mode, transmog, and Trophies for Echoes of Sekigahara and Most Wanted.
Xiaomi has released and open-sourced its MiMo-V2.6 series of omnimodal models, MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash. The company claims Pro performs on par with Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol across most agent benchmarks.
Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that browses, fills forms, books travel and pays via a one-time Stripe card. It hit roughly 600,000 downloads and No. 1 in the US App Store within five days, but Amazon cut it off 13 days after launch. Experts debate Meta's strategy and data-trust concerns.
Huawei detailed its Ascend 960 roadmap: the Atlas 960 SuperPoD scales to 15,488 processors with 30 EFLOPS FP8 and 60 EFLOPS FP4 at 34 PB/s interconnect bandwidth. The Atlas 960E variant links up to 4,096 NPUs via UnifiedBus and Hi-ONE optics, supporting models with up to 10 trillion parameters.
Napster, now an AI company, is partnering with UAE-based GEMS Education to build "digital twins" of teachers that can answer students' questions 24/7 in multiple languages. The program, based on Napster Learn and its Napster View assistant, aims to roll out across GEMS schools in the Middle East by the end of 2026.
Hyundai Motor CEO Jose Munoz said Chinese EVs are 30–40% cheaper than rivals in Italy, Spain and France, and urged the US to keep high tariffs. In the UK, which has no such barriers, Chinese-built cars took 15% of sales in H1 2026 versus 9% in the EU.
The September 2026 Patch Tuesday update KB5124008 restores the ability to place the Windows 11 taskbar on the top, left, or right edge, as in Windows 10. It also adds Small and Large Start menu presets with independent section toggles, and the Power menu no longer forces update installation.
JFrog released fixes for three self-hosted Artifactory vulnerabilities: authentication bypass CVE-2026-82329 (CVSS 9.8), CVE-2026-42018 (7.5) and CVE-2026-42016 (8.1). CISA added them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 12, 2026, with a federal remediation deadline of September 25.
A review of the Motorola Edge (2026) has arrived, covering the $600 phone that sits between value devices and flagships. It stands out for its unusually light weight and strong water protection, though buyers at this price expect more than a big screen and solid battery life.
Code in iOS 27.2 beta 2 shows Apple is still developing an anti-snatching feature internally called AutoLock, which locks an iPhone when it detects a snatch. Signals include sharp acceleration, loss of connection to a paired Apple Watch and prolonged unlocking, with safeguards against false positives. The feature is not yet enabled for users.
Blizzard revealed new Diablo 5 details: the game tells three parallel stories set in the past, present, and future of a Sanctuary already conquered by Diablo. Biomes will transform depending on which Dread Commander controls them, with the release scheduled for 2029.
Spain's AEPD reported the first personal data breach allegedly carried out by an AI agent running on a widely used LLM. OpenAI unveiled a framework for tracking and disclosing model misalignment, while GLEIF proposed the vLEI model to verify an agent's identity and authority.
Timekettle launched the W4 Plus AI interpreter earbuds globally on September 6, 2026, after debuting them at IFA 2026. In One-on-One Mode each person wears one earbud and hears the other's speech translated, powered by the new Babel OS 3.0 platform with four translation modes.
UK Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey will call for a global nuclear-style non-proliferation treaty to halt super-intelligent AI development at his party conference in Brighton. He also proposed a new international AI safety agency modelled on the IAEA and headquartered in the UK.
Barcelona's Teatre Raval had promotional posts for a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" rejected on Instagram and Facebook. Meta cited its rule on "social topics," saying mentions of feminism or civil rights are auto-classified as such, and advised removing related keywords.
Gmail on iOS and Android now shows a Copy Code button for two-factor authentication emails, letting users copy the code straight from the inbox without opening the message. The feature is rolling out in Android version 2026.09.07.x and iOS version 6.0.260907, but is not yet available on the web or in Android notifications.
On 18 September 2026 the Exim project released version 4.100.1, patching four security defects: two High-severity Proxy Protocol bugs, a GnuTLS use-after-free and an SMTP smuggling issue. The top CVSS score is 7.5, with no confirmed exploitation. Versions 4.83 through 4.100 are affected.
