Riders in Austin report that Tesla Cybercab robotaxis take huge detours: a trip expected to last 10 minutes took 70. The fleet avoids highways and at-grade railroad crossings, compounding Tesla's long-standing navigation issues.
The Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold costs $1,899, matching the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and undercutting the iPhone Duo. It packs a 6.5-inch outer and 8-inch inner Super Actua display at up to 3,600 nits, a Tensor G6 chip with 16 GB RAM, a triple camera with a new 48MP main sensor and a 4,750 mAh battery. It is 10% lighter and 1 mm thinner than the Pixel 10 Pro Fold at 239g and 10.1mm, but cracked along both antenna lines in JerryRigEverything's durability test.
University of Chicago researchers built a wearable cuff with 24 ultrasonic transducers that jams microphones within about three feet. The roughly $20 prototype exploits microphone nonlinearity to turn recorded speech into unintelligible static.
Google says the games category for Android Auto and Android Automotive OS with Google built-in has graduated from beta to general availability. Gaming remains parked-only, and developers can now publish titles to open testing and production tracks on Google Play.
At the AI Infrastructure Summit 2026, Nvidia said its rack-scale Vera Rubin NVL72 platform delivers up to 30x the AI factory throughput of GB300 NVL72 on agentic workloads. In SemiAnalysis AgentX tests with DeepSeek-R1 and Qwen3-VL, gains reached 3.7x, while performance per watt is 10x that of Grace Blackwell.
Researchers created a paper battery that powers devices inside the body and gradually dissolves afterward. In pig tests it ran for up to three days, delivering 1.77–1.84 V and up to 3.5 mAh.
Apple raised Mac Studio prices: the M5 Max model now starts at $2,500 (+$500) and the M5 Ultra at $5,500 (+$1,500). The company blames soaring LPDDR5X memory and storage costs, plus hedging and its usual high margins.
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe told The New York Times that the upcoming R3 hatchback will be priced "materially lower" than the R2, which will eventually start at $45,000. An even cheaper R4 will follow the R3, he said.
Researcher Paulos Yibelo of pwn.ai disclosed Click2Shell, a CSRF vulnerability in WordPress Core that lets an attacker force-install any theme from the WordPress.org catalog and execute arbitrary PHP. The flaw was fixed in WordPress 7.1.1, and exploitation requires a logged-in administrator to visit a crafted URL.
Kairos Power has picked Samsung C&T to help build its 50 MW demonstration reactor for Google. Samsung C&T will invest $70 million in the startup and provide in-kind engineering services, bringing the total deal value to up to $100 million. The Hermes 2 reactor is expected to start operating in 2030.
ZoomEye measured the internet footprint of Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway: 239,130 assets matched the full product fingerprint and 116,773 the shorter one. The scan follows CVE-2026-19490, a CVSS 9.8 SAML authentication bypass enabling session forgery that was fixed in an emergency patch in August 2026.
OpenAI says it is working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to responsibly share math-related AI advances. The company noted it began training a new internal model on August 28 that, besides resolving the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, has now solved other problems.
Cloudflare's Quick Tunnels feature, shipped in 2021, resurfaced among developers: the command cloudflared tunnel --url http://localhost:8000 exposes a local project at a public trycloudflare.com address with no account, DNS records or port forwarding. The URL dies with the process, but it is public, and criminals have long abused free anonymous tunnels to stage malware.
Microsoft and Google, working through the Global Signal Exchange, shut down RedVDS, a marketplace selling virtual machines used for phishing and fraud. Between September and December 2025, 130,000 organizations were targeted and 191,000 Microsoft email accounts were compromised.
Google is rolling out real-time voice conversations in Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) on mobile, with answers grounded in the sources uploaded to a notebook. The feature supports nearly 100 languages and starts with Google AI Ultra users on Android and iOS, with wider availability in the coming weeks. Google also added a lecture audio recorder, quizzes, flashcards and short videos.
Binance has extended bStocks collateral to all eligible users, previously limited to VIP 3 accounts. Cumulative trading volume for bStocks surpassed $30 billion in under 90 days, with outstanding value reaching $678 million.
OpenAI published a proposal on Monday to create international coordination around AI safety. The company called for national AI safety institutes, such as the U.S. Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation, to set standards for models.
Comfy Desktop has launched, automatically installing ComfyUI, the Python environment and dependencies needed to run local generative models such as Qwen, Stable Diffusion, SDXL, Flux and Wan. It supports Windows, macOS and Linux, with isolated environments, one-click updates and snapshot rollback.
NCTA has filed a second petition with the FCC seeking an expedited waiver from the broadband router ban for devices requiring minor hardware changes. The group cites ongoing supply chain constraints and components reaching end-of-life.
Engineers at Airbus in the UK used a Steam Deck running custom software to control an ExoMars rover prototype in a simulated Mars environment. The rover will eventually operate autonomously via 3D cameras due to the communication delay with Earth.
Counterpoint Research says Samsung's Exynos chips reached 9% of global smartphone chip shipments in Q2, their highest share since tracking began in 2024, driven by the Exynos 2600 in the Galaxy S26 and mid-range Galaxy A phones. MediaTek leads with 31%, followed by Qualcomm at 23% and Apple at 19%.
The Center for a New American Security warns that GPS reliance on weak satellite signals leaves it vulnerable to jamming and spoofing. GPS jamming affected more than 18,300 vessels in the second half of 2025, and about 978,000 jamming events were recorded in Q1 2026, 98% of them in the Persian Gulf. Q-CTRL demonstrated its GravNav quantum navigation system in the Coral Sea, achieving one-nautical-mile accuracy without GPS.
OpenAI says automated research could improve alignment, but "fully autonomous RSI is not happening today" and shouldn't be pursued unless it can be done safely.
Apple's foldable iPhone Duo, arriving in October, brings iPad-style multitasking with two apps side by side, Apple Pencil support, a redesigned interface and camera features like Smart Take and Kid Cue that are exclusive to the foldable.
Microsoft announced that the Calendar, People, and Files Microsoft 365 companion apps will reach end of life on December 16, 2026, and will no longer function or be supported. The company has also stopped installing them via Microsoft 365 Apps updates and urged admins to remove them from managed devices.
A survey of 4,000 US consumers shows strong demand for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, with 67% citing the age of their current iPhone as the main reason to upgrade. The Pro and Pro Max models account for 53% of buyers, with 32% choosing the Pro Max. The first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, drew 14% interest.
Democratic Rep. Suhas Subramanyam of Virginia is pushing for a national strategy on AI data center expansion, saying the state-by-state approach leaves communities footing infrastructure costs. Proposals include better siting, measuring energy and water use, and making large electricity users pay for grid upgrades.
YouTube channel REWA Technology posted a teardown of the new iPhone 18 Pro. The Face ID infrared camera moved to the top-left corner under the display, shrinking the Dynamic Island; the US model is expected to use a Snapdragon X80 modem instead of the Apple C2.
CNN reported that the U.S. military was preparing to board a Chinese vessel in the Middle East over claims it carried nuclear weapon components. The mission was called off after officials found the intelligence report was based on a hallucinating AI chatbot used by an analyst.
X expanded its "Under the Hood" transparency tool so users can see when their posts' visibility was limited to comply with local laws, which posts were withheld in a country, and which government made the request. The data is available as a JSON file to anyone who has posted at least 10 times in a month.
