Apple VP of hardware engineering Tom Marieb said Ceramic Shield 2 delivers three times the scratch resistance of the previous generation, making third-party screen protectors unnecessary on modern iPhones. The cover glass debuted with the iPhone 17 lineup and is used on the iPhone 18 Pro and the outer display of the foldable iPhone Duo.
The second iOS 27.2 beta has minimal user-facing changes, but code reveals upcoming features: live countdowns for new album releases in Apple Music, a Drive Mode theme for CarPlay Ultra that syncs in-car ambient lighting, an Extended Erase option for wiping iPhone data, and a demo mode for the rumored HomePad smart home device.
A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled that the EPA acted illegally by cancelling the $7 billion Solar For All program. The program was meant to cut electricity bills for over 900,000 households and create 200,000 jobs.
ARMSX3, an ARM-native port of the RPCS3 PS3 emulator, is now available for Android. It needs a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 or newer and at least 8 GB of RAM; in testing God of War 3 and GTA 5 dropped below 10 FPS in combat, while The Last of Us failed to load.
VulcanForms and Specter Aerospace have partnered to mass-produce low-cost airbreathing hypersonic munitions, interceptors and cruise missiles for the Department of War, pairing metal additive manufacturing with hypersonic vehicle development. The site, timeline and financial terms were not disclosed.
The Transportation Department rolled out the AI-powered SMART tool, which merges 200 flight data streams to predict traffic flows and flag conflicts before they occur. Three Washington, D.C.-area airports are the first to use it under a 12-year, $875 million FAA contract with Air Space Intelligence.
The FAA issued ground stops at Philadelphia, Newark, Teterboro and later New York's JFK and LaGuardia after frequency failures at Philadelphia TRACON. The primary circuit failed and a backup fiber line was severed during construction in New Jersey; more than 600 flights were delayed by 1 p.m. ET.
Valve has open-sourced Lepton, a project that runs Android games on Linux through Steam, with the upcoming Steam Frame headset as its main focus. Games run in isolated Android containers without root privileges.
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have proposed a theoretical method that speeds up the creation and control of bosonic quantum codes by more than a thousand times, cutting the process from several thousand driving cycles to a single one. The work was published in Physical Review Letters; an experimental demonstration is still pending.
Paris-based Wandercraft commercially launched Eve on September 17, 2026, the first FDA-cleared self-balancing personal exoskeleton for home use by wheelchair users with spinal cord injuries. The Class II device (510(k) K260381) needs no crutches, is available at 180+ National Seating and Mobility locations and is billable under Medicare code K1007. Pricing was not disclosed.
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.
