Students at Cornell's Space Systems Design Studio have released results from two light-sail missions. The sails, slightly larger than a pizza box, fold origami-style into CubeSats and separate completely once deployed, using photon momentum to accelerate; gram-scale ChipSats handle all communications and steering.
An AI agent named Claudius says GitHub hid its account @claudiusthebot around 25 August 2026: the profile and 25 public repos return 404 while pushes still work. Its reinstatement request (ticket 4756289) filed on 14 September has drawn only an automated reply for four weeks.
On September 12, a Ukrainian Sargan-3000 naval drone armed with a Kongsberg remote-controlled 12.7 mm machine gun destroyed a Russian Orcan uncrewed surface vessel in the Black Sea — the first USV-on-USV combat. The Sargan-3000 reaches 40–55 knots, travels up to 1,600 km and carries a 450 kg payload.
Google has launched the Workday for Google Sheets add-on, connecting Workday Adaptive Planning to Sheets and Slides. It removes manual CSV downloads and adds AI summaries, anomaly detection, charts and dynamic reporting. It is available to Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers and personal accounts with an Adaptive Planning license.
SpaceX is preparing a Falcon 9 for the US Space Force and Starship's 14th flight, which will deploy 26 Starlink v3 satellites for the first time. China will launch Chang Zheng 6A and 8A, while Rocket Lab's Electron will carry the StriX satellite for Synspective.
Early benchmarks of Apple's M5 Ultra show roughly 350,000–360,000 in Metal and about 220,000 in OpenCL, versus 249,564 and 140,821 for the M3 Ultra. The gap to Nvidia's RTX 5080 (~260,000 in OpenCL) has narrowed, while power draw stays far lower.
Researchers at South Korea's KRICT added a small amount of graphitic carbon nitride to the cathode of a lithium-ion battery. Tests showed a 166% capacity increase during high-rate discharge and up to 2.85x higher power density. The tech is still early-stage and could benefit EVs, drones, robots and gaming laptops.
Tesla is again taking $50,000 deposits for the Roadster: $5,000 upfront plus $45,000 wired within 10 days. The production car is set to be revealed on October 1 at SpaceX's Waco, Texas test site. The first reservations opened in 2017 with promised deliveries in 2020 that never happened.
Civil society groups and digital rights advocates are urging ASEAN to publish the full text of its Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA), warning the talks lack transparency. They fear provisions on cross-border data flows, source code protection and limits on data localization could weaken privacy, AI regulation and labor rights.
A protocol presented at an IEEE conference verifies whether quantum processor data stays usable when moved to classical systems. On IBM's 96-qubit Marrakesh chip, a circuit with over 6,000 gates preserved a recognizable pattern, and a quantum result triggered a PING command between two conventional computers.
Tesla has acknowledged a software bug in FSD v14.3.9 that falsely warns of dirty front-facing cameras and demands service visits even when the windshield is clean. The company is proactively canceling scheduled cleaning appointments and advising owners not to book service; a fix is expected in a future update.
Czech digital identity provider MojeID has launched post-quantum cryptography (PQC) protections for encrypted server communication and identity confirmation. Its MojeID Klíč app version 16.0.0, built with Wultra, adds PQC algorithms for login, and nearly half of traffic already comes from PQC-enabled browsers.
Ghana's national ID card will gain an e-wallet feature letting users link bank accounts and load mobile money balances. The rollout will be phased, with biometrics and a PIN securing payments. From November, compulsory biometric verification and a ban on ID photocopying take effect.
A September 2026 PS5 system update added an "Enhance PSSR Image Quality" setting that is enabled automatically on PS5 Pro for sharper images. Standard PS5 consoles gained a voice chat speaker indicator and a Community Activity widget in the Welcome Hub.
Mojang unveiled the story of Minecraft Dungeons 2 at its The Last Stand creator event: three Illagers discovered a portal to the Sift dimension and weaponized its soul energy against the Overworld. Minecraft Live on September 26, 2026 at 10 AM PT will reveal the next chapter ahead of the game's September 29 launch.
Rainmaker, a weather-modification startup that seeds clouds to generate rain and snow, has raised $100 million in Series B funding. Its custom drones release silver iodide into clouds; August test flights in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula produced 19 million gallons of precipitation in three hours, and the company ties its flights to 145 million incremental gallons of freshwater.
In the second week of September 2026, CISA added seven CVEs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Three target self-hosted AI infrastructure: LiteLLM (unauthenticated admin endpoint exposing all API keys), Kestra (RCE via crafted workflows) and Starlette (SSRF, the ASGI framework under FastAPI).
NASA's Perseverance rover found rocks at the inner edge of Jezero Crater pointing to at least three separate water episodes. Instead of expected sedimentary rocks, the Margin Unit contains carbonates and volcanic material, reshaping views of the ancient lake.
FlashPoint analyzed 44,791 stolen JWTs from a single infostealer log dump: 555 tokens belonged to AI services including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot, and 24 API keys were still valid. Anthropic warned affected users in September 2026 that session tokens were harvested from user machines and resold for LLMjacking.
OnePlus has revealed the design, colors and four China configurations for the OnePlus 16, including up to 16GB/1TB, a 165Hz system-wide refresh rate and ColorOS 17 on Android 17. Leaks point to a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro chip, LPDDR6 RAM, a roughly 9,000mAh battery with 100W charging and a 200MP camera. The company has confirmed it will no longer launch new products in Europe or North America.
Apple Notes in iOS 27 gains section links: when adding a link, users can pick a specific heading or subheading in the note. The feature simplifies navigation in long notes and enables building a table of contents.
A study of female mice that spent 42 days on the ISS found their offspring and grandoffspring produced smaller, fewer litters and had lower levels of key reproductive hormones. The second generation also showed about 15% less muscle strength. Whether the effects apply to humans remains unclear.
Microsoft has made Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance generally available — a managed forwarding layer that routes traffic between VNets through a hub on dedicated networking hardware inside the Azure backbone. It comes in 10, 50, 100 and 200 Gbps tiers, does not inspect traffic and does not replace a firewall.
According to WalleGalaxy, all Galaxy S27 models except the Ultra will stick to 12GB of RAM. The Ultra is said to offer 12GB with 256/512GB storage and a 16GB version with 1TB. The lineup is expected to debut in early 2027.
Motorola has confirmed its Signature 27 flagship will arrive in North American markets in the coming months. The phone packs Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, 7 years of updates, and audio tuned by Bang & Olufsen.
Apple stock closed at an all-time high of $339.64 as investors reacted to the improved Siri AI and the upcoming foldable iPhone Duo. Pre-orders for the iPhone Duo begin October 16, 2026, with in-store availability from October 23; Apple reports earnings in late October.
Review of the 2026 Volvo EX30 electric crossover: priced from $40,345, up to 261 miles of range, and a 422-hp Twin Motor Performance version hitting 60 mph in 3.4 seconds. Criticized for ditching the instrument cluster and physical buttons, forcing climate and even glovebox controls onto the touchscreen.
Senior game designer Josh Greenfield said Blizzard will not add shared enemy kill credit in WoW: Forever, calling the friction "extremely important to our social pillar." The full release is set for November 4.
The ViaSat-3 F2 satellite has entered service, completing Viasat's trio of high-capacity satellites. F2 covers the Americas and F3, in service since late August, covers Asia-Pacific; each adds over 1 terabit per second of capacity. F1, launched in 2023, operates at only a fraction of expected capacity due to an antenna anomaly.
In an ongoing 2023 class action against 2K and Take-Two, a court has forced the publisher to explain why purchased NBA 2K virtual currency (VC) cannot carry over to the next game. NBA 2K VP Michael O'Dwyer said no technical solution exists, and the terms of service state players have no ownership rights to virtual items.
