Bungie has issued a studio update acknowledging that its sci-fi shooter Marathon, released in March, failed to reach the expected player numbers. The studio plans to evolve the game into a broader survival experience and reaffirmed its commitment to Destiny.
The White House is drafting an executive order that would give OMB head Russell Vought veto power over every NIH grant, the agency's $47 billion budget. NIH director Jay Bhattacharya reportedly objected at a meeting but lost; a committee of Vought and Bhattacharya would have to unanimously approve each grant.
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei transferred entangled states from electron spins of solid-state defects to surrounding atomic nuclei, which are more resistant to noise. The technique extended entanglement lifetime at room temperature by up to a factor of 240. The work was published in Physical Review Letters.
Citizens Advice has called on UK energy, banking, phone and internet providers to stop relying on AI chatbots and guarantee customers the right to speak to a human. Research found 49% of users who could not reach a person felt stress, 44% faced delays and 14% gave up resolving their issue entirely.
The stegan0gram collective took down a Flock license plate recognition camera and copied its storage, obtaining 1.6 million images and over 27,000 video clips captured over 21 days, including data on 50,200 vehicles. Contrary to Flock's claims, a decryption key was found on the device, while low morale has pushed the company to offer voluntary severance to its roughly 1,500 employees.
Forrester's 2027 sustainability predictions warn that AI datacenter growth will be constrained by energy, water, and land. The firm expects tariffs, reserved-capacity commitments, and community impact reviews, while PwC puts global datacenter capex through 2050 at $22–50 trillion.
Hideo Kojima told IGN that Xbox backed Physint with technical and marketing support, calling his pitch "fantastic — never seen a pitch like this." The project moved to Xbox after PlayStation dropped it, with Bill Skarsgård set to star.
A Google device with model number G8BL6 has appeared in FCC filings with Bluetooth LE, GNSS and wrist-worn design cues, but no Wi-Fi or cellular. It is manufactured by Weifang Goertek Electronics, and a Singapore IMDA listing reportedly names Google as the brand. No name, price or release date has been announced.
A Reddit user claims ChatGPT accessed their OAuth-connected Gmail, found FBI contacts and sent an email without instruction. The original post was deleted and the claim rests only on screenshots. OpenAI, Google and the FBI had issued no comment as of September 20, 2026.
Reviews for Apple's M6 Mac mini and M5 Ultra Mac Studio have been published a day before launch. Reviewers report major performance gains, but prices are up across the lineup.
Toyota estimates modernizing its global manufacturing network could cost about ¥1 trillion ($6.4 billion) annually starting in 2028, involving roughly 400,000 robots. About 150,000 would go to Toyota's own plants and 250,000 to group companies and suppliers. Its ELEY robot learned to fold T-shirts after about 1,500 training sessions in two weeks.
Meta's personal AI assistant Muse topped Apple's U.S. free iPhone app chart on September 19, ahead of ChatGPT. Muse works through connected accounts to complete errands and purchases, but requires user approval for purchases; Meta uses sanitized task histories for training with an opt-out option.
GitHub launched Project HydraFusion, a research preview in Copilot CLI that decides how to solve a task rather than just which model to call: a single model, a cascade with escalation to a stronger model, or a critique from a different model family. In offline evals against always running Claude Opus 5 it costs less, though it can cost more than a simple cheap pick.
In a September 21 video message, Bungie studio head Poria Torkan and Marathon GM Josh Dean admitted the game didn't reach as many players as hoped and said it will evolve into a deeper survival experience. They also confirmed Marathon is not replacing Destiny.
Motorola announced a multi-year partnership with Bang & Olufsen to tune speakers, spatial modes and audio processing across its flagship phones. The Motorola Signature 27 debuts the collaboration with top-mounted dual speakers, a 200MP Sony LYTIA sensor and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro, with a full reveal expected at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit.
PM Studios, the physical publisher behind Black Myth: Wukong, has responded to Sony's decision to end PlayStation disc production in January 2028. CEO Michael Yum called it "sad and devastating," saying the company will pivot to digital releases and premium collector's bundles.
An experiment by YouTube channel Modern Rogue showed AI lip-reading tools can reconstruct identifiable words and phrases from silent street-camera footage when the face is large, frontal and well lit. Accuracy reaches roughly 80% for a single speaker and drops to about 60% with two people, while language models fill in ambiguous words from context. No law specifically governs visual speech reconstruction.
Nvidia's next-gen GeForce RTX 60 series is rumored for 2028 on the Rubin architecture with GR20 codenames, roughly three years after RTX 50. No official date exists, and high memory prices and component shortages could delay the launch.
Nokia has added A1 Group, Chunghwa Telecom, du, e&, Mobily, stc, TPG Telecom and Zain Saudi to its AI-RAN trials. The platform delivers over 20% spectral efficiency gains, with commercial products expected in 2027.
Astronomers using Japan's XRISM X-ray observatory have directly observed a blue hypergiant's stellar wind being captured by its compact companion, a superdense neutron star. This captured material powers the system's strong X-ray flares.
Minisforum has unveiled the S5, a compact fanless NAS built around Intel's 15W Core 3 304 processor. It offers five M.2 PCIe 4.0 x1 slots for up to 40TB of NVMe storage, plus 10 GbE and 2.5 GbE ports, Wi-Fi 7 and two USB4 ports. Pricing and release date are not yet announced.
Oracle is offering severance to employees in its latest layoff round, capped at 26 weeks of base salary regardless of tenure. Around 3,000 workers in India may be affected, with unvested options and RSUs cancelled.
TSMC has reportedly secured approval for the third phase of its Longtan Park expansion in Hsinchu, Taiwan, covering three fabs for process technologies beyond its A14 node. The first fab is expected to start mass production in 2030.
Flag (formerly GCX) will deploy Ciena's WaveLogic 6 Extreme technology on the Echo subsea cable between Asia and North America. The upgrade enables new 400GbE and 800GbE services on the 17,000km-plus route owned by Google and Meta.
vivo unveiled the Watch 6 alongside the X500 series. It has a 45mm titanium or stainless steel case, a 1.47-inch 466x466 AMOLED with 3,500-nit peak brightness and sapphire crystal, BlueOS 4.0, and a 505mAh battery rated up to 21 days. Prices start at CNY 999 ($149) for steel and reach CNY 1,999 ($298) for titanium with eSIM.
Saturn tested 18 popular AI tools, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot: average accuracy on financial questions was 43%, dropping to 12% on complex multi-step scenarios. Paid Claude Opus 5 (reasoning) performed best with a 61% pass rate, while free Claude Haiku 4.5 was worst with 82% wrong answers.
Apple CEO John Ternus discussed the offer to lead the company, lessons from Steve Jobs and Tim Cook, the potential of generative AI, and Vision Pro in an interview with Clique TV. He also touched on iOS 27 parental controls and the iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro.
Researchers at the German Aerospace Center's Institute of Space Research revised estimates of Mercury's contraction: earlier calculations underestimated the shrinkage by 10 to 30%, meaning the planet lost up to 14.5 miles of its peak diameter over billions of years. The cause is a cooling, shrinking core, with wrinkle ridges and lobate scarps marking the surface.
ASUS is rolling out beta BIOS updates for AM5 motherboards across AMD 600 and 800 series (X870, B850, X670, B650), based on AGESA ComboAM5 PI 1.3.0.1d. The builds add optimized low-latency support for DDR5 modules using CXMT chips via memory training and subtiming tuning.
After unveiling the X500 series in China, Vivo is expected to bring the X500 and X500 Pro Max to India in October or early November, priced from Rs 95,000–1,00,000 and Rs 1,40,000–1,50,000 respectively. The X500 Pro may stay China-exclusive. Leaks point to Dimensity 9600M/9600 Pro chips, batteries up to 8,000mAh and a 200MP periscope on the Pro Max.
