Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent proposed during talks in Manhattan that Washington and Beijing notify each other of AI incidents serious enough to be national security events. Export controls on AI chips and semiconductor equipment were excluded; the sides agreed to meet again on AI but set no date.
IO Interactive has pushed 007 First Light on Switch 2 from Summer 2026 to March 2027 — the third delay. Technical producer Cristina Vega cited the team's need for a breather, marketing requests and a new Meshnets rendering system; the port targets a stable 30fps.
Ireland's media watchdog has fined Google over how it processed location data following complaints from several European consumer rights organizations. The size of the fine was not disclosed.
Garmin has launched the $200 CIRQA health tracker with older Gen 4 sensors instead of the newer Gen 5. It tracks heart rate and temperature, lacks built-in GPS, and lasts 7–8 days versus the advertised 10.
Synology has launched ActiveProtect Manager 2.0, a free update for its DP-Series data protection appliances. It adds protection for Amazon EC2, Azure VM, Proxmox VE, Nutanix AHV and Google Workspace, cross-platform recovery and volume-level storage encryption. APM 2.1 will add AI/ML anomaly detection and malware scanning before restore.
LG Display launched a 24.5-inch 720Hz gaming OLED panel, while Samsung Display unveiled a 31.5-inch QD-OLED with 4K and 360Hz. Samsung invested 4.1 trillion won in 8.6-generation IT OLED lines, expecting laptop OLED penetration to grow from 6% in 2026 to 19% by 2030.
Siemba has added automated insecure direct object reference (IDOR) testing to its API Security Testing platform. A 200-endpoint collection can be tested in under an hour instead of days of manual work, covering REST, GraphQL and SOAP, with findings delivered already written up with reproduction steps.
OData is deploying DeltaFlow, the proprietary liquid cooling system from parent company Aligned Data Centers, at its SP04 facility in Brazil and QR03 in Mexico. The project will cost $630 million across both sites, with phase one installation and testing already underway. The system enables hybrid air and liquid cooling for high-density AI racks.
Aolani said 22,000 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs are expected to be deployed across two sites in Southeast Asia. The rollout is slated for early 2027.
IBM and ETH Zurich will build a quantum computer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) in Lugano, expected to be operational by the end of 2026. The system will use IBM's Quantum Nighthawk r2 processor with 120 qubits and work alongside the Alps supercomputer.
SK hynix's Nasdaq-listed ADR (ticker SKHY) was added to the MVIS U.S. Listed Semiconductor 25 Index with a roughly 4.8% weight in the September rebalancing. The move is expected to draw about $3.36 billion into the $70 billion SMH ETF and 58 billion won into Korea's KODEX U.S. Semiconductor ETF. The ADR trades at a 39.2% premium to the Korean common stock.
Verizon has requested an experimental FCC license to test the 4.8–4.9 GHz band (B79A) around its Los Angeles lab. The carrier aims to trial 5G Advanced use cases such as object sensing as a precursor to 6G Integrated Sensing and Communication, using Ericsson hardware.
CISA expanded its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with three Linux kernel flaws: CVE-2025-39682 (CVSS 9.8, TLS receive-path memory disclosure and DoS), CVE-2025-39964 (CVSS 7.8, AF_ALG socket race) and CVE-2026-53266 (CVSS 8.8, ebtables SNAT out-of-bounds write). US federal agencies must patch all three within three days.
BharatPe has raised Rs 135 crore (about $14 million) in debt funding led by InnoVen Capital. The fintech also received shareholder approval to merge its online and offline payment aggregator businesses into Resilient Innovations ahead of a potential IPO.
Some Pixel 11 owners report excessive idle battery drain, with Wi-Fi waking the phone up to 135 times per minute and preventing sleep 59–67% of the time. Switching from Wi-Fi 6 to Wi-Fi 5 cut wakeups to 2.4 per minute and idle drain to about 1% per hour. Google has not confirmed a bug.
Nabiax has laid the cornerstone for Alcalá Data Center 3 in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid. The project represents nearly €800 million ($918m) in investment and will add up to 100MW of IT capacity through 2029, bringing Nabiax to 135MW in Spain across Madrid and Catalonia.
An experiment at Italy's INFN Gran Sasso underground lab found no trace of spacetime fluctuations predicted by the Károlyházy model, which would disrupt quantum superpositions. Data was collected for 62 days with a high-purity germanium detector, ruling out one of the oldest gravity-driven decoherence models.
Conflicting leaks surround the Galaxy S27 Ultra's telephoto camera, with claims ranging from a 50Mp Sony sensor with 5x zoom to a 4x setup with a 1/1.9-inch sensor. A 50Mp ultrawide, 16Mp selfie camera, M16 OLED panel and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro are also rumored.
The International Federation of Robotics estimates around 7,000 autonomous humanoid robots were sold worldwide in 2025 for industrial and professional service use. Many were bought for research rather than productive work.
Scania is now offering extra batteries mounted behind the cab, adding up to 356 kWh and extending the range of its electric trucks to 447 miles (720 km). A more aerodynamic IVD cab cuts energy use by up to 3%, with MCS charging at up to 750 kW.
A US Department of War official said the biggest technical challenge for 6G is securing contiguous 400MHz downlink channels without disrupting military systems. An OMB memorandum aims to speed up federal spectrum reallocation, with the FCC and NTIA targeting up to five auctions by the end of 2028.
Korea Fair Trade Commission Chair Ju Byung-gi said the regulator will enforce competition law without discriminating against foreign firms despite pressure from U.S. political circles. The KFTC has secured data contradicting Coupang founder Kim Beom-seok's declaration that relatives do not participate in management and is accelerating its investigation.
Generac has signed a long-term agreement with Amazon to supply backup generators for its data centers. Initial deliveries over the next two years will total about $2.4 billion, with the deal potentially reaching $8 billion. Amazon also gets an option to buy up to 1.7 million Generac shares at roughly $200 each.
Leakers Kopite7kimi and Kepler_L2 claim Nvidia will not launch its RTX 60 graphics cards on GR20x "Gaming Rubin" chips until 2028, refuting reports of an RTX 6090 in 2027. The delay is tied to the DRAM shortage, expected to peak in mid-2027.
An FCC listing for a "Wireless Device" from Weifang Goertek — the same manufacturer that built the Fitbit Air for Google — points to an imminent Fitbit Charge 7 launch. The tracker is expected to offer Bluetooth, GPS and a screen, possibly with a custom OS for longer battery life.
A Stanford lab led by professor Natalie Larson is advancing subvoxel control, a technique that patterns multiple materials within a single printed voxel. Applications span cultivated meat, structural batteries, soft robots and defense metamaterials, with funding from the Office of Naval Research.
After Taiwan's Legislative Yuan passed the Act on Strengthening Defense Autonomy and Developing the Unmanned Vehicles Industry, the island's drone makers are preparing for a new wave of orders. Companies are pursuing two tracks: domestic defense contracts and expansion into the US market.
India's Central Consumer Protection Authority fined e-commerce platform Xboom Rs 10 lakh for listing six anti-drone systems and GPS jammers without required regulatory disclosures. Such devices are restricted to authorised government and security agencies and need prior MHA approval.
Tokyo-based electronics maker TDK has agreed to acquire San Diego's Fabric8Labs, which develops metal 3D printing technology, for up to $400 million in cash. The deal, subject to regulatory approval, will support TDK's data center business, including thermal management, power components and semiconductor packaging.
ABB announced Infinitus, a solution for AI data center infrastructure. The company expects Southeast Asia's data center capacity to grow from 2.8 GW to 9.4 GW by 2035.
