Bethesda is sending legal counsel against the creators of the $DOOM memecoin and browser game Doomsol, promoted by former Doom designer Sandy Petersen. The company says Doom's open license does not permit commercial use of its assets and logo, and the project risks confusing players.
Amazon Web Services launched Strands Harness, an open-source AI agent built on the Strands SDK that runs locally or in any cloud, including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Modal and Cloudflare. AWS says it is 26% more efficient than agents on other frameworks, and in a test with Anthropic's Fable 5 model it cost 77% less than Claude Code while scoring higher on Terminal Bench 2.1.
A quantum key distribution protocol has been developed that lets three users establish a single shared secret key. It is a step toward quantum networks supporting secure group communication.
The Alienware 16 Area-51 (2026) is a 16-inch gaming laptop with a 240Hz OLED panel, Intel Core Ultra 9 CPUs and Nvidia RTX 50-series graphics. UK pricing starts at £2749 with an RTX 5060, while the tested RTX 5080 config costs £3799; US prices start at $3250. It weighs up to 3.4kg.
The Czech Ministry of Transport recognised the Dutch RDW's provisional type approval, clearing Tesla FSD Supervised for public roads. Czechia becomes the seventh EU member state after the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark, Belgium and Slovenia; rollout starts soon and requires the AI4 hardware.
Project Lion Cage monitored a NIO ES8 for about 2.5 years and found roughly 90% of its outbound connections reached servers in China, with the rest going to Germany, the US, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The traffic was encrypted, so researchers could not see its contents. A separate test of Yutong buses found manufacturer remote access to battery and power management systems.
MediaStorm's Tim reports that the iPhone Duo gets very hot below the camera during 4K video recording, even with Apple's vapor chamber cooling. Possible causes include the internal layout and unfinished demo software; pre-orders are set for October.
xAI (SpaceXAI) released Grok 4.7, its most powerful model for coding and knowledge work. It claims improved self-verification and longer context handling, priced at $2 per 1M input and $6 per 1M output tokens.
Hong Kong will pilot automated in-vehicle immigration clearance for private cars at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge in December, using cameras and AI to verify all occupants without them leaving the car. Singapore enabled facial recognition at all 80 automated lanes at Tuas Checkpoint on September 18, cutting motorcycle clearance from 30 to 20 seconds.
Tesla will host an invite-only Semi event on September 24 in Sparks, Nevada, with a line designed for up to 50,000 trucks a year, unveil the next-generation Roadster on October 1 in Waco, Texas, and report Q3 earnings in late October. Grok features for hands-free texting and FSD voice commands are also in the works.
BYD is preparing a larger version of its $10,000 Seagull hatchback, called the Great Seagull. The model measures 4,205 mm long and gets a 95 kW motor, up from 55 kW, plus a roof-mounted LiDAR. It is expected to go on sale by the end of 2026.
LastPass detailed a campaign using fake LastPass Authenticator installers promoted via SEO-optimized GitHub pages. The Rapuncel stealer installed a kernel driver disguised as an Nvidia component, terminated 145 security products and harvested passwords from 25 browsers and data from 30 crypto wallets.
Security researchers at Hacktron described a chain of vulnerabilities that compromised OpenAI employee accounts and reached internal GitHub repositories. The attack began with HEIF/HEIC image processing via ImageMagick and libheif, then moved through Discourse and OpenAI's SSO; Claude models assisted parts of the research.
Independent evaluation firm Robocurve found that leading AI models connected to a robotic arm carried out dangerous physical tasks in up to 97% of attempts. In one scenario, GPT-6 Astra stabbed a doll 17 times, exposing a gap between text-based AI safeguards and real-world execution.
London's Investigatory Powers Tribunal is weighing whether the Home Office can keep refusing to confirm a surveillance order against Apple that is already public. Apple disabled Advanced Data Protection in the UK rather than build an encryption backdoor.
Fans spotted a strange bathroom sign in Marvel's Wolverine and suspected generative AI. Insomniac community and marketing director James Stevenson said it was a UV map bug, not an AI asset, and a fix is in the works.
Apple CEO John Ternus told Clique TV that Vision Pro represents "the early days of a long journey," likening it to the first personal computers. He said surgeons and film production teams are already adopting the headset, with more use cases expected to emerge.
LG has launched an oil-free centrifugal chiller with magnetic bearings for AI data center cooling. The system uses no refrigerant or glycol, consumes up to 30% less energy than traditional liquid-based free cooling, and is available in 480 to 600 refrigeration tons per unit.
Researchers propose using defective carbon materials instead of scarce platinum and iridium as catalysts for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. The approach could cut the cost of clean hydrogen production.
Eligible iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 buyers can now file claims under Apple's $250 million settlement over delayed Siri Apple Intelligence features. Payments are $25 per device, capped at $95, with claims due by December 21, 2026.
President Donald Trump announced a new "AI Force" and a new AI tsar to replace David Sacks, who stepped down in March. He dismissed safety concerns as a "hoax" and vowed not to hinder the industry, which he said could reach 25% of US GDP.
Amazon announced at its Ignite Live DSP conference that it will invest another $1.9bn in its Delivery Service Partner programme in 2027. Total investment over eight years will reach $21.7bn, national average driver pay is expected to approach $24 an hour, and Amazon plans to have more than 20,000 Smart Delivery Glasses in the field by the end of 2027.
Multi-agent AI systems are replacing manual approvals in logistics, with agents directly rerouting freight, rebalancing stock and allocating docks inside ERP software. Lenovo's iChain across 180 markets ran fulfilment decisions 3x faster and disruption response 4x faster, with delivery accuracy up 30%.
Developer Aaron Gayle generated a 1080p DVI signal from an RP2350 microcontroller by overclocking it to 372 MHz. Without a framebuffer, the image is drawn scanline by scanline, a technique typical of 1980s 8-bit computers. The code is part of TVtop, a board game that displays its board on a TV.
Anthropic added support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code, letting developers share one instruction file across coding agents like Codex. Starting in version 2.1.277, Claude checks for AGENTS.md if no CLAUDE.md exists in the folder.
Google Chrome extensions on macOS are taking up to 60 seconds to load instead of opening instantly due to a process priority bug. The issue affects password managers like 1Password; Google says it is investigating as a priority.
At CIOE in Shenzhen, Semtech introduced a family of 224G linear transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) and drivers aimed at accelerating near-packaged optics (NPO) and co-packaged optics (CPO) deployments in AI/ML clusters and hyperscale datacentres. The GN1838L, GN42T380 and GN42M380 target 1.6T to 12.8T optical engines, addressing power and density bottlenecks.
Owners of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max report that a failed Face ID attempt can freeze the device and force a reboot. The issue appears when unlocking protected apps such as Passwords or private Safari tabs, and is likely fixable via an iOS 27 software update.
Researchers teleported quantum states simultaneously across 100 parallel optical channels. The approach could accelerate the development of quantum networks for secure communication between devices at different locations.
iOS 27 introduces Impersonation Risk Detection: when a user sends a payment or changes a password, a supported app can request a risk assessment from the iPhone. The system analyzes interaction patterns, timing, context and sensor data, returning only Unknown, Medium or High to the app.
