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Schneider Electric published a white paper comparing four modeled 100 MW datacenter designs. Moving from air to liquid cooling with coolant supplied at 45°C cuts water consumption by at least 50%, while cooling towers can use 5 to 20 times more water than dry coolers.
Portainer announced that its Community Edition will stay on the 2.45 LTS branch and won't receive the new Kubernetes-centric Portainer 3.0 architecture. CE will get only security and bug fixes, while new 3.x features are limited to the paid Business Edition or the 3 Nodes Free license.
The Acer Googlebook 14 is the only one of the five launch Googlebook models with a convertible 360° hinge. It packs a 2.8K (2880 x 1800) 120Hz OLED display covering 100% DCI-P3, USI 2.0 stylus support, up to a Core Ultra 7 355, 16GB or 32GB of LPDDR5X RAM, 16 hours of battery life and a 1.18kg chassis. The base 16GB/Core Ultra 5 version starts at $899 and ships early next month.
Korean media reports say Samsung may equip the Galaxy S27 Ultra with the Exynos 2700 in select markets such as South Korea, while North America could keep Snapdragon. The move would boost Exynos share and cut costs amid rising memory and chipset prices. No final decision has been made and the Galaxy S27 lineup isn't expected until next year.
Users upgrading to macOS 27 Golden Gate are reporting major bugs in Mission Control, including juddering animations and black screens when dragging desktops between monitors. There are also complaints about sluggish menu bar and Control Center, and about Apple ignoring beta bug reports.
A team led by Peking University used Solar Orbiter imagery to detect high-frequency magnetic waves in polar coronal holes that NASA's SDO missed. The EUI instrument captures an image every five seconds at 420 km per pixel and logged 2,318 wave events versus 560 for SDO.
Vivo unveiled the X500 Pro and X500 Pro Max, the first phones powered by MediaTek's 2nm Dimensity 9600 Pro with LPDDR6 and UFS 5.0 support. The Pro Max adds a 200MP Zeiss APO telephoto and an 8000mAh battery. Prices start at 6,499 yuan, with sales on September 24 and 29 in China.
iFixit tore down the iPhone 18 Pro and rated its repairability 7/10, matching the iPhone 17 Pro's score in 2025. The camera and battery assemblies are easy to remove, but the new 48MP variable aperture camera with six hair-thin blades is nearly impossible to repair, likely requiring a full camera module replacement.
Intel is reportedly partnering with Taiwan's AU Optronics to co-develop co-packaged optics and high-density chip integration on glass substrates with Micro LED. Intel declined to comment, but it recently secured a US patent covering IC packaging on Micro LED substrates using through-glass vias.
Volkswagen has begun series production of the ID. Cross electric SUV at its Pamplona, Spain plant. The entry-level Trend version with an 85 kW motor and 37 kWh battery goes on sale in mid-October from €27,995 (around $32,000), with up to 427 km of WLTP range.
Cloudflare has introduced the Agent Development Lifecycle, a replacement for the traditional SDLC in AI-driven engineering. It centers on Workflows orchestration, the @cloudflare/ci tool, an OpenTelemetry-compatible observability dashboard, and an Agent Access Model with short-lived credentials and a Trust Ratchet.
Samsung is renegotiating DRAM and NAND prices with smartphone makers including Apple, with new rates taking effect in Q1 2027: LPDDR5X up about 33% and NAND up 27%. Rising memory costs driven by AI data center demand could push iPhone prices higher again.
Reliance Jio and T-Mobile have achieved the world's first 5G Standalone roaming, letting Jio users in the US and T-Mobile users in India connect to 5G SA networks. The connection is enabled by Syniverse. Jio is the only Indian operator with nationwide 5G SA coverage.
An unknown hacker accessed an LMU Munich system holding sensitive student data, including names, birth dates, bank account details, health insurance numbers and financial aid information. The university disconnected the server, brought in external cybersecurity experts and is working with law enforcement; the number of affected people is unknown.
New iPhone 18 Pro Max owners report random restarts with "rst wdog" appearing in ResetCounter logs. Apple is reportedly aware and a fix may arrive in an iOS update.
Bolt (formerly Taxify) reported its first annual net profit of €920,000 for 2025 on revenue of €2.27 billion, up 14% year over year. Operating profit reached €19.5 million, reversing a €87.7 million loss a year earlier, a margin of roughly 0.04%.
Securonix analyzed TASK#STOMP, a Windows backdoor that scans victim drives for business documents, uploads them to attacker servers and keeps grabbing new or edited files. The malware also steals saved Wi-Fi passwords and clipboard text, takes screenshots and plants at least five footholds: four scheduled tasks and a copy in the Startup folder.
Accenture's majority investment in Dragos has closed, and Dragos announced it completed its acquisitions of NetRise and runZero. The moves are part of Accenture's $4.1 billion OT cybersecurity push; Dragos was valued at $3.25 billion, with Robert M. Lee staying as CEO and becoming board chairman.
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 contains CVE-2026-81657, an insecure deserialization vulnerability rated 9.8 that is reachable without authentication on TCP port 16017. IBM has released a patch; ZoomEye found 2,395 Guardium-titled assets, and no exploitation in the wild has been confirmed.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra has been assigned the company's highest cybersecurity risk level. The concern is less about what Astra can do and more about the fact that other models have not been tested against this scale.
Infinity Ward says Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 returns to a gritty, grounded "boots on the ground" style and the perspective of rank-and-file soldiers instead of spec ops. The campaign shows North Korea invading the Korean Peninsula, with the game launching on October 22.
The ShinyHunters extortion group defaced the dark web leak site of the Cl0p ransomware gang and demanded an eight-figure payment it described as "2.333%" of Cl0p's net worth. The demand rises every 24 hours and now includes a public apology and proceeds from Cl0p's Oracle E-Business Suite campaign.
EA rolled out a major Madden NFL 27 update on September 16, 34 days after launch, fixing Ultimate Team storefront, lineup and auction-house issues, plus Franchise contract and salary-cap problems and blocked online leagues. The patch lands after EA completed its $55 billion take-private deal in August, ending quarterly public reporting.
Hideo Kojima told IGN he doesn't know whether his spy game Physint will be an Xbox exclusive. Microsoft is publishing the title after Sony dropped it; no release date has been announced.
The UK is expanding its role in AUKUS: Rolls-Royce will build nuclear reactors for every Australian SSN-AUKUS submarine at its Raynesway facility in Derby. Australia has committed £2.4 billion ($3.2 billion) over 10 years, with steel cutting on the first British boat planned for 2027.
Google has launched its Googlebook laptop lineup from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo, powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3, Snapdragon X Elite and MediaTek chips. Prices start at $899, pre-orders are open, and devices ship in the US on October 4, followed by Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Australia on October 5.
OpenAI was negotiating a legally binding agreement with Anthropic for the two companies to stress-test each other's AI models, The Information reports. The previously unreported talks come as OpenAI rethinks its safety strategies amid employee concerns and cybersecurity incidents.
Purdue University research shows fragrance compounds from cleaning products react with indoor ozone within minutes, forming 1–30 nm nanoparticles. The effect occurs with both conventional and botanical essential oil-based cleaners, and the respiratory dose can match or exceed standing beside a busy road.
Googlebook, built on a shared Android architecture, syncs with a smartphone right out of the box: it migrates Wi-Fi networks, passwords, messages and settings via end-to-end encryption. Active tasks continue on the laptop, phone files are browsable in the native Files app, and mobile apps stream into floating desktop windows. Security relies on a Titan root of trust and a pKVM-isolated hypervisor.
