Google Ads were found delivering a tech-support scam that freezes Windows and Mac screens and shows fake urgent warnings telling users to call a bogus call center, where victims were urged to pay fees, grant remote access, or share personal information.
Sep 25, 2026 ·Ars Technica
The iPhone 18 Pro improves sustained performance and comfort with “up to 40 percent better sustained performance” than the iPhone 17 Pro and a battery that lasts up to 36 hours for offline video playback (up from 33), while it stays largely the same as last year’s model.
Sep 25, 2026 ·Ars Technica
The U.S. Department of Energy is funding 31 grid projects with $1.9B in federal money (for a $5.25B program total) to unlock at least 23 gigawatts of additional transmission capacity for about 100 million Americans.
Sep 25, 2026 ·
The Register
A Telegram ad impersonating a “Google Account Security Team” told callers “NO SCRIPT READING,” but then printed the exact prewritten script they were supposed to read, starting with “Good afternoon… reaching you on behalf of the Google Account Security Team on a recorded line.”
Sep 25, 2026 ·The Register
Summer 2026 unemployment for recent college graduates was 7.3%, which falls within prior-year ranges (6.3% in 2022 to 7.8% in 2024) and was not unusually high versus earlier summers.
Sep 25, 2026 ·Ars Technica
iOS 27’s Apple Wallet can scan a receipt image from the Camera app and let users split the bill with others by selecting receipt items and setting each person’s share and tip using Apple Cash.
Sep 25, 2026 ·
CNET
mkcheck2 cuts dependency error-detection overhead by up to 99.7% versus ptrace-based tracing and lowers mean analysis time per commit across the 300-project Make corpus from 1267.49 seconds to 23.56 seconds (~54x faster) while maintaining detection accuracy.
Sep 25, 2026 ·The Register
Mark Wahlberg will appear at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to discuss his investing progression with Bruce K. Lee, CEO of Keebeck Wealth Management.
Sep 25, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
A settlement over the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger was described by free-speech and media groups as giving the public “virtually nothing” because the combined company can still leverage premium cable, streaming, and broadcast businesses to raise prices in separate basic-cable negotiations.
Sep 25, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Cricut’s StickerPix Print ($169) and StickerPix Print + Cut ($299) let home crafters print custom sticker designs using dye-sublimation and a laminate layer for water, scratch, and fade resistance.
Sep 25, 2026 ·
Engadget
Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days laptop deals kick off Oct. 6–Oct. 7, but multiple discounts are already live ahead of the event.
Sep 25, 2026 ·CNET
King signed a collective bargaining agreement with Unionen and Engineers of Sweden that covers its Swedish employees and takes effect April 1, 2027, averting a strike scheduled the next day.
Sep 25, 2026 ·Engadget
Nscale secured $3.36B in convertible financing ahead of its IPO later in 2026, including $2.36B available immediately and $1B from Nvidia arriving mid-November.
Sep 25, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Solar generation added 39 TWh more than the prior year in the first seven months of 2026 (vs 48 TWh in the same period of 2025), implying solar growth is slowing to 22% year over year while demand rises 2% in 2026.
Sep 25, 2026 ·Ars Technica
ShinyHunters says it hacked the FBI to “protect our business,” and the FBI confirmed it is investigating a claimed compromise of FBIJobs.gov that may have exposed FBI employee personally identifiable information (PII) while the breach point remains undetermined.
Sep 25, 2026 ·The Register
Roku’s first OLED TVs are discounted at Amazon with promo codes: $300 off the 55-inch Pro Series to $699 and $400 off the 65-inch Pro Series to $799 at checkout.
Sep 25, 2026 ·
The Verge
Fervo Energy’s Cape Station in Beaver County, Utah has begun supplying the grid with the first 33 MW of its GeoBlocks, and it is aiming for 100 MW online by Jan. 1 and 500 MW by 2028.
Sep 25, 2026 ·The Register
Microsoft says its newly announced Surface Pro 12-inch (2nd Edition) and Surface Laptop 13-inch (2nd Edition) meet the former Copilot+ PC requirements but are “not called Copilot+ PCs.”
Sep 25, 2026 ·Ars Technica
An AI-enabled campaign attacked 105 online retailers over five days, compromising 27, with average costs of about $25 per attack and attackers using open-source tools such as Strix (vulnerability search), Cairn (autonomous end-to-end exploitation), and Hermes (campaign orchestration).
Sep 25, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Meta says Ray-Ban Meta glasses’ photo-taking indicator light makes them easier to notice than phones, which usually don’t emit a light even if someone must hold a phone up to be seen capturing images.
Sep 25, 2026 ·The Verge
