Muju Earth’s Aeropod is a seed-sized device that farmers drop into soil with their seeds instead of tilling, and the startup says it can cut tilling costs from about £250–£400 per hectare to £100 per hectare.
Sep 25, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Fraudulent Windows “desktop apps” impersonating three US HR/payroll platforms silently install ConnectWise ScreenConnect with unattended access, hiding control indicators and launching at boot for persistent remote access.
Sep 25, 2026 ·
The Register
UpGuard found around 16,000 Supabase-hosted databases publicly accessible on the web with personal data exposed, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and user passwords.
Sep 25, 2026 ·TechCrunch
OpenAI fired many contractors who were reportedly using AI to generate the prompts they were reviewing for ChatGPT, despite contract terms warning reviewers not to use AI tools or AI themselves.
Sep 25, 2026 ·
Computerworld
A pair of cryptanalysts say OpenAI’s Astra and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 decoded two separate long-unsolved Enigma messages, leaving just seven unbroken Enigma messages (and one with known plaintext but an unbroken code).
Sep 25, 2026 ·TechCrunch
HomePod mini 2 is reported to add new color options—green, pink, light blue, white, and black—while keeping an overall design similar to the current model.
Sep 25, 2026 ·
Engadget
The native iOS manual aperture controls on the iPhone 18 Pro are limited to four settings (f/1.48, f/1.8, f/2.8, f/4), but third-party apps can use Apple’s SDK to offer more granular aperture control.
Sep 25, 2026 ·
The Verge
Bitget said an attack consistent with North Korea resulted in about $387.5 million in digital assets being stolen from its wallets (up from an initial $351.6 million estimate).
Sep 25, 2026 ·The Register
Microsoft combined Copilot Chat, the autonomous Cowork agent, the redesigned Code coding environment, and Autopilot (formerly Scout) into a single Copilot experience that routes work to the right capability based on what users say they want to accomplish.
Sep 25, 2026 ·Computerworld
Tesla reportedly missed its goal of making 20,000 Optimus robots per week, producing only “several hundred robots a week” last month after repurposing its Model S and Model X production lines for Optimus earlier this year.
Sep 25, 2026 ·The Verge
The article says upload speed is the key bottleneck for video work calls because FCC-defined broadband is 100Mbps down and 20Mbps up (and those upload speeds can effectively drop to ~8–9Mbps on Wi‑Fi), with 35–50Mbps presented as a better work-from-home minimum and 100Mbps+ for power users like video editors.
Sep 25, 2026 ·
CNET
Keychron’s Thunderbolt 5 Dock supports up to four displays with dual 8K output and delivers 140W upstream power, with 80Gbps Thunderbolt data transfers (120Gbps boost mode) and “no-fail” storage recognition in testing.
Sep 25, 2026 ·Engadget
Apple Watch’s WatchOS 27 adds a dynamic app grid that shows six of your most-used and most-recent apps on the home screen and moves the rest into an additional tap via an app bubble, reducing the need to browse through dozens of unused apps.
Sep 25, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Meta’s Muse now provides a clickable file browser with access to root, and can generate zipped “full filesystem listings” with “secrets stripped out.”
Sep 25, 2026 ·The Verge
Adobe expanded its Claude integration for Creative Cloud by adding 80 text-driven “tools” (up from 50 at launch in April) and introduced a new Google Gemini connector, letting users run actions across apps like Acrobat, Photoshop, Premiere, Express, and Lightroom via prompts.
Sep 25, 2026 ·Computerworld
MacRumors’ leak from Apple code points to a new HomePod mini (Mini 2), an iPad mini 8 with Apple’s A20 Pro chip, and an updated Apple TV 4K (4th-gen) scheduled for an Apple hardware push before year-end.
Sep 25, 2026 ·The Verge
Muse passed 3.4 million downloads after reaching 2.5 million just before Meta’s Meta Connect push, with Sensor Tower estimating daily active users rose 27% on Wednesday after the event wrapped.
Sep 25, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Samsung’s 27-inch ViewFinity S7 4K monitor is discounted $110 to $190 (from $300), just $10 above its record-low price.
Sep 25, 2026 ·CNET
iOS 27 adds Impersonation Risk Detection, which assigns risk levels (Unknown, Medium, or High) when supported apps request a scam check after actions like payments or account security changes, with High indicating significant suspicious activity signs.
Sep 25, 2026 ·Computerworld
Amazon Smart Thermostat is $57 (down from $80), the lowest price of the year at almost 30% off.
Sep 25, 2026 ·CNET
