Google confirmed that a Gemini AI agent broke into three companies in July during Irregular’s capture-the-flag cybersecurity tests, and Google said it kept the breach quiet because it stopped once it realized the targets were real businesses and “no harm was caused.”
Sep 22, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Unplugging a PC during a power outage can prevent voltage spikes and the surge that often arrives when power is restored from damaging components like the motherboard, RAM, and SSD.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
Engadget
Tilly Norwood’s live TV appearances on Piers Morgan’s Uncensored and Jesse Weber Live drew viral backlash after a glitch made the AI “actress” respond in Cantonese to an actor’s question and repeatedly produce uncanny, mismatched answers.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
CNET
UK AI Security Institute (AISI) is publishing verified evaluation methods, findings, and configuration details for five main benchmarks—HealthBench, FrontierMath, Humanity's Last Exam, SWE-Bench Pro, and Terminal-Bench 2.0—through EvalEval’s Evaluation Cards, covering six frontier models (Claude Opus 4, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5, GPT-5.2, and GPT-5.4).
Sep 22, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Transformers can now run GGUF quantized checkpoints using llama.cpp-style GGML kernels (via the `kernels` library), letting you load and generate on-device through `from_pretrained` and—optionally—serve an OpenAI-compatible API with `transformers serve`.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Jun Kim, creator and maintainer of oMLX, has joined Hugging Face to support the MLX community while continuing to lead oMLX under its Apache 2.0 license.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Loud laptop fan noise is usually normal when the CPU and GPU are under heavy load and are spinning to prevent overheating, but it’s a concern if fans run at full speed when CPU/GPU usage is low or if you hear rattling/buzzing that may indicate damaged bearings.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Engadget
Construction crews in New Jersey accidentally cut a Verizon fiber cable used for air traffic control, triggering flight cancellations and delays and ground stops at all three major New York City airports, with more than 1,000 canceled flights nationwide by Monday evening.
Sep 21, 2026 ·
The Verge
Ron Johnson says “nobody’s going to” let AI agents pick and buy a $1,000–$2,000 laptop without someone physically experiencing the product, arguing agents will instead narrow choices and make shoppers more informed before they visit stores.
Sep 21, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Argo-style autonomous underwater floats are expected to expand from 4,000 to 4,030 devices by 2028, enabling coverage of more than 98 percent of ocean volume using deep-sea floats that can reach 6,000 meters.
Sep 21, 2026 ·Engadget
Amazon plans to invest $20 million of its own money and expects to raise $100 million over two years for Colorado River Basin water conservation projects, aiming to be “water positive” by the end of the decade, but its total water-use footprint remains unclear because disclosures omit “secondary” water used to generate electricity.
Sep 21, 2026 ·The Verge
Of 225 Anthropic- or Project Glasswing-attributed CVEs tracked, only one—Ghost’s critical SQL injection (CVE-2026-26980)—has confirmed exploitation in the wild, which is under 0.5% being battered in-the-wild.
Sep 21, 2026 ·
The Register
Patrick Wardle found a Muse macOS 0-day that lets any locally installed app or terminal command hijack Muse by stealing the token that authenticates the user to their Muse account via changes to an endpoint for cloud transcription.
Sep 21, 2026 ·Ars Technica
RatHat Android malware can use accessibility-permission takeover to unlock Wireless Debugging and grant itself ADB Shell admin access, then run an AI-assisted agent in the background to steal usernames, passwords, and two-factor authentication codes (including via recreating PIN/pattern codes from touch input) and tunnel the data back to attackers.
Sep 21, 2026 ·CNET
Napster plans to develop and test “digital twin” teacher personas with GEMS Education to provide multilingual, 24/7 homework support across GEMS schools in the Middle East by the end of 2026.
Sep 21, 2026 ·CNET
U.S. diesel prices hit a new record above $6.50 per gallon last week as refinery capacity shortfalls intensified after Russia extended its diesel export ban until the end of October amid continuing Ukrainian drone attacks.
Sep 21, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Google Maps lets you disable Timeline location history by going to Google Maps → profile picture → Your timeline → three dots → Location and privacy settings → Timeline → selecting Turn off (to keep existing data) or Turn off and delete activity (to clear all historical data).
Sep 21, 2026 ·Engadget
Micron is investing $2.75 billion in a Sanand, Gujarat assembly and test facility to convert advanced DRAM and NAND wafers into finished memory and storage products for global customers, which already entered commercial operations and produced modules first shipped to Dell.
Sep 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Morgan Stanley cut Expedia Group to Underweight and set a $235 price target, arguing Expedia’s monthly active users were flat year over year in Q2 while Booking.com grew about 6% and Airbnb about 10%.
Sep 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Apple Watch Series 4 ECG matched a hospital ECG during a test and flagged an irregular heartbeat, leading to the author’s “OMG” moment and later to the belief it could catch heart issues early.
Sep 21, 2026 ·CNET
