Starting with openSUSE Leap 16.1, users can enable an “Immutable Mode” that uses a transactionally updated system with a read-only root filesystem, integrating the same approach as Leap Micro into the desktop distro.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Reddit will further restrict access to Old Reddit to logged-in users who have used it in the last six months, barring new accounts and existing users who haven’t used it within that window.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
Engadget
Reddit says that within the next few months, users will need to be logged in and have used Old Reddit within the prior six months to keep accessing it, except that logged-in moderators won’t have the recent-use requirement.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
The Verge
Amazon’s delivery-driver smart glasses could capture several thousand photos per shift and upload them to its AI Wellspring platform for human review, with no customer opt-out mentioned.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Verge
Asus received a U.S. exemption from the foreign-made consumer router ban through March 2028, but the company wouldn’t confirm whether it submitted an FCC-required, time-bound U.S. manufacturing plan for its routers.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Verge
Meta says Muse’s Messages integration on the Mac is entirely opt-in, requiring users to enable both Full Disk Access and the Messages connector or Muse can’t read message content.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Google’s “AI contribution” pilot is paying publishers small, hard-to-interpret amounts, with publishers saying they can’t reliably track month-to-month performance in Search Console or plan earnings because it’s unclear what counts as a meaningful AI answer contribution.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Google’s DeepMind developed “protein watermarking,” a SynthIDBio-based method that embeds a detectable watermark across AI-designed protein sequences while keeping the proteins functional—so DNA synthesizers can tell whether an unfamiliar protein came from a trusted source.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Apple’s Impersonation Risk Detection (in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27) warns you in supported apps before certain sensitive actions that could be part of a social-engineering scam, using three risk levels: Unknown, Medium, and High.
Sep 30, 2026 ·ZDNet
A new PS5 exploit is now firmware-compatible with essentially all consoles except the most recently updated versions, greatly expanding the availability of exploitable hardware.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Liverpool Crown Court ordered former NCA officer Paul Chowles to repay £1,810,678.93 after stealing 50 of 97 Bitcoin recovered from Silk Road 2.0 administrator Thomas White.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
The Register
Observers say trading-volume patterns on Polymarket’s unregulated international exchange and Kalshi’s ether perpetuals contract raise concerns about inflated volumes or possible wash trading, which both firms deny.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
CNBC
WhatsApp is adding PIN-gated parental controls for teen accounts, letting guardians limit Status visibility, who can add teens to groups, and receive notifications when teens join/leave groups or group sizes reach 30, 100, or 250 members.
Sep 30, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Apple released an emergency iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 patch to fix CVE-2026-86950, a CoreGraphics “out-of-bounds write” zero-click flaw that could enable arbitrary code execution just by processing a maliciously crafted file.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
Computerworld
iFixit’s repairability testing gave the AirPods 5 a score of 2 out of 10 (up from 0 out of 10 for prior AirPods generations).
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
A caller using Microsoft FrontPage to build a Van Halen fan site became increasingly drunk during a support call and demanded to “talk to Gates.”
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
Cloudflare plans to begin issuing quantum-safe TLS certificates in Q1 2027 using Merkle Tree Certificates that replace quantum-vulnerable signature chains with compact Merkle Tree proofs and reduce handshake data to about 40 kilobytes.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
57% of UK businesses (about 808,000) reported a basic cybersecurity skills gap in at least one of nine tasks, up from 49% (about 699,000) last year.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
British Transport Police’s six-month live facial recognition pilot scanned more than 500,000 commuters at London rail stations, generated one alert, and that alert was a false positive.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
Researchers revived Spectre v2 via Branch Target Reuse (BTR), showing an in-place JIT compiler attack that can reuse stale indirect branch prediction entries after code cache repopulation, enabling a speculative execute-after-free primitive on many speculative-execution CPUs.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
