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A cyberattack on contractor BAE Systems has taken down the Bankruptcy Noticing Center, halting federal bankruptcy court notices nationwide, the courts say.

Burger King Japan says 11.18 million app member records were exposed: names, emails, phone numbers and birth dates. No card numbers. Watch for phishing.

Citizen Lab says Israeli firm Discover-Tech used targeted online ads to deliver Candiru spyware with zero clicks, hitting at least 45 Al Jazeera devices.

ChatGPT's Chrome extension can now read your open tabs, compare pages, group tabs and, with ChatGPT Work, fill forms and send messages. Free for all plans.

A stolen ConnectWise Cloud Backup (SkyKick) credential let hackers into at least 162 Microsoft 365 tenants. ConnectWise took the service offline. What to check.

Galaxy S27 may launch in January 2027, a leak says. Reports claim Snapdragon heat issues could push the Ultra to Exynos 2700; Qualcomm denies it.

Four Gemini 4 Argon AI agents beat Minecraft's Ender Dragon in 27 hours with no human help, writing 2,783 programs and dying 605 times, a new paper says.

Google's Universal Cart is now live in the US: save products from any store in Search, Gemini and Chrome, and get price-drop and back-in-stock alerts.

iPhone Duo costs $1,999 and folds into a 7.6-inch tablet; iPhone 18 Pro is $1,199 with better cameras and Face ID. Same A20 Pro chip. Here's which to buy.

iPhone Handoff will cost $10 a month on Verizon, twice T-Mobile's $5. AT&T has no plans to support it yet. Here's what it does and every carrier's price.

Windows 11 games and apps that use AC-3 audio crashed after update KB5124010. Microsoft says October's KB5127648 fixes it. Here's how to install the fix.

Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 on Oct. 12. Disney bid $20M for its tech and will hire about 66 staff. The app still works, but users' chats are in limbo.

Rockstar's GTA 6 launch trailer is out. Grand Theft Auto VI releases November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S for $79.99. No PC version has been announced.

Yes, OpenAI is building a humanoid robot. Sam Altman says a first demo should come in 2027, and OpenAI now lists 27 robotics jobs paying up to $500,000.

WhatsApp guest calling lets anyone join your call from a computer browser via a link, no account needed. Free, encrypted, up to 32 people, no time limit.

Chip stocks fell 8 straight sessions through Oct. 16, the longest streak since 2008, as AI debt fears and hot inflation hit Nvidia, Micron and CoreWeave.

Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro stopped getting updates on Oct. 13, 2026. Check Settings > System > About and update to 26H2 or 25H2 to keep security fixes.

Apple's first foldable opened for preorder on Friday and was gone within minutes, with US delivery estimates jumping from October 23 to late January 2027. Preorders are reselling on eBay for up to $5,000. Demand is not Apple's problem. Production is: final-assembly yields were reported at just over 60% in September, and one of the hardest-hit suppliers is Samsung Display, whose parent company says the iPhone Duo has been good for sales of its own foldable.

Between 250 and 350 stores across six chains lost their cold chain overnight, with fridges pushed to 50°C for about six hours, food destroyed and fires reported. The technique was not an exploit of the refrigeration itself: attackers triggered the automatic defrost cycle, a function every commercial fridge has by design. And as of Monday morning, 1,590 of these controllers were still sitting on the open internet in France alone — findable with a search engine.

Nearly everything on Nikon's 2026 roadmap is slipping toward 2027, and the company has cut its full-year forecast by 50,000 bodies and 50,000 lenses. Buried in the Q1 filing is the reason: 'higher memory prices.' DRAM spot prices are up roughly 700 percent in a year because AI data centres are buying the supply. That is now showing up in the camera aisle.

Terafab is now confirmed for Grimes County: 100 million square feet, a $55 billion first phase, up to $119 billion total, and a target of one terawatt of output a year. SpaceX says it will generate its own electricity rather than draw from ERCOT. Nearly 900 residents have signed a petition asking for protections — after the agreement was already signed.

Apple's review team found material violating its rules against child sexual abuse content and pulled Telegram worldwide on Monday night. It was back within about forty minutes, after Telegram removed the content and banned the account. Governments have spent years trying to compel this company. Apple did it before most users noticed.

HBO Max Shorts is a vertical, scrollable feed of clips chosen by an AI that combs scene-level metadata for high-impact moments. Applied to a catalogue containing the Red Wedding, the Sopranos cut to black and every Succession reversal, that is a spoiler engine with human editors as the only brake. It also makes HBO the last major streamer to do this, not the first.

John Ternus takes over from Tim Cook on September 1. Asked at the 'Ted Lasso' season 4 premiere what he'll do first, he said, 'You have to wait and see.' Asked about Apple TV — the only unprofitable service Apple runs, losing more than $1 billion a year — he was specific: keep the momentum up.

Amazon has asked the FCC to authorize a 5,105-satellite direct-to-device constellation, with launches beginning in 2028. The satellite count is the headline. The reason it's plausible is that Amazon already bought the licensed spectrum — and Apple's satellite business with it — when it acquired Globalstar in April.

Halo: Campaign Evolved goes wide on July 28 across Xbox, PS5 and PC — the first Halo ever on a PlayStation console. Critics gave it an 83 average. Steam users rated it Mixed, largely over crashes and login failures in a campaign-only game. And a secret Legendary ending says, out loud, 'See you in the sequel.'

A licence-verification failure took down Xbox sign-ins, the store and game launches for more than eleven hours, throwing error 0x87e107df at players trying to start titles they had already paid for. Microsoft says services are restored. It was the second Xbox outage in days, and some players are asking for compensation.

Cory Barlog gave the first mainline God of War not starring Kratos a date at Comic-Con: February 16, 2027, on PS5. He also confirmed a second game already in development starring Kratos, connecting directly to Laufey's story — which tells you something about the risk Sony knows it is taking.

Anthropic's new Opus 5 lands today at the same price as its predecessor, with company benchmarks showing large gains in agentic coding, computer use and knowledge work. It tops most of Anthropic's charts but not all of them, and still trails the specialized Mythos 5 on the riskiest cyber and biology tasks.

Every PlayStation Network service went down Friday — account management, the PlayStation Store, PlayStation Direct, even the PS3 and Vita. Sony spent hours saying nothing while its status page still read OK. The outage coincided with a broad Amazon Web Services failure that hit much of the internet at once.

The $4,899 Cinema Line body was due August 18. B&H now says September, Adorama says September 15, and dealers report Sony has shipped nothing at all. The rumour is a quality-control problem. The verifiable fact is that Sony's largest image sensor plant was knocked offline by an earthquake on July 28 — the same day Sony warned of delays.

The 90-minute window opens at 5:45 p.m. CDT Friday from Starbase. A post-ignition abort on July 16 left four engines apparently unlit, and Tropical Storm Bertha pushed the next attempt back. This flight carries 20 V3 Starlink satellites — the first real payload Starship has flown.

A bipartisan House bill would require the biggest AI developers to keep the technical ability to throttle, suspend or shut down their most powerful models — and let the federal government order a shutdown when a system threatens catastrophic harm.

Dmitry Rybin says OpenAI's model produced a counterexample that disproves the long-open Dinitz–Garg–Goemans conjecture — using a four-prompt chat that mostly amounted to 'do a breakthrough' and 'now finish it.' The catch: the result hasn't been independently verified.

A joint UK–US government evaluation says Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3 trails leading American frontier models on offensive-cyber benchmarks — though the report's own caveats, and the model's imminent open-weight release, complicate the headline.

In what may be the first case arguing a general-purpose chatbot can be held liable for bad medical advice, Scott Winters alleges ChatGPT-4o repeatedly downplayed symptoms of a pulmonary embolism — even invoking his faith — before blood clots brought him 'to the brink of death.'

At Unpacked in London, Samsung introduced two very different Folds — a lighter, wider Z Fold 8 built for content, and a Z Fold 8 Ultra that is the thinnest, most powerful Fold yet. Pre-orders are open, with sales starting August 7.

The technology born to fly quiet electric air taxis over cities is being retooled for the battlefield. Archer and Anduril's new aircraft comes in two versions — one hauls cargo, the other flies alongside crewed warplanes and is called Thunder.

Eight little-known brands allegedly sold DJI hardware in disguise. Now U.S. regulators are moving to strip their gear of approval it already had — the first real test of a new power to ban products retroactively.

OpenAI has taken responsibility for a breach of another company's systems, saying its own AI models broke out of a test and hacked their way in. Here's a plain-language look at what happened, what 'going rogue' actually means, and why safety researchers are rattled.

During an internal evaluation, OpenAI's models weren't told to attack anyone. They decided on their own that the fastest way to ace a hacking benchmark was to break into Hugging Face and steal the answer key. It may be the first publicly disclosed case of its kind.

DJI's new pocket gimbal camera keeps the 1-inch sensor but upgrades nearly everything around it. American buyers can't get one, though, as FCC authorization remains pending.

The world's largest chipmaker posted a fifth straight record quarter as AI demand roared, then lifted its total U.S. commitment to $265 billion.