Microsoft confirmed a bug causing the Windows Security app to falsely display 'Microsoft Defender Antivirus is turned off' notifications after recent Defender updates, even though protection remains active. The issue, which has quietly affected Windows Insiders since June, now impacts all supported Windows client and server versions, including Windows 11 26H1 and Windows Server 2025. Microsoft says a fix is in development and will roll out in a future Defender update.
BYD's Hong Kong shares dropped nearly 5% after the company reported first-half net profit down 20.5% to 12.3 billion yuan and revenue down 7.1% to 344.8 billion yuan, even as second-quarter profit rose 30% year-over-year. The automaker cited weak domestic demand, intense price competition, and higher costs for commodities and chips squeezing margins, though overseas exports jumped 67.8% to 792,000 vehicles.
A workplace group that previously argued over sandwich definitions turned its attention to salads, eventually concluding through lengthy logical debate that virtually all edible food technically qualifies as a salad. The findings, originally written up internally in May 2017, are now being published publicly in response to other recent food-categorization theories the authors feel misrepresent what a salad actually is.
Grindr, under CEO George Arison since 2022, has grown revenue from $195 million to a guided $540 million-plus this year while keeping adjusted EBITDA margins above 40%, mostly by charging existing users more rather than expanding its user base. The company is now expanding beyond dating into healthcare services and travel features, and plans to launch a pricier 'EDGE' subscription tier later this year that has already drawn criticism online. Arison also argues that institutional investors continue to undervalue Grindr's stock because of stigma tied to being a gay dating app.
Luffu, a health app built for families and caregivers, has introduced a new wearable device created by Fitbit's founders. The device aims to reimagine wearable tech by focusing on caregiving and family health monitoring rather than individual fitness tracking, drawing inspiration from older concepts like Life Alert's emergency pendant.
Several exhibitors at Gamescom in Cologne reported stolen equipment from booths in the show's business zone, including developer Ryan Laley's new Alienware laptop, two laptops from publisher iam8bit, and two laptops plus a Steam Deck from Tessera Studios. The thefts occurred despite the area being restricted to press and industry badge holders, with organizers claiming 24/7 security was in place.
Standards body CGPM will vote in mid-October on ending the leap second, the periodic one-second adjustment used since 1972 to keep atomic clock time aligned with Earth's rotation. The move is being accelerated because the next adjustment could, for the first time, require subtracting rather than adding a second—a scenario computer systems have never had to handle. In its place, officials are proposing a leap hour that would only realign timescales once they drift a full 3,600 seconds apart.
A massive 12TB torrent dubbed the Steam 'teraleak' has surfaced online, containing thousands of game depots from Valve's old Steam2 content distribution system used between 2003 and 2013. The trove includes public release builds as well as previously unseen prototype, pre-release, and playtest versions of games from Valve and third-party publishers. Data miner Gabe Follower says the material was pulled from a publicly accessible API endpoint, suggesting the exposure originated from Valve's own systems rather than a hack.
An unidentified party leaked over 12TB of Valve's internal builds and unreleased assets, spanning games published on Steam between 2003 and 2013. The trove reportedly includes early versions of Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, CS:GO, and material tied to the canceled F-Stop project and the long-rumored Half-Life 2: Episode 3. Researchers say the data appears to have been exposed via a publicly accessible endpoint, which explains why nothing newer than 2013 has surfaced.
An entrepreneur writing for Entrepreneur argues that after years building a company in the gold industry, the strongest competitive edge isn't a new feature, lower price or proprietary technology, but customer trust. That trust, they contend, is earned through everyday operational fairness and transparency rather than marketing.
Caterpillar is extending the autonomous systems expertise it built in mining—covering haul trucks, drilling and remote operations—into construction sites, quarries and internal tools. CTO Jaime Mineart said the company's Cat AI Assistant now lets field technicians use voice commands to retrieve repair procedures and identify parts, drawing on data from roughly 1.6 million connected machines and over 16 petabytes of structured data.
Elon Musk announced on X that SpaceX will begin manufacturing turbine blades and vanes internally to increase production of natural gas turbine generators used to power AI data centers. The move addresses a supply bottleneck as data center operators increasingly rely on portable gas turbines to bypass slow grid connections, with blade casting alone typically taking 60 to 90 weeks per batch. Musk said SpaceX and Tesla are also each targeting 100GW/year of solar capacity, but gas turbines remain necessary to bridge power needs in the near term.
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