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DJI has released the Osmo 360 II, an update to its 360-degree action camera that fixes a key complaint about the original by adding durable, replaceable lenses costing €39 ($45) per pair. The new model also raises dynamic range to 14.5 stops, bumps frame rates to 60fps at 8K and 120fps at 4K, and introduces an AI SuperNight 2.0 low-light algorithm to reduce noise and motion blur.
Microsoft has identified a malware campaign named TerminalFix that mimics Cloudflare and other trusted verification pages to trick Windows users into pasting commands into PowerShell or Command Prompt. Unlike earlier ClickFix attacks that used the Run dialog for simpler commands, TerminalFix's terminal-based approach lets attackers run longer, multi-stage scripts that establish persistent proxy access into a victim's machine and network.
Belkin unveiled a new lineup of power banks at IFA 2026, including the 22,000mAh UltraCharge 22K and 11,000mAh UltraCharge 11K, both featuring digital displays and retractable cables. The company also introduced semi-solid-state battery models, the credit-card-sized UltraCharge Pro Slim Magnetic Power Bank and the higher-capacity UltraCharge Pro Power Bank 10K, alongside a new SureFind line of tracking devices.
Venture capital firms are increasingly directing funding toward businesses built around physical, real-world experiences—such as sports, gambling and travel—rather than digital or software-based startups. The strategy reflects investor concern that AI's rapid advancement could quickly disrupt or devalue many traditional tech business models.
Palo Alto Networks acquired Console, a two-year-old startup using AI agents to automate IT help desk tasks, for roughly $500 million in cash and stock, according to people familiar with the deal. The company had only raised $29 million and was last valued at $157 million, meaning investors—including Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, an early angel backer—saw a swift and substantial return. Neither company disclosed financial terms publicly.
Yum Brands has finalized the sale of Pizza Hut to private equity firm LongRange Capital, closing a deal first announced in June. The transaction comes after the chain closed hundreds of restaurant locations over the past year amid ongoing struggles in the pizza segment.
Google has agreed to purchase nearly 400 megawatts of electricity from Fervo Energy's Cape Station geothermal plant in Utah, set to come online in 2028, with an option to buy 600 megawatts more through 2030. The power will support a new Google data center as the company seeks additional electricity sources to meet rising AI computing demands.
A new United Nations Environment Programme report concludes that Earth will soon surpass the 1.5 Celsius warming threshold set by the 2015 Paris agreement, largely due to continued fossil fuel emissions. Rather than treating this as unavoidable defeat, UN officials and scientists propose a strategy to temporarily exceed the limit before working to bring temperatures back down through ending fossil fuel use and deploying carbon removal technology.
A technical blog post walks through building a custom attention kernel for Nvidia's Blackwell B200 GPU entirely from scratch, using CUDA and some PTX code. Through a 14-step progression of optimizations illustrated with 60 diagrams, the kernel reaches 94.4% of FlashAttention-4's performance on 4K, 8K, and 16K sequence shapes, and is demonstrated by plugging it into a video-generation model.
Judge Leonie Brinkema denied the Justice Department's request to force Google to divest parts of its advertising technology operations, opting instead for behavioral remedies to restore competition. The specific measures, which could include limits on self-preferencing in ad auctions and expanded data access for rival ad tech tools, remain confidential until parties finalize redactions and revisions. Google may still appeal the underlying ruling that found it illegally monopolized the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets.
Michael Wisler, who became M&T Bank's chief information officer in 2018 after years at Capital One, has shifted the 170-year-old Buffalo-based bank away from outside tech contractors toward an in-house engineering team. The move aims to speed up how quickly the bank can adapt its systems to new technology and customer demands while building more resilient infrastructure.
OpenAI announced that its forthcoming Astra AI model is the first to cross the company's 'Critical' cybersecurity capability threshold, meaning it can discover unknown vulnerabilities and exploit them autonomously without human step-by-step direction. The company says Astra will still launch soon, but access to its most sensitive cybersecurity abilities will be restricted, with further safety details to come in a system card at release.