Microsoft has begun rolling out a permanent fix for a bug that crashed Windows 11 systems and broke games like ARC Raiders, MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls, and The Finals. The root cause was traced to the inpoutx64.sys driver, often bundled with RGB lighting peripherals, rather than the August 2026 update initially suspected. The update, which started propagating on August 26, 2026, automatically blocks the faulty driver and requires a restart to take effect.
BleepingComputer is partnering with Material Security to run a live webinar on September 23, 2026, dissecting real, publicly documented Google Workspace breaches at fast-growing companies. Speakers Rajan Kapoor of Material Security and Rick Fitzgerald of Fireside Consulting will walk through how attackers typically gain entry and what response steps matter most in the early hours of an incident.
Ubisoft launched the original 1999 Heroes of Might and Magic III on Steam this week, but buyers found the install contained only about 23KB of data, including a placeholder executable, instead of the roughly 1GB game. Players flooded the reviews with jokes about the error before Ubisoft fixed the listing and uploaded the correct files the next day.
Google is broadening the rollout of its 'find in note' feature in Keep, which lets users search within a single note or list for specific text, similar to Ctrl+F. The feature had appeared in a limited release earlier this month but is now showing up more widely across devices, though not universally yet.
New real-world images shared on Weibo reveal the unreleased Xiaomi 18 Fold in a dark red color, showing its triple-rear-camera module for the first time after earlier leaks kept the cameras hidden. The design closely resembles Huawei's Pura X Max, and the device is expected to debut with Xiaomi's new in-house XRing O3 chipset sometime in September.
According to a report from The Information, Nvidia has reached a deal to purchase Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI collaboration platform, for $12.9 billion. The talks reportedly began after another suitor expressed acquisition interest in Hugging Face, and Business Insider had separately reported the startup was working with a bank to gauge buyer interest. Neither Nvidia nor Hugging Face has confirmed the deal, and CNBC said it could not independently verify the report.
European stock indexes opened with a mixed performance, showing no unified direction across the region. However, artificial intelligence-related stocks stood out with notable gains, buoyed by Nvidia's latest earnings report.
Xiaomi has launched the Redmi Note 17 Pro Max with a 9,210mAh dual-cell silicon-carbon battery in Europe, and a 10,000mAh single-cell version in some other markets. The company claims up to three days of typical use or 37 hours of continuous video playback, alongside 100W wired charging that can fully charge the device in just over an hour.
Google announced that starting February 2027, Android apps and games on the Play Store must comply with new per-app memory limits based on a device's total RAM, with games given more lenient thresholds than apps. Titles that fail to meet these caps risk reduced visibility in the Play Store or being blocked from publication altogether. The rules build on per-app memory limits first tested on Pixel phones under Android 17, now expanding device-wide.
Ring is rolling out a new default encryption system called TAKE (Throw Away the Key Encryption) across its video doorbell and camera lineup worldwide. Footage is encrypted with keys that rotate every five minutes, and Ring can only temporarily access those keys via an isolated AWS Nitro Enclave to power features like Smart Alerts before permanently deleting its copies within 24 hours. Users can still opt for full end-to-end encryption instead, though that disables cloud-based processing features.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, based in Hangzhou, is said to be raising fresh capital that would value the company at roughly $74 billion. The funds are intended to support research and development along with an expansion of its computing infrastructure.
CISA has added CVE-2026-8452, a memory overflow bug in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, requiring federal civilian agencies to patch by August 29. Originally described by Citrix as only enabling denial-of-service, researchers at watchTowr later demonstrated it can be exploited for root-level remote code execution, and reports indicate attackers are already deploying web shells on unpatched systems.
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