Visa has open-sourced the Vulnerability Agentic Harness, an 11-stage AI pipeline that detects security flaws, writes fixes, and adversarially tests its own patches in production code, with autonomous patching enabled by default unless an operator restricts it to detection only. The release comes alongside an expanded Visa Consulting & Analytics advisory practice and follows Visa's earlier work with Anthropic's Claude models under Project Glasswing.
A new game review examines Star Wars: Zero Company, a turn-based tactics title that borrows heavily from the XCOM formula. The review concludes that the strategic, squad-based combat style translates well into the Star Wars universe, offering fans a fresh way to engage with familiar lore.
ZDNET's review of the Google Pixel 11 finds the base model to be the standout among this year's four Pixel phones, despite few hardware changes beyond a new Hibiscus pink color option. The device retains a 6.3-inch AMOLED display and symmetrical design, but Google has slimmed the rear camera bar to nearly half its previous size, making the phone easier to use with a case and comfortable to hold without one.
GoPro's new Mission 1 Pro ILS shares the same 8K/60 video, 1-inch sensor, open-gate recording and 960fps burst mode as the standard Mission 1 Pro, but swaps the fixed lens for a mount compatible with over 300 Micro Four Thirds lenses. The camera keeps the same battery and rear display, though attaching a lens adds bulk and weight depending on which optic is used.
MIT Technology Review has published its annual Kids issue, exploring how children are experiencing and adapting to a world saturated with AI and technology, including topics like AI companionship, monitoring apps, and schools' use of AI. Separately, in an interview featured in the same roundup, Bill Gates told MIT Technology Review's Mat Honan that he believes society has already crossed certain safety thresholds with artificial intelligence, expressing concern about risks ranging from economic disruption to loss of control over AI systems.
ZDNET released its updated roundup of top reading tablets for 2026, based on hands-on testing, research and comparison shopping across vendor listings, retailer data and customer reviews. The guide explains its methodology, noting that while affiliate commissions from purchases support the site, they do not influence which products are recommended or their pricing.
AI-driven search tools such as Google's AI Overviews and conversational assistants like ChatGPT are increasingly pulling data from customer reviews to decide which businesses to recommend. This means the volume, recency and quality of a business's reviews are being read and weighted by algorithms, not just prospective customers. A thin or neglected review profile can make a business effectively invisible to these AI systems.
WIRED's 2026 review of Green Chef highlights dishes like lemon-oregano shrimp with schug and feta, and a spiced steelhead with gremolata and couscous, praising their complex, layered flavors despite quick prep times. The reviewer notes strong protein sourcing, including U.S.-fished shrimp, wild-caught salmon, and Norwegian steelhead, all clearly labeled by origin.
ZDNET published a guide showing how an unused computer monitor can be converted into a functional television, typically by adding an external streaming device or tuner and speakers since most monitors lack built-in audio and tuning hardware. The guide is part of ZDNET's product recommendation coverage, which discloses that the outlet may earn affiliate commissions from linked retailer purchases.
Maiao, a command-line tool that recreates Gerrit's stacked-commit review workflow on modern git hosts, has been picked up by community maintainers under runetes/maiao after Adevinta's original team stopped maintaining it. The tool's 'git review' command turns each commit in a branch into its own linked pull or merge request, automatically managing parent-child dependencies and rebasing the stack as changes get merged. It now supports GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Forgejo/Codeberg, Bitbucket Cloud, and the beta Cursor Origin platform, auto-detecting the provider from the repository's remote URL.
The Pixel 11 Pro Fold ships in just two colors and retains Google's asymmetrical hinge design, resulting in a noticeable crease and uneven thickness when unfolded. It features two bright OLED displays capable of 3,600 nits and 120Hz refresh rates, runs on the new Tensor G6 chip with up to 1TB storage, and adds a minor color-LED notification feature called HiLight.
The Pebble Time 2 requires initial setup time to pick a watch face from thousands available, drawing on Pebble's legacy library, but proves easy to use afterward thanks to its tall display suited for scrolling menus and reading text. It includes basic health tracking—steps, sleep, and heart rate via a PPG sensor—presented through simple graphs rather than computed scores. The device runs on PebbleOS, now fully open-source after Google released it and the Rebble community maintained it following Fitbit's earlier abandonment of the platform.