Dave Plummer, who originally wrote Windows Task Manager, has released TMOG, a system and process monitoring tool for macOS, Linux and Windows. He built it in under six weeks with two collaborators using Claude Code to accelerate development, and it's sold outside the App Store due to Apple's sandboxing restrictions on process management. A free version is available indefinitely, while a $39.95 Pro tier adds a record-and-replay feature called Flight Recorder for diagnosing past slowdowns.
Apple has stopped authorizing installs of iOS 26.6.2, meaning iPhone users who already updated to iOS 27 can no longer officially revert to iOS 26. The move closes off the last signed pathway back to iOS 26, even though Apple released iOS 26.7 last week without offering a restore image for iPhones.
Forcepoint published research showing how AI applications lacking limits on compute and resource usage can rack up massive, unbudgeted bills, a vulnerability now ranked sixth on OWASP's 2026 Top 10 for LLM Applications. Researcher Jyotika Singh outlined five scenarios, including leaked API credentials being used to flood pay-per-use AI services with requests, driving costs far past expected budgets.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that after years of brands chasing attention through content, emails and notifications, consumers are now seeking analog experiences like dinner parties, run clubs, and phone-free events. The piece suggests marketers should reframe their goal from maximizing time spent with a brand to helping people use their time more meaningfully.
Comfy Desktop is a desktop application that manages and launches ComfyUI, the node-based engine used to run generative AI models like Qwen, Stable Diffusion, SDXL, Flux and Wan locally. It automates installation of Python environments, GPU dependencies and updates, letting users run multiple isolated ComfyUI setups side by side with snapshot and rollback support across Windows, macOS and Linux.
A clip of Vladimir Putin casting his ballot in Russia's State Duma elections shows him using a US-made Dell monitor and a Windows PC displaying the 'Activate Windows' watermark, indicating the copy hadn't been activated. The moment stood out given Russia's long push to replace Western tech with domestic alternatives like Astra Linux, which dominates the country's homegrown OS market.
Google has introduced AX, an open declarative control plane designed specifically to run AI agents rather than traditional microservices or batch jobs. Developed from agentic runtime research at Google DeepMind combined with Google's experience in large-scale isolation and scheduling, AX abstracts tasks, workspaces, network policies, and models into reusable primitives, and builds on the existing Agent Substrate project.
Google has unveiled AX, a declarative orchestration system designed specifically for agentic AI workloads rather than conventional stateless or batch computing. The project grew out of agentic runtime research from Google DeepMind combined with Google's experience in isolation, resumption, and scheduling at scale, and builds on the existing Agent Substrate framework. AX treats tasks, workspaces, network policies, and models as core primitives so developers can operate large fleets of AI agents without building custom infrastructure.
Engineers at Delft University of Technology built a lightweight whisker sensor system that lets tiny drones under 100 grams navigate by physical contact rather than cameras or LiDAR. Two whiskers mounted at the front connect to miniature pressure sensors that detect surface contact, letting the drone estimate depth, avoid obstacles, and map its surroundings using just 34KB of software.
Swedish startup Scaleout Systems showed off an autonomous loitering munition, built on a BAE Systems Bofors airframe, that used onboard AI running on an Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to detect, rank and strike an armored vehicle without human guidance mid-mission. The demo, part of NATO's DIANA-backed ALMA and FEDAIR programs, completed the full flight in under 320 seconds using no external communications, relying instead on locally trained computer-vision models shared via a 'Tactical Computer Vision Network.' A human pilot remained available as a failsafe but was not required once the mission began.
Checkmarx researchers uncovered a malicious npm package called 'indexed-btree,' which mimics the legitimate 'sorted-btree' library and has racked up 2 million weekly downloads. Rather than embedding malicious code in install scripts—now restricted by npm's June 2026 security measures—the attackers hid a malware loader inside the package's commonly used BTree.prototype.set() method, which activates only when called with a specific key. Once triggered, the malware gathers system data such as hostname, CPU, memory, and uptime, and sends it to attackers who reportedly control a wallet holding 109 ETH, though its link to this campaign is unconfirmed.
Microsoft used AI agents to convert the Copilot runtime's 430,000 lines of TypeScript into 800,000 lines of Rust, a project that took about 14.5 weeks, over 135 releases, roughly $120,000 in AI token costs, and three weeks of human developer oversight to fix dozens of regressions. The Rust version now powers Copilot across VS Code, Visual Studio, the CLI, SDK, and Office apps like Excel and Outlook.
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