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New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has made criticism of corporate pricing algorithms a central theme of his political messaging, casting automated pricing practices as exploitative. Politicians from across the political spectrum are reportedly watching closely how this approach plays out given New York's role as a global financial hub.
Raymond Chen recounts that Windows 7 added a right-click context menu to the classic vertical scroll bar, including a 'Scroll Here' option letting users jump directly to a clicked position instead of dragging the thumb. A lesser-known companion shortcut, holding Shift while clicking the scroll bar, does the same thing. He notes that most modern app frameworks have replaced native Win32 scroll bars with custom ones that only partially preserve these features: Chromium-based apps support Shift+click but not the context menu, WPF supports both, and WinUI supports neither.
Group-IB researchers identified a new Android malware-as-a-service platform called RemControl, active since May and first sampled in July, that uses over 30 phishing overlays to steal banking credentials. The malware spreads via malvertising campaigns impersonating the TVTap IPTV app, using fake Google Play pages and Meta Pixel tracking, and targets users in Italy, France, Spain, Poland, Portugal, Canada, and parts of the Middle East.
Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital used CRISPR-Cas9 screening in mouse T cell models to identify ZMYND8 as a regulator of T cell exhaustion. Removing ZMYND8 boosted IL-2 signalling in antigen-specific CD8+ T cells, including those engineered with CAR constructs, helping the cells retain function against tumours in mouse models.
Piper Sandler lowered its price target on Cisco Systems to $125 from $132, citing a lower price-to-earnings multiple assumption amid worries that networking-industry growth is peaking. Cisco shares fell about 5% on the news. The stock had hit a record high in June and remains up roughly 56% over the past year, helped by revenue growth tied to AI demand, including a fourth-quarter earnings beat last month with $17.25 billion in revenue versus a $16.8 billion estimate.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that digital advertising has evolved from broad demographic targeting into precise behavioral prediction, where companies link data across devices and platforms into 'identity graphs' that can anticipate emotional responses. The piece warns that anonymized data no longer offers real privacy protection because behavior itself can reveal identity, meaning any business using modern ad platforms is effectively engaging in behavioral influence.
Dyson launched its CameraJet toothbrush, a $499 device combining a camera-guided water flosser with brushing, at a Paris event in early September, then began selling it in US stores on September 8. Within a day, customers reported water leaking into the device's battery compartment, and the product has since become unavailable for purchase, with Dyson declining to explain why.
A marketing analysis outlines four recurring reasons target buyers ignore campaigns even when they see the right messaging: audiences defined too broadly, content that describes products rather than buyer problems, insufficient buyer confidence to act, and marketing that answers questions nobody is actually asking. The piece recommends conducting five to ten interviews with people across different relationships to the company to spot which of these patterns applies before making changes.
A Bloomberg report citing Pentagon investigators found that the February 28 double-tap strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school, which killed over 150 people including at least 123 children, resulted from outdated intelligence compounded by heavy reliance on an AI targeting system. Investigators described the tragedy as a cascade of small errors rather than a single mistake, involving technology similar to systems used to fast-track thousands of strikes earlier in the war.
China's Institute of Microelectronics (IMECAS) says it has completed early process integration for stacked-nanosheet gate-all-around transistors built entirely with immersion DUV lithography, avoiding EUV tools that Chinese fabs cannot access. The devices reportedly achieved Ion/Ioff ratios above the 5×10⁵ threshold needed to prove effective gate control over the nanosheet stack. However, IMECAS has not released key figures like gate pitch, transistor density, or nanosheet dimensions needed to compare it to actual 3nm-class chips from TSMC or Samsung.
BonBon, a New York-based Swedish candy company known for its cult following, is expanding into major retail with launches at Target and FAO Schwarz. The brand's creative director says maintaining tight, hand-driven design control is central to preserving its Swedish candy identity as it scales into big-box retail.
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.