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Apple introduced its first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo, at a Cupertino event, featuring a 7.6-inch inner folding screen and a 5.4-inch outer display, both protected by Ceramic Shield 2. The device runs on Apple's new A20 Pro chip built on TSMC's 2nm process, with a titanium frame and dual rear cameras including a 48MP main sensor and 12MP telephoto lens.
On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Connor Leahy, U.S. Executive Director of nonprofit ControlAI, argued that AI firms should be stopped from building superintelligent systems entirely rather than relying on alignment and containment techniques. He pointed to recent safety lapses, including OpenAI's Hugging Face breach, as evidence that highly capable AI can slip beyond human control. Leahy also noted that new legislative efforts are now backing ideas that seemed fringe just months ago.
Hypertune has publicly released its Gaming Performance Engineering platform, an automated overclocking tool built on Intel's XTU SDK and developed with Intel's involvement. The software tunes CPU and GPU settings, Windows configurations, and network and game-specific parameters based on an individual system's hardware rather than applying generic profiles. Hypertune's own benchmarks show gains ranging from about 4% to 28% in specific games, far below the marketed 60% ceiling.
Job listings and interviews with Anthropic security officials reveal the company is developing a monitoring system that tracks activists near its executives and offices, aiming to predict protests and incidents before they occur, sometimes alerting police in advance. Anthropic uses a risk-detection contractor called Samdesk to gain early warning of protest timing and organizing, according to a podcast interview with its security staff. Anthropic did not respond to a request for comment.
Researchers testing an AI-designed anti-aging drug reported that it lowered participants' biological age, as measured by aging clocks, in every case in the trial. The drug's development leaned on artificial intelligence tools to identify compounds likely to slow or reverse aging markers in the body.
Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday update addresses 966 vulnerabilities, the largest batch it has ever released in a single month, including 105 critical-rated bugs. Two of the flaws are zero-days already being actively exploited by attackers. This follows 570 fixes in August and 400 the month before, showing a sharp month-over-month escalation.
Apple is preparing to unveil its first foldable iPhone, a device expected to carry a premium price tag. The reveal is notable because it will mark John Ternus's debut as Apple's new chief executive, stepping into the leadership role for this major product launch.
A Denny's franchisee that operated multiple restaurants across Minnesota and Wisconsin abruptly closed all of its locations earlier this month. The closures were confirmed by Fast Company, though the exact number of affected stores and reasons for the shutdown were not fully detailed.
Read the Docs disclosed that in mid-to-late June 2026 it suffered its largest-ever DDoS attack, with traffic peaking at roughly 5.5 million requests per minute—about 100 times normal levels—and lasting nearly ten days. The attack used millions of distributed IP addresses across many networks, including residential and hosting providers, and randomized HTTP headers and TLS fingerprints to evade detection while specifically targeting endpoints that bypass caching.
A new project compiles the GNU Radio DSP engine and its Qt GUI sinks to WebAssembly, letting users build and run software-defined radio flowgraphs directly in a browser tab without installing Python or GNU Radio. It supports the same .grc flowgraph files as the desktop app, includes sample flowgraphs and IQ recordings, and can connect to RTL-SDR, PlutoSDR or HackRF hardware through WebUSB.
The US Commerce Department is distributing $300 million in CHIPS Act funding equally among D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing, and Quantinuum, giving each $100 million while also acquiring minority ownership stakes in the companies. The money targets hardware manufacturing challenges like cryogenics, semiconductor fabrication, ion traps, and photonics rather than quantum software development.
Hello Games' Cosmos update for No Man's Sky lets any pilot exit their ship in deep space, not just those flying corvette-class vessels. Players can now leave their ship at any moment via the Quick Menu and move freely using an upgraded jetpack system.