GoKawiil
Tech News
New research challenges the long-held assumption that hyenas scavenge off lion kills by choice. Instead, evidence shows hyenas actively steer clear of lions, whose aggression toward them is a major threat rather than a beneficial arrangement.
A researcher using the alias Nightmare Eclipse publicly released details of a new zero-day exploit dubbed 'ShieldCrash' targeting Microsoft Defender, timed to appear right after Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday updates. The exploit reportedly allows attackers to gain SYSTEM-level access on affected Windows machines, the highest level of privilege on the system.
Star Trek celebrates six decades since its original series premiered in 1966, having since expanded into more than 25 series and films spanning multiple generations of fans. Media outlets are marking the occasion with retrospectives on the franchise's cultural influence, from its many captains to its shared lexicon of stardates, warp factors and Vulcan salutes.
NYU's Buckmaster and his collaborator Alpöge published a proof that a simplified version of the Navier-Stokes equations can break down, after nearly a year of work using public AI models. Hours later, OpenAI released its own proof covering the full equations using an unreleased internal model, but Buckmaster alleges OpenAI tried to pressure him into excluding his co-author, who works at Anthropic, and dodged questions about whether their models were trained on his private work transcripts.
Google released security updates fixing 230 vulnerabilities, including a Chrome zero-day flaw that attackers are already exploiting in the wild. This marks the seventh Chrome zero-day patched by Google since the beginning of the year.
Ahead of Apple's expected launch event, new reports detail final specifications for the rumored foldable iPhone Ultra. Bloomberg says Apple raised its target starting price from $1,999 to about $2,199 due to component costs, with top storage models potentially nearing $3,000, while leaks point to Touch ID instead of Face ID, MagSafe support, and a reduced but still visible hinge crease. The device is also expected to launch later in China than elsewhere because of its eSIM-only design.
A multiyear Harvard study led by psychologist Matthew K. Nock tracked over 600 high-risk adults and adolescents and successfully predicted 75 percent of suicide attempts and 87 percent of suicide-related events in the seven days before they happened. The findings, set to publish in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, mark a sharp improvement over traditional models that forecast risk months or years out rather than days.
A UI engineer who worked at Apple's online store from 2004-2006 shared how he redesigned the 'Personalize your iPod' page to replace a plain form with a rotatable iPod graphic, a live engraving preview, and a shipping-time highlight. The rotation used cycling JPEGs via JavaScript, ImageMagick generated the engraved text overlay, and CSS class swaps produced a yellow-fade effect to flag shipping changes. He notes a working demo of the old feature still exists.
A commentary contrasts how employees at OpenAI and Anthropic reconcile building powerful AI with warnings about its dangers. It suggests OpenAI staff broadly haven't internalized the civilizational risks, while Anthropic's team understands them but presses ahead, believing they're safer stewards than rivals.
Apple TV has released the opening two episodes of 'Last Seen,' a six-part Australian thriller adapted from Ryan David Jahn's novel The Dispatcher, starring Patrick Brammall. Remaining episodes will roll out weekly through October 7, joining Apple TV's broader fall slate that includes Slow Horses season six and Brothers with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple's long-rumored foldable phone will be called the iPhone Duo rather than the previously rumored iPhone Ultra. The device is said to start at $2,000 for 256GB storage and reach about $3,000 for 2TB, shipping as early as October in white and dark blue.
A developer released gpu-lexer, a 27.5KB JavaScript package that uses a small WebGPU-run neural model to perform syntax highlighting without relying on language-specific grammars. It tokenizes code into words, whitespace and symbols, then predicts each token's category—such as keyword, string or function—based on surrounding context, aiming to work even on languages it has never seen before.