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Nintendo will host a Legend of Zelda-themed Direct on September 8th at 10AM ET, running roughly 30 minutes as part of festivities marking the franchise's 40th anniversary. The company says it will share a range of updates but hasn't detailed specifics beyond that.
Belgian federal prosecutors arrested a 52-year-old Beijing-born Belgian resident, identified as H.L., on May 10 at a Brussels airport as he attempted to board a China-bound flight. He is accused of transferring gallium nitride semiconductor trade secrets from BelGaN, where he worked, to GanKool, a Chinese firm developing identical chip technology and founded shortly after he joined BelGaN. He now faces charges including industrial espionage and unlawful disclosure of business secrets.
Ecologist Mira Grönroos of the Finnish Environment Institute had participants rub their hands with soil, peat and moss for 20 seconds. Even after washing with tap water, their skin showed a marked increase in the number and variety of microbes, despite looking visibly clean.
A retrospective catalogs obsolete HTML snippets that were never part of the official specification but emerged from browser wars, vendor extensions, and third-party integrations. Examples include the X-UA-Compatible meta tag used to force Internet Explorer into specific rendering modes, and the chrome=1 directive tied to Google's now-defunct Chrome Frame plugin that let IE 6-9 users render pages using Chrome's engine.
According to Digitimes, Intel is preparing to raise prices on its PC processors by about 10 percent starting in October, following earlier increases this year. The outlet also reports Intel may cut 5 to 10 percent of its workforce while still hiring in some areas, and could phase out its Small Core line, which mainly affects industrial and IoT devices rather than consumer PCs.
Adobe issued an emergency hotfix for a maximum-severity flaw in Magento and Adobe Commerce that attackers have exploited since at least September 4 to install a hidden backdoor. Security firm Sansec found the malware disguised its command server as an NTP time server, though compromised sites still leaked telltale fake 'Payment Transaction Failed' emails. Adobe's fix, labeled VULN-39341, covers Adobe Commerce, Commerce B2B, and Magento Open Source across multiple version branches.
Android Authority argues that Samsung's new Galaxy S26 FE, now priced at $700 after a $50 increase, faces stiff competition despite carrying flagship-level performance with some cost-cutting on materials. The outlet points to alternatives including the Google Pixel 11, Pixel 10a, Samsung's own Galaxy S26, the Motorola Edge (2026), and the Nothing Phone 4a Pro as options worth weighing first. A reader poll cited in the piece shows the Galaxy S26 and Motorola Edge drawing the most votes as preferred alternatives.
Enterprise software firms including Salesforce and Workday reported resilient financial performance even as investors sold off their shares over fears that AI would erode their business models. The disconnect suggests markets are pricing in disruption faster than it is actually materializing in company earnings.
A new Emacs package, maak.el, lets developers discover, inspect and run Maak tasks directly from the editor's minibuffer. Maak is a build and automation tool that replaces traditional Makefiles with GNU Guile Scheme, and the plugin adds completion support, argument prompting, and asynchronous execution through Emacs's native compile system.
Vivo executives confirmed the X500 series will debut in China on September 21, following the acclaimed X300 Pro and X300 Ultra. The lineup will add 4K/240fps recording, 4K HDR portrait video, and new preset and custom video color styles that can be shared between users, an upgrade over the X300 Ultra's photo-only sharing.
Android Authority surveyed nearly 2,200 readers about Google's tougher sideloading measures, which add security checks, a 24-hour delay, and a forced restart before installing apps from outside the Play Store. Roughly 47.5% said the extra friction is always worth it, while another 36.6% said it's worth it for certain apps only, meaning over 80% of respondents remain willing to sideload despite the added steps.
Google's seven-year software commitment for Pixel phones guarantees OS version updates and security patches, but the company now ships its flashiest features through quarterly Pixel Drops and Android Drops rather than the annual Android release. As a result, older Pixels that technically remain 'supported' are increasingly missing out on the features that actually matter to users, while major Android version updates like Android 17 have grown noticeably thin on new capabilities.