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Apple TV's September lineup includes the action-comedy 'Mayday' starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh, the thriller series 'Last Seen,' the sixth season of 'Slow Horses' with Gary Oldman, and a new comedy 'Brothers' featuring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. The titles roll out across the month starting September 4 through September 23.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a recent podcast that AI reaching mainstream, everyday use will take considerably more time than many in the tech industry assume. He argued that shifting human habits and behavior poses a bigger obstacle than the underlying technology itself.
Researchers documented that vLLM's XML-based tool parser for Qwen3 Coder (CVE-2025-9141) fed model-generated arguments directly into Python's eval() function, meaning a language model's own output tokens could execute arbitrary code on the machine running it. A Gemini-based review flagged the change as a critical risk before it was merged, but the lead vLLM maintainer force-merged it anyway.
Taiwanese prosecutors in Keelung have charged nine people, reportedly including an Nvidia senior manager and two Supermicro employees, with breach of trust and document forgery for allegedly faking records to disguise illegal exports of high-end AI servers to China. Investigators found that of 130 B300 servers falsely documented as installed in Taiwan, 74 were actually shipped to Chinese customers, while 56 were stopped after customs officials spotted inconsistencies. The probe follows the March arrest of Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw in the US over an alleged $2.5 billion scheme to route restricted AI servers to China.
New leaks about Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone, expected to launch under the Ultra branding at over $2,000, suggest several notable omissions. The device reportedly skips a telephoto lens in favor of dual 48MP Main and Ultra Wide cameras, ditches the Action button and mute switch entirely, replaces Face ID with a Touch ID sensor built into the side button, and appears to lack MagSafe charging support based on dummy units without the familiar magnetic ring.
Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, built with EssilorLuxottica, are facing criticism after users were found photographing and filming strangers without consent, then posting the footage online. Critics have dubbed the devices 'pervert glasses' amid mounting concerns about privacy and ethical misuse.
Scientists placed mussels near sunken World War I and World War II vessels in the North Sea to test for contamination, and found that explosive residues from the wrecks are seeping into surrounding waters. The mussels absorbed toxic and carcinogenic compounds linked to degrading TNT stored in the ships and submarines.
A developer has released an update to the Textlog app that removes reply counts, follower/following numbers, and post timestamps from the interface. The stated goal is to eliminate features that enable tracking when someone was active or biasing readers toward newer content over older posts.
Multiple retailers have started offering early Labor Day promotions ahead of the holiday, with markdowns spanning televisions, Apple devices, and other tech products. ZDNET compiled a roundup of these deals based on its own testing and price comparisons across vendors.
CNET ran a side-by-side comparison of ChatGPT and Gemini's ability to interpret images, including handwritten notes scribbled on an e-ink tablet using a passage from The Hound of the Baskervilles. In this test, ChatGPT struggled to correctly transcribe the messy handwriting, misreading key phrases and producing largely inaccurate output compared to what was actually written.
A recent 9to5Mac Daily podcast episode recapped two developing Apple-related stories: Walmart's rollout of Apple Pay acceptance and reports of layoffs within Apple. The episode format summarizes daily Apple news for listeners via podcast platforms.
A blog post responds to Sean Goedecke's argument against workplace anger, extending the discussion to AI's impact on the tech industry. The author distinguishes anger, which requires a target to blame, from anxiety, a more fitting response to uncertainty about how AI will reshape jobs and skills without a clear villain to point to.