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ResiClub published three maps tracking home price shifts across U.S. housing markets, sizing each county by its active for-sale inventory rather than land area or population. This method aims to prevent large, sparsely populated counties from skewing the visual representation of price trends. The maps are part of ResiClub's ongoing housing market newsletter coverage from Lance Lambert.
A shortage of computer RAM, informally dubbed 'RAMageddon,' is being driven in part by AI data centers consuming large quantities of memory chips. The shortage is pushing up prices for consumers and businesses that rely on RAM for computers and other devices.
A free utility has been introduced to fix formatting problems that occur when text is copied and pasted into apps like Slack and Google Docs. The tool targets the common issue of mismatched fonts, sizes, and styles that appear when content is moved between platforms.
The Skydance-Paramount merger with Warner Bros. Discovery officially closed, creating a combined entertainment company that will operate under the Skydance name. The deal, led by David Ellison, consolidates two storied Hollywood studios—Paramount and Warner Bros.—under new ownership tied to Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison's family.
A team calling itself the Mach Initiative, made up of University of Bath graduates, has completed the maiden flight of the Kingfisher, a roughly one-meter RC aircraft built mostly from 3D-printed PETG and PET-CF with an aluminum skeleton. The plane is powered by a Jetcat P60 miniature jet turbine producing 63 N·m of thrust and reaching about 205 mph, following an earlier electric-fan prototype called the Kinglet used to test the design.
Danish newspaper Politiken reported that at least three accounts at Odense-based IT firm Pays, including an administrator account, used the password '123456' when hackers accessed Denmark's CPR civil registration database. The breach reportedly exposed data linked to about 8.8 million CPR numbers, with an anonymous hacker claiming access lasted over 21 days starting 10 September after obtaining a leaked password from a former employee of another small Danish firm.
Three months after a major wildfire swept through the Cairngorms National Park, drone pilot Pete Short is conducting weekly dawn flights using thermal-imaging drones to detect smouldering fires still burning beneath the surface. On a recent flight he found eight hidden hotspots, and during a reported flight a heat signature was detected under a tree despite no visible flames above ground.
A U.S. Army field exercise in the desert tested new AI-enabled equipment and found significant shortcomings, including technical malfunctions and organizational obstacles to adoption. The trial was part of a broader Army effort to modernize its forces and integrate artificial intelligence into combat operations.
Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii captured the most detailed image yet of the Pa 30 nebula, the remains of a supernova believed to have been observed from Earth in the Middle Ages. The image shows roughly 10 times more detail than prior observations, revealing that the nebula's filaments are actually made of uniform, pearl-like knots of gas rather than continuous strands, according to a study in The Astrophysical Journal.
A survey of 1,000 full-time US employees by business intelligence firm Visier found that 48% admitted to overstating their use or expertise with generative AI tools to coworkers or managers. Nearly half said they feel pressured to use AI without confidence they can do so effectively, citing insufficient training and unclear guidance from employers.
Bloomberg TV's Open Interest program hosted Panmure Liberum analyst Joachim Klement, who said he expects the AI investment bubble to burst in either 2027 or 2028. Klement argued that current spending is misdirected toward resource-heavy frontier large language models in data centers, rather than smaller, open-weight models that could run locally. The appearance followed a Thursday selloff triggered by reports that OpenAI would miss its annual revenue target by roughly $20 billion, though markets largely recovered by Friday.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced a new AI agent called Dots at the company's DevDay event, claiming it would set a new privacy standard and implicitly criticizing Meta's rival agent Muse. Meta had earlier launched Muse, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg describing it as built for privacy and security using an isolated virtual machine to store user data. Despite Muse reportedly reaching 600,000 daily US users within weeks, according to Apptopia data, reports suggest its privacy protections have not fully matched the company's promises.