rGPU is a newly shown project that lets a PyTorch program send tensor operations over TCP to execute on a remote NVIDIA GPU while the application itself keeps running locally. It offers two integration routes: a simple PyTorch 'rgpu' device for programs that opt in, and a CUDA shim that intercepts existing Linux CUDA binaries using libcuda, CUDA Runtime, cuBLAS, cuBLASLt, and cuDNN. Setup involves installing via pip and using an SSH tunnel through the rgpu-run command to connect to the GPU host.
Microsoft is hosting a Windows and Surface event today at 10am PT, featuring CEO Satya Nadella, Windows chief Pavan Davuluri, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The event is expected to reveal details on the Surface Laptop Ultra, powered by Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip, which pairs an Arm CPU with 6,144 CUDA cores and up to 128GB of unified memory. Microsoft has already confirmed the laptop's 15-inch mini-LED screen, thin chassis, and port selection, though pricing remains undisclosed.
A bug had prevented some users from changing smart light colors through the Google Home app and Nest speakers or displays, with the color selector and automated routines also failing. Google has now rolled out a fix, and at least one affected user on Reddit confirmed the issue was resolved.
Android Authority found strings in a Google Messages beta build referencing a new 'Games' section with titles like Chess, Pool, Basketball, Darts, Crazy 8s, Checkers, Cup Pong, Four in a Row, and Word Scramble. The feature's internal codename is 'Midnight,' and the discovery stemmed from a tip by Abhishek Yadav on X. Details on how gameplay would actually function remain unknown.
Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute tested OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens, the under-18 version of the chatbot launched in August with promised extra safety protections, and concluded that it fails to function as advertised. The report labels the product 'unsafe' and an 'unacceptable risk,' finding that it does not reliably flag when a teen is in distress, still behaves like a companion, and doesn't meaningfully differ from the standard ChatGPT version in how it helps with schoolwork.
Common Sense Media said it confirmed with OpenAI before testing that Teen mode features, including eating disorder notifications and study mode, were fully active. The nonprofit acknowledged OpenAI's claim that parental notification systems can take hours to activate on newly linked accounts, but said some test accounts were linked well beyond that window and still received no alerts.
A dredging crew at Exmouth Marina uncovered a large unexploded German bomb on 14 January 2026, 81 years after the end of the second world war, prompting marina manager Steve Hockings-Thompson to alert police. The army's 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Search Regiment, based at Vauxhall Barracks in Didcot, was called in to handle the device, led by Maj Andrew Boyce, who initially received conflicting information about the bomb's size.
Google is widening the rollout of a redesigned Google Wallet card selector that replaces the horizontal card carousel with a vertically stacked list of saved debit and credit cards. The new layout opens as a separate screen, leaving transit cards, loyalty cards, and passes accessible from the main Wallet screen as before. Android Authority says the interface, previously seen only by a small number of users, has now appeared on Pixel phones used by its own team.
Developers have released nanoMuse, an open-source AI agent licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later that runs across Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and Linux, plus a web console and self-hostable relay. The project, styled after Meta's Muse, performs tasks autonomously, keeps running when the app is closed, retains memory of the user, and pauses to confirm before irreversible actions. Users get a free allowance of model use on a community relay subsidized by the developer, or can supply their own API key or self-host the relay.
South Korean authorities say they are investigating whether AI agents were used to carry out cyberattacks on the country's banks. The disclosure indicates officials are examining automated tools as a potential factor in recent security breaches affecting financial institutions.
Researchers released OpenWAM, an open framework that lets developers compare and combine different 'world-action' approaches for robots—systems that predict future video, generate actions, or do both together. The team pretrained a shared video-action model, adapted from Wan2.2-5B, on roughly 3.34 million robot and human interaction trajectories totaling 14.64k hours of video, training it for 14 days on 32 NVIDIA B200 GPUs using video data alone before adding action learning.
Óscar Toledo G. has published a session replay of La Cueva BBS, a Mexican bulletin board system he accessed in 1993 using a homebrew Zilog Z280 computer and a discarded 2400-baud Hayes modem. He wrote his own serial terminal program from scratch, implementing RS-232C communication, AT dial commands, and ANSI escape sequences based on information from books rather than the internet, which did not yet exist for him. To handle discrepancies between documented standards and real-world BBS behavior, he built a capture buffer using the Z280's MMU to record raw byte sequences as they arrived.
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