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Accenture reported fourth-quarter profit of $1.99 billion, or $3.29 per share, up from $1.41 billion, or $2.25 per share, a year earlier. The consulting firm's stock rose following the results, which the company attributed partly to growing client demand for artificial intelligence services.
A Tokyo court found that a TikTok account used AI to replicate the voice of veteran anime actor Kenjiro Tsuda in narration videos posted between July 2024 and late 2025, ruling this violated his publicity rights. The court declined to order removal of the videos since the anonymous account had already been deleted. Tsuda's legal team had argued the account's 200,000-plus followers were drawn by hearing a recognizable star's voice narrate lurid content, while TikTok countered the voice was merely generic.
RacketCon, a conference centered on the Racket and Rhombus programming languages, is scheduled to take place Saturday, October 3rd, with doors opening at 8:30AM PDT. The lineup includes a keynote from Turing Award winner Pat Hanrahan on notation, followed by technical talks from researchers including Fred Fu on type inference for Typed Racket and Lucas Myers on low-level programming with Pille.
Leakers Moore's Law is Dead and IT Home discovered a new AMD chip codenamed Gainsborough in recent driver files, built on TSMC's N3P process as a semi-custom design. Import records reviewed by IT Home show AMD has already shipped test equipment for the chip, which measures 25mm by 25mm, the same package size reportedly planned for AMD's upcoming Ryzen Z3 and Z3 Extreme handheld chips.
Magnet Forensics, maker of the GrayKey phone-unlocking devices used by law enforcement, has developed GrayKey Preserve and an Evidence Preservation Mode feature, according to a leaked video obtained by 404 Media. The tools are designed to freeze seized iPhones before Apple's inactivity reboot—which locks down a phone after 72 hours unused—kicks in, and to prevent automatic deletion of data like cached locations and recently removed photos or messages.
Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni and valued at $185 million, faced allegations earlier this year of 'cookie stuffing' following a Bloomberg investigation. Melinda French Gates, Phoebe's mother, did not invest in the company and was not involved in the controversy.
A new how-to guide walks through configuring SPF, DKIM and DMARC records for a sending domain, using Mailfully's setup process as the working example. It explains that SPF authorizes sending IPs, DKIM cryptographically signs messages, and DMARC checks alignment between the two and enforces a policy, with receiving servers using all three to decide whether mail is legitimate.
Nvidia announced on September 28, 2026 the Open Agent Safety Platform, an open software platform and reference system design meant to enforce security boundaries outside AI models' application layer. It aims to stop agents from escaping sandboxes, running unauthorized code, accessing critical infrastructure, or bypassing guardrails.
Sidekick has introduced a desktop application that actively supports patients during telehealth consultations by explaining medical terminology and highlighting questions. After the appointment, it consolidates the conversation, questions, and next steps into a single accessible summary. A mobile version is planned for future release to support in-person and telehealth visits on smartphones.
Apple's upcoming iPadOS 27.2 update will add a contextual Siri popup that appears when users select text with a trackpad or mouse, offering options like proofreading and rewriting suggestions. It will also bring user profiles to the Apple TV app on iPad, mirroring the feature already available on Apple TV 4K via tvOS.
Amazon has cut the price of Belkin's 10,000mAh Qi2 15W Slim Magnetic Power Bank from $74.99 to $59.99, a $15 saving. The pack offers 15W magnetic wireless charging plus 30W wired USB-C charging, and ships with a USB-C to USB-C cable included.
A 1960 paper published in the journal Science used a mathematical model of human population growth to calculate that global population would reach infinity—a theoretical 'doomsday'—on November 13, 2026. The researchers based the projection on historical population growth trends extrapolated into the future.