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Chipiron’s big idea: rethinking MRI access, not replacing old machines

Medical device funding is hitting levels we haven’t seen since 2021, with investors pouring billions into diagnostics and imaging companies. While innovation has raced ahead, a fundamental problem still hasn’t changed: Critical medical hardware like MRI machines cost millions of dollars and is limited to large hospitals. So how do you take one of the most expensive, hospital-bound technologies and make it available anywhere? Evan Kervella, founder and CEO of Paris-based startup Chipiron, joined

Your coworkers are sick of your AI workslop

skynesher/E+/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Workers are using AI to create low-quality "workslop." Bosses have to pick up hours of slack to fix it, harming careers. AI ROI is still unclear for most workplaces. Workers are becoming overly reliant on AI. The result? Lackluster product, now coined "workslop," according to new research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford Social Media Lab. Also: Stop using AI for these 9 work tasks - here's

I got a glimpse of future Android smartphones - here are 3 major upgrades you can expect

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Qualcomm launched its new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. The mobile platform will fuel new experiences on Android. The new features span photography, AI, and connectivity. While chipsets may not be the most exciting component of a phone, they are responsible for powering a lot of the activities you enjoy every day, including gaming, photography, audio, internet connectivity, and, of course, A

The Rats Won

New York Mayor Eric Adams has waged a years-long campaign against the city’s rats, dubbing them “public enemy number one” and even appointing a “rat czar” to tackle the problem in 2023. But with the rat czar’s quiet departure from her post late last week, it might be time to declare a victor. The rats apparently won this round. Kathleen Corradi was first appointed as rat czar, technically the Citywide Director of Rat Mitigation, by Mayor Adams in April 2023. Corradi promised to tackle the rat p

Google Warns That China-Linked Malware Will Haunt Networks for Years

Companies may uncover traces of a Chinese-linked hacking campaign lurking in their networks for at least the next two years, Google warns. On Wednesday, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group reported that it is tracking a backdoor malware known as BRICKSTORM, which has been used by hackers to maintain access to organizations and companies in the U.S. for an average of 393 days. Google’s cybersecurity consulting arm, Mandiant, has been responding to these intrusions since March 2025. The attacks t

Kali Linux 2025.3 released with 10 new tools, wifi enhancements

Kali Linux has released version 2025.3, the third version of 2025, featuring ten new tools, Nexmon support, and NetHunter improvements. Kali Linux is a distribution created for cybersecurity professionals and ethical hackers to conduct red team exercises, penetration testing, security audits, and research against networks. New tool added to Kali Linux 2025.3 As with every release, Kali Linux comes with new toys to play with. With this release, we have ten new tools, which are listed below:

Pokemon Legends: Z-A Game Feels Like a Pokemon Theme Park 'To Go'

After visiting Universal's Epic Universe theme park and its Nintendo World branch earlier this year, I was struck by the overlap between immersive real-world parks and video games. Would Nintendo ever make a Pokemon park of its own? It's likely. If it does, it might feel a bit like Pokemon Legends: Z-A, the latest Pokemon Switch game. I played it for about an hour on the Nintendo Switch 2 a few weeks ago. Pokemon Legends: Z-A is released Oct. 16, so I'll have deeper thoughts on it then. Don't

You Can Snag Free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates From Microsoft. Here's How

The era of Windows 10 is almost over. On Oct. 14, Microsoft will be stopping Windows 10 support, and there will be no more updates to the OS. If you can't upgrade to Windows 11, don't panic. For $30 you can snag a year of security updates to keep your OS safe. Alternatively, you can take advantage of this free option by enabling cloud backup and connecting it to your OneDrive account. The ability to get free updates on Windows 10 is a pretty big deal because it is still the most widely used Win

Cisco warns of IOS zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks

Cisco has released security updates to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software that is currently being exploited in attacks. Tracked as CVE-2025-20352, the flaw is due to a stack-based buffer overflow weakness found in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) subsystem of vulnerable IOS and IOS XE software, impacting all devices with SNMP enabled. Authenticated, remote attackers with low privileges can exploit this vulnerability to trigger denial-of

iOS 26.1 hints at iPhone adding support for third-party smartwatches

iOS 26.1 beta 1 arrived earlier this week with a variety of new features and changes. But the beta’s code also revealed, as discovered by Macworld, Apple working toward the iPhone adding third-party smartwatch support. iOS 26.1 code shows Apple working toward improved compatibility with third-party smartwatches Filipe Esposito writes at Macworld: The latest iOS beta code includes an unreleased feature called Notification Forwarding. As the name suggests, it will let users choose to show notif

Why I put my Bose QuietComfort Ultra away shortly after trying these headphones

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 ZDNET's key takeaways The Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 are available in Onyx Black and Warm Stone for $799. They excel in the design and sound categories, thanks to their high-quality internal and external build materials Unless you value exceptional details in design and sound, a $799 asking price may be hard to justify. View now at Bowers & Wilkins Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Few headphones perfectly blend design, sound quality, and everyday uti

‘Predator: Badlands’ Director Says Its ‘Alien’ Crossover Doesn’t Come With Xenomorphs

After Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro wants to explore a new aesthetic. R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead is heading to the big screen. Plus, what’s coming on the next episode of Ghosts. Spoilers now! Frankenstein Without saying the word “gothic,” Guillermo del Toro recently told Empire he “needs[s] a change” from “a certain type of aesthetic” that’s marked his career to this point. This movie closes the cycle. If you look at the lineage, from Cronos to The Devil’s Backbone, to Pan’s Labyrinth to Cri

Latest iOS beta hints at notifications on non-Apple watches

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Apple could soon improve the interoperability between iPhones and third-party smartwatches. The latest iOS 26.1 beta hints at a new “notification forwarding” feature that could surface iPhone notifications on a non-Apple device or accessory, as spotted by Macworld. Code seen by Macworld suggests that users would only be able to forward notification

Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube

I’ve been learning Persian (Farsi) for a while now, and I’m using a bunch of tools for it. The central one is certainly Anki, a spaced repetition app to train memory. I’m creating my own never-ending deck of cards, with different types of content, for different purposes. The most frequent type of cards is grammar focused phrases (very rarely single words) coming sometimes from my own daily life, but also very often directly from videos of the Persian Learning YouTube channel, created by Majid, a

Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (September 24)

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

Poor Indoor Air Quality? These 6 Common Household Items May Be to Blame

Just because you don't battle wildfire smoke or city smog on the daily doesn't mean you're not susceptible to polluted air. In many cases, the call -- or cause of this tainted air -- may be coming from inside the house. According to Michael Rubino, founder of HomeCleanse and chairman of Change the Air Foundation, "Indoor air is not as healthy as we may think." Rubino, who hosts the health-focused podcast Never Been Sicker, identifies several potential offenders sitting in our homes, going mostl

I replaced my midrange Bowers & Wilkins headphones with more expensive ones - how much can $370 upgrade you?

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 ZDNET's key takeaways The Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 are available in Onyx Black and Warm Stone for $799. They excel in the design and sound categories, thanks to their high-quality internal and external build materials Unless you value exceptional details in design and sound, a $799 asking price may be hard to justify. View now at Bowers & Wilkins Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Few headphones perfectly blend design, sound quality, and everyday uti

Building a better online editor for TypeScript

Val Town makes it easy to ship TypeScript automations and applications to the internet via an integrated web editor experience. We strive to offer a magical tight feedback loop, with 100ms deploys on save. That online editor experience should be great: we should support high-quality highlighting, autocompletion, information for when you hover over bits of code. But unfortunately it hasn't been so: our previous editor has been buggy and slow to give useful TypeScript feedback. But now, we've re

Forget quiet quitting - AI 'workslop' is the new office morale killer

Richard Drury/DigitalVision via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Workers are using AI to create low-quality "workslop." Bosses have to pick up hours of slack to fix it, harming careers. AI ROI is still unclear for most workplaces. Workers are becoming overly reliant on AI. The result? Lackluster product, now coined "workslop," according to new research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford Social Media Lab. Also: 10 ChatGPT Codex secrets I

Google's latest AI safety report explores AI beyond human control

wildpixel/ iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google latest Frontier Safety Framework explores It identifies three risk categories for AI. Despite risks, regulation remains slow. One of the great ironies of the ongoing AI boom has been that as the technology becomes more technically advanced, it also becomes more unpredictable. AI's "black box" gets darker as a system's number of parameters -- and the size o

Trump’s Tylenol Directive Could Actually Increase Autism Rates, Researchers Warn

For decades, the discussion around autism has been a hotbed of misinformation, misinterpretation, and bad science, ranging from the long-discredited link between the neurodevelopmental condition and vaccines, to newer claims that going gluten-free and avoiding ultra-processed foods can reverse autistic traits. On Monday night, this specter arose again in the Oval Office, as President Donald Trump announced his administration’s new push to study the causes of autism with claims that the common p

Scott Wiener on his fight to make Big Tech disclose AI’s dangers

This is not California state Senator Scott Wiener’s first attempt at addressing the dangers of AI. In 2024, Silicon Valley mounted a fierce campaign against his controversial AI safety bill, SB 1047, which would have made tech companies liable for the potential harms of their AI systems. Tech leaders warned that it would stifle America’s AI boom. Governor Gavin Newsom ultimately vetoed the bill, echoing similar concerns, and a popular AI hacker house promptly threw a “SB 1047 Veto Party.” One a

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iPhone Mirroring on the Mac gets a key upgrade in macOS Tahoe

iPhone Mirroring debuted on the Mac last year as a standout new feature, and in macOS Tahoe it gets even better thanks to one key addition: Live Activities support. Live Activities are new for iPhone Mirroring in macOS Tahoe Apple’s Continuity features have long been a strength of the company’s hardware ecosystem. And when iPhone Mirroring launched last year in macOS Sequoia, it quickly became one of the best examples of that. This year in macOS Tahoe, iPhone Mirroring gets upgraded to bring

Anti-vaccine groups melt down over RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol

Health Secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday evening announced that the use of Tylenol (aka acetaminophen, paracetamol) during pregnancy is linked to autism—an unproven assertion that had previously sent Kennedy's anti-vaccine allies into a rage. In a press event alongside Trump, Kennedy said that the Food and Drug Administration will work to update the drug's safety label and notify physicians of the concerns. At the same time, the administration also touted leuco

Libraesva ESG issues emergency fix for bug exploited by state hackers

Libraesva rolled out an emergency update for its Email Security Gateway (ESG) solution to fix a vulnerability exploited by threat actors believed to be state sponsored. The email security product protects email systems from phishing, malware, spam, business email compromise, and spoofing, using a multi-layer protection architecture. According to the vendor, Libraesva ESG is used by thousands of small and medium businesses as well as large enterprises worldwide, serving over 200,000 users. The

Consumer Reports slams Microsoft for Windows 10 mess, urges extension of free updates

picture alliance/Contributor/picture alliance via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways CR says that Windows 10's end of support will strand millions of PC owners. It calls Microsoft's actions "hypocritical" and cites national security concerns. CR also calls for continued free security updates. Update, Sept. 23, 2025: Reached for comment, a Microsoft spokesperson told ZDNET the company has "nothing to share at this time." Consumer Repo

Permeable materials in homes act as sponges for harmful chemicals: study

Scientists injected volatile organic compounds into a test house and found large reservoirs for the potentially hazardous chemicals in porous surfaces such as wood, concrete and paint. VOCs contained in insecticides, cigarette smoke and wildfire smoke can remain on indoor surfaces for as long as one year. Irvine, Calif., Sept. 22, 2025 — Indoor surfaces have an unexpectedly strong ability to absorb and hold harmful chemical compounds that can threaten human health for as long as a year, accord

Inbox swamped? Perplexity's new Email Assistant works for Gmail and Outlook

MirageC/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Email Assistant can help you review, organize, and draft emails. It's available to paid subscribers of Perplexity Max. AI companies are marketing heavily to enterprise customers. Perplexity is bringing its AI directly to white-collar workers' inboxes with an automated assistant that can review and organize emails, and respond to messages in an approximation of their human users' voic

Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools

Dayvi Schuster 8 min read Tuesday, September 23, 2025 Why Zig Feels More Practical Than Rust for Real-World CLI Tools Why I reach for Zig first for my CLI tools lately Introduction So when it comes to memory management there are two terms you really need to know, the stack and the heap. The stack is a region of memory that stores temporary data that is only needed for a short period of time. It operates in a last-in, first-out (LIFO) manner, meaning that the most recently added data is the fi