Apple has released a security update fixing a vulnerability in the graphics engine underlying iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS 26, which the company says may have already been used against specific targeted individuals. Meta's product security team discovered and reported the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-86950; Apple did not disclose how it was found or how many devices were affected. Devices on the newer iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27 also received Tuesday's update but were not vulnerable to this particular bug.
Author Lindsay Owens argues in her new book Gouged that surveillance pricing—where companies use personal data to set individualized prices—does not benefit ordinary shoppers as often claimed. She disputes the notion that such pricing acts like a 'Robin Hood' mechanism, charging wealthier customers more and poorer customers less.
A malformed payload sent to Google's Analytics for Firebase SDK caused widespread launch crashes across thousands of iOS apps starting the evening of September 28. Google engineer Nick Cooke said a fix was fully rolled out by 7:52pm Pacific that day, with lingering crashes from caching expected to clear within four hours, requiring no action from developers or users.
Woot is selling the Razer DeathStalker V2 Pro TKL gaming keyboard for $130, down from its usual $219.99. The tenkeyless board features a 2.4GHz low-latency wireless connection, low-profile linear optical switches, USB-C and Bluetooth options, and battery life Razer rates at up to 200 hours with RGB off.
Mozilla has released a new visual design for Firefox to all desktop and mobile users via the FX 157 update, following months of testing in its Nightly channel. The refresh updates colors, icons and themes across tabs, toolbars, the New Tab page and Private Browsing, and brings back Compact Mode along with a new theme picker.
The Netherlands is developing DAWO (Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid), a sovereign IT ecosystem built on NixOS, a Linux distribution with roots in Dutch-created Nix package-manager technology. The project aims to supply government and public institutions with a homegrown operating system, office applications, cloud services and management tools as alternatives to US software. Early pilot deployments of DAWO have already launched in private and local settings, with plans to expand across Dutch institutions.
OpenAI introduced Dots at its DevDay keynote as always-on AI agents that can operate across a connected web browser and more than 4,000 apps, including Microsoft Teams and Slack. Users interact with a Dot via text or voice, and it carries context across sessions, messaging updates and questions as it completes tasks like building app features or producing content from interviews. Currently limited to one Dot per user, OpenAI plans to allow multiple simultaneous agents and text-message access, plus a shared workspace called ChatGPT Space.
Actual network throughput is capped by the weakest link in the chain, whether that's your internet plan, router or switch port, network adapter, cable quality, or cable run length. Cat5e can support 2.5Gbps and 5Gbps per TIA guidance, Cat6 can hit 10Gbps only up to 37-55 meters, and Cat6A is needed for 10Gbps at the full 100-meter distance. Cat8 supports 25-40Gbps but only over 30 meters and was built for data centers, while Cat7 is recognized by ISO but not by TIA in North America.
On Tuesday, more than a dozen organizations—including Bay Resistance, Tech Workers Coalition, SEIU, San Francisco Rising, and the San Francisco Labor Council—rallied outside OpenAI's DevDay at San Francisco's Fort Mason. Protesters chanted slogans, carried signs opposing OpenAI's contracts with ICE and criticizing data centers' environmental impact, and some wore cardboard robot costumes.
Researchers analyzing samples returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have identified a specific zone between the inner and outer solar system as Bennu's likely birthplace. The finding narrows down where the asteroid formed before it migrated to its current near-Earth orbit.
Security researchers at VUsec and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna developed a new Spectre v2 attack called Branch Target Reuse (BTR), which exploits stale branch predictor data left behind when JIT engines reuse memory addresses for new code. Tested against Firefox's SpiderMonkey, GraalVM, and the Linux kernel's cBPF, the attack can extract a system's root password hash within minutes on Intel processors. The flaws were assigned CVE-2026-64507 and CVE-2026-64508, and fixes have already been merged into the Linux kernel.
Tom's Hardware evaluated 13 portable chargers spanning 5,000 mAh single-port units at 22W up to 25,000 mAh multi-port models delivering 220W. Prices ranged from the Cuktech CP12 (10K/20W) at $24.99 to the Anker Prime (A110B) 20K/220W at $129.99, with some units charging fully in four to six hours and others faster. The units differed in included cables, displays versus simple LED indicators, and physical design.
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