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Dutch police confirmed a 24-year-old Amsterdam man, arrested earlier in September, is being investigated in connection with the ShinyHunters hacking group. He is set to appear before the Rotterdam District Court on September 29. Media outlets have identified the suspect as Pepijn van der Stap, previously convicted in 2023 for hacking and extorting more than a dozen companies.
OpenAI's Head of Hardware Richard Ho told Tom's Hardware that the company's new Jalapeño inference ASIC, developed with Broadcom, is designed primarily to meet OpenAI's own growing compute demand. Ho said the chip 'could' be used by others eventually, but that satisfying OpenAI's internal needs remains the priority for the foreseeable future. At Hot Chips 2026, OpenAI shared benchmarks showing Jalapeño running GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1 and Kimi K2.5 against Nvidia's GB200 and GB300 accelerators.
Several Android features—including Clear Calling, Wi-Fi calling, VoLTE, Adapt Sound and Mic mode—can be adjusted to improve call audio clarity. These settings vary by device and manufacturer, since Android does not have a single unified interface across phones. Physical mic cleanliness also affects call quality.
A developer building a 3D polygonal game engine describes using Haar wavelet basis functions to compress low-contrast textures and their mipmaps. The piece explains that a typical 256x256 texture consumes 256KB of RAM, and that a scene with dozens of visible textures plus many more stored off-screen can require roughly 200MB of memory, a burden for typical end-user computers at the time.
Kindle Comic Converter (KCC), an open-source tool for optimizing comics and manga for e-ink readers, now uses a 2D Discrete Fourier Transform to remove the rainbow effect seen on Kaleido 3 color e-ink screens without blurring the image. The tool also compresses files (e.g., 600MB down to 100MB), fixes faded blacks, and delivers fullscreen pages without margins across Kindle, Kobo, reMarkable and other devices.
Bose has introduced Noise Cancelling Wired Earbuds that connect via a 4.2-foot USB-C cable and use its QuietControl technology, offering Quiet, Aware and ANC Off modes. The earbuds include dual microphones per earpiece, an in-line remote with physical controls, and support for lossless audio on compatible devices. They are IPX4 rated, available in three colors including a limited-edition Dewdrop Mint, priced at $99 and now up for preorder with shipping expected mid-October.
A developer detailed a method to intercept the PS5's built-in broadcast feature by spoofing DNS so the console's RTMP stream, normally sent to Twitch's ingest servers, is redirected to a custom server instead. The workaround avoids using Remote Play or a capture card to get PS5 gameplay onto platforms like Discord.
Listeners, many of them younger users, have been posting on the sparsely trafficked Spotify comment sections of NPR podcast episodes, turning the underused feature into an informal chat space. The comments sections, rather than containing feedback on the episodes themselves, have filled with casual back-and-forth conversation among a recurring group of users.
Microsoft Security Research reported that a threat actor it tracks as Storm-3168, also known as JadePuffer, compromised two legitimate Azure service principals belonging to one tenant and used them to map the victim's environment before launching an automated destruction campaign against storage, applications, databases and backup controls. The attack, which occurred in early June, involved one account spending over 15 hours on reconnaissance while a second executed rapid, wide-ranging discovery and destructive operations within seconds. Microsoft said the pattern matches ransomware or extortion tactics but noted it did not observe a ransom note or confirm data theft.
Nvidia has introduced a new security platform combining two tools, OpenShell and Sentry, designed to limit what AI agents can access, track their behavior, and terminate them if they attempt to exceed set boundaries. The announcement comes amid a rise in reported security incidents involving AI models behaving unpredictably or exploiting system permissions.
Bose has released firmware update 10.12.12 for its $449 QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Gen 2, adding beta support for Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast broadcasting. The update also improves wired USB audio, including gaming chat balance and web conferencing compatibility. Bose says its QC Headphones Gen 2 will receive the same beta firmware next.
Researchers re-examined carved and modified human skulls found at the 10,000-year-old Göbekli Tepe site in Turkey, previously interpreted as evidence of a ritualistic 'skull cult.' The new analysis concludes that explanation doesn't hold up, though it confirms Neolithic communities there had a notable interest in human skulls for other reasons.