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Motorola is bringing its Signature 27 flagship phone to the US market, reportedly powered by a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset with an upgraded camera system and audio. Unlike some rivals, the phone will be sold through AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile stores along with several MVNOs, alongside trade-in and financing offers.
A new U.S. House bill, the American Copyright Protection Act of 2026 (H.R. 10364), would require internet service providers, DNS resolvers and VPN services to block foreign websites or services hosting pirated content for connections originating in the United States. Standard blocking orders would need court approval and take effect within 14 to 30 days, while a special provision for live sports and 'time-sensitive events' lets a judge shorten that window if pirated streams appear within 24 hours of broadcast. Providers with fewer than 100,000 monthly users, public networks, and root/TLD DNS operators would be exempt.
Meta launched Muse, an AI agent restricted to users 18 and older, alongside a cuddly, customizable mascot called Jolly that appeared in a toga at Meta Connect and in fitness-themed Instagram ads. Meta also plans to sell a Tamagotchi-style physical device tied to the character later this year. A Meta spokesperson said the company verifies birthdates and blocks suspected minors from creating accounts.
GitHub Actions repositories actions-cool/issues-helper and actions-cool/maintain-one-comment, disabled in May after being compromised in the Mini Shai-Hulud supply-chain attack, were reinstated by their maintainer starting September 16 without removing the malicious code. Socket researchers found the release tags still pointed to the original tainted commit, meaning any workflow referencing those version tags resumed downloading and executing the malware payload through at least September 25.
Archaeologists have uncovered the first two intact burials at Göbeklitepe, Turkey, dating to roughly 8,700-8,000 BCE. One pit beneath a building floor held remains of at least three people, while a second contained a single young adult skeleton laid on its side. Comparing these burials to hundreds of scattered bone fragments found since 1995, researchers concluded many loose fragments likely originated from similar ordinary graves and were later displaced by erosion and natural decay.
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold 8 alongside two other foldables at its July Unpacked event, introducing a shorter, wider form factor distinct from prior Z Fold models. The device measures 123.9mm tall, 9.7mm thick folded and 4.5mm unfolded, weighing 201 grams, making it lighter than the Z Fold 8 Ultra. A hands-on review after two weeks of use found it a strong but not flawless entry into the wide-foldable category.
Two geologists from Australian National University analyzed zircon minerals in ocean sediments to trace the outlines of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana beneath Antarctica's ice sheet. Their findings, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, suggest Antarctica contained substantial material dating to Gondwana's formation between 650 and 450 million years ago.
Renier Brentjens, one of the early researchers behind CAR T cell therapy, is now developing a new generation of engineered 'living drug' treatments. His current work aims to extend the success these therapies have had against blood cancers to solid tumors, which have proven far harder to treat with cell-based approaches.
An Android Authority reviewer highlights Face Unlock on the Pixel 11 Pro, noting it can authenticate not just the lock screen but also sensitive apps and mobile payments, thanks to security processing on Google's Tensor chip. This capability has existed since the Pixel 8 series in 2023 and remains largely unchanged, while competitors like Samsung and Motorola limit face unlock to lock-screen access only.
A new book chronicles the design history of matchbooks distributed by queer bars decades before dating apps existed. These matchbooks often served practical and social functions, letting patrons exchange phone numbers and identify safe, unmarked venues within their covers.
In a Decoder interview, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince discussed how the company sits between websites and AI bots, giving site owners options to block, allow, or charge for automated access. Cloudflare's own data found that bots now account for more than half of internet traffic, a share that continues to rise as AI companies scrape content and deploy agents. Prince also addressed Cloudflare's earlier layoff of over 1,000 employees this year, tied to an op-ed he wrote about replacing staff with AI.
Crypto Cellar Research reports that GPT-Astra cracked the previously unbroken 82-letter German Army Enigma transmission known as MVUEH, sent to the SS-Totenkopf Division on July 10, 1941. The message, publicly available since 2005 but never decoded, was solved autonomously by Astra, which wrote its own Python and C++ Enigma simulation and Bombe tools and correctly guessed a probable plaintext clue referencing the town Rosenow.