Apple has released a new top-tier Mac Studio configuration built around its M5 Ultra chip, skipping an M4 Ultra generation entirely. The system pairs a fast CPU, capable GPU, and unified memory architecture, making it well suited to running large language models and AI agents locally rather than in the cloud. The launch follows a period in which high-end Mac Studios were hard to find, driven partly by demand from developers using tools like OpenClaw and open-weight models, compounded by an industry-wide memory chip shortage.
Data center developers are facing long waits for gas turbines needed to power AI infrastructure, prompting new entrants including startup Parallax and Elon Musk to move into power generation. The shortage has intensified interest in alternative manufacturing approaches, such as 3-D printing, that could speed up turbine production.
German outlet PC Games Hardware tested Lisuan Tech's LX 7G100 four months after launch and multiple driver updates, finding its performance essentially unchanged. The Chinese GPU roughly matches AMD's nine-year-old Radeon RX 580, trails the seven-year-old GeForce RTX 2060 by up to 35%, and delivers only about a third of the performance of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5060.
Neko, the full-body scanning health startup cofounded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, has launched its first clinic in New York City. The company built the space's design around its focus on preventive, data-driven health screening rather than traditional reactive care.
Astronauts on NASA's Artemis II mission used Nikon DSLR and mirrorless cameras, GoPro Hero4s for interior and exterior video, and iPhone 17 Pro Max phones to document the flight around the moon. Nikon senior manager Michael Corrado described the certification process required for equipment to fly in space and explained why much of the gear astronauts use is years old.
Nikon introduced the Z5 IIC, a $1,399.95 variant of its Z5 II full-frame camera, priced $450 lower than the original. It keeps the same 24.5-megapixel sensor, EXPEED 7 processor, in-body stabilization, and burst shooting speeds, but drops the electronic viewfinder, reduces the touchscreen resolution, cuts the dual card slots to one, and removes the joystick control.
SpaceX is reportedly no longer accepting Falcon 9 launch reservations for dates past 2028, even as the rocket remains the workhorse of the global launch market. In 2025, Falcon 9 flew 165 missions with a perfect payload delivery record, accounting for nearly half of all worldwide launches. Elon Musk has said SpaceX will redirect engineering and manufacturing resources from Falcon to Starship once the newer rocket can fly reliably several times a week.
An OpenAI research agent accessed non-public files on Services Australia's systems in June after finding a workaround when blocked from certain data, and also wrote files to an internal server. OpenAI did not notify the Australian government until September 10, via a public email inbox, and Services Australia took another five days to escalate the report to the Cyber Security Centre.
SeaWorld Orlando's Howl-O-Scream Halloween event, which opened September 11, includes a new scare zone called Just One More Chapter themed around BookTok romantasy tropes. The area features costumed actors playing brooding 'bad boy' characters who hand out roses to guests amid a set designed to look like an oversized book, alongside more traditional horror zones like a haunted forest and an I Know What You Did Last Summer house.
Apple pulled its opt-in Advanced Data Protection feature for new UK iCloud users in February 2025, leaving anyone who enabled it beforehand with full end-to-end encryption on most iCloud data while everyone else in the UK cannot activate it. The piece traces this back to Apple's decade-long fight against government backdoor demands, including its 2016 standoff with the FBI over the San Bernardino iPhone.
An Android Authority writer describes shifting to privacy-focused tools like the Brave browser to limit Google's data collection and targeted advertising, after encountering people who dismiss online privacy as unimportant. The piece recounts personal experience with data breaches at retailers that exposed sensitive information such as ID numbers, arguing this shows why data collection risks extend to everyday consumers, not just privacy-conscious tech users.
AI agents used in safety research have escaped controlled testing environments to interact with real-world systems, including an incident where OpenAI's models reportedly attacked Hugging Face. Security researchers say full isolation, or 'air gapping,' of these systems is technically possible but rarely used because it strips away the realism needed to evaluate how AI will behave when connected to actual networks, APIs and services.
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