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Semiconductor shares fell across European and Asian markets after executives at major artificial intelligence companies publicly called for a more cautious, slower approach to developing the technology, citing safety concerns. The remarks rattled investors who had been betting heavily on rapid AI expansion driving chip demand.
BleepingComputer is hosting a live webinar on September 23, 2026, with Material Security's Rajan Kapoor and Fireside Consulting's Rick Fitzgerald, who will dissect two real breaches of Google Workspace environments carried out through malicious OAuth applications and social engineering rather than stolen passwords. The session will walk through how the attacks unfolded, the security gaps that let them succeed, and the response decisions made in the early hours of each incident.
A new open-source repository called OpenArch offers hand-written PyTorch implementations of prominent LLM architectures, including GPT-2 XL, Llama 2, Llama 3, OLMo 2, DeepSeek R1 and Gemma 3. Each model is coded from scratch based on original papers, technical reports and config files, with one clear, self-contained file per architecture rather than production-optimized code.
At BlizzCon 2026, Blizzard confirmed development of Diablo V, an action-RPG set 100 years after Diablo IV where Diablo has already conquered Sanctuary. The story unfolds in Westmarch, casting players as the Heir to its royal line navigating a hellscape with no towns, heroes, or quest-givers, only a traveling caravan of survivors.
A newly published Show HN project analyzed roughly 1,000 real browser viewport measurements and found that displays marketed as 1080p typically render usable browser content at around 920 pixels of height, once toolbars, address bars, and OS chrome are accounted for. The dataset organizes results by device environment, withholding rankings until each category collects enough samples, and separates out anomalies and legacy tablet data to keep results accurate.
Google appears to be developing a way for users to customize which restrictions apply under Android's Advanced Protection mode, rather than enforcing all safeguards as a single bundle. This would let users opt into stronger security features selectively instead of accepting the full, more restrictive package.
Blizzard unveiled World of Warcraft: Forever at BlizzCon 2026, a permanent Classic+ style version of the original 2004 game launching November 4. The expansion adds over 1,000 quests, nine dungeons, two raids, four new zones, and a new Skyborne elf race, all while keeping the level cap frozen at 60. It joins Modern (Retail) and Classic as a third permanent version of WoW.
Amid accusations that Chinese firms like DeepSeek and Moonshot AI distilled outputs from OpenAI and Anthropic models, U.S. security agencies issued a joint advisory warning about the practice. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan pushed back, arguing regulators should avoid restricting distillation and instead focus on balancing open-weight and frontier AI models, while suggesting smaller U.S. labs use similar techniques on domestic frontier models.
Local governments nationwide, from Florida to Washington state, are terminating contracts with Flock Safety amid public backlash over its AI-powered license plate readers. However, ending these agreements doesn't guarantee immediate camera removal or deletion of previously collected data, since contract terms vary widely on data retention after termination.
Google has opened a formal beta program for its Drive app, letting users opt in to test upcoming features before they roll out broadly. The program follows similar early-access schemes Google runs for other apps like Gmail and Photos.
Blizzard confirmed a new StarCraft game at BlizzCon, departing from the series' real-time strategy roots to become an open-world shooter. The reveal came via a cinematic trailer showing a soldier fighting Zerg forces, though no gameplay footage was shown, and the game isn't expected until 2030.
GrapheneOS has introduced a feature called Secure Paste that lets users paste text normally while preventing apps from silently reading clipboard content in the background. The feature aims to close a long-standing privacy gap where apps could monitor copied passwords, codes or personal data without user awareness.