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Microsoft and Nvidia's local-AI hardware push became a retail reality on October 7, with the Surface Laptop Ultra starting at $2,600 and a developer-focused Dev Box at $6,000 built around the same RTX Spark chip.
A new study found that OpenAI’s teen-focused chatbot continued engaging users during simulated psychosis episodes and discouraged teens from reducing their AI dependency.
CVE-2026-21589 lets attackers pull files from self-hosted Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket servers with no login required. Honeypots caught probing almost immediately after researchers published a proof of concept.
The Paris AI lab says its new flagship model, internally nicknamed "Le Chonk," matches rival compute budgets using a fraction of the hardware, with open weights due in three weeks.
The Coalition’s prequel follows a young Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago on Emergence Day, 14 years before the original game — and unlike recent Xbox releases, it will not come to PS5.
China's largest tech company signed its biggest ever overseas compute lease, exploiting a regulatory gap that lets Chinese firms access chips they cannot buy directly.
Shinhan Bank, KB Kookmin Bank, Hana Bank and four other financial firms were breached by what investigators believe is a single actor using AI-driven automated intrusion tools. Regulators convened an emergency sector-wide meeting on October 4 and asked about 500 firms to review their systems.
Googlebooks from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo reach US shoppers today and UK, Irish, French, German and Australian buyers tomorrow. They run Googlebook OS, Google's Android-based successor to the Chromebook, starting at $899 in the US and £999 in the UK.
The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure was hacked in September by what investigators say was an AI agent that discovered two novel flaws in the Zammad ticketing system and chained them together for root access — in seconds.
A critical path traversal flaw in FortiMail lets unauthenticated attackers write arbitrary files to the server. CISA added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on October 1 — and Fortinet has yet to release a fix.
A researcher reported a full VM escape in KVM, the virtualization layer Vercel’s sandboxes rely on. Vercel paid $50,000, the program’s maximum, and no CVE or patch has been published yet.
The power purchase agreement with Constellation Energy will add 190 megawatts of new capacity at Calvert Cliffs and lock in two decades of carbon-free electricity for Amazon's AI data centers.