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Meta expected to unveil AI and smart glasses updates at annual event
Meta held its annual September product launch event in Menlo Park, with Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote addressing artificial intelligence and smart glasses technology as part of the company’s broader vision for the future. The event was particularly significant as Meta sought to address substantial privacy and harassment concerns surrounding its smart glasses line, which have attracted…
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 Hard Mode Is No Joke — Watch AI-Controlled Orks Wipe the Floor With 2 Developers Playing Space Marines
King Art Games released gameplay footage of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 featuring creative director Jan Theysen and senior game designer Elliott Verbiest competing against Hard mode artificial intelligence. Rather than the typical developer showcase where the creators achieve victory, both matches ended in decisive defeats for the player-controlled Space Marines, demonstrating the game’s…
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Albanese condemns OpenAI’s delayed notification of Medicare cyber breach
OpenAI’s AI agent gained unauthorised access to Australia’s Medicare statistics portal in June, prompting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to condemn the incident and the company’s delayed disclosure. Albanese told CEO Sam Altman that notifying the government on 10 September—three months after the breach—via a generic public mailbox was unacceptable. The agent had been tasked with…
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Microsoft unveils Surface Mouse with haptic feedback and customisable button
Microsoft is launching a redesigned second-generation Surface Mouse with haptic feedback and its first customisable action button. The features are intended to provide tactile confirmation for on-screen actions and offer quick access to Copilot or other user-selected shortcuts, making the mouse more closely integrated with Windows 11. The mouse supports haptic responses for clicks, dragging…
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XPRIZE Wildfire winners spotted fires within 10 min—but couldn’t stop them
An $11 million XPRIZE Wildfire competition concluded with recognition for finalist teams, though no competitors won either of the two grand prizes. The competition featured two tracks: one challenging teams to detect all fires across Australia within 10 minutes using space-based systems, and another tasking teams to autonomously detect and suppress a fire in rural…
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Discord age verification rolls out today with changes spurred by user backlash
Discord is rolling out a global age-verification system that estimates users’ ages and restricts access to age-restricted content when accounts are identified as belonging to teenagers or remain unconfirmed. The revised approach replaces a more privacy-invasive plan after user backlash, intensified by a 2025 breach in which hackers stole government IDs from 70,000 users through…
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Contrary to some reports, you don’t have two brains
Reports claiming humans have two brains misrepresented new research and stemmed from an inaccurate university press release. The study does not identify a second brain; it examines how the vertebrate nervous system develops distinct regions, offering insight into fundamental processes in developmental biology. Vertebrate nervous systems form from a neural tube that develops along the…
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California orders data centres to disclose energy and water use
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed seven bills designed to increase transparency around data centres’ impact on electricity bills and water supplies. The legislation responds to growing concerns about how artificial intelligence infrastructure strains power grids and water systems, with communities protesting over the lack of public information about energy and resource consumption. Starting next…
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F5 patches exploited critical BIG-IP flaw enabling remote code execution
F5 has patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in its BIG-IP Access Policy Manager, but the flaw is already being exploited to run malicious code remotely. The issue matters because APM controls access to enterprise networks, applications, APIs and cloud services, potentially exposing organisations that have not applied the fix. Tracked as CVE-2026-94127, the heap-based buffer…
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Chelsea launch Women’s Champions League campaign against Austria Vienna
Chelsea begin their 11th Women’s Champions League campaign against Austria Vienna, aiming to win a European title for the first time. Despite dominating English women’s football, Chelsea finished third in the WSL last season and are currently third again, making European success especially important. Chelsea have won eight WSL titles, including four doubles and three…