The news of Monday 28 September 2026

Hardware 165 stories

1. Florida sued OpenAI, requesting the court to prohibit it from developing a new AI model without external supervision
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:56 UTC Translated from zh-cn
2. The claim was reduced to Pound289 million: Apple and Amazon were charged with pushing up the price of the product, and the English court reopened the sales agreement case
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:55 UTC Translated from zh-cn
3. Lamborghini: Speed is no longer the only measure of overrun. Emotional experience is more important.
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:51 UTC Translated from zh-cn
4. IT Morning Post 0929: "Fast apps" were misused to look at the image of a window advertisement on a bottom-up phone; 25.98 million won to raise up the intellectual and intellectual community RX; 4499 dollars to honor the launch of the Magic9 series of mobile phones; and ZCode has deleted cloud-related data...
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:48 UTC Translated from zh-cn
5. Apple Respond iPhone 18 Pro / Max Short run slow: First Focus index is time-consuming depending on the amount of data
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:41 UTC Translated from zh-cn
6. Anthropic IPO 01, 1801
   IT Home (EN Mirror) 23:40 UTC Translated from Vietnamese

Semiconductors 81 stories

1. OpenAI Will Not Ship GPT-6.1 Astra Due to Safety Concerns
   The Information 23:53 UTC

   OpenAI has decided not to release the AI model that it had intended to release as GPT-6.1 Astra due to its results on safety tests, a spokesperson said Monday. The model performed worse than GPT-6 Astra—OpenAI’s newest model, released…

2. Blade Hydrogen Green Technology targets waste hydrogen power for AIDC
   DigiTimes Daily 23:21 UTC

   As electricity demand from AI data centers and the semiconductor industry climbs rapidly, Blade Hydrogen Green Technology is tapping industrial byproduct hydrogen and mixed-hydrogen fuel cell technology to turn waste hydrogen into power…

3. Advantech's North America expansion signals a deeper shift toward local manufacturing, services
   DigiTimes Daily 23:21 UTC

   Advantech is expanding manufacturing, engineering, and fulfillment capabilities in North America as demand grows for locally designed and assembled systems across industrial technology markets. The move reflects broader US reshoring…

4. Column: Beyond Zero Trust ＆ndash; why AI supply chain resilience needs a plan B
   DigiTimes Daily 23:20 UTC

   Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering enterprise operations, blurring the lines between cybersecurity and supply chain management. In the AI era, Zero Trust is no longer only about who can access a system. Enterprises must also ask…

5. HAA free tuition enrollment draws Silicon Valley buzz
   DigiTimes Daily 23:20 UTC

   The Horowitz Andreessen Academy (HAA), a separate education company incubated by Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, has officially launched and opened applications for its first class. Based in San Francisco, the private full-time school…

6. Taiwan PCB output hits record high on AI demand, putting NT$1 trillion year within reach
   DigiTimes Daily 23:20 UTC

   AI server, high-speed networking, and memory demand continued to lift Taiwan's PCB industry in the second quarter of 2026, boosting demand for substrates, high-layer-count boards, and HDI products. Tight supplies of advanced materials and…

Tech Market & VC 67 stories

1. Sam Altman stays home, but a senior OpenAI exec heads to Australia for parliamentary inquiry into Medicare’s rogue agent attack
   StartupDaily (AU) 23:43 UTC

   Altman ducks Canberra as OpenAI sends Jason Kwon to answer for a rogue AI Medicare hack.

2. OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns
   TechCrunch 23:39 UTC

   A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.

3. Aurora CFO says 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030 isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds
   TechCrunch 22:58 UTC

   Self-driving truck company Aurora laid out an audacious plan for 2030. Its CFO says its targets aren't aspirational.

4. Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation
   TechCrunch 21:29 UTC

   The new financing is expected to more than triples the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago.

5. CEO Interview: Spade
   CB Insights 21:13 UTC

   Oban MacTavish , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Spade , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more…

6. Executive Interview: Anchor
   CB Insights 21:05 UTC

   Omry Man , Co-founder & CRO of Anchor , tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Want to see more research? Start your…

Software Engineering 45 stories

1. Thoughts on Flash (2010)
   lobste.rs 21:43 UTC

   Comments

2. ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model
   Hacker News Front Page 21:26 UTC

   Article URL: https://github.com/Low-Zi-Hong/ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884625 Points: 137 # Comments: 30

3. Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
   Hacker News Front Page 21:08 UTC

   Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/how-many-flock-devices-in-united-states-300000/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884363 Points: 138 # Comments: 62

4. State of the (Tagged) Union Address by Andrew Kelley
   lobste.rs 20:35 UTC

   Comments

5. I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records
   Hacker News Front Page 20:32 UTC

   Article URL: https://blog.faav.net/how-i-couldve-accessed-17-trillion-microsoft-records Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883970 Points: 267 # Comments: 115

6. Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
   Hacker News Front Page 20:23 UTC

   Article URL: https://github.com/firelex/jeff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883844 Points: 536 # Comments: 204

Artificial Intelligence 43 stories

1. Developing a new era... "President of the State-of-the-art"
   AI Times (Korea) 20:12 UTC Translated from Korean
2. Towards safety cases for frontier AI training
   OpenAI Blog 19:00 UTC

   Our early guidelines for safety cases in frontier AI training cover technical safeguards, operational practices, and investigating misalignment incidents

3. Offers 5.5, Self-Resume 1st place...'Incomplete RSI'In front of July
   AI Times (Korea) 18:00 UTC Translated from Korean
4. A successful completion of the 9-ruft hill amplitude calculation of the Clodelo theory
   AI Times (Korea) 17:53 UTC Translated from Korean
5. 5 global leaderboard seats with Bead Ramp, AI
   AI Times (Korea) 17:50 UTC Translated from Korean
6. “Human Scientists vs AI” Study Interpretation
   AI Times (Korea) 17:42 UTC Translated from Korean

Energy & Green Tech 36 stories

1. SOLARLAP — Around Australia on Green Power
   CleanTechnica 22:55 UTC

   Sick of the cartoons and comments insisting that all electric cars are powered by electricity generated by fossil fuels, Andrew Mangano set out to show it is possible to travel around Australia using mainly solar energy. You probably know…

2. US clean energy jobs fell for the first time since the pandemic
   Electrek 22:15 UTC

   The US lost 36,949 clean energy jobs in 2025, ending four straight years of growth. That’s the direct impact of the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Congress rolling back federal support for clean energy and EVs, which…

3. US clean energy jobs fell for the first time since the pandemic
   Electrek 22:15 UTC

   The US lost 36,949 clean energy jobs in 2025, ending four straight years of growth. That’s the direct impact of the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Congress rolling back federal support for clean energy and EVs, which…

4. Will New York's 1GW storage contracts finally break the state's big battery impasse
   Canary Media 21:00 UTC

   New York set an ambitious goal to eliminate fossil-fueled electricity by 2040. Doing so will almost certainly require widespread adoption of batteries to store renewable generation and make it available on demand, thereby reducing the need…

5. Lexus reveals 2027 TZ prices start under $65,000, with up to 315 miles of range
   Electrek 20:43 UTC

   Lexus confirmed the 2027 TZ will go on sale later this year with prices starting under $65,000. The electric SUV will offer up to 315 miles of range on a single charge. more…

6. Lexus reveals 2027 TZ prices start under $65,000, with up to 315 miles of range
   Electrek 20:43 UTC

   Lexus confirmed the 2027 TZ will go on sale later this year with prices starting under $65,000. The electric SUV will offer up to 315 miles of range on a single charge. more…

Cybersecurity 29 stories

1. Apple Emergency Patch for iOS 26, macOS26, macOS15 (CVE-2026-86950), (Mon, Sep 28th)
   SANS ISC 22:35 UTC

   Apple today released patches for all of its operating systems. However, only patches for older branches include a security fix. The vulnerability being addressed in iOS 26, macOS 26 and macOS 15 is already being exploited. iOS and macOS 27…

2. Japan's Keio confirms ransomware attack disrupted business systems
   BleepingComputer 20:56 UTC

   Keio Corporation (Keio), a major private railway operator in Japan, said its network was hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend, disrupting some of its business systems. [...]

3. iOS 27.0.1 released: Apple fixes annoying iPhone 18 Pro restart and freezing issues
   ZDNet Security 20:39 UTC

   The first update to iOS 27 squashes a bug in which the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max would freeze or restart when you try to use Face ID.

4. Times Car confirms data breach affecting 6.6 million user accounts
   BleepingComputer 20:31 UTC

   Japanese car-sharing service Times Car has confirmed that approximately 6.6 million user accounts were compromised in a cyberattack disclosed late last week. [...]

5. Dutch police confirm arrest in ShinyHunters hacking investigation
   BleepingComputer 19:49 UTC

   Dutch police have confirmed that a 24-year-old Amsterdam man arrested earlier this month was detained as part of an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group. [...]

6. Apple Patches CoreGraphics Flaw Possibly Exploited in Targeted Attacks
   The Hacker News 19:18 UTC

   Apple has released security updates to address a vulnerability in older versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that it said may have been exploited in targeted attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950, refers to an out-of-bounds…

Geopolitics & Policy 28 stories

1. Judge blocks Trump from tying anti-terrorism grants to election changes
   South China Morning Post Tech 23:20 UTC

   A US judge blocked the Trump administration on Monday from conditioning counterterrorism funds to state and local ‌governments on changes to election administration. The decision by Washington-based US District Judge Amir Ali marks the…

2. Israel security agency files complaint over TV report that Netanyahu visited UAE
   South China Morning Post Tech 22:25 UTC

   Israel’s domestic security service filed a complaint against a television channel that reported Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the UAE, his office said on Monday, the government’s first acknowledgement of the trip despite not…

3. Pope Leo says concerns about AI doom scenarios are not ‘fake news’
   South China Morning Post Tech 21:45 UTC

   Pope Leo on Monday ⁠said concerns that artificial intelligence ⁠could destroy the world are not “fake news” and should be taken seriously, in an apparent rebuke of US President Donald Trump. The first US pope, who has warned of the dangers…

4. In the US-China AI race, the real fight is keeping humans in control
   South China Morning Post Tech 21:30 UTC

   The US-China AI competition faces a dilemma. Both countries see artificial intelligence as a source of economic, scientific and strategic power, so neither has much incentive to slow down. Yet the more capable and autonomous AI becomes…

5. China pledges to ‘firmly support’ Cuba as US escalates pressure on Havana
   South China Morning Post Tech 21:21 UTC

   China will stand by Cuba in defending its sovereignty and resisting outside interference, foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said on Monday as Washington stepped up its campaign to force political change in Havana. Guo made the remarks…

6. US revokes visas from Latin American officials and families over accusations of corruption
   South China Morning Post Tech 20:50 UTC

   The Trump administration is revoking the visas of 27 Latin American officials, former officials and their families, including Bolivia’s attorney general, over accusations of corruption. The officials and their families come from Bolivia…

Quant Finance 25 stories

1. Tether’s USDT at center of Iran’s shadow banking network, new Senate Report says
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 19:10 UTC

   Tether and its stablecoin have become central in "Iran's shadow banking system," according to a new Senate investigation.

2. Citi expands Coinbase partnership to power stablecoin payments for businesses
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 17:22 UTC

   Coinbase is expanding partnership with Citi to provide businesses with infrastructure connecting traditional fiat payments and stablecoins.

3. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce reflects on her time at the agency, what she still wanted to get done: ‘There’s no good time to leave’
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 16:35 UTC

   After nearly a decade at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Hester Peirce is wrapping up her last week at the agency.

4. Strive pushes bitcoin holdings above 27,400 BTC with latest $94.5 million purchase
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 16:00 UTC

   SATA supplied 85% of Strive’s latest capital as its bitcoin holdings climbed to 27,462 BTC.

5. EU Supervisors Put Overseas Payment Dependencies in Focus
   Finextra 15:55 UTC

   Author: A finextra community member

6. Bitget attacker tested risk controls with small transfers before $388 million theft, CEO says
   The Block (Crypto／Fintech) 15:30 UTC

   Bitget's attacker ran two small test transfers half an hour before draining $388 million, CEO Gracy Chen says.

Cloud & Infrastructure 24 stories

1. You picked Claude Sonnet 5.5 — but Anthropic may send your request to Sonnet 5
   The New Stack 21:34 UTC

   Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5 , released Monday , is the first Sonnet model to launch with cyber safeguards and model fallbacks like those the company developed for its most capable models, putting classifier-driven routing in the tier…

2. OpenAI exposes “new variety of prompt injection” that can spread like computer worms
   The New Stack 21:26 UTC

   In a report published Friday, OpenAI shares evidence of a new variety of prompt injection that can self-propagate like a computer worm. The AI company likens the new attack to a traditional computer worm, where malware replicates itself to…

3. Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 with near-Opus performance at half the price
   The New Stack 18:00 UTC

   Anthropic on Monday launched Claude Sonnet 5.5 , the latest version of its workhorse model and the second model in the Claude 5.5 family (after Opus 5.5 , which launched last week). A new version of Claude Haiku , the smallest and most…

4. Meta hired MongoDB’s CEO to build its enterprise AI business — but Llama is missing
   The New Stack 17:33 UTC

   Meta announced on Monday that it is building a new enterprise business around its AI models and agents and has hired MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to run it. The effort, called Meta Enterprise Platform, will take technology Meta built for its…

5. OpenAI blocked its agent’s web access. Then it tunneled out through DNS.
   The New Stack 17:15 UTC

   Last week, OpenAI published new reports detailing misalignment issues with its agents. This time, two internal models found ways around security controls after intended paths were blocked. In one incident, an agent used DNS to bypass…

6. Think you need a better reranker? Check your retrieval first.
   The New Stack 17:01 UTC

   You built a search system using the latest, greatest models , and maybe you were thrilled with the outcome. But what happens if the search results were… sort of… bad? Your first instinct might be to invest time and resources in a bigger…

Space & Aerospace 17 stories

1. October’s Night Sky Notes: Spooky Stargazing
   NASA News 22:48 UTC

   2 Min Read October’s Night Sky Notes: Spooky Stargazing <figcaption data-sanitized-class="hds-caption maxw-mobile desktop:paddin

2. NASA, Boeing outline Starliner’s return path to ISS crew rotations
   NASASpaceFlight 22:13 UTC

   NASA and Boeing have laid out a revised path for Starliner that puts an uncrewed engineering flight first, a crewed return in 2028, extra station missions on the books, and a new launcher in the certification pipeline. Speaking Monday…

3. New device captures carbon dioxide by pumping it across a battery
   Ars Technica Space 20:31 UTC

   Equipment to capture carbon dioxide from ambient air or smokestacks generally works through a sort of reversible filter. Air is passed through granules or a liquid that absorbs the CO 2 , then that CO 2 -loaded substance undergoes a…

4. NASA, Boeing Share Update on Commercial Starliner Development Plans
   NASA News 19:26 UTC

   Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA’s Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port. This long-duration photograph was…

5. NASA Armstrong Celebrates 80 Years of Flight Innovation
   NASA News 19:20 UTC

   On Sept. 30, 1946, five National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (NACA) engineers arrived at Muroc Army Airfield in California’s high desert to achieve supersonic flight for the first time. In less than two years, NACA flew the X-1…

6. Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
   Ars Technica Space 17:56 UTC

   The infamous Carrington Event of 1859 has long been considered the first extreme space weather event, but there have been reports of minor disturbances to telegraph equipment during geomagnetic storms since the late 1840s. In 2013…

Biotech & Medtech 15 stories

1. DreaMed Wins FDA Clearance for CGM-Driven Insulin Automation Tool for Both Type 2 Injection Regimens
   MedCity News 23:12 UTC

   DreaMed Diabetes has received FDA 510(K) clearance for MODI, a mobile app that uses CGM (continuous glucose monitoring) data to provide insulin dosing recommendations for people with Type 2 diabetes who need both basal insulin and…

2. New Coalition Launches to Expand Direct Contracting
   MedCity News 22:59 UTC

   The Association for Direct Care launched a coalition focused on expanding direct contracting to lower healthcare costs. The post New Coalition Launches to Expand Direct Contracting appeared first on MedCity News .

3. Risk from toxic metals can persist months after wildfires, Maui study finds
   STAT News 21:07 UTC

   Metal mixtures found in the leftover smoke, ash and debris from the deadly 2023 Maui wildfires were harmful to the lung health of people living nearby long after the burning ended, a new study says. The work shows that major wildfires…

4. STAT+: Merck discontinues a crucial antibiotic despite concerns over superbug resistance
   STAT News 20:45 UTC

   In an unexpected move, Merck discontinued an important antibiotic from the U.S. market earlier this month, underscoring concerns about the commitment large pharmaceutical companies are willing to make to a field that is crucial to public…

5. Merck Pays $400M for Cancer Drug Prospect From China-Based SciBrunch
   MedCity News 20:32 UTC

   Merck now has global rights to a SciBrunch Therapeutics drug candidate designed to block mutated versions of the cancer-driving protein KRAS G12D. This class of targeted cancer therapies includes clinical-stage assets from Revolution…

6. Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow transgender medical care restrictions in prison
   STAT News 17:55 UTC

   WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to let it enforce, for now, restrictions on gender-affirming care in federal prison. The emergency appeal comes after lower courts blocked officials from immediately…

Quantum Computing 12 stories

1. Podcast with Steve Gibson, President of Americas at JIJ
   Quantum Computing Report 18:34 UTC

   Yuval Boger's guest is Steve Gibson, President of Americas at JIJ, a Japan-based optimization company whose founders came from Professor Nishimori’s lab. Steve shared how JIJ spans the spectrum from classical to quantum-inspired to quantum…

2. Donate ＆ Join Us! Trick, Treat, and Quantum Physics: Kai Brings Halloween to ETH Zürich
   The Quantum Insider 16:21 UTC

   Insider Brief The Quantum Kid brings quantum physics to wow² Space at ETH Zürich on October 31 — Halloween! — with 10-year-old Kai dressed as the Grim Reaper. Families and quantum-curious kids in the Zurich area are invited to come along…

3. FSU Receives $2.1 Million for Quantum Communication Testbed
   The Quantum Insider 15:54 UTC

   Insider Brief Florida State University will establish a campus-scale quantum communication testbed with $2.1 million in federal Community Project Funding through NIST. The testbed will connect a central quantum communication hub with nodes…

4. Quobly and CEA-Leti Strengthen Collaboration via FAMES Pilot Line to Scale 300 mm Silicon Spin-Qubit Platform
   Quantum Computing Report 15:31 UTC

   Quobly and CEA-Leti are strengthening their collaboration through the FAMES Pilot Line, providing Quobly access to advanced processing tools for prototyping 3D integration and RF control layers for next-generation quantum processing units…

5. India’s Finance Minister Places Quantum Among Next Major Infrastructure Investment Priorities
   The Quantum Insider 14:06 UTC

   Insider Brief India’s next major infrastructure investments will include quantum technology, AI and semiconductor chips, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, according to the Hindustan Times. Sitharaman called for academia and…

6. Occam Foundry Gains Austin and UT Austin Support for Quantum Campus
   The Quantum Insider 13:18 UTC

   Insider Brief Occam Foundry has received a letter of support from Austin Mayor Kirk Watson and signed an MOU with UT Austin’s Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) for its planned quantum technology campus. The partnership will explore…

Robotics & Automation 7 stories

1. A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie Kemp
   IEEE Spectrum Robotics 21:48 UTC

   Building useful robots starts with understanding the people who use them. For Charlie Kemp, cofounder and chief technology officer of Hello Robot, that means developing assistive robots that can help people with everyday tasks and support…

2. Gecko Robotics works with NVIDIA to add AI agent security and control
   The Robot Report 17:41 UTC

   Gecko is using NVIDIA’s new agentic AI security layer in its inspection robots. Source: Gecko Robotics NVIDIA Corp. today announced its Open Agent Safety Platform, which consists of the OpenShell open-source software and Sentry reference…

3. Gecko Robotics works with NVIDIA to add AI agent security and control
   Robotics Business Review 17:41 UTC

   Gecko is using NVIDIA’s new agentic AI security layer in its inspection robots. Source: Gecko Robotics NVIDIA Corp. today announced its Open Agent Safety Platform, which consists of the OpenShell open-source software and Sentry reference…

4. Robonomics on the threshold: Economic autonomy, smart cities, and crypto wallets for humanoids
   Robotics Business Review 13:56 UTC

   From smart cities to cryptocurrency, economic factors will determine how robot fleets scale. Source: Lmi Stock Studio AI, via Adobe Stock Capital itself is a sufficient form of robot governance, hypothesized analysts at the AI Robotics…

5. Robonomics on the threshold: Economic autonomy, smart cities, and crypto wallets for humanoids
   The Robot Report 13:56 UTC

   From smart cities to cryptocurrency, economic factors will determine how robot fleets scale. Source: Lmi Stock Studio AI, via Adobe Stock Capital itself is a sufficient form of robot governance, hypothesized analysts at the AI Robotics…

6. Raise Robotics to discuss scaling field robots at RoboBusiness
   The Robot Report 13:22 UTC

   The Autonomous Mobile Fabricator operates as a ground-level AGV or mounts directly onto any Genie MEWP platform. | Source: Raise Robotics Most autonomous systems work in the lab and stall in the field. An early-stage construction robot…