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USB-C-connected video glasses are a lot of fun if you want to see your games, movies (or just your computer screen) on a large, immersive virtual screen. One of the most well-rounded pairs out there, Xreal’s 1S, has returned to their lowest price yet, costing $399 at Amazon and via Xreal itself ($50 off). The…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years,…
The Pixel phone maker said there are indications that a bug in the phone’s modem “may be under limited, targeted exploitation.”
You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, and you can’t patch nearly 1,000 CVEs without a few glitches.
A rumor about a next-generation ChatGPT model is spreading through tech media today, and this time the framing is different from the usual leak cycle. According to Geeky Gadgets, speculation around a future OpenAI system, referred to in early chatter as GPT-7, centers on one specific gap: multimodality. The outlet’s report ties the rumor directly…
A wave of “ChatGPT 7” headlines hit search results this week, claiming OpenAI’s next model is already targeting Google’s Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 on multimodal performance. The claims are circulating fast. They are also, according to the outlets actually covering OpenAI’s roadmap, not accurate. As of September 16, 2026, OpenAI…
Every week, a fresh thread lands on r/PS5pro and r/PS5 with some version of the same question: should I upgrade? The replies are all over the map. One Redditor with a 65-inch Samsung S90D calls the jump “absolutely worth it.” Another, staring at a 1080p bedroom TV, says flatly that it’s not worth the money.…
A hacker who goes by the alias IAmNotAVillain says the Revolut data breach that Financial Times, TechCrunch, and Reuters reported on September 12, 2026, was only the opening chapter. In new claims surfacing on September 15, the same actor says they spent six months inside multiple Italian law-enforcement systems, walked away with roughly 147GB of…
CenterPoint Energy, the Houston-based utility that delivers electricity and natural gas to roughly 7 million customers across Texas, Indiana, Minnesota, and Ohio, has confirmed a data breach affecting an unknown portion of its customer base. The company disclosed the incident in a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 14, 2026,…
An enterprise network fell in under ten hours on September 2, 2026, and almost nobody touched a keyboard to do it. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 spent weeks picking apart the intrusion afterward and concluded that AI agents, not a human operator, carried out nearly every step of the attack chain: reconnaissance, credential…
