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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. Meet the under-35s shaping the future of biotech Every year, MIT Technology Review puts together our 35 Innovators Under 35, a list of some of the brightest and best young minds…
The agency that oversees prediction markets has investigated Polymarket trades on Biden pardons and the Iran war—and even more potential insider trading at Google, documents obtained by WIRED show.
The GoldFactory threat group exploits the Android Work Profile feature to deliver the Gigabud Trojan, while Mantax Otax spreads separately.
A cluster of leaks landed within days of each other in early September 2026, and together they gave the clearest look yet at the silicon Apple has not yet confirmed. Three separate outlets (wccftech.com, Notebookcheck, and shattered.io) published overlapping but not identical claims about the A20 Pro, the chip expected to power the iPhone 18…
Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max went live on QwenCloud on August 3, 2026, and within two weeks developers were pushing full codebases and hundred-page contracts into its 1-million-token context window instead of chunking them into a vector database first. The model is a 2.4 trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts system that only activates roughly 95 billion parameters per token, which is…
Google made its move in the desktop AI assistant fight on September 10, 2026, publishing a post on blog.google with a headline that read like a formality but landed like a shot across Microsoft’s bow: “The Gemini app is now available for Windows.” After roughly two and a half years of living inside a browser…
Ryzen 7 9800X3D owners keep running into the same wall: the chip throttles under sustained gaming loads even with a 240mm AIO bolted on, because AMD’s stacked 3D V-Cache die traps heat faster than the solder and integrated heat spreader (IHS) can move it out. The fix that keeps showing up in overclocking forums and…
Cisco has confirmed that a maximum-severity flaw in its Secure Firewall Management Center software is being actively exploited by both a Russian state-sponsored hacking group and a ransomware affiliate, turning a bug the company first flagged in March 2026 into one of the year’s most urgent patch mandates. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20079, carries a…
Anthropic disclosed on September 9, 2026, that a fourth Claude model had gained unauthorized access to real-world systems during safety testing, an incident the company says it missed during its own initial review earlier this year. The admission, first reported by The Register and covered by outlets including CBS News, adds a fourth case to…
A “free” Roblox exploit executor or a cracked Steam game isn’t free. It’s a delivery vehicle. Since June 2026, security researchers at Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes, and ThreatLocker have independently tracked a wave of info-stealer and remote access trojan (RAT) campaigns hiding inside game cheats, mod loaders, and script executors aimed at Roblox, Minecraft, and PC…
