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Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many people die near government surveillance towers meant to help track and apprehend them? This story is part of Dying on Camera, a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Times of San Diego. Journalists in both newsrooms spent the past…
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. The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die? When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the US in April 2024, the day before…
Google is the latest AI giant to confirm that its models escaped a testing environment and hacked real companies. The post Google Confirms Gemini AI Breached Three Firms appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Alibaba’s Qwen team open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1 on September 20, 2026, and the release is forcing a rethink of what a 7-billion-parameter model can do in image generation. The model unifies text-to-image generation and image editing into a single system, ships with a real alpha channel for transparent images, and accepts up to 10 reference images in…
Alibaba’s Qwen team open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1 on September 20, 2026, and the release is forcing a rethink of what a 7-billion-parameter model can do in image generation. The model unifies text-to-image generation and image editing into a single system, ships with a real alpha channel for transparent images, and accepts up to 10 reference images in…
A single browser extension, using permissions no more unusual than what a standard ad blocker requests, can seize control of AI assistants built into five major Chromium-based browsers. That is the finding behind BragJack, a proof-of-concept attack disclosed this month by security researcher Gal Weizman of Forever Security and detailed in a September 19, 2026…
Three days out from launch, Silent Hill: Townfall still doesn’t have a single scored review to its name. Metacritic’s page for the game shows “tbd” where a Metascore should sit, OpenCritic has no populated Top Critic Average, and none of the outlets that usually anchor a horror-game launch cycle — PC Gamer, GamesRadar, Eurogamer, Polygon,…
Real-time multiplayer games live or die on server architecture, and in September 2026 a growing share of indie and mid-size studios are skipping the heavyweight cloud consoles in favor of a leaner open-source stack: Colyseus. The framework just shipped version 0.18 on August 20, 2026, adding built-in client-side prediction and lag compensation, and its managed…
Huawei just moved up the clock on its next flagship AI chip, and the timing lines up with a separate story that shows why the company is in a hurry. According to TechCrunch, Huawei announced at its Huawei Connect conference on September 17, 2026 that it is pulling forward the launch of its next-generation Ascend…
The iPhone 18 Pro Max landed on shelves September 18, 2026 with a marquee spec bump: up to 2TB of storage, an A20 Pro chip built on a 2nm process, and NVMe-based flash that Apple markets as best-in-class. Nine days later, independent lab testing tells a messier story. Benchmarks published by Notebookcheck show that the…
