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Google has disclosed that a high-severity security flaw in its Pixel Cellular Modem has come under exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58704 (CVSS score: 8.0), is a privilege escalation flaw. “In Cellular Modem, there is a possible permission bypass due to a logic error in the code,” according to a description of…
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…
Over the past few days, a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money from AI all publicly agreed that it’s time to make everyone slow down before we lose control – including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and X…
Shopping for a phone can be an ordeal. That’s why we’ve tested almost every Android phone, from the smartest to the cheapest—even phones that fold—to find the ones worth your money.
The Pixel phone maker said there are indications that a bug in the phone’s modem “may be under limited, targeted exploitation.”
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…
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…
Roblox spent most of 2026 fighting child-safety lawsuits, a bipartisan Senate probe, and a bruising second quarter on Wall Street. Now it has a new problem, and this one comes from Brussels. On August 31, 2026, the European Commission designated Roblox a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under the Digital Services Act, placing the gaming…
Google Research is exploring how to use AI and satellites to scan the world every 20 minutes and catch wildfires the size of a car.
