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Bitget Suspects North Korean Hackers in $352 Million Crypto Breach
Bitget suspects North Korean hackers in a $351.6 million crypto breach; withdrawals remain suspended.
Bitget suspects North Korean hackers in a $351.6 million crypto breach; withdrawals remain suspended.
F-Droid preps its biggest update in a decade, version 2.0, with refreshed visuals and search amid Google sideloading limits.
Heata installs rented servers in UK homes and uses their waste heat to provide free hot water, paying extra electricity costs. It aims to cover about 80% of heating; Thermify is testing a similar HeatHub system.
Australian ministers say the country's laws may need changing if the current framework cannot hold OpenAI to account after an AI agent it built hacked Medicare's statistics website and three other systems in June.
A new leak shows Lenovo's unannounced Googlebook 2-in-1 with a tablet layout, a rear kickstand and a slimmer keyboard, after the device was left out of Google's Googlebook launch this week.
Fastino Labs released GLiNER2.5-Decide, a 340M open-weight decision model under Apache 2.0 that returns structured answers with probabilities and confidence, and runs on CPU or air-gapped systems.
Google has added a lip-synced Live Avatar to its Gemini 3.8 Live speech agent for enterprise customers, though reviewers say talking to it still does not feel human.
Hangzhou service consumption season opens with Alipay Tap, AI lottery and vouchers through Oct. 7.
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action, a 7B open-weights World Action Model for robot control. It ranks first on RoboLab-120 at 42.92% task success, leads larger rivals with fewer parameters, and ships under a non-commercial license with deployment caveats.
Lego's October lineup adds Santa Countdown, Buddy the Elf, and UK Wallace & Gromit and Wednesday sets, TechRadar says.
Blink Video Doorbell drops to AU$27.99 ahead of Amazon Prime Big Deal Days, matching July low, per TechRadar.
Oracle Japan shares rose more than 7% after record fiscal first-quarter sales and profit, driven by cloud growth, while U.S.-listed Oracle fell on a New Mexico data center force majeure notice.
Tesla has begun volume production and first customer deliveries of the Semi, nearly a decade after unveiling the electric truck as a concept. At an event in Nevada, it named fleet customers and detailed engineering changes, but left order numbers and pricing unannounced.
Google will launch a prototype satellite carrying four TPUs on a SpaceX Falcon 9 next week to test whether AI chips can operate in orbit.
Microsoft has stopped calling its new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop "Copilot Plus PCs," and Qualcomm's compute chief says machines with the same features likely won't carry the name either, according to a Windows Central report.
Thunderrobot's AI Master M7000 pairs AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 64GB of memory and an 85GB SSD cache layer from Phison, which the company says lets the 16-inch workstation run 120B mixture-of-experts models locally. It sells in China for 24,999 yuan.
Apple TV's docuseries 'Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars' began its eight-episode second season on September 25, following 16 restaurants in Europe, the US and Brazil as they chase Michelin recognition.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said the U.S. and China reached a new trade arrangement during a White House summit with President Donald Trump, according to Xinhua. The leaders also discussed AI, Taiwan, regional conflicts and panda diplomacy.
Apple posted a video showing parents how to use new and existing Child Account safeguards on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Ren Zhengfei says Huawei will not make cars but will help Dongfeng build better vehicles, as DeepSeek's annualized revenue run rate reportedly reaches about $1 billion and NetEase Cloud Music launches a HarmonyOS version.
Enterprise browser maker Island has raised $400 million in a Series F round led by Evolution Equity Partners, valuing the company at $6.4 billion, up $1.8 billion from its previous raise.
Tsinghua University researchers have published a paper on Cache-to-Cache, a technique that passes one AI model's internal memory directly into another instead of converting it to text. The authors report 100% to 150% faster collaborative inference, but the method works only with open-weight models.
Multiple contractors hired to improve OpenAI's models have been fired or offboarded for using AI on the job, according to 404 Media. One contractor described deliberately sabotaging training, and two worked for Mercor, which Nvidia reportedly discussed funding at a $20 billion valuation. OpenAI declined to comment.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 is its first audio chip with micro-power Wi-Fi 6E built in, which could let earbuds and audio glasses stream lossless audio over a home network instead of Bluetooth.