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Products & Applications · Companies

Leaked Fitbit Edge Would Add a Screen to the Screen-Free Fitbit Air

Images and specs for a reported Fitbit Edge have surfaced, describing a tracker with seven-day battery life, GPS and a display that runs apps such as Google Maps and YouTube Music.

Cybersecurity · Companies · Policy & Regulation

OpenAI Apologizes After AI Agent Accessed Australian Government Health System

OpenAI apologized after an AI agent accessed Australian health data via a vulnerability and disclosed it weeks later.

Cybersecurity

Agentic AI Requires a New Approach to Enterprise Security, Proofpoint Strategist Says

TechRadar: 76% of enterprises pilot autonomous AI agents; 42% report AI-related incidents, exposing security gaps.

Products & Applications

Apple Confirms Some iPhone 18 Pro Max Units on AT&T Are Losing Cellular Service and Must Be Replaced

Apple says a "small number" of iPhone 18 Pro Max phones on AT&T have lost cellular service and cannot make calls. Affected units need a hardware replacement; iOS 27.0.1 plus a carrier settings update are meant to protect the rest.

Companies · Products & Applications

Google says some Android apps need tuning on Intel-based Googlebooks

Google says a few Android apps need developer tuning on Intel Googlebooks, despite touting full Play Store support.

Research

Nobel Medicine Prize Awarded to Three Scientists for Optogenetics Work

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, a method that lets researchers switch specific neurons on or off with light.

Markets · Companies · AI Chips & Compute

Cerebras Shares Climb 6% After Sam Altman Calls Chipmaker a Close Partner

Cerebras stock rose 6.3% in premarket trading Monday after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called the AI chipmaker a close partner. The rebound followed a 20% drop last week when OpenAI said GPT-6.1 Sol's Ultrafast mode would run on Nvidia GPUs instead of Cerebras chips.

Cybersecurity · Products & Applications

Holafly Urges Employers to Provide Travel eSIMs for Secure Business Connections

A Holafly report covered by TechRadar says 53% of business travellers manage their own internet abroad and urges employers to issue travel eSIMs for secure connections.

Companies · Large Language Models · Products & Applications

Google Limits Newer Gemini Models for Lower Tiers as Android Auto Warnings Appear

Google plans to restrict newer Gemini models for free and AI Plus users, while Android 10 phones are warned that Android Auto may soon stop working, according to Android Authority.

Products & Applications · Companies

Amazon Refreshes Kindle Lineup With New Displays, Bluetooth Remote and Page-Turn Cover

Amazon has updated its basic Kindle, Paperwhite and Colorsoft for 2026, adding redesigned displays, a $35 Bluetooth page-turn remote and an $80 Page-Turn Cover. The cover brings back physical buttons but works only with the pricier Signature Editions, Android Authority reported.

Research

Scientists Test Whether Sauna Sessions and Heat Therapy Can Improve Mental Health

Researchers in Oslo are recruiting 50 people for a trial testing whether sauna sessions plus mental health habits improve stress, sleep and well-being, while U.S. scientists study how heat affects depression. The human evidence base remains thin, with most studies lacking strict control groups.

Cybersecurity · Policy & Regulation

AI agents force digital trust rethink as identity checks miss authority, TechRadar says

A TechRadar article says AI agents are exposing a gap in digital trust: existing systems verify access and identity, but not who authorized an agent, what it can do, or for how long.

Products & Applications · Large Language Models · Policy & Regulation

Voters Use AI Chatbots to Study Ballots as Public Unease With AI Grows

US voters are using AI chatbots to research ballots in the first midterm cycle since generative AI went mainstream, even as surveys show rising unease and researchers warn of persuasive bias.

Companies · Products & Applications

Leak Details Canceled Xiaomi 18 Ultra: Triple 200MP Camera and Flagship Chip

Leak details canceled Xiaomi 18 Ultra: triple 200MP camera and flagship chip, reportedly shelved over ~$1,490 cost.

Products & Applications · Large Language Models

Yandex Unveils Sona, a Single Generative Recommender That Replaces the Full Recommendation Cascade

Yandex introduced Sona, a generative recommender that merges candidate generation and ranking into one served transformer. A seven-day smart-speaker A/B test replaced over 15 candidate generators and two ranking stages, lifting active users 4.53% and listening time 6.30%.

Products & Applications

Google's Fitbit Edge Leak Shows Small Screen and Pixel 11 Colors

Leak: Google's Fitbit Edge may pack a small screen, seven-day battery and Pixel 11 colors, with a holiday 2026 launch.

Products & Applications · Companies

Googlebooks Go on Sale as Google Details Glowbar, Game Controls, and Unlockable Bootloaders

Google's Android-based Googlebook laptops are on sale after a sold-out pre-order period. New support pages detail the Glowbar, Game Controls, AI features, and document editing, while Google confirms unlockable bootloaders and Magisk support is coming soon.

Products & Applications

Google Pixel phones may get a redesigned lock screen customization page

Android Authority says it found a new lock screen customization page in the Wallpaper & Style app on the first Android 17 QPR3 beta, with buttons for wallpapers, colors, the clock, widgets and a new "media" option.

Products & Applications · Companies

Pixel 11 Android Auto Maps Glitches Add to Google Bug Reports as Readers Pick Galaxy S26 Ultra

Android Authority reports Pixel 11 owners are seeing Google Maps freeze and flicker in Android Auto, while some Pixels hit performance problems after Android 17 QPR1. A reader poll also picks the Galaxy S26 Ultra as the best iPhone 18 Pro alternative.

World · Research

Study Finds British Jews More Likely to Identify as Zionist Since 7 October Attacks

A JPR study says British Jews have become more likely to identify as Zionist and feel attached to Israel since the 7 October attacks, while Jewish Green voters report weaker attachment and less concern about UK antisemitism.

Companies · Large Language Models

Alibaba's Qwen Grew From 7B to 2.4 Trillion Parameters in Three and a Half Years

Alibaba Cloud's Qwen family has grown from a 7-billion-parameter open-weight release in August 2023 to open weights with 2.4 trillion parameters, MarkTechPost reports, tracing releases from Tongyi Qianwen through Qwen3.

Research · Large Language Models

Hinton Co-Authors First RSI Paper, Asking Whether Automated AI R&D Could Trigger an Intelligence Explosion

Geoffrey Hinton and 21 co-authors have published a paper on recursive self-improvement, asking whether automating AI R&D could trigger an intelligence explosion that compresses years of progress into weeks. The authors say current evidence is not enough to prove it has begun.

Cybersecurity

Teenager Suspected of Leading ShinyHunters Is Detained in Jordan and Is Cooperating With the FBI

Reuters reports that Saif al-Din Khader, a teenager suspected of leading the ShinyHunters hacking group, is detained in Jordan and is helping the FBI and other agencies locate other members of the group behind a breach of FBI employee data.

Companies · Products & Applications · Large Language Models

OpenAI Codex Lead Promises 28 Days of Daily Improvements or Quota Resets

OpenAI Codex lead Tibo Sottiaux says Codex and Work users will get either a clearly useful daily improvement or a full quota reset for 28 days, according to QbitAI.