Cybersecurity
iVerify Finds P7 DarkSword Spyware Variant Targeting Unpatched iPhones
iVerify reports P7 DarkSword, a new iPhone spyware variant that steals Keychain and crypto-wallet data.
iVerify reports P7 DarkSword, a new iPhone spyware variant that steals Keychain and crypto-wallet data.
Firmus Technologies has abandoned its planned ASX listing, which was expected to value the AI data centre company at $44bn, after investor demand fell short. The company says it will now seek private capital.
Bloomberg’s The Close said AI trade worries, oil and Treasury yields are pressuring markets and listed a broad guest lineup spanning fixed income, digital infrastructure, equities, consumer brands and space.
Lukas Vogel has ported Doom to run inside a SQL database, rendering 640×480 color frames with about 1,300 lines of SQL.
A new leak suggests Samsung's first over-ear headphones since 2015 will launch under the Galaxy Studio name, putting the company on a collision course with premium rivals like Apple's AirPods Max. Pricing, features and availability are still unknown.
TextExpander now offers a free plan with five active snippets and cross-platform support.
9to5Mac hosts discuss Apple's reported LG smart home partnership, Full Disk Access changes, and OLED MacBook Pro details.
Anthropic announced free AI-generated vulnerability scans for open-source projects through OSS Scanner and a Critical Infrastructure Defense Program with 11 founding partners, both under its new Anthropic Cyber Mission.
Amazon's Alexa Tablet 12 Pro challenges Apple's iPad Pro with a 120Hz 12-inch display, stylus and keyboard support, Play Store apps and a $550 price. Engadget reports that Amazon matches some display metrics but trails on chip performance, memory and tablet-specific apps.
Isomorphic Labs is reportedly in early talks to raise a round at a $40 billion to $50 billion valuation, as it markets its IsoDDE drug-discovery AI and partnerships with Eli Lilly, Novartis and Johnson & Johnson.
An Extend engineer built a detailed interactive website recreating Elizabeth Holmes’ desk from public Theranos trial documents.
AMD consumer chip chief Jack Huynh says FSR 4 will reach APUs, gaming laptops and handhelds by the end of 2026, but it is unclear whether existing handhelds will receive official support.
Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage season 3 premiered on CBS on Oct. 8, with Paramount+ and Crave streaming, VPN options.
Anthropic's annual usage policy update adds a ban on sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward its AI models, while tightening election rules ahead of the midterms, Engadget reported.
Apple may hold an Oct. 27 event for new Macs and iPads after next week's smart home event, including a possible M6 iPad.
Common Sense Media's 36-page risk assessment found ChatGPT for Teens failed in five key areas, including parent safety alerts, crisis referrals, age prediction and Study Mode, and called it an unacceptable risk for all under-18 users.
Fired OpenAI safety researchers deny misconduct and warn of a chilling effect; OpenAI memo denies retaliation.
Pocketty, an iPhone and iPad SSH terminal, was announced on Hacker News. It alerts users when a remote agent pane needs attention, using sealed push notifications and an optional Rust daemon for herdr. It offers a 14-day trial and a one-time purchase.
California regulator tells robot-fighting startup Rek it cannot hold human boxing or MMA matches without approval.
CoreWeave announced its Forge development platform and partner network at the Fully Connected event, aiming to link training, inference and evaluation in an open full-stack AI cloud. The company also validated Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform and earned a third Platinum ClusterMAX rating.
Margaret Hamilton, who coined “software engineering” and whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing, died last week at 90.
Let's Encrypt will shorten its free SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes from 90 days to 64 days beginning February 10, 2027, with opt-in testing of the shorter certificates to start on October 14, 2026.
Ars Technica reports that a group of researchers entangled a light beam with a glass bead, an achievement the publication describes as an experimental tour-de-force.
Microsoft is testing a redesigned Windows Search for Windows 11 that it says is faster and more capable, with inline results and launcher-style actions, according to The Verge.