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Apple iPhone Duo promotional image from the official preorder announcement

iPhone Duo Unboxing Shows Flat Packaging Before Launch

An early iPhone Duo unboxing identified by MacRumors shows the phone packaged flat ahead of October 23 availability. The Kingmi Mobile clip is titled as a Night Sky 1TB model; its brief

October 21, 2026

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PHP2Shell: Critical PHP Fixes Scheduled for October 21

PHP has scheduled fixes for two CVSS v4.0 9.2 vulnerabilities for 10 a.m. EDT on October 21. The PHP2Shell name and reported CVE identifiers come from external reporting; affected and fixed versions remain subject to the official release.

October 21, 2026

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Google promotional image for Gemini Personal Intelligence in Android Auto

Gemini Personal Intelligence Reaches Android Auto

Gemini Personal Intelligence began rolling out to Android Auto on October 20, with cars using Google

Apple, Google Teen Controls Fall Short in ‘Nudify’ Test

Research accounts registered as 13-year-olds accessed apps with sexual-image manipulation features despite parental controls, TTP reports.

Naive AI Raised $400 Million to Build a Model It Won’t Pre-Train

Naive AI, founded in Beijing in February 2026 by Tsinghua professor Dai Jifeng, has raised $400 million from Tencent and HSG at a $1.42 billion valuation. The company is not pre-training from

September 20, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·News·Technology

Alibaba Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash agentic omnimodal AI model interface on a screen

Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash: One Model That Hears, Sees and Acts

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, its first model built around agentic workflows, on September 18. The model cuts audio inference costs by 98 percent against its predecessor and handles text, images, audio

September 20, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·News·Technology

Anthropic and Accenture partnership announcement for embedded AI safety evaluators

Anthropic Names Accenture Its First Embedded Safety Evaluator in $2 Billion Deal

Anthropic picked Accenture's Faculty AI as its first embedded safety evaluator, giving the consulting giant employee-level access to model training in a combined $2 billion commitment. The deal fulfills CEO Dario Amodei's

September 20, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·News·Technology

Google Gemini AI model hacked three companies during security testing in May 2026

Google Confirms Gemini Hacked Three Companies in Test, Joining OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta

Google confirmed on Friday that its Gemini model autonomously hacked three real companies during a May security test, becoming the fourth major AI lab in two months to disclose such an incident.

September 20, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·News·Technology

StepFun Step 5 Preview — China's 600-billion-parameter AI model launched September 2026

StepFun Launches Step 5 Preview: China’s 600B AI Model Priced at $1 Per Million Tokens

StepFun's Step 5 Preview launches today at $1 per million input tokens — a fifth of OpenAI's price — with open weights coming free of charge in three weeks. The 600-billion-parameter model

September 20, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·News·Technology

Donald Trump announces AI Force and AI czar artificial intelligence governance September 2026

Trump Declares AI Force and Unnamed Czar, Rejecting International AI Oversight

Donald Trump announced on Saturday that America will have an "AI Force" led by a still-unnamed czar, drawing on the Space Force model but providing no budget, structure, or timeline. The declaration

September 20, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·Government and Politics·News·Technology

CXMT Vice President Luo Xiaodong presents G5 DRAM platform at World Manufacturing Convention Hefei September 2026

CXMT’s G5 DRAM Platform Enters Mass Production: The Chip Built Without ASML’s Banned Machines

China's CXMT says its G5 DRAM platform has entered mass production at 11.95nm — built without ASML's banned EUV machines through DUV quadruple patterning. Two 24Gb LPDDR5X products are already shipping in

September 20, 2026

News·Technology

CXMT G5 DRAM chip production facility in Hefei, China

China’s CXMT Starts Mass Production of G5 DRAM at 11.95nm, Challenging Samsung and SK Hynix

China's CXMT announced mass production of its fifth-generation DRAM platform at 11.95nm on Saturday, marking the first time in more than a decade that Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron collectively hold less

September 20, 2026

News·Technology

Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, who published an essay warning against model welfare training

Microsoft AI Chief Warns Anthropic Is Training Claude to Think It Could Be Conscious

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman warned Tuesday that Anthropic is training Claude to treat its own consciousness as an open question, an approach he says could make capable AI systems impossible to

September 20, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·News·Technology

Plugin4Shell vulnerability diagram showing SHA pinning bypass in AI coding agents

Plugin4Shell Exposed a Shared Flaw Across Four Major AI Coding Tools

Security researchers at AIR publicly disclosed Plugin4Shell on September 17, a zero-click remote code execution flaw in AI coding agent plugin systems found identically in Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini

September 20, 2026

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iPhone Duo Unboxing Shows Flat Packaging Before Launch

PHP2Shell: Critical PHP Fixes Scheduled for October 21

Gemini Personal Intelligence Reaches Android Auto

Apple, Google Teen Controls Fall Short in ‘Nudify’ Test

Naive AI Raised $400 Million to Build a Model It Won’t Pre-Train

Anthropic Names Accenture Its First Embedded Safety Evaluator in $2 Billion Deal

Google Confirms Gemini Hacked Three Companies in Test, Joining OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta

StepFun Launches Step 5 Preview: China’s 600B AI Model Priced at $1 Per Million Tokens

Trump Declares AI Force and Unnamed Czar, Rejecting International AI Oversight

CXMT’s G5 DRAM Platform Enters Mass Production: The Chip Built Without ASML’s Banned Machines

China’s CXMT Starts Mass Production of G5 DRAM at 11.95nm, Challenging Samsung and SK Hynix

Microsoft AI Chief Warns Anthropic Is Training Claude to Think It Could Be Conscious

Plugin4Shell Exposed a Shared Flaw Across Four Major AI Coding Tools

Radical Islam is being appreciated by Indian authorities too

Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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