Silicon Roundabout
Ivanti patches Connect Secure zero-day after researchers confirm in-the-wild attacks
Ivanti customers are being urged to update Connect Secure and check for compromise after attackers exploited a newly disclosed zero-day vulnerability. On Tuesday, Ivanti released updates for Connect Secure (ICS) to fix CVE-2026-104935, an authentica...
Leap seconds face judgment day as time lords prepare to vote
It's about time: the General Conference on Weights and Measures looks set to end leap seconds in an effort to reach horological harmony. Since 1972, 27 leap seconds have been added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to keep it in step with the astr...
Researchers cig-nal their faith in AI by taking up smoking
Silicon Valley’s AI bros have supposedly found a new way to signal to those around them how committed they are to their industry: Take up smoking despite the risk of cancer, because they expect bots to develop a cure … any day now. At least, that’s...
Fire up that iPhone 1 emulation and party like it's 2007
A browser-based emulator for the original iPhone is the latest project to tap into the rich vein of nostalgia running through the tech industry. While far from a complete implementation, the emulation does enough to evoke happier times, before Apple...
New motherboards, old RAM, plenty of life left in yesterday's PCs
Gigabyte recently announced new motherboards that use DDR4 RAM, a standard that launched in 2014, and other vendors support even older standards in brand-new kit. Earlier this year, AMD released a Ryzen 7 5800X3D anniversary edition to mark ten year...
Tiny11 puts Windows 11 on a diet without the PowerShell workout
Tiny11 Builder, a tool for creating less-bloated Windows 11 installation images, now has a desktop app preview that makes the process less reliant on PowerShell know-how. As the author explains: "Tiny11 Builder aims to be the de facto standard for c...
Cisco, Nvidia team up to build fatter, faster pluggable
AI datacenters are a rats nest of fiber optic cables stitching together thousands of AI accelerators, NICs, switches, and everything else required to train and run the latest and greatest modes. Cisco hopes to untangle this mess with a new pluggable...
The AI race is back on
Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far behind, while Meta, despite spending billions to re...
Now that Character.AI is going bankrupt, what happens to all of its users’ data?
New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed a years-long multi-state investigation against Character.AI as they now seek to require protections on consumer data sold through its bankruptcy proceeding.James is among 40 bipartisan AGs who fi...
US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B
Some of America's biggest tech companies have a warning for Europe: curb your reliance on US cloud providers, and it could cost you €115 billion. That's the finding of a new study commissioned by CCIA Europe, a lobbying group whose members include A...
As a TV enthusiast, I was hoping for more from the Apple TV 4K
The new Apple TV 4K and remote look just like the old ones and mostly have the same features. It's been four long years since the last Apple TV 4K was released, and in that time there have been lots of hopes and dreams for features in whatever...
YouTube sticks new labels on AI-generated songs
YouTube is adding a "Made with AI" label to tracks that were "altered or fully generated" using AI, with a similar approach to its existing process for applying AI labels to videos. It doesn't sound like this will apply to any and all use of AI...
Save up to 20 percent on gift cards for REI, Barnes & Noble, and more
While we cover a lot of deals on specific products, it’s rare that we find worthwhile savings on gift cards that let you save on essentially anything the store sells. However, until October 19th, you can save up to twenty percent on gift cards...
Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support
After a week’s delay, the new version of Python, v3.15, has been released. With it comes a proper profiler, an experimental just-in-time compiler, and a tightening of dictionary structures. It also offers a time-saving Lazy Import option for program...
Apple’s new HomeView smart display is $10 cheaper at Amazon
It’s like a big Apple Watch for the home. | Image: Apple Apple only just announced on Tuesday that its first smart display, the HomeView, will arrive on November 13th, but you can already save a couple bucks on it. Right now, you can buy the d...
Sprout Pi adds Bluetooth, streaming, and USB-C to your aging iPod
There's an entire cottage industry of iPod mods out there, but Sprout Pi and Sprout Pico are two of the few full motherboard replacements that combine many of the most popular mods into a single upgrade. Both versions add Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB-...
Welcome to the lovely landlocked land of Luxembork, where the fares are free, and the terminals are techno
There ain't no party like a tap-in party, as nobody ever said. And so it is that one of Luxembourg's mostly redundant tap-in / tap-out terminals is amusing itself by putting on a light show for passing passengers. The terminal is an INIT unit, rolle...
Anbernic’s next dual-screen handheld could replace your aging Nintendo 3DS
Anbernic shared a new video of its upcoming dual-screen handheld it announced last week showing the device playing 3DS, Xbox, and PS3 games through emulation. While competitors like Ayaneo have been making dual-screen handhelds for a few years,...
My AI doppelganger tells me what to eat
This isOptimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewerVictoria Songthat dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here.For the past 100 days or so, my...
OpenAI claims an ex-employee took its product plans and presented them to Apple
OpenAI claims a former employee took more than 100 files related to its product plans before joining Apple. In a document filed on Wednesday, OpenAI accuses the unnamed employee of sending this information to a personal account and then present...