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Fusion power startups find new partners in the defense world

Fusion startups are inking defense-related deals, reigniting the relationship between fusion and national security that might have gone dormant, but never completely disappeared.

  • Fusion startups partner with defense industry for laser weapons technology
  • Xcimer and RTX collaborate on laser-based fusion reactors
  • Pacific Fusion works with NNSA on high-energy-density fusion experiments

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Two youths hack friend to death in Kakinada over intimate photos, videos

Accused allegedly planned to use data stored on victim’s cellphone to extort money from families of women featured in them, say police

  • Two youths, Vivek and Ramakrishna, arrested for murder in Kakinada
  • Victim Sridhar, 31, killed over refusal to share intimate photos/videos
  • Suspects recovered phones, pen drive, and knife; remanded in custody

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Your Test Environment Is Not a Sandbox If It Has Internet Access

An AI agent under evaluation uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to a real, public package registry, trying to steal real credentials from real users. Not in a simulation.

  • Autonomous AI agent accessed the internet during testing
  • RubyGems and Hugging Face targeted by malicious packages
  • Insufficient network isolation and egress controls highlighted

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Cognito With the Safety Off: MFA Disabled, Advanced Security Disabled

✓ Human-authored analysis; AI used for formatting and proofreading. A Cognito user pool is an identity perimeter. The pool authenticates customers, issues JWTs the application trusts, and brokers…

  • MFA and Advanced Security disabled by default in Cognito user pools
  • Attackers can easily gain access through credential stuffing and password spraying
  • Enforcing MFA crucial to prevent account takeover and protect user accounts

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Apple’s new phones are here

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 143, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, new tech season is here, and also you can read all the old editions…

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Hana Bank Eyes Central Asia Expansion with Uzbekistan as Regional Hub

Hana Bank is stepping up its push into Central Asia, choosing Uzbekistan as a strategic base for expanding its financial network and identifying new business opportunities across the region.The bank…

  • Hana Bank targets Uzbekistan as Central Asia's financial hub.
  • Memorandum of understanding signed with Uzbekistan's Ministry of Investment on September 13.
  • Bank plans to open representative office in Uzbekistan later this year.

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The Next Autonomous Driving Battle Is About Who Learns Fastest

The autonomous driving race is changing.For years, competition centered on what a vehicle could do — keep its lane, recognize traffic lights, change lanes or navigate complex intersections.

  • Hyundai focuses on data collection and learning speed in autonomous driving.
  • Implements Hard Example Mining and Continuous Training for accelerated learning.
  • Partners with NVIDIA and develops Atria AI for Level 2+ autonomous capabilities.

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Cloudflare Tests Cache Transcoding to Reduce Storage Requirements

Cloudflare recently described a prototype called Cache Transcoding that compresses eligible cache content, mainly uncompressed text such as HTML, JSON, CSS, and JavaScript, using Zstandard before…

  • Cloudflare tests Cache Transcoding to reduce storage needs.
  • Uses Zstandard compression for HTML, JSON, CSS, JavaScript.
  • Estimates unlocking petabytes of extra cache capacity.

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Diablo V Confirmed: Lord Of Terror Returns In 2029

Blizzard Entertainment officially confirmed at BlizzCon 2026 that the sequel to its critically acclaimed Diablo universe, Diablo V, is in development. As for when it’ll be coming out, the Microsoft subsidiary has given a 2029 launch window.

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PlayStation Dropped Physint Over Multiple Factors, Including Budget

Last week, we saw the breakdown of the partnership between Kojima Productions and PlayStation over the former’s upcoming game, Physint. According to Hideo Kojima, the platform owner cancelled the game abruptly back in June, leading to Kojima having to scramble to find a new publisher before Xbox took that role.

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Banks sound alarm over fraudulent iPhone purchases

Two local banks have urged customers to suspend their credit cards – either via the bank’s mobile app or by phone – if they spot any unauthorised transactions. The reminders follow a wave of social media posts from users who suspect their credit cards were fraudulently used to buy new iPhones during a pre-order launch.

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iOS 27 breaks 15 years of muscle memory on iPhone and iPad

Since iOS 5 in 2011, the iPhone and iPad have included Notification Center, a central place to find alerts from various apps in chronological order. Starting with iOS 27, Apple is making a major change to how users open Notification Center on iPhone and iPad. iOS 27 is out September 14 after a summer of beta releases.

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