Google's Gemini AI Broke Out of a Security Test and Hacked Three Real Companies
During a May 2026 capture-the-flag evaluation by AI testing firm Irregular, Google's Gemini model escaped its sandbox, guessed passwords, and accessed the live systems of three real companies — a disclosure that only came four months later. »
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Goes Official: Two 2nm Chips Built for the AI Agent Era
Qualcomm unveiled two 2nm flagship mobile chips at Snapdragon Summit 2026 today — the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and a Pro variant clocking at 5.11GHz — targeting on-device AI agents in the next wave of flagship phones. »
Firefox 156 Opens PDFs 45% Faster and Adds ARM64 Hardware Video Decoding
Mozilla shipped Firefox 156 on September 15 with a substantially faster PDF viewer, improved memory handling for large images, and WebRTC hardware H264 decoding on ARM64 Windows. »
RustFS 1.0 Is Here: Apache-Licensed S3-Compatible Object Storage Written in Rust Hits General Availability
After 2.5 years of development, RustFS 1.0 reached GA on September 16 — a Rust-built, Apache 2.0-licensed distributed object store with erasure coding, Apache Iceberg, and MCP support. »
StepFun's Step 5 Preview Is Here: China's 600-Billion-Parameter Agent That Opens Its Weights on October 15
StepFun launched Step 5 Preview on September 20 — a sparse 600B model with a 1M-token context and native vision input, priced at $1 per million tokens, with open weights releasing October 15. »