Australia’s first nationwide emergency alert test, AusAlert, activated around 2pm AEST with mixed results—some devices received notifications while others missed the alert entirely despite advance warnings.

A Labour MP is suing Elon Musk’s xAI company, alleging its Grok chatbot was trained to generate harmful sexualized content without restrictions and created fake abusive images of her without consent.

Qualcomm will raise prices on all its processors beginning September 1st, with increases reportedly in the double digits, even as the chipmaker reports declining smartphone revenue.

Meta plans a major push into personal AI agents designed for mainstream consumers, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced during the company’s Q2 2026 earnings call, positioning the technology as a foundation for future products.

An AI security model discovered a fatal flaw in HAWK, a quantum-resistant cryptography algorithm under consideration for US standards, leading its developer to withdraw it from consideration.

Australia’s government disabled thousands of functioning routers after its broadband testing program concluded, though volunteers say the devices could easily be reflashed for continued use.

Google paid $250,000 for a critical Linux vulnerability in KVM that allows virtual machines to escape and gain root access to host systems. A second high-severity flaw in the kernel’s futex machinery also surfaced this week.

Microsoft’s patch for a Windows Defender zero-day vulnerability may cause systems to exhaust available disk space, according to the researcher who discovered the flaw.

Researchers discovered that Microsoft failed to revoke 11 vulnerable firmware images for over a decade, allowing trivial bypasses of Secure Boot protection on Windows and Linux devices.