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Daylight saving starts Sunday: check your phone, PC and clocks
Daylight saving starts at 2am on Sunday 4 October in SA, NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT. Here's how to make sure your devices jump forward an hour.Police seized KillSec's leak site and say a 16-year-old ran it
Police in 10 countries seized the KillSec ransomware leak site and five servers on Wednesday 30 September. They suspect a 16-year-old was the leader.Iranian named as Mabna suspect Amir Barati extradited to the US
Montenegro extradited a 40-year-old Iranian to the US. Police gave only initials, but reports name him as Amir Barati, accused in Mabna's campus hacks.Chrome 154 fixed 11 security bugs, one a critical WebGL flaw
Google's Chrome 154 update, version 154.0.8037.97, landed on Thursday 1 October with 11 security fixes. One is critical, and none is flagged as exploited.GitLab fixed a critical AI Gateway flaw, its own servers first
GitLab fixed critical AI Gateway flaw CVE-2026-90970 on Friday 2 October. Self-hosters need 19.2.4, 19.3.2 or 19.4.1. GitLab.com users are covered.DHH's Omarchy Linux put US$100,000 into a HackerOne bug bounty
Omarchy, DHH's Linux distribution, opened a US$100,000 bug bounty on HackerOne on Friday 2 October, Adelaide time. Critical bugs pay up to US$1,500.Tesla's Model 3 gets a 16-inch screen and a quicker Performance
Every new Tesla Model 3 in the US now has a 16-inch screen, and the Performance rises to 528 hp. US prices haven't changed.Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler II arrive on Switch 2
Square Enix's Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler II hit Switch 2 on 1 October for US$59.99 each, with a sharper picture and smoother frame rates.Facebook groups and Meta's Forum app test a top voices role
Meta said on 29 September it's testing a top community voices role in Facebook groups and new AI answers in its Forum app. The role replaces old badges.007 First Light's free update adds New Game+ and Valhalla runs
IO Interactive's free Extended Operations update for 007 First Light landed on 1 October with New Game+, a 00 difficulty, photo mode and over 700 fixes.Football Manager 27 launches 10 November on PC, console, Netflix
Sports Interactive's Football Manager 27 launches on 10 November on PC, Xbox, PS5 and Netflix mobile. Cup draws and Deadline Day are back.Smile, the ESA and China space mission, starts its science work
ESA and China's Smile spacecraft was cleared for science on 23 September. Its UV camera can watch the northern lights for 45 hours at a stretch.Webb sorts 21 extreme debris disks by the size of their crashes
NASA's Webb and Spitzer data cover 21 extreme debris disks. About one-third point to Mars-sized crashes like the one thought to have made our Moon.NASA picks three PRISM payloads to scout the Moon for Moon Base
NASA picked three PRISM payloads on 30 September for Moon Base. One will check whether the Moon's Marius Hills pit opens into a lava tube.ESA hires Airbus and OHB to study a European-led space station
ESA has two Airbus- and OHB-led teams studying a European-led space station for after the ISS. The nine-month studies began in June.Artemis Accords signatories, now 76, meet in Antalya on Monday
NASA's Artemis Accords signatories meet in Antalya on Monday 5 October. Albania, Croatia, Côte d'Ivoire and San Marino joined in September, making 76.AMD prices all 31 EPYC Venice chips, topping out at US$14,904
AMD's priced all 31 of its Zen 6 EPYC Venice server chips, from US$700 for eight cores to US$14,904 for the 256-core EPYC 9996.Los Alamos switches on its first NVIDIA Vera CPU server
Los Alamos has its first NVIDIA Vera CPU server running in its Darwin testbed, getting code ready for its Mission, Vision and Veritas supercomputers.Windows 11 26H2 arrives as a quick, one-restart update
Microsoft began rolling out Windows 11 version 26H2 on 29 September. It installs like a monthly patch and resets support to 24 months for Home and Pro.Rust 1.99 lets you write C-style variadic functions in Rust
Rust 1.99.0, out on 1 October, lets programmers write C-style variadic functions in Rust and stabilises raw-pointer layout APIs.
