Nintendo

Nintendo is warning about a security flaw in the first-gen Switch console related to the feature that lets you send game screenshots to a smartphone. It turns out you can hack the function to run malicious computer code or leak console data.  Nintendo has issued a security advisory about the vulnerability. It involves the Send to Smartphone function, which displays a QR code on the handheld that a smartphone can scan to initiate the wireless transfer of a game screenshot or in-game footage. 

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Robot Ambulance

Tokyo’s streets could soon see a new kind of ambulance, one built not for humans but for humanoid robots. Japanese IT giant GMO Internet Group revealed a van designed to carry engineers, repair equipment, replacement parts and a spare humanoid robot to a site.  “The humanoid 'ambulance' carries the replacement humanoid to the site and replaces it with the damaged humanoid,” said Shota Takizawa, an engineer at GMO Air.

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Farmers

Some 17% of the world's farmers now use generative AI in farm-related tasks, making it one of the fastest-growing technologies in agriculture, McKinsey said in its Global Farmer Insights 2026 report, published Tuesday. The AI adoption follows a multiyear farm slump that crimped spending amid rising costs for agricultural inputs. Costs for labor, land, equipment, financing and fertilizer have remained elevated and volatile since farmer profitability last peaked in 2021-22, according to David Fiocco, senior partner at McKinsey.

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iPhone Controller

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple is developing two game controllers for the iPhone and will likely sell them under the Beats brand. Rumors that Apple might enter the game controller business have circulated for some time. But last week, MacRumors reported finding two references in macOS 26.7’s code to two game controllers identified as first-party devices.

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Hackers

ClickFix attackers are capitalizing on this fatigue. Typically, attacks begin with a simple CAPTCHA image, often masquerading as one from Cloudflare. After engaging with the box, the user sees a line of text, often obscured in a way to mask any malicious commands. Then the user is instructed to copy the text and paste it into the Windows Run, PowerShell, or macOS terminal and click Enter.

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Toronto

Toronto, Canada —  Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist, took a leap in the 1980s — leaving a well-funded post at Carnegie Mellon University to pursue a little-studied area of machine learning research at the University of Toronto. Four decades later, Hinton and that research paved the way for how modern AI systems function, all while changing the face of the Canadian city. Silicon Valley is the beating heart of the tech industry, but a thriving AI ecosystem has developed around Hinton in Toronto.

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SpaceX

On July 24, Starship 40 launched from the SpaceX Starbase in southern Texas, and during its quick 65-minute flight it deployed 20 Starlink V3 satellites. It was a successful test of the craft’s payload deployment system, which SpaceX hopes will one day be reusable. Unlike its predecessors, Starship 40 managed to survive its splash landing in the Indian Ocean. While it’s not fit for reuse, engineers can study it to improve future missions and ship designs. The downside? Getting it back to Texas is no small feat.

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