The latest out-of-band update resolves a few problems in Windows 11, including one that cut off the sound for certain USB audio devices. Lance Whitney is a technology journalist with an IT background. He's written for TechRepublic, PCMag, Macworld, and Time, among others, He also teaches classes in AI, cybersecurity, and social media. Some bugs came with the Sept. Patch Tuesday update. Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch to squash an annoying audio bug in Windows 11 .

Republicans can win the 2026 election by campaigning on border security, healthcare, affordability, and immigration. A five-part plan outlines the roadmap to expand the House majority.

GPS spoofing, jamming, and electronic warfare pose growing threats to U.S. military technology and civilian infrastructure. A nationwide GPS loss could cost $1 billion per day.

USS Abraham Lincoln returns from combat in the Middle East as a White House order to revisit steam catapults over EMALS threatens U.S. aircraft carrier readiness against China's navy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with the governor of Novgorod region in Moscow on Monday. When Russian President Vladimir Putin imposed harsh censorship laws in the wake of his 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a major Russian publishing house took drastic action. Faced with trawling through the thousands of volumes it had published over the previous 20 years in light of the new restrictive criteria, the Eksmo-AST group trained an artificial intelligence agent to highlight books and passages that risked falling foul of the law so they could be removed from bookshelves. The publisher conducted some 20,000 checks, and 600 volumes were handed over to external experts for additional reviews, Oleg Novikov, the group's president, told Russian state television. "We're here on the frontier of technological progress," he said.

Rises in petrol, diesel and airfares pushed UK inflation up to its highest level in five months in the year to August. Inflation accelerated to 3.1% from 2.9%, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The cost of filling up a vehicle soared in August as the conflict in the Middle East continued to disrupt global oil supplies. Petrol prices jumped to their highest for nearly four years, the ONS said, while diesel also rocketed. Meanwhile, the cost of flying jumped during the key month for summer getaways.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Figure caption, Why is Donald Trump so opposed to regulating AI? According to Donald Trump, concerns about the dangers of artificial intelligence technology - that robots will be marching into our cities and getting rid of us all - are a hoax. It's the kind of language the US president typically reserves for the objects of his most intense derision - theories about human-driven climate change, investigations into Russian election-meddling, and the drives to impeach and remove him from office during his first presidential term. Styling himself as the hoax buster, in a series of social media posts on Monday he issued a full-throated endorsement of what he called the greatest economic development engine in history and scorned those who doubted the benefits of the technology. The ranks of doubters have been growing in recent weeks, however, amidst anxiety over the disruptive nature of AI - if not worries about potentially civilisation-threatening danger - among some industry insiders and politicians, including from within Trump's own Republican Party.

Image caption, The Houthis denied they had targeted Mecca, where Islam's most sacred shrine is located Saudi Arabia intercepted and destroyed a Houthi drone south of the Islamic holy city of Mecca on Tuesday evening, according to the spokesman of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. Turki al-Maliki said the targeting of Mecca, which is the home of Islam's most sacred shrine and the focal point of the Hajj pilgrimage, was a disgraceful act. The 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation said attacks on Mecca and Medina province, where Islam's second holiest shrine is located, constituted an unacceptable and intolerable transgression. But the Houthis, an Iran-backed armed group that controls much of western Yemen, denied targeting Mecca and accused Saudi Arabia of fabrications and lies. There is no threat whatsoever from Yemen to the holy sites.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three people have died and two others taken to hospital after a news helicopter crashed in suburban Los Angeles while reporting on a deadly bus crash, authorities have said. During emotional live coverage on NBC4, news anchor Colleen Williams confirmed it was the local news station's helicopter that crashed. We knew we'd lost contact with our people out there, and we've just received confirmation, Williams said. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will lead the investigation into the incident.

Trump has few good options to slow China's rise as AI superpower U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to extend a trade truce with China reached last year when Chinese President Xi Jinping visits the White House next week. Even as U.S. President Donald Trump blasts Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei over his call to hit the brakes on artificial intelligence development, the two agree on the need to prevent China from catching up with the U.S. But doing that remains difficult in practice. In his 3,800-word missive titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," Amodei called on policymakers to avoid selling China advanced AI chips, crack down on chip smuggling and prevent "unauthorized distillation by companies in authoritarian countries," among other steps. He urged democracies to maintain a lead "as large as possible," echoing language from the administration of former President Joe Biden.