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The brief ALL BRIEFS → TUESDAY, 1 SEPTEMBER 2026

CXMT Ships LPDDR6 First, Roman Comes Online, Security Cracks Keep Coming

China's CXMT beat every Western chipmaker to announcing LPDDR6 mass production, with Xiaomi phones set to be the first to ship it. Meanwhile Nvidia's latest driver quietly broke mVolt+, the open-source tool that let RTX 50-series owners push their cards to 700W without hardware mods — a reminder that vendor updates can undo community work overnight.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now in commissioning after its launch, while the Deep Space Network grew two new ears on the ground: Deep Space Station 23 got its ribbon-cutting and the new Goldstone antenna went live. Both feed the pipeline that will carry Roman's dark-universe data home.

Security researchers keep finding fresh cracks: a Lobsters writeup details how any user process on Omarchy can escalate straight to root, a separate bug chain takes IIS AppPool to NT Authority/SYSTEM, and one campaign is now hiding malware inside PNG files to drop custom reverse tunnels. Wired also flagged ATM software as a weak link in the broader supply chain — old infrastructure, new attack surface.

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What arrived that day 10 STORIES

Lachy Groom backs Indian startup aiming to keep aircraft aloft for a year Startup building autonomous aircraft designed to harvest wind energy and stay aloft for months at a time TechCrunch · 32m
Fixing an Expensive Amprobe Cable Tracer With Mystery Fault Repairing a high-end cable tracer that mysteriously stopped working Hackaday · 2h
Hardware
This Electronic Scissor Jack Lifts a Camera DIY motorized scissor jack for camera lifting, based on mechanical advantage principles Hackster · 2h
Hardware
A Vein-Scanning Biometric Door Lock You Can Build Yourself Homemade biometric lock that scans veins instead of fingerprints or faces Hackster · 3h
Hardware
ESA JUICE probe targets dark Jovian moon Kallichore in 2031 ESA's JUICE probe will study Kallichore, a moon of Jupiter, in 2031 Phys.org Space · 3h
Space
Looking for Earth 2.0 in binary systems Astronomers searching binary star systems for Earth-mass rocky planets in habitable zones Phys.org Space · 4h
Space
I went to the loneliest baseball game on Apple Vision Pro Writer's first-person experience watching baseball in Apple Vision Pro's immersive virtual reality The Verge · 4h
Vision Pro
Orbify.eu pitches warped Inception-style 3D maps for navigation Orbify.eu maps 3D terrain in non-Euclidean style for navigation applications The Register · 5h
Security
Attack hides malware in PNGs and drops custom reverse tunnel on victims' machines Malware hidden in PNG images triggers multi-stage attack that installs reverse tunnel on infected systems The Register · 7h
Security
Think twice before installing this device promising free movies Devices offering free movies and streaming secretly route home internet traffic through paid proxy networks Ars Technica · 8h