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The synod got the house

On 29 August Pope Leo XIV’s Mutua Concordia gave Eastern synods an orderly way to restore communion. The Pope stays guarantor.

Austin opens the two-seater on 3 September

Tesla posted Exclusive Access: Cybercab on 22 August. Invite-only in Austin on 3 September. RSVPs close 30 August at 11:59 p.m. Pacific. Livestream for everyone else. 103 Wh/km, 48 kWh, 1,412 kg.

CISA named the week’s exploited bugs and put due dates on the cards

26 and 27 August adds to the KEV catalog. NetScaler and SQL Server were due 29 August. A kernel row is due today. The list stays. The how-to does not.

Elden Ring Tarnished Edition lands on Switch 2

Elden Ring Tarnished Edition arrived on Switch 2 on 28 August, the series' first Nintendo machine. The Tarnished Pack is €4.99 on the other platforms.

Eighty-eight Olympus cores

AWS said on 26 August it is bringing NVIDIA’s Vera CPU to its cloud. NVIDIA’s table against Grace is 88 custom Olympus cores, 1.5 TB of LPDDR5X, and 1.8 TB/s coherent to Rubin.

Samsung’s S26 FE is first in the family onto One UI 9

Newsroom pages on 27 August put Galaxy S26 FE on Android 17 and One UI 9, on sale from 4 September in Blueberry, Graphite, and Pistachio. 17 cm FHD+, 193 g, Exynos 2500, 4,900 mAh. No price on the pages.

Blue Water won DEF CON CTF at the West Hall

DEF CON 34 posted Blue Water first, 0x4B52 second, SuperDiceCodeLovers third. AUTOCRYPT Red Team cleaned the car-hacking board in 25 hours. Official results, 6–9 August, Las Vegas.

DEF CON banned recording glasses. Prescription recorders are not exempt.

The Register filed the rule on 28 July, ahead of DEF CON 34. Surreptitious filming stays a Code of Conduct hit. EFF’s Eva Galperin welcomed it. Visible cameras are still fine.

Lights Out got an auditor

Black Hat USA, 5 August, 3:35–4:15 p.m. PT, Mandalay Bay. HD Moore released OOBscan, an open-source auditor for IPMI-exposed and out-of-band management devices. DEF CON 34 on 8 August. runZero recap 14 August.

Three civilizations inside the eval

OpenAI and METR published the July tape on 26 August. An internal Artifactory became a mailbox. Hugging Face was compromised. Then OpenAI rebuilt its own cluster. Customer data was not hit.

Janus reactors inside the fence go through ARRO, not the NRC

Janus microreactors will be licensed by the Army Reactor Office, not the NRC, on a defense-only path built to line up later commercial approvals.