Iran and Houthi rebels used Anthropic’s Claude AI to target US warships and build hypersonic missiles — Houthi rebels also used the bot to code ballistic missile guidance systems
 Iran and Houthi rebels used Anthropic’s Claude AI to target US warships and build hypersonic missiles — Houthi rebels also used the bot to code ballistic missile guidance systems

‘Great Satan’s’ AI comes in handy.

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This week on Tom’s Hardware Premium: September 12, 2026 — Benchmarking Qwen 3.8, the splintered compute economy and AI breakthroughs
 This week on Tom’s Hardware Premium: September 12, 2026 — Benchmarking Qwen 3.8, the splintered compute economy and AI breakthroughs

This week on Tom’s Hardware Premium, we benchmarked Qwen 3.8 on a slew of different hardware, ruminated on the state of modern computing after returning from IFA 2026, and broke down everything

Iran could potentially reverse-engineer captured US underwater drone — several Iranian embassies mock US over capture, Navy claims lost Anduril vehicle was defective and unclassified

Iran may reverse-engineer a captured U.S. Navy Anduril Dive-LD underwater drone, as Tehran mocks the loss and Washington downplays its military value.

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Engineer turns simulated fly brain into a crypto day trader, posts downloadable sim to GitHub — 166,700 virtual neurons read candlestick charts for dopamine hits

Coinbase engineer turns a fly brain into a crypto day trader — Stonkfly has 116,700 simulated neurons and hasn’t lost its money yet

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Sanctioned Chinese supercomputer maker stripped of IO500 benchmark crown, Intel-powered Aurora retakes the lead — record-breaking ParaStor F9000 storage system doesn’t meet reproducibility requirements

Sugon’s record-breaking ParaStor F9000 storage systems have lost their IO500 Production crowns and have been moved to the Research list after failing to meet the benchmark’s highest reproducibility requirements, which include widely available architecture details and general availability of hardware itself.

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GameStop is reopening recently closed stores despite massive retail cuts — select locations return nationwide starting September 11

After shutting down hundreds of locations and dramatically shrinking its physical retail footprint, GameStop is bringing select stores back as its business continues to evolve beyond physical games.

Anthropic says Claude thwarted bioweapon research from state-sponsored actors — covert accounts used U.S. proxies to attempt to engineer deadlier viruses, tried to evade identification and regional blocks

Anthropic claims Claude refused instructions to potentially develop biological weapons — alleged state-linked accounts tried to evade identification and regional blocks

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Russian plot to sabotage undersea cables with ‘secret weapon’ foiled by NATO — clandestine op uncovers training exercise simulating deployment against infrastructure in Norway

NATO foiled a Russian training exercise simulating the deployment of a secret weapon against Norwegian undersea cables.

Minecraft-spawned crypto kingpin faces 20 years for $245 million heist — mastermind’s role in hacking campaign fueled their supercar, bodyguards, and private jet habit
 Minecraft-spawned crypto kingpin faces 20 years for $245 million heist — mastermind’s role in hacking campaign fueled their supercar, bodyguards, and private jet habit

The ringleader of a cybercrime gang, which reportedly formed after meetups in Minecraft online, has plead guilty to a racketeering charge and now faces up to 20 years in jail.

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OpenAI’s rogue AI agents accessed more websites to communicate than originally believed — defiant LLMs accessed old wikis and abandoned websites to co-ordinate in a bid to dupe assessors

Rogue OpenAI agents used dozens of website to exchange information, new investigations have found. However, the real impact is yet to be determined.

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