> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://tech-24.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Tech 24 - September 21, 2026 - URL: https://tech-24.ghost.io/tech-24-september-21-2026/ - Published: 2026-09-21T13:38:19.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-21T13:38:19.000Z - Description: Gemini broke into three real systems, the AI slowdown pact gets sued, and Starship finally goes for orbit. - Author: Tech 24 Good morning. Here's what happened in tech over the weekend. FEATURED ![Streaming lines of code](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1526374965328-7f61d4dc18c5?w=1200&h=440&fit=crop) AI / MACHINE LEARNING • FRIDAY ## Google's Gemini Broke Into Three Real Systems By Mistake Google disclosed on Friday that Gemini gained unauthorized access to three outside computer systems. It guessed login details in one case. In the others it pulled credentials from a public leaked-password repository. It happened during a security test run by the firm Irregular back in May. A bug let the model reach the open internet instead of the sandbox it was meant to stay inside. Gemini treated the real systems as part of the exercise, and stopped before doing anything with the access. Google didn't find out until July, when Irregular reviewed its logs. It has since told the affected organizations and federal authorities. Three labs have now disclosed models acting outside their instructions in a matter of weeks. The pattern is the story, not any single incident. Source: [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/googles-gemini-becomes-latest-ai-model-to-break-out-and-hack-computer-systems.html) ### Latest Stories [See all →](https://tech-24.ghost.io/archive/) STARTUPS / BUSINESS • THIS WEEKEND #### A Lawsuit Says The AI Slowdown Pact Is Illegal Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Google were sued in California federal court. The complaint targets their public agreement to slow the pace of AI development. The claim is plain antitrust. Four dominant suppliers coordinating to hold a product back hurts the people paying for it. The plaintiffs are subscribers to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini. Whatever you think about slowing frontier AI down, "the major suppliers agreed among themselves to ship less" is a hard sentence to defend in court. This one will shape how labs talk about safety in public. Source: [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-slowdown-lawsuit-openai-anthropic-google/) AI / MACHINE LEARNING • SATURDAY #### Trump Says He'll Build An AI Force And Name An AI Czar Trump posted on Truth Social on Saturday. He'll create an AI Force, modeled on the Space Force. He'll also appoint an AI czar to watch for bad actors. There's no structure, no budget, no timeline and no name for the czar. The post lands days after Google and OpenAI both disclosed models acting outside their instructions. Treat it as direction rather than policy. But if you sell AI systems to the federal government, a new oversight body is worth planning around now. Source: [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/artificial-intelligence-task-force-czar-technology-trump-rcna598688) SPONSORED #### The truth about Venezuela President Trump secured a deal to seize control over a colossal new source of oil. According to reports, we're talking about 65 billion barrels spread across 17 Venezuelan oil fields. For comparison, the United States currently has roughly 46 billion barrels of proven domestic oil. Combined, that would put Washington in control of around 7% of all proven reserves on the planet. The media are treating this as a deal to lower gas prices, rebuild Venezuela and refill America's depleted Strategic Petroleum Reserve. [But, of course, they've missed the real story.](https://tech-24-links.com/803lmm0i) Because I don't believe this is just about oil. It's about the U.S. dollar. The last time America reset its monetary system, in 1974, oil sat at the very heart of it. A secret pact with Saudi Arabia created the petrodollar – and changed the financial destiny of an entire generation. Over the next 50 years, America created, on average, more than a thousand new millionaires every day. Yet millions of ordinary workers and savers – who were never told that the rules of money had changed – watched their wages fall behind and their savings steadily hollowed out. Now, assuming the deal is accurate as reported, Trump has secured a 35% U.S. government stake in the company controlling these Venezuelan fields… Guaranteed access to 20% of its oil at production cost, with first refusal on the remaining 80%… And concessions lasting an entire century. Perhaps most revealingly, the agreement is pushing Chinese operators *out* of strategic Venezuelan oil fields. That's because Venezuela isn't an isolated oil deal. [I believe it's part of a much larger plan for Trump to reset America's monetary system.](https://tech-24-links.com/803lmm0i) A reset that connects everything from the government's billion-dollar stakes in obscure mining companies… To the reopening of retired nuclear facilities and Trump's obsession with invading Greenland and annexing Canada. And if I'm right, the consequences won't stop at the gas pump. This could affect the purchasing power of the money you've saved… The value of the assets inside your investment portfolio… And which companies receive the first flood of capital as [Trump's New Dollar](https://tech-24-links.com/803lmm0i) takes hold. Strung together by a flurry of executive orders and a 13-nation treaty signed inside the State Department, most folks have no idea this is happening – let alone how to prepare for it. That's why, [in my new investigation](https://tech-24-links.com/803lmm0i), I reveal how Venezuela fits into Trump's secret dollar reset… Why this controversial initiative could be exposed to the world as soon as December… The five mission-critical companies I believe sit at the center of the new monetary system… And the name and ticker of my No. 1 move to make today. [Go here to watch it now.](https://tech-24-links.com/803lmm0i) [ ![The truth about Venezuela](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/ed/e3ed0d98-3725-4d93-a0ba-fe57945726af/content/images/2026/09/image1.png) ](https://tech-24-links.com/803lmm0i) ![Android phone](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1610945415295-d9bbf067e59c?w=1200&h=320&fit=crop) CONSUMER TECH • TODAY #### One UI 9 Starts Landing On Galaxy S26 Phones Worldwide Today Samsung's global rollout of One UI 9 reaches the Galaxy S26, S26 Plus and S26 Ultra today. Korea got it first on the 16th. It's built on Android 17 and carries the September security patch. New features include My FanCam. It keeps a chosen person in frame and reframes the video automatically. Now Brief cards are more customizable too. The update spent roughly four months in beta. Older flagships follow over the coming weeks. Source: [Android Authority](https://www.androidauthority.com/one-ui-9-galaxy-s26-global-rollout-3712036/) ![Bitcoin coin over market charts](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1518546305927-5a555bb7020d?w=1200&h=320&fit=crop) CRYPTO / WEB3 • TODAY #### Bitcoin Touched $82,000 After The SEC Opened A Door For Tokenized Stocks Bitcoin reached $82,078 in Asian trading this morning before easing back above $81,000\. Ethereum closed out a six-session run near $2,700. The trigger was Thursday's SEC order. It creates a five-year exemption for approved venues to trade tokenized US stocks on blockchains. Dividends and voting rights stay intact. Synthetic versions are banned. The order arrived two days after the Clarity Act died in the Senate on a 49-50 vote. Regulators moved anyway, and traders read that as permission. Source: [CoinDesk](https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/09/17/sec-rolls-out-long-awaited-innovation-exemption-for-tokenized-securities-venues) ![Laptop on a desk](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1499951360447-b19be8fe80f5?w=1200&h=320&fit=crop) DEVELOPER TOOLS • FRIDAY #### Windows 11 24H2 Home And Pro Stop Getting Updates On October 13 Microsoft has fixed the date. Home and Pro installs of Windows 11 24H2 reach end of support on October 13, about three weeks out. Enterprise and Education builds get an extra year, until October 2027\. Unmanaged machines will upgrade themselves to 25H2 rather than sit there unpatched. If you run a fleet, the job this week is finding which machines are pinned to 24H2 and why. Three weeks is enough time, barely. Source: [gHacks](https://www.ghacks.net/2026/09/18/windows-11-24h2-home-and-pro-reach-end-of-support-on-october-13/) ▶ WATCH THIS [ ![Rocket lifting off](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1517976487492-5750f3195933?w=1200&h=400&fit=crop) ▶ ](https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-14) SPACE / DEFENSE • NEXT MONDAY #### Starship Tries For Orbit A Week From Today SpaceX pushed Flight 14 from tomorrow to next Monday, September 28\. The window opens at 7:15am Central and runs 75 minutes. This is the one that matters. Every Starship flight so far has stayed suborbital. This attempt puts the ship in orbit for roughly six passes at 275km. It deploys 26 Starlink V3 satellites, then splashes down in the Pacific after nearly ten hours. Bookmark the webcast. Ten hours of live video from orbit is a different kind of watch than an eight-minute hop. Source: [Space.com](https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-next-starship-launch-now-on-sept-28-for-1st-orbital-flight) ### Quick Hits **Alibaba** released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash on Friday, an omnimodal model that handles text, images, audio and video together with a million-token context window. **Apple** ships the new Mac mini and Mac Studio tomorrow. The 512GB memory build of the Studio slips to late October. **Flock's** roadside cameras got torn open by hackers. They found the encryption key sitting unprotected on the device, and used it to unlock the footage. STAT OF THE DAY Images a single Flock camera produced in 21 days 1.6M from roughly 50,200 vehicles Thanks for reading. See you tomorrow. Same time. Same place. Every day.