Long gone are the days of headphones merely being “good for Bluetooth.” Mainstream consumer brands like Sony, Bose, and Sennheiser crested the hill of “actually good” audio quality a long time ago and are now differentiating themselves based on lifestyle and usability features, with ANC chief among them. The technology that powers these advanced features is complex and not particularly cheap, and smaller brands with more limited R&D budgets lagged behind for a long time.
But multi-mic arrays, AI-powered ANC, and personalized hearing compensation systems have become much more common in recent years, thanks to advances in each respective field. That has worked to the benefit of smaller artisanal brands like Noble, which specialize in acoustic engineering rather than consumer technology.
The Artemis is Noble’s newest wireless audio product, released right after the well received Osprey wireless IEMs. The Artemis now sits at the top of Noble’s wireless headphone lineup, superseding models like the FoKus Apollo and Apollo Pro and costing $899. But a “nice” headphone with smart integration of modern technology isn’t new, nor is it special in today’s highly competitive headphone market, so Noble went one step further.
The Artemis ditches the traditional single dynamic driver setup for a novel tribrid approach: one dynamic driver, one balanced armature driver, and one planar driver per side. It also features built in audio personalization with Audiodo hearing compensation technology and even allows users to service aging units themselves with easily replaceable batteries.
But $900 is still substantial, and there are a lot of great headphones that cost less. Does the Artemis’ feature set and exotic driver configuration justify its price? Well, let’s get into it.
About My Preferences: This review is a subjective assessment and is therefore influenced by my personal preferences. While I try to mitigate that as much as possible during the review process, I’d be lying if I said my biases were completely erased. So, for you, my readers, keep the following in mind:
Testing equipment and standards can be found here.
The Artemis is built primarily from high grade CNC machined aluminum. Each ear cup features a Damascus style pattern etched directly into the metal.
The back of each ear cup is perforated, providing ventilation and space for the microphones. A plastic ring sits between the Alcantara and the ear cup, housing the power and volume controls. The Artemis’ USB-C input is located on the bottom of the left ear cup and feels secure.
The Artemis’ headband is sturdy and comfortable, with a padded Alcantara underside and woven cloth exterior. The internal structure is reinforced with spring steel, giving the headband a substantial and durable feel.
The Artemis features magnetically attached ear pads, making them easy to remove and replace. Replacement pads are available directly from Noble, so owners do not have to worry about the headphones becoming unusable simply because the pads wear out.
Even more valuable is the inclusion of user replaceable batteries. With a single screw, owners can remove the Artemis’ battery and replace it with a spare purchased from Noble. In practical terms, that means the Artemis can remain in service until something truly fails rather than becoming disposable once the battery reaches the end of its useful life.
Very few wireless headphones offer this level of maintainability. Fairphone’s Fairbuds XL are a notable exception, while AIAIAI’s TMA 2 models also emphasize modular, replaceable components. Sennheiser supports replaceable ear pads on models like the Momentum 4, Momentum 5, and HDB 630, but their batteries are not user replaceable. Noble therefore deserves real credit for making both routine wear items and the battery easy for owners to replace themselves.
I’m a fan of the case Noble chose for the Artemis. It features a neatly cut recess that holds the headphones securely, along with a dedicated compartment for cables and accessories. The exterior is soft and pleasant to the touch, while the felt like interior helps protect the Artemis from scratches and abrasion.
Included with the Artemis is a useful assortment of cables and accessories, including two USB C to USB C cables, an airplane adapter, and a 3.5mm to USB-C adapter. That is basically everything you need for a complete experience right out of the box, and the cables themselves feel soft, flexible, and sturdy. No complaints here.
The Artemis features Bluetooth 6.0 compatibility and supports a broad range of audio codecs. Hi Res playback via LDAC and aptX Lossless works well, and I was able to achieve LDAC playback easily across multiple Android devices. The Artemis’ Bluetooth chipset also proved reliable during normal listening, with no stuttering or dropouts. I was able to maintain high quality playback even when separated from the source device by a considerable distance and multiple walls.
My one reservation involves occasional disconnects. After listening to the Artemis for an hour or two, it will sometimes disconnect from my phone without warning or an error message. The headphones do not appear to be power cycling, and the source device also registers the temporary disconnect. The Artemis then reconnects almost immediately, but the interruption is still annoying.
Beyond wireless playback over Bluetooth, the Artemis also supports wired playback over USB C. There are two ways to do this: with the included USB-C to 3.5mm cable or with a USB-C OTG cable.
Connecting the Artemis to my PC via USB C was easy and painless, with Windows quickly recognizing the headphones and installing the appropriate driver. Sound quality remains fully intact in this mode. Listening via the 3.5mm connection is similarly straightforward, and the Artemis’ sound signature remains consistent with its USB-C and Bluetooth playback modes.
The Artemis offers two layers of sound customization through hearing compensation and a 10 band EQ. The analysis in this section was performed without either feature enabled and is intended to serve as a baseline assessment of how the Artemis performs without additional tuning.
In stock form, the Artemis splits the difference between a traditional mainstream V shaped tuning and a more enthusiast oriented reference presentation. Its bass is elevated, sloping down into a weighty but not bloated lower midrange. The Artemis’ lower register is fairly rich overall, counterbalanced by an energetic and articulate upper register.
Moving up from the somewhat flat lower mids, the Artemis peaks in the upper mids around 2 to 3 kHz, placing vocals forward in the mix. There is a bit of grain here, likely owing to the Artemis’ complex tribrid driver architecture. From the upper mids, the response dips through the lower treble before rising again around 8 and 10 kHz. This translates into a bright, forward treble that adds some much needed contrast to the soundstage.
The Artemis’ treble is bright and forward, though well balanced and free from unnatural exaggeration. Even sharply mastered tracks like “Satisfy” by Nero remain controlled and natural sounding. I’m fairly sensitive to treble, so it’s nice to see Noble paying close attention to the amount of energy in the upper register.
This balanced approach renders air and space nicely, working especially well with spacious, open sounding tracks like “Midnight City” by M83. At the other end of the spectrum, densely layered tracks like the chronically congested “Bitter Sweet Symphony” by The Verve are also handled well. The multiple layers of strings and metallic percussion remain distinct without becoming smeared or blurry.
The Artemis’ midrange is tuned for richness, aiming to maximize timbral weight without sounding bloated. Broadly, I think Noble has done a good job. Vocals are forward and set just ahead of the instrumentation, rendered with clarity and respectable intelligibility even during busy passages. The Artemis is not particularly biased toward male or female vocals, rendering both with distinction and care. Duets are therefore a strong listen, as evidenced by the rowdy vocals in “Ricochet!” by Shiny Toy Guns.
Beyond vocals, the Artemis’ midrange can occasionally sound a bit too warm on atmospheric, bass heavy tracks like “Courtesy” by Slothrust, toeing the line between desirable weight and outright heaviness. That said, the Artemis still exhibits excellent instrumental layering, as heard on “Paradox” by Emoter. Its soundstage is wide, deep, and organic, presenting its technical capabilities in a naturally expansive fashion.
For many listeners, bass is a make or break aspect of a headphone’s sound signature, myself included. Beyond simple presence, factors like tonal balance, speed, control, and responsiveness all contribute meaningfully to a satisfying bass experience. Noble’s top end IEMs usually possess strong bass profiles, but headphones are a different ball game. Thankfully, the Artemis’ bass isn’t just good. It’s excellent.
Powerful, punchy, and weighty, the Artemis’ mid bass hits with tangible presence, adding substance and impact to drum slams in “wonderful life” by Bring Me The Horizon. Old school EDM with massive bass drops, like “The Hero” by Nostalgia, extracts a respectable degree of punch and rumble from the Artemis, communicating a convincing sense of size and weight.
The Artemis’ bass isn’t just powerful, but also maintains excellent tonality and timbre. Bass elements sound complete and full bodied, with enough density to give them real physical presence. “Horizons” by Bassnectar is treated similarly well, but immerses the listener in a broad wall of bass rather than a punchy ebb and flow. The Artemis’ extension into the sub bass below 40 Hz is particularly impressive. More complex tracks like “War Pigs (Celldweller Remix)” retain texture and shape through demanding bass passages, even when the low end becomes layered and highly varied.
The dichotomy between audiophile grade acoustics and class leading ANC performance is a real one. You still have to choose, and as good as headphones like the Artemis have become at active noise cancellation, the difference in effectiveness compared with mainstream brands like Sony and Bose remains noticeable.
The Artemis offers three levels of ANC strength: “weak,” “medium,” and “strong,” with substantial differences in noise reduction between each setting. “Weak” mode delivers the most predictable performance, offering the greatest consistency in how ANC affects the final sound output, while “medium” mode produces the least consistent results. “Strong” mode blocks out most low and mid frequency noise, but still struggles with higher pitched sounds.
Noble’s Bluetooth products are controlled through the Noble FoKus app, available on both the App Store and Google Play. It is small, lightweight, and free of unnecessary bloat. No accounts, no passwords, no hassle. Once a compatible device is paired, the app allows you to adjust EQ, take a personalized hearing test, and update the firmware.
There are still a few areas where the user experience could be improved, and the interface is not as polished as what you’ll find from brands like Bang & Olufsen or Master & Dynamic.
One particular point of annoyance is that the FoKus app does not separate custom EQ presets by device. That means presets I save for, say, the Noble Osprey also appear when I’m browsing presets for the Artemis.
That may seem minor, but it can become irritating when I want to quickly find a specific preset I’ve saved. After all, an EQ setting created for the Artemis is unlikely to sound good on the Osprey, and vice versa.
As the market for true luxury wireless headphones continues to grow more crowded, it’s more important than ever to understand what competition the Artemis actually faces. First, let’s look at the mainstream brands.
Sony introduced the 1000X THE COLLEXION (WH-1000XX) in May 2026, positioning the $649.99 model above the more reasonably priced WH-1000XM6. The Collexion also addresses some of the durability concerns associated with the plastic hinge designs of earlier 1000X models, replacing the XM6’s folding hinge with a more substantial stainless steel swivel joint and adding considerably more metal to the overall construction. It feels heavier and more substantial than Sony’s mainstream models, putting it much closer to the Artemis in terms of perceived luxury.
Sony remains one of the benchmarks for active noise cancellation, and in some situations the 1000X THE COLLEXION delivers more refined noise reduction than the Artemis. The Sony does not, however, offer the Artemis’ easily user replaceable battery. That means long term battery degradation is more likely to require service rather than the simple at home replacement Noble provides.
Sonically, the Artemis has a clear advantage over the 1000X THE COLLEXION. Its upper register, in particular, offers levels of articulation and finesse that the Sony does not begin to approach. Both headphones provide extensive sound personalization, although they go about it differently. Noble uses Audiodo hearing compensation, while Sony offers its Find Your Equalizer system, conventional EQ controls, and personalized spatial audio features through the Sound Connect app.
The Sony’s drivers simply do not match the Artemis’ tribrid configuration in overall performance, and applying EQ to both only reinforces how much more resolution and refinement the Artemis can deliver.
Yes, it’s true: the Artemis does have to justify its substantial price increase over the $699 FoKus Apollo Pro. That headphone was announced at CanJam Singapore 2026 and is still relatively early in its lifecycle. The Apollo Pro features a simpler hybrid driver setup, with one dynamic and one planar driver per side, compared with the Artemis’ dynamic, planar, and balanced armature configuration.
The Artemis uses a similar but noticeably upgraded selection of materials, most obviously its Damascus steel inspired ear cups. That said, the Apollo Pro, like the original Apollo, features a detachable boom microphone, making it better suited for gaming and office use, especially if you need to keep your voice down.
I was not much of a fan of the original Apollo, but the Apollo Pro’s tuning was far more palatable. It has a smoother, more relaxed presentation than the Artemis, lacking the latter’s more forward and aggressive treble. The Artemis’ integrated pressure relief system also gives it a tighter, meatier low end, allowing it to capture a greater sense of size and intensity in electronic bass drops than the Apollo Pro can manage.
EQ is a major part of the experience with both headphones, however, and each responds well to adjustments using the FoKus app’s easy to use 10 band equalizer. Is the Artemis worth the $200 premium? It really depends on your needs. On one hand, the Artemis offers a tangible improvement in material quality and sonic performance. On the other, the Apollo Pro’s boom microphone and longer battery life give it practical advantages the Artemis does not have.
Ultimately, how you intend to use your headphones, along with how demanding you are about acoustic performance, will determine which model makes more sense.
B&O has long offered extremely expensive wireless headphones, many of which sit well above mainstream pricing. The model that competes most directly with the Artemis is the H95, which costs $1,250, a $350 premium over the Noble. And while I’d like to say the Artemis simply dunks on the H95 when it comes to build quality, that isn’t the case. B&O leans heavily on material choice to justify the H95’s substantial price, using luxurious components such as anodized aluminum faceplates, titanium drivers, and a lambskin headband. Heck, even the H95’s carrying case is made from metal.
But material design is where the H95’s biggest advantage ends. Its rich V shaped sound signature is fine and well suited to mainstream tastes, but the underlying driver performance does not clearly outperform more conventional models like Sony’s WH-1000XM5, let alone the Artemis. Acoustic performance is clearly the Artemis’ domain, with tighter, better controlled bass, clearer vocals, and airier treble.
The Artemis’ stock sound signature is somewhat less cohesive than the H95’s tuning, but it can be easily adjusted to bring it closer to a more traditional presentation. You do not even need to touch the manual EQ, as the Jazz and Rap presets in the Noble FoKus app offer different takes on more familiar tuning.
Overall, I suspect most audio enthusiasts will gravitate toward the Artemis over the H95. The lower price is certainly part of the appeal, but the larger advantage is sonic performance, where the Artemis is clearly a step ahead.
The Noble Audio Artemis is one of the most convincing arguments yet for spending serious money on a wireless headphone. Its tribrid driver system delivers powerful, articulate bass, excellent midrange resolution, and an airy treble response that can be shaped effectively through EQ. The build quality is equally impressive, but the bigger story is longevity. Replaceable ear pads, headband components, and a user replaceable battery give the Artemis a level of serviceability that remains rare in premium wireless headphones.
It is not perfect. Noble’s ANC is the best the company has produced so far, but Sony and Bose still do a better job of shutting out the outside world, and the FoKus app could use some refinement. Stock tuning can also reveal a touch of treble grain, while fit and positioning have a noticeable effect on tonal balance.
Even so, the Artemis gets the fundamentals right. It sounds better than most mainstream wireless flagships, feels appropriately luxurious, and is designed to remain useful long after its battery begins to age. At $899, it is unquestionably expensive, but for listeners who care about sound quality, build, and long term ownership more than having the absolute best ANC, the Artemis makes a surprisingly persuasive case for itself.
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Plaud has unveiled the Plaud One Explorer Edition, a new pair of AI-powered earbuds designed to capture conversations and turn them into actionable tasks.
The $249.99 wearable combines earbuds with a standalone case, built-in 4G connectivity and Plaud’s latest AI platform, with pre-orders now open in selected markets.
Unlike conventional earbuds, Plaud One is designed primarily around conversation rather than music. It can capture phone calls, online meetings, face-to-face conversations and ideas on the go, with the company positioning it as a new interface for interacting with AI.
One of the more interesting aspects is that the earbuds don’t need to stay connected to a phone to upload recordings. Plaud One has a built-in eSIM and 4G LTE connectivity, allowing conversations to be uploaded for transcription and summarisation as they happen. The standalone case can also be used to capture conversations.
The captured information feeds into Plaud Intelligence, the company’s conversation-focused AI platform. At its centre is Plaud Agent, which is designed to understand the context and intent behind conversations and then act on that information.
That includes connecting to services such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion and Slack. Plaud says its AI can use predefined workflows, called Skills and Plugins, to handle specific tasks, while its Artifacts feature can produce finished work such as emails, documents and presentations.
The idea is that you could leave a client meeting and have Plaud prepare a follow-up email, or ask for a briefing on a previous conversation before another meeting. Plaud also says the system builds up memory and context over time, allowing it to connect information from different conversations.
The hardware itself includes three microphones, with the company claiming they’re tuned to work together for clearer calls and voice recordings. There’s also a 3.5mm headphone jack, speakers positioned above and below the display, a barometric pressure sensor and support for microSD cards up to 2TB.
Plaud One Explorer Edition costs $249.99 and comes with $200 in Plaud Credits for the company’s upcoming agent features and other AI capabilities. Pre-orders opened on August 27, with shipments expected to begin in Q4 2026.
I have a Plaud Note Pro, and it’s great. It’s a credit-card-sized device that records meetings and then transcribes that content and uploads it to the cloud. It works very well, and it’s very discreet.
I’m sure the tech inside these buds will be great. I am not sure though, whether having AI earbuds is something I would ever want. I’d much rather keep it within a more subtle product, rather than have it on my face. Maybe I can be convinced, but currently I am struggling to see the issue this solves.
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PaperCut has released a second emergency security update for two actively exploited vulnerabilities in its PaperCut NG and MF print management software after researchers discovered multiple ways to bypass the initial fixes.
As BleepingComputer reported yesterday, PaperCut warned that hackers were exploiting a vulnerability in zero-day attacks against customer servers and released an initial emergency patch for PaperCut NG/MF versions 25 and 26.
At the time, however, the company had not disclosed CVE identifiers or technical details about the vulnerabilities, saying it was withholding information while it investigated the attacks and gave customers time to apply emergency fixes.
PaperCut has now shared technical details and CVE identifiers for the two vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-82078 and CVE-2026-81578. These vulnerabilities can be chained to bypass authentication and execute code on vulnerable servers.
CVE-2026-81578 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability rated 8.8 that impacts the PaperCut NG/MF web management interface.
“Under specific conditions, unauthenticated remote requests targeting administrative functions can trigger backend actions prior to the completion of access validation checks,” explains PaperCut’s updated advisory.
The second vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-82078, is a critical unsafe dynamic class-loading flaw rated 9.4 that exists in PaperCut’s database connection utilities.
The application loads database driver classes based on configurable driver names without validating them against an approved allowlist.
“If an attacker can manipulate system configuration parameters, this enables the execution of arbitrary Java bytecode residing on the application classpath under the security context of the PaperCut server process,” explains PaperCut.
Cybersecurity firm watchTowr, which has been working with PaperCut during the incident, said on LinkedIn that the vulnerabilities allow unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution on affected PaperCut NG/MF instances.
On Friday, PaperCut released Emergency Patch Release 2, an updated security fix that includes additional hardening developed after further analysis with its internal security team and researchers at Huntress and watchTowr.
“Following further work with our internal security team and external researchers, including Huntress and watchTowr, we have released an updated Emergency Patch (Release 2) that includes additional hardening beyond the original emergency patch,” PaperCut said.
The company is urging all customers to install Release 2 even if they already installed the first emergency patch.
This second release comes after watchTowr said its researchers fully reproduced the vulnerabilities, discovered multiple patch bypasses, and identified an additional authentication bypass vulnerability.
Huntress, which has been working with PaperCut during the incident, says it observed exploitation in two customer environments and reproduced the full pre-authentication RCE chain.
The company told BleepingComputer that PaperCut logs captured commands used by the attackers for system reconnaissance, while hex-encoded Java `.class` files found in the logs acted as an RCE bridge between PaperCut and the underlying operating system, allowing commands to be executed and files to be read or written.
The commands observed by Huntress appear to have been used for reconnaissance rather than to deploy malware or establish persistence.
Huntress also says it discovered multiple bypasses for the original emergency patches and an additional authentication bypass vulnerability, which it shared with PaperCut.
Emergency Patch Release 2 is available for PaperCut NG and MF versions 24, 25, and 26 on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Customers running version 23 or earlier are advised to upgrade to the latest version rather than wait for a patch for those releases.
PaperCut says Site Servers and secondary/print servers should also be upgraded to patched versions. Other components, like Print Deploy and Mobility Print, are not affected and do not require updates.
Even though patches are available, PaperCut to urge customers to restrict access to the web interfaces to trusted IP addresses using firewall rules, network access controls, or equivalent measures.
Administrators should also look for suspicious post-exploitation activity from the pc-app.exe process, missing or truncated server.log files, and the following errors in the server.log.
ERROR No suitable driver found for jdbc:no:x
ERROR DatabaseUtils - Database error looking up cardID: VALUES CAST
The company has not disclosed who is behind the attacks or what threat actors are doing after compromising vulnerable servers.
PaperCut told BleepingComputer that the attacks appear limited and targeted, and that it is withholding details about post-exploitation activity while it continues its investigation.
“Our investigation into what attackers are doing post-compromise is still active, and premature detail could complicate any affected customers’ own response,” PaperCut told BleepingComputer.
“What we can say: the bulletin advises customers to watch for intrusion-detection, endpoint, or network-monitoring alerts tied to the PaperCut Application Server, and we’ll publish indicators of compromise as they’re verified.”
PaperCut servers were previously targeted in 2023 after attackers began exploiting CVE-2023-27350, an authentication bypass and remote code execution vulnerability.
Those attacks were ultimately linked to numerous threat actors, including the Clop and LockBit ransomware operations, Iranian state-backed hacking groups, and the Bl00dy Ransomware Gang.
Update: Added information from Huntress.
Overall prevention scores can hide what happens after initial access. Once attackers are using valid credentials, prevention drops sharply.
The Blue Report 2026 measures defenses technique by technique across 338 million simulations run in customer production environments.
Intel used its slot at Hot Chips 2026 to lay out three architectures it says will carry agentic AI from the rack to the laptop.
The already-shipping Wildcat Lake Core Series 3 SoC is for mainstream client and edge machines, Crescent Island is an inference-optimized data center GPU, and Diamond Rapids is its next-generation enterprise-class data center CPU that can be configured with up to 256 cores.
Pushkar Ranade, Intel’s chief technology officer, said in a statement accompanying the announcement that agentic AI is changing how the company designs computing from the transistor upward.
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Intel’s Diamond Rapids, which it plans to brand as Xeon 7, is where the chipmaker provides the most information, unsurprisingly, in an industry that plans purchases and upgrades years in advance.
Its flagship offering can encompass as many as 256 cores, backed by 1.28G of fast last-level cache, 16 memory channels, 128 PCIe 6 lanes, and CXL 3.0. ServeTheHome reported that the maximum configuration uses 16-core chiplets, built on Intel’s 18A-P process node.
Rival chipmaker AMD also offers a 256-core trim: the EPYC 9996, built on TSMC’s 2nm node, keeps hyperthreading in play, effectively doubling its thread count versus Intel’s flagship.
Its Crescent Island GPU is arguably the most interesting design of the three, but the least detailed: a 350W air-cooled PCIe card built on its Xe3P GPU architecture, with 32 cores feeding 256 third-generation XMX engines and 32 MB of unified L2 cache. It surprisingly uses LPDDR5X rather than HBM, but the choice seems rationalized to offer capacity at a power and cost profile that lets Intel compete meaningfully with Nvidia and AMD.
Interestingly, the 480GB figure Intel touts in its press release isn’t what it will ship; Intel-branded cards cap at 160GB, and 480GB is a ceiling available to ODM partners building their own configurations. Intel also remains mum on memory bandwidth specifics and told Chips and Cheese it won’t disclose the figure; this is crucial for many AI applications, as memory bandwidth determines decode throughput, and decode throughput essentially determines token economics.
Of the three architectures that Intel talked about, Wildcat Lake is the only one you can pick up off a shelf (as a miniPC or laptop) today; it launched as Intel’s Core Series 3. Intel stated that it replaced the Foveros packaging used in Panther Lake with an organic multi-chip package, eliminating the base die and, with it, assembly cost and yield loss. Compute die area fell by 38 percent, and I/O tile area by 15 percent.
The 17 TOPS NPU available to such CPUs sits well below the 40 TOPS Microsoft requires for Copilot+ certification. The 40 TOPS Intel cites is a platform total across CPU, GPU, and NPU, which arguably can be met elsewhere, but it’s a sticking point for the chipmaker’s AI push, which has otherwise been concentrated on capturing enterprise and hyperscale customers.
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Healthcare and pharmaceutical distribution giant McKesson has disclosed a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to third-party applications and data theft, with the ShinyHunters extortion group claiming it stole 284 million patient data records.
McKesson is a major U.S. healthcare company and pharmaceutical distributor that provides medicines, medical supplies, technology, and services to healthcare providers and pharmacies.
CyberInsider first reported the breach earlier today, and McKesson later disclosed it in a Form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
McKesson says it discovered the cybersecurity incident on August 25, 2026, and that its investigation remains in the early stages.
“Information about the incident, including any updates, is available on the company’s website at www.mckesson.com/cybersecurity,” McKesson said in its SEC filing.
“As of the date of this filing, the company has not determined that the incident is material or that the incident has had, or is reasonably likely to have, any material impact on the company, including its financial condition or results of operations.”
In a separate notice to customers, McKesson confirmed that the incident involved third-party applications and the unauthorized access and exfiltration of data.
“We take the security and privacy of our partners, customers and their patients very seriously. Upon discovery, we immediately activated our incident response protocols, launched an investigation, and engaged leading cybersecurity industry experts to assist in our response,” reads McKesson’s notice.
The company said its investigation is ongoing to determine the full scope of the incident.
McKesson also warned that customers may experience intermittent service degradation believed to be related to the attack, although the company said it was not proactively disconnecting systems within its environment.
At this time, McKesson has not publicly disclosed which third-party applications were compromised, how the attackers gained access, or what information was stolen.
McKesson says its investigation remains ongoing and that it will provide additional information as it develops a more complete understanding of the incident.
The ShinyHunters extortion group told BleepingComputer that it was behind the attack, claiming it gained access after conducting voice phishing, or vishing, social engineering attacks against multiple McKesson employees.
ShinyHunters declined to provide many technical details about the social engineering attacks, including the domain used during the campaign. However, BleepingComputer learned from another source that the threat actors used the mckesson[.]claims domain as part of the attack.
This domain matches a ShinyHunters campaign recently documented by ReliaQuest’s Threat Research team, which said the extortion group was registering .claims domains containing the names or abbreviations of targeted companies to impersonate their help desks and IT teams.
“ReliaQuest is tracking a widespread ShinyHunters campaign using domains that follow the company[.]claims pattern. These domains incorporate the targeted organization’s name or abbreviation under the .claims TLD,” ReliaQuest said in a now-deleted post on X.
ShinyHunters told BleepingComputer that the vishing attacks led to the compromise of multiple employees’ Okta single sign-on accounts, which they then used to access the company’s Salesforce and Snowflake environments.
The threat actor claims it fully compromised the Salesforce environment, including support cases. The threat actor also allegedly stole a much larger collection of patient-related data from Snowflake.
According to ShinyHunters, the threat actor exfiltrated about 1TB of data over four days, between August 21 and August 25.
The threat actor also claims the stolen Snowflake data contains approximately 284 million data records of patient-related information. However, this does not mean that the breach impacted 284 million patients.
Previous reporting stated that information belonging to 284 million patients had been exposed. ShinyHunters clarified to BleepingComputer that the figure is actually a raw count of approximately 284 million data records, or lines, rather than a count of unique individuals.
The threat actor told BleepingComputer that it has not fully analyzed the stolen data and does not know how many unique people are in those records.
ShinyHunters claims the stolen information includes names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, patient IDs, phone numbers, email addresses, Medicaid numbers, medical record numbers, medication and allergy information, illnesses, disabilities, appointment information, and physician information.
The group also claims the data contains information related to deceased and terminally ill patients, prescriptions and medication shipments, invoices, employee information, Salesforce records, internal communications, and healthcare providers and clinics using McKesson’s services.
BleepingComputer has not independently verified these claims, and McKesson has not publicly disclosed what information was stolen.
The group says it contacted McKesson after completing the data theft on August 25 and demanded a $55,236,150 ransom, giving the company 72 hours to respond. According to ShinyHunters, McKesson did not respond to or negotiate over the ransom demand.
The attack comes amid an ongoing wave of data-theft attacks targeting healthcare and health technology organizations attributed to ShinyHunters.
Health-ISAC recently warned healthcare organizations about increasing ShinyHunters attacks involving social engineering designed to compromise corporate accounts and gain access to cloud and SaaS platforms.
Other healthcare technology companies targeted in recent ShinyHunters data-theft attacks include Medtronic, DentaQuest, iRhythm, OneMedical, and AdaptHealth.
Overall prevention scores can hide what happens after initial access. Once attackers are using valid credentials, prevention drops sharply.
The Blue Report 2026 measures defenses technique by technique across 338 million simulations run in customer production environments.
“Grand Theft Auto 6” is the biggest and most-anticipated game release in a decade, at least. Despite a reported budget of more than $1 billion, it’s expected to make money back for developer Rockstar and publisher Take-Two Interactive in a matter of days. There’s also a reasonable case to be made for “Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look” being the biggest game trailer release of all time. It’s certainly the first trailer to get a six-hour exclusive run on Netflix (with some stray Twitch streamers thrown in for good measure) before debuting on YouTube and other platforms.
There’s plenty to see for yourself, so if you’re at all interested it’s well worth spending 26 minutes and 49 seconds to take a look ahead of “Grand Theft Auto 6” release on November 19. But, we spotted a bunch of things you may not notice at first glance, and we also dove through several interviews Rockstar gave — timed for the trailer’s release, of course — to pull out the things you need to know about “GTA 6.”
We had a suspicion that this would be the case, but thanks to some media work Rockstar executives did around the extended look’s release, we can better quantify what that means. Speaking with YouTuber TGG, Rockstar co-studio head Rob Nelson claimed that the game’s map is twice the size of the “GTA 5” map, and three times the size of the “Red Dead Redemption 2” map. As for Vice City, TGG said, “Vice City itself is twice the size of Los Santos. And Vice City and its [surrounding suburbs] is 11 times bigger than Los Santos and its [surrounding suburbs].”
This is all obviously a far cry from the maps of multi-planetary games like “No Man’s Sky” and “Starfield,” but Rockstar’s games are on a different level to those when it comes to density and unique touches. A giant planet with a couple of buildings vs. a large portion of the state of Florida (sorry, Leonida), isn’t the fairest comparison to make.
We also got a clue as to just how long “Grand Theft Auto 6” is. In a different interview with The New York Times, Nelson told games journalist Christopher Byrd that he spent 80 hours playing through the main story and a handful of optional goals. Your mileage may vary, but that’s a much longer time than the average player logged completing “Grand Theft Auto 5,” according to the site How Long to Beat.
It wouldn’t be a modern Grand Theft Auto without minigames, and we spotted multiple new options in the extended look. We knew from earlier leaks that basketball was going be an option, but during the 27-minute trailer Rockstar showed off at least six other activities.
Vice City has always had a dirt track, so the inclusion of off-road races isn’t a huge surprise, but the brief snippet shows dirtbikes and ATVs racing alongside trucks. There’s an even-more-brief segment where we see a Fast and Furious-style street race, full of exotic imports, neon underglow mods and, of course, nitrous boosts.
There even appears to be a professional series on a full-blown race track inspired by real circuits. In the trailer we see a multi-lap race with track-modified sedans and souped-up muscle cars decked out in (pretty silly) sponsored liveries. There are open-wheel racing series in “GTA Online” and figure-8 racing events in “San Andreas,” but this latest addition looks impressive, to say the least.
Finally, while we didn’t see any jet ski races in the trailer, the vehicles do feature prominently, so we wouldn’t be surprised if that’s an option come November 19. If racing isn’t your speed, there seem to be a handful of less adrenaline-fueled activities on offer, including kayaking, diving, weight lifting and target practice challenges.
We still don’t have a full rundown on the fine details of the “GTA 6” combat system, but we did learn a lot from the extended look.
One big quality-of-life improvement coming is swapping between two firearms on the fly. The weapon wheel is still there, but around 18 and a half minutes in, you can see co-protagonist Lucia on a target range switching between a rifle and a pistol without needing to pull up the wheel.
Bullet time — which was an ability locked to Michael De Santa in “GTA V” — is confirmed to be making a return, at least for Jason. While he clears an office space of goons, we see him slow down time and a new vital targeting system. Some areas are lit up in red and appear to be indicating lethal shots, while others in a pale yellow are centered on joints and may be there for you to incapacitate someone in a less-lethal way. Oh, and there’s even a killcam straight out of “Max Payne 3” in one scene.
One perhaps pointless but very cool addition is the ability to wield certain weapons in one hand. In one scene, Lucia is carrying a duffel bag in one arm and a shotgun in the other. She’s able to both fire and rack her shotgun without skipping a beat. Those are some strong forearms. And ribs, for that matter.
Going all the way back to 1997’s “Grand Theft Auto,” you’ve been able to break into any car and, with the press of a button, magically hot-wire it. Those days are over. Around six minutes into the trailer, we see Jason attempting to steal a car and a “Slim Jim” minigame where the player has to time their inputs to get into the car using a slide tool.
According Rockstar, that’s just one of the new layers of complexity to the grand theft auto of “GTA 6.” Speaking with IGN, Nelson (the same co-studio head who spoke with TGG) gave a few interesting examples: Vehicles with electronic key fobs may require a key cloner, while cars with GPS tracking enabled might require you to drive below a certain speed threshold to avoid triggering an alarm.
Apparently there’ll be an in-game app on the protagonists’ cellphones that will let you scan a car to discover what security features are optioned. “Grand Theft Auto VI” has a number of new rides and returning classics, and it sounds like many will require a different approach to steal. The app will also reveal how much money you can make selling it or how much it’ll cost to file down those VINs add it to your collection.
It’s a quick fix for that dead zone in your house.
If you have an old Android phone gathering dust in a drawer somewhere, you may already have everything you need to fix the dead zones in your home Wi-Fi network. Instead of buying new hardware, be it an extender, a mesh node or a more powerful router, you could just use an old Android device.
Most households have at least one old Android phone sitting forgotten somewhere, too outdated to use as a daily driver, but too functional to justify throwing it away. Before you drop it off for recycling, you should consider what it can still do for you. With nothing more than its built-in settings and a power outlet, that phone can pull double duty as a Wi-Fi extender, helping push your home network’s signal into those room corners where signal is patchy at best.
You don’t need any special apps, extra hardware or even advanced technical know-how. Android’s built-in hotspot feature lets your phone connect to your existing Wi-Fi network and act as a repeater to broadcast it as a separate signal, thus extending coverage.
If your home has areas where the internet signal is weak, it can be quite annoying. While it’s true that some things can be done — did you know there was a right way to position your router’s antennas? — it can be a nuisance until fixed. There are things you can buy, of course. Upgrading to a mesh system or getting a new router can be quite expensive, while a Wi-Fi extender can put you back about $50, depending on model. That’s still money you could simply not spend by making use of tech you already have.
Your Android phone can connect to your existing home Wi-Fi network and rebroadcast the signal as a separate hotspot. You can then connect other devices, from laptops to tablets and smart TVs, to that Wi-Fi signal instead. Think of it as a signal relay, as the phone picks up Wi-Fi from your router and simply passes it along to other devices that need it. It’s not a mesh system, and it won’t perform as one, but it’s a free and low-effort fix for weak coverage areas.
The process for this whole operation is quite straightforward and only takes a few minutes. Our starting point comes after you’ve already located your old Android phone, recharged it and run the latest updates.
Open Settings, go to Network & Internet > Internet. Select your home Wi-Fi network and enter the password when prompted.
Go to Settings > Hotspot and Tethering and toggle on Wi-Fi Hotspot. You can also find the Hotspot icon in the drop-down menu — you just need to know what all those Android status bar icons mean.
Tap the Wi-Fi hotspot to rename the network and set a strong password to secure your network and keep it easy to identify.
If your phone supports it, you can select 5GHz under the speed or band settings. This will improve performance for nearby devices, but it offers a shorter range than 2.4GHz.
Place your phone about halfway between your router and the dead zone you’re worried about. Make sure it’s near an outlet so you can easily keep it recharged. Old phones already have questionable battery life, and running a hotspot continuously will drain the battery fast.
The downside of this method is that the phone extends your existing Wi-Fi, but it won’t boost your internet speed in any way. If your internet is already slow, the hotspot won’t fix that. You also have to keep in mind that any commercial Wi-Fi extender or mesh node will outperform this Android-based solution.
Another thing to keep in mind when using this method is that there’s no smart home integration to speak of. Dedicated Wi-Fi extenders often support smart home ecosystems and seamless roaming, while an Android hotspot creates a separate network, so some smart home devices may not connect to it reliably. Plus, you’ll need to manually switch networks as you move around your home.
The answer to this question is one only you can deliver. Do you want to invest in your network at this point? An Android phone extender costs nothing, and it’s ideal as a temporary fix or supplementary solution for a single problem area. However, you’ll get much better range and performance from a commercial Wi-Fi extender, a mesh node or a new router. Go for the Android phone option if you need a quick fix and already have an unused device on hand. You could even try the USB tethering alternative for a more stable connection. It will make a surprisingly capable Wi-Fi extender for the right situation, the setup takes minutes, the cost is zero and it keeps a device out of the recycling bin. Just understand that this is a practical workaround, not a permanent network solution.
You can now grab the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft at its lowest price since launch, saving £150 in the process.
Amazon has cut £150 off the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, taking it from £629.99 down to £479.99, a 24% discount that makes this the cheapest way yet to own one of Amazon’s most advanced e-readers.
Kindle Scribe Colorsoft hits its lowest price yet at £479.99
If you have been eyeing the Colorsoft, now is the moment to grab it at that lowest recorded price, since it has bounced back to just £629.99.
The Colorsoft has mostly sat at £629.99 for months. Only brief dips interrupted that pattern before this latest drop pushed the price to a new low.
The display itself is what makes this Scribe standout, since Amazon’s oxide-based Colorsoft screen delivers high-contrast, paper-like colour with a textured surface that avoids the flashing normally associated with e-ink refreshes when you turn a page.
This paper-like feel carries into the Premium Pen included in the box, a battery-free stylus that never needs charging and responds quickly enough to feel like writing with real ink rather than plastic on glass.
Every page you write becomes part of a built-in notebook that uses AI to search your handwriting, summarise long notes, and answer questions about what you wrote without needing to remember exact keywords or page numbers.
Handwritten pages can also be refined and converted to text for sharing, while documents pulled in from Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive can be marked up directly and exported straight back out as PDFs too.
Active Canvas takes that a step further by making space in the text itself, shifting a book or Word document to let you write directly between the lines instead of squeezing notes into a cramped margin.
All of that runs on a single charge that lasts up to eight weeks of regular reading or two weeks of daily writing, so the Colorsoft rarely needs to come off the shelf to top up.
Imagine picking up one of Amazon’s most advanced e-readers without paying full price for the privilege, because that is exactly what happens with the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft at £479.99, its lowest price since its official launch.
If you have been eyeing the Colorsoft, now is the moment to grab it at that lowest recorded price, since it has bounced back to £629.99 quickly enough before to make waiting a real risk.
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Bluesound has introduced the Pulse Sub, a completely redesigned wireless powered subwoofer built to bring deeper bass to its BluOS multi-room system.
Inside the cabinet is a 350-watt amplifier with Smart DSP technology drives two custom 6.5-inch woofers arranged in an opposing configuration, a layout that delivers roughly 2.5 times more power than the previous generation Bluesound subwoofer.
The dual-opposing arrangement also cancels much of the vibration each driver creates, so the cabinet stays still while the woofers do the work to deliver bass stays deep, clean and controlled.
Built entirely around the BluOS platform, the Pulse Sub pairs wirelessly with existing Bluesound products through the BluOS Controller app, and setup mirrors the same steps Bluesound already uses for adding a second player to a system.
Pairing options include the Pulse Cinema and Pulse Cinema Mini wireless soundbars for a fuller home cinema setup, or the Powernode streaming amplifier for listeners who want deeper, more musical bass added to music playback.
Matt Simmonds, VP of Bluesound Product Development, described the goal for the design as: “Great bass shouldn’t be loud and boomy. It should bring you closer to what you are watching or listening to without calling attention to where it is coming from.”
Simmonds added that the team rethought both the acoustic and industrial design of the Pulse Sub to more than double its power output while keeping the enclosure compact, controlled and easy to live with.
Soft contours and tonal-weave fabric grilles pair with a matte satin finish that matches the rest of the Bluesound line, while integrated cable management channels keep wiring routed and out of sight. Beyond wireless pairing, a low line-level analogue input lets the Pulse Sub double as a wired active subwoofer for non-BluOS systems.
The Pulse Sub will be available later in 2026 priced at £849 / €999, sold through authorised Bluesound retailers, Bluesound website and Amazon, with pre-order details to follow at a later date.
Pricey Memory Potato: Samsung recently unveiled the latest models in its portable storage lineup. The “P” SSD series features unprecedented performance, but the high-end models come with truly eye-opening MSRPs that few users will be able to afford.
Samsung unveiled the company’s new offering for portable storage enthusiasts at Gamescom 2026 in Germany. The “P” Series of external SSDs uses USB4 connectivity to raise the performance bar considerably while offering some truly spacious units for both professional and consumer use.
The P Series includes two models: the P9, which is positioned as an ideal solution for professional users, and the P7 – designed to provide “convenient” storage for everyday users. According to the official price tags, however, it isn’t particularly convenient for most wallets.
The flagship P9 drive can deliver sequential read speeds of up to 4,000MBps, while sequential write speeds can reach 3,800MBps. This industry-leading performance is approximately twice as fast as the previous generation, with Samsung comparing the newer P9 with a 4TB T9 drive, which offers sequential read and write speeds of 2,000MBps over a USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 interface.
Earlier this year, the Samsung P9 received an Innovation Award at CES. Samsung said the portable SSD can sustain “12K” real-time recording, which should be more than enough for production workflows involving video capture, RAW image files, and ultra-high-definition video storage and editing.
Meanwhile, the Samsung P7 model uses the same USB4 interface to offer a more versatile storage option. The Korean company highlights the drive’s broad compatibility, noting that it can be used with desktop and laptop computers, smartphones, gaming consoles, and even USB-compatible cameras.
The P7 also offers improved durability, having successfully completed a 2-meter drop test along with additional shock and vibration tests. According to Samsung Electronics Vice President Tommy Kwon, the P Series can provide real performance benefits for “AI-powered” content creation, video production, and everything in between.
Now, here’s the hardest part of Samsung’s overenthusiastic announcement: the P Series of portable SSDs will cost a lot, because memory products have become a luxury that very few giant corporations in the world can afford to ransack.
The P9 will be available in four capacities (1TB, 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB), with suggested prices ranging from $340 to $2,700. Meanwhile, the “affordable” P7 drives will range from $290 for the 1TB model to $2,290 for the 8TB version. Look for them to start shipping on August 31.
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How come that super-smart AI of yours didn’t figure this out, frontier labs?
Datacenter cooling could get a lot more affordable, and sustainable, if a joint German-Japanese research project can be scaled beyond the laboratory.
Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Tsukuba published a paper in Nature Energy on Friday discussing the success they had with a solid-state cooling technology that doesn’t need any electric input at all, and was still able to demonstrate temperature reductions in laboratory experiments.
For those unfamiliar with solid-state cooling, it’s a more sustainable alternative to traditional compression cooling that relies on environmentally harmful refrigerants and lots of electricity. Instead of compressing and expanding a gas to generate cold, some solid-state systems rely on thermoelectric materials that, when supplied with electricity, can generate temperature differences. Thermoelectric solid-state cooling systems can be incredibly small, but there’s a catch: They still need energy, and they’re only a quarter as efficient as modern compression cooling systems, as the researchers noted.
Enter elastocaloric cooling, which relies on shape-memory alloys that change temperature when mechanically loaded and unloaded through a phase transition. It’s that sort of material and methodology that the KIT and Tsukuba team experimented with.
Like other forms of solid-state cooling, elastocaloric systems have traditionally required electricity to effect change in the shape-memory alloys they use, relying on actuators that can get quite large. What the researchers wanted to develop was a miniaturized form of elastocaloric cooling that didn’t require any electricity at all, instead relying on the waste heat being generated by the objects it wanted to cool – for example, a computer processor, as they mention in their paper. Based on their demonstration, it appears to have worked.
The researchers used a pair of super thin nickel-titanium foils for their elastocaloric system with opposing functions: One foil shrinks when subjected to heat, generating movement that translates into mechanical energy and acting as its own actuator. That mechanical energy is transferred to the second foil, which is loaded and unloaded to trigger a phase transition that produces the cooling effect.
Laboratory tests demonstrated that their technology isn’t only theoretically feasible, but also actually works – albeit to a limited extent.
“Our prototype achieves a temperature span of 12.9 K at the refrigerant film level and 4.0 K at the device level under Joule-heated actuation at 86°C (187°F),” the team said in their report. When subjected to an external heat source of 130°C (266°F), the system still maintained a device-level temperature span of 2.2 K – not a lot, but it still shows the device, even at its most basic, single-pair-of-films level, works.
“For us, the decisive moment was seeing measurable cooling for the first time, actually generated by a heat-driven system,” KIT PhD candidate and paper lead author Yi-Ting Hsiau said of the project in a release put out by the university. “This showed us that the principle doesn’t just work on paper.”
With the concept of electricity-free miniaturized cooling now proven, the team is planning to build larger experimental units to optimize cooling performance.
Electricity-free and water-free cooling designs couldn’t come at a better time: Energy generation used to power and cool things like datacenters is on the rise, as is the water footprint of such facilities, in part also linked to cooling. Add climate change to the mix, and cooling electronics and people is only more of a concern – according to IRENA, heating and cooling together now account for more than 40 percent of global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. Sorting out the datacenter energy and water problem has a lot to do with figuring out how to keep systems cool, and while this research is in its infancy, it could prove to be a valuable contribution to reducing the tech industry’s energy footprint.
“We believe this is just the beginning,” said Jingyuan Xu, head of KIT’s ZEco Thermal Lab, working on zero-emissions and eco-friendly heating and cooling tech. “By scaling up this technology, we aim to develop compact cooling systems that utilize abundant heat sources for sustainable cooling.” ®
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