MG teases electric SUV with ‘liquid-solid state battery’, Google issues Pixel warning

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A new small electric SUV from MG, called the 4X, featuring the company’s “liquid-solid state battery”, has been teased by the brand in China with an expected launch in the coming months. On MG’s parent company’s Weibo page, multiple images of the upcoming SUV were shared, revealing details of the car, which could very well head to international markets in the near future. The caption on the post, which hints at what’s to come in the new model, when translated, says: “Comfortable driving experience | Fully equipped cabin | Smart ecosystem. Sets a new benchmark for comfortable family travel.” The Driven

Google has just issued a critical update for Pixel users. “We encourage all customers to accept these updates to their devices,” the Android-maker says. The update includes a fix for CVE-2026-0073, an Android vulnerability which exposes phones to attack. “User interaction is not needed for exploitation.” But this update also comes with a very different but equally serious warning, which Android Authority says “has once again highlighted a long-standing issue for developers and advanced users” with Pixels in hand. Forbes 

Fire brigades across the UK are tackling lithium-ion battery fires at a rate of one every five hours, figures show, as fire chiefs warn that public awareness and government regulation have not kept pace with the ubiquity of this new hazard. Lithium-ion batteries power most rechargeable devices, including mobile phones, electric toothbrushes, toys and vapes, as well as ebikes, e-scooters and electric vehicles. The Guardian 

A cyber attack hit several universities and schools in the US, Canada and Australia, causing chaos, confusion and major disruptions amid the high stakes end-of-year season. The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the attack, which caused the academic software Canvas used by thousands of schools and universities to go offline this week. By late Thursday, the company Instructure, which owns Canvas, posted an update on its website saying that Canvas was “available for most users”, but some universities were still reporting outages on Friday. BBC 

In nine seconds, years’ worth of work went down the drain. Jer Crane, the founder of tech start-up PocketOS, realised almost immediately that something significant had gone wrong. Car rental firms reliant on PocketOS’s software systems opened on a Saturday morning last month to find they had no record of bookings or vehicle allocations. Their databases had disappeared. For Crane, the situation was nothing short of a disaster – but it was not one of his making. “Dude!” Crane complained on X. “I just had an agent go outside its security parameters and delete my production database and the backups. What the hell?” Telegraph 

The Sony A7 V has sat at the top of a number of best-seller lists since its launch in late 2025 – and for good reason, considering its mix of performance and price. But the popular mirrorless camera sits in second place on the latest list of trending cameras from retailer B&H after another rather famous camera: the Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark III. In fact, looking at the top ten trending cameras at B&H for April 2026, more than half of the options are compact cameras, which outnumber mirrorless seven to three. Digital Camera World