Tech News Roundup — September 15, 2026 (NOON)

A quiet midday cycle brought a fintech security scare, a reality check for wearable fitness tracking, and modest hardware and pricing news out of Volvo and Apple.

Revolut confirms data breach, claims point to Italian authorities

Revolut has confirmed that customer data was disclosed to unauthorized third parties, and a new claim now links the incident to Italian police systems. The fintech acknowledged the disclosure but has not detailed the scale of the breach or how the data was accessed. The allegation that Italian law-enforcement systems were involved in the exposure remains unverified, and the origin of the intrusion is still under investigation.

Study finds smartwatches badly overstate calories burned

A new investigation pitting Apple, Garmin, Samsung, and Fitbit wearables against a professional metabolic analyzer found that consumer smartwatches significantly misreport calories burned during exercise. None of the four devices tested came close to matching the lab-grade reference equipment, with the gap large enough to meaningfully mislead users tracking weight loss or training load through their wrist device alone. The study adds to a growing body of research questioning how much trust users should place in wearable health metrics beyond basic activity and heart-rate trends.

Volvo doubles plug-in hybrid range on the XC60 and XC90

Volvo unveiled updated plug-in hybrid versions of its XC60 and XC90 SUVs, calling them its first “long range” PHEVs with preliminary EPA-tested electric-only ranges of 78 miles and 73 miles respectively. That’s more than double the battery-only range of the previous PHEV variants of both models, at a time when most plug-in hybrids on the market still top out around 30–50 miles of electric range. The figures are still preliminary pending final EPA confirmation. [The Verge]

Apple prices its new AI Home camera features up to $60 a month

With the public release of iOS 27 and tvOS 27, Apple Home is gaining Apple Intelligence features for HomeKit Secure Video cameras — AI-generated text summaries of what a camera saw, cross-camera clip stitching, and improved video search — but all of it sits behind a paywall. The features require at minimum the $9.99-a-month 2TB iCloud+ plan, climbing as high as $60 a month depending on the tier, turning what was previously a hardware purchase into an ongoing subscription cost for smart-home security. [The Verge]

Compiled from the TT-RSS Tech category feeds: Pplware and The Verge. Few new items cleared this edition’s filter beyond what the AM edition already covered — the next PM roundup will pick up any fresh coverage from Windows Central, Phoronix, 9to5Linux, and Jeff Geerling.