🔥Detailed Tech Update – 12 September 2025 🚀

Infopitaara Friday, September 12, 2025

Hello, and good morning!
Today’s tech landscape spans from cybersecurity alarms to startup funding breakthroughs, green transitions, and policy shifts. Whether you're in industry, academia, or just curious, there’s a lot underway as tech continues its rapid pace across sectors.


Top Tech & Science Stories

  1. Windows 11 September 2025 Patch Tuesday Fixes Big Vulnerabilities
    Microsoft’s latest update addresses 84 security flaws, including two already publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities and eight critical ones. The majority of the fixes deal with privilege escalation, remote code execution, and information disclosure. 

  2. Massive Ransomware Breach at Cornwell Quality Tools
    Cornwell Quality Tools revealed that over 103,000 individuals were affected by a ransomware attack conducted by the Cactus group. The attack, which compromised sensitive personal and medical information, occurred in December 2024 but was publicly disclosed only recently.

  3. India & Australia’s RISE Accelerator Helps Agritech Startups Go Global
    Through the RISE Accelerator, supported by Australia’s CSIRO and India’s Atal Innovation Mission, agritech startups are getting the support they need to scale internationally. This includes tailored mentorship, pilot opportunities, market insights, and enabling local adaptation in new markets. 

  4. $43.87 Million Deal in Clean Energy for MTAR Technologies
    MTAR Technologies has secured an order worth about ₹386 crore (≈ US$43.9 million) from Bloom Energy. This deal underscores rising momentum in clean-tech partnerships between India and the United States in hydrogen fuel cell tech.

  5. Green Transition Imperatives Highlighted for India’s Steel & Cement Sectors
    Experts at the Mint Sustainability Summit urged that decarbonization of “hard-to-abate” industries like steel and cement will require new technologies, strong policies, and significant green finance. No single solution is enough; a mix of innovation and systemic economic support is essential.

  6. UK-India Business Council’s 3rd Annual Technology Conference in New Delhi
    The UKIBC brought together government, academia, and business leaders to discuss how tech can drive sustainable growth and bilateral trade. Key discussions included clean energy, manufacturing, innovation policy, and digital infrastructure.

  7. CSIR Start-Up Conclave 2025 to Boost Innovation in Agriculture, Environment & Health
    The upcoming CSIR Start-Up Conclave in Lucknow (Sept 14-15) will showcase technologies from CSIR labs (like NBRI, CDRI, IITR, CIMAP) with a special focus on turning research into startups in agriculture, green tech, and health.

  8. Google Expanding “AI Mode” in Search to Several New Languages
    Google is adding five more languages—including Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese—to its AI-powered search “AI Mode,” which previously operated in English in over 180 countries. This aims to improve relevance and user experience in more linguistic contexts.

  9. UP (Uttar Pradesh) Sets Long-Term Vision to Become Global IT & AI Hub by 2047
    Uttar Pradesh has laid out a roadmap to transform into a global leader in IT and AI by 2047. Plans include creating “AI Cities” in Lucknow and Kanpur, improving green IT infrastructure, boosting education & research, and scaling software exports.

  10. IIT Kanpur Alumni to Host GCC Innovation Summit
    IIT Kanpur’s alumni association is organizing a Global Capability Centre (GCC) Innovation Summit on September 13-14. The summit will bring together innovators from academia, industry, and government to explore emerging technologies, ESG, quantum and AI research, and startup collaboration.

What to Keep an Eye On

  1. The fallout from the ransomware breach — particularly regulatory and legal responses, and how companies in similar sectors react.

  2. How quickly updates like Microsoft’s patch release get adopted, especially in enterprise environments.

  3. Government policy and funding frameworks for green tech, especially in steel and cement—since those sectors pose big climate challenges.

  4. The global rise of AI-mode search tools and whether language support and cultural localization keep pace.

  5. The impact of summits and conclaves (like IIT Kanpur or CSIR’s) in fostering startup-industry collaboration and how many of the innovations they seed become real products.

   

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