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Computing

Apple's September 9 event: Foldable iPhone Ultra, AirPods, and a price shock

Apple's 9 September event is shaping up to be the most consequential hardware launch in years, with the foldable iPhone Ultra finally confirmed as ...

· 4 min read
AI

Anthropic bought $517 billion of compute after warning rivals about the risk

Anthropic has signed compute contracts worth up to $517 billion in eleven months, months after Dario Amodei warned competitors were not weighing the ...

· 4 min read
Space

Isar Aerospace puts Europe's first fully commercial rocket into orbit

Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket reached orbit from Andoya on 5 September 2026, the first orbital launch from Western European soil, 18 months after ...

· 4 min read
AI

The Seattle Times and Newsday want the models destroyed, not just damages

The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on 4 September 2026, asking a federal court to order destruction of the training datasets and ...

· 4 min read
Computing

Thailand pauses 166 data centre projects to rewrite the rules

Thailand suspended 166 data centre projects on 4 September 2026, nearly five times the 35 it has running. Four panels have one month to draft power ...

· 5 min read
EVs and Energy

Travis Kalanick is back and he wants to finish what Uber started

Travis Kalanick is calling his return to the transportation industry 'unfinished business', and his new company Atoms is reportedly heading into ...

· 4 min read
Space

Astronomers found real sugar 27,000 light years away

Sugar found in space for the first time: erythrulose, a four-carbon sugar, detected in a molecular cloud 27,000 light years from Earth near the ...

· 3 min read
Space

Star formation has collapsed 59 percent and the hydrogen is still there

The star formation decline over 4.5 billion years runs near 59 percent, yet neutral hydrogen fell only 11 to 26 percent. FAST and DESI data rules out ...

· 3 min read
Computing

Phil Schiller's App Store exit was about money, and that's a bigger story than it looks

Phil Schiller's departure from Apple turns out to be less about retirement and more about a disagreement over where new CEO John Ternus wants to take ...

· 3 min read
AI

OpenAI's 'Alien mind' essay is the most honest thing the company has ever published

OpenAI's chief scientist just published an essay called 'An Alien Mind', and it's unlike anything you'd normally expect from a frontier AI lab at the ...

· 4 min read
AI

Open Yap 1K: 1,000 hours of free conversational audio just landed for AI developers

A new dataset called Open Yap 1K just dropped on Hugging Face: 1,000 hours of full-duplex conversational audio, free to use commercially. The ...

· 4 min read
Space

Isar Aerospace makes history as Europe's first commercial orbital rocket reaches space

A German startup just did something no European commercial company had ever managed before: put a rocket into orbit. Isar Aerospace's Spectrum ...

· 3 min read
Gadgets

iPhone Ultra foldable price: What Apple is asking on Wednesday, and what you get

iPhone Ultra foldable price estimates start near 1,999 dollars ahead of Apple's 9 September event. Here is the spec sheet, and how it reads against ...

· 3 min read
Computing

The 2026 home server build, priced against the subscriptions it replaces

A home server build in 2026 runs 100 to 400 pounds across three tiers. What each one handles, what it draws at idle, and when it pays back your ...

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Computing

GitHub Innovation Graph Q1 2026: AI repos drew 67 percent more cross-border work

The GitHub Innovation Graph Q1 2026 update shows AI repositories took a 67 percent spike in cross-border contributions, with outbound collaboration ...

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AI

Figure retired its robot fleet at BMW Spartanburg after 30,000 cars

The Figure robot BMW Spartanburg pilot ended after 11 months, 30,000 X3 vehicles and 90,000 sheet metal parts. Figure 03 now takes over on paid ...

· 3 min read
Reviews

The Fairphone 6 Plus review: Boring on purpose, and that's the point

Fairphone's 6 Plus just got called 'an extremely average midrange Android phone' in a major review, and that description is meant as a compliment. ...

· 4 min read
AI

XDOF targets 1.2 billion dollar valuation just three months after stealth exit

XDOF, a robot data startup that nobody had heard of three months ago, is already in Series B talks at a 1.2 billion dollar valuation. It is a sign of ...

· 4 min read
AI

WeatherNext 3 explained: Google's AI forecast now updates every hour at 5km

WeatherNext 3 explained: Google's AI weather model runs 15 day forecasts hourly at 5km resolution and claims up to 50 percent better rain accuracy.

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Computing

Roland's Melody Flip brings generative AI into the music hardware world

Roland, the company behind the TR-808 and the Juno synthesiser, has unveiled Melody Flip, a dedicated generative AI music product. For a hardware ...

· 4 min read
Computing

Nvidia is raising AI server prices by 15 percent, and memory is the reason

The Nvidia AI server price increase for 2027 shipments runs past 15 percent on Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems. Memory costs are driving it ...

· 3 min read
Computing

iPhone Handoff will let iOS 27 users share one number across two phones

Apple's iOS 27, due later this month, includes a feature called iPhone Handoff that lets you run the same phone number across two separate iPhones ...

· 4 min read
Security

Home network security settings for 2026: Nine router changes worth twenty minutes

Nine home network security settings for 2026, in order: WPA3, a real admin password, firmware updates, WPS off, remote management off, and an ...

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AI

Hikers rescued after trusting Google Gemini with their lives

Two hikers needed rescuing after Google Gemini told them to bring significantly less food and water than they needed for their trip. It is a sharp ...

· 4 min read
Security

CISA KEV, September 2026: Seven exploited flaws, and attackers are hunting AI servers

CISA KEV September 2026: seven exploited vulnerabilities added in a week, including a CVSS 10.0 SonicWall flaw, plus attackers stealing LLM keys from ...

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