Friday · September 4, 2026 Vol. I · No. 246
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Five reasons the explosive NFL passing game has plummeted over the past decade and will it ever ret… Head of Ukraine’s Presidential Office Kyrylo Budanov says he regularly spoke with Wagner Group foun… 15/18 A Place to Heal review – heartfelt docu-realist study of a French teen psychiatric facility Bath show highlights sibling finds – and England’s first paid female astronomer Not a cheetah: Ancient DNA reveals the surprising Arctic life of extinct North American cat Cowboys add veteran tight end to practice squad OpenAI agents hijacked German website before Hugging Face hack, report claims Rescue satellite gets close to NASA's doomed telescope, even if it can't save it Five reasons the explosive NFL passing game has plummeted over the past decade and will it ever ret… Head of Ukraine’s Presidential Office Kyrylo Budanov says he regularly spoke with Wagner Group foun… 15/18 A Place to Heal review – heartfelt docu-realist study of a French teen psychiatric facility Bath show highlights sibling finds – and England’s first paid female astronomer Not a cheetah: Ancient DNA reveals the surprising Arctic life of extinct North American cat Cowboys add veteran tight end to practice squad OpenAI agents hijacked German website before Hugging Face hack, report claims Rescue satellite gets close to NASA's doomed telescope, even if it can't save it

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Technology · Startups

Sam Altman says AI developers have fumbled at communicating the technology’s benefits

Sam Altman says the AI industry has done a terrible job of communicating the benefits of the technology and is now exposed to a backlash, after local opposition blocked or delayed…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Cybersecurity

French hospital fined €500,000 after breach exposes data of 727,000

France's data protection authority (CNIL) has fined Hôpital privé de la Loire €500,000 ($580,000) for failing to adequately protect patients' and their relatives' data. [...]

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Ugreen's new smart home ecosystem is built around local AI hubs

Ugreen has three new hubs that run your smart home with local AI rather than the cloud. The top model runs on Nvidia's Jetson Thor platform and costs $20,000.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

You can watch the coolant flow inside Ugreen’s liquid-cooled power bank

Does your power bank have "CryoPulse technology" or a "Cyber Window"? If you disappointingly answered "no" to both, you might want to consider upgrading to Ugreen's new MagFlow Pr…

Technology · Hardware & Devices

SpaceXAI apologizes for outage that affected Grok and other 'compute partners'

Several AI companies experienced issues at around the same time.

Technology · Startups

Why video is the first frontier as AI learns to read the physical world

A camera overlooking a loading dock might record twelve hours of trucks arriving, workers moving through the site, and boxes leaving the building. Most days, nobody has a reason t…

Technology · Startups

The 24-hour CRA deadline is changing software supply chain visibility

According to an analysis published by The Hacker News, manufacturers of products with digital elements sold in the European Union will face a September 11 deadline under the Cyber…

Technology · Hardware & Devices

The Apple Vision Pro was used for a successful hip surgery

Stryker says its SportSuite Vision software for the headset received De Novo authorization from the FDA in July.

Technology · Software & Apps

Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming

Over 1 million Game Pass subscribers will have to pay more for their heavy streaming use.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

Startup ARR is less secure than ever, new research shows

The AI era has completely broken enterprise buying patterns, and startups haven't yet figured out how to navigate.

Technology · Startups

The 10 best autonomous pentesting tools, ranked by proof of exploit (2026)

How the leading autonomous penetration testing platforms validate every exploit before it reaches your dashboard Security teams seldom lose because a scanner missed a bug. They lo…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

Dungeons & Dragons is getting a ‘Ravenloft’ live-action Netflix series

A Ravenloft series is currently in development from executive producer Alfonso Cuarón, writer and executive producer John August, and Hasbro Entertainment, Deadline reports. It co…

Technology · Software & Apps

150 research primates got diarrhea, flooding lab with priceless vaccine data

Researchers now have clear new targets and insights for developing a Shigella vaccine.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Cybersecurity

Coder's registry infrastructure compromised to push malicious modules

Attackers compromised Coder's Cloudflare infrastructure and added unauthorized registry servers that delivered malicious Terraform modules containing credential-stealing code. [..…

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Google's new AI weather model uses live satellite data for higher-resolution forecasts

WeatherNext 3 is also supposed to be much better at predicting precipitation.

Technology · Software & Apps

US senator calls on the NSA to give guidance for use of VPNs

Open source, commercial, single-hop, multi-hop, mixnet? The array of options is dizzying.

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Utah won't enforce VPN age-verification law until legal challenge resolves

The state was the first to target VPN usage in the wake of age verification laws, but an ongoing court case has put things on ice.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

The Cybercab is Tesla’s ‘fork in the road’ moment 

The company is about to formally launch the gold two-seater, with no steering wheel or pedals -- a move that could change Tesla forever.

Technology · Software & Apps

NJ urges SCOTUS to rule that Kalshi sports bets are gambling, not "swaps"

Circuit split raised the odds that SCOTUS will rule on Kalshi fight against states.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation

The high-profile startup's annual revenue run rate stands at over $100 million.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

Utilities are racing to link up with fusion startups, with Realta Fusion the latest to benefit

The grid has been straining under the weight of new AI data centers, and that has utilities courting fusion startups.

Technology · Startups

Top Rippling alternatives for mid-market companies

Rippling sells one bundle for HR, IT, and finance, and the pitch lands well until an HR team reads the invoice. The base platform carries a low sticker price, then payroll, benefi…

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Epic Games brings cross-platform voice chat to Fortnite and its services

Game and yap from across Epic's ecosystem.

Technology · Software & Apps

VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent

Pro soccer team's CTO points to "issues with the Broadcom takeover."