OpenAI started shipping Astra on September 3, 2026, and the rollout looks nothing like a typical model launch. Instead of flipping a switch for every ChatGPT user at…
OpenAI began shipping its newest flagship model, Astra, to a limited set of business customers on September 3, 2026, marking the first time the company has released a…
Hackers broke into the digital controls of U.S. drinking water plants again this year, and this time the federal government is naming the failure point out loud: exposed…
Red Hat stopped shipping Docker as the default container tool in Red Hat Enterprise Linux back in version 8, replacing it with Podman. That decision looks more prescient…
A single phone call is now the center of a fight over how the United States will police artificial intelligence. On September 3, 2026, Politico reported that Meta…
Riot Games support threads and forum posts describe a familiar scene. A player runs the Valorant uninstaller, restarts the PC, and assumes Vanguard is gone. Then Task Manager…
Nintendo has locked in two back-to-back broadcasts for the second week of September, and for once the company is giving one franchise its own stage. The Legend of…
Cerebras Systems pulled the cover off its fourth-generation wafer-scale AI system on August 19, 2026, at a launch event called Supernova in San Francisco. The CS-4 stacks three…
On August 27, 2026, an attacker pumped the price of a thinly traded governance token called MAMO by nearly eightfold, posted it as collateral on Moonwell’s Base lending…
ChatGPT and its coding sibling Codex went down for several hours on September 3, 2026, in one of the largest disruptions OpenAI has logged this year. OpenAI’s status…
Google shipped an emergency Chrome update on September 3, 2026, patching 12 vulnerabilities including a high-severity flaw already being exploited in the wild. The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-85046,…
Iranian government-linked hackers have widened their targeting of American critical infrastructure, attempting to breach systems tied to water utilities, telecommunications networks and energy providers in the weeks leading…
Pearl Abyss just handed the games industry a live experiment in leak-proofing, and the target of the comparison is obvious: Rockstar Games. A report published by VPEsports on…
Every password stored anywhere eventually runs through a key derivation function, and in 2026 that function is almost always either PBKDF2 or Argon2. Both turn a human-memorable password…
The FBI’s New Orleans field office has opened a formal inquiry into a dark web marketplace that claims to be selling digital scans of more than 153 million…
Sam Altman spent early September 2026 telling anyone who would listen that OpenAI’s next models are going to unsettle people. Speaking at the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel…
Azure just became the third cloud provider plugged directly into Amazon’s backbone, and the fine print tells a more interesting story than the headline. AWS Interconnect – multicloud…
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