Sunday 27 September 2026
The news of Sunday 27 September 2026
340 stories from 42 sources, topic by topic. Every title links to its publisher.
Hardware 167 stories
- IT morning newspaper 0928: Acchia's rumour "Call users on ads and ads"; asking the world for a new M8 full-scale L3-level architecture; not supporting wireless communications at this year's exposure to branded mobile phones; and setting up a file for the first AI court video in the country...
- Ex-employee came up with "G fat" Gabe Newville, "The Master of Arms" identity: A fan of collecting knives and learning to make them.
- The Pearl Sea North Customs Department has seized 40 mobile phones belonging to passengers.
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Xiaomi UltraThin Magnetic Power Bank 5000 15W review
The Xiaomi MDY-20-EB, commonly known by its product name Xiaomi UltraThin Magnetic Power Bank 5000 15W, is exactly what its overly long title suggests. It’s an ultra-thin power bank that attaches magnetically to your phone, has a 5000mAh…
- Word's Edge. The new studio was canceled.
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What do foldable phone cases actually protect?
Foldable phones inherently have more weak points than bar phones, and the hinge mechanisms are susceptible to dust. Getting the right case matters.
Software Engineering 47 stories
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Thorsten Ball - What I believe about the future of software development
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EX-ARRR: Sailing the 0-click Seas
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Dropping Swift entirely from our Bevy iOS crates
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NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates
Article URL: https://somethingbig.ai/computer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871018 Points: 141 # Comments: 80
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Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
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Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)
Article URL: https://www.computerworld.com/article/1673071/booted-up-in-1993-this-server-still-runs-but-not-for-much-longer-2.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870376 Points: 162 # Comments: 85
Semiconductors 38 stories
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Why Oura May Not Be the Healthiest IPO
So much is going on in the broadly defined AI world that it’s easy to overlook other stuff that’s happening. This week, for instance, fitness ring maker Oura is expected to go public, which is an event worth watching. It won’t be as earth…
- BOJ ups climate loans as debate swirls on how green central banks should be
- Southeast Asia's EV race risks pricing out drivers
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PDF Solutions CONNECT, the Premier Event for Semiconductor Analytics and AI, October 15 and 16 in San Francisco
On October 15 and 16, 2026, in San Francisco, PDF Solutions will hold PDF Solutions CONNECT , the premier event for Semiconductor Analytics and AI. This event starts at the end of SEMICON WEST 2026 in a location in close proximity to the…
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Anthropic’s Amodei to Dine With Trump at White House
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is scheduled to have dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday, Axios reported. The private dinner will be the first meeting between Trump and Amodei, Axios reported, and could be a sign of…
- Japan Foreign Ministry to recruit overseas experts in dual-use tech
Tech Market & VC 16 stories
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Labor defends AI crackdown over Medicare data breach
Labor says OpenAI’s rogue Medicare bot proves AI agents need fences, not excuses.
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Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump
This will be the first one-on-one meeting between Dario Amodei and Donald Trump
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Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?
On Equity, we discussed how Meta's AI announcement managed to steal the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment
"AI is the devil and I its maker."
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TechCrunch Mobility: AV companies pick their lanes
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
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Sennheiser Momentum 5 review: Great sound, incredible battery life, and few compromises
I spent the last few weeks with the Sennheiser Momentum 5 to determine if this pair actually stands out, testing everything from sound quality and noise cancellation to comfort and battery life.
Artificial Intelligence 16 stories
- GPT-6 Astra, running a deadly act on physical command
- OpenAI, $500 per month “Promax” plan was released, and “work and codecs” is fast processing
- Antropic, Clarification of Clarification Samsung Hospital, Park, Soo - Jin Bae Yong-ICU visitation privileges, however.
- LINER Launches Agent Link Tool ‘Lane Action MCP’...
- Developing a closed-loop plug-in... Support for submission, review and analysis
- Smostock, a short-form video AI supply to Shinhan Bank...Established the first bank of the Bank of Korea
Geopolitics & Policy 15 stories
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Venezuelans rally to demand opposition leader’s safe return and presidential elections
Supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado took to the country’s streets on Sunday to demand her safe return and presidential elections that could lead to a democratic transition in Venezuela. The government has been…
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French far-right to form first Senate parliamentary group, early results show
France’s far-right National Rally (RN) party and its allies secured a record 14 seats in the right-wing dominated Senate in polls Sunday, effectively quadrupling its number in the 348-seat chamber just months before a presidential…
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South Korea demands apology from Ukraine over disclosure of North Korean POW transfer
South Korea’s presidential office has demanded an official explanation and apology from Ukraine, accusing Kyiv of disclosing the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea and then falsely denying that the two sides had…
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The US-China relationship has stabilised but on Beijing’s terms
For all the solemnity of the B-2 flyover with four F‑22 Raptors and a silent South Lawn drill, the real business of US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week was narrower than the choreography. The…
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Russian drones kill 2 in market outside Kyiv, 3 others in different regions, officials say
Russian drones set ablaze a market outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Sunday, killing two people, while three others died in strikes by Moscow’s forces in different regions and Kyiv itself also came under attack, local officials said…
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Israel revokes diplomatic status of Dutch diplomats in Ramallah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Abu Dhabi and met with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan on Sunday, a senior Israeli official told Reuters. There was no immediate comment from Netanyahu’s office and the…
Energy & Green Tech 15 stories
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Space Squeeze Forces Solar Developers To Get Creative
A high density racking system enables a new 11-megawatt solar power plant to fit inside a constrained, irregular parcel of land in the city of Elgin, Illinois. The post Space Squeeze Forces Solar Developers To Get Creative appeared first…
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Solar, Wind, Battery Storage, And Politics — It’s Complicated
In the summer of 2026, demand for electricity in Texas broke the previous record of 85.5 GW, set three years ago: 45 times. On July 22, 2026, ERCOT, the Texas grid operator, recorded an all time high peak demand of 91.1 GW. On August 20…
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Survey Sunday: When self driving cars crash, who gets the blame?
For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a sidebar survey about whether our Electrek readers who should be held responsible when AI fails, and people get hurt. After nearly 3,000 responses, here’s what you told us. more…
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Survey Sunday: When self driving cars crash, who gets the blame?
For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a sidebar survey about whether our Electrek readers who should be held responsible when AI fails, and people get hurt. After nearly 3,000 responses, here’s what you told us. more…
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The Case For Buying A Used EV Just Got Loads Better
Car dealers in the UK can add high-mileage reliability to their sales pitch for used EVs, as supported by a new study of standard road safety tests comparing electric cars with gas-powered cars. The post The Case For Buying A Used EV Just…
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Mazda adds LiDAR to CX-6e, rolls out “self driving” tech in China
Mazda’s CX-6e just got a major tech update in the form of a new LiDAR suite that makes the sporty electric SUV capable of delivering “advanced L2” autonomy, navigation on autopilot (NOA), and automated parking. more…
Cybersecurity 7 stories
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OpenAI is preparing “o,” an always-on ChatGPT assistant that could handle email
OpenAI is testing a new always-on assistant called "o", and references to the unannounced feature briefly showed up on the company's website. [...]
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Citrix admins warned to shut down NetScalers over 2 exploited zero-days
Citrix has confirmed that two critical NetScaler remote code execution vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772, are being exploited in attacks and that it has released security updates to fix the flaws. [...]
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Wireshark 4.6.9 Released, (Sun, Sep 27th)
Wireshark release 4.6.9 fixes 19 vulnerabilities and 16 bugs.
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Cloudflare fixes Containers cross-tenant flaw exposing customer data
Cloudflare has fixed a vulnerability in Containers and Sandboxes that allowed customers with a Workers Paid account to recover residual data from other customers' containers on the same physical host. [...]
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Anthropic turns Claude into an AI marketplace with 2,000+ plugins and connectors
Anthropic has just announced a new Claude Marketplace, and it brings all AI-related tools into one place, including plugins, connectors, agents, and more. [...]
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Microsoft SharePoint Flaw CVE-2026-65660 Now Exploited in Attacks
CISA added CVE-2026-65660 to its KEV catalog, giving federal agencies a patching deadline of September 28. The post Microsoft SharePoint Flaw CVE-2026-65660 Now Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Quant Finance 6 stories
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Onchain analyst links $18.4 million in Robinhood Chain memecoin extractions to single rug-pull operation
The creators of 10 Pons V2 launches exempted a set of wallets from Pons' anti-sniping tax; those wallets went on to buy most of each token's supply, per onchain data.
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Not all MPC wallets are built the same: five questions for institutional buyers
Author: A finextra community member
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‘It’s really not just a blockchain anymore’: Vitalik Buterin maps Ethereum’s path to 2030
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum is "really not just a blockchain anymore" and laid out how its design will change by 2030 in a post.
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Payment orchestration is becoming a line item, and that changes who buys it
Author: A finextra community member
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Before the Risk Finds You
Author: A finextra community member
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Recent Quant Links from Quantocracy as of 09/26/2026
This is a summary of links recently featured on Quantocracy as of Saturday, 09/26/2026. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup . Read on readers! Can Weakening Morning Order Flow Predict SPY Reversals? [Quantpedia] In a…
Biotech & Medtech 4 stories
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Mirum Pharma Pill Lands FDA Approval for Ultra-Rare Bone Growth Disorder
Mirum Pharmaceuticals’ Atebrioz is the third FDA-approved drug for fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), but it brings advantages over the two other products for this rare disease that leads to bone growth in soft tissue. Mirum…
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When AI Gets Medicine Wrong, Who’s Liable?
As AI technology in healthcare becomes more deeply involved in the complex, high-stakes tasks of diagnosis and treatment planning, traditional lines of accountability will become less clear. Where does the buck stop for AI-supported…
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Fifty Years of Pediatric Rheumatology, but Children Still Can’t Access the Treatments They Need
As a country, we have developed treatments capable of improving the quality of life and preventing long-term damage for children with rheumatic conditions, yet many children cannot obtain them when they need them most. This needs to…
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MedTech Commercialization Gap: Moving Beyond Technical Viability
What are the common reasons that a prototype fails to make the transition? There are several, but they all boil down to early-stage programs ignoring the business problem in favor of the technology problem. The post MedTech…
Cloud & Infrastructure 3 stories
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Cloudflare’s 2026 Annual Founders’ Letter
This week Cloudflare celebrates our 16th birthday. Like many 16-year-olds, we find ourselves looking around at the world we grew up in and feeling caught between the past and future. Also like many 16-year-olds, we look at all the change…
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Performance engineering from kernel analysis to AI: Adrian Cockcroft’s take
Over its five-year history, P99 CONF has hosted quite a few speakers who’ve offered pointed takedowns of the namesake metric. At last year’s conference, Adrian Cockcroft didn’t explicitly state that P99s are BS … but he did allude to it…
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The rise of agentic AI on Kubernetes: unleashing the new infrastructure layer
AI is changing expectations around infrastructure and operations , including Kubernetes management. When models run close to the data they use, deployment, scaling, and governance responsibilities tend to shift to platform teams. And as…
Cyber — Video 2 stories
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OpenAI paid $6,500 for this bug! #shorts
💾 Hacktron hacked OpenAI and was paid $6,500 for escalating from Discourse to ChatGPT. Turns out discourse was out of scope, so no bounty for the initial exploit. 🔗 Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/gjHh9g7yo9Y #OpenAI #BugBounty
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Gaining access to OpenAI's monorepo through ChatGPT #short
💾 Remote code execution on the OpenAI community forum allowed them to access OAuth and potentially take over any ChatGPT account logged in. 🔗 Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/gjHh9g7yo9Y #OpenAI #bugbounty
Space & Aerospace 2 stories
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Starship Flight 14: SpaceX Attempts Orbit
After more than a decade of development in many forms, SpaceX’s Starship has finally reached orbit. Ship 41 lifted off at 7:48:59 am CDT from Pad 2 in Starbase, TX, and completed a fully successful mission. While it did not reach the…
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APOD: 2026 September 27 – Andromeda Before and After Photoshop
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 27 –… Today’s APOD <a
Robotics & Automation 2 stories
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Asimov’s laws are not enough to keep robotics and AI safe
Some tech leaders and lawmakers are mirroring Asimov’s concern about threats that robotics and AI pose to society. Source: Rinaldo Brutoco, AI Most science fiction fans are aware that Isaac Asimov propounded his Three Laws of Robotics in…
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Asimov’s laws are not enough to keep robotics and AI safe
Some tech leaders and lawmakers are mirroring Asimov’s concern about threats that robotics and AI pose to society. Source: Rinaldo Brutoco, AI Most science fiction fans are aware that Isaac Asimov propounded his Three Laws of Robotics in…