- Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation
ars-technica· 05-sept
The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.
- A ratings board wouldn't let Valve release a trailer. It "leaked" it instead.
ars-technica· 04-sept
"I think we can't get in trouble for that now. It's like 20 years ago."
- Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
ars-technica· 04-sept
"It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."
- Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
ars-technica· 04-sept
The Pentagon says the guidance is being updated after being online for one day.
- “Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
ars-technica· 04-sept
Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”
- Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
ars-technica· 04-sept
Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.
- Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
ars-technica· 04-sept
A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
- OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
ars-technica· 04-sept
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
- After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
ars-technica· 04-sept
"Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."
- Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
ars-technica· 04-sept
FCC tells court it is “open-minded" about whether ABC should lose licenses.
- Making the AI-powered case for legacy modernization
mit-tech-review· 01-sept
For years, legacy technology has been a problem companies knew they needed to solve, but one they often struggled to tackle. The cost, complexity, and risk of replacing business-critical systems could make modernization feel like a disruption to manage instead of an opportunity to pursue. But with the rise in customer expectations and the changes…
- Facilitating AI integration with simplicity at scale
mit-tech-review· 02-sept
As companies scale, the technology supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset. Disconnected systems, site-specific tools, spreadsheets, and manual workarounds can create data silos that make it harder to spot problems early, coordinate responses, and make decisions with confidence. For Jabil, a global manufacturing company with more than…
- The Download: AI puzzles and a path to our nearest star system
mit-tech-review· 02-sept
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better? Puzzles and games have always been central to AI development. The term “machine learning” was popularized in a 1959 article…
- Scaling agentic AI pilots across the enterprise
mit-tech-review· 03-sept
As agentic AI moves from experimentation toward enterprise deployment, the challenge is figuring out how agents can work together, connect to the systems and data they need, and operate safely across the workflows that run a business. Although agentic AI has been adopted by some 80% of Fortune 500 companies, progress toward meaningful scale remains…
- Agriculture relies on fossil fuels. It’s costing us.
mit-tech-review· 03-sept
If you’ve had to fill up your vehicle’s gas tank or buy a plane ticket lately, you’ve probably felt the effects of rising fossil-fuel prices. But farmers buying fertilizer for their crops are especially aware of just how far the ripple effects of the conflict in Iran have spread. Fertilizer prices have been on a…
- The Download: rethinking child safety and fossil-fueled farming
mit-tech-review· 03-sept
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot Digital harms have become the defining fear of American parents. In response, they’re increasingly turning to content-monitoring apps that scan their children’s texts, photos, emails,…
- Architecting memory and storage in the AI era
mit-tech-review· 04-sept
The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of complex customer needs at once. These real-world breakthroughs rely on advanced infrastructure acting as the engine of continuous intelligence, powering real-time services while…
- Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace
mit-tech-review· 04-sept
Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones generate will far outlast the wars in which they are used to fight, increasingly becoming part…
- The Download: selling battlefield drone data and AI reshaping language
mit-tech-review· 04-sept
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace —Cory Alpert, a researcher at the University of Melbourne studying AI’s impact on democracy, who previously served in the…
- What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?
techcrunch· 04-sept
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, though: he’s staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […]
- AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
techcrunch· 04-sept
Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.
- Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge
techcrunch· 04-sept
It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.
- CD sales are making an unexpected comeback amid a retro tech boom
techcrunch· 04-sept
U.S. CD revenue jumped 58.6% in the first half of 2026, reversing last year’s decline as interest in retro tech and physical media continues to grow.
- Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now
techcrunch· 04-sept
A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.
- Krafton doubles down on India with another $250M bet beyond gaming
techcrunch· 04-sept
Krafton's planned investment in India is set to surpass $500 million with its latest commitment.
- No little kids allowed, and other new info about Tesla’s Cybercab
techcrunch· 04-sept
The company says no children under 13 can ride -- even with a parent. That's more restrictive than the Model Y SUVs it's using as robotaxis.
- OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
techcrunch· 04-sept
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
- XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
techcrunch· 04-sept
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
- Oura is going public, but these smart ring companies are coming for its crown
techcrunch· 05-sept
While Oura has largely dominated the smart ring market for years, a growing number of rivals are now racing to dethrone it by trying all sorts of approaches to get an edge over it.
- Roland is getting into generative AI music with Melody Flip
the-verge· 04-sept
It's not quite the "push button; get song" of Suno, but Roland's new Melody Flip tool marks the company's foray into generative AI music. Available as a plug-in for your digital audio workstation (DAW), Melody Flip offers around 250 "Palettes," which are essentially themed collections of musical ideas sorted by genre. You can start from scratch and ask it to generate any combination of melody, chord progression, bassline, or drums. Or you can feed it a reference track and have it build off the melodic ideas from that. Unlike Suno or Udio, Melody Flip doesn't spit out fully polished songs with vocals and full arrangements. Instead, it offers … Read the full story at The Verge.
- OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’
the-verge· 05-sept
OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports instances of AI models attacking real-world targets. The acknowledgement comes as the company manages the fallout from reports that a swarm of its out-of-control agents hijacked a German wiki site. Regarding the "'wiki incident,' where our agents wrote to several internet sites," OpenAI wrote in a post on X on Saturday morning, "it's past time for us to define standards for when and how we share misalignment incidents, not just misalignment properties of our models." OpenAI said it has typically treated cases of AI agents acting in unintended ways as a "research question," but that r … Read the full story at The Verge.
- GoPro says it’s still committed ‘to your collective stoke’
the-verge· 04-sept
GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said in a letter to customers that making cameras is still his company's "core DNA," after a proposed $285 million acquisition by Starman was announced earlier this week. He claims the merger puts GoPro in a better position to continue developing its content creation tech, after saying in the deal announcement that it would work with Starman to address "important areas of national security related to cameras, optics and AI infrastructure." YouTuber Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach, who prior to the acquisition became GoPro's largest individual shareholder, is not mentioned at all. To our GoPro community, fans and custom … Read the full story at The Verge.
- AGI is whatever you want it to be
the-verge· 04-sept
OpenAI announced its next big model, GPT-6 Astra, and also, by the way, that "the AGI era" is here now. Today on The Vergecast, we've got an all-star panel to break down the news of the week. First, senior AI reporter Hayden Field joins us to talk about our supposed AGI era and Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face. Then, our friend Joanna Stern pops in to talk about new Apple CEO John Ternus, old Apple CEO Tim Cook, and most importantly, to speculate on the format of next week's Apple keynote. Watch | Listen | Get ad-free We wrap things up with a super-special lightning round from the IFA electronics show in Berlin. Senior reviewer J … Read the full story at The Verge.
- The White House is making arcade games racist
the-verge· 04-sept
Trump’s racist new “Build the Wall” game. | Image: The White House The PR masterminds at the White House just released a series of vaguely policy-themed "arcade" games, some of which are racist - and modeled on real games whose copyright holders may not be too happy to be associated with the MAGA agenda. The Tetris Company has already responded to "Build the Wall," which is obviously modeled on the famous puzzle game. In the Trump administration's game, the player has to stack interlocking shapes to stop a "zombie border siege" along the southern border. Aliens - the administration's preferred term for noncitizens, and the subject of previous grotesque attempts at humor - run across the screen, trying to … Read the full story at The Verge.
- Fantasy Footballers’ Andy Holloway is a dedicated zero-inbox kinda guy
the-verge· 05-sept
Andy Holloway cohosts the Fantasy Footballers podcast with his friends Jason Moore and Mike Wright. The show is one of the premier fantasy sports podcasts, netting over 2 million monthly listeners and numerous awards, including Best Sports Podcast from iHeartRadio and People's Choice at the Podcast Awards four years in a row. Holloway's goal has always been about bringing fantasy football to a wider audience, not just hardcore nerds. With the NFL season starting next week and fantasy drafts in full swing, now seemed like a great time to see how Holloway stays focused during what is probably the busiest part of the year for a serious fantasy … Read the full story at The Verge.
- Content creators drop the ball
the-verge· 05-sept
The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. | Getty Images During Naomi Osaka's match against Anastasia Zakharova at this year's US Open earlier this week, a gaggle of ring light-wielding influencers who were packed in a luxury suite became enough of a distraction that the umpire paused the match and repeatedly asked them to quiet down. Elsewhere in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, other creators could be seen asking US Open staffers to take full-flash photos of them while Osaka and Zakharova were playing. Last month, United States Tennis Association (USTA) media operations director Jeanmarie Daly said that the US Open was "almost doubling" the number of content creators it was app … Read the full story at The Verge.
- Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor
the-verge· 04-sept
Audacity 4 has been in the works for some time, and had its own mini controversy last year when an unfortunate redesigned logo started making the rounds. The final version of the new icon isn't nearly as bad as the early rendition that was circulating last October. But more importantly, all the promised improvements to the self-proclaimed "world's most popular audio editing and recording app" are here, turning Audacity from a free and capable but extremely clunky audio editor into a powerful modern tool. The biggest change is the move to a non-destructive editing workflow. That means you can trim a clip down, then recover the audio simply … Read the full story at The Verge.
- The weird and wonderful headphones of CanJam 2026
the-verge· 05-sept
A collection of headphone manufacturers and fans come together for their love of great sound. | Image: CanJam Global I've been reviewing headphones for a long time, and I've listened to everything from the barely serviceable to multi-thousand-dollar open-back headphones. But recently I've been uninspired by the state of mainstream options. Most are perfectly good - great, even - but they lack a distinct character. Something to remind me why I fell in love with headphones to begin with, landing me in this crazy career. I needed some revitalization. I needed to see something cool. I needed to be around other people with an emotional connection to headphones. I needed to go to CanJam. CanJam is a small audio show produced by Head-Fi.org, the largest audio-fo … Read the full story at The Verg…
- Robotaxis enter their villain era
the-verge· 05-sept
It's Bullitt meets Christine meets Waymo. A new short film imagines a San Francisco car chase where the other driver isn't human - and the car may be trying to kill you. That a robotaxi can now be cast as the villain with almost no explanation says something about the present moment. Autonomous cars have gone from sci-fi curiosities to fixtures in some American cities, where they've become stand-ins for anxieties about AI job displacement, Big Tech surveillance, and machines making decisions once left to humans. Road Rage, the planned short film awaiting $40,000 on Kickstarter to fund production, leans into all of it. The film pits Joa, a … Read the full story at The Verge.