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Open ten terminal tabs, lose your SSH connection, and watch every long-running build die with it. That single failure mode is why terminal multiplexers exist, and in September 2026 the choice among them is no longer a two-horse race between tmux and GNU Screen. Zellij, the Rust-built “terminal workspace”, just shipped version 0.45.1 with nested…
A Polymarket contract on whether WTI crude would sink to a $95 low in September has flipped to a near-certain yes as oil trades above $100. The market priced the $95 threshold at roughly 100% implied probability as of September 18, 2026, after odds jumped about 18 points in a single day. The trigger sits…
Canada-EU “Associate Member” Odds Jump to 65% on Kalshi After von der Leyen’s Offer. A Kalshi contract on whether Canada and the European Union will formally adopt an agreement making Canada an EU associate member (or an equivalent new institutional status) before January 1, 2029 sits at a 65% implied probability of YES as of…
Three virtual reality headsets, three completely different bets on what VR should be in 2026. Valve’s Steam Frame launched on September 14 at a starting price of $1,059, using a lottery-style reservation system to ration supply. Sony’s PSVR2 has settled into a $399.99 price point after a round of cuts from its original $549.99 launch.…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has pushed the AI safety debate into far more radical territory, arguing that frontier AI companies may need to be nationalized if society expects them to carry the potentially enormous legal liabilities created by their technology. […] The post Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls for nationalizing frontier AI companies over ‘unlimited…
Startup funding over the past day is being pulled toward a surprisingly consistent set of bottlenecks: AI compute, sovereign chips, power systems, optical interconnects, robotics data, quantum infrastructure, security, and regulated payments. The largest transaction is in a class of […] The post Startup Funding News Today, September 18, 2026: Arcos, Crusoe, dtcpay, EVAS Intelligence,…
British AI startup Mantic has raised $25 million in seed funding after its forecasting system beat every human competitor in the summer 2026 Metaculus Cup, giving the young company a striking proof point for its claim that machines are getting […] The post British AI startup Mantic raises $25M to build ‘superhuman’ AI forecasting after…
It’s Friday, September 18, 2026, and the last 24 hours made one thing hard to miss: AI is being handed real authority faster than anyone is locking the doors behind it. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang said the company expects to sell […] The post Top Tech News Today, September 18, 2026: Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI…
CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2025-39964 Linux Kernel Race Condition Vulnerability CVE-2026-53266 Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise. Binding Operational Directive…
Plus: Tokenized stocks get the green light from U.S. regulator and credit card companies want AI bots to do your shopping.
