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Month: September 2026

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The smart home graveyard is getting crowded

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the fragile state of your connected devices, follow Jennifer Pattison Tuohy. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started A decade ago, a…

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Samsung Galaxy M67 Leak: Exynos 2200 Chip Reused [2026]

A Geekbench listing spotted this week has put Samsung’s budget lineup back in the headlines for an unusual reason: reuse, not innovation. Multiple outlets, including GSMArena and Beebom, report that a device carrying the model number SM-M676K, widely believed to be the upcoming Galaxy M67, showed up in benchmark databases running the Exynos 2200, a…

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FCC Grants Router Ban Waiver: 1-Year Relief for ISPs [2026]

The Federal Communications Commission handed the broadband and wireless industries a narrow but consequential win on September 23, 2026. The agency’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) granted expedited, one-year waivers to CTIA and USTelecom—The Broadband Association, letting suppliers serving their members make “necessary” hardware modifications to consumer routers and gateways that had already cleared…

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Salt vs Wallarm vs Akamai API Security: 48x G2 Gap [2026]

Every enterprise now ships more APIs than webpages, and attackers know it. Salt Security, Wallarm, and Akamai API Security (the product born from Akamai’s 2024 purchase of Noname Security) have become the three names that show up most often when security teams search for a dedicated way to find, watch, and defend the endpoints that…

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Control Resonant Hits 90% Score as Pirates Back It [2026]

CONTROL Resonant has cleared a bar few big-budget action games manage in their first 48 hours: broad critical approval paired with a reception online that includes, oddly enough, players in piracy-focused communities telling each other to just buy it. Remedy Entertainment’s follow-up to 2019’s Control launched digitally on September 24, 2026 for Windows PC, PlayStation…

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Tailscale vs Twingate vs NetBird: 8,279-Star Gap [2026]

Corporate VPNs are dying a slow death, and the three companies racing to bury them just gave buyers a lot to think about in a single month. Twingate’s top self-serve tier, Business, is priced at $10 per user per month. Tailscale, meanwhile, quietly finished a shift from usage-based billing to flat per-seat pricing back in…

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