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Every week, a fresh thread lands on r/PS5pro and r/PS5 with some version of the same question: should I upgrade? The replies are all over the map. One Redditor with a 65-inch Samsung S90D calls the jump “absolutely worth it.” Another, staring at a 1080p bedroom TV, says flatly that it’s not worth the money.…
A hacker who goes by the alias IAmNotAVillain says the Revolut data breach that Financial Times, TechCrunch, and Reuters reported on September 12, 2026, was only the opening chapter. In new claims surfacing on September 15, the same actor says they spent six months inside multiple Italian law-enforcement systems, walked away with roughly 147GB of…
CenterPoint Energy, the Houston-based utility that delivers electricity and natural gas to roughly 7 million customers across Texas, Indiana, Minnesota, and Ohio, has confirmed a data breach affecting an unknown portion of its customer base. The company disclosed the incident in a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 14, 2026,…
An enterprise network fell in under ten hours on September 2, 2026, and almost nobody touched a keyboard to do it. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 spent weeks picking apart the intrusion afterward and concluded that AI agents, not a human operator, carried out nearly every step of the attack chain: reconnaissance, credential…
Valve opened the doors on its most ambitious hardware bet in over a decade on September 14, 2026, when reservation sign-ups for the Steam Frame VR headset went live at steamframe.com. The device carries a starting price of $1,059 for a 256GB configuration and $1,299 for 1TB, positioning it well above every mainstream VR headset…
Roblox spent most of 2026 fighting child-safety lawsuits, a bipartisan Senate probe, and a bruising second quarter on Wall Street. Now it has a new problem, and this one comes from Brussels. On August 31, 2026, the European Commission designated Roblox a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under the Digital Services Act, placing the gaming…
A quick programming note: We missed yesterday’s funding roundup, so today’s edition is an expanded catch-up. Along with today’s latest funding deals, we’re including several important rounds from yesterday that deserve attention. Venture capital’s message today is unusually coherent: investors […] The post Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, September 15, 2026: Alumni Ventures, Kleiner…
Factory has raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation, more than tripling the $1.5 billion valuation investors assigned it just five months ago. Blackstone, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, Evantic Capital and Sound Ventures backed the new round, […] The post AI coding startup Factory raises $200 million, more than triples valuation to…
Delos Data, a chip startup founded by Intel veterans, has raised more than $100 million to attack a problem threatening the economics of the AI boom: expensive GPUs and accelerators sitting idle waiting for data. The startup is betting that […] The post Delos Data, a chip startup founded by Intel veterans, raises $100 million…
Elon Musk wants the companies racing to build the smartest AI systems to do something unusual: try to break each other’s models before those systems reach the public. Speaking Monday at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, Musk proposed a […] The post Elon Musk calls on rival AI labs and Chinese companies to test…
