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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,…
Six years after Sony launched PSVR2 and three years after Meta shipped Quest 3, gaming’s VR hardware race has gone quiet at the top. Meta shelved its Quest 4 prototypes and pushed the real successor to the second half of 2027 at the earliest, according to leaked internal memos reported by UploadVR and confirmed indirectly…
China’s Moonshot AI has confidentially submitted an application for an initial public offering to Hong Kong’s stock exchange, people familiar with the matter said.
Anker’s new robot lawnmower might take over for your weed whacker, too. Announced at IFA 2026, the Eufy Robot Lawn Mower S2 Max comes with an extendable trimming arm to clean up the grass around your driveway and flowerbeds. The dual-blade mower offers vSLAM navigation that uses built-in cameras to build a 3D map of…
Perplexity AI open-sourced Lily, a Rust and Metal inference engine built to run a single model, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, on a single hardware family, Apple Silicon, the company confirmed on September 2, 2026. The release, first detailed by MarkTechPost, positions Lily as the local half of Hybrid Compute, the split-execution mode inside the Perplexity Computer Mac app…
Anthropic’s Agent Skills format has quietly become one of the most-searched features in the Claude ecosystem. “Claude code skills” now pulls roughly 12,100 monthly US searches, and terms like “claude skills marketplace” and “claude skills github” add thousands more, according to keyword data pulled in September 2026. Yet most of what shows up when you…
Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance continues releasing daily gameplay trailers of how the new Boost Bracer mechanic will change its weapons, this time focusing on the classic ranged weapon, the Bow.
Sony sold the DualSense Edge on a promise: when a stick wears out, you replace the module instead of the whole $199.99 controller. Three years after launch, that promise is finally paying off for a lot of PS5 owners, and it shows in the search numbers. “Dualsense edge stick module” pulls roughly 5,400 monthly US…
Google DeepMind shipped two new models on September 2, 2026: Gemini 3.8 Flash, an upgraded general-purpose “workhorse” model, and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a specialized variant built to find software vulnerabilities and write patches for them on its own. The pairing marks the third Flash release in six weeks, and it’s the first time Google…
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…
