OpenAI and Anthropic each drew a new line around their most powerful artificial intelligence systems this week, and for the first time both companies are pointing to the same reason: the models have gotten too good at hacking. On September 1, 2026, OpenAI said its upcoming Astra model is the first system to cross the…
It’s Wednesday, September 2, 2026, and today’s tech news is less about new toys than new limits. OpenAI just rated its next model a critical cyber risk. Texas froze data-center power hookups after a rush of “ghost” demand. New York […] The post Top Tech News Today, September 2, 2026: Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia, Perplexity,…
A federal judge ordered an end to practices that depress ad rates for web publishers, but declined to order a divestiture of Google’s ad exchange and other technology.
Reports of Xbox Live suffering outages preventing players from logging in and playing their games have recently started flooding in. Microsoft is aware of the situation and is currently investigating a way to fix it.
When Google ignominiously exited the European thermostat market last year, it pointed its customers to Tado. This week, the German-based smart home company is launching its Smart Thermostat X (2nd gen), and aiming to attract European Nest users who haven’t already jumped ship. Google shutting down the servers for its 1st- and 2nd-gen thermostats drove…
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…
Sega’s Dreamcast lasted less than two years on store shelves, yet its library keeps growing in 2026 thanks to one open-source project: Flycast. The emulator, maintained by a developer known as flyinghead, just shipped version 2.7 on August 19, 2026, adding frame pacing improvements, five new localizations, and multiscreen support for arcade cabinets that originally…
Dell announced the Dell 14S, a budget-friendly 14-inch Windows 11 laptop built to take on Apple’s MacBook Neo with a lightweight chassis, multiple colors, and full-day battery life.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called StreamRat that was promoted to Spanish-speaking users through a fake television-streaming campaign on Meta and can give operators near-complete control of infected devices. ThreatFabric said the campaign’s advertisement focused on Spain and reached an estimated 570,950 Meta accounts in the European Union