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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. Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India When Shubnam saw an Instagram video of a Delhi protest they had attended, they realized a content creator wearing Meta smart glasses had…
Gamers on Xbox longing for an answer to PlayStation’s Platinum Trophy will soon get their wish, and new details on the Mythic Achievement have been revealed in the latest update to the Xbox app on Windows 11.
Every RTX owner eventually runs into the same wall: a game with no DLSS Frame Generation option, a frame rate that refuses to climb past 50, and a GPU that clearly has more headroom to give. Nvidia Smooth Motion was built for exactly that gap. It is a driver-level AI feature that inserts a generated…
A Minecraft admin panel exposed to the open internet on an unpatched build. An RCON password sitting in plaintext inside a VS Code extension’s settings file. A Rust or ARK box getting knocked offline mid-wipe by a booter service renting for pocket change. None of these are hypothetical in September 2026 — they are the…
Four days. That’s how long it took Microsoft to go from celebrating a shipped video game to cutting one of the people who wrote it. On September 17, 2026, The Coalition announced that Gears of War: E-Day had gone gold, the industry term for a build that’s finished, locked, and ready to burn to a…
AWS Backup turns a scattered mess of service-specific snapshot schedules into one policy engine that covers EC2, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, EFS, FSx, S3, Storage Gateway, Redshift, Neptune, DocumentDB, Timestream, CloudFormation stacks, and even SAP HANA on EC2 and VMware virtual machines. Instead of babysitting eight different backup consoles, you build one backup plan, attach resources…
OpenAI cut the API prices of its new GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna models by roughly half on September 22, 2026, positioning both below rival flagship pricing on the same day Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5. The timing was not a coincidence. GPT-6 Sol now costs less per million tokens than Claude Opus 5.5, and…
PS3 emulation crossed the finish line years ago. RPCS3 now handles the vast majority of the PlayStation 3 library well enough that “is it playable” barely qualifies as a question anymore for most titles. PS4 and PS5 emulation are a different story, and September 2026 is the first month where the gap between the two…
Three flagship chatbots and one very late arrival all shipped inside a single three-week window this September, and for the first time in months the fight between them isn’t really about who writes the cleanest code. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1, Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash, and xAI’s Grok 4.7 have each published (or…
Smallholder farmers produce nearly 35% of the world’s food across more than 500 million farms, yet they often lack access to the satellite data, financial services, and …
