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Apple is reportedly working on iPhone game controllers

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple is developing two game controllers for the iPhone and will likely sell them under the Beats brand. Rumors that Apple might enter the game controller business have circulated for some time. But last week, MacRumors reported finding two references in macOS 26.7’s code to two game controllers identified as first-party…

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The Units’ Digital Stimulation is synthpunk perfection

The Units are a band I discovered in part thanks to No Dogs in Space. During their miniseries on The Screamers (another incredible band worth checking out), they mention synthpunk.org as one of their sources. And there’s no better way to get my attention than to combine two of my favorite things – punk rock…

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Waymo pulls over, calls cops on riders with a ghost gun

Two people were arrested in San Fransico while riding around in a Waymo robotaxi after the cab pulled over and called the cops on them. The riders were juveniles in possession of a loaded AR-style ghost gun and were taken to a juvenile hall. While the police report did not specify who was operating the…

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PC Emulator Netplay Setup: 3 Emulators in 12 Steps [2026]

Local co-op died with the living room. Most retro sessions today happen with a friend three states away, and screen-sharing tools like Parsec add a full frame of lag on top of whatever the emulator itself costs you. Netplay skips that tax by syncing inputs, not video, which is why Dolphin, RetroArch, and PCSX2 all…

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Prophet vs Dropzone vs Radiant: $37M AI SOC Fight [2026]

Security operations centers spent 2025 experimenting with AI copilots. By September 2026, the experiment is over and a new product category has hardened: the AI SOC analyst platform, software that does not just summarize an alert but plans an investigation, queries the SIEM and EDR itself, and returns a verdict with cited evidence. Three vendors…

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Groq vs Grok 4.6: 1,000 TPS Chip vs 500K Context [2026]

Type “Groq vs Grok” into a search bar and you’ll find two camps of confused people: developers trying to figure out why their inference bill looks nothing like the pricing page they read, and casual AI users wondering if the chatbot on X and the blazing-fast chip startup are somehow the same company. They are…

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G PRO vs GT DD Pro vs Moza R9 V3: $700 Gap [2026]

Direct-drive sim racing wheels stopped being a niche, four-figure hobby purchase somewhere in the last eighteen months. As of September 2026, a buyer shopping for a direct drive wheel can pick between a flagship 11 Nm base from Logitech, an 8 Nm PlayStation-licensed base from Fanatec, or a 9 Nm base from Moza that costs…

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OpenAI Agents API: Build AI Agents in 12 Steps [2026]

OpenAI shipped the Agents API into public beta on September 10, 2026, and it changes the default way developers wire up autonomous coding and research agents. Instead of stitching together the Responses API, a custom orchestration loop, and a sandbox provider, you now call a single managed endpoint that runs the same Codex harness OpenAI…

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