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You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but the company has just appointed someone to the position for the very first time. Today, Disney announced that Karandeep Anand is joining the company as its new CTO. Anand will report directly to recently…
The U.S., Japan, Germany and Australia said WaterPlum operators pose as prospective employers and have infected more than 30,000 devices worldwide. The post International security agencies warn about North Korean hackers exploiting job seekers to steal crypto, data appeared first on CyberScoop.
Unity developers spent most of 2025 wiring state machines and NavMesh agents together to fake intelligence in non-player characters. That approach still works for patrol routes and combat AI, but it falls apart the moment a player asks an NPC a question the designer never scripted. By September 2026, the fix has a name: pairing…
A Polymarket contract on whether WTI crude would sink to a $95 low in September has flipped to a near-certain yes as oil trades above $100. The market priced the $95 threshold at roughly 100% implied probability as of September 18, 2026, after odds jumped about 18 points in a single day. The trigger sits…
Open ten terminal tabs, lose your SSH connection, and watch every long-running build die with it. That single failure mode is why terminal multiplexers exist, and in September 2026 the choice among them is no longer a two-horse race between tmux and GNU Screen. Zellij, the Rust-built “terminal workspace”, just shipped version 0.45.1 with nested…
Network traffic doesn’t lie the way an endpoint agent can be blinded or a log source can be tampered with. That’s the pitch behind network detection and response, and in September 2026 three vendors are fighting over who does it best: Darktrace, Vectra AI, and ExtraHop. All three landed as Leaders in the 2026 Gartner…
Four flagship AI models shipped inside a single week at the start of September 2026, and none of them are the versions most developers were budgeting for. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra landed September 3-4 as a computer-use and reasoning flagship rather than a chat upgrade. Anthropic answered with Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1, alongside a…
Canada-EU “Associate Member” Odds Jump to 65% on Kalshi After von der Leyen’s Offer. A Kalshi contract on whether Canada and the European Union will formally adopt an agreement making Canada an EU associate member (or an equivalent new institutional status) before January 1, 2029 sits at a 65% implied probability of YES as of…
Microsoft Teams will soon support simultaneous screen sharing, making side-by-side comparison and multi-presenter meetings better.
Microsoft issued a patch for Excel’s broken copy-paste feature, but the fix only applies to Excel 2016.
