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Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visit, there’s only one other person there, and little in the way of furniture. But what it lacks in decor, it makes up…
Eight months after hackers dumped Sony’s PlayStation 5 BootROM keys online, the console maker still has no fix, and by its own hardware design, it may never have one. The leak, first reported in early January 2026, exposed cryptographic keys baked directly into the read-only memory of the PS5’s system-on-chip. Because those keys sit in…
Dark mode looks trivial until you actually ship it. Toggle a class, flip some CSS variables, done — except your Next.js page flashes white for 40 milliseconds before hydration finishes, or your Nuxt app forgets the user’s choice on every route change. The gap between “add dark mode” and “add dark mode that doesn’t flicker,…
AWS rolled out Lambda MicroVMs in June 2026, and it changes the calculus for anyone building interactive, multi-tenant, or AI-agent workloads on serverless infrastructure. Instead of the stateless, sub-15-minute request-response model that has defined Lambda since 2014, MicroVMs give each user or job a dedicated, VM-isolated compute environment that can hold state for up to…
A Bitcoin sidechain used by several major exchanges to move funds behind the scenes has just handed the crypto industry its biggest security scare of the second half of 2026. On September 6, an attacker withdrew roughly 4,000 BTC, worth about $320 million, from the federation reserve behind Blockstream’s Liquid Network. Within a day, most…
N-able shipped a fourth emergency hotfix for its N-central remote monitoring and management platform on September 6, 2026, after Huntress security researchers flagged CVE-2026-86218, a pre-authentication remote code execution flaw carrying the maximum possible severity score of 10.0. It is the third distinct N-central vulnerability disclosed inside six weeks, and the second time in three…
Pokémon Champions is not getting a single-player mode anytime soon, and the reason has nothing to do with a lack of ideas at Game Freak. According to a report published by My Nintendo News on September 7, 2026, the game’s director explained in a recent interview that adding offline content would work against the title’s…
Picking an AI image generator in September 2026 isn’t the problem it was two years ago. The problem now is that there are too many good options, priced in confusingly different ways, and most comparison charts online are already stale by the time you read them. Recraft V4.1 bills per “unit.” Grok Imagine Image 2.0…
Jack Lowden’s next-Bond odds jump 12 points on Kalshi after Gary Oldman’s comments. The Kalshi market on whether Jack Lowden will be the next James Bond priced YES at 38% as of September 07, 2026, up 12 points in a single day. The move followed public comments from actor Gary Oldman, who said the role…
Kalshi traders now put 80% odds on a federal spending cut before 2028 as the shutdown fight reshapes the bet. A contract on Kalshi asking whether U.S. government spending will fall by at least $1 billion before the end of the current presidential term jumped to about 80% implied probability of YES on September 7,…
