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The Federal Communications Commission handed the broadband and wireless industries a narrow but consequential win on September 23, 2026. The agency’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) granted expedited, one-year waivers to CTIA and USTelecom—The Broadband Association, letting suppliers serving their members make “necessary” hardware modifications to consumer routers and gateways that had already cleared…
A Geekbench listing spotted this week has put Samsung’s budget lineup back in the headlines for an unusual reason: reuse, not innovation. Multiple outlets, including GSMArena and Beebom, report that a device carrying the model number SM-M676K, widely believed to be the upcoming Galaxy M67, showed up in benchmark databases running the Exynos 2200, a…
Two of the biggest names in gaming hardware picked the same nine-day window in September 2026 to reveal their next move in virtual reality, and they landed on opposite ends of the design spectrum. Valve confirmed Steam Frame pricing on September 14, locking in $1,059 for the 256GB kit and $1,299 for the 1TB version.…
Micron has quietly stopped making the memory chips that sit at the heart of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 50 series, and the fallout is rippling through an already strained GPU supply chain. According to Tom’s Hardware, Micron’s product catalog now lists both of its 2GB GDDR7 chips as “End of Life,” a designation first flagged by…
The title of world’s most valuable public company changed hands twice in July 2026, then quietly changed back. As of September 25, 2026, Nvidia sits at roughly $5.425 trillion in market capitalization against Apple’s $4.928 trillion, a gap of about $497 billion, according to Yahoo Finance market data. That reversal matters because it caps a…
xAI shipped Grok 4.7 to the public API on September 21, 2026, and the model listing now sits behind documentation that carries a new “SpaceXAI Docs” header at docs.x.ai. If you have not touched the Grok API since Grok 4.5 or Grok 4.6, the pricing, the context window, and the reasoning controls have all shifted…
The Trump administration has asked OpenAI and Anthropic to keep their newest artificial intelligence models away from the United Kingdom’s AI Safety Institute until US officials get a first look, according to a report Politico published on September 24, 2026. The request came through the Office of the National Cyber Director and marks a sharp…
HDMI 2.2 is no longer a slide at a trade show. As of September 2026, the HDMI Forum’s newest specification has certified cables shipping from real manufacturers, months before a single console, GPU, or TV can use their full bandwidth. That gap between “the cable exists” and “the hardware exists” is exactly why so many…
Three days after the extortion group ShinyHunters first claimed it had breached Federal Bureau of Investigation systems, the story has shifted from a raw numbers game (how many terabytes, how many agents) to something more pointed: motive. According to The Register, the group says the intrusion was retaliation against the Bureau, not a money grab.…
New in-person photos of the Nintendo Switch 2 – The Legend of Zelda – 40th Anniversary Edition surfaced on September 25, 2026, giving the public its clearest look yet at the console’s gold-trimmed design. VICE reported that the images, sourced from Japanese gaming account Genki after an in-person preview, confirm details that fans had only…
