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How to Set Up Crossplane: 13 Steps, v2.4.1 [2026]

Crossplane just crossed a threshold that most Kubernetes add-ons never reach: full CNCF Graduated status, granted October 28, 2025, putting it in the same governance tier as Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Helm. The project’s maintainer, Upbound, says more than 1,000 organizations now run it in production, including Nike, Autodesk, and NASA’s Science Cloud, and puts cumulative…

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iPhone 18 Pro Max Cache Shrinks From 250GB to 58GB [2026]

New lab data published on September 21, 2026, shows exactly how the iPhone 18 Pro Max’s high-capacity storage tiers slow down as they fill up, and the numbers go well beyond a simple benchmark footnote. According to testing lab HOMOLAB, cited by Tom’s Hardware, sustained write speeds on the 1TB iPhone 18 Pro Max can…

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iPhone 18 Pro Max QLC Row Pushes Buyers to 512GB [2026]

Apple’s newest flagship has a pricing problem it did not put in the keynote. Nine days after the iPhone 18 Pro Max went on sale, independent lab testing from Homolab, amplified by Notebookcheck, TechTimes, and Tom’s Hardware, has turned the phone’s most expensive storage tiers into the subject of an unusual consumer backlash: paying more…

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ASUS PG32UCDM vs MSI 321URX vs GIGABYTE MO27U2: $250 Gap [2026]

Three monitors, one refresh rate, and a $250 gap between the cheapest and the most expensive. The ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM sells for around $899, MSI’s MPG 321URX QD-OLED lands near $829.99, and GIGABYTE’s MO27U2 undercuts both at roughly $649.99. All three ship right now, in September 2026, with a 4K panel and a…

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What the $11 billion bond sale actually funds

SoftBank Group opened the sale of roughly $11 billion in bonds on Monday, September 21, 2026, to fund its next payment into OpenAI, according to a term sheet reported by Reuters and republished by outlets including KSL and Cryptopolitan. The deal splits into $10 billion of dollar-denominated senior unsecured notes and €1 billion (about $1.15…

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SoftBank Borrows Over $11B in Bonds for OpenAI Stake [2026]

SoftBank Group opened the sale of roughly $11 billion in bonds on Monday, September 21, 2026, to fund its next payment into OpenAI, according to a term sheet reported by Reuters and republished by outlets including KSL and Cryptopolitan. The deal splits into $10 billion of dollar-denominated senior unsecured notes and €1 billion (about $1.15…

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John GBA Lite Setup for Pokémon: 12 Steps, v4.15 [2026]

John GBA Lite quietly became one of the most-installed Game Boy Advance emulators on Android, and most of that traffic comes from one search: people trying to get old Pokémon cartridges running on a phone. The app sits at version 4.15 on Google Play as of late September 2026, last updated July 26, 2026, and…

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Switch 2 Dock Setup: 12 Steps, 8 Fixes as VRR Ships [2026]

Nintendo shipped system update 23.0.0 on September 10, 2026, and with it came the docked variable refresh rate (VRR) support the company promised at the Switch 2’s launch and then quietly walked back for sixteen months. That update also touched the dock itself, which now needs its own separate firmware install before TV-mode VRR will…

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What Alibaba Actually Shipped on September 20

Alibaba’s Qwen team open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1 on September 20, 2026, and the release is forcing a rethink of what a 7-billion-parameter model can do in image generation. The model unifies text-to-image generation and image editing into a single system, ships with a real alpha channel for transparent images, and accepts up to 10 reference images in…

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