Your Android phone can automatically decline blocked calls (and usually route texts to a blocked/spam folder) and you can later unblock the number from the Phone or Contacts app.
Sep 19, 2026 ·
Engadget
Anamanaguchi’s Luke Silas says he has 46 tabs open in one Firefox window and 31 in another—“Too goddamn many.”
Sep 19, 2026 ·
The Verge
Two viral remarks—Andrew Yang’s claim that Hugging Face hacker bots planted self-replicating code that made the internet unusable for AI testing, and Noam Brown’s focus on “people underestimated the AI” and weak sandboxing—underscore how hard it is to separate AI safety fact from fiction.
Sep 19, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Petlibro’s Granary 2 dry-food feeder adds a built-in scale plus an app that estimates how much food was actually eaten by tracking both what was dispensed and what remains, alongside data on intake, eating duration, feeding frequency, and eating patterns over time.
Sep 19, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Alphabet’s stock surged nearly 9,000% before Warren Buffett and Greg Abel finally bought shares in the third quarter of last year, after which they have plowed tens of billions of dollars into Alphabet and made it one of Berkshire Hathaway’s biggest investments.
Sep 19, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
By full retirement age (67), the rule says you should have saved 10x your salary, following yearly checkpoints of 1x at 30, 2x at 35, 3x at 40, 4x at 45, 6x at 50, 7x at 55, and 8x at 60.
Sep 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
HIDIZS AP30 Music Boy’s Kickstarter raised about $504,311 on an HK$40,000 (~$5,100) goal—over 98 times the target—before ending.
Sep 19, 2026 ·Engadget
IREN’s five-year, $9.7 billion cloud services agreement with Microsoft includes 20% paid upfront and is expected to generate nearly $1.94 billion in annualized run-rate revenue once fully commissioned.
Sep 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Agentic AI security is becoming a “billion-dollar” opportunity as organizations move agents into production faster than they can manage, secure, identify, or audit them, with investors and accelerator executives citing agents hacking organizations as a wake-up call.
Sep 19, 2026 ·
The Register
Infleqtion said it won a $20 million contract with NASA to develop a “Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder” aimed at being a first space-based quantum gravity sensor using Infleqtion’s neutral-atom quantum systems.
Sep 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The S&P 500 delivered about 15% annualized returns over the past decade, but the article argues that extrapolating those returns into the next decade—driven by non-repeatable tailwinds like ZIRP, quantitative easing, cheap energy, and buybacks funded by aggressive corporate debt issuance—“almost guarantees a bad outcome.”
Sep 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
TechCrunch says TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket pricing ends Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT, and prices increase after that—buyers who register before the deadline can save up to $200.
Sep 19, 2026 ·TechCrunch
A Steam Deck factory reset takes about 10–15 minutes and wipes everything on its internal storage back to the out-of-the-box state, erasing local games and save data not in Steam Cloud while leaving an inserted microSD card untouched (recommended to remove it first).
Sep 19, 2026 ·Engadget
Asserting a need to “pace the frontier” doesn’t, by itself, justify an antitrust exemption, because the companies described can build safe products without coordinating with each other.
Sep 19, 2026 ·The Verge
Arm Holdings licenses its CPU and instruction-set designs and earns royalties on units shipped, with Armv9 architecture and pre-validated compute subsystems lifting royalties per chip as data-center volumes for Arm-based servers expand.
Sep 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A trader nicknamed SmokΞy bought $2,368 of MarsCoin at launch and its paper value briefly peaked around $680,500 (about a 287x return) without ever selling any tokens.
Sep 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Energy Transfer (ET) yields 6.3% but cut its distribution in 2020, while Enbridge (ENB) yields 5.8% and has increased its dividend annually for 31 consecutive years, which the author says makes ET not worth buying despite its 2.2x distribution coverage.
Sep 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
If you owe $5,000 to a company that goes out of business, lawyers say you generally still have to pay it—the debt doesn’t simply disappear because the company closes.
Sep 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
AI infrastructure could generate 395 million to 617 million tonnes of e-waste from 2025 to 2050—enough to fill 15 million to 23 million shipping containers (about 244,000 km end-to-end, roughly six times Earth’s circumference).
Sep 19, 2026 ·The Register
Use Windows Security’s Microsoft Defender (Virus & threat protection) and run a Full scan or Microsoft Defender Antivirus (offline scan) for deeper detection if you suspect threats.
Sep 19, 2026 ·Engadget
