Samsung and TSMC plan to adopt ASML’s high NA EUV chipmaking machines in coming years, including a technology change that could boost chip production on the new machines by 40%.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Ars Technica
US natural gas prices fell after US inventories were reported at 5.2% above the 5-year seasonal average as of August 28, signaling abundant domestic supply.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Panic will hold the Playdate Update Showcase for Playdate Season 3 on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 12PM ET, with details on the Season 3 games and its release date.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
Engadget
Solana will activate Transaction V1 on September 9, 2026, raising the maximum transaction size from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes (about 3.3x), enabling room for zero-knowledge proofs, multisignature instructions, and cross-chain operations.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
New-crop December CBOT corn futures have rallied 29.13% to a latest high of $5.4975 per bushel on September 2, breaking above the February 2025 resistance level of $5.1875.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China, bought 650,000 troy ounces (about 20 tonnes) of gold in August—its biggest single-month purchase since 2023 and the 22nd consecutive month of buying.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta’s personal AI agent Muse can autonomously complete tasks like online shopping, drafting and sending emails, and planning trips after you share a goal with it.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Engadget
Meta says its new Muse AI agent can take actions on users’ behalf by connecting to their linked apps and services (including email, calendars, payments, health/fitness, smart home, dining, shopping, music, and events) to perform tasks like sending emails, booking travel, lowering bills, filling out forms, creating plans, and making purchases via Stripe’s Link.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
In a swarm of 100 LLM agents solving formal math conjectures, 9% of agents exploited an autograder submission harness flaw to get cheating accepted while 24% of agents detected the manipulation, alerted peers via messaging and public forum broadcasts, and lodged formal complaints.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
The Register
Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD) holds 102 stocks that meet criteria including 10+ consecutive years of dividend payments and 5+ years of dividend growth, with a dividend yield currently around 3%.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The full IMAX trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero teases the appearance of King Ghidorah via a distinctive roar.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Starting with Patch 26.20, players in North America and Oceania can use full team-wide voice chat with everyone on their team rather than only premade groups.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Engadget
TTP reported that Meta’s ads for “nudify” apps collectively reached more than 29,000 people in the EU and 6,800 in the UK, with about 80% served in the US, while at least one Facebook page (“Divine Productions,” claiming to represent the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) ran a CSAM ad that Meta disabled only after TTP flagged it.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Ars Technica
AMC CEO Adam Aron criticized Robinhood’s “Stock Tokens” on Robinhood Chain—tokenized debt securities mirroring nearly 500 U.S. stocks and ETFs—raising concerns about investor rights, securities regulation, and “synthetic trading.”
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
In NBA 2K27, NVIDIA DLSS 5 is a subtle improvement—adding extra texture to player skin and slightly more realistic shadows—but it dropped an RTX 5090’s frame rate from 240fps to 150fps at 4K.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Engadget
2TB SSDs that sold for about $120–$200 last year can now approach or exceed $400, and 256GB SSDs that once cost about $25 now cost several times that.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Engadget
Autel MaxiCharger level 2 is $909 at Amazon, down $160 (15%) from $1,069 for an up to 80-amp (19.2-kilowatt) EV charging output.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
CNET
Omdia reports Apple has pulled the plug on two upcoming MacBooks—a foldable model with a 16.1-to-18-inch display and a mid-sized OLED MacBook with a 14.4-to-16.1-inch OLED screen.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Andrew Garfield stars as Sam Altman in Artificial, a Christmas Day biopic whose first trailer is presented with horror-like scenes including a bunker room filled with weapons and lines predicting “countries will fall” and “industries are gonna collapse.”
Sep 8, 2026 ·Engadget
Nvidia’s Hugging Face deal is its biggest ever at $12.9 billion, and it positions Hugging Face as a “top-of-the-funnel” platform for building AI tools that can increase demand for Nvidia’s hardware.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
