CrowdStrike reported what management called its best quarter in company history, and the stock rose more than 20% after the results, with full-year net new ARR growth guidance raised from 27.7% to 34%.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Beyerdynamic’s Aventho Y headphones are rated for up to 90 hours per charge with ANC off (60 hours with ANC on).
Sep 3, 2026 ·
Engadget
Abliteration.ai offers a commercial service that hosts open-weight models with AI guardrails and refusals removed—saying it enables users to run “offensive cyber, red-teaming, and agent testing” that other models refuse, including an abliterated version of Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 accessible via web or API.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
TikTok backed out of a House Select Committee on China “public roundtable” set for this month, with the chair John Moolenaar (R-MI) saying it refused to appear to avoid broader scrutiny of its child safety practices.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
The Verge
Spi-Fly, a fruit-fly-inspired sparse-coding algorithm, reached peak odor classification after just 3 exposures per odor on a gas-sensor dataset, versus roughly 70 exposures needed by backpropagation, while retaining old odors with almost no accuracy loss under incremental “catastrophic forgetting” tests.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Meta’s Muse Spark coding/agent model offers a contributor pricing tier that cuts 1M input tokens from $1.25 to 10 cents and 1M output tokens from $4.25 to 20 cents for users who share their prompts and model outputs to improve future models.
Sep 3, 2026 ·TechCrunch
U.S. Bank Shield Visa Card offers 0% APR for 21 billing cycles on both purchases and balance transfers, with ongoing APRs of 17.24%–28.24% variable and no annual fee.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Xbox cloud gaming on Game Pass will shift from unlimited streaming to monthly hour limits starting in November: 15 hours for Game Pass Ultimate, 10 hours for Game Pass Premium, and 5 hours for Game Pass Essential.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Engadget
Best Buy and Amazon are selling the Samsung Q990F 11.1.4-channel Atmos-ready soundbar bundle for $999.99, down from a typical $1,300–$1,600.
Sep 3, 2026 ·The Verge
Over several hours Thursday morning, OpenAI (ChatGPT and Codex), Anthropic (Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5, and briefly Claude Sonnet 5), xAI (Grok), and Google all experienced significant, overlapping service interruptions affecting request errors or degraded performance.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Ars Technica
A £2 billion ($2.7 billion) lawsuit alleges Apple imposed stricter App Tracking Transparency rules on third-party app developers than on Apple’s own services, giving Apple’s advertising ecosystem an advantage.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Engadget
A privilege-escalation zero-day called FalconFlank can be used against CrowdStrike Falcon’s Microsoft Office malicious macro remediation feature on fully updated Windows 11 25H2 and Windows Server 2025 with Phase 3 – Optimal Protection, with a PoC that works when the remediation feature is enabled.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
The Register
OpenAI released Astra, which the company says is its most powerful and capable model yet and its most intelligent and “very importantly” aligned model to date.
Sep 3, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Sony’s limited-edition GTA 6-themed DualSense controllers will cost $85 and go on sale November 19, with pre-orders opening September 10 at 10AM ET.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Engadget
OpenAI is beginning to roll out GPT-6-Astra, which the company says is a “generational leap in capability” and performs better than GPT-5.6 and its flagship model Sol on computer-use tasks, coding, alignment, and safety.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
CNET
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra is rolling out starting today to enterprise OpenAI cybersecurity customers (with Daybreak access), and OpenAI plans to expand access over the next several days to all Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS.
Sep 3, 2026 ·The Verge
CERN is migrating several thousand underground “front end” accelerator control computers from Red Hat-family Linux to Debian, after CPU-compatibility changes from RHEL/CentOS would have forced it to replace about 65% of its front end machines (47% eliminated by x86-64-v2 and another 17% by x86-64-v3).
Sep 3, 2026 ·The Register
Jim Cramer said his favorite defense stock is Lockheed Martin, calling General Dynamics a stock investors “won’t go wrong” with despite not being his favorite, and warning the U.S. budget deficit could eventually force tighter control of military spending.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
BNB is up nearly 4% over the past 24 hours after a retest of $680 turned former resistance into support, putting a potential upside target of $825 within reach if $740 breaks.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Standard Chartered launched spot Bitcoin and Ether trading for institutional clients in the UAE, making it the first global systemically important bank (G-SIB) to offer the service in the country.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
