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
ChargePoint stock jumped 74% to $9.05 after its fiscal Q2 revenue rose to $116.1M (up 18% YoY) and its non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA loss narrowed 78% to $4.8M, beating analysts’ estimates, alongside an adjusted EPS loss of $1.35 vs. a $1.60 forecast.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Roku shares hit a 3-year high of $159.89 on Aug. 25 and were up 59.90% over the past 52 weeks, trading around $157.64 versus a 50-day moving average of $148.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) bought 4,603 Bitcoins for $370 million in late August after a 10-week pause, bringing its total holdings to 845,050 coins worth about $68.5 billion.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Auxxo closed its second Female Catalyst Fund at €33.3 million (about $38.7 million) to back pre-seed and seed female-founded startups.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bitcoin rose 4% on Thursday to trade above $80,000 as worries about a Federal Reserve rate hike eased and Treasury yields fell.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Tractive Dog 6 is CNET’s top GPS pet tracker for 2026, featuring accurate tracking in testing and a battery life of up to two weeks, priced at $79.
Sep 3, 2026 ·CNET
The CFTC asked a federal judge to dismiss CME’s lawsuit over the agency’s approval of Kalshi’s Bitcoin perpetual futures, arguing CME failed to show financial harm or greater competition from the decision.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
