The Norwegian Consumer Council’s “anti-enshittification” campaign launches a second video where a character called the Enshittificator teams up with Death to parody how companies degrade products and digital services over time through paywalls, reduced quality, and planned obsolescence.
Sep 26, 2026 ·
CNET
The UK Royal Air Force launched No. III Space Effects Squadron to protect critical UK satellites by using “advanced technology” such as electronic warfare to “disrupt, degrade and deny hostile actions,” rather than anti-satellite missile systems.
Sep 26, 2026 ·
The Register
Amflow’s TL Carbon e-bike (with a removable 800Wh battery and 125Nm Avinox M2 motor) completed an Amsterdam-to-Texel bikepacking trip with 22% charge remaining after 82.3km, but it still makes city-and-trail compromises that make it feel more at home on trails than in town.
Sep 26, 2026 ·
The Verge
Xi Jinping said the U.S. and China can “overcome” the “Thucydides Trap,” framing the relationship as competition without confrontation—“a race of catching up…not a wrestle”—and calling for improved military crisis communication and prevention.
Sep 26, 2026 ·
CNBC
Completed NYT Mini Crossword answers for Saturday, Sept. 26 include WXYANDZ, ABALONE, GOLFTAN, XER, POLEAXE, ONADIET, REWORDS, and WAG, XBOXONE, YALELAW, ALFREDO, NOT, DNA, ZEN, POR, AIR, XED, and ETS.
Sep 26, 2026 ·CNET
Meta’s Muse AI outbound-calling beta for business reservations and appointments routed tasks to “Muse human agent calls” in a call-center setting without disclosing the human handoff in advance, and Reuters reports Meta temporarily suspended the feature after a vice president said it “was a miss.”
Sep 26, 2026 ·CNET
Crusoe is no longer moving forward with Boom Supersonic’s Superpower natural gas-fired stationary turbines, ending a $1.25B plan to buy 29 of Boom’s 42-megawatt turbines with deliveries originally set to begin in 2027.
Sep 25, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Automattic announced a new board to staff, after its previous directors’ vote to place CEO Matt Mullenweg on leave was reversed when he retook control 33 hours later and removed or accepted the resignations of directors involved.
Sep 25, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Hassan and Blunt-Rochester pressed FDA nominee Dr. Overton to say whether Trump was wrong about claims linking Tylenol in pregnancy to autism and about the vaccine approach; Overton said there is “no current evidence of a causal link between Tylenol and autism,” but repeatedly refused to answer yes-or-no whether Trump was wrong and would not concede that any vaccine options she provided were “good” or not “bad.”
Sep 25, 2026 ·Ars Technica
OpenAI said 53 “user-provided images” were posted by unsecured agents to public image-hosting sites as links that weren’t publicly listed, and the links could still be discovered.
Sep 25, 2026 ·TechCrunch
A unanimous 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled that Ohio and Tennessee may apply their gambling laws to Kalshi’s sports-related event contracts, saying Kalshi failed to show the contracts fit the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s “swap” definition and that federal law does not preempt the states’ gambling laws.
Sep 25, 2026 ·CNBC
The DC Circuit ruled that the government’s blacklist of Anthropic was not justified under the narrower 10 U.S.C. § 3252 standard requiring “bad motive,” but allowed it to be assessed under the broader 41 U.S.C. § 4713 standard where bad motive is not required.
Sep 25, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robots are reportedly still not reliable enough to avoid immediate manual fixes after production, including issues with hand touch sensors that required Tesla to add a replaceable glove-like sensor layer.
Sep 25, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Meta is letting people request early access to its new Muse AI app features via a shared prompt, ahead of broader availability.
Sep 25, 2026 ·TechCrunch
NPR’s “Wild Card” podcast saw a flood of baffling comments on Spotify that turned out to be likely middle schoolers using the comment section for a group chat rather than bot traffic.
Sep 25, 2026 ·TechCrunch
A Valen creator, Evan Ovadia, has demonstrated “Golden Spike” cross-language generics that let Rust and another language pass generic data types and functions both ways without relying on the C ABI.
Sep 25, 2026 ·The Register
A New Mexico jury found Meta violated the state Unfair Practices Act by misleading residents about how it handles privacy and misinformation.
Sep 25, 2026 ·
Engadget
Wordle answer for Sept. 26 (#1925) is ELEGY, starting with E, ending with Y, and containing one repeated letter with one vowel repeated twice (one vowel and one sometimes vowel).
Sep 25, 2026 ·CNET
Microsoft is ending the “one cell, one value” rule by adding opt-in features for Lists, Arrays in Cells, and Nested Arrays in Excel (currently only in Excel for Windows and Mac Beta Channels).
Sep 25, 2026 ·The Register
Independent, non-Amazon websites can offer Amazon Prime shipping as a checkout option without requiring customers to log into their Amazon account or use a “Buy with Prime” widget.
Sep 25, 2026 ·CNET
