Zoox grounded its Atlanta autonomous vehicle test fleet after safety drivers were potentially exposed to toxic gases—including possible carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and/or hydrogen sulfide—last month, and OSHA told the company to investigate after a worker complaint involving up to 40 possibly affected workers.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Isaacman warns that China’s lunar plans—paired with Russia and including plans to put a nuclear reactor at shared lunar locations—could be used to deny the United States access to training environments needed for American space ambitions.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
OpenAI is rolling out voice-based agentic features in the ChatGPT mobile app, letting Plus and Pro users trigger workflows in the Work tab like drafting documents, drafting emails, summarizing Slack messages, and creating presentations or sites while getting richer text output from voice conversations.
Sep 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Discord’s age-estimation model predicts whether an account is an adult by using patterns of account behavior (without reading or analyzing message or voice-call content) and a 32-dimensional social-graph embedding (“Discord Entity-Relationship Embeddings,” or DERE), outputting an adult probability from 0 to 1.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
The Register
About 68% of Americans who use AI daily are worried about it, and the U.S. also reports 74% worry overall while only 36% expect AI to mostly help the country.
Sep 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
RAIBO2 ran 42.195 km in 4 hours, 19 minutes, and 52 seconds on a single 2,016 Wh battery, using 1,280 Wh in total and achieving a total cost of transport of 0.25 (vs a human benchmark of 0.37).
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would make continued development of artificial superintelligence punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
The Verge
YouTube is adding GIF replies and TV-based commenting to its comments section, plus creator tools for personalized moderation and paid, VIP-like fan communities.
Sep 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Blue Yeti 2 is a $159.99 USB microphone with an onboard proximity sensor that tracks your voice in 3D and automatically adjusts gain, EQ, and pickup patterns for consistent recording as you move around the mic.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Verge
Logitech’s Pro gaming lineup adds the Pro X3 Superstrike Mouse ($200, available Oct. 6), Pro X Control Mousepad ($60, Oct. 8), Pro X2 Rapid Gaming Keyboard ($230, available now), and Pro X3 Lightspeed Gaming Headset ($250, Oct. 8).
Sep 23, 2026 ·
Engadget
Logitech’s Blue Yeti 2 USB microphone adds a 3D proximity sensor, onboard AI noise reduction, and a 1.3-inch LED display, and it records in 24-bit/48kHz with directional modes plus a headphone jack for monitoring.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Engadget
Roland’s GO:KEYS 3 Minion is a 61-key, AA-battery-powered keyboard that includes 32 Minions-themed sound variations (including voices of Bob, Kevin, and Stuart) and costs $450, versus about $385 for the non-branded model.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Engadget
Logitech’s G Pro X3 Superstrike gaming mouse launches October 6 for $199.99, with a more responsive sensor, longer battery life (up to 135 hours), and updated specs while the G Pro X2 Superstrike stays $179.99.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Verge
AMD’s 6th-gen EPYC “Venice” for the SP7 platform is set to reach up to 256 cores with 16 channels of DDR5 (up to 12,800 MT/s with MRDIMMs) and 128 PCIe 6.0 lanes plus CXL 3.1, targeting about 1.3 TB/s STREAM Triad memory bandwidth (up from ~1.6 TB/s peak bandwidth).
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
YouTube is rolling out a conversational editing tool for Shorts and the YouTube Create app that uses natural language to help refine long- and short-form footage, with availability in early 2027.
Sep 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Xbox PC app update reportedly adds “Mythic Achievements” that unlock once a player completes all achievements in a game, with a unique unlock sound and dashboard tracking.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Verge
YouTube Music is adding AI features including “Ask Music” for conversational music and podcast requests and “Your Podcast Lineup” for personalized weekly podcast discovery guides.
Sep 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Raspberry Pi OS 6.3 (September 2026) modernizes the desktop GUI with a bottom-centered dock and a full-screen app launcher, while re-lighting scrutiny of a two-year-old firmware check that locks Pis to their original RAM capacity and can prevent successful RAM-swapping or part-swaps between devices of the same nominal size.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
Elsevier said it was briefly compromised after visitors to select platforms were redirected to a LAPSUS$ third-party leak page on September 21, with Elsevier’s team resolving the issue and restoring normal service while reporting no compromise of core platforms, customer data, research content, or operational systems.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
Jamf says it is overhauling Apple enterprise management toward autonomous, AI-driven IT, including an AI-powered self-service diagnostics system and an AI Governance suite that adds browser controls to block corporate files from being uploaded to personal AI accounts.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
Computerworld
