Metroid Prime Remastered is 30% off at $27.99 in digital format on Switch and Switch 2 during Nintendo’s Customer Appreciation sale through September 26, while the physical version costs about $42 at retailers.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
The Verge
Microsoft says the September 8 Patch Tuesday security update can prevent File History from creating or running backups, including failing to refresh the last-backup timestamp and showing “no previous version is available,” even when the backup drive is connected.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
ZDNet
NETSCOUT says 81% of organizations believe insufficient data increases incident resolution time, and 42% estimate downtime costs $500,000–$999,000 per hour—driving demand for “forensic-grade” observability that AI operations can trust.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
The Register
YouTube will let users create custom homepage feeds using conversational AI prompts (rolling out in the US on web, mobile, and TVs) and add GIFs to video comments, with GIF search and selection arriving in the mobile app this fall.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
Engadget
Eight Sleep launched the Pod 6 with smaller, solo configurations priced from $1,999, claiming up to 20% faster temperature adjustment than the previous generation and a 50% smaller footprint that can fit most bed frames.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
YouTube announced “Shorts series,” a Shorts feature that lets creators organize microdramas into TV-style seasons and episodes with custom thumbnails and continuous story playback on a creator’s channel.
Sep 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
YouTube announced new creator tools in YouTube Studio, including expanding Ask Studio to iOS and Android and adding AI draft feedback that suggests pacing, structure, and storytelling for unpublished videos.
Sep 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
NHTSA is investigating comma.ai after it received reports of five crashes involving drivers using comma.ai devices that crashed into stopped or slow-moving cars, killing 3 people and injuring 11 others, with two of the crashes resulting in deaths and 4 of the 5 involving injuries.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Pew Research Center polling of 10,548 US adults found negative views of datacenters rose sharply since January: those saying they are mostly bad for the environment increased to 54% (from 39%), mostly bad for household energy costs to 50% (from 38%), and mostly bad for nearby residents’ quality of life to 49% (from 30%).
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
China processed about 91% of rare-earth separation and refining—while the US imported more than two-thirds of the rare earth elements it used as recently as 2025, leaving US manufacturers and military supply chains exposed to Beijing’s export controls.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Nearly 70% of workers use AI regularly (67.8% use AI tools beyond ChatGPT at least a couple of days a week), but 56.4% say no time is allocated during work hours for upskilling and 84.3% spend 5 hours or less per week on training.
Sep 23, 2026 ·ZDNet
A real PDP-11/83 still running Unix-derived 2.11BSD can be viewed online, with its process list refreshed every five seconds so visitors can watch what’s running.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
Don’t use ChatGPT for legal, mental health, medical, confidential work, or anything involving passwords/ID/account details because chats aren’t privileged and have been subpoenaed, exposed via sharing, indexed by Google, and preserved by court orders within the past 18 months.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Engadget
Ofcom opened an investigation into whether Pornhub owner Aylo’s Apple-based age checks are effective enough under the Online Safety Act to keep children away from adult content, including whether Aylo sufficiently tested and did due diligence before deploying the process.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
Apple Maps’ Guides feature now links select landmarks in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, and Washington, DC to Hidden Histories podcast episodes about their histories.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Engadget
DJI’s Osmo 360 II shoots 8K 360 video up to 60 fps (up from 50 fps), adds improved low-light/dynamic range, and introduces replaceable lenses instead of requiring repairs after damage.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Engadget
Southern Water is trialing Lightsonic fiber-optic sensors that use Openreach’s underground telecom cables to detect and localize leaking water pipes, helping prevent the loss of more than 4 million liters of water per day across 650 km of the UK network.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority proposed forcing Android smartphone makers and Chrome to show a choice of search provider at first use and then prompt users yearly so Google Search isn’t the automatic default.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Engadget
The 2022 Hunga eruption’s ~4-kilometer-wide caldera sank by nearly 1 kilometer (from 150–200 meters depth to depths up to ~850 meters), and the study says rapid “piston-style” caldera subsidence could have amplified a tsunami estimated to reach 40 meters within ~100 km—highest ever recorded from an underwater volcanic eruption.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Ugreen’s HomeAgent HA100 and HA100 Pro early-bird preorders start at $799 and $2,699 (down $100 and $300, respectively, from prior early-bird pricing), after a $50 deposit for the HA100/HA100 Pro and a $200 deposit for the MasterAgent MA100 (which remains $9,999).
Sep 23, 2026 ·
CNET
