A new European Space Agency Space Environment Report projects an unstable low-Earth orbit environment in which collision rates increase exponentially, with projections indicating things could look “dicey” by mid-century even if operators follow best-practice disposal and collision-avoidance.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Meta Connect 2026 (Sept. 23–24) is set to feature Meta’s first camera-free smart glasses, expected to include six built-in microphones for speaking with Meta’s AI chatbot and Muse.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
Engadget
Volkswagen is bringing AirConsole in-vehicle gaming to 2027 Atlas, Atlas Cross Sport, Tiguan, Golf GTI, Golf R and ID vehicles, launching with 20 games including Tetris, Pac-Man Championship Edition and Uno Car Party.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Engadget
Eight Sleep’s Pod 6 smart mattress cover adds 18 biometric sensors and a redesigned hub that pumps temperature-controlled water, with “the fastest temperature response” claimed to be about 20% faster than Pod 5.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Engadget
Swedish cybercriminals profited 5.7 billion SEK ($579.9 million) in 2025, with scams especially successful against people over 60.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
The Register
Attackers accessed Master of Malt customer data—names, email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses—between September 13 and 17 using a compromised BigCommerce application key tied to the Ribon ecommerce app.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
Googlebook laptops are set for pre-order this week and will be broadly available in early October, running a new custom OS that combines a desktop-style ChromeOS/Chromebook experience with native Android app compatibility and syncing by default.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
Computerworld
TypeSafe’s Jev is a fast, structured “System One” AI that returns predefined typed decisions (Choice/Score and a “Noul” probability of truthfulness from 0 to 1) instead of free-form chat, with answers as quick as ~150 ms and input tokens priced at $0.042 per million tokens (no charge for output).
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
Students should learn networking through understanding system-design principles and mental models—so they can reason about new protocols like QUIC—rather than relying primarily on learning or generating protocol details or code via AI.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
Greece plans to ban social media for children under 15 starting in January, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis saying the policy may be “already behind the times” given how AI chatbots can be addictive and reshape how kids interact with digital companions or relationships.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Salesforce announced AIforce as an open, provider-agnostic AI layer across systems like Claude (via Claudeforce) and ChatGPT, alongside a reiterated fiscal 2030 revenue target of $63 billion.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and said it’s purpose-built for advanced AI workloads for “the agentic era,” enabling on-device agentic AI, upgraded imaging, and new gaming features.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
CNET
SK hynix is discussing options to manufacture memory chips in the U.S., including leasing part of Intel’s long-delayed Ohio complex or forming a venture with Intel and large cloud customers, with no plan finalized.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
US President Donald Trump said “artificial intelligence” should be replaced in US (and ideally worldwide) documents by the term “superintelligence,” arguing “the word ‘artificial’ makes intelligence fake.”
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
MACOM Technology Solutions announced a 3.2-terabit optical chipset on September 17 built from eight 448-Gbps PAM-4 channels, and BMO upgraded the stock to Outperform with a $335 price target.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Delos Data said it raised more than $100 million to build AI networking chips and software designed to connect heterogeneous accelerator mixes, backed by Playground Global (which counts Pat Gelsinger as a general partner).
Sep 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Lumentum Holdings (LITE) rose nearly 10% on Wednesday while Corning (GLW) gained only 0.4% as AI optics stocks rebounded unequally.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Altera confidentially filed for a U.S. IPO on September 15 that could raise more than $2 billion, putting a fresh valuation on the 49% stake Intel retains after Silver Lake bought control with $4.46 billion.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bernstein raised Zscaler’s (ZS) target to $298, implying about 46% upside, while downgrading Palo Alto Networks (PANW) and several other cyber names to Market Perform.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Stifel cut its Nike price target to $40 from $45 and lowered its FY2027 and FY2028 adjusted EPS estimates by $0.20 each to $1.70 and $2.05, citing more promotional Western marketplace and tougher fiscal Q4 gross-margin comparisons.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
