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• 16 Sept, 02:37 · General America is building datacenters faster than the grid can power them Meeting expected energy consumption through 2030 will need $110 billion in new generation resources. Moody's calculates that building the additional generation capacity will cost about $110 billion.
• 16 Sept, 02:30 · General Are older MacBooks still worth buying in 2026? You'll probably want to avoid Intel-powered MacBooks, but Apple Silicon models are solid. Apple started transitioning to its own silicon in 2020 and hasn't sold Intel-based MacBooks since 2021.
• 16 Sept, 02:01 · General Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale returns in October Amazon is promising deals across more than 35 product categories when the two-day sale kicks off at 3:01am ET on October 6.
• 16 Sept, 02:01 · General Cisco email security boxes can be rooted by... an email Cisco's Product Security Incident Response Team said it became aware of active exploitation in September, although the networking giant hasn't said who is behind the attacks.
• 16 Sept, 02:00 · General Leaks, data breaches, and ransom notes: The worst hacks of 2026 so far If anything, 2026 has made clear that cybersecurity is no longer a background concern.
• 16 Sept, 02:00 · Culture Refurbished vs. pre-owned phones: What's the difference and which is better? A regular pre-owned phone, in contrast, is generally sold as-is. Thus, all refurbished phones are used, but not all used phones are refurbished.
• 16 Sept, 01:49 · General Nitter and XCancel are dead (again) after X’s latest legal actions After X threatened legal action last month, Nitter and XCancel, privacy-friendly services for viewing X posts, appear to be officially dead — for real this time.
• 16 Sept, 01:47 · Politics OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s global policy chief, told reporters on Tuesday that the company has been working with rivals Anthropic and Google DeepMind on AI safety for weeks.
• 16 Sept, 01:44 · World Top golfers to get no favours for PGA Tour return after LIV bankruptcy The head of the PGA Tour has said there will be no favours offered to golfers looking to return to the ­platform after LIV’s bankruptcy filing last week.
• 16 Sept, 01:30 · General The biggest issues with delivery robots are exactly what you'd think Too often, delivery robots just don't understand the rules of the road. People tend to have two distinct reactions upon seeing a robot delivery driver scurrying down the sidewalk.
• 16 Sept, 01:29 · Sport GM finds splitscreen solution for CarPlay and Android Auto A new UI that features the interfaces will debut in the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups.
• 16 Sept, 01:22 · Culture AEO startup Profound hits unicorn valuation, raises $180M Series D 7 months after last round Profound on Tuesday said it has raised a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, less than seven months after it raised a $96 million Series C.
• 16 Sept, 01:21 · General Wonder scores a $425 million partnership with DoorDash as it builds its food empire The delivery platform DoorDash is investing in and partnering with Marc Lore-owned food tech company Wonder in deals worth a total of $425 million, the company announced on Tuesday.
• 16 Sept, 01:12 · General Twitter workaround worked around again: X's lawyers cancel XCancel again Nitter's repository archived as of September 11, 2026.
• 16 Sept, 01:00 · Politics Is Andrew Hastie launching a Coalition fightback against One Nation? - podcast As One Nation squeezes the Liberal vote, Andrew Hastie’s clash with Pauline Hanson over a video calling him a traitor has reported deep faultlines across Australia’s political right.
• 16 Sept, 01:00 · Politics · Tasmania Pauline Hanson’s daughter Lee working for a NSW One Nation senator remotely from Tasmania without ministerial approval Pauline Hanson’s daughter, Lee Hanson, has been working in Tasmania as a senior adviser to a New South Wales One Nation senator without the needed ministerial approval.
• 16 Sept, 01:00 · Sport · Sydney, NSW AFL finals: where the Sydney v Fremantle preliminary final will be won and lost The Swans are within touching distance of an unlikely grand final spot while the Dockers have their campaign for a first premiership back on track.
• 16 Sept, 01:00 · Culture ‘In this new car, I feel patronised’: which driver assistance systems improve safety? Modern cars are fitted with features like autonomous emergency braking and fatigue monitoring. As driver, you were more or less in control of the car.
• 16 Sept, 01:00 · Politics Is Pauline Hanson marching Australia towards a Brexit-style hostility to reason? On Tuesday, when she was challenged over whether One Nation’s plans to cut 750,000 overseas arrivals over three years would push Australia into recession, Hanson said she didn’t care.
• 16 Sept, 01:00 · General Who's governing your AI? A trust framework for enterprise agents and models IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach report found that more organizations lacked governance to manage AI or detect shadow AI, at 68 percent compared to 63 percent last year.
• 16 Sept, 00:42 · General Former TikTok execs built an app that uses AI to teach you how to pose for a photo On the same slant, two former TikTok workers, Melody Chu and Jing Liu, are launching a new iOS app called Superpose that uses an AI guide to teach people how.
• 16 Sept, 00:30 · Culture Discover how to take your startup from prototype to production at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 AI has lowered the barrier to building prototypes. Getting those prototypes into production is a different story.
• 16 Sept, 00:23 · General What weapon could the US have put into space? The announcement by the United States that it has deployed a space weapon in Earth's orbit has raised questions about what weaponry is in space.
• 16 Sept, 00:22 · Politics · India India ends free ride for larger transactions on its ubiquitous digital payments network The country’s Unified Payments Interface will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments above ₹2,000 from October 15, the National Payments Corporation of India said on Tuesday.
• 16 Sept, 00:18 · Sport Manchester United shocked as talented youngster JJ Gabriel asks to leave Manchester United have been left confused and shocked by the news that the talented 15-year-old player JJ Gabriel has asked to leave the club.
• 16 Sept, 00:14 · Courts CenterPoint Energy confirms intruder helped themselves to customer information Texas utility CenterPoint Energy has confirmed that an attacker broke in and stole customer information through one of its internet-facing systems.
• 16 Sept, 00:13 · Health Evvy raises $40M as it seeks to further women’s health research with vaginal microbiome data Women’s health company Evvy on Tuesday said it has raised a $40 million Series B led by Catalio Capital Management.
• 16 Sept, 00:03 · Sport · United States ‘I loved my time in the FBI but nothing can compare to the NFL’: Charles ‘Peanut’ Tillman on his unlikely career path The player who invented the Peanut Punch talks about his nomadic childhood, love of Chicago and time as a cop.
• 16 Sept, 00:00 · Health 4 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Last day to exhibit at Disrupt is Sept 18.
• 15 Sept, 23:43 · Politics Trump EPA moves to wipe out climate rules for power plants The plan to revoke the Carbon Pollution Standards was at first….
• 15 Sept, 23:33 · General September's Windows 11 patch needs an emergency patch of its own Microsoft has released an out-of-band update for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 after September's record Patch Tuesday addressed almost 1,000 vulnerabilities across the company's products – and introduced several new.
• 15 Sept, 23:32 · Courts Swiss court sentences 52-year-old Ukrainian ransomware dev to nearly 13 years in the cooler A Swiss court has sentenced a 52-year-old Ukrainian ransomware developer to 12 years and nine months in prison for his role in attacks on companies including Stadler Rail.
• 15 Sept, 23:27 · General GM gives its trucks a new UI—and includes CarPlay General Motors is about to launch new versions of its bestselling Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks for model year 2027.
• 15 Sept, 23:00 · General Anthropic and OpenAI look to Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail American model devs are trying to convince Washington to cement their dominance. OpenAI briefly delayed the public release of GPT-5.6 until Uncle Sam tested and reviewed the release.
• 15 Sept, 22:36 · Science This Atlantic hurricane season is about to do something that hasn't happened in 175 years Last week, the Atlantic hurricane season blew through its traditional peak—which comes around September 10—with nary a tropical wave in sight, let alone a storm or hurricane.
• 15 Sept, 22:31 · General Microsoft account refuseniks have another way of installing Windows The workaround is in the normal Windows 11 Out-of-Box Experience that users see when setting up the operating system.
• 15 Sept, 22:30 · Culture · United Kingdom ‘I created my mom and talk to her’: AI ghosts and deathslop are changing the way we mourn Jack White performed Jolene at a London gig. Kesha sang Old Flames, a single her mother wrote for the country music titan.
• 15 Sept, 22:00 · Sport From Segura to Maltby: six breakout stars from the Women’s Under-20 World Cup Celia Segura Segura is no stranger to knockout football, having helped Spain to silver at the Under-17 World Cup two years ago and finishing with the Bronze Ball and Bronze.
• 15 Sept, 22:00 · General Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost The performance gap between frontier AI models from US tech companies and the best open-weights models from Chinese companies has closed to just 4.4 months.
• 15 Sept, 22:00 · General US confirms it has weapons in spaaaaaace The Outer Space Treaty went into force in 1967, but the superpowers have found ways to work around it over the years.