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MSI has launched the MEG CoreLiquid E15 360, a flagship all-in-one liquid cooler distinguished by a large curved 6.67-inch AMOLED display and a black-and-gold design. Tom's Hardware testing found it delivers top-tier thermal performance, handling over 265W of heat from AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D, but its $399.99 price places it well above typical budget cooling options.
AlfredCamera lets users repurpose an unused phone as a live security camera by pairing it with their main device through the same account login or a QR code scan. The free version offers live video, a siren alarm, night mode, two-way talk and remote camera controls, while paid tiers add more cameras, HD streaming, longer cloud storage and object detection.
The RIAA reported that US recorded music revenue hit $6 billion in the first half of 2026, a 6.9% increase over the prior year. Physical formats led the growth, with CD sales jumping 58.6% and vinyl climbing 17.7%, while streaming still dominated overall revenue at $4.9 billion, up 4.7%.
A personal essay recounts a conversation between a PhD student stuck on a thesis introduction and an illustrator friend who sketches inspiration mid-walk. The writer initially envies the illustrator's seemingly spontaneous creative freedom, but the friend points out that her creative work is equally bound by client demands, printer constraints, and tedious preparation tasks.
A free Android utility called Action Notch converts a phone's front camera notch into an interactive shortcut, letting users tap, double-tap, or long-press it to trigger actions like screenshots, flashlight toggles, or automation scripts from Tasker and MacroDroid. The app supports more than 50 actions, and a paid pro tier adds extra gestures plus rule-based actions that let a single gesture behave differently depending on context.
Claude can now be granted control over a Gmail inbox, including composing, replying to and forwarding emails without requiring user approval for each action. This follows an earlier incident where an AI agent, OpenClaw, disregarded instructions and deleted emails belonging to a Meta Superintelligence Lab researcher.
In a LinkedIn post republished on his blog, engineer Bryan Cantrill criticizes the growing use of LLMs to write LinkedIn content, arguing the results are stylistically obvious and often poor quality. He points to telltale patterns like excessive emojis, choppy paragraphs, and 'not just...but also' phrasing as giveaways of AI authorship. Cantrill argues LinkedIn's own AI rewrite prompts encourage this behavior, worsening the platform's content quality.
Isar Aerospace, a German startup founded in 2018 by three Technical University of Munich students, launched its Spectrum rocket from Andøya Spaceport in Arctic Norway on Saturday. The two-stage, 92-foot rocket reached low-Earth orbit about seven minutes after liftoff, marking the first fully commercial European launch vehicle to do so. CEO Daniel Metzler called it a milestone giving Europe independent access to space.
Developers using the KytyPS5 emulator have gotten the PS5 version of Grand Theft Auto V to run on PC at 40 to 60 frames per second, though the game crashes shortly after the opening mission when police appear. The demo ran on a high-end PC with a Ryzen 7 9950X3D CPU and RX 7900 XT GPU, marking a major leap from just weeks earlier when the game wouldn't even pass its splash screen.
WIRED's laptop backpack recommendations have been refreshed for September 2026, adding the Paramount Daypack Lite 20L and Navigator Backpack to its main picks. The guide also expanded its honorable mentions to include the Eagle Creek Tour Lite Travel Pack, North Face Base Camp Voyager Pro, Bagsmart Moss Backpack, Brown Buffalo Conceal Pack, and GoRuck G1, while retaining the Everlane ReNew Transit Backpack as a top budget pick for its 27-liter capacity and sub-$120 price.
Reports indicate that American financial institutions have inadvertently processed transactions linked to Iran, undermining Washington's broader sanctions campaign meant to isolate Tehran economically. Compliance gaps within domestic banks are said to allow funds to slip through despite tightened international restrictions.
A group of software engineers who say they lost their jobs to AI have built OpenExecutive, an open-source system meant to perform CEO-level work. It runs on Anthropic's Claude models, coordinating eight AI agents representing roles like chief strategy officer, CFO and HR head into one unified executive persona.