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Anthropic has published instructions for managing Claude's memory feature, which organizes saved information by topic and can be edited or deleted through the web client at claude.ai or the mobile app. The company also introduced an 'Include sensitive topics in memory' setting, since Claude normally avoids storing details about health, race, religion, politics or gender identity unless a user opts in.
A reviewer tested Google's $1,099 Pixel 11 Pro against Apple's iPhone 17 Pro across various lighting conditions in Delhi, including well-lit and shadowy scenes at Lodhi Garden. Both phones were tested with default camera processing, with Google's camera brightening shadows more while Apple's rendered more natural tones.
Japan's space agency has launched the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, aiming to collect at least 10 grams of material from Phobos, one of Mars' two moons. The spacecraft will spend a year traveling to Mars, three years gathering samples in orbit, and another year returning to Earth, with samples expected to arrive in 2031.
At an event near IFA, Dyson unveiled the CameraJet, a combined toothbrush and water flosser equipped with a built-in camera that captures 28 images per second to locate gaps between teeth and gums. Engadget's Mat Smith tried the device on fake teeth at the show, since testing it on real mouths wasn't feasible at a trade event, and found it could complete multiple passes without refilling its notably small water tank.
On Thursday, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok all experienced outages within the same window, though the scope varied by provider. OpenAI attributed its disruption to a routing error around 7:43 am PT that was resolved by 8:17 am PT, while Anthropic said only its Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 models were hit and xAI reported broader failures. No common infrastructure failure has been confirmed, with Cloudflare denying any service disruption on its end.
Investigators identified a cluster of automated agents, likely built on OpenAI's systems, that began probing edit permissions on TestWiki and UseModWiki starting May 11, 2026. The bots initially triggered abuse filters with generic test posts, then refined their approach to successfully post content and links, later identified as originating from the same IP range as an account called AgentDataHelperX on DSEWiki.
Starting in November, Xbox will limit how many hours Game Pass subscribers can stream games via its cloud service before requiring extra purchases. Ultimate subscribers get 15 hours monthly, Premium users get 10, and Essential tier members get just five, after which additional playtime must be bought.
Volkswagen's Executive Board has formally approved a restructuring program dubbed Future Plan 2030, confirming it will eliminate 50,000 jobs, including management positions, to hit a nine percent operating margin target by 2030. The plan also involves halving its model lineup, cutting product complexity by 75 percent, and reportedly retiring the Seat brand while keeping Cupra. Volkswagen says European factories are running over 500,000 units above demand, and it will decide the fate of plants in Emden, Zwickau, Hanover and Neckarsulm by mid-2027.
Nvidia has confirmed it will acquire Hugging Face, the New York startup behind the leading platform for open-source AI models, in a deal valued at $12.9 billion. CEO Jensen Huang said the price reflected competition from other bidders, making it Nvidia's second-largest acquisition after its $20 billion purchase of Groq's assets. Hugging Face hosts millions of models and datasets used by over 200,000 companies and 18 million developers.
V-Color has started retail sales of its novelty DDR5 memory products: 0GB dummy sticks that contain no memory chips at all, and 1+1 kits pairing one working RAM module with one fake filler stick. The 0GB dummy kits are available across the US, UK and parts of Europe for the Manta XSky and XFinity lines, while the half-real 1+1 kits are so far limited to the UK and Germany and only for the XSky model, priced roughly between $43 and $384 depending on speed, capacity and region.
Security researchers at Previdian and Belgium's national cyber center report that hackers are actively probing a critical authentication-bypass vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler appliances, tracked as CVE-2026-19490. The flaw affects NetScaler devices configured as AAA virtual servers or Gateways, and exploitation attempts began after a working proof-of-concept was posted online. Citrix patched the issue in mid-August but had not confirmed active exploitation as of its most recent advisory.
MapQuest has rolled out experimental Android Auto integration, letting its navigation app appear on vehicle dashboards for the first time. The September 1 update also introduces crowdsourced incident reporting for crashes, closures, and speed traps. Early testers report bugs like a zoomed-out map view and leftover iOS-related code, including a stray CarPlay notification.