A literary essay examines how Edgar Allan Poe's stories derive their terror not from the murders depicted but from the confessions that follow them, tracing this back to Poe's own career struggles as an editor at Graham's magazine in 1841 Philadelphia. It details Poe's financial precariousness as a writer, noting he earned little from his early books despite growing critical respect, and had to rely on magazine work to make a living.
Thyme Care, a virtual navigation platform for cancer patients, closed a $125 million Series E round led by Morgan Health with Humana and CVS Health Ventures participating, doubling its valuation to over $2 billion in less than a year. The company is also creating a new parent entity, Thyme Companies, to launch additional businesses tackling gaps in cancer care delivery, access and payment, with co-founder Robin Shah as executive chairman.
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash-tier model in six weeks, improving on coding, agentic tasks and multi-step reasoning while keeping the same pricing as 3.7 Flash ($0.75/$3.75 per million input/output tokens). Alongside it, Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a specialized version tuned for vulnerability detection and automated patching, accessible only to vetted security teams through a new invite-only Fairwind Program.
Google published documentation outlining the intended uses and known limitations of Gemini 3.8 Flash, a model aimed at cost-effective, production-scale agent deployment for developers and enterprises. The company flagged persistent issues including hallucinations, occasional slowness or timeouts, and inconsistent knowledge freshness across domains despite a stated March 2026 cutoff.
Uber is cutting about 10 percent of its roughly 34,000-person workforce as part of a reorganization that removes management layers and merges overlapping teams. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told staff the changes aim to reduce coordination overhead and speed up decision-making, while consolidating global teams primarily in New York and San Francisco. The company is also requiring most remote workers to relocate to an office and enforcing its three-day-a-week hybrid policy.
AI security startup HiddenLayer has closed a $100 million Series B led by Delta-v Capital, with Ten Eleven Ventures and others joining. CEO Chris Sestito says annual recurring revenue grew more than 10x in the past year, reaching the tens of millions, driven mostly by new enterprise customers in financial services, big tech, and government agencies including the Department of Defense.
Microsoft confirmed it is removing Cyberpunk 2077, Dead Cells, Frostpunk 2, Mullet Madjack and Superliminal from Xbox Game Pass on September 15. The company is adding replacement titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, but critics argue the incoming lineup doesn't match the quality of what's leaving.
Victor Miller, who wrote the original 'Friday the 13th' screenplay, has died at age 86. Miller created the film's central horror figures, Jason Voorhees and his mother Pamela Voorhees, who became enduring icons of the slasher genre.
A longtime Cisco employee describes being made redundant after 25 years with the company, detailing the abrupt phone call that ended his tenure and the emotional aftermath. He recounts the standardized, almost clinical nature of the layoff process and his own struggle to process the loss, including delaying telling his wife out of shame.
REI is running a Labor Day sale where members can apply the code LABORDAY26 for an additional 20 percent off one outlet item. The store's lifetime membership costs $30, and several sale items are discounted enough to offset that fee. Darn Tough socks are highlighted among the deals, currently marked down 25 percent.
Amazon announced that its Alexa for Shopping AI can now tell customers whether a message claiming to be from Amazon is genuine or a scam. The system cross-checks sender details, content, timing and metadata against billions of messages Amazon has sent worldwide, and is designed to improve as users flag more suspicious texts and emails. This builds on Amazon's earlier [email protected] email tool and online form for reporting suspicious communications.
A traveling petting zoo in Harmony, North Carolina euthanized four baby goats after lab tests confirmed three were infected with rabies, with a fourth suspected. State officials believe a skunk breached the goats' isolated pen in late July and bit them before being killed, and the young animals had not yet been vaccinated against rabies. The zoo had recently hosted events with elderly attendees and schoolchildren, prompting health officials to alert the public about possible exposure.
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