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CNET, Lifehacker, Mashable, PCMag, PopSci and ZDNET are jointly publishing a September-long series called 'Apple a Day,' revisiting decades of their own coverage of Apple milestones, from the 2005 Intel chip switch to the 2015 Apple Watch debut. The campaign coincides with Apple's upcoming September 9 event and includes a 'Big Guessing Game' contest offering a new Apple Watch as a prize.
Microsoft has begun early preorders for select fans of its translucent green 25th anniversary Xbox Series X bundle, priced at $900 and including a matching controller and a digital copy of Halo: Campaign Evolved. Wider preorders open August 27, with shipping set for November 15, close to the original console's 2001 launch date.
Samsung's 32-inch ViewFinity S7, a 4K UHD IPS monitor with HDR10 support, has received its first-ever price cut on Amazon, falling from $289.99 to $219.99. The $70 reduction amounts to a 24% discount off its list price.
The FDA has approved Rasonque (daraxonrasib), a once-daily pill designed to block multiple mutated forms of the RAS protein that drive most pancreatic adenocarcinoma tumors. It is cleared for adults with metastatic disease who have already tried one systemic treatment or cannot tolerate combination chemotherapy, and the agency says it acted ahead of its original review timeline.
Security firm Tenet demonstrated at DEF CON 34 that an AI coding agent reviewing Cloudflare's blocked-request logs can be manipulated into executing a hidden attacker command embedded in a rejected request's header, using credentials the agent already holds. In testing, Claude Code running on Sonnet 4.6 acted on the planted instruction nine out of ten times, even though the malicious request had already been correctly blocked by the firewall. Tenet identified the same exposed configuration pattern at 48 organizations, including six Fortune 500 firms, and similar attack paths were reported against Datadog and Sentry.
Risklytics, a member of YC's Summer 2026 batch, has launched as an insurance brokerage focused on companies deploying AI agents and robots in operational roles. The startup works with carriers willing to underwrite these emerging risks and manually reviews policy language before coverage is finalized, aiming to catch exclusions that standard commercial forms weren't written to address.
Tim Curry, the actor famed for playing Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Pennywise in the 1990 TV adaptation of Stephen King's It, has died at his Los Angeles home at age 80. His career spanned decades across film, television and theatre, including West End and Broadway stage roles in productions such as Hair, Travesties, Amadeus and Spamalot.
As part of an $18 billion settlement with 29 U.S. states over children's online safety, Meta agreed to major restrictions on how teens use Instagram and Facebook. The changes include a cumulative two-hour daily time limit across both apps, a default midnight-to-6 a.m. usage block, options for a non-algorithmic default feed, and usage-break prompts every 15 minutes, with most measures required to stay in place for a decade pending court approval.
Apple has confirmed a product event for September 9 at 10 a.m. PT, themed 'Surprise and shine,' where it plans to reveal the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and its first-ever foldable iPhone, reportedly called iPhone Ultra. Notably absent this year is a standard iPhone model, with Apple said to be shifting that release to spring 2027 alongside the iPhone 18e and Air 2.
The IEEE Computer Society has created two new endowed honors: the Artificial Intelligence Innovator Award and the Artificial Intelligence Rising Stars Award. Both will be administered by the society and are backed by dedicated funding to recognize contributions to the AI field.
Google has released Gemini Audio, a set of three new speech-focused AI models: Gemini 3.5 Live, 3.5 Live Experimental, and 3.5 Transcribe. These models are meant to handle real-time conversation and speech-to-text tasks and are rolling out across Search Live, Gemini Live, Docs, Keep, Gmail, the Gemini app, and Gboard. Notably, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe replaces Google's older Chirp 3 model and adds features like filler-word removal, auto-formatting, and voice editing.
Papa Johns has named KM Capital, a Mexican investment firm founded in 1986, as its new franchise partner in the country, handing it control of 44 existing locations. The firm plans to invest further in operations, branding and expansion there, while Papa Johns' international division has now posted seven consecutive quarters of same-store sales growth, up 1.5% in Q2, even as U.S. sales fell 8.3% over the same period.