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Stoke Space announced a $1 billion Series E funding round co-led by Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital, bringing its total funding to $2.3 billion. CEO Andy Lapsa said the money will accelerate development of a bigger 'Block 2' version of its Nova rocket capable of lifting 15 metric tons to low-Earth orbit while remaining fully reusable, even as the original Nova vehicle nears its debut launch next year.
OpenAI confirmed an ongoing outage causing errors in ChatGPT's image generation and its Images API, along with failures and delays when users try to upload files. Hundreds of users reported the problems on DownDetector, and OpenAI says it is still assessing mitigation efforts as some requests continue to fail.
Sony Japan published a policy on September 1 defining customer harassment and warning it will restrict or suspend support for customers who cross the line, including abusive language, excessive demands, or intimidating behavior toward staff. The move comes after intense customer anger over Sony's plan to stop producing physical PlayStation discs by January 2028, a decision already facing several lawsuits.
Counterpoint Research projects global foldable phone shipments will exceed 100 million units this year, with Apple entering the category via the iPhone Ultra and quickly capturing a quarter of the market—putting it second behind Samsung and ahead of Huawei. The firm expects Apple's share to climb to 40% the following year, surpassing Samsung. Separately, Xiaomi has launched its book-style 18 Fold in China just a day before Apple's own hardware event.
An Australian Redditor known as VastOption875 says they discovered a decommissioned work server in their garage containing 30 64GB DDR4-2666 memory modules, nearly 2TB combined, that their former employer let them keep. At roughly $400 per module in today's market, the stash could be worth around $12,000, with ECC server memory potentially fetching even more.
MIT Technology Review has released its annual list of 35 young innovators, chosen from 550 nominations with help from 44 expert judges. Honorees span biotechnology, AI, computing and robotics, and climate and energy, each showing measurable progress toward their goals. A separate feature in the same issue explores how spiderwebs, rich in trapped environmental DNA, are becoming a valuable tool for tracking biodiversity.
Riders in Austin discovered a hidden on-screen control panel in Tesla's driverless Cybercab, featuring a virtual joystick with forward/reverse toggles, a stop button, horn, and manual door controls. The interface appeared in the lower left of the central display alongside live camera feeds, though passengers who tried to activate it found the controls unresponsive.
A technical blog post walks through how the bitap (shift-and) algorithm finds a pattern inside a text, building it up step by step from the naive brute-force matching approach. The author shows how the method can be adapted to process text as a stream of characters rather than requiring the whole string in memory, and highlights its use of bitwise operations for efficiency when the search pattern is shorter than a machine word.
The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service issued a recall alert for more than 1,500 pounds of ready-to-eat pork product manufactured in Italy. The product was brought into the U.S. by two importing companies and shipped to retail stores and food service outlets across eight states before concerns emerged about possible bacterial contamination.
The FreeBSD Project has shipped version 14.5 of its operating system, offering several installer formats including a full DVD image with documentation and pre-built packages, a smaller disc1 image without packages, and a bootonly image for network-based installs. All variants can be written to USB drives for booting on amd64 machines and include a livefs rescue mode.
A developer built an experimental one-way projectional viewer that lets programmers toggle implementation detail out of view in source code without editing it back, using a Rebol phone-number parsing grammar as the test case. Rather than removing plumbing code like value-capturing and print statements, the tool simply elides them from the reading view so the underlying grammar structure stands out.
The White House quietly took down 'Build the Wall,' a Tetris-style browser game framed as stopping a 'zombie border siege,' just days after launching an arcade-themed section of its website. The removal follows criticism of the game's content and comes after Tetris Company said it was reviewing the situation. Other Trump-agenda-themed games, including a Flappy Bird clone and a Tapper-style title, remain live on the site.