Far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, a British national, has been taken into custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Louisiana, according to the agency's own records. The facility holding him hasn't been confirmed, but ICE's directory points inquiries to an enforcement office in Alexandria, Louisiana. Neither ICE nor the Department of Homeland Security has commented on the reasons for his detention or whether deportation proceedings are underway.
The developer credited with building the original Windows Task Manager has released TMOG, a new system monitoring app for macOS. The tool offers a detailed summary view covering CPU, clock speed, thermals, GPU, memory, storage, network, and energy usage, alongside deeper inspection features like per-core stats, process trees, service controls, and a native expandable version of the Mac's System Report.
Samsung's One UI 9 Beta 7 for the Galaxy S26 series introduces a Netflix toggle inside Now Brief's content settings. When enabled, it displays a 'Top picks for you' card with Galaxy AI-curated movie suggestions directly in the Now Brief feed. The feature is also present in the stable One UI 9 release for the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra, and Z Flip 8.
A developer launched Isitdoneyet.gg, a website that tracks games after their official release to note whether they remain buggy, unfinished, or still receiving critical patches. The site catalogs titles like This Bed We Made and The Children of Clay, giving players a quick reference on post-launch game health.
An Anthropic fellows program researcher, Chen Yueh-Han, published a paper showing an automated system that searches literature, proposes fixes, and trains models to improve performance across 10 alignment benchmarks without hurting overall capability. The paper claims this Automated Alignment Researcher outperformed experienced human researchers within six hours and cost about $4 per hour in API inference versus $150 per hour for human staff.
The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service recalled nearly 25,000 pounds of frozen Buffalo chicken rangoon and Benedetto's Buffalo chicken mozzarella sticks made by Boston-based Shanghai Ravioli Corporation. The products were flagged for carrying false inspection marks and were distributed to foodservice businesses in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Skywatchers can catch two minor meteor showers in September: the Aurigids, peaking September 1 and fueled by comet C/1911 N1 Kiess, and the Southern Taurids, which begin September 20 and run through November, driven by comet 2P/Encke. Both are best viewed by locating their radiant constellations—Auriga and Taurus—though neither shower produces a heavy meteor count this early in its cycle.
Shares of The Cheesecake Factory, the casual dining chain, have climbed 122% so far this year, a gain that outstrips the year-to-date performance of several Magnificent Seven tech stocks, including Nvidia. The rally highlights how a traditional restaurant business has outperformed some of the market's most closely watched technology giants.
Conduct has released an open-source framework called Guard and a companion LLM proxy called Router that enforce a single policy across every AI agent action, from LLM calls to shell and MCP tool use. The system blocks, warns, audits, or injects rules before an action executes, using signed configuration packs and a SHA-256 hash-chained audit log to prevent tampering. A free 'Discovery' mode offers 14 days of read-only visibility into AI agent behavior before teams commit to enforcement.
Apple's iOS 27 update brings major improvements to iCloud Shared Albums, including support for full-resolution photos and videos, custom emoji reactions instead of just likes, and easier one-tap saving. Android and Windows users can now contribute content via the web rather than only viewing shared photos, and users gain new participant permission controls plus the option to set album expiration dates.
Google has reduced trade-in credits offered toward Pixel 11 series purchases, ending the launch-window bonuses it previously offered. The Pixel 10 Pro Fold saw the steepest cut, dropping from $1,000 to $850, while most other recent Pixel models lost $50 or less in trade value. Google says these new lower rates will remain in effect through September.
Google has resolved a bug that stopped Google Home users from adding items to Google Keep lists using voice commands. The company initially described the problem vaguely as a 'UI issue' before clarifying it involved two separate glitches, one affecting the interface and another preventing users from viewing or using their lists altogether. Google says both issues are now fixed.