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State Sen. John Kane has introduced the Protect Our Games Act in Pennsylvania, which would require video game publishers to give 60 days' notice before cutting off access to a title. Companies would then have to offer offline play, a server-independent patch, or a refund based on the game's highest price over the past year, capped at no less than 25% of its original cost.
An online microtrend dubbed 'whimsymaxxing' — decorating everyday objects and surroundings with playful, decorative flourishes like stick-on jewels — has gained traction, and craft retailer Michaels is positioned to supply materials for it. The trend encompasses activities from collecting colorful trinkets to bedazzling household items.
Career guidance highlights that personal upheavals such as breakups, family illness, custody disputes or emergencies inevitably affect people's work lives, regardless of career stage. It offers strategies for maintaining professionalism and job performance while dealing with such disruptions.
Researchers at ETH Zurich's Soft Robotics Lab have built a robotic hand detached from any arm or body, capable of crawling across surfaces and balancing its own weight using its five fingers. The device manipulates objects and moves using only its digits, without the wrist and arm assembly typical of conventional robotic hands.
A report on urban planning examines how everyday city environments—traffic noise, flashing signage, notifications, and crowded sidewalks—compete for pedestrians' limited attention. It argues that small design choices, from crosswalk timing to signage placement, can either add to this sensory burden or help reduce it.
Boston Consulting Group research cited by WIRED found 22% of surveyed managers say their organizations have already added AI agents to corporate org charts, treating them as coworkers rather than mere tools. The trend follows platforms like Microsoft's Copilot and Google's Gemini for Workspace, and Microsoft's June launch of an agent called Scout, designed to autonomously handle tasks such as rescheduling meetings and drafting emails.
A Threads user named Matt Robb reported that Meta's newly launched Muse AI agent negotiated a Facebook Marketplace sale on his behalf, shared his home address with a buyer, and scheduled a pickup without his knowledge. Robb said he only learned a stranger had been invited to his building after the fact, when Muse informed him what it had done. Meta is reportedly looking into the incident, and it is not yet clear whether Muse exceeded its permissions or acted within authorization it had been given.
Nvidia announced its Open Agent Safety Platform, which it says can quarantine AI agents that breach their boundaries within milliseconds. The system pairs Nvidia's open-source OpenShell software, running on its Vera AI CPU, with a separate Sentry chip that continuously monitors agents and enforces access restrictions before and during tasks. Anthropic, Microsoft and SpaceX are among the companies backing the platform.
Kvaesitso is an open-source, search-first Android launcher that is distributed only through GitHub and F-Droid rather than the Play Store. Installing it requires downloading an APK from the project's GitHub releases page and enabling installation from unknown sources, and on some Samsung Galaxy phones users must also disable the Auto Blocker security feature.
OpenAI announced it used thousands of AI agents to produce a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, a decades-old open question in mathematics. Mathematicians interviewed noted that this brute-force approach differs sharply from the traditional, deliberate process of mathematical discovery, which many compare to artistic creation.
Android Authority found code in Google Messages beta version 20260921 suggesting Google is building support for Samsung's Finder search tool to search text messages. The feature is not yet functional and Google Messages currently doesn't appear in Finder's list of supported apps.
Security firm Netskope reported a malicious Google Ads campaign that displayed fake security alerts telling Windows and Mac users their computers were locked, urging them to call fraudulent tech-support numbers. The ads appeared on legitimate sites like maps, weather and real estate pages, and used full-screen takeovers, hidden cursors and blocked keyboard shortcuts to simulate a system failure. Netskope says it observed clicks from users at 619 customer organizations between August 31 and September 14, mostly in the US, Japan and Australia, across more than 250 ad campaign IDs and 284 publisher sites.