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The September 22, 2026 episode of 9to5Mac Daily rounds up the day's Apple news, focusing on early details surrounding a possible M6 Mac mini and speculation about where Apple Fitness+ is headed next. The podcast episode is available across major platforms including Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, and Google Play.
Entrepreneur and Cruise Planners are hosting a free webinar on how entrepreneurship can help working mothers balance career and family, moderated by Terry Rice with guests Summer Bowers and Tammy Overcash. The two women co-own the same Cruise Planners franchise but arrived there through different careers: Bowers left teaching after military relocations disrupted her career and grew a travel-focused social media following into a business, while Overcash's path was separately built around her own career and family circumstances.
A Bloomberg report cited by industry sources estimates that as Baby Boomers pass down roughly $93 trillion in assets over the next two decades, U.S. households collectively hold about $750 billion in unappraised gold jewelry. Startup Unvault's 2026 estimate puts the average household's gold jewelry value at $5,700, a figure that excludes silver, platinum, gemstones and designer premiums. The report also notes boomers hold about $1 trillion in art and $570 billion in collectible cars headed for inheritance.
The ShinyHunters extortion group told BleepingComputer it exploited a new remote-code-execution flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft to access FBI systems and move into FBI-managed AWS GovCloud infrastructure, claiming theft of 2-3TB of data including employee, applicant, HR and Medlink records. The group shared a screenshot showing the FBI Jobs site defaced with its logo and a message asserting sensitive PII/PHI had been stolen, and said the FBI quickly took the affected systems offline.
A 2024 technical essay argues that the history of computing has overemphasized Charles Babbage's mechanical calculator designs while neglecting the development of electronic working memory, or RAM. The author traces this history back to relay-based bistable circuits, explaining how latching relays could store bits and laid groundwork for modern memory systems.
A São Paulo court has issued an emergency injunction requiring Apple to block minors from downloading Casino Roulette: Roulettist and to add age verification before users can buy virtual chips with real money. The order followed a July lawsuit from four child rights groups alleging minors could easily access the 18+ rated app and spend real money in it. Apple has five days to comply, must extend similar controls to other casino-style apps, and faces a daily fine of about $19,500 if it fails to act.
EFF joined the ACLU, ACLU of D.C., and photography trade groups in an amicus brief urging the D.C. Circuit to strike down an FAA drone flight restriction in Levine v. FAA. The rule had barred drones from flying near DHS officers and vehicles, including ICE and CBP convoys, effectively blocking aerial recording of immigration enforcement even from over half a mile away. Although the FAA rescinded the restriction in April after being sued, the petitioner argues the case should still be decided because past violations remain punishable and the agency could reimpose the rule.
Fast Company introduced a new recognition initiative called Pacesetters, honoring executives who are advancing AI-powered customer experience innovation. The launch featured a panel discussion with leaders from Tata Consultancy Services, The Home Depot, and Stellantis, moderated by Mansueto Ventures CEO Stephanie Mehta. The conversation centered on using AI to reduce friction in customer interactions while maintaining trust.
The DataHaskell/Dataframe library now includes a writeParquet function that lets users export a dataframe directly to a Parquet file using default row group and page sizes. A writeParquetWithOptions variant is also provided for developers who want finer control over those settings.
Walmart is selling MSI's Gaming Trio GeForce RTX 5090 for $4,299 as part of its GeForce Week promotion, a price well below the $8,000+ third-party listings currently common for the card. The RTX 5090 remains Nvidia's top gaming GPU, still selling far above its original $1,999 MSRP due to scarce supply and demand from AI workloads.
A comparison of Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and 17 Pro finds the two devices nearly identical apart from new color options, including a Burgundy shade and a returning black finish. The newer model is slightly heavier and features a smaller Dynamic Island, made possible by an infrared sensor hidden under the display, but otherwise shares the same design and functionality as its predecessor.
Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge has built an in-house AI system called Solo, using a transformer model to autonomously operate spacecraft without relying on large ground control teams. The company plans to test this system on its first autonomous mission in 2027, launching aboard Stoke Space's debut rocket in a NASA-backed flight that will collect solar data.