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Apple shares briefly touched $345.34 shortly after markets opened, topping the previous intraday record of $344.57 set in July. The milestone comes just three weeks after Tim Cook handed the CEO role to John Ternus, with shares having recovered from post-earnings losses and a shaky start to the transition.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission, acting for the EU, fined Google €403 million (about $462 million) for mishandling location history and web/app activity data. The regulator found Google failed to be transparent about Location Accuracy on Android and unlawfully retained users' location data longer than necessary.
Researcher Carter Leffer submitted a decryption of the German Army Enigma message MVUEH, sent 10 July 1941 and logged by an SS-Totenkopf radio unit, which had remained unbroken since 2005. The AI-assisted break, using OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, revealed a completely different key setup—including a different wheel order—than other messages from that day, yet produced plaintext nearly identical to a previously solved message, Nr. 173 (SIPVX). Analysis of the newly recovered key also uncovered transcription errors in the original ciphertext and pinpointed the exact letter at which the Enigma machine's left wheel turned over.
A new Ornn Data paper argues that NVIDIA's older Ampere-generation GPUs, particularly the A100, remain economically useful far longer than assumed because open-weight models can be run cheaply on them. The analysis found that self-hosted open-weight models like gpt-oss-120b produce output more cheaply on A100 chips than on newer H100 hardware, and that A100 rental prices have stayed unusually stable over a five-year contract period compared to Hopper and Blackwell chips.
Zelda Williams, daughter of the late comedian Robin Williams, publicly criticized AI-generated videos circulating on social media that falsely depict her father discussing conspiracy theories. One 13-second clip, falsely labeled as a 2013 private recording, was shared thousands of times on X and garnered over 11,000 likes despite a community note flagging it as fake. Williams called out the creators and sharers of the content, saying they were manipulating the public using her deceased father's likeness.
Airline pilots can earn up to $100,000 in a single month during busy periods, but that pay swings based on seniority, aircraft type, schedule and hourly rate, per the Wall Street Journal. Roughly 4,300 pilots hit the FAA's mandatory retirement age of 65 each year through 2042, often leaving with a combined pension, 401(k) and brokerage assets worth millions, all becoming taxable around the same time.
San Francisco filed a state lawsuit against Trump Media & Technology Group, alleging its Truth API service — which charges customers $100,000 a month for early access to posts from Trump and other officials on Truth Social — violates California's Unfair Competition Law and federal anti-corruption statutes. The suit cites instances, including an August 21st post about ground beef tariffs that moved cattle futures, as evidence that early access to presidential posts can be financially valuable.
The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement ordered the five-officer Trinidad Police Department to close by September 18 after finding it offered no meaningful public benefit and lacked basic equipment like bulletproof vests and an evidence room. The investigation followed the arrest of resident Jennifer Combs, who was jailed for a Facebook post claiming residents had gotten sick from discolored tap water; charges against her were eventually dropped. Henderson County's sheriff's office will handle policing duties until Trinidad finds a permanent replacement.
An investigation by MIT Technology Review documents hundreds of migrant deaths in areas monitored by the government's decades-long, multibillion-dollar network of border surveillance towers, including newer AI-equipped installations meant to automatically detect people crossing. In many cases, the towers neither led to rescue nor apprehension of those who later died in the surrounding terrain. The findings were discussed in a roundtable featuring editor in chief Mat Honan with reporters James O'Donnell and Eileen Guo.
Security researcher Patrick Wardle discovered that any app or Terminal command running on a Mac could silently alter undocumented settings in Meta's new Muse AI agent without requiring special macOS permissions. One affected setting, endo_voyager_dictation_endpoint, determines where a user's dictated voice prompts are transmitted, meaning an attacker could reroute that data elsewhere. The flaw surfaced just weeks after Meta heavily promoted Muse's security architecture, including a dedicated Secure VM, a monitoring system called Sentinel, and bug bounties up to $300,000.
Dyson's CameraJet toothbrush, which combines a camera-guided water flossing jet with brushing, launched in US stores on September 8 but was pulled within days after buyers reported water leaking into the battery compartment. WIRED found the $499 device, unveiled with fanfare in Paris weeks earlier, is now unavailable for purchase anywhere.
Nicolas Bras has spent years crafting over 1,500 unusual musical instruments from reclaimed wood, scrap metal, PVC pipe, and 3D-printed parts. His creations blend traditional acoustic principles with unconventional materials and fabrication methods to produce distinctive sounds not found in standard instruments.