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Lyft has revived its election-season program, first launched in 2014, giving riders across the U.S. access to free or discounted rides to voting locations. The initiative spans from major cities like Manhattan to remote areas such as Alaska.
IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025 puts the average total cost of a ransomware incident at $5.08 million once downtime, remediation, legal work and business disruption are counted, while Verizon's 2026 DBIR pegs the median ransom payment at just $139,875. Datto's State of BCDR Report 2025 adds that while over 60% of organizations expect to recover within a day, only 35% actually do, and attackers increasingly target backup systems, forcing costly forensic and incident-response work when recovery options are compromised.
Jacopo Attolini, an AI industry worker posting as Atol8, built a bot powered by GPT-6 Astra combined with Python-based numerical tools to play Balatro. He reported the bot has repeatedly beaten the game's toughest difficulty, the Gold Stake Black Deck, and shared a YouTube video explaining its design, though he walked back an initial claim that it does so reliably.
Work For America launched as a career-matching platform aimed at helping federal employees who lost their jobs transition into state and local government positions. The service has since expanded to welcome all job seekers, including those with no prior public sector experience, functioning much like a LinkedIn tailored specifically to government careers.
NOAA announced on September 14 that El Niño has officially crossed the threshold to become a 'very strong event' for the Northern Hemisphere fall and winter of 2026-27, a designation known as a Super El Niño. Forecasters say this could become the strongest El Niño on record, with effects lingering into 2027 and potentially raising sea levels along California's coast by up to a foot.
McDonald's has teamed up with Chinese super-app Meituan to deliver food by drone to designated pickup kiosks in Shanghai's waterfront district. Customers place orders through Meituan, and drones fly meals like Big Macs and McNuggets directly to these collection points within minutes.
Pentagram partner Paula Scher, with associate partner Bruno Bergallo and project manager Olivia Ray, created a hand-drawn logo for Women+ on the Edge of Democracy, an upcoming revue featuring 10-minute plays and monologues by 36 women playwrights addressing the current state of democracy. The design deliberately compresses the title's text into a tight frame, a visual metaphor for how women are pushed to the margins of democratic life.
Tesla's driverless Cybercab, now operating as part of its Robotaxi service, lacks a steering wheel and brake pedals, letting occupants recline their seats. Tesla's own rider guide warns passengers to keep seat backs within 35 degrees of vertical and feet flat on the floor to reduce injury risk in a crash, while safety researchers note that reclined seating already correlates with worse crash outcomes in conventional vehicles.
CNET reviewed a low-cost sliding pizza peel, a wooden board fitted with a manual conveyor belt made of nonstick, fiberglass-like material rather than actual cloth. Instead of shoving a rigid peel entirely under a raw pizza, users only need to get the leading edge under the dough before pulling the conveyor toward themselves to load it, then reversing the motion to launch it into the oven.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen indicated Canada could gain an 'associate member' status linked to a proposed European Security Council, framing the move as a response to escalating geopolitical risks. The remarks suggest the EU is considering deeper defense and security ties with non-member allies as threats intensify.
Boox has released three new E Ink devices: the Note Air6 C, the Note Mini C, and the Palma 3. The Note Air6 C and Note Mini C are color digital notebooks priced at $580 each, running Android 16 with new AI features like meeting summaries and side-by-side annotation, while the Palma 3 is a $340 smartphone-sized E Ink reader. Only the Note Air6 C is currently available for purchase.
CoinShares reports that Bitcoin's network hashrate has fallen roughly 50% below its long-term growth trend, marking the first sustained six-month decline since China's 2021 mining crackdown. The firm links the slowdown to miners redirecting resources and infrastructure toward AI computing workloads rather than Bitcoin mining.