Volkswagen unveiled the Mission Efficiency, a near-production electric coupe prototype built on its MEB+ platform that shares components with the upcoming ID. Polo and ID. Cross models. The teardrop-shaped car achieved a drag coefficient of 0.158, which VW says makes it the world's most aerodynamic road-legal vehicle, and completed a 1,278 km trip from Wolfsburg to Vienna on one charge of its 54.9 kWh battery, arriving with 164 km of range left.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-14
Mexico's SEDENA and US Northern Command announced Operation High Eagle, a binational effort to track and neutralize drones used by criminal groups near the San Diego-Tijuana border. The first phase ran August 31 to September 2, with tracking of commercial drones, followed by neutralization tests using fixed and mobile anti-drone systems from September 7 through September 21.
wired.com
· 2026-09-11
Cubacadabra's developers plan to rebuild the product's iOS, Android, and web clients as thin native shells that delegate application logic to shared Rust crates rather than reimplementing features separately in Swift, Kotlin, and JavaScript. The goal is to move business rules like form validation, save logic, and error handling into one Rust codebase that all three platforms call into, citing Litter's Rust-core approach with UniFFI bindings as a precedent.
andrewarrow.dev
· 2026-09-10
Identity verification firm IDScan has acknowledged that hackers accessed customer data stored on its IDScan.net cloud platform, days after reports tied the company to a leaked database of over 153 million driver's license scans being sold on the dark web. The company said it discovered the unauthorized access around September 1 and is still investigating the scope, but confirmed exposed data can include names and government ID numbers.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-10
Apple's WebKit team has opened a call for proposals for Interop 2027, the next round of the annual cross-browser project run with Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Bocoup, and Igalia. Developers can submit ideas through September 23, with entries required to focus on mature, testable web standards measured via Web Platform Tests.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-09-07
Montech's Century II Gold 850W is an ATX 3.1/PCIe 5.1 power supply built on an XWY half-bridge LLC platform, offering Cybenetics ETA Platinum efficiency at both 115V and 230V. It ships with a native 12V-2x6 cable, a Zero-RPM fan mode, and a ten-year warranty, retailing for around $90.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-07
Reuters and Inside Medicine report that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed CDC director Erica Schwartz to delete two measles deaths—a newborn and a child in Pennsylvania—from the agency's public data, which she did without objection despite staff having already confirmed the deaths were measles-related. Even so, an internal CDC system called One CDC Data Platform, accessible to health officials nationwide, still records both deaths.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-03
Epic Games introduced Epic Parties, a voice chat system that works across Fortnite, the Epic Games Store, and the Epic Games app, regardless of the hardware players use. Users can start a call in one app and carry it seamlessly into another, and the chat can keep running in the background while playing other titles or using mobile devices. Accepting an Epic Party invite also automatically groups friends into the same Fortnite lobby.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-03
Nvidia has agreed to acquire AI platform Hugging Face for roughly $12.9bn, one of its largest acquisitions to date. Hugging Face, used by over 18 million developers and hosting more than three million AI models, operates as a major hub for sharing open-source AI tools. Nvidia said the platform will remain open and won't require users to adopt its chips or services.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-09-03
A Hacker News 'Ask HN' post questions whether Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, despite early hype, is actually being deployed in production systems. The poster asks respondents to share specific use cases and explain what benefits MCP offers over traditional APIs, direct tool integrations, or CLI-based workflows.
news.ycombinator.com
· 2026-09-03
IBM has released Nighthawk r2, a 120-qubit quantum processor now live on the IBM Quantum Platform, featuring a new high-speed qubit reset architecture that runs over 100,000 circuits per second, roughly 25 times the throughput of IBM's current Heron processors. The chip pairs 120 qubits with 218 couplers and 120 reset elements, and has already run circuits with more than 7,500 gates accurately, hitting a milestone IBM had targeted for 2026.
ibm.com
· 2026-09-03
Germany has budgeted €108 million over four years to fund the eleventh version of its Government Site Builder, a PHP-based content management system already used by more than 80 federal agencies to run over 250 websites. The spending splits into €26.88 million for development, €73.2 million for migration and relaunch, and €8 million for operations. The author contrasts this with the roughly $730,000 the PHP Foundation received in total contributions in 2025.
thephp.foundation
· 2026-09-02
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