Techmeme

University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a "worm" powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)
Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has become the fastest app to hit 1B global MAUs by far; ChatGPT's MAUs are up 62% YoY in Q2 to date, Claude's MAUs are up 640% YoY to 56M (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
Source: SpaceX plans to raise $75B in its IPO by selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, an unusual move since most companies set a price range before the roadshow (Echo Wang/Reuters)
Source: Google asked Google Play app devs to join a "confidential content offer pilot", offering to pay for access to codebases to use them to train AI tools (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
Google selling $10B of equity to Berkshire is fascinating and functions as a signal that AI demand is high, in a world where the most cash buys the most compute (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to below $67K on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy's first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)
Oxford Quantum Circuits, a UK-based startup building and deploying quantum computers, has raised a $350M Series C led by Bullhound Capital (Daphné Leprince-Ringuet/Sifted)
Sources: a Broadcom-backed portion of Apollo and Blackstone's $36B debt deal to buy TPUs for Anthropic to lease may yield ~5.75% vs. 8%-9% for a riskier portion (Bloomberg)
The US sanctions Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, accusing it of helping Iran's government and blacklisted state institutions evade Western sanctions (Gavin Finch/Reuters)
Palo Alto Networks reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $3B, including $388M from CyberArk and Chronosphere, vs. $2.94B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est. (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
Meta is testing a Series feature, letting select creators make episodic Reels that are placed in a dedicated hub on their profile, using both old and new Reels (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Source: a CoreWeave-tied data center raised $900M via five-year junk bonds, priced at par to yield 7.5%, as the sector increasingly turns to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)
Marvell shares closed up 32.52% on Tuesday after Jensen Huang hailed the chipmaker as the "next trillion-dollar company" at Computex (Sawdah Bhaimiya/CNBC)
Microsoft releases ASSERT, an open-source framework that lets developers generate and run AI behavior tests using natural-language descriptions (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
Internal memo: Meta is scaling back elements of its employee tracking tool, launched in April to help train its AI models, after staff raised concerns (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

Wired

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4 Best Alexa Speakers (2026): Echo Dot Max, Echo Dot, Echo Show 11
How to Shop Like a Pro During Amazon Prime Day (2026)
A Viral YouTube Show About an Unhinged AI Is Hitting Theaters. It’s a Big Test for Hollywood
Coway Airmega Pedestal Fan P50 Review: Anti-App
McLaren CEO Zak Brown Still Gets FOMO About Racing Cars
How to Avoid Scams and Bad Gadgets on Amazon (2026)
The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests
The Trump Administration Is at War With Itself Over AI Regulation
How to Edit, Merge, and Split PDFs With Free Online Tools
Meet the Accidental Editor in Chief of Muslim Media
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Best Sleep Trackers of 2026: Oura, Whoop, and Eight Sleep
Universal Audio Volt 876 USB Audio Interface Review: Pro-Level Polish
Norse Atlantic Airways Offers Dirt-Cheap Tickets. There’s a Catch
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The Romance Scammer Who Made a Small Fortune Posing as a WWE Superstar
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Everyone Has Their Targets Set on the MacBook Neo
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Amazon Is Making an AI-Animated ‘Good Advice Cupcake’ TV Show. Its Original Creator Is Furious
The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens

Engadget

Meta will reportedly let employees take 30-minute breaks from its tracking program
Trump signs scaled-back AI cybersecurity order
The Star Fox remake is a test for the franchise's future
Theos: Cities of Myth is the spiritual successor to the one of the great city builders of the early 2000s
Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over alleged 'exploitation of users'
Until Dawn 2 looks like Cabin in the Woods, but in a jungle
NASA readies the X-59 for its first supersonic flight, SpaceX's Starship grounded and more science stories
5 Fitness Trackers That Don't Lock Core Features Behind a Monthly Subscription
Engadget review recap: ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo, Fitbit Air, GoPro Mission 1 and more
Mina the Hollower, a Sims alternative and other new indie games worth checking out
Onimusha: Way of the Sword arrives September 25 but there's a demo today
Insomniac Games' Wolverine looks comically violent
007 First Light is the stealthy James Bond game I've dreamed of
Sennheiser Momentum 5 Wireless review: Worth the wait
God of War Laufey stars the wife of Kratos and a jelly cube
Everything to know before putting your car key on an Android phone
The Morning After: Apple's dramatic Siri overhaul is coming and it might look like this
Here's what Apple's Siri overhaul for iOS 27 could look like
How to run a local AI chatbot on your iPhone
Control Resonant will bend your reality on September 24, 2026

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