October 10, 2026

Tech & AI

Tech & AI

Google DeepMind alumni are building tools to accelerate fusion power for the grid

Sometimes founders search high and low for the right startup idea, while other times it comes to them. Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli are two of the lucky ones. Over and over again, they heard the same thing from fusion companies: “We would ideally buy many of the components to make our our control system,

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UN Rights Chief Warns Advanced AI Could Threaten Humanity

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned Monday that advanced AI could become an “existential risk to humanity” without binding rules, independent oversight and firm limits. Speaking to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Türk said the technology should not be governed solely by the companies building it. He said he plans

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Wordle today: The answer and hints for September 9, 2026

Today’s Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you like to go fast. If you just want to be told today’s word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today’s Wordle solution revealed. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

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Cockroach Milk, How to Blow Your Nose, and Mosquito Printers: The Ig Nobels of 2026

Achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think. That’s the motto of the Ig Nobel Prizes, an annual competition that—parodying the Nobel Prizes—recognizes some of the world’s most unusual scientific studies. The organization Improbable Research has been hosting the event since 1991 with the aim of showing that science also has a

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Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

On August 4, Grant de Swardt, an independent AI consultant in East Sussex, UK, noticed something strange going on with his Claude Max 20x account. He hadn’t been working that day, yet his token usage was climbing. The next day, he disabled everything he had attached to Claude and did not work with it. Token

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Anthropic Moves IPO Timeline Toward Mid-October, Report Says

Anthropic’s trip to Wall Street may take a few weeks longer than investors expected. The Claude maker is now expected to publicly file its IPO prospectus in late September rather than as early as this week, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Reuters. Marketing for the offering could begin in mid-October at

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iOS 27 code reveals 5 new potential camera features

Apple’s public iOS 27 betas may not tell the whole story of what’s coming to the iPhone’s Camera app. According to developer pdfu, who goes by @itspdfu on X, the current software contains a broader set of camera-related code than what Apple has shown off publicly or made accessible to beta testers so far. Posting

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Richard Kelly on Donnie Darko at 25: ‘It’s a Miracle That Any Movie Gets Made’

For a diehard fan of Donnie Darko, meeting director and screenwriter Richard Kelly is a thrill in itself. But to first encounter him as a silhouette in a darkened movie theater is to feel almost like a character in one of his films—unmoored by indefinite space and physics, questioning your altered perception. It’s a hot

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Stoke Space raises another billion to rival SpaceX at re-flying rockets

The fuel for a fully reusable rocket that can unlock truly low-cost access to space isn’t methane or liquid oxygen. It’s cash, and Stoke Space Technologies is tanking up. The company has now “completed the initial closing” of a $1 billion Series E round intended to help it reach orbit and prepare a new, larger

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Cancel Microsoft 365 and Get Microsoft Office for Life for $50

TL;DR: Cancel Microsoft 365 and get a Microsoft Office 2024 Pro lifetime license for the same price, just $54.99. Microsoft 365’s recurring fee may seem like a necessary expense for professionals, but it isn’t. Rather than paying $99.99 per year for Microsoft 365, you can now get the same apps for life with a Microsoft Office lifetime license,

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