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Saturday 12 September 2026

923 headlines from 32 sources

Hacker News

  1. Financial Times' 404 Page not Found
  2. Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases
  3. Benchmark: CadQuery vs. OpenSCAD for agentic CAD work
  4. LG Says We're Fake News [video]
  5. Jimmy Kimmel Interviews James Talarico
  6. An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
  7. Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard
  8. Anthropic CEO Says It's Time to Slow AI Model Advances
  9. My favorite sci-fi books about how we build societies and keep justifying them
  10. Will There Be a 7G?

The Verge

  1. OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May
  2. Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’
  3. StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter
  4. Sylvan Esso think you should splurge on good-quality yogurt
  5. Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI
  6. LG responds to TV spying allegations
  7. Trump is giving data centers a pass to pollute
  8. Laika’s stop-motion fantasy Wildwood looks so smooth
  9. Where to preorder the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max
  10. OpenAI just wants to win

Ars Technica

  1. I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China
  2. Some satellite companies still have an appetite for boutique launch services
  3. Random rewards enrich classic game-theory contests
  4. Bouncy castle launches horrifying MRSA outbreak, striking 48 kids in Ireland
  5. Trump's forced coal plant extensions thrown out by judge
  6. ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses
  7. Scientists unlock secrets of ancient Egyptian materials with proteomics
  8. Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push
  9. NASA moving at warp speed to set up US Space Academy
  10. Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research

TechCrunch

  1. OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026
  2. Tesla says it will finally unveil the second generation Roadster on October 1
  3. Anthropic CEO outlines plan to ‘pace the frontier’
  4. Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests
  5. Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
  6. Khosla Ventures is opening a New York office this fall — its first outpost outside Sand Hill Road
  7. Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
  8. OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating
  9. One week left to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
  10. Final, final, final call for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events

Wired

  1. 10 Best Standing Desks Worth Buying in 2026
  2. The Anti-Woke Right Can’t Figure Out How to Stop ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’
  3. The Best 3-in-1 Apple Charging Stations After Testing 30+ Models
  4. From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere
  5. Branch Ergonomic Chair Pro (Sega Edition) Review: Comfy, Not Boring
  6. ‘I’m Really Terrified’: A Mathematician Grapples With AI’s Recent Breakthroughs
  7. You Don’t Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, Trump-Appointed Judge Rules
  8. The 9 Best TV Shows to Stream This Month (September 2026)
  9. The US Government Launched 3 Previously Unreported Investigations of Polymarket Trades
  10. Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems

Engadget

  1. What's the difference between your iPhone's Do Not Disturb and Focus modes?
  2. How to change Amazon Alexa's voice and personality
  3. Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait
  4. Why is the internet so upset about NVIDIA's DLSS 5?
  5. OpenAI agents hacked a software service before the Hugging Face incident
  6. Diablo V is coming out in spring 2029
  7. How to add your driver's license to Apple Wallet and where you can use it
  8. LG denies accusations of smart TVs continuously recording its users
  9. The benefits of leaving your VPN on all the time
  10. How Much Solar Power Do You Actually Need For An RV?

9to5Mac

  1. Indie App Spotlight: ‘Farwave’ lets you listen to radio stations around the world
  2. Apple nailed iPhone Duo split screen, even as iPad multitasking feels convoluted
  3. ESR’s iPhone accessory lineup is ready for Apple’s foldable era
  4. iPhone Duo can add fake bezel to the outside screen for better case compatibility
  5. Apple @ Work: The three prongs of software updates in the AI era
  6. Weekend Apple deals: AirPods 5, Pro 3, Apple Watch Series 12, AirTag 2, Studio Display, MacBook, more
  7. Best iPhone 18 Pro cases now available for purchase
  8. You can now pre-order iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
  9. Apple researchers unveil SimpleDesign, a new AI model for protein design
  10. WhatsApp rolling out redesigned iPad interface with Mac-like sidebar

Guardian Australia

  1. Guimarães and Saka fire Arsenal to win at Sunderland after Raya spot-kick save
  2. Fossilized 10,000-year-old mastodon tooth found by California scientist
  3. The far right is becoming normalised in Germany – and winning. Australia should take heed | Charlotte Feakins
  4. Do not call her a racist: anti-Pauline Hanson strategists tell campaigners character attacks won’t work in Victoria
  5. As Australia faces an AI-generated future, a human rights act is needed more than ever
  6. Tove Lo: ‘The rumour I hear the most is that I’m either pregnant or in rehab. I want both of those to not be true’
  7. Labor has had 12 years to fix Victorian roads. Turning to ‘pothole populism’ now may be too late
  8. Black Box: The Chatbots | 14 days | Ep 2 – podcast
  9. I survived a stroke during an ocean swim. Here’s what I’ve learned about fear
  10. ‘Small price to pay’: The young homeowners welcoming falling house prices even as it hurts them

ABC News

  1. Breaking: New world number one Rybakina dethrones Sabalenka in US Open final
  2. Former fire station crucial to Men's Shed faces government sell-off
  3. Are jurors prepared for the mental health risks of serving on trials?
  4. 'Bad language, threats': WA politicians have had enough of copping it online
  5. Man dies in helicopter crash on SA pastoral property
  6. Veterans call for greater royal commission transparency across 'broken system'
  7. Crime lessons Sydney could learn from former murder capital of Europe
  8. Wallaroos scare England but fail 'mission impossible'
  9. No smooth ride for Labor to a fourth term in Victoria
  10. NDIS slashes Brisbane woman's physical therapy hours, citing 'value for money'

BBC News

  1. 'Today the game was unprotected' - Arteta fumes but Arsenal survive
  2. Rybakina wins US Open to inflict further pain on Sabalenka
  3. Trump's comments on a united Ireland may have targeted audience across the Atlantic
  4. Toothless Spurs blank again as new era turns into a false dawn
  5. Only Roland Garros towel left, says Ukraine tennis player after Russian strike hits flat
  6. Hodgkinson second to Werro after hamstring tear
  7. More dropped points at Anfield - is it too early for Liverpool to worry?
  8. 'Skimpflation' warning as tinned mackerel alternative hits more supermarket shelves
  9. Norris' real opportunity after coming from nowhere with 'masterpiece' lap
  10. Was Hull & Woad pairing right call as Europe & US end level with singles to play?

The Guardian

  1. Keely Hodgkinson has to settle for silver as Audrey Werro takes Ultimate gold
  2. South Africa v New Zealand: fourth and final rugby union Test – live
  3. Woman Unknown wins Venice film festival as NAZA takes special jury prize
  4. Ben Shelton faces date with destiny against Zverev in US Open final
  5. Tottenham waiting for first league goal of season after draw against Everton
  6. Solheim Cup: Hull and Woad fail to deliver as Kupcho pulls USA level
  7. Sunderland v Arsenal: Premier League – live
  8. Schade double denies Bournemouth first league win as Brentford rescue draw
  9. Flemming and Ipswich floor 10-man Crystal Palace with 90th-minute winner
  10. Hull stun Chelsea with Mohamed Belloumi double before João Pedro rescues a point

Al Jazeera

  1. Tens of thousands march across Germany to protest far-right party AfD
  2. USA edge Spain to book Women’s Basketball World Cup final against France
  3. First naval battle between drones takes place in the Black Sea
  4. Ebola spreads to seventh DRC province as gov’t insists cases are declining
  5. Second crypto billionaire donates record $49m to far-right Reform UK
  6. Fire at nursing home in Chile kills 16 elderly residents
  7. Israel bombs southern Lebanon as talks postponed
  8. Gaza genocide documentary ‘NAZA’ wins Special Jury Prize at Venice
  9. US court blocks Trump administration plan to cut disaster agency workforce
  10. Bahrain says it will not participate in Iran’s proposed Hormuz meeting

NPR

  1. Alien Terrorist Removal Court deports legal US resident to Afghanistan in first-ever case
  2. 'People are still afraid of those three letters': Fighting the stigma of HIV
  3. OPINION: 25 years on, a nation still mourns
  4. A cancer survivor hoped to work — then she lost her Medicaid disability coverage
  5. Trump meets Ireland's leaders before heading to his golf club in Doonbeg
  6. The secret quest to preserve Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh's diaries
  7. Why are the people building the most powerful AI so worried about what it could do?
  8. Neighbor turned on neighbor after Charlie Kirk's killing. Is the divide here to stay?
  9. Miami crash raises concerns about the jet's operator, and why it's flying for Amazon
  10. BRICS leaders meet in India as wars and US tensions test the bloc

Kottke

  1. Neat little prototype demo of a Bluesky reader that...
  2. A late 90s guide to Super Metroid was written in...
  3. Biiiiig Stretch
  4. “In almost every [US] county, extreme heat is at...
  5. VC Isn’t VC Anymore — Understanding the Rise of Cancer...
  6. The Simpsons Switcheroo
  7. “ Gimme is a dazzling ever-growing type family of...
  8. Bring Blockbuster Video back to your town/city by...
  9. Gloria Steinem’s final essay , posthumously published by...
  10. TIL that my iPhone has a tiny bit of water in i t (for...

The Marginalian

  1. How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself
  2. A Beginning, Not a Decline: Colette on the Splendor of Autumn and the Autumn of Life
  3. The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream
  4. Why Leaves Change Color and How We Become Who We Are: The Science of Chlorophyll and the Poetics of Personhood
  5. The Unspeakable World: Alan Watts on How to Touch the Pulse of Life
  6. Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to Save Our Sanity in Trying Times
  7. The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind
  8. How to Change Your Life
  9. The Paradoxes and Possibilities of Transformation: Adam Phillips on Our Ambivalent Desire for Change
  10. Kahlil Gibran on the Courage to Weather the Uncertainties of Love

Pitchfork

  1. Lil Durk Acquitted in Murder-for-Hire Plot
  2. Bon Iver Made a Jingle for a Local Bar’s Meatloaf Dippers
  3. Quavo Announces Pharrell Williams-Produced Album
  4. Brent Hinds Estate Sues Mastodon
  5. Dolly Parton Is Getting Her Own Airport
  6. Charli XCX Announces 2027 European Tour Dates
  7. 10 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: This Is Lorelei, Alex G, and More
  8. Modest Mouse and My Morning Jacket Share Neil Young Covers
  9. Kendrick Lamar Joins Jhené Aiko on New Song “So Good”
  10. N.O.R.E. Sued for Sexual Assault

Stereogum

  1. Lala Lala Shares Surprise Piano Album Wall Tongue
  2. Jeff Tweedy Covers Twisted Teens
  3. Ocean Way Festival Canceled Due To Beach Erosion Weeks Before Debut
  4. Mastodon Play Secret Atlanta Tour Warmup With Live Debuts, Rarities, & Baroness’ John Baizley
  5. Charli XCX Kicks Off Music, Fashion, Film Tour With Live Debuts & Underscores Collab
  6. Lil Durk Found Not Guilty Of Murder-For-Hire
  7. Lady Gaga Now Literally Mother
  8. Hear Bon Iver’s New Jingle For Minnesota Bar’s Meatloaf Dippers
  9. Pink Responds To Backlash Over Sharing Anti-Macklemore Post About Israel
  10. Anna Butterss – “Ninths”

Longreads

  1. The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
  2. Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?
  3. Can Andre Agassi Enjoy Pickleball More Than He Hated Tennis?
  4. Found Wanting: A Reading List on Measurement
  5. The Extraordinary Untold Story of Freddie Mercury: Mary Austin on Her Best Friend–and Love of Her Life
  6. Welcome to the Age of AI Crime and Punishment
  7. Ballroom Blitz
  8. Hurricane Helene Washed His Wife Away From Their Mobile Home. Now New Residents Live on the Same Land.
  9. This Bottle of Dijon Mustard from Costco is Crazy Hot. A Months-Long Investigation Rrevealed the Surprising Reason Why.
  10. The Thief Who Wanted to Save the World

ScienceDaily

  1. Who really needs a heart calcium scan?
  2. Tiny sound waves could help solve a major quantum computing problem
  3. Scientists find Ozempic may slow aging itself
  4. Researchers find a Wordle strategy that wins 99% of the time
  5. Scientists find a way to break pancreatic cancer’s protective shield
  6. Mercury’s surface reveals a surprisingly fiery past
  7. The secret to longer life may be hidden in bat DNA
  8. 66-million-year-old feather in dinosaur poop may reveal why birds survived the asteroid
  9. Too much light at night may quietly reshape your heart
  10. Your next prescription could be treating a side effect from the last one

Quanta

  1. Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia?
  2. The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof
  3. What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About?
  4. AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems

NASA

  1. Help Refine Data from Space Telescopes with Artifact InSPECtor
  2. NASA’s Chandra Spots Galactic Gem
  3. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 to Discuss Station Mission, Upcoming Return
  4. NASA Boosts Open Science, Data Sharing with Artemis Accords
  5. APOD: 2026 September 11 – M83: The Southern Pinwheel
  6. Monterrey Amid Mountains
  7. NASA Invites Media to Djibouti Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony
  8. NASA Answers President’s Call to Establish United States Space Academy
  9. NASA’s Life-Saving Technology Where Cell Signals Can’t Go
  10. NASA, NFL Team Up to Showcase Space, Aeronautics Innovation

Nature

  1. El Niño goes viral — and scientists learn what makes people care about the climate
  2. Successful early-career scientists rely on network of mentors
  3. Osteoporosis affects millions: could modified cells rebuild their bones?
  4. People trust scientists seen to be 'on their side', UK study find
  5. NSF moves to overhaul funding approach in line with White House priorities
  6. Briefing Chat: The Bunsen burner myth that turns out to be just hot air
  7. The neurons that can put a brake on a nervous-system cancer
  8. Rivers deliver unexpectedly high loads of microplastics to the sea
  9. Daily briefing: Text-message tutoring keeps kids learning when schools close
  10. Author Correction: The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2

Dezeen

  1. New York beach home by BAAO contains a "house within a house"
  2. Mossy rooftop crowns Bather's Cabin in East Sussex woodland
  3. Four products that Dyson successfully revolutionised, and four it didn't
  4. This week we revealed a stone high-rise in London
  5. Hanji House exhibition celebrates traditional Korean papermaking
  6. The buildings on the World Trade Center site 25 years later
  7. Six handy items of storage on Dezeen Showroom
  8. Keiji Ashizawa clads House in Yatsugatake in charred cedar
  9. How London designers are making it work
  10. Cattle armchair by Gibson Karlo for Design By Them

Design Milk

  1. ROOM’s New Identity Puts People at the Center of Workplace Design
  2. The AWEchair Makes a Case for More Beautiful Accessible Design
  3. Nicole Alexander Shares 5 Siren Betty Projects Full of Personality
  4. Lang Architecture Reimagines Art Deco in an East Village Apartment
  5. Emirates Fits Out a U.S. Open Suite With the Design Language of Its A380
  6. Outside In and Nature of Things Rethink Beauty Retail in NYC
  7. Bvlgari’s Golden Serpent Slithers Onto New York’s High Line
  8. Hollis+Morris Looks Beneath the Ice With Beaufort Lighting
  9. Sana Skin Studio Finds Calm in the Heart of Wynwood
  10. ‘Chairman’ Celebrates the Joyful Furniture Design of Yinka Ilori

BBC Sport

  1. Arsenal hold off energetic Sunderland to continue perfect title defence
  2. Arteta 'very worried & very sad' over penalty incident
  3. Arsenal monitoring Como's Paz - Sunday's gossip
  4. Tottenham's wait for league goal continues after Everton draw
  5. Fulham take first point of the season at lacklustre Liverpool
  6. Flemming's late strike earns Ipswich win over 10-man Crystal Palace
  7. Brentford hold Bournemouth as Rose's wait for a win continues
  8. Jesus snatches late win for Forest as Villa's poor start continues
  9. Hull remain unbeaten in league after impressive Chelsea draw
  10. Guimaraes and Raya crucial - Sunderland v Arsenal player ratings

ESPN

  1. Michigan thwarts Mateer, No. 11 Sooners with late INT, go-ahead TD
  2. Kreider, 35, back in East, lands one-year deal with Canadiens
  3. OKSU stuns No. 6 Oregon, ending 21-game FBS skid
  4. Experts' picks: Who will win the US Open men's title?
  5. Michigan thwarts Mateer, No. 11 Sooners with late INT, go-ahead TD
  6. Akron 'OC For A Day' contest winner sees drive end with fumble
  7. Chiefs set to use undrafted rookie at LT as Simmons ruled out
  8. Sources: Stroud, Texans to table extension talks amid looming QB market
  9. Pulisic gets assist for Milan in 1st game since World Cup
  10. Jefferson-Wooden, Bednarek capture Ultimate Championship wins

CNBC

  1. US judge rules that Trump plan to halve FEMA workforce violated law
  2. Larry Ellison nixes plan to offload up to $7.5 billion worth of Oracle stock
  3. Anthropic's Amodei proposes plan to 'slow the pace' of advancing AI capabilities
  4. Stocks stumble on inflation fears, but 2 of our names give us reasons to stay bullish
  5. Managers are using AI for one of work's toughest tasks: Difficult employee conversations
  6. Construction robots are tackling America's housing shortage, but we're a long way from humanoid homebuilders
  7. College sticker prices keep rising. Why many schools are still under financial strain
  8. Buffett's confidence in troubled decade-old acquisition finally pays off
  9. Boeing and engineers' union reach tentative contract agreement
  10. Trump sees Iran war ending soon after mid-term elections, predicts oil prices will then fall sharply

IGN

  1. Warcraft 3 Reforged: Forsaken Kingdom Review So Far
  2. Overwatch Reveals First Look at New Omnic Hero Coming Later This Year
  3. Diablo 5 Forging the Next Era Panel: Everything Announced (Updating Live)
  4. Blizzard's Big BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony Mic Drop Is World of Warcraft Forever
  5. Blizzard Shadow-Drops New Campaign for Warcraft 3 at BlizzCon 2026
  6. Diablo 5 Announced
  7. Overwatch 2 Gets New Vampire-Inspired Support Hero, Map, and Big Character Reworks
  8. Next StarCraft Game Announced at BlizzCon as an Open-World Shooter, but It’s Not Due Out Until 2030
  9. Animated Diablo Show in the Works at Netflix
  10. Heroes of the Storm Gets First New Character in Six Years

Kotaku

  1. Everything We Saw At BlizzCon 2026’s Jam-Packed Opening Ceremony
  2. World Of Warcraft: Forever Announced As The Vanilla WoW Reboot We’ve Been Waiting For
  3. Warcraft 3: Reforged To Get A New Campaign Starring Arthas And Sylvanas, Out Today
  4. World Of Warcraft’s Next Expansion, The Last Titan, Is Out Next Year
  5. Hearthstone To Get Its First New Class In Four Years Next Spring
  6. Diablo 5 Teased At Blizzcon, But It’s Several Years Away
  7. Overwatch’s Next Hero Is Basically A Vampire
  8. An Animated Diablo Show Is Coming To Netflix
  9. Blizzard’s Open-World StarCraft Shooter Gets Gruesome Reveal, But You’ll Have To Wait A Long Time For It
  10. Heroes Of The Storm Is Getting A Surprise New Hero Later This Month

PC Gamer

  1. No more Diablo 4 expansions are planned, but there's 'a lot of room' for more storytelling in the leadup to Diablo 5
  2. The WoW 'Classic+' rumors were true: World of Warcraft: Forever promises to be another timeline's bizzarro version of the MMO
  3. Overwatch's newest hero is a robo-vampire, and reworks are on the way for Roadhog and Sombra
  4. Blizzard just dropped a new Warcraft 3 campaign, the first in 23 years
  5. Hearthstone just got its first new class in four years: Warcraft's fire-breathing panda Monk
  6. Diablo 5 is coming in 2029
  7. Blizzard announces animated Diablo show coming to Netflix
  8. New StarCraft game is an open world shooter coming in 2030
  9. Heroes of the Storm gets first new hero after supposed death and 6 year wait
  10. Square Enix scrambles to fix Final Fantasy 14 bug where new beastmaster could crash entire servers

Rock Paper Shotgun

  1. What are we all playing this weekend?
  2. "Why do we need more graphics?": 2010's Alan Wake was as photoreal as videogames ever needed to be, reckons original Thief designer
  3. Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle
  4. PlayStation reportedly dumped Hideo Kojima spy action game Physint over exceeded budgets, missed deadlines, and Death Stranding sales
  5. Wardogs presents a different kind of FPS power fantasy: making fat stacks as a pacifist rideshare driver
  6. GTA 6 online mode appears to receive Rockstar's first public acknowledgment, via mention of in-development "32 player format" in legal docs
  7. EA's Saudi Arabian owners are reportedly considering forming an ubermegacorp by merging them with Savvy Games
  8. Do a bit of visual programming and watch your party of heroes conquer an evil tower in Dungeon Automata
  9. Shroom and Gloom is a positively mycelial roguelike double deckbuilder that's now out in early access
  10. GNOG and Goodbye Volcano High dev KO_OP share that they are laying off staff in the only, remotely good statement I've seen in a while

Eurogamer

  1. UK studio Bulkhead's Wardogs sells over a million copies and tops 350,000 concurrent players on launch day
  2. Scalpers are already reselling the sold-out Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 for £700+
  3. BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony live report - all the news and announcements as Blizzard's convention returns
  4. Nightdive confirms Thief Remastered's leaked new campaign, The Tarnished Mirror, with a November reveal date
  5. Moss studio Polyarc shuts down, becoming the latest casualty of a brutal year for VR
  6. Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director confirms his studio is also making Kingdom Hearts 4
  7. With Chronicles Medieval, a team of "history nerds" is mixing authentic historical world-building and stimulating strategy to promising effect
  8. What we've been playing - "I don't think this is this game's biggest problem"
  9. After Sony tells fans they don't own digital games, one Consumer Rights group is tracking all the times PlayStation said the opposite
  10. Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director says Square Enix would have to compromise "the quality of the final chapter" to ship the game fully on disc