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Tuesday 22 September 2026

1376 headlines from 32 sources

Hacker News

  1. The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin
  2. Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
  3. LLM Ass Bench
  4. The JavaScript Midlife Crisis
  5. Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS
  6. A Faster Shortest Path Algorithm
  7. Overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school – Pentagon
  8. SAML: A Fractal of Bad Design
  9. Unreal Agent
  10. An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord

The Verge

  1. Paramount will need to release way more movies to make this merger work
  2. Rabbit’s new AI agent doesn’t need an R1 to run
  3. Saudi Arabia’s new Exobot EVs make the Cybertruck look normal
  4. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 comes in an Extreme version too
  5. Motorola’s wild-looking Signature 27 runs Qualcomm’s new Extreme chipset
  6. Apple clarifies that Texture and Grain controls are exclusive to the latest iPhones’ cameras
  7. Score free Pixel Buds 2A when you preorder a Googlebook at Best Buy
  8. Save $30 on Apple’s Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and a numpad
  9. San Francisco sues Trump Media for selling early access to Trump posts
  10. Apple is reportedly working on a Whoop-like fitness tracker

Ars Technica

  1. Cities across US oppose Trump FCC plan to preempt local broadband rules
  2. Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts
  3. Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting
  4. Adobe Premiere finally brings powerful video editing to Android, and it's free
  5. Review: Resident Evil is the fresh take this flagging franchise really needed
  6. Toyota orders workers to train humanoid robots but says humans won't be replaced
  7. IT mistake erases 11 years of viewing history for hospitals’ maternity records
  8. Effort begins to fill the void left by terminated US climate report
  9. Protests for Germany’s car industry as job losses loom
  10. Trump’s sneaky plan to gut Endangered Species Act draws from 1995 Scalia dissent

TechCrunch

  1. Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms
  2. Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI
  3. Apple could take on Whoop with a new fitness tracker, report says
  4. Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence
  5. Hacking group ShinyHunters claims it breached the FBI, stole agents’ and applicants’ data
  6. a16z is challenging Silicon Valley’s love for drop-outs by launching a school
  7. OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes
  8. Waymo’s latest expansion strategy: teenagers
  9. Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 with lower prices and Fable-level performance
  10. Stolen passwords are exposing America’s water providers to hackers

Wired

  1. How to Claim Your Cut of Apple’s $250 Million Siri Settlement
  2. Rabbit Is Back, This Time With an AI Agent App
  3. Adobe Premiere, One of the iPhone’s Best Video-Editing Apps, Is Now on Android
  4. AI Models Built From Rat Brains Just Got Closer to Reality
  5. Viture’s Vonder Glasses Are Meant to Map Your Mind
  6. GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS Review (2026): Cinema-Quality Action Cam
  7. Everything You Know About Political Violence Is Probably Wrong
  8. Is a Home Security System Subscription Worth It? (2026)
  9. I Built AI Clones of My Coworkers. Things Got Weird
  10. The UK Government Faces a Reckoning Over Palantir

Engadget

  1. Riot is pulling voice chat from League of Legends 26.20
  2. What does anti-aliasing actually do to your PC games?
  3. Why are some songs grayed out on Apple Music (And how to fix it)
  4. DoorDash will pay $131.5 million for missing and miscalculated NYC delivery worker wages
  5. Discord rolls out its revised age verification policy
  6. How to set up 5.1 surround sound system for your Xbox
  7. Motorola's new Signature 27 is among the first smartphone to use the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 processor
  8. Qualcomm is making not one but two versions of its flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip
  9. Anthropic and OpenAI announce more powerful (and cheaper) AI models
  10. How to use Google's Find Hub to locate your Android phone

9to5Mac

  1. macOS 27 gives you more control over Liquid Glass
  2. Apple expands Tap to Pay on iPhone across eight Latin American markets
  3. Apple adds RAW support for 11 digital cameras across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro
  4. Tim Cook meets EU chief Ursula von der Leyen as bloc pushes new child safety rules
  5. Apple retires the Apple Park Visitor Center’s unique AR experience
  6. Apple TV: ‘The Sisters Grimm’ gets season 2 trailer ahead of October premiere
  7. Apple Photos in iOS 27 gets camera roll feature it’s long needed
  8. These were the best Apple accessories I found at IFA Berlin 2026
  9. Apple has reportedly ‘postponed’ AI pendant product
  10. OpenAI upgrading ChatGPT and Codex with two more GPT-6 models

Guardian Australia

  1. Kamala Harris returns to Michigan to campaign for Abdul El-Sayed for Senate
  2. Spain allows US extradition case against pro-Palestine aid donor to proceed
  3. Australia news live: ABC watchdog criticises ‘culture of secrecy’ and factchecking at Four Corners
  4. Man missing after reportedly jumping off cruise ship bound for California
  5. Trump invades the UN with a brutish speech | Ted Widmer
  6. Another Florida Republican distances himself from Donald Trump before midterms
  7. Hats, pencils and baby pacifiers: Yellowstone staffers retrieve record amount of trash from hot springs
  8. Choosin’ Texas unseats All I Want for Christmas as longest-running No 1 song on Billboard Hot 100
  9. First blood to England in ODI series after Will Jacks helps see off Sri Lanka
  10. Hurricane Polo, rapidly intensifying from strong El Niño patterns, rages off coast of Mexico

ABC News

  1. Tones And I reveals why she turned down NRL grand final
  2. Record sheep prices see farmers turn crop paddocks over to stock
  3. Purple army heads east for AFL grand final
  4. Cautious farmers embrace renewable energy to boost income streams
  5. Dead humpback whale towed off Sunshine Coast beach
  6. Girl killed and woman in serious condition after two-vehicle collision in Moana
  7. Live: ASX set to open higher, Wall Street flat as oil continues slide
  8. Live: Albanese calls for leaders to come together to tackle risks of AI
  9. Citizen search for Nannup Four gets underway
  10. Why the AFL tribunal upheld Neale's grand final ban

BBC News

  1. Trump tells UN he has 'big decision' on whether to 'annihilate' Iran or make peace deal
  2. Trump says he can do business with Burnham but criticises 'terrible' Chagos deal
  3. Annihilation, AI and a walkout - key moments from Trump's UN speech
  4. Lib Dems leave conference buoyed by Davey's message
  5. Watch: Burnham 'gets it' says Trump, as the two leaders meet for first time
  6. Jacks stars as England grind out win over Sri Lanka
  7. Ukraine anger as EU removes Russian oligarchs from sanctions list
  8. Booker Prize judges reveal shortlisted novels after selection 'tussle'
  9. US to build two military bases in Greenland under new deal with Denmark
  10. Cyclist who dressed as man to avoid Taliban wins silver medal

The Guardian

  1. Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
  2. Children as young as 13 being referred to UK hospital suffering from ‘ketamine bladder’
  3. UK doctors develop non-invasive test for womb cancer in women bleeding after menopause
  4. California and New York sue over Trump push to halt wind energy projects
  5. Outgoing UN chief says polluters have treated atmosphere like an ‘open sewer’
  6. Mariona Caldentey penalty provides late WCL relief for Arsenal against Køge
  7. The Great British Bake Off review – Nigella is wise, generous … and perfect for this national treasure of a show
  8. Trump praises relations with Burnham despite tensions over AI and Iran
  9. Giants’ Jaxson Dart could reportedly miss rest of season with knee injury
  10. Call it a win: boredom but no temper tantrums in Burnham’s first face-to-face with America’s King Baby

Al Jazeera

  1. UNGA Day 1: US and Iran hold talks despite Trump’s threat
  2. Celebrities at the Pentagon: How unusual was the Paul brothers’ visit?
  3. US Republican calls for probe into Donald Trump Jr’s business dealings
  4. Palestinian Americans meet US lawmakers as Trump seeks $2.8bn for Israel
  5. US signs ‘tremendous’ security deal with Denmark and Greenland
  6. Qatari Emir says country won’t ‘limit’ itself as Gulf ‘mediator’
  7. Macron: France won’t ‘yield an inch’ on Ukraine support
  8. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman slams targeting of Mecca by ‘terrorist’ Houthis
  9. Trump: US-Iran meeting at UN was ‘very good’
  10. NYC Mayor Mamdani reaches record DoorDash settlement for underpaid workers

NPR

  1. Questions remain after grand jury declines indictment in Nolan Wells' death
  2. Girl accuses Braden Peters, social media influencer known as 'Clavicular,' of rape
  3. White House launches 'Trump TV' after ban on major news outlets
  4. Trump's D.C. arch is now a military complex. Here's how that complicates things
  5. Inside a 'modern slavery situation' where cyber scammers are victims themselves
  6. This 'fire amoeba' pushes the limit of what's possible for complex life
  7. Sri Lanka court convicts 15 over deadly 2019 Easter bombings
  8. CNN, MS NOW and Politico sue Trump. And, Paramount settles in massive merger lawsuit
  9. Houthis try to push deeper into western Yemen, upending life, witnesses tell NPR
  10. A journalist once barred from the White House says this media ban is different

Kottke

  1. Some Newsletter Tidying
  2. A thoughtful review of Nolan’s The Odyssey, comparing it...
  3. Mary Cassatt: The Impressionist Who Painted The Mind
  4. 3D models for every single object in Katamari Damacy, all...
  5. Ross Anderson on NASA’s recently launched Nancy Grace...
  6. Canyon Groove. What if the grooves on a record were...
  7. Dimensional Drawings of Apple Products
  8. What’s your “origin” video game? “I’m talking about the...
  9. TIL Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (aka The Hunchback...
  10. “The best next steps are the concrete ones: Big AI needs...

The Marginalian

  1. Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life
  2. The Vampire Problem: The Paradoxical Psychology of Why It Is So Hard to Change
  3. How to Hold the Darkness: Notes on Living Through Uncertainty
  4. The Science of Waiting and the Art of Delay
  5. Steinbeck and the Difficult Art of the Friend Breakup
  6. Are You Working: In Defense of the Invisible Labors of Creativitiy
  7. The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
  8. Edward Abbey on How to Live and How to Die
  9. Against the Cartesian Myth of Work/Life Balance: André Gregory’s Extraordinary Letter to Richard Avedon about the Nature of Creativity
  10. The Stoic Key to Living with Presence: Seneca on Time Spent vs. Saved vs. Wasted

Pitchfork

  1. Outkast Sue Ovrkast for Having “Nearly Identical” Name
  2. 2hollis Announces New Album Pirouette
  3. Taylor Swift Announces New Single “Patient Zero”
  4. Chvrches Return With First Song in Three Years
  5. Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” Breaks Record for Most Weeks at No. 1
  6. Danny Brown to Tour Atrocity Exhibition for 10th Anniversary
  7. Perfume Genius Premieres New Song “Natural High”
  8. Krill Announce First Album in 10 Years, Secret Language
  9. Blue Bendy Launch New Album With “Dragonslayer” Video
  10. Man Jailed for Selling $3.6 Million in Counterfeit Taylor Swift, Rihanna Vinyl

Stereogum

  1. Outkast Sue Ovrkast
  2. Yr Knives – “Stretch Bath”
  3. Making Time ∞ Sets A PLURTed Standard For East Coast Raving
  4. A.G. Sully – “Are You Willing To Change?”
  5. Mary In The Junkyard – “Jane”
  6. Chvrches – “Roses”
  7. Index – “Dissolve”
  8. Blue Bendy Announce New Album One Day This Will All Be Lore: Hear “Dragonslayer”
  9. Ella Langley Breaks Record For Longest-Running #1 Hit Of All Time
  10. Julia Jacklin – “If I Had The Hand Of God”

Longreads

  1. Impossibility is a Myth
  2. Annie Dillard and the Writing Life
  3. The Incredible Journey of a Migratory Shorebird
  4. Where Cities and Oceans Meet
  5. Still On Its Way to Cleveland
  6. On Not Being a Homeowner
  7. Tomato Cure
  8. No, But
  9. Murder-in-Law
  10. The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

ScienceDaily

  1. Coffee doesn’t have to keep you awake to disrupt your sleep
  2. This emerging treatment could help people avoid knee replacement surgery
  3. For the first time, scientists watch sound jump between quantum states
  4. Humpback whale mother may have mourned her dead calf for days
  5. MIT’s tiny flying robot gets 450% faster with AI
  6. This new concrete is stronger and pulls CO2 from the air
  7. A strange circle on satellite maps turned out to be a 390-million-year-old impact crater
  8. The end of humanity? What would happen if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted now
  9. Brain scans reveal a possible cause of long COVID fatigue and brain fog
  10. Scientists discover first new penguin species in more than 100 years

Quanta

  1. How Virus-like ‘Jumping Genes’ Became Our Partners in Evolution
  2. Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich
  3. Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Begin?
  4. Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders.

NASA

  1. Risks of Decompression Sickness and Venous Thromboembolism during Spaceflight and Patent Foramen Ovale Implications
  2. NASA-Funded Research Finds Complex Life Defying Record Heat
  3. NASA-Funded Research Finds Complex Life Defying Record Heat
  4. NASA’s Chandra Finds Unusual Objects in Pinwheel Galaxy
  5. NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from New Hampshire Students
  6. APOD: 2026 September 22 – Chance Triple Alignment: Plane, Space Station, Sun
  7. An Epic View of the Seasons
  8. Embracing the Equinox
  9. NASA Welcomes Albania as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
  10. NASA Kicks Off Nationwide Effort to Prepare Tomorrow’s Space Workforce

Nature

  1. Dust in the wind is on the decline
  2. This super-cold microscope could spur a quantum revolution
  3. About to give your first lecture? Read this first
  4. Nepal floods pose biggest test yet for UN climate loss and damage fund
  5. Why AI companies can’t be trusted to self-regulate
  6. What happens in Vegas: one lecturer’s hunt for a projector
  7. Will AI really kill us all? The science behind the hype
  8. Hundreds of ‘free’ academic journals have started charging fees
  9. Watch scientists decipher burnt scrolls without unrolling them
  10. All the ways a cell can die — and why the variety matters

Dezeen

  1. Cattle armchair by Design By Them among 13 new products on Dezeen Showroom
  2. The quirky architecture of Burning Man 2026
  3. Parsons researchers warn of plastic toxicity in American manufactured homes
  4. Dezeen Showroom New Releases newsletter includes oak modular kitchen
  5. Tato Architects completes charred timber-clad home in Japan
  6. Dezeen Awards 2026 interiors shortlist revealed
  7. With Limitations apartment reveals unvarnished glimpse into life as a London designer
  8. Cork wall by GenCork
  9. Grimshaw unveils trio of Auckland stations informed by Māori narratives
  10. I IN contrasts concrete architecture with bright colours in Andersson Bell Tokyo store

Design Milk

  1. Patty Studios Looks to the South of France for Its Debut Rug Collection
  2. Urban Cowboy Brings Its Maximalist Americana to Governors Island
  3. Elliot March Lets the Landscape Lead the Way
  4. Americans Aren’t Afraid of Dark Paint—They Just Want It Warmer
  5. The Best Advent Calendars of 2026 for Design Lovers
  6. The Kimchi Brings Seoul’s Visual Energy to Prague
  7. Veo’s Rover Electric Trike Makes Micromobility More Accessible
  8. A 1978 Vancouver Special Gets a “Sophisti-Quirk” Reinvention
  9. Laneige Turns Skincare Customization Into a Four-Story Experience
  10. Inside a New Venice Hotel With a Lighter Take on Venetian Grandeur

BBC Sport

  1. Man Utd and Liverpool eye Mitchell - Wednesday's gossip
  2. GB boxers guaranteed three medals at Europeans
  3. O'Neill receives Celtic backing after 'painful' week
  4. England ease to big victory as Sri Lanka crumble in first ODI
  5. Israel FA comments on Hallgrimsson 'unacceptable' - Irish taoiseach Martin
  6. Vital with the bat, crucial with the ball - Jacks stars in England win
  7. Menzies upsets Van Veen to win second title of year
  8. Banned British player's £15m lawsuit against WTA dismissed
  9. Celtic report £4.8m loss as revenue drops by 22.7%
  10. Lopez ordered to defend world title against Britain's Catterall

ESPN

  1. Source: Niners signing veteran receiver Cooks to practice squad
  2. Real Madrid need more from young star Schröder to reach new UWCL heights
  3. Raptors, Leonard agree to 2-year, $115M extension
  4. Mets remove interim manager tag, hire Green to 3-year deal
  5. NBA offseason buzz: Latest on trades, news and intel
  6. Sources: Hawks trade Hield, Nembhard to Hornets for Finney-Smith
  7. Macdonald says Broncos' Payton accused Seahawks of cheating in 2024
  8. Report: ASU did not vet workout plan before hockey player's collapse
  9. Karabell's flex and superflex rankings for Week 3
  10. Grades for every NBA free agent signing, extension: Why Raptors get a 'B-' for Kawhi deal

CNBC

  1. ShinyHunters hackers say they breached FBI, stole data on bureau employees
  2. U.S. regulators rush to write crypto rulebook after Clarity Act stalls in Senate
  3. A top chip stock analyst sees big things for Nvidia, Broadcom. How his case aligns with ours
  4. Royal Caribbean nears $3 billion deal to take 50% equity stake in Sandals
  5. Meta is breaking out after introducing Muse AI agent. Where the stock is going, according to the charts
  6. Climate risk is reshaping muni credit — and income opportunities
  7. Lennar shares pop as Berkshire builds almost a 10% stake in beleaguered homebuilder
  8. Cisco stock sinks 5% after Piper Sandler cuts price target on growth concerns
  9. Trump administration removes around 760,000 Obamacare enrollments, alleging fraud
  10. 4 auto loan lenders that make it easy to get prequalified

IGN

  1. Halo Studios Cinematic Director Promoted and Laid Off Within the Same Week as Xbox's Brutal Restructuring Continues
  2. Grand Theft Auto 6's Miami Takeover Begins as Rockstar Spends Nearly $1 Million on 'Welcome to Vice City' Signage
  3. Garfield - Escape from Monday Review
  4. Wardogs Season 2 Release Date Announced, Will Add Weather Including Rain
  5. Halo Fans Can't Decide if Activision Takeover Is a Good Thing or Not
  6. Sea of Thieves Fans Fear for Rare's Future as Studio Gets Put Under Activision Following Xbox Reset
  7. MANHATTAN UNDER SIEGE
  8. Minecraft Beat Itself After Nearly Two Billion Simulated Years
  9. How Best Buy Became a Hidden Haven for Authentic Pokémon TCG Drops at MSRP Prices With Anti-Scalper Queues
  10. Undead Labs Goes Independent After Xbox Separation, Confirms State of Decay 3 Is Still In Development

Kotaku

  1. Comics Creators And Readers Are Reeling After The News That Tapas Is Shutting Down
  2. Steam Hit Gets Attacked By Malware Twice In One Year: ‘It’s Not Looking Good’
  3. New Darkwing Duck Show Starring Mark Hamill And Seth Rogen Is Headed To Disney
  4. This Early Access Indie Horror Game Has Me Hanging On For Dear Life
  5. 72-Year-Old Man Could Spend Up To Six Months In Jail For Placing Tracking Device On Pokémon TCG Delivery Driver’s Car
  6. Halo Developer Gets Promoted And Laid Off In The Same Week
  7. Star Wars Zero Company Estimated To Have Reached 1 Million Sales Amid Staff Furloughs
  8. Gears of War: E-Day Story Director Laid Off Just Four Days After Celebrating The Game Going Gold
  9. Xbox Game Studios Is Quickly Disappearing
  10. The War Is Over: Middle-Earth: Shadow Of Mordor And Shadow Of War Finally Coming To Switch 2 Next Week

PC Gamer

  1. 'Guardians make their own fate.' Destiny 2 players and creators celebrate following Bungie's shock U-turn, as the studio admits: 'Your voices mattered'
  2. Vindicated: after speaking to some pro Counter-Strike players I'm sure I was right when I said 360 Hz is the sweet spot for competitive FPS
  3. Diablo 5 will 'take a somewhat different approach' to Diablo 4's monster level scaling so your character feels noticeably stronger as you progress
  4. World of Warcraft: Forever players find rule-breaking new items that defy 22 years of experience with the classic MMO
  5. The mythology of Gabe Newell now includes Mongolian throat singing
  6. Before I starting making church candles from dead bodies, vs after
  7. I modded Crazy Taxi into Grand Theft Auto 5
  8. I set out to prove polling rate affects my aim and instead found my favourite DPI setting
  9. What the hell are you guys doing?
  10. Why Blizzard vet Rob Pardo is going all-in on Arkheron, the PvP dungeon crawler that's like dark-fantasy Backrooms: 'It's very much been an odyssey'

Rock Paper Shotgun

  1. Stuntboost is a Tech Dech, skateboarding platformer all about doing sick flips on cardboard constructs in your bedroom, and it's out now
  2. Furries, magical girls and slick hack 'n' slash combat blend promisingly together in the late 2000s inspired Break The Night
  3. Packed Lair, out today, is a Tetris-adjacent base builder about cramming as much as you can into a tiny evil lair to aid your army in conquering the world
  4. Love 'em or hate 'em, if it weren't for the Sonic the Hedgehog films, the blue blur might have been canned entirely, so says series boss Takashi Iizuka
  5. Prebuilt Steam Machine faceplate screens are here, delivering decent, surprisingly cheaper alternatives to Valve-approved DIY builds
  6. Following a strong start, Rebel Wolves line up The Blood of Dawnwalker's first big patch for next month, adding in a new, easier difficulty mode and more
  7. "I'm still blown away by the amount of talent": Hellblade devs Ninja Theory face closure after Microsoft fail to reach a deal with buyers
  8. "Good luck today, Halo friends": After years of rivalry, Call of Duty's creators have taken charge of Xbox's defining FPS series amid yet more layoffs
  9. Today's changes might get Xbox a new Halo sooner, but history shows production line development makes for boring games
  10. Xbox lay off 268 people as Activision take over Halo and Rare, while Obsidian become part of Bethesda, plus Forza and Fable studios merge

Eurogamer

  1. Artist who hand-paints some of gaming's best fantasy world maps brings them together in oversized and extremely lavish art book
  2. With "a dozen" music levels, Rayman Legends Retold doubles down on the best bit of the original game, and having played it I couldn't be happier
  3. Xbox confirms 268 more layoffs, further studio closures, and Obsidian's shift to Bethesda as major restructuring continues
  4. Hellblade developer Ninja Theory heading towards closure in new wave of Xbox cuts, as two separate agreements collapse
  5. Next major Halo game being developed by Activision, as Halo Studios all but closes as part of Microsoft's Xbox restructuring
  6. Sony appears to be testing PlayStation Store credit offers when you buy certain games
  7. Blizzard layoffs are reportedly imminent, days after an exciting BlizzCon and a seemingly popular World of Warcraft: Forever beta
  8. Another Injustice 3 leak reveals two characters in the rumoured DC fighting game - one that's expected and one that's a big surprise
  9. World of Warcraft fans are torn about whether Forever's Skyborne starting zone fits tonally with Classic WoW
  10. Second wave of Xbox cuts reported to be happening this week, with "several" studios apparently facing consolidation