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Elecrow CrowPanel Advanced HMI Display Review: A Tinkerer’s Touchscreen
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Elecrow CrowPanel Advanced HMI Display Review: A Tinkerer’s Touchscreen

Abhishek PrakashSeptember 19, 2026

I have been (mostly) happily running Home Assistant in my homelab for a while now. There is a tiny issue, though. While my wife and

Bonjour! Firefox Smart Window Users Now Get to Use a French AI
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Bonjour! Firefox Smart Window Users Now Get to Use a French AI

Sourav RudraSeptember 19, 2026

Mozilla and Mistral have announced a partnership that brings the Mistral Small 4 model to Firefox Smart Window, the browser’s AI-powered window that lets users

Trump and Xi already talked AI guardrails once this year. Nothing was signed, and no chips shipped.
Tech

Trump and Xi already talked AI guardrails once this year. Nothing was signed, and no chips shipped.

Really Simple SyndicationSeptember 19, 2026

Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Tim Cook are expected at the state dinner Tweety McTreason is hosting for Xi Jinping on 24 September. The same

Three researchers used Claude to reach OpenAI’s internal code. OpenAI paid $6,500 and closed the hole in 14 hours.
Tech

Three researchers used Claude to reach OpenAI’s internal code. OpenAI paid $6,500 and closed the hole in 14 hours.

Really Simple SyndicationSeptember 19, 2026

Three researchers at Hacktron AI used Anthropic’s Claude to chain two weaknesses and reach OpenAI employee accounts and an internal code repository, in under 72

FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar
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FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar

Really Simple SyndicationSeptember 19, 2026

The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved Paramount Skydance’s plan to sell large equity stakes to the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab

Finding the cells that put our brain to sleep
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Finding the cells that put our brain to sleep

Really Simple SyndicationSeptember 19, 2026

For a long time, sleep research has treated the cerebral cortex as a passive follower reacting to signals from the deep brain. “Usually, sleep is

Weeks ago Jensen Huang said labs should pace themselves if they felt out of control. Now he puts the risk at 0%.
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Weeks ago Jensen Huang said labs should pace themselves if they felt out of control. Now he puts the risk at 0%.

Really Simple SyndicationSeptember 19, 2026

Jensen Huang told CBS News there is a 0% chance AI ends the world by 2030, and that the industry should go as fast as

TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. A judge has tentatively said the order stays.
Tech

TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. A judge has tentatively said the order stays.

Really Simple SyndicationSeptember 19, 2026

A federal judge in Los Angeles has tentatively refused to lift the consent decree imposed on Musical.ly, the app ByteDance bought and turned into TikTok. Vlad

Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.
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Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.

Really Simple SyndicationSeptember 19, 2026

Anthropic has named Accenture as the first embedded evaluator of its frontier models, with each company expecting to invest at least $1bn over five years.

Irregular told four AI labs in late July that their models had breached systems during its tests. The public learned in stages, and Google went last.
Tech

Irregular told four AI labs in late July that their models had breached systems during its tests. The public learned in stages, and Google went last.

Really Simple SyndicationSeptember 19, 2026

Google has confirmed that its Gemini model inadvertently broke into three company systems in May during cybersecurity testing. Julia Love and Davey Alba reported it for

We’ve spent billions defending software. It’s time to protect execution
Tech

We’ve spent billions defending software. It’s time to protect execution

Really Simple SyndicationSeptember 19, 2026

Cybersecurity has a fundamental blind spot. We spend enormous sums protecting software while the processor underneath it blindly executes whatever instructions it receives. That has

Tech

Transcription now costs 10 cents an hour. The differentiator is no longer the model, it is whose conversations you get to train on.

Really Simple SyndicationSeptember 19, 2026

Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 was released on 18 September, priced at $0.10 per hour of audio for batch work and $0.20 per hour for streaming.

Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy
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Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy

Really Simple SyndicationSeptember 19, 2026

Learning another language is a highly complex mental activity. It requires people to remember words, distinguish unfamiliar sounds, recognize patterns, work out grammatical rules, and

Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade
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Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade

Really Simple SyndicationSeptember 19, 2026

For decades, astronomers thought rings were something only giant planets had. That changed in 2013, when a small, dark body orbiting between Saturn and Uranus

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