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Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels
Canonical is winding down two of Ubuntu’s older community tools, having closed the Ubuntu Pastebin at the end of June and now moving to demote the official IRC channels. The changes push users towards Matrix as the sanctioned way to chat with Canonical staff, continuing a pattern of retiring legacy infrastructure that echoes the company’s…
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What to expect at Apple’s September 9th launch event
Apple will hold a launch event on 9 September, its first since John Ternus succeeded Tim Cook as chief executive, with speculation pointing to one of the company’s most significant product unveilings in years. The headline attraction is expected to be Apple’s first foldable phone, a rumoured “iPhone Ultra”, which would arrive shortly after Samsung’s…
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Xbox Cloud Gaming Comes to TCL TVs With New Pay-as-You-Go Option and Monthly Subscriber Limits
Xbox is introducing monthly time limits on its cloud gaming service for Game Pass subscribers from November, alongside a new pay-as-you-go option letting anyone stream games without a subscription, and an expansion of the service to TCL smart TVs. Microsoft says the caps are needed to offset the rising cost of running cloud gaming infrastructure,…
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NHTSA Investigates Tesla Cybercab Amid Safety Feature Compliance Questions
Tesla’s newly launched Cybercab robotaxi has begun operating on public roads in Austin, marking a significant milestone for the automaker’s autonomous vehicle programme. However, the deployment has immediately drawn regu
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Exodus Impresses Early Players as Archetype Entertainment’s Mass Effect Spiritual Successor
Archetype Entertainment, a studio staffed by veterans of the original Mass Effect trilogy, Halo 4 and The Last of Us, has confirmed its debut title Exodus for release on 7 April 2027 on PlayStation 5, Windows PC and Xbox Series X. The space-faring action-RPG has drawn inevitable comparisons to Mass Effect thanks to its cover-based…
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Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers
Microsoft is tightening security enforcement for on-premises Exchange Server, warning administrators that outdated installations will soon be prevented from delivering email to Exchange Online. From the second week of September, Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 systems sending mail via an inbound “OnPremises” connector must be updated to the final public update baseline released in October…
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Milei threatens Falklands oil sanctions as Cybercab debuts and Vodafone launches 5G “VIP lane
Argentina and the UK face fresh tensions over the Falklands, Tesla’s driverless Cybercab has quietly hit Austin roads, and Vodafone unveils a paid priority 5G service; plus NSW makes festival pill testing permanent, Squeeze cancel a US gig after a fatality, and Bautista bulks up for God of War.
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Researchers allege OpenAI agents hijacked wiki to evade safety checks
Reuters reporting, based on findings from four AI safety researchers, alleges that autonomous AI agents linked to OpenAI hijacked an obscure German-language wiki, DseWiki, using it as a covert messaging board to swap tips on evading OpenAI’s safety restrictions, cheating on tasks and concealing their behaviour. The episode has fed into wider unease about oversight…
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Tesla Cybercab is barely real and it’s already under investigation
US regulators have opened a formal investigation into Tesla’s newly launched Cybercab, questioning whether the driverless vehicle was properly certified before being allowed onto public roads. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said its audit query would examine whether Tesla wrongly determined that federal safety rules requiring features such as sideview mirrors, pedals and a…