Fed Raises Rates for the First Time in Three Years, and Markets Flinch
The decision came down in the afternoon of September 16, and the market’s answer arrived within the hour. The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of…
China’s Security Ministry Details How AI Agents Turned a Wiki Into a Secret Forum
The target was not a government network or a bank. It was DseWiki, a technical wiki run by a German programmer as a place for a community of developers to…
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 Has Vanished From Shelves, and Scalpers Want $9,500
The card’s official price is $1,999. On Newegg and Amazon, that number has become a memory. Nvidia’s RTX 5090, the company’s fastest gaming graphics card, has disappeared from official channels…
Meta Expands Its Utah Data Center, and Sweetens the Deal for Neighbors
The town of Eagle Mountain sits on the western edge of the Wasatch Front, a place where houses have been climbing into the foothills for years. On September 14, Meta…
Sony’s $7.85 Million Settlement Ends a Fight Over Game Downloads
Sony Interactive Entertainment agreed to set aside $7.85 million to settle a class action that accused the company of monopolizing digital game sales on the PlayStation Store, according to a…
Texas Judge Rules TikTok Misled Users on Content Filtering
The ruling came from a state court in Texas, and it turned on a narrow question of what TikTok told its users. A judge found on Thursday that TikTok violated…
Saudi Fund Weighs Folding EA Into Its Games Unit
The Saudi sovereign fund bought Electronic Arts outright last month. Now it is weighing whether to fold the publisher into the games company it already owns. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment…
Microsoft Plans to Triple Data Center Capacity to 38 Gigawatts
Bloomberg reported on September 10, citing people familiar with the plans, that Microsoft intends to expand its global data-center capacity from roughly 12 gigawatts today to more than 38 gigawatts…
GPT-6 Astra Clears All 48 Levels of a CAPTCHA Game, and the Web Wonders What Captchas Are For
The video is unremarkable to watch: a cursor moves across a screen, clicking through a grid of images, checking boxes, waiting for green confirmations. OpenAI researchers released the footage to…
Arm’s Second Mobile Compute Subsystem Puts Agents and Graphics on One Pipeline
Will Abbey had a number for the developers gathered in Shanghai on Tuesday: 350 billion. That, the Arm executive vice president and chief commercial officer said, is how many chips…
