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Core and Premium combine paid features across Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. Meta says the apps’ core experience will remain free.

The company says it banned accounts, but has not established harmful intent or an imminent biological threat.

Meta is advancing custom MTIA silicon, planning to deploy MTIA 450 (Arke) in H1 2027 and MTIA 500 (Astrid) by end-2027. These target efficient inference workloads with better performance-per-watt and cost than Nvidia systems. Meta partnered with Broadcom and TSMC.

The September 14 updates address Remote Desktop failures, Linux shared folders and multichannel audio. Microsoft says some USB audio devices still may not work.

Apple’s rebuilt assistant starts in English as a beta, requires a newer iPhone and initially excludes iPhones and iPads in the EU.

The redesigned interface debuts in the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, Ars Technica reports. Engadget describes split-screen support for CarPlay and Android Auto.

The services offered a way to view X posts without an account, TechCrunch reports. Engadget describes the shutdown as following threats of legal action.

Business Insider reports that Agility shared renderings of the teal-blue robot, which is supposed to detect nearby people and slow down or stop when they get too close.

Tom's Hardware reports that natural gas consumption by US AI data centers is projected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day as demand for computing increases.

CoinDesk reports that two Chinese firms allegedly laundered oil-sale proceeds through Binance accounts on behalf of the IRGC.

GitLab has released fixes for CVE-2026-85706. Administrators running their own servers need to update; GitLab-hosted services are already patched, the company says.

BofA raises growth forecasts for AI semiconductor sector while funding announced for quantum/AI chip facilities and data center ventures, contrasted against market dips from AI pacing debate.

Jacob Coxon, ex-OpenAI and recent Anthropic pretraining researcher, resigned and posted that AI labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence. Senior Anthropic figure Evan Hubinger backed similar concerns, estimating >10% chance of human extinction in a decade without solid alignment plans.

MarketWatch reports that SpaceX plans six orbits of Earth during a nearly 10-hour Starship flight.

Engadget points to streaming app settings, equalizers and speaker apps as ways to improve your iPhone's sound.

Neowin reports that Pixel 6 and newer users can use the spam detection feature and pause distracting apps.

Engadget calls Apple Silicon models solid but says buyers will probably want to avoid Intel-powered MacBooks.

Engadget suggests leaving the setting off if you’d rather not contribute anonymized voice data, even with Apple’s privacy measures in place.

Engadget says old hard drives can hold backed-up data or be saved for future use, but where and how you store them matters.

Engadget says storing a driver's license in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet is convenient, but urges readers to consider the privacy implications.