2026-09-01

WD's 6TB Elements portable hard drive drops to $260 for simple plug-and-play backups

If you need plenty of storage on the move, without any of the clutter or software you don't need, this 6TB HDD for PC and Mac from WD is an easy recommendation. [...]

2026-09-01

Former DJI engineers have made 'the world's first robotic extreme zoom camera' — it features a 50x zoom, AI tracking and can identify 300+ bird species

Keeping your subjects in the frame and focused even at long distances. Oh, and it identifies bird species too. [...]

2026-09-01

8 things that surprise almost every first-time visitor to South Africa

Eleven official languages, a scale of natural beauty that makes a single trip feel impossible — what actually surprises first-time visitors once they're there [...]

2026-09-01

Perplexity Launches Hybrid Compute on Mac With Local Privacy Gate

Perplexity on September 1, 2026 introduced hybrid compute for the Perplexity Mac app, a mode that divides each Perplexity Computer task between frontier models in the cloud and a local model running on the Mac itself. According to the company's announcement, hybrid compute is available now to Perplexity Pro, Max, and Enterprise subscribers. It launches with three local models: Gemma 4 E4B, Qw [...]

2026-09-01

How a creepy Cat in the Hat meme escalated into school threats

A creepy ‘Cat in the Hat’ TikTok trend is naming real students and schools, prompting closures, investigations, and an arrest. [...]

2026-09-01

A researcher hijacked Claude Code by asking it to summarise a web page

Ask Claude Code to summarise a web page, and it can end up running an attacker’s code on your machine. A security researcher got that result in up to 80% of his attempts. Jessica Lyons reported the finding for The Register on Friday. The work is by Johann Rehberger, who publishes as wunderwuzzi and has […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-09-01

Florida and Texas both moved against Flock cameras in a single week

Florida has ordered every automated licence plate reader off its state highways. Agencies have 30 days to take them down. Texas froze state funding for the same cameras four days earlier. Two states run by Republican governors moved against Flock Safety in the space of a week. Zack Whittaker reported both decisions for TechCrunch on […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-09-01

Waymo robotaxi rides are now open to the public in Denver, San Diego and Tampa

Waymo robotaxi rides are now open to the public in Denver, San Diego and Tampa. [...]

2026-09-01

Startup launches 27-inch glasses-free spatial 3D display for under $1200 on Kickstarter

ViewX has launched a Kickstarter campaign for glasses-free 3D displays in 15.6-inch and 27-inch sizes, backed by Tencent's software technology. [...]