Destination

2026-09-01

This phone accessory spots hidden cameras in 5 seconds — SweepLED prototype uses LED reflections and could cost only $7

SweepLED is cheap, accurate, and easy to use, and it can spot hidden cameras that other detectors can't. [...]

Destination

2026-09-01

Roland’s new digital piano is perfect for learners — it comes with Wi-Fi and connects to a beginner-friendly app to make things easy for music beginners

Roland's FP-40 piano is the brand's first with Wi-Fi integration, and it lands just in time for its accompanying music-learning app. [...]

Destination

2026-09-01

SuperPACs are funneling millions of dollars into pro-AI candidates, with Trump saying communities that reject data centers will end up ‘backwards and poor’

AI is being backed by millions of dollars worth of PAC funding, and the future of American data centers could be decided by the midterm elections. [...]

Destination

2026-09-01

Lexar just launched the coolest Mac dock ever — massive 22-in-1 dock includes an NVMe slot and 10GbE networking

Lexar's PexarBolt Ultra TBT5 Dock packs 22 ports, a touchscreen dashboard, and 140W charging into one Thunderbolt 5 hub. [...]

Destination

2026-09-01

Anthropic Announces Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, Customer-Held Data

Anthropic on September 1, 2026, announced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS), an offering that combines the privacy of zero data retention with automated safeguards for detecting misuse by storing activity data in cloud infrastructure controlled by the customer rather than by Anthropic. The system will roll out to customers in phases beginning later in the fall of 2026. According to Anthropic, M [...]

venturebeat

2026-09-01

Frontier models can recover up to 65% of facts they can't directly recall — just by thinking longer

When large language models (LLMs) hallucinate, developers typically assume the model lacks the required facts. Engineering teams diagnose the error as missing knowledge. The standard response is to increase model size, expand training data, or build complex retrieval architectures.A new study by researchers at Google Research and Technion demonstrates that the knowledge is often not missing. The m [...]

thenextweb

2026-09-01

Meta is dropping Google Chat for Slack because it says agents work better there

Meta is migrating internal communications from Google Chat to Slack because Slack is the strongest platform for AI agents, a memo from AI chief Alexandr Wang says. European governments have spent two years moving the other way, onto sovereign suites chosen for control rather than integrations. Meta is moving its internal communications from Google Chat […]<br /> This story continues at The [...]

Destination

2026-09-01

The new Street Fighter movie trailer looks fun in all the right ways

The Street Fighter movie looks silly and campy and that's just fine! [...]

Destination

2026-09-01

Cisco routers are being turned into surveillance vantage points to hoover up data on trusted networks — and it's all thanks to this new malware

Fire Ant is now targeting routers, authentication servers, and Linux management hosts, using them as stepping stones. [...]