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2026
Start Up No.2749: hackers get details on all FBI staff, Meta shows off keychain assistant and new VR glasses, passkeys?, and moreoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2748: Australia says OpenAI hacked its Medicare, the Xbox wasteland, how wrong is Zitron?, toxic life on Mars, and moreoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2747: Meta ignores smart glass row, Dyson toothbrush has damp reception, Fukuyama on AI risk, and moreoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2746: Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse agent, chatbots aren’t customer service, the AI writing Alaska News, and moreoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2745: US military followed false AI report, how AI found problem gamblers, life on Ozempic, Miami’s drowning, and moreoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2744: can an AI beat Pangram’s detector?, Siri AI put to the test, AI-produced sitcom airs, charge up!, and moreoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2743: Russia recruits UK vandals online, AI Odyssey film loses the plot, Samsung hurries to unfold new foldable, and moreoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2742: US deploys its first space weapons, how agents are ruining the internet, home EV charging at last!, and moreoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2741: China’s top spy warns on AI, UK grid needs rapid upgrade, EV price delta grows, Photosynthesis!, and moreoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2740: AI chiefs call for slowdown, mathematicians say AI proofs don’t help, how words lost their meaning, and moreoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2739: California warms to nuclear power, IDScan confirms 150m drivers licence hack, Huang nixes AI fears, and moreoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2738: what’s the risk AI wipes us out?, US might bomb Chinese AGI, Apple unfurls foldable, vibe code this!, and moreoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2737: UK government demands to know smartphone users’ age, EV batteries do last well, DeepMind goes genomic, and moreoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2736: how AI is changing our perception of each other, relive one of 100 billion lives, Huawei on trial, and moreoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2735: what if we had taxed the internet?, OpenAI swarm found on German site, Sony says games aren’t real, and moreoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2734: UN warns that world will pass 1.5ºC warming, China’s emissions fall, the loneliness of the baseball viewer, and moreoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2733: Google escapes adtech selloff in US, the “ghost creators” in American politics, Word to be less annoying, and moreoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2732: how conscious are AI agents?, solar overtakes coal in China, Meta disables hacked smart glasses, and moreoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2731: the depth of US data centre opposition, academia’s AI ghosts, the Superbox ripoff, Steve Jobs’s closed mind, and moreoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
Start Up No.2730: a deeper look at the Hugging Face hack, Google AI Overview hurts web traffic, 3D AI models flop, and moreoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
Start Up No.2729: the devastation of the Nepal glacier disaster, Nvidia looks to hug open source LLMs, GTA6’s big ambitions, and moreoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2026
Start Up No.2728: did glacier fracture cause Nepal flood?, Meta settles child safety trial, rogue AI worse than thought, and moreoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
Start Up No.2727: US tech blames China on datacentres, Yahoo tries yet again, the pain of login, Vision Pro jobs cut, and moreoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2026
Start Up No.2726: US data centres’ politics problem, OpenAI warns of AI attacks, will your monitor track you too? and moreoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2026
Start Up No.2721: global warming is speeding up, why Time is showing adverts to bots, the AI fast food servers, and moreoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2026
Start Up No.2720: $88m bitcoin hack from bad code, the TikTok AI slop shop factory, Substack’s precipice, Apple’s bug fight, and moreoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2026
Start Up No.2719: the Wikipedian and the chatbots, the TV streaming stick fraud, our average age, and moreoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2026
Start Up No.2718: Google breaks up AlphaFold team, EVs rise in UK sales, the data centre building challenge, and moreoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2026
Start Up No.2717: AI stocks fall as investors get edgy, eBay pays for harassment campaign, are smart rings AI’s gadget?, and moreoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2026
Start Up No.2716: Apple’s AI advantage, AI lobbying explodes, the dangers of underscored usernames, bad AI forecasts, and moreoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2026
Start Up No.2715: what shall we do with superintelligence?, smartphones in North Korea, Nvidia corners RAM supply, and moreoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2026
Start Up No.2714: Google loses results scraping lawsuit, more on OpenAI’s hacking machine, Samsung has a Fold for all, and moreoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2026
Start Up No.2713: how OpenAI’s agent hacked Hugging Face, secondhand books feed chatbot, alerting to Claudefishing, and moreoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2026
Start Up No.2712: Meta’s smart glasses as creep enablers, the car alarm that hacks your car, Fable disproves big maths problem, and moreoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2026
Start Up No.2711: China intensifies the open source AI war, Meta’s unhappy engineers, how France saved the UK grid, and moreoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
Start Up No.2710: how vibe coding could hurt open source, Kimi shocks the LLM world, Tokyo’s workers get shorty, and moreoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2026
17 Jul 2026
Start Up No.2708: Meta’s AI ads go screwy, US soldiers targeted by Iran via phones, Suno hack reveals extent of scraping, and moreoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2026
Start Up No.2707: UK mulls midnight social media curfew for teens, sayonara OnePlus, Google sued over AI for books, and moreoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2026
Start Up No.2706: Uber’s sneaky self-driving strategy, Meta pulls AI image maker, the colours screens can’t show, and moreoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2026
Start Up No.2705: Palantir’s erroneous NHS England data, going analogue!, fake aircon, Apple sues OpenAI, and moreoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2026
Start Up No.2704: professor catches out the AI student users, London’s teenager millionaire hacker, ragebait by bot, and moreoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2026