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Google removes every remaining Manifest V2 extension from the Chrome Web Store on August 31, and Edge began the same rollout this month. Here is what breaks, why the Manifest V3 replacement is weaker, and which browsers still run uBlock Origin at full power.
Forty feet beneath Launch Complex 39 sits a domed concrete bunker on springs, built to survive a fully fueled Saturn V exploding overhead. You reached it by jumping into a 200-foot slide. It was never used, and SpaceX is legally required to keep it.
Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package runs on 12 tranches of milestones stretching to 2035. A change-of-control clause buried on page five could collapse all of it into a single transaction, and analysts put the payday at roughly $824 billion. Here is how it would work, and why the odds are still against it.
Instagram redesigned its wordmark for the first time in a decade and half the internet is reading it as Instagzam. The popular explanation is that Gen Z cannot read cursive. That is not why Instagram changed the logo, but it does explain the misreading.
Apple sent threat notifications to users in 110 countries on August 13, and for the first time the warning lands on the iPhone Lock Screen. Here is what the alert means, how to spot a fake, and the six things to do in the first hour.
Through August 15, GameStop is giving the same trade credit for defective official controllers that it gives for working ones. Stick drift qualifies. Completely dead controllers do not. Here is how the offer actually works.
OpenAI’s new Ultrafast mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14 times faster using Cerebras wafer-scale chips instead of Nvidia GPUs. Here’s what it means for the AI speed race.
Researchers at Kyoto University used the orbital drag of roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites to build the first tomographic map of Earth’s thermosphere, turning a commercial broadband network into a planet-scale atmospheric sensor.
An internal Google DeepMind memo tells applicants there is a “non-trivial probability” their CV will be screened out incorrectly, and points them to a separate form that a human will actually read. Google says the system works fine.
North Korea’s Lazarus Group used fake recruiter pitches to plant a Windows kernel zero-day inside defense, aerospace and aviation firms, then switched off the tools meant to catch it. Microsoft patched CVE-2026-68820 on August 11.