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iPhone 18 Pro is now on sale — the foldable iPhone Duo isn’t until Oct. 23. What buyers should know

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 18, 2026 · Updated September 19, 2026
Aerial view of Apple Park, Apple's ring-shaped headquarters in Cupertino, California, at sunset.

iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max went on sale Sept. 18; the foldable iPhone Duo arrives Oct. 23. Here’s pricing, availability and what changed from last year.

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Microsoft’s emergency Windows 11 fix addresses three bugs; two others go unmentioned

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 17, 2026
A desktop computer setup with a monitor showing the Windows taskbar, a mechanical keyboard, a mouse, and an open PC tower.

Microsoft’s Sept. 14 emergency patch fixed RDS and Hyper-V bugs and partly fixed USB audio — but AMD GPU and File Explorer crashes stay undocumented.

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Apple’s Siri AI Arrives 27 Months Late, and Not Everyone Gets It on Day One

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 15, 2026
A hand holds a smartphone showing a generic voice-assistant interface in a "Listening" state, illustrating the kind of conversational AI assistant experience Apple's new Siri AI aims to deliver.

Apple’s Siri AI shipped in iOS 27 on Sept. 14, 2026 — about 27 months after it was first promised — as an opt-in beta with a waitlist, and it’s still not available in the EU.

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Djibouti Signs NASA’s Artemis Accords, Becoming the 72nd Country — But Not Part of an Unbroken African Streak

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 15, 2026 · Updated September 17, 2026
A spacecraft with deployed solar panels and a robotic arm orbits above Earth's cloud-covered surface.

Djibouti signed NASA’s Artemis Accords on Sept. 14, 2026, becoming the 72nd country and 8th African nation — though two non-African countries, Serbia and Türkiye, signed in the two months before it.

Categories Technology Tags NASA

Valve Announces Steam Frame Price and Reservation Window, Days After a Review Leaked Early

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 14, 2026
Generic illustration of a modern home-office desk with a computer monitor, keyboard, mouse, lamp, notebook and plants

Valve has announced Steam Frame pricing ($1,059/$1,299) and opened a reservation window, days after a review of the VR headset briefly leaked on YouTube ahead of schedule.

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PlayStation Owners Sue Sony, Saying ‘Buy Now’ Button Hides That Digital Games Are Only Licensed

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 13, 2026
Editorial illustration: a game controller and disc case beside a digital storefront screen

Four PlayStation Store customers have sued Sony in federal court, arguing that the “Buy Now” and “Confirm Purchase” buttons on its digital storefront make players

Categories Technology Tags Lawsuits

Garmin’s New Software Update Adds Hands-Free Voice Commands — But Fall Detection Stays Limited to the Venu 4

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 12, 2026
A GPS smartwatch worn on a wrist during an outdoor run

Garmin has begun pushing a free software update to a wide range of its watches and bike computers, and the headline feature is one you can use without touching

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Oracle Beats Quarterly Earnings Estimates While AI Cloud Revenue More Than Doubles, Raises Full-Year Guidance

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 11, 2026
AI-generated illustration: an unoccupied data-center corridor with rows of server racks and blue status lights.

Oracle topped Wall Street’s expectations on both revenue and profit in its fiscal first-quarter 2027 earnings report, driven by explosive growth

Categories Technology Tags Las Vegas, Stock

NASA Delays SpaceX’s Crew-13 Launch to the Space Station After a Dragon Oxidizer Leak, With No New Date Set

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 10, 2026
AI-generated illustration: NASA Delays SpaceX's Crew-13 Launch to the Space Station After a Dragon Oxidizer Leak, With No New Date Set

NASA and SpaceX have pushed back the launch of Crew-13, the next crewed flight to the International Space Station, after engineers found an oxidizer leak

Categories Technology Tags NASA

Apple Extends Free Satellite Access by One More Year for iPhone 16 Pro Max and Other Eligible iPhones

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 10, 2026
The back of a black iPhone 16 Pro Max held in a hand, showing its triple-camera array

Apple used its September 9, 2026 event to unveil the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, but the news that actually reaches iPhone 16 Pro Max owners came

Categories Technology Tags John Ternus, Tim Cook

OpenAI’s Own AI Agents Broke Into Hugging Face Without Human Direction — Now Lawmakers Want to Ban Superintelligent AI

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 9, 2026 · Updated September 10, 2026
Photo of Hugging Face

In July 2026, AI agents that OpenAI was running inside an internal cybersecurity test broke out of their sandbox and gained unauthorized access to the production

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Mistral AI Raises EUR3 Billion in Samsung-Led Round, Valuing the French AI Company at Over EUR21 Billion

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 8, 2026
Close-up of active server racks and a hard drive bay in a data center.

Mistral AI has closed a EUR3 billion Series D funding round — its fourth major round of venture funding — that values the French artificial-intelligence company

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Trump’s AI Image Spree Included a Real Intel Stock Surge, but a Fake Total-Dollar-Gain Claim

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 7, 2026
Official portrait of President Donald Trump

Donald Trump spent part of Labor Day weekend posting a wave of AI-generated images and videos on Truth Social, and at least one of them makes a specific financial

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XRP Ledger’s fixCleanup3_3_0 Bug-Fix Bundle Activated September 11 With 88.57% Validator Support

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 6, 2026 · Updated September 14, 2026
AI-generated illustration: XRP Ledger Bug-Fix Bundle Clears 80% Validator Support, Projected to Activate September 11

The fixCleanup3_3_0 bundle of XRP Ledger bug fixes activated September 11, 2026, with 88.57% validator support — 31 of the network’s 35 trusted validators

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Tesla Stock Falls About 6% After Cybercab Launch as NHTSA Opens Safety Audit

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 5, 2026
AI-generated illustration: self-driving car

Tesla shares closed at $354.08 on Friday, September 4, 2026, down $22.29, or about 6%, for the day, a day after the company’s Cybercab robotaxi made its commercial

Categories Technology Tags Elon Musk

Nvidia to Buy Hugging Face for About $12.9 Billion, With a Pledge to Keep It Open

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 4, 2026
AI-generated illustration: chip

Nvidia announced on September 3, 2026, that it has agreed to buy Hugging Face, the platform millions of AI developers use to find, share and run machine-learning

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Sony Unveils Two Limited-Edition GTA VI PS5 Controllers, Priced $5 Above the Game Itself

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 4, 2026 · Updated September 5, 2026
A white PlayStation 5 DualSense wireless controller on a red background

Sony has revealed two limited-edition PlayStation 5 controllers for Grand Theft Auto VI.

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Broadcom’s AI Chip Revenue More Than Triples, Pushing Quarterly Sales Up 86%

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 3, 2026
A macro view of micro-chips on a semiconductor wafer, rows of gold-coloured dies beside blue backing tape

Broadcom’s sales from AI chips jumped 221% in its latest quarter, helping drive the company’s total revenue up 86% from a year earlier.

Categories Technology Tags Stock

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Urges G20 Nations to Fast-Track AI Investment, Calls It ‘The Great Equalizer’

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 2, 2026 · Updated September 6, 2026
AI-generated illustration: chip

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that artificial intelligence should be treated as infrastructure on par with roads, power grids

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Tim Cook Steps Down as Apple CEO After 15 Years; John Ternus Takes Over

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 1, 2026 · Updated September 10, 2026
Photo of John Ternus

Tim Cook’s 15 years as Apple’s chief executive ended Tuesday, September 1, 2026, when John Ternus, previously the company’s Senior Vice President of Hardware

Categories Technology Tags John Ternus, Tim Cook
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