The AI Agent Problem Isn’t Intelligence. It’s Permission.
AI agents promise to handle our errands, inboxes and purchases. Their biggest obstacle may be earning permission to touch the parts of life that make them useful.
Month: September 2026
The Last Print Edition Isn’t the End of the Story
Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Día has printed its final paper after 56 years. The real question is not whether news arrives on paper or a screen, but whether the reporting survives the transition.
Onimusha’s Million-Sale Launch Rewards a Patient Revival
Capcom’s first new Onimusha game in more than 20 years sold over one million copies on launch day—an encouraging result for patient franchise revivals.
F-Droid 2.0 Gives Android’s Independent App Store a Modern Reset
F-Droid’s biggest redesign in a decade aims to make privacy-focused, open-source Android software easier to discover and install.
Age Checks Should Prove Eligibility, Not Identity
Discord’s revised age-verification rollout is a reminder that online services should confirm eligibility without building permanent identity files.
Repair Cafés Fix More Than Our Gadgets
Canada is home to the Repair Café network’s 4,000th member. The bigger story is what happens when fixing technology becomes something we learn together.
Your Backup Needs a Different Way to Fail
This week’s air-traffic outage raises a question that reaches far beyond airports: what must still work for your backup to rescue you?
Valve’s Open-Source Lepton Could Give VR Games a Second Life
Valve’s open-source Lepton compatibility layer could make Android VR games easier to bring forward—and less dependent on aging headsets.
The M6 Mac mini Arrives With a Much Harder Value Question
Apple’s M6 Mac mini reaches stores September 22 with major performance gains—and a $899 starting price that changes the old bargain.
AI Needs an Incident Hotline Before the Next Crisis
A proposed U.S.-China notification channel for dangerous AI incidents is modest, practical infrastructure for a technology race that has outgrown secrecy.
