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04 Sep 2026 2:40am GMT

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04 Sep 2026 1:45am GMT

ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini all suffered significant service disruptions within roughly the same few-hour window Thursday morning. OpenAI and Anthropic reported elevated errors and later restored service, while Grok remained impaired and third-party monitoring indicated a likely Gemini outage despite no public acknowledgment from Google. Ars Technica reports: Other major Internet services, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Cloudflare, have not reported any major issues as of press time Thursday, though issue reports on DownDetector did spike somewhat for all three this morning. While the affected frontier models go down occasionally, having all four experience interruptions in the same short period is practically unheard of. Claude reports 99.4 percent uptime for its services over the last 90 days and last reported a similar three-hour "partial outage" on August 24. OpenAI reports 99.63 percent uptime for ChatGPT and 100 percent uptime for ChatGPT Codex in the same period. ChatGPT's so-called "Work Mode" reported an hours-long period of "elevated latency" on August 31.

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03 Sep 2026 11:00pm GMT

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03 Sep 2026 10:37pm GMT

CDC staff had already accepted the measles death reports when RFK Jr. meddled.

03 Sep 2026 10:13pm GMT

A former UK competition official has filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Apple on behalf of app developers, alleging its App Tracking Transparency rules unfairly disadvantaged third-party apps while favoring Apple's own advertising ecosystem. Engadget reports: ATT debuted in 2021, ostensibly to give users more control over how much of their activity app developers can track across other apps and websites. The company told Reuters it was "bound by the exact same requirements as all developers." However, regulators across Europe including in France, Italy and Poland have investigated ATT. Germany's competition regulator, the Federal Cartel Office, last month determined that Apple was favoring its own apps over those from external developers. It said the ATT pop-ups Apple used for its services "had the potential to encourage users to give their consent, whereas they had the potential to discourage consent for third-party apps." As such, the company agreed to make some changes to how ATT works in the European Union. That follows the French Competition Authority fining Apple $175 million at current rates over ATT last year.

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03 Sep 2026 10:00pm GMT

Over 1 million Game Pass subscribers will have to pay more for their heavy streaming use.

03 Sep 2026 9:10pm GMT

Microsoft is imposing monthly limits on Xbox Cloud Gaming starting in November, with Game Pass Ultimate, Premium, and Essential subscribers getting 15, 10, and 5 hours respectively before they have to buy additional playtime. "Currently, Game Pass subscribers can stream without these monthly hour limits," notes IGN. From the report: The change means those who use cloud gaming most via Game Pass will end up having to pay more, although Microsoft said this impacts 4% of Game Pass subscribers. Also in November, Microsoft said players will be able to buy cloud playtime hours through the Xbox Store and 'stream eligible games they own on supported devices' without subscribing to Game Pass. In a blog post, Microsoft said it was making the changes because the cost of providing cloud gaming has grown as more people use it and play for longer. The monthly limits, Microsoft continued, will mean it can invest in reliability and performance. But it said it understood that for some players the practical result is a higher cost.

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03 Sep 2026 9:00pm GMT

Researchers now have clear new targets and insights for developing a Shigella vaccine.

03 Sep 2026 8:14pm GMT

OpenVPN 2.7.7 is now available with fixes for seven security vulnerabilities, Linux Netlink hardening, and several networking bug fixes.

03 Sep 2026 6:30pm GMT

Noctalia 5 reaches stable status with calendar sync support, improved theming, MRU window switching, and a long list of fixes.

03 Sep 2026 5:20pm GMT

Audacity 4.0 is now available with a completely rebuilt Qt interface, a new clip-editing workflow, Workspaces, HiDPI support, and the new AUP4 project format.

03 Sep 2026 10:58am GMT