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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-09-16.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ • Meta is reportedly launching 'Luna,' a camera-free version of its smart glasses to dodge the 'creep' label.
▸ • Cloudflare introduces granular controls to let websites block AI training bots without sacrificing search rankings.
▸ • SpaceX sets September 22 for Starship's first true orbital flight, aiming to deploy 26 Starlink V3 satellites.
Tired of being called 'pervert glasses,' Meta is reportedly launching a camera-free version of its Ray-Bans codenamed Luna. You still get the built-in microphones and speakers to chat with Meta AI, but without the lingering fear that you're secretly recording everyone at the coffee shop.
SpaceX is targeting September 22 for Starship's 14th test flight, and this time they're actually trying to put the upper stage into Earth's orbit. If successful, it'll deploy 26 Starlink V3 satellites and mark the first time the mega-rocket generates revenue. No pressure.
Mark your calendars for October 7th. Microsoft is heading to San Francisco to talk about the future of Windows and Surface devices, with a heavy emphasis on how 'local AI' will shape the PC landscape. Because if your toaster doesn't have an NPU by 2027, what are we even doing?
The smartphone-sized e-ink reader that nobody asked for but everyone secretly wants just got a massive update. The Boox Palma 3 now features stylus support, a sleek redesign, and Android 16, making it the ultimate distraction-free device that still lets you doomscroll in grayscale.
For a while, blocking AI crawlers meant you also blocked search engines, effectively nuking your SEO. Cloudflare just introduced an 'Accountable' designation and a 'Disallow AI Training' setting. Now you can tell Apple, Google, and Microsoft to index your site for search, but keep their grubby training algorithms off your content.
It turns out people don't want massive, power-hungry data centers in their backyards. Recent polling shows AI data centers are incredibly unpopular, and the boom is now colliding with cities already scarred by big industry. The cloud is just someone else's computer, and nobody wants that computer next door.
Not every AI startup is destined for a billion-dollar exit. TechCrunch compiled a running list of AI projects and startups that didn't make it, from Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy 'super app' launch. A sobering reminder that hype doesn't always translate to product-market fit.
Meta introduced a new WhatsApp Business MCP server that lets developers use AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, and Codex to handle the tedious parts of setup, messaging templates, and troubleshooting. Finally, AI is doing the boring work so we don't have to.
Cloudflare just rolled out the ability to scope access to individual Workers and assign narrower Developer Platform roles. Now your teammates, CI tokens, and agents only get the exact access they need to debug or deploy, minimizing the blast radius when someone inevitably pushes to prod on a Friday.
In a fascinating bit of behavioral research, scientists observed that adult chimps first demonstrate tool use, then hand over the implements to their infants so they can copy the behavior. It's basically pair programming, but with sticks and termites.
Nvidia's CEO says we don't need AI regulation because AI isn't an 'alien mind'—it's just hardware and software. He suggests leaving safety to the engineers. What could possibly go wrong?
A 'filmmaker' suing the private torrent tracker PassThePopcorn might actually just be a banned user out for revenge. It's the most petty, high-effort internet drama we've seen all week.