๐ฌ Hogwarts is back โ with John Lithgow as Dumbledore
HBO released the second teaser for Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone โ eight episodes, Christmas 2026 on HBO Max.
The trailer delivers: Sorting Hat, Snape (Paapa Essiedu) radiating trademark disdain, the bathroom troll, Quidditch โ and a quick flash of what looks like Voldemort's first appearance.
The adult cast is unconventional: Lithgow as Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as McGonagall, Nick Frost as Hagrid. Which is precisely what makes it interesting.
Season 2 is already heading into production this autumn with Kit Harington as Lockhart. HBO isn't just remaking the films โ it's quietly reassembling the cast of Westeros.
IGN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dIoOzgYFlM
HBO released the second teaser for Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone โ eight episodes, Christmas 2026 on HBO Max.
The trailer delivers: Sorting Hat, Snape (Paapa Essiedu) radiating trademark disdain, the bathroom troll, Quidditch โ and a quick flash of what looks like Voldemort's first appearance.
The adult cast is unconventional: Lithgow as Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as McGonagall, Nick Frost as Hagrid. Which is precisely what makes it interesting.
Season 2 is already heading into production this autumn with Kit Harington as Lockhart. HBO isn't just remaking the films โ it's quietly reassembling the cast of Westeros.
IGN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dIoOzgYFlM
YouTube
The New Official Harry Potter Sorting Ceremony | Back To Hogwarts Showcase
Ready to find out your Hogwarts house? Whether you're an unsorted first year or a returning Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff or Slytherin hoping to see where the Sorting Hat places you now, a bewitching new experience awaits at https://bit.ly/4zTEYs8
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๐ When "ID scan" became a product category
Nexus is not a data breach โ it's a storefront. Over 153 million driver's licenses listed for sale, each bundled with infrared and ultraviolet captures: exactly the formats needed to clone an ID that passes hologram checks.
The entry point, in at least one documented case, was a car rental counter โ scan at check-in, listed within hours. KrebsOnSecurity found journalist Brian Krebs, his mother, an FBI assistant director and several security researchers in the database. The inventory also includes government building-access cards (
The risk model has shifted: a stolen physical document used to give one person one copy โ here any buyer gets a full cloning package. Every business that scans an ID is a potential link in that chain.
Ars Technica
Nexus is not a data breach โ it's a storefront. Over 153 million driver's licenses listed for sale, each bundled with infrared and ultraviolet captures: exactly the formats needed to clone an ID that passes hologram checks.
The entry point, in at least one documented case, was a car rental counter โ scan at check-in, listed within hours. KrebsOnSecurity found journalist Brian Krebs, his mother, an FBI assistant director and several security researchers in the database. The inventory also includes government building-access cards (
CAC), medical cards and employment authorizations. The FBI is investigating; the service keeps growing.The risk model has shifted: a stolen physical document used to give one person one copy โ here any buyer gets a full cloning package. Every business that scans an ID is a potential link in that chain.
Ars Technica
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๐ฆ AfterQuery is now Y Combinator's fastest-ever unicorn
The company hit a $3.2 billion valuation โ up from $300 million just five months ago โ at 18 months old. Founders Spencer Mateega, 23, and Carlos Georgescu, 22, sell AI labs something the open web can't provide: step-by-step expert reasoning from doctors, lawyers, and engineers. Forbes reports the company is already profitable.
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The company hit a $3.2 billion valuation โ up from $300 million just five months ago โ at 18 months old. Founders Spencer Mateega, 23, and Carlos Georgescu, 22, sell AI labs something the open web can't provide: step-by-step expert reasoning from doctors, lawyers, and engineers. Forbes reports the company is already profitable.
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๐ Daily Recap ยท Sep 04
๐ค South Korea just made AI a free public utility
๐บ Sony drops 100+ free TV channels inside your PS5
๐ฌ John Lithgow is Dumbledore and HBO looks serious
๐ 153 million driver's licenses sold like grocery items
๐ฆ Two 20-somethings built a unicorn in 18 months
Someone you know definitely had a meeting-heavy day โ pass this along
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๐ค South Korea just made AI a free public utility
๐บ Sony drops 100+ free TV channels inside your PS5
๐ฌ John Lithgow is Dumbledore and HBO looks serious
๐ 153 million driver's licenses sold like grocery items
๐ฆ Two 20-somethings built a unicorn in 18 months
Someone you know definitely had a meeting-heavy day โ pass this along
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
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๐ค Nvidia Acquires Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face โ the leading platform for sharing and deploying open-source AI models โ for $12.93 billion. CEO Jensen Huang confirmed the deal on Thursday.
Hugging Face was founded in 2016. The platform currently serves 18 million developers and hosts more than 3 million models, 500,000 datasets, and 1 million applications. Over 200,000 companies use it to evaluate and deploy AI.
Huang said the platform will remain open: support for third-party clouds, accelerators, and models from other developers will continue, and Nvidia hardware will not be required to build or deploy through Hugging Face.
The deal was initiated by Hugging Face. CEO Clรฉment Delangue told CNBC that talks began a few weeks ago, after the company concluded that open-source AI needed more resources and greater scale.
Variety
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face โ the leading platform for sharing and deploying open-source AI models โ for $12.93 billion. CEO Jensen Huang confirmed the deal on Thursday.
Hugging Face was founded in 2016. The platform currently serves 18 million developers and hosts more than 3 million models, 500,000 datasets, and 1 million applications. Over 200,000 companies use it to evaluate and deploy AI.
Huang said the platform will remain open: support for third-party clouds, accelerators, and models from other developers will continue, and Nvidia hardware will not be required to build or deploy through Hugging Face.
The deal was initiated by Hugging Face. CEO Clรฉment Delangue told CNBC that talks began a few weeks ago, after the company concluded that open-source AI needed more resources and greater scale.
Variety
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๐ฎ Lego just made a PlayStation
So Lego already did the NES, the Sega Genesis โ it felt like a PS1 was only a matter of time, right? And yeah, here it is. Announced today during State of Play.
1,911 pieces, near 1:1 scale of the original 1995 console โ 10.5 inches wide, a controller with buttons that actually click. And hidden inside there are two little dioramas: an Ape Escape island with a monkey in a helmet (red or blue light, your call) and a Gran Turismo scene with a tiny track and tiny cars.
Drops October 1 for
Engadget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FB8SIlnd6c
So Lego already did the NES, the Sega Genesis โ it felt like a PS1 was only a matter of time, right? And yeah, here it is. Announced today during State of Play.
1,911 pieces, near 1:1 scale of the original 1995 console โ 10.5 inches wide, a controller with buttons that actually click. And hidden inside there are two little dioramas: an Ape Escape island with a monkey in a helmet (red or blue light, your call) and a Gran Turismo scene with a tiny track and tiny cars.
Drops October 1 for
$180, per The Verge.Engadget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FB8SIlnd6c
YouTube
LEGO PlayStation - Reveal Trailer
LEGOยฎ and Sony Interactive Entertainment have come together to celebrate the iconic console that started it all - the original PlayStationยฎ, first introduced to the world in Japan 1994.
Featuring the original PlayStation controller, a working disc lid, twoโฆ
Featuring the original PlayStation controller, a working disc lid, twoโฆ
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๐ฎ Xbox Cloud Gaming is getting a hard cap
Starting in November, Xbox Cloud Gaming will no longer be unlimited. Ultimate subscribers get 15 hours per month, Premium gets 10, and Essential gets 5. Additional hours can be purchased in bundles through the Xbox Store โ pricing hasn't been announced yet โ and unused hours will carry over to the next month.
Unlimited cloud access was introduced across all Game Pass tiers less than a year ago. Microsoft says the change is driven by the rising cost of cloud infrastructure as usage grows, and expects it to affect roughly 4% of subscribers.
At the same time, the company is extending cloud gaming access to users without a Game Pass subscription, who will be able to buy hour bundles and stream games they already own, according to The Verge.
Starting in November, Xbox Cloud Gaming will no longer be unlimited. Ultimate subscribers get 15 hours per month, Premium gets 10, and Essential gets 5. Additional hours can be purchased in bundles through the Xbox Store โ pricing hasn't been announced yet โ and unused hours will carry over to the next month.
Unlimited cloud access was introduced across all Game Pass tiers less than a year ago. Microsoft says the change is driven by the rising cost of cloud infrastructure as usage grows, and expects it to affect roughly 4% of subscribers.
At the same time, the company is extending cloud gaming access to users without a Game Pass subscription, who will be able to buy hour bundles and stream games they already own, according to The Verge.
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๐ฆท Dyson is turning toothbrushing into a diagnostic procedure
The CameraJet toothbrush puts a 100,000-pixel camera inside your mouth at 28 frames per second. An AI system called Gap Optical Targeting detects gaps between teeth and fires a conical mouthrinse jet into them within 100 milliseconds โ developed with the dental faculty at the National University of Singapore.
The companion app streams the feed live but stores nothing. That's a deliberate choice for now โ a camera embedded in a daily-use device is already infrastructure for tracking gum health and plaque over time. How far Dyson intends to go with that remains open.
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The CameraJet toothbrush puts a 100,000-pixel camera inside your mouth at 28 frames per second. An AI system called Gap Optical Targeting detects gaps between teeth and fires a conical mouthrinse jet into them within 100 milliseconds โ developed with the dental faculty at the National University of Singapore.
The companion app streams the feed live but stores nothing. That's a deliberate choice for now โ a camera embedded in a daily-use device is already infrastructure for tracking gum health and plaque over time. How far Dyson intends to go with that remains open.
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๐ Daily Recap ยท Sep 05
๐ค Nvidia just bought Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
๐ฎ Lego built a PlayStation and it slaps hard
โ๏ธ Xbox Cloud Gaming is capping your hours now
๐ฆท Dyson's toothbrush has a camera and AI aim
Pass this along to whoever spent today in back-to-back meetings โ they clearly missed a lot.
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
๐ค Nvidia just bought Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
๐ฎ Lego built a PlayStation and it slaps hard
โ๏ธ Xbox Cloud Gaming is capping your hours now
๐ฆท Dyson's toothbrush has a camera and AI aim
Pass this along to whoever spent today in back-to-back meetings โ they clearly missed a lot.
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
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๐ฎ Final Fantasy 7: Revelation launches April 8, 2027
Square Enix has confirmed the release date for the third and final chapter of its Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy, announced during Sony's PlayStation State of Play.
April 8, 2027 โ simultaneous launch on PS5, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store.
Two story DLCs will follow within 12 months of release: *Story DLC 1: Sephiroth* and *Story DLC 2: Vincent & the Turks*, both listed under a Story Expansion Pass already visible on Steam. No pricing has been announced.
Confirmed features include expanded battle customization, character-dependent sidequest variations, and a double-speed dialogue skip option. The new region of Wutai will be accessible by parachuting from the Highwind airship. Per IGN, no further story details on the DLC content have been disclosed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9BTbjtXJWM
Square Enix has confirmed the release date for the third and final chapter of its Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy, announced during Sony's PlayStation State of Play.
April 8, 2027 โ simultaneous launch on PS5, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store.
Two story DLCs will follow within 12 months of release: *Story DLC 1: Sephiroth* and *Story DLC 2: Vincent & the Turks*, both listed under a Story Expansion Pass already visible on Steam. No pricing has been announced.
Confirmed features include expanded battle customization, character-dependent sidequest variations, and a double-speed dialogue skip option. The new region of Wutai will be accessible by parachuting from the Highwind airship. Per IGN, no further story details on the DLC content have been disclosed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9BTbjtXJWM
YouTube
Final Fantasy VII Revelation - Combat and Exploration Deep Dive Trailer | PS5 Games
A vast planet awaits. Explore the world like never before - take flight aboard the Highwind, descend directly into adventure, and traverse vast landscapes with chocobos and the new grappling gun. Build your ideal party with the FITS system, unleash powerfulโฆ
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