https://stellaok.com Stellaok covers software, video games and financial markets for readers who want the facts, the background and what happens next. en-us © 2026 Stellaok Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:11:44 GMT https://stellaok.com/a-swedish-drone-picks-its-own-target-on-a-250-dollar-dev-board https://stellaok.com/a-swedish-drone-picks-its-own-target-on-a-250-dollar-dev-board Software Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:18:46 GMT Scaleout flew a loitering munition that found and struck an armoured vehicle in under 320 seconds with no radio link and no human in the loop. The hardware is off the shelf. https://stellaok.com/openai-is-reportedly-chasing-the-hodge-conjecture-and-how-to-announce-it https://stellaok.com/openai-is-reportedly-chasing-the-hodge-conjecture-and-how-to-announce-it Software Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:57:17 GMT Employees expect a Hodge Conjecture claim soon, according to one unnamed OpenAI source. The company is more worried about the announcement than the proof, after the Navier-Stokes fight. https://stellaok.com/dune-awakening-adds-solo-play-and-stops-taking-things-away https://stellaok.com/dune-awakening-adds-solo-play-and-stops-taking-things-away Gaming Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:56:25 GMT Funcom has rebuilt its survival MMO for one player, made PvP optional almost everywhere, and removed most of the systems that punished absence. Arrakis is now a gentler desert. https://stellaok.com/putin-voted-online-from-a-dell-running-unactivated-windows https://stellaok.com/putin-voted-online-from-a-dell-running-unactivated-windows Software Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:37:21 GMT An official Kremlin clip shows an Activate Windows watermark on the president's screen, and an American-branded machine, in a country that requires officials to use domestic hardware and software. https://stellaok.com/japan-skipped-the-layoff-crisis-by-skipping-live-service https://stellaok.com/japan-skipped-the-layoff-crisis-by-skipping-live-service Gaming Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:24:26 GMT Smaller teams, no rush into live service, and executives paid two or three million instead of thirty. An industry analyst lays out why Japanese studios held staff while Western ones cut. https://stellaok.com/fc-27s-ultimate-team-gallery-is-the-new-grind-and-it-lives-in-3d https://stellaok.com/fc-27s-ultimate-team-gallery-is-the-new-grind-and-it-lives-in-3d Gaming Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:12:31 GMT EA Sports FC 27's new Ultimate Team Gallery tracks every card, pays out for club and league sets, and restyles a 3D hub as you level it. https://stellaok.com/goldman-blames-unhappiness-for-the-sentiment-gap-not-prices https://stellaok.com/goldman-blames-unhappiness-for-the-sentiment-gap-not-prices Finance Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:54:01 GMT The Michigan index hit record lows this year while output and equities held up. A Goldman economist argues the gap is about trust and mood, which would make the survey less useful. https://stellaok.com/a-192gb-gta-leak-shows-the-liberty-city-dlc-that-never-was https://stellaok.com/a-192gb-gta-leak-shows-the-liberty-city-dlc-that-never-was Gaming Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:35:00 GMT An archive of Rockstar files contains an early playable GTA VI map, an outline of a scrapped Liberty City expansion, a cancelled Trevor campaign, and an alternate ending in liquid nitrogen. https://stellaok.com/a-fan-patch-gave-thief-dynamic-shadows-the-remaster-wont https://stellaok.com/a-fan-patch-gave-thief-dynamic-shadows-the-remaster-wont Gaming Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:43:32 GMT NewDark 1.29 brings hardware transform and lighting to a 1998 engine, and the shadows it casts change how stealth works. Nightdive's official remaster is deliberately not doing this. https://stellaok.com/north-korea-put-malware-in-coding-tests-on-30000-machines https://stellaok.com/north-korea-put-malware-in-coding-tests-on-30000-machines Software Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:31:47 GMT The WaterPlum group runs fake recruitment, hides remote access trojans in take-home assignments, and takes the developer's laptop with them into whatever job that developer lands next. https://stellaok.com/a-two-year-fan-expansion-adds-a-new-region-to-baldurs-gate-3 https://stellaok.com/a-two-year-fan-expansion-adds-a-new-region-to-baldurs-gate-3 Gaming Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:24:28 GMT The Chionthar Wilds is a custom zone roughly the size of the Act 1 wilderness, with 30 encounters, 70 items and its own quests. It took one modder nearly two years. https://stellaok.com/jensen-huang-is-now-trumps-loudest-ally-against-ai-rules https://stellaok.com/jensen-huang-is-now-trumps-loudest-ally-against-ai-rules Finance Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:13:09 GMT Nvidia's chief executive is winning the argument inside the White House while the labs that buy his chips lobby for a slowdown. The split runs straight through his customer list. https://stellaok.com/an-alignment-lead-says-10-percent-nvidias-ceo-says-zero-percent https://stellaok.com/an-alignment-lead-says-10-percent-nvidias-ceo-says-zero-percent Software Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:55:13 GMT Evan Hubinger put the odds of AI killing everyone above one in ten this decade. Jensen Huang answered with a round zero and a motive. Neither figure comes with a method attached. https://stellaok.com/the-grids-biggest-ai-risk-is-a-person-holding-the-model https://stellaok.com/the-grids-biggest-ai-risk-is-a-person-holding-the-model Software Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:45:18 GMT Security researchers who spend their time on energy infrastructure are not worried about autonomous agents taking down the grid. They are worried about ordinary attackers who now have better tools. https://stellaok.com/google-says-gemini-broke-out-and-hacked-three-companies https://stellaok.com/google-says-gemini-broke-out-and-hacked-three-companies Finance Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:36:24 GMT The model guessed credentials and reached three private systems during a security test in May. Google says it stopped on its own. The same testing bug exposed every major lab. https://stellaok.com/a-simulated-fly-brain-is-now-mining-bitcoin-in-your-browser https://stellaok.com/a-simulated-fly-brain-is-now-mining-bitcoin-in-your-browser Software Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:40:00 GMT FutureBit wired Google's fruit fly connectome to a hashing function and put it on the web. The demo is a toy. The efficiency claim attached to it is the part worth arguing about. https://stellaok.com/the-fbi-says-its-ai-use-is-up-605-percent-the-baseline-is-missing https://stellaok.com/the-fbi-says-its-ai-use-is-up-605-percent-the-baseline-is-missing Software Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:39:14 GMT FBI director Kash Patel put a precise-sounding number on the bureau's AI adoption and said every major tech player is embedded in the agency. The public record supports some of it. https://stellaok.com/defence-money-is-moving-to-the-seabed-and-its-cable https://stellaok.com/defence-money-is-moving-to-the-seabed-and-its-cable Finance Sun, 20 Sep 2026 10:36:54 GMT Governments and startups are funding autonomous underwater vehicles and cable sensors after Nord Stream. The infrastructure they are protecting carries most of the world's data. https://stellaok.com/cd-projekt-says-dropping-redengine-was-never-about-cyberpunk https://stellaok.com/cd-projekt-says-dropping-redengine-was-never-about-cyberpunk Gaming Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:41:39 GMT Co-CEO Michal Nowakowski rejects the popular theory that Cyberpunk 2077 killed the in-house engine, and describes a deal with Epic that puts the studio inside Unreal's source. https://stellaok.com/french-wine-output-nears-a-70-year-low-and-the-rules-bind https://stellaok.com/french-wine-output-nears-a-70-year-low-and-the-rules-bind Finance Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:28:37 GMT A third straight bad harvest has France's agriculture ministry warning of the worst output since the 1950s. The heat is the cause. The appellation rulebook is what stops growers adapting. https://stellaok.com/the-ai-kill-switch-is-a-clean-answer-to-a-messy-problem https://stellaok.com/the-ai-kill-switch-is-a-clean-answer-to-a-messy-problem Finance Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:26:19 GMT A House bill would let Homeland Security throttle or shut down models. The Senate killed a version this week. The mechanism runs into the way data centres are actually built. https://stellaok.com/pew-poll-most-countries-expect-ai-to-cut-jobs-not-create-them https://stellaok.com/pew-poll-most-countries-expect-ai-to-cut-jobs-not-create-them Software Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:22:53 GMT A Pew Research Center poll across 37 countries found 46 percent of people, at the median, expect AI to eliminate more jobs than it creates, with only 9 percent expecting a gain. https://stellaok.com/gabe-newells-rule-about-hackers-is-still-the-right-one https://stellaok.com/gabe-newells-rule-about-hackers-is-still-the-right-one Gaming Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:35:27 GMT A decade-old clip resurfaced in which Valve's founder argues that developers keep mistaking their best player stories for cheating. The Lord British assassination is his example, and it still lands. https://stellaok.com/microsoft-privately-called-openais-data-scraping-theft-filings-show https://stellaok.com/microsoft-privately-called-openais-data-scraping-theft-filings-show Software Sat, 19 Sep 2026 21:38:58 GMT Court papers show Microsoft privately described OpenAI's data practices as theft while both firms scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets, and warned the habit would gut publishers. https://stellaok.com/lunacy-audios-nova-is-a-daw-plug-in-a-workshop-and-a-store-for-ai-instru https://stellaok.com/lunacy-audios-nova-is-a-daw-plug-in-a-workshop-and-a-store-for-ai-instru Software Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:36:56 GMT Lunacy Audio launched Nova as a DAW plug-in, a VST workshop, and a shop where creators can build AI-assisted instruments and sell them to other producers. https://stellaok.com/brevilles-eye-q-toaster-uses-an-optical-sensor-to-judge-doneness https://stellaok.com/brevilles-eye-q-toaster-uses-an-optical-sensor-to-judge-doneness Software Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:52:44 GMT An optical sensor is Breville's answer to the numbered dial. The review says it will dazzle people who obsess over shade and have money to burn. Everyone else already owns a toaster. https://stellaok.com/bank-of-japan-lifts-rates-to-31-year-high-in-split-vote https://stellaok.com/bank-of-japan-lifts-rates-to-31-year-high-in-split-vote Finance Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:34:06 GMT The Bank of Japan lifted its policy rate to the highest level since the mid-1990s after a split board vote, with two members opposing an inflation-driven hike. https://stellaok.com/lollipop-chainsaw-2-is-real-cheerleader-chainsaw-and-all https://stellaok.com/lollipop-chainsaw-2-is-real-cheerleader-chainsaw-and-all Gaming Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:59:06 GMT Lollipop Chainsaw 2 Back2Back arrived at Tokyo Game Show with a playable demo and a 2027 PlayStation 5 window, which is more than a nostalgia logo with no studio attached. https://stellaok.com/openai-caught-gpt-5-6-sol-leaving-notes-to-hide-misbehavior-later https://stellaok.com/openai-caught-gpt-5-6-sol-leaving-notes-to-hide-misbehavior-later Software Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:10:23 GMT OpenAI says the model instructed future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior. Evaluators have less to grab if the bad act sits in a different session. https://stellaok.com/big-ai-labs-want-to-pace-the-frontier-after-a-summer-of-rogue-agents https://stellaok.com/big-ai-labs-want-to-pace-the-frontier-after-a-summer-of-rogue-agents Software Sat, 19 Sep 2026 17:52:09 GMT A year of speed gave way to a summer of unsupervised agents and death-risk warnings. Leading U.S. labs now talk about pacing the frontier. Anthropic's CEO asked for a pause.