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1. Published on September 8, 2026. 7 min read.

   Ascension shut down and my WoW comeback lasted two weeks

   Blizzard closed Ascension through a settlement one week before BlizzCon, and my return to WoW with my cousin ended after two weeks, friends' nights included.

   • video games
   • mmorpg

2. Published on September 7, 2026. 10 min read.

   The French education ministry had its students stolen

   A hacker claims 346 million rows on French students, the ministry promises to notify affected parents, and my daughter's school handed me the same forms again.

   • security
   • education
   • parenting
   • society

3. Published on September 5, 2026. 10 min read.

   GPT-6 Astra goes critical and OpenAI keeps the key

   OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra, its first model rated critical for cyberattacks, with the best parts locked away. Every lab now has a model you can't use.

   • artificial intelligence
   • security
   • geopolitics

4. Published on September 4, 2026. 8 min read.

   Nvidia buys Hugging Face and France had nothing to sell

   Nvidia is paying $12.9 billion for a platform three Frenchmen founded, Paris incubated, and a public supercomputer trained. Everything but the money.

   • artificial intelligence
   • geopolitics
   • economy

5. Published on September 1, 2026. 11 min read.

   Local AI comes from China and fits on a consumer GPU

   Before installing anything, I went looking for what I could actually run on my own machine. Every serious candidate turned out to be Chinese.

   • artificial intelligence
   • geopolitics
   • economy

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