DAILY ROUNDUP 29 September 2026

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Former American Idol contestant and pastor found guilty of murdering wife

Caleb Flynn weeps in court as he is convicted of shooting his wife, Ashley, dead in their Ohio home.

2026-09-29 · 20:50 UTC
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Sports

Who continues to show how important they are? - England player ratings

2026-09-29 · 20:39

How the England players rated following their Nations League match.

Crypto

Bitwise Launches First US Spot Near ETF After Token Nearly Triples Since August

2026-09-29 · 20:36

Bitwise's NRR began trading on NYSE Arca Tuesday, giving brokerage accounts NEAR exposure and staking rewards as the…

Tech

OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model

2026-09-29 · 20:15

OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place…

Crypto

Rep. Comer Targets 3 Platforms in Expanded Prediction Market Probe

2026-09-29 · 20:15

House Oversight Chairman James Comer has expanded Congress’s prediction market insider trading investigation to…

Tech

Anthropic Lost $42 Billion Last Year. It Wants to Go Public at $2 Trillion

2026-09-29 · 20:06

The company's IPO prospectus shows revenue up twelvefold, a $518 billion spending plan, and a risk section warning that…

Sports

Real Madrid considering Van Dijk - Tuesday's gossip

2026-09-29 · 20:02

Real Madrid are waiting for Virgil van Dijk to become a free agent, Bayern Munich offer Michael Olise a long-term…

Crypto

Crypto regulation at SEC, CFTC to come down to 3 commissioners following key resignation

2026-09-29 · 19:59

Seven commissioner seats at the SEC and CFTC will be empty after Friday, leaving only a few leaders at financial…

Tech

OpenAI valuation could hit $1.4T in new funding round: Report

2026-09-29 · 19:55

OpenAI is reportedly seeking another $30 billion from investors as the ChatGPT developer pushes its long-awaited public…

Tech

OpenAI repotedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation

2026-09-29 · 19:52

The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.

Crypto

Kakaopay partners with Dinari, Ondo to explore tokenized Korean stocks

2026-09-29 · 19:49

Kakaopay Securities is working with Dinari and Ondo Finance to explore tokenizing Korean-listed equities and expanding…

World

The journalist who became king in Uganda

2026-09-29 · 19:35

Edward Rukidi Nyabongo I has been crowned king of Tooro in a ceremony attended by Uganda's President Museveni.

Tech

Someone Finally Jailbroke the PS5—Just After Sony Said Players Don’t Own Their Games

2026-09-29 · 19:31

Linear Fox founder Nathan Fargo released a public jailbreak for the PS5, dubbed Relapse, while Sony argues in court that…

World

USPS shuts down site that sold 5M counterfeit postage labels for $2 each

2026-09-29 · 19:30

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Crypto

Moonpay Enlists South Korean Banking Giants in Asian Stablecoin Push

2026-09-29 · 19:30

Moonpay launched its South Korean subsidiary on Tuesday, Sept.

Sports

Premier League confirm Man City guilty of all charges - 5 Live reaction

2026-09-29 · 19:30

Kelly Somers is joined by Dale Johnson, Kieran Maguire, John Murray and Paul Robinson

Crypto

Hedera Micropayments Expand Digital Payments

2026-09-29 · 19:30

Hedera micropayments connect HBAR with fast settlement, low fees, and a $1 trillion market opportunity cited by Dropp…

Tech

Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market

2026-09-29 · 19:27

Major memory manufacturers including Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix have shifted toward long-term contracts with large…

Crypto

TRON DAO Celebrates Canary Staked TRX ETF (Ticker: TRXS) Debut With Cboe Closing Bell in Chicago

2026-09-29 · 19:25

Geneva, Switzerland, September 29, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the…

Other

Galaxy Game – Interim Computer Museum

2026-09-29 · 19:24

Galaxy Game, installed at Stanford in 1971, was the first coin-operated version of Spacewar!

Tech

AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom

2026-09-29 · 19:21

The AI industry must generate $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to justify massive investments in data centre…

Tech

Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s

2026-09-29 · 19:20

TurboGPT is a CUDA C++ implementation for training tiny transformer models efficiently, capable of training a 22KiB…

Science

Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far)

2026-09-29 · 19:15
Tech

Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

2026-09-29 · 19:08

A developer has created an interactive real-time visualization of the Solar System that displays over 526,000 asteroids…