On September 14 the Air Force Secretary said the United States has "on-orbit space control weapons," the first time Washington has admitted to weapons stationed in orbit. He would not say what they are. Here is what the phrase means, why a president said something close to it in 1964, what the treaty actually bans, and what it means for the 11,000 Starlink satellites sharing that sky.
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The pages readers come back to: answer-first guides on the things you own or are about to buy, built from spec sheets and filings, with the date we last checked them.
Every Starlink dish sold today heats itself to melt snow, from the Mini's 1 inch an hour to the Performance kit's 3.5. Here is what the Snow Melt setting actually does, what it costs in watts on a battery, why the Mini really does have it, and the fix ladder for a dish that is buried anyway.
Apple announced the iPhone Duo on September 9: a foldable with a 5.4-inch outer screen and a 7.6-inch inner one, the A20 Pro chip and a $1,999 starting price. Pre-orders open October 16 and phones arrive October 23, five weeks after the iPhone 18 Pro.
The iPhone 18 Pro can sign every pixel its main camera captures and keep an unalterable reference copy beside the photo. It is a real advance in proving a photo was not edited, and it still proves less than the word "authenticity" suggests. It is opt-in, cannot be captured in the EU at launch, and sits outside the open standard Google, Samsung and Leica chose.
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, to a small group first and to paid ChatGPT plans, the API and AWS in the coming days. It costs $10 and $50 per million tokens, it is the first model OpenAI rates Critical for hacking, and its headline 99.9% benchmark score falls to 62.7% on the benchmark's own standard setup.
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 on September 1, 2026. The price stays at $10 and $50 per million tokens, cache reads drop 75%, and the model is now allowed to hunt software vulnerabilities, the same kind of task Anthropic says sat behind the jailbreak claim that got Fable 5 switched off in June.
Outer Bio, the Massachusetts startup with Lady Gaga on its board, says it keeps surgical-leftover human skin alive for four weeks and uses it to train an AI that picks cosmetic ingredients. The biology is stronger than the market needs, because the product it feeds never has to prove it works.
Every Tesla ownership guide on this site, grouped by the question that brings people here: something is wrong, charging, winter, battery health, what it costs, buying new or used, and software. Each entry says which question the guide settles and where its numbers come from, so you can go straight to the page you need.
Tesla's own spec for a Dashcam and Sentry Mode drive is short: at least 64 GB, a sustained write speed of 4 MB/s or better, USB 2.0 compatible, formatted as exFAT with a TeslaCam folder, and plugged into the right port, which on most cars built since 2020 is the USB-A port in the glovebox. Most "Dashcam unavailable, check USB drive" errors trace back to one of those five lines. This page decodes the on-screen errors, walks through formatting on the car and on a computer, explains the 24-hour footage buffer that needs a 1 TB drive, and names three drives that fit the spec on paper at the makers' September 2026 list prices.
A black or frozen Tesla screen almost always comes back with the two-step reset Tesla publishes: in Park, hold both steering-wheel scroll buttons until the screen goes black and wait about 30 seconds, then, if that fails, power the car off for two untouched minutes. The car keeps driving, braking and steering while the screen is dark. If the screen stays blank, two recalls decide whether the fix is free: a worn memory chip in Model S and X built before March 2018, and an overheating processor in certain 2021 to 2022 cars fixed by software. Here is the full ladder, which cars each recall covers, and what a replacement costs.
The EIA's weekly survey put US diesel at $5.967 a gallon for the week of September 7, above the June 2022 record of $5.810. Regular gasoline is $4.157 and nowhere near its own record. Diesel moves nearly everything you buy, so the gap between the two fuels is the number to watch.
The 60-day US-Iran memorandum lapsed on August 17 with no final deal and no formal talks. Iran told Reuters it will go "fully offensive" unless the June terms are implemented within weeks, Trump threatened to bomb Oman, and the Strait of Hormuz saw three tankers in a day against 130 before the war.
The grid auction that feeds 67 million American power bills just maxed out its legal price cap for the third time in a row, and the grid operator's own math puts the real price 71% higher. The cap has one auction left before it expires.
Apple sells three Apple Watch lines after its September 9, 2026 event: the $249 SE 3, the $399 Series 12 and the $799 Ultra 4. Most iPhone owners should buy the SE 3. The Series 12 earns its extra $150 for the health sensors and the nicer watch; the Ultra 4 only for multi-day battery, diving and satellite.
Apple sells seven iPhones after its September 2026 event, from the $699 iPhone 17e to the $1,999 iPhone Duo, and no standard iPhone 18. For most people the answer is still the iPhone 17, now $929 unlocked. Here is who should pay more, who should pay less, and the one model to skip.
Seven portable power station brands, compared on the numbers that matter: warranty terms, verified review scores, battery chemistry, and price per watt-hour. The same 1,024 watt-hours sells for 399 dollars at Pecron and lists for 899 at Bluetti, and the cheapest reliable path of all is last year's premium model on a clearance shelf.
