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News Analysis — Tuesday, September 15, 2026 Three Rulebooks and a President Who Wants None of Them Anthropic asked the industry to slow down. Microsoft published its constraints. Apple just shipped the thing to a few hundred million phones. GB GadgetGlow Bytes Editorial Published September 15, 2026 · 8 min read · How we work Over seventy-two hours between Saturday and Monday, three of the largest organisations in artificial intelligence each published a document about who is allowed to say no to a model. Anthropic's chief executive asked the entire industry to slow down and invited outsiders into his own building. Microsoft published a draft rulebook listing the things its models must never do, and opened it for public comment. Apple skipped the documents entirely and shipped an assistant that reads your mail. The President of the United States responded to all of it on Monday by saying that he is the guardrail. 3 steps Amodei...

TUTORIAL — MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2026 The Backup You Think You Have: Building 3-2-1-1-0 Properly Three copies is the easy part. The number that decides everything is the last one — zero errors on a restore you actually ran. GB GadgetGlow Bytes Editorial Published September 14, 2026 · 9 min read · How we work Almost everyone reading this has a backup. Almost nobody reading this has tested it. Those two facts are the entire problem, and they explain why the standard advice — keep three copies, on two kinds of media, with one off-site — keeps failing people who followed it to the letter. The 3-2-1 rule was written for a world where the thing that destroyed your data was a dead disk or a house fire. Both are indifferent to where your backup lives. Ransomware is not. It looks for backups on purpose. The joint #StopRansomware Guide — authored by CISA with MS-ISAC, the NSA and the FBI — is blunt about why offline copies matter: many ransomware variants, ...

Tech Culture — Sunday, September 13, 2026 The Programmer Who Signed His Work in Secret — and Accidentally Invented a Genre Warren Robinett hid his name in a video game because nobody would print it on the box. Forty-seven years later, the industry he inspired has decided that hidden code is a crime scene. GB GadgetGlow Bytes Editorial Published September 13, 2026 · 8 min read · How we work There is a room in a 1979 video game that you are not supposed to be able to reach. To get there you have to notice a single grey pixel sitting in a corridor of a maze rendered in the same grey as the wall behind it, pick it up as though it were an object, carry it to a specific wall, and stand in exactly the right spot while three other objects are arranged around you. Do all of that and the wall opens. Inside, in letters that fill the screen and cycle through every colour the hardware can produce, it says: Created by Warren Robinett . That room is the reason yo...