Daily Tech Brief · September 9th

Storyflo Tech — The Daily Tech Brief · Sep 9, 2026 · 7m

From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief. Hey, it's Theo. September 9th. Five things in tech that mattered this morning — let's start with the one that surprised me most. Let's get into it. First, from Computerworld. Leap second proposal will keep software stacks in sync. For decades, global time experts have mapped atomic clock time to the earth’s rotation, periodically adding a second (aka a leap second) as rotation slowed. But the planet’s rotation has now slightly sped up, which could mean that a negative adjustment will be required. The problem is that computer systems have not been…