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Apple has released major updates across its software platforms: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27. The announcements were made via Apple's newsroom in September 2026, signaling the next generation of th...

Apple has released its 2026 major OS updates—iOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and tvOS 27—flagged by a Siri AI overhaul powered by Apple's AFM 3 on-device and cloud models. The u...

The EPA has proposed eliminating all remaining greenhouse gas emission standards for power plants in the US, a move that aligns with Trump's broader push to promote fossil fuels. Critics warn the roll...

Apple has released macOS 27 Golden Gate, introducing an enhanced Siri AI assistant capable of searching personal context and taking actions across apps like Messages and Reminders. The update also bri...

Amazon is involved in an appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit against Perplexity in case 26-1444, decided on August 4, 2026. The case likely centers on intellectual property o...

Valve's Steam Frame XR headset has launched with a starting price of $1,059, marking the long-awaited official release of their mixed-reality device. The pricing positions it as a premium standalone X...

OpenAI's bots were aware of a RubyGems caching vulnerability before it was publicly disclosed, raising concerns about AI systems having access to or knowledge of unpatched security issues. The disclos...

Yuval Hanoch Hirschenbein discusses discovering a 40-year-old kernel bug in UNIX domain sockets on the DEFCON 34 main stage. The bug manifests as a consistent crash when his VM running an SSH server i...

The author argues that the cost of writing code has collapsed due to AI agents, shifting the software industry toward product engineering. He forecasts that as agents eventually handle the full develo...

Ben Hoffe introduces a novel equal-area map projection that seamlessly transitions to Mercator when zoomed in, addressing the UN's 'Correct the Map' resolution while preserving navigational accuracy a...

OpenAI has acquired smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, according to reports. Glass Imaging was co-founded by former Apple engineers who previously led the team behind Apple's Port...

ClickFix attacks are a rising social engineering threat tricking both Mac and Windows users into compromising their own systems via fake ads, including fake HBO Max ads on Reddit. Users are lured into...

Cornelis, an AI infrastructure company, has raised $205M to challenge Nvidia's dominance in the GPU market. The company also introduced Active Compute Fabric, a network technology designed to address ...

NASA selected Blue Origin over Rocket Lab for a $700 million Mars Telecommunications Network spacecraft, prompting Rocket Lab to file a formal protest with the Government Accountability Office claimin...

Unitree Robotics' dominance in affordable humanoid robots stems from founder Wang Xingxing's extreme cost-cutting micromanagement style, as detailed by Caijing Magazine. The company went public on the...

The US government is appealing a court ruling that blocked its policy to deport noncitizen technology researchers who monitor safety risks on major online platforms, including X. A judge found the pol...

Major AI leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft are calling for coordinated slowdowns in frontier AI development, spurred by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay warning of catas...

Researchers at Yunnan University have developed durable perovskite solar cells that generate electricity underwater by tuning light absorption to underwater wavelengths while using a moisture-repellin...

Solar power is experiencing a global boom driven by inexpensive Chinese photovoltaic panels, with worldwide installed capacity reaching nearly 1.2 terawatts by late 2025—roughly three times the size o...

Microsoft released patches for Windows and Excel that introduce breaking changes affecting audio output, remote access capabilities, and paste functionality. The update highlights the ongoing tension ...

The article presents key principles for building high-performance applications using Tokio, focusing on best practices for async/await, minimizing overhead, and efficient resource utilization.

The author presents a technical case against JPEG XL's adoption as a web image codec despite its superior compression qualities, examining the current state of image compression on the Web in 2026. Th...

Mergiraf is a syntax-aware git merge driver built with Rust and tree-sitter that intelligently resolves merge conflicts across a growing set of programming languages and file formats. The project, hos...

An anonymous ML engineer at a frontier AI lab shares concerns that scaling for coding tasks has hit diminishing returns, internal leadership churn is high, and the upcoming IPO creates pressure—leadin...

The author demonstrates an end-to-end aerial mapping workflow using a DJI Lito X1 drone and Zeitgeist Survey, completing full map generation in under 30 minutes. The process covers flight planning, KM...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Donald Trump that Nvidia will not allow an AI slowdown to occur, positioning the company as a champion of continued rapid AI development. This contrasts with calls from El...

The article explores the combinatorial enumeration of 4x4 Sudoku solution grids, showing there are only 12 fundamentally distinct solutions (or 288 if symmetries are counted separately). It also prese...

Volkswagen has unveiled a new efficiency-focused halo EV that achieves nearly twice the efficiency of the Lucid Air, currently the most efficient production car. The design incorporates a concept borr...

Apple has finally released its long-delayed Siri overhaul with iOS 27, fundamentally improving the assistant's daily usefulness and making it feel worth using again.

macOS 27 Golden Gate introduces a newly updated Siri AI alongside design changes for more consistent windows and icons. Apple is positioning the refreshed Siri as a competitor to AI productivity appli...

The board of Automattic has been removed following a failed attempt by board members to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg. The ousted directors were those who previously voted to place Mullenweg on a paid leave...

Waymo has launched its robotaxi service in Las Vegas, its 15th US market, starting with dozens of Ojai minivans serving the Strip and Boulder Junction areas on an invite-only basis. The move comes ami...

Superhuman has acquired YC-backed meeting notetaker Fathom, which boasts over 400,000 monthly active users and has recorded over 1 million meetings. The acquisition reflects the broader trend of produ...

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will keynote a sold-out anti-vaccine conference in Washington DC hosted by Children's Health Defense, the organization he formerly led. He will appear alongsi...

Elon Musk has dropped his antitrust lawsuit against Apple over the ChatGPT integration while maintaining his claims against OpenAI, which he accuses of monopolizing the chatbot market through the part...

New isotopic analysis has determined that the prehistoric Devil's Arrows stones were transported approximately 11 miles from Brimham Rocks, not the previously assumed nearby Plumpton Rocks. This findi...

Valve is releasing the $1,059 Steam Frame standalone VR headset in 2026, marking a surprising return to the VR hardware market after years of neglect. The Ars Technica review calls it simultaneously o...

Major AI lab leaders have signaled agreement to slow down frontier model development, proposing third-party audits and domestic regulation. Critics argue the move is less about safety and more about c...

Apple is adding Apple Intelligence features to HomeKit cameras with iOS 27 and tvOS 27, including AI-powered video summaries, video search, and multi-camera clip stitching. However, these features req...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled 'We Must Pace the Frontier' calling for slowed AI development through third-party safety evaluators and coordination among frontier AI companies. O...

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang put President Trump on speakerphone onstage at the All-In Summit, where Trump dismissed AI safety concerns as a 'hoax' and claimed robots won't take over the world. The call co...

Valve's Steam Frame VR headset is releasing at a price above the originally planned $1,059 due to global RAM and storage market pressures. Valve developers stated they fought hard to keep costs down a...

Laurie Voss argues that as AI makes the cost of writing code collapse, the remaining value in software development shifts entirely to understanding what users want, defining requirements precisely, an...

E Ink has made a strategic investment in NewCopper to advance conductive copper ink technology, which could potentially transform e-paper and flexible display manufacturing. The partnership signals E ...

AI agents from a startup called iLands are flooding social media platforms and emailing writers with unsolicited messages, asking to create accounts to automate creative work in exchange for small fee...

Andon Labs introduces Pion, an AI agent designed to autonomously run companies by handling operational tasks typically performed by human executives. The project is generating significant discussion o...

The article appears to be a commentary or open letter directed at Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, likely addressing concerns about the company's direction or AI safety positions. It gained notable att...

A curated list of foundational distributed systems papers and readings compiled by Nikola Ivartolomei, covering classics like the DHT survey, paxos, and CAP theorem. The post gained traction on Hacker...

The author shares practical lessons learned while migrating 35KB prompts from Anthropic's Opus model to a self-hosted Ollama instance. Key gotchas include differences in prompt formatting, context han...

The author reflects on the growing divide in developer practices around AI-generated code, distinguishing between 'accelerators' who read and understand AI output to maintain responsibility for their ...

The article explores the origin of the x86 ud2 instruction, which is an architecturally undefined opcode guaranteed to raise an invalid opcode exception. Compilers use it to mark unreachable code path...

Kythe is a pluggable, language-agnostic ecosystem designed for building tools that analyze and work with code. It provides a standardized schema, indexer implementations for C++ and Java, compilation ...

The author shares how they maintain a single .zshrc file across macOS and Windows (WSL2) using conditional logic to detect the environment via /proc/version. They use chezmoi for dotfiles management a...

Amazon Prime Video is introducing on-demand local and national news clips as part of its push into short-form video content. The move aims to attract younger viewers and compete with platforms like Ti...

Fashion app Daydream has integrated Apple Intelligence features via iOS 27, enabling users to convert saved outfit photos into shoppable product results. The update also allows Siri-powered product se...

Microsoft has introduced a new AI code of conduct outlining principles for its AI models, including supporting rather than replacing humans and accelerating human flourishing. The policy also includes...

A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, a startup founded by ex-Spotify innovation head Máuhan M. Zonoozy, has raised $5.5M pre-seed to build generative AI music apps that let users interactively create and remix mus...

Ars Technica covers the recent Formula 1 action, highlighting Kimi Antonelli's remarkable victory at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza—becoming the first Italian winner in 60 years—and previewing the up...

Nintendo is running a 'Customer Appreciation' sale across Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and its digital storefront, powered by tariff-related refunds from the US government. Major discounts include Mario...

Simon Willison highlights Bryan Cantrill's critique of former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's claim that AI could cause human extinction by 2030. Cantrill argues that alarmist claims about bioweapo...