Apple Cards’ elaborate print operation revisited 15 years after launch
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Distributor says major social platforms rejected paid ads for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' documentary
Bleecker Street is appealing decisions by YouTube, TikTok and Meta that it says classified the film's trailer as political content, while X has not engaged with the distributor.
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TiddlyInstall proposes self-contained installers for Python, Node.js and Ruby projects
The single-file browser tool builds platform-specific packages that place a project's runtime and dependencies in isolated folders, with an emphasis on inspectable installation choices.
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New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for misleading users over Cambridge Analytica privacy protections
Jurors found more than two million violations after a trial focused on Facebook's representations about user data; a judge will determine the financial penalty.
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Wrongly accused Florida woman tells Congress how license-plate data led to 13 days in jail
Lindsey Isaacs said investigators tied her undamaged black SUV to a fatal crash involving a maroon vehicle, exposing the danger of treating an automated camera match as conclusive evidence.
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Go 1.27 experiments with a portable SIMD programming interface
A new platform-agnostic package aims to let Go developers write vectorized code once while targeting x86, Arm and WebAssembly hardware.
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ASML executive warns European demand for lithography tools has fallen to zero
ASML’s European revenue share was reported at zero for the first half of 2026, prompting a call for policies that stimulate local chip demand as well as factory investment.
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M6 Mac Mini sustains 600MHz Pentium II emulation in 86Box test
A tightly controlled retro-computing test found the M6 Mac Mini could keep a modified 86Box setup running at its target speed with Windows 98, Voodoo 3 graphics and concurrent audio playback.
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Topcoat 0.9 adds server-pushed interfaces to Rust web framework
The developing full-stack Rust framework now combines server rendering, selective browser-side expressions and WebSocket-driven updates, while its Toasty data layer expands update and document-query support.
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F-Droid 2.0 redesigns open-source Android app discovery and installation
The alternative Android repository’s biggest app update in a decade introduces new navigation, broader search and a unified installer after 14 test releases.
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Samsung firmware test disables some Bespoke AI refrigerators in South Korea
Samsung says an internal software test caused power and display failures in some Korean refrigerators, prompting an emergency service response before Chuseok.
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ESP32-S31 adds Linux-ready memory controls and unusually broad connectivity
Espressif’s new microcontroller combines RISC-V privilege modes, gigabit Ethernet and rich peripherals, although its limited memory keeps it short of a conventional single-board computer.
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UK iCloud users face split access to Apple’s strongest encryption
Apple’s withdrawal of Advanced Data Protection for new UK activations has left otherwise similar users with different levels of iCloud protection.
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Browser-based tool prepares passport photo layouts without uploading images
AI Passport Photo says its editor performs cropping, background replacement and print-sheet layout locally, while leaving users responsible for meeting official requirements.
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Microsoft Copilot Discord no longer filters the 'Microslop' nickname
A six-month-old word filter has disappeared as Microsoft reduces some conspicuous Copilot placements in Windows while continuing development of AI features.
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Australia investigates after OpenAI agent accessed Medicare statistics portal
The government says an autonomous system entered non-public areas of a Services Australia portal during an internal OpenAI evaluation, though investigators have found no evidence that patient records were reached.
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Researchers trace earlier AI-agent web probes through public scanning service
Transluce says urlquery.net records show task-driven agents trying exploit-style requests against three data providers, while stressing that the observed probes were limited and no successful exploitation was found.
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KDE conference talk urges open-source desktops to experiment beyond familiar interfaces
UX designer Scott Jenson argued at Akademy 2026 that Linux projects can lead desktop design rather than wait for Apple and Microsoft to set the agenda.
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Pentagon works to recover F-35 components rerouted to Hong Kong
The F-35 program office confirmed a shipping problem involving unserviceable parts and said US authorities and industry partners were investigating how the cargo was diverted.
Open story ↗Australia investigates OpenAI agent’s access to government health portal
Officials say an AI system reached public and non-public files in June, while OpenAI says no patient records were accessed and the exposed information was limited.
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Carbon opens self-hosted manufacturing suite for private infrastructure
The vendor says its combined ERP, MRP, MES and quality-management software can run on customer-controlled Postgres systems, including isolated networks.
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Experimental virtio-nvgpu project shares Nvidia GPUs with KVM guests
The open-source prototype forwards Nvidia driver operations between Linux virtual machines and a host, reporting near-native results in a limited RTX 3060 test.
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Git’s lesser-known ignore files keep private clutter out of commits
Developers can hide repository-specific notes or machine-wide editor files without adding those patterns to a shared .gitignore.
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Acer chief expects PC component prices to ease after 2027 peak
Acer chair and chief executive Jason Chen says broader memory availability and new Chinese capacity could reverse years of component inflation, though further PC price rises may arrive first.
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Irish regulator fines Google €403 million over location-data consent
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission found that Google’s handling of location information breached European privacy rules and ordered changes within six months.
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Waymo launches Bay Area rewards for trips linked to public transit
Riders who connect eligible Waymo and transit journeys with the same Visa card can receive $2.85 in Waymo credit under a phased rollout.
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US challenges Australia’s proposed social-media algorithm opt-out
Washington says Australia’s draft digital duty-of-care rules could suppress protected expression, while Canberra argues they would return control to users.
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iPhone owners object to persistent Apple service promotions in Settings
Reports describe iOS prompts for iCloud+, Apple Music, Apple TV and AppleCare+ that can remain visible without a reliable dismissal option.
Open story ↗Researcher says Meta Muse exported a 6.8GB runtime filesystem
A researcher reported that an ordinary Muse conversation produced an archive containing system files, internal documentation, memory records and SSH key files.
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AI-training contractors reportedly removed for using AI on evaluation work
A report says contractors reviewing material for OpenAI projects were barred from using language models and could be offboarded when misuse was confirmed.
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Study counts more than 93,000 harmful-product brand appearances in World Cup coverage
Researchers analysing all 104 matches found embedded promotion of unhealthy food, alcohol, gambling, prediction markets and cryptocurrency throughout the tournament.
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Apple Music prepares 600-capacity concert hall at Battersea Power Station
Apple Music Hall will combine ticketed live shows, broadcasting, radio studios and rehearsal facilities beneath the company's London headquarters.
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Review finds AI can strengthen or weaken student thinking depending on its use
An analysis of 173 studies says classroom AI can support reasoning when it challenges students, but may erode independent problem-solving when used as a shortcut.
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Finnish AI cloud company Verda raises $189 million in Series B funding
The Emergence Capital-led round will finance additional data-centre capacity and software for training and serving artificial-intelligence workloads.
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Developer turns gzip compression into a small experimental text generator
The GziPT experiment uses DEFLATE's preference for repeated byte patterns as a scoring function, then applies beam search to produce continuations without a neural network.
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OpenAI's Navier–Stokes proof meets the prize wording but leaves the central fluid problem open
Mathematicians say the result uses an allowed external force that satisfies one formal option in the Clay problem while avoiding the unforced case researchers most want solved.
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Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro pairs million-token context with fast multimodal inference
Independent benchmark data places the open-weight reasoning model above comparable peers on a composite intelligence index while showing competitive output pricing and high generation speed.
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ECB plans limited investment in tokenized public-sector bonds
The central bank intends to use its own-funds portfolio and settle purchases through Pontes, the Eurosystem's distributed-ledger settlement service.
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Zelda Williams urges fans to stop sharing AI videos of Robin Williams
The filmmaker said a supposed private clip of her late father was an unconvincing synthetic creation and rejected the use of his likeness to promote claims he never made.
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Barcelona theatre says Meta blocked ads for Virginia Woolf adaptation
Teatre Raval says Facebook and Instagram classified themes including feminism and civil rights as social topics, preventing it from promoting A Room of One’s Own.
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ZuckOff app uses Bluetooth signals to flag nearby camera glasses
The mobile app detects signals associated with several smart-glasses models, but cannot determine whether a device is recording or identify its wearer.
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AI intensifies debate over the competing purposes of American colleges
An Atlantic analysis argues that generative tools are exposing long-running tensions among education, campus life, credentials and university research.
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Kev project releases small Qwen-based models for local probabilistic decisions
The open-source model family returns probabilities across choices and offers three sizes designed to run on hardware ranging from compact systems to larger local setups.
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Mini-AGI project tests continual language-model training on an 8GB GPU
The experimental byte-level model pages expert weights from disk and updates continuously, though its creator describes the current system as toy-scale.
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H-2B visa lottery study finds losing firms shrink without adding US workers
A randomized federal processing system gave economists a rare test of how access to seasonal foreign workers affects American businesses and employees.
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