The iPhone Duo offers a spacious display, multitasking capabilities, and compact design. It features essential controls on the side for easy access and comes with various accessories like a 100% fiber-based box for packaging.
The Tailwind CSS framework is being joined by Shopify to provide a stable long-term home for its development and maintenance. This partnership will enable the creation of complex applications solving real-world problems, while maintaining open-source licensing and community support.
Visa and Mastercard are card networks that facilitate transactions between cardholders, issuers, and merchants. They don't issue cards or manage point-of-sale systems, but instead connect these parties to enable secure transactions.
Apple has announced AirPods 5 with improved Active Noise Cancellation and sound quality, starting at $129. The new model features a multiport acoustic architecture and Adaptive EQ for immersive sound.
Researchers found that self-driving cars crash significantly less often than human drivers, with evidence showing a 27% reduction in pedestrian crashes and up to 39% fewer property-damage claims. Studies also show that Waymo's robotaxis have given millions of paid rides with a 92% reduction in fatal or serious-injury crashes compared to human drivers.
Horner's method can evaluate a polynomial in n multiplications, but preprocessing coefficients reduces this to ⌊n/2⌋+1 for monic polynomials and ⌊n/2⌋+2 for general ones.
New features have been added to No Man's Sky, including a star system map, deep-space points of interest, and the ability to mine resources from asteroids. The game also includes new player titles and rewards for accomplishments at these points of interest.
Apple has announced iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max with improved cameras, battery life, and performance. The new models feature a 48MP Fusion Main camera with variable aperture and AI-powered improvements to cellular quality and reliability.
The author discusses OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model, highlighting its exceptional performance in 3D rendering and animation tasks. The model uses a looped transformer architecture, which allows it to reuse transformer blocks multiple times without adding more weights. This technique improves modeling performance at a fixed compute budget but may not significantly impact the reasoning trace or ...
The Cognition research team and I successfully factored RSA-260, a 260-digit number, using a GPU lattice siever. This achievement demonstrates the potential for autonomous software engineering agents to make significant contributions to complex computational problems. The factorization was accomplished by optimizing the general number field sieve (GNFS) algorithm on GPUs, with an estimated ...
Apple introduced the Apple Watch Series 12 with advanced health sensors and a new chip for accurate heart rate monitoring, offering features like readiness scores and audio intelligence. The watch is available in various finishes and sizes, including ceramic options, with up to 10 hours of battery life during an outdoor workout.
Desert Ant Labs launches a European frontier AI lab building on-device intelligence models for audio, vision, and text. The first 18 models are live today, offering fast and cost-free inference for various tasks.
Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, has been placed on paid leave by the company's board after a vote. The move comes amid ongoing lawsuits and controversy surrounding the company's leadership and operations.
A browser-based GNU Radio flowgraph editor and runtime is available, allowing users to build and run software-defined radio flowgraphs without Python or installation. It supports WebUSB devices like RTL-SDR, PlutoSDR, or HackRF for live spectrum analysis.
LIGO's interferometers detect minuscule spacetime distortions caused by gravitational waves. To achieve this, they use advanced vibration isolation systems to shield test masses from terrestrial disturbances.
The UN has endorsed a new map projection called Equal Earth, which aims to accurately represent the size of continents and promote cognitive justice. This move comes after criticism of the 500-year-old Mercator projection, which distorts sizes and shapes around the world.
Read the Docs experienced a massive DDoS attack in June 2026, with over 5.5 million requests per minute, lasting nearly ten days and testing their infrastructure and incident response processes. The attackers used adaptive behavior, cache evasion, and randomized HTTP request headers to evade signature-based filters.
Planet Labs is a 15-year-old satellite manufacturer and constellation operator that captures imagery of the entire Earth's landmasses every day. They have operated or are operating four different constellations, including Tanager, which has recently deployed its latest Pelican-11 satellite. Planet Labs' Ephemerides service lists 97 satellites still in orbit.
The author questions Noah Smith's article about AI-designed superviruses, citing concerns that the scenario is far-fetched due to biological tradeoffs and limitations. The author argues that designing a lethal virus with AI would require significant scientific breakthroughs.
LabGuy is building a television using an electrostatic cathode ray tube (CRT) and has assembled the CRT driver circuit designed by Eric Schlaepfer. He is now debugging issues with the horizontal scan on one of the tubes, but has made progress with adding a scope clock board kit and testing other CRTs.
A new programming language called Bespoke is proposed, emphasizing good manners and etiquette in machine execution. It prioritizes clarity, politeness, and formal introductions over speed and efficiency.
Spammers are using ASCII smuggling to hide malicious prompts in emails, rendering them invisible to humans but detectable by AI agents. Microsoft detected a massive increase in spam messages using this technique, which evades filters that search for text and exploits machine learning-based models.
VSOCK is a socket address family for communication between VMs and their hypervisors, allowing guests to communicate with each other. A library called libzmq provides low-level bindings for VSOCK in multiple languages, enabling secure and efficient communication.
Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.
Researchers found ancient cave art in Ireland dating back 15,000 years, contradicting previous evidence of human presence. The discovery suggests early humans from Wales crossed a "lost land bridge" between modern-day Pembrokeshire and Ireland during the last Ice Age.
AI is reshaping the economy, and its impact will vary depending on how capable it becomes and how widely used it is. The scenarios predict that AI could lead to significant economic growth, but also potentially uneven distribution of benefits, with some workers facing lower wages or unemployment.