Собираем новости, события и мнения о рынках, банках и реакциях компаний.

Сейчас он собирается запустить проект в Казахстане. Пересказ материала WSJ.

В здании начался пожар.

Народное название стало официальным.

Собираем новости, события и мнения о рынках, банках и реакциях компаний.

Из списка убрали «Марусю», но добавили «Алису AI».

Майнинг в России легализован с 2024 года.

Новые меры поддержки анонсируют в ближайшее время.

Планы по масштабированию и детали об устройстве не раскрыли.

Предзаказ открыли в Китае по цене 1990 юаней.

Продавали их при этом якобы Минобороны.

Стоимость — 2,5% от залоговой цены товаров в месяц.

Тяжёлые краны фирмы Demag (Deutsche Maschinenbau-Aktiengesellschaft, встречается написание DEMAG) предназначались для возведения уникальных зданий и сооружений, где размеры конструкций измеряются в десятках метров и сотнях тонн.

СС 4000 (слева) и СС 4800 на одной площадке.

Источник: Technische Daten Mannesmann Demag CC 4800Противовесы от DEMAG СС 4000 на СС 4800.

Со стороны 3-го и 4-го энергоблоков работали Demag 16 и Demag 20, а со стороны машинного зала — Demag 21.

2012-20152 октября один из Demag стал невольным участником гибели Ми-8МТ — вертушка задела винтом трос СС 4800 и упала.

Этот маршрут стал символом целой эпохи: эпохи свободной любви, лёгкого доступа к веществам, дешёвых авиабилетов (нет, это не рекламная интеграция) и духовных поисков целого поколения.

Твои родители не богаты, но и не голодают — средний класс, основа социальной стабильности и экономического роста.

Там, как и в Тегеране была своя насыщенная ночная жизнь, хорошая еда, университеты и светский режим.

А в 1979 году всё рухнуло окончательно: в феврале в Иране свергли шаха и привели к власти аятоллу Хомейни.

Как Тропа меняла людейЕсли подобрать одно слово, описывающее то, как Тропа влияла на путников, это слово будет “отрезвление”.

В процессе поиска мне попался дешёвый 7D Mark II (дальше буду звать его 7d2), который продавался как «нерабочий, только на запчасти».

Canon 7D Mark II — это навороченная цифровая зеркалка (DSLR) с матрицей APS-C на 20,2 МП, выпущенная в 2014 году.

Несмотря на то, что на взрыв-схеме указано, где и какой болтик используется, визуально различить M1.7 и M2 довольно трудно.

Помимо входного резистора на 1 кОм и обратного диода, я не нашёл никакой защиты на линии внешнего сигнала AF.

Добавив резистор 100 кОм к цепи 3,3 В, я поднял уровень сигнала до 3,3 В, вернув камеру к полноценной жизни.

В ту пору и в тех обстоятельствах главное в родительстве было — одеть и накормить.

Получается, Булычёв зацепил меня дважды: и как ребенка, и как родителя.

Если мы не ударим сегодня и не выжжем священным огнем Убежище помников, нам не жить.

Не может же быть, чтобы люди стали людьми, разумными существами, если они, кроме войны, ничего другого не знали и не умели.

Есть там и антиутопии, и сатира, как в «Великом Гусляре», и историческая фантастика.

Оговорюсь сразу, цифра из разряда инженерных прикидок, гуляет от двигателя к двигателю, зависит от ступени, от того, бандажированная лопатка или нет, и от того, где вы ее вообще меряете.

Разница между щелью в турбине и в компрессореЩель между кончиком лопатки и корпусом есть и в турбине, и в компрессоре.

Выигрыш тут в том, что в горячий тракт выдувается меньше холодного воздуха.

О ней только догадываются по косвенным признакам: по оборотам, температурам, высоте и по тому, что двигатель делал последние минуты.

Не в сэкономленном керосине, а в том, что дорогущий ремонт отодвигается, а самолет продолжает возить пассажиров и зарабатывать.

В основном задаются общие черты того, что ты хочешь от агента при каждом запуске в любом проекте и в любом ответе.

- После изменений запусти `npm run lint` и `npm run type-check`.

Если правил SEO-слой, мета-теги, OG-изображения или эндпоинты (robots/sitemap/llms), дополнительно `npm run build && npm run seo:check`.

- После изменений запусти `npm run lint` и `npm run type-check`.

Если правил SEO-слой, мета-теги, OG-изображения или эндпоинты (robots/sitemap/llms), дополнительно `npm run build && npm run seo:check`.

Четыре утра, ты выслушаешь орущих директоров, а у конкурента на копеечном шареде сайт открывается.

Проводим диагностику и держим связь с профильными службами... Решение может потребовать некоторое время и не зависит от нас, поэтому не можем сориентировать по срокам.

И дальше:Недоступность затрагивает не всех и проявляется по-разному в зависимости от оператора связи, региона и браузера.

Что в итоге заработало: свой reverse-proxyПростое решение: отдельная VPS в российском облаке, на ней обычный nginx как обратный прокси.

Подробно — в разборе реального кейса и в статье про схему ограничений июня.

Идея показалась мне достаточно интересной не только с биологической точки зрения, но и с инженерной.

За генерацию аналогового сигнала и подачу его на динамики с необходимым фазовым сдвигом отвечает микроконтроллер STM32F429 на плате Discovery.

Однако на нём установлено всего 2 ЦАПа, а мне нужно 9 независимых выводов сигнала на колонки.

На основе этой информации животное способно не только определить расстояние до объекта, но и оценить его скорость, размеры, форму и даже характер поверхности.

Он формирует узконаправленный звуковой луч, принимает отражённый сигнал и по его задержке определяет положение объектов.

Сейчас на Terminal‑Bench 2.1, CL‑Bench и OSWorld у него SOTA результаты, а на GAIA и SWE‑Pro получается паритет с Claude Code и Codex.

Ключевая механика Уробороса в двух предложениях:Агент может редактировать весь свой код (это в основном чистый Python).

Второй слой, scope review, смотрит не на дифф, а на весь репозитоий целиком.

Если ответ «всё» — знание жило в коде, а не в требованиях.

Хабы скилловЧто я на нём реально делаюСейчас я почти полностью переехал на Ouroboros для разработки и research.

Написал PEP и сделал Reference Implementation нового синтаксиса для frozendict / frozensetВместе с Донхи На (членом Steering Council) написали ПЕП для добавления нового синтаксиса frozen контейнеров в питон.

Ведь мы просто добавили f (как frozen ) перед существующими dict и set литералами.

Целимся в 3.16 :)Предложил добавить новое C-API для оптимизации создания frozendict из dictPR: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/153413Сейчас создание frozendict - довольно дорогая операция.

Так как PyDictObject и PyFrozenDictObject C-структуры имеют очень похожее внутреннее устройство, то я могу просто выдрать куски из словаря и вставить их в новый frozendict .

Я просто сделал PR, который отправляет…

Всем известно, что я предпочитаю использовать для письма перьевую ручку и бумагу, поэтому недавно мне прислали ссылку на вот эту статью и сопутствующее исследование.

Это и правильное связывание букв, и разделение слов, и расстановка точек над i или чёрточек в t , причём порой по нескольку в одном предложении.

Я ещё лет 25 назад перестал писать тексты с клавиатуры и перешёл на перьевую ручку и бумагу.

Многие наверняка имели такой же опыт, после которого вроде как обоснованно полагают, что это естественное следствие длительного письма от руки.

Что при лишнем трении, что при недостаточном писать будет тяжелее, чем при умеренном.

Ну, давайте я вам расскажу о том, как и почему он их вчера лишился, при чем тут слово «плечи» – и что отличает ветерана рынка от новичка…Собственно, Леопольд.

В начале июля рыночные ставки Леопольда продолжали расти, и в какой-то момент фонд распух уже до $45 млрд.

И в данном случае разгадка таких чудесных результатов заключалась в том, что Ашенбреннер по слухам использовал плечо в размере 3–4х.

За свою сорокалетнюю карьеру в инвестициях мистер Гриффин видал такое уже не раз – ему не привыкать выкупать неплохие активы у тех, кто уже не может их не продать, и не в том положении, чтобы торговаться за справедливую цену сделки.

За что в итоге и поплатился: его детище FTX (криптобиржа) обанкроти…

Вроде и в офисе, а на самом деле почти на удалёнке.

Еще и с бóльшими возможностями по автоматизации.

Ни у кого нет такой власти, как у него.

Сегодня сисадмин — это инженер, который проектирует и поддерживает инфраструктуру, а не только устраняет проблемы.

Так что я тоже в каком‑то смысле сисадмин, пусть и на маленьком домашнем сервере.

Уже к августу 1982 года завод выпускал около тысячи MicroBee в месяц.

Попал этот компьютер и в СССР: в середине 80-х Советский Союз закупал небольшие партии зарубежной техники для оценки возможностей её внедрения в школьное образование.

Конец историиЭволюция персональных компьютеров развивалась стремительно, и MicroBee Systems старалась идти в ногу со временем.

В PC-режиме использовалась операционная система MS-DOS 4.01 с GW-BASIC, а в «пчелином» режиме — родной CP/M 2.2.

Кажется, что на этом история MicroBee завершилась — как закончился путь подавляющего большинства локальных компьютерных проектов начала 80-х, не выдержавших конкуренции с унифицированным рынком IBM-совместимых машин.

Если хотите повлиять на Sony, то просто вновь начните покупать игры на дисках, а не в цифре, логично же.

Хотя, стоит отметить, что бойкот направлен не только на диски, но и на вообще «все последние решения Sony, из-за который она отдалилась от игроков».

Это приквел серии A Plague Tale, который в отличии от предыдущих частей делает ставку на экшен, а не на стэлс.

Там ей приходят видения Тесея, их судьбы переплетаются, а в центре сюжета оказывается тайна болезни из первых двух частей игры.

Естественно, вам поручают самые тайные и сложные операции в тылу, а в свой отряд вы можете набирать очень разнообразных напарников.

Производитель премиальных клавиатур представил суперкомпактную мышку Nape Pro с трекболом, шестью переназначаемыми кнопками и кастомизируемым колёсиком!

Мышка с трекболом — уже сама по себе диковинка в 2026 веке, а эту можно ещё развернуть горизонтально, подпереть ею клавиатуру в районе пробела и получить сетап а-ля PowerBook 100.

Внутри всё как положено: под трекболом стоит сенсор PixArt PAW3222 с разрешением 4000 DPI и частотой опроса до 1000 Гц.

В ширину она почти в полтора раза уже и без того маленькой Apple Magic Mouse.

Цвета, как у Magic Mouse, два: белый и чёрный.

Кандидат в народной категории «Топ за свои деньги» получил 6,7-дюймовый AMOLED-дисплей с частотой до 120 Гц и аккумулятор ёмкостью 6000 мА·ч.

Samsung преподносит устройство как «единственный в своём классе» смартфон с тремя камерами.

Правда, из трёх модулей только один получил сенсор на 50 Мп — остальным двум модулям достались затычки на 2 и 5 Мп соответственно.

Компания обещает выпускать обновления и патчи безопасности до шести лет.

Цена в Индии за базовую версию на 6/128 ГБ памяти начинается от 26 тысяч рупий, или примерно 21,5 тысячи рублей по текущему курсу.

Кабмин утвердил список приложений для iOS, Android и HarmonyOS, которые должны быть предустановлены на все продаваемые в стране гаджеты.

К уже привычному списку из «Госуслуг», геосервисов и приложений «Яндекса» добавилась «Алиса AI».

В списке по-прежнему присутствуют мессенджер «МАКС» и другие приложения холдинга VK, которые были удалены из App Store в июне.

С одной стороны, за продажу гаджетов без отечественного ПО компаниям грозит штраф от 50 до 200 тысяч рублей.

С другой, Apple в одну калитку генерирует почти 50 % общемировой выручки от продажи смартфонов: потеря такого пирога может очень больно ударить по отечественному ретейлу.

Яблочный гигант забрал себе почти половину всех доходов с мобильных устройств во втором календарном квартале 2026 года, — докладывает аналитическое агентство Counterpoint Research.

Такой мощный рывок компании обеспечили неутихающий спрос на линейку iPhone 17, а также вкусные цены: несмотря на кризис памяти, Apple до сих пор не подняла прайс на семнадцатые айфоны.

Косвенно данные Counterpoint бьются и со свежим финансовым отчётом Apple, в котором компания отметила рост продаж iPhone на 21,7 % по сравнению с аналогичным периодом прошлого года.

По количеству отгруженных смартфонов Apple обогнала Xiaomi, vivo и даже OPPO (в её продажи аналитики также записывают смартфоны realme и OnePlus), но у…

Инструменты сканирования кода при помощи мощных LLM продолжают чинить баги, о которых никто не подозревал.

В обновлениях Chrome 149 и 150 исправлены в общей сложности 1072 ошибки!

В тестовом режиме некоторые браузеры обновляются уже дважды в неделю!

В последней версии Chrome ещё научили и обновляться в фоновом режиме без участия пользователя.

Мы уже писали, как Microsoft при помощи LLM фиксит больше багов, но пользователям стали приходить частые и срочные обновления.

Флагманские iPhone 18 Pro и Pro Max обойдутся дороже семнадцатой линейки, — пишет аналитик Джефф Пу.

Сейчас стоимость iPhone 17 Pro и iPhone 17 Pro Max начинается от $1100 и $1200.

Поэтому будущие iPhone могут вырасти в цене так же, как выросли остальные продукты Apple.

А ведь ещё в мае аналитик писал, что Apple оставит цены без изменений и будет агрессивно демпинговать на фоне растущих в цене Android-флагманов.

Сейчас же Джеф Пу не рекомендует покупать и акции Apple — их рейтинг он понизил до статуса «Держать».

Второе поколение умных колец CASIO со звучным названием CRW-H001M-8 получило сразу два царских апгрейда!

Во-первых, кольцо наконец-то стало по-настоящему умным и научилось считать шаги, измерять температуру тела, определять уровень насыщения крови кислородом и фиксировать частоту сердечных сокращений.

Для тех, кто покупает кольцо, чтобы фартить, а не шаги считать, CASIO приготовила позолоченное CRW-001JB-9: из умных фич там только таймер да секундомер, но зато выглядит на все деньги!

Купить CRW-H001M-8 можно пока только в Китае за 2000 юаней, или примерно 24 тысячи рублей по текущему курсу, а это уже дешевле хайпового Oura Ring 5!

Посмотреть, как выглядело кольцо CASIO первого поколения, мо…

Google в очередной раз прогревает своих покупателей по заветам китайских Android-производителей, потому что объяснить, как у инсайдеров ежегодно появляются промоматериалы, иначе нельзя.

Эван Бласс слил рекламные фотки базового Pixel 11 и складного Pixel 11 Pro Fold.

И там по большей части ничего нового: дизайн смартфонов стал известен ранее.

Пожалуй, можно отметить лишь новый блок камер у раскладушки, в котором появился RGB-диод.

Но, видимо, только по части CPU и NPU, так как видеоускоритель останется прежним.

Как выяснил журнал The Holywoord Reporter, почти все они были пустыми: студия в обязательном порядке стирает данные после ознакомления.

15 июня продюсер фильма Саймон Афрам лично доставил накопитель в офис Netflix для переговоров о продаже, но в итоге права студия так и не приобрела, да ещё и потеряла диск.

Netflix не удалось установить личность укравшего и текущее местоположение мастер-копии фильма.

Афрам немедленно потребовал у Netflix компенсацию в размере $165 млн, но потом поостыл и сбавил претензию до $105 млн.

Из-за утраты незашифрованной копии продать фильм будет значительно сложнее: дистрибьюторы не хотят работать с лентой, которая может оказаться на руках у пиратов ещё до выхода ф…

Команда американских учёных завела аккаунт с жизнью сурков на платформе эксклюзивного контента, чтобы поддержать исследования животных.

Решение было принято на фоне глобального сокращения бюджета для американских учёных.

Такие долговременные исследования позволяют собрать много информации, а также оценить развитие животных в динамике, однако требуют много ресурсов на их проведение.

Блюмштайн отметил, что подписка на аккаунт с сурками бесплатна, и, если контент нравится, можно отправить пожертвование.

С него ещё придётся заплатить 20 % налога платформе, так что надо нести деньги суркам!

Компактные колонки созданы в сотрудничестве с дизайнером Россом Лавгроувом.

А дизайн задней панели, которую никто видеть не будет, отсылает к гигантским KEF Muon.

В колонки добавили также технологию VECO — она минимизирует искажения на всём диапазоне частотПодключаются колонки по Bluetooth 5.3 и поддерживают трансляцию звука через Apple AirPlay 2, Google Cast, Spotify Connect и другие платформы.

Выпускается LS LUXE в трёх цветах: чёрное затмение, минеральный белый и тёмный титан.

Комплект из пары колонок, пульта управления и всех необходимых кабелей обойдётся в $4000.

Выручка подросла на 16 %, а чистая прибыль компании выросла на 27 %, или на $6,35 млрд по сравнению с аналогичным периодом прошлого года.

Несмотря на тяжелейший кризис памяти, продажи iPhone взлетели на 21,7 %, продажи Mac — аж на 28 %.

Объём поставок памяти ухудшился настолько, что дефицит угрожает уже производству новых Mac, iPad и iPhone.

На Mac и iPad компания уже успела повысить цены, а значит, следующее повышение придётся теперь на iPhone.

Первого сентября один из самых успешных гендиректоров в истории уйдёт на заслуженное повышение, а следующий финансовый отчёт в октябре будет представлять уже Джон Тернус.

Аукционный дом Propstore с 26 по 29 августа выставит на четырёхдневных торгах в Лос-Анджелесе больше 1400 артефактов со съёмочных площадок кино и сериалов.

Лидер по стоимости —15-дюймовая подвижная фигурка обезьяны Могучего Джо Янга из одноименной картины 1949 года ориентировочной стоимостью от одного до двух миллионов долларов.

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Но нам приглянулись лоты подешевле: куртка экипажа «Ностромо» из фильма «Чужой», маска из «Крика», куча костюмов Бэтмена (без сосков) и другие вещи со съёмок голливудских и телевизионных хитов.

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Робби Бах Руководитель Xbox в 1999–2010 годахКак миллиард убытков спас XboxВторая консоль должна была оправдать вложенные в Xbox миллиарды.

Xbox 360 соединяла в себе игры, достижения, цифровой магазин, список друзей и Xbox Live.

Фил Спенсер Глава Xbox в 2014–2022 годахКак Microsoft превратила проигранную гонку в подписную модельПосле неудачного запуска Xbox One Microsoft доверила игровое направление Филу Спенсеру, который до этого руководил внутренними студиями Xbox.

Ещё четыре студии должны были выйти из состава Xbox и перейти под управление новых владельцев.

Аша Шарма Генеральный директор XBOX с февраля 2026 годаXbox появилась из страха Microsoft оказаться зависимой от чужой домашней плат…

В первом полугодии 2026 года участились случаи фишинга участились на 45%, сообщили в Яндекс 360.

Почтовые спамеры изменили стратегию: вместо массовых рассылок они стали использовать небольшие партии писем, разбитые на несколько частей.

Мошенники стали чаще маскироваться под известные сервисыТематика спама также изменилась: вместо рекламы казино и фиктивных розыгрышей фишеры чаще стали использовать поддельные письма от имени государственных организаций, популярных сервисов и известных брендов.

По данным Яндекс 360, мошенники продолжают скрывать текст внутри картинок, чтобы обходить автоматические фильтры.

Количество изображений в письмах выросло на 33%.

Apple ожидает, что в IV финансовом квартале, который завершится в сентябре, ограничения в поставках существенно повлияют на выручку компании, заявил гендиректор Тим Кук.

Компания связывает ситуацию с нехваткой производственных мощностей для выпуска передовых чипов и высоким спросом на устройства.

Поэтому её IV квартал не совпадает с календарным и охватывает июль-сентябрь нехваткой мощностей для производства передовых чипов и ухудшением работы цепочек поставок.

Как отметил глава Apple, компания столкнулась с «невероятно сильным» циклом продаж iPhone и Mac, из-за чего спрос оказался выше ожиданий компании.

Apple намерена удешевить часть комплектующих из-за подорожавших чипов памятиДополнитель…

Sony продолжит постепенный отказ от дисков для новых игр PlayStation, несмотря на недовольство части аудитории, заявила финансовый директор компании Лин Тао.

В Sony считают, что нововведение соответствует общему развитию рынка цифрового контента.

В Sony при этом рассматривали разные варианты действий, однако в итоге решили «осторожно» следовать выбранному плану.

Лин Тао также отметила, что в Sony понимают негативную реакцию игроков.

Лидером рынка по выручке остаётся Sony — на PlayStation пришлось 74,3% всех продаж игровых консолей в стране.

Как сорванная сделка с Nintendo превратилась в PlayStationПуть Sony в игровую индустрию начался с сотрудничества с Nintendo — крупнейшим на тот момент производителем игровых консолей.

Как Sony превратила консоль в домашний центр развлеченийСледующая модель PlayStation 2 сохранила совместимость с играми предыдущего поколения и получила DVD-привод.

Игровое подразделение превратилось в один из главных источников прибыли Sony, а PlayStation — в платформу, на которой компания зарабатывала на играх и лицензиях уже после продажи консоли.

Взлом ударил по доверию в момент, когда Sony собиралась строить будущее PlayStation в интернете.

Как Sony превратила разработку консоли в командную игруПосле проб…

В России в середине 2026 года насчитывалось 3,43 млн легковых автомобилей китайских брендов, сообщили в агентстве «Автостат».

В тройке самых популярных брендов — Haval, Chery и Geely.

автомобилей HavalСамый распространёный китайский бренд в России — Haval.

автомобилей и Geely — 576 тыс.

Haval Jolion возглавил рейтинг моделейСамой массовой китайской моделью в России стал кроссовер Haval Jolion — 275,4 тыс.

В 2026 году рынок коммерческой недвижимости Москвы и области столкнулся с изменением баланса спроса и предложения, сообщают аналитики Авито Недвижимости.

По данным Авито Недвижимости, на рынке офисной аренды ситуация отличается: в первом полугодии 2026 года предложение выросло на 7%, но спрос снизился на 16%.

В первом полугодии 2026 года 12,5% объявлений о продаже коммерческих объектов в Москве и Московской области относились к готовому арендному бизнесу (ГАБ).

В первом полугодии 2026 года 15% целевых обращений по покупке офисов в Москве и Московской области поступили от пользователей из других субъектов России:Санкт-Петербурга,Краснодарского края,Татарстана.

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С начала 2023 года главные представители бигтеха — Google, Amazon, Microsoft и Meta* —инвестировали в развитие искусственного интеллекта более $1,1 трлн, сообщает Financial Times.

При этом свободный денежный поток крупнейших американских компаний сократился до минимума за последнее десятилетие из-за постоянных вложений в ИИ.

Вложения в ИИ начинают окупатьсяGoogle, Amazon и Microsoft в своих отчетах за II квартал сообщили об ускорении роста облачных подразделений, продающих вычислительные мощности разработчикам ИИ и корпоративным клиентам.

IT-гиганты тратят рекордные суммы на ИИ, жертвуя свободным денежным потокомСовокупный свободный денежный поток Google, Amazon, Microsoft и Meta* сократилс…

Наибольший спрос пришёлся на компьютерные игры «Мир Танков», Counter-Strike и Dota 2.

Спрос на тренеров по Counter-Strike вырос в 2,3 раза за годПо данным Авито Услуг, в июне 2026 года спрос на услуги киберспортивных тренеров по Counter-Strike вырос в 2,3 раза год к году, а за месяц увеличился на 13%.

За год интерес к услугам кибертренеров в этом направлении вырос в 2 раза, а за один июньский месяц — на 60%.

Одна из самых востребованных игр — Dota 2Стабильный спрос сохраняется и на занятия по Dota 2.

Средняя стоимость уроков по Dota 2 составляет около 400 рублей.

Минцифры предложило обязать иностранные интернет-ресурсы, работающие в России, регистрировать и авторизовывать пользователей только по номеру телефона.

Парадокс заключается в том, что у российских регуляторов нет прямых механизмов воздействия на те зарубежные ресурсы, что не исполняют предписания.

Однако в то же время в компании отмечают, что метод решает только часть задач в борьбе с мошенничеством.

В компании подчеркнули, что пользователям необходимо самостоятельно защищать телефоны от вредоносных приложений и не передавать коды подтверждения посторонним.

В него вошли предложения по усилению контроля за цифровыми сервисами, включая новые требования к регистрации пользователей на иностранн…

Toyota представила новую спортивную версию Corolla — GRMN Corolla, сообщили в пресс-службе компании.

(около 5,1 млн рублей) — это вдвое больше стоимости обычной GR Corolla на японском рынке.

Именно ограниченный тираж компания называет главной причиной почти двукратной разницы в цене по сравнению с базовой GR Corolla.

КонтекстПо итогам первой половины 2026 года Toyota в очередной раз стала крупнейшим автопроизводителем мира, реализовав более 5,39 млн автомобилей.

В компании связывали это с ослаблением спроса на Ближнем Востоке и сокращением продаж в Китае.

Представлен релиз операционной системы NetBSD 11.0, поддерживающей 61 системную архитектуру и 16 семейств CPU. Помимо переносимости и поддержки большого числа аппаратных платформ, операционная система NetBSD предлагает такие возможности, как гипервизор NVMM, межсетевой экран NPF, пакетный менеджер pkgin, репозиторий пакетов pkgsrc, механизм контроля целостности veriexec, режим W^X (страницы памяти не могут быть одновременно доступны на запись и исполнение), поддержка ФС ZFS, система шифрования дисков cgd. Установочные образы (640 МБ) подготовлены для 59 архитектур (пропущены epoc32 и ia64).

Проект Arch Linux объявил о приостановке передачи бесхозных пакетов новым сопровождающим в репозитории AUR (Arch User Repository). В качестве причины называется возобновление атак по подстановке вредоносного кода в пакеты, оставшиеся без сопровождения. Для захвата пакетов атакующие использовали предоставляемую в AUR возможность принимать сопровождение над пакетами, оставшимися без сопровождающих и имеющими статус "orphaned".

Альянс AOMedia, курирующий разработку форматов кодирования видео AV1 и AV2, объявил о публикации первой версии спецификации Open Audio Renderer (OAR v1), определяющей эталонную реализацию системы формирования объёмного (иммерсивного) звука, учитывающего распространение звуковых сигналов в трехмерном пространстве для воссоздания звучания, максимально близкого к естественному.

Компания Keychron, специализирующая на производстве устройств ввода, представила проект ZGM (Zephyr Gaming Mouse), в рамках которого развивается первая полноценная открытая прошивка для игровых мышей. Проект нацелен на создание платформы, которую легко собирать, изучать, кастомизировать и расширять. Основное внимание при разработке уделяется минимизации задержек, гибкости адаптации для нового оборудования и обеспечению простоты длительного сопровождения продукта. В настоящее время прошивка находится на ранней стадии проектирования, релиз намечен на 1 квартал 2027 года. Код будет опубликован под лицензией GPLv3. Первым устройством, поддерживающим установку ZGM, станет игровая мышь G6 HE.

После 8 месяцев разработки опубликован релиз свободного гипервизора Xen 4.22. В разработке нового выпуска приняли участие такие компании, как Amazon, Arm, EPAM Systems и AMD. Формирование обновлений для ветки Xen 4.22 продлится до августа 2029 года, а публикация исправлений уязвимостей до августа 2031 года. Код проекта написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией GPLv2+. Разработка ведётся в составе организации Linux Foundation.

), 22:54, 29/07/2026 [ответить] + / – Who's next?

2, limafresh ( ok ), 22:54, 29/07/2026 [ответить] –1 + / – > Запрет объясняется неопределённостью в вопросах лицензий и авторских прав на результат, сгенерированный большими языковыми моделями.

А ещё крупные проекты с открытым исходным кодом используют ИИ и как-то не беспокоятся об этом.

А вдруг кто-то отправил PR с кодом, созданным в рабочее время или что-то подобное?

3, Аноним ( 3 ), 22:58, 29/07/2026 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / – Там могут использоваться топовые модели, а не васянские с лярдом итераций.

Компания Google опубликовала релиз web-браузера Chrome 151. Одновременно доступен стабильный выпуск свободного проекта Chromium, выступающего основой Chrome. Браузер Chrome отличается от Chromium использованием логотипов Google, наличием системы отправки уведомлений в случае краха, модулями для воспроизведения защищённого от копирования видеоконтента (DRM), системой автоматической установки обновлений, постоянным включением Sandbox-изоляции, поставкой ключей к Google API и передачей RLZ-параметров при поиске. Для тех, кому необходимо больше времени на обновление, отдельно поддерживается ветка Extended Stable, сопровождаемая 8 недель. Следующий выпуск Chrome 152 запланирован на 25 августа.

Доступен выпуск инструментария smolvm 1.7, позволяющего изолировать выполнение Linux-приложений в отдельных быстрозапускаемых виртуальных машинах. Smolvm даёт возможность упаковать приложение в образ виртуальной машины "smolmachine" или самодостаточный исполняемый файл, включающей все необходимые зависимости, который затем можно запускать на любых хостах с той же архитектурой CPU. Упакованные подобным образом приложения выполняются в отдельной виртуальной машине со своим ядром. При запуске в Linux используется гипервизора KVM, в macOS - Hypervisor.framework, а в Windows - Windows Hypervisor Platform. Код проекта написан на языке Rust и распространяется под лицензией Apache 2.0.

Для обсуждения разработчиками ядра Linux опубликован набор патчей c реализацией механизма KNOD, позволяющего использовать GPU AMD для ускорения обработки сетевых пакетов. KNOD взаимодействует с GPU напрямую, без обращения к фреймворкам в пространстве пользователя, таким как AMD ROCm и NVIDIA CUDA, самостоятельно управляет очередями GPU и выполняет JIT-компиляцию BPF-программ обработки пакетов для выполнения на GPU. Пакеты для обработки перенаправляются из памяти сетевого адаптера в GPU с использованием DMA и Device Memory TCP.

2.5 , aname ( ok ), 17:42, 27/07/2026 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] –1 + / – Для корыдуба, или пенька номерного?

4.9 , aname ( ok ), 17:51, 27/07/2026 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] +1 + / – 1.

4.11 , Аноним ( 11 ), 17:53, 27/07/2026 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / – Кроме квин, он меньше иксов потребляет.

4.37 , aname ( ok ), 20:20, 27/07/2026 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / – > Сделайте для нехудого микроконтроллера, на Коре и Пеньке, тем более, летать будет.

Так оплатите2.18 , DrSheppard ( ok ), 18:31, 27/07/2026 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / – labwc

После объявления о переводе JavaScript-платформы Bun на язык Rust при помощи AI и задействования Rust в кодовой базе, на основе которой формируется ветка Bun 1.4, несколько энтузиастов объявили о создании форков платформы, продолжающих развитие с использованием языка Zig.

Проект Debian объявил о проведении общего голосования (GR, general resolution) разработчиков по вопросу использования больших языковых моделей и AI-инструментов в процессе разработки дистрибутива. Право голоса имеют около тысячи разработчиков, участвующих в сопровождении пакетов и поддержании инфраструктуры Debian. Рассматриваемый вопрос охватывает только применение AI в Debian (работа над пакетами, разрабатываемыми в Debian проектами, web-ресурсами, переводами, документацией и сообщениями в официальной переписке) и не затрагивает использующие AI upstream-проекты, поставку связанных с AI пакетов и принятие патчей, созданных в upstream-проектах при помощи AI. Для голосования предложено два п…

После шести месяцев разработки опубликован релиз системной библиотеки GNU C Library 2.44 (glibc), которая полностью следует требованиям стандартов ISO C23 и POSIX.1-2024.

Представлена прошивка Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0, продолжающая развитие ветки на пакетной базе Ubuntu 24.04. Прошивка развивается проектом UBports, взявшим в свои руки разработку мобильной платформы Ubuntu Touch, после того как от неё отстранилась компания Canonical. Проектом также развивается экспериментальный порт рабочего стола Unity 8, который переименован в Lomiri.

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Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.

Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."

Apple's new Upgrade program is the latest sign that smartphone ownership is changing.

OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.

Uber has partnered with — and in some cases made direct investments in — about 30 autonomous vehicle companies over the past two years. Here's the list and the latest on the partnerships.

If you’re looking to cut back on screen time and get a little more active, here’s a roundup of the apps that might help.

From premium Shark and Dyson offerings to random Amazon devices, these mini fans will make your sweaty summer a little more managable.

OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.

Also has big plans beyond the TM-B. The startup mostly refers to itself as a "vehicle" company, and has plans to make four-wheel pedal-assist cargo vehicles for Amazon.

India's app market generated a record $345 million in Q2.

Mitsuru Obe / Nikkei Asia:

Japanese startups are racing to enter defense drone production, as Tokyo seeks to cut reliance on Chinese industrial drones, which control 91% of Japan's market — TOKYO — Japanese startups are entering defense drone production as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi seeks to reduce dependence on China and expand domestic manufacturing.

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase:

A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI's and Anthropic's models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and meaningful supervision — If I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought was sandboxed had …

New York Times:

An unsecured police dashboard exposed China's extensive tracking of foreigners, aggregating data from surveillance cameras, facial recognition tools, and more — An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.

Yevgeniya Mikhailidi / Nikkei Asia:

A look at Central Asia's emerging data center race, led by Uzbekistan's 6MW TAS-1 due by year-end and Kazakhstan's 125MW facility with 100K Nvidia chips by 2027 — TASHKENT/ISTANBUL — The race to build data centers in Central Asia is intensifying, with Uzbekistan set to complete the first phase …

Luz Ding / Bloomberg:

Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Kimi K3 on some benchmarks, and plans to release the open weights of Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B next week — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released its latest flagship AI model, with performance claims putting it alongside global leaders like Anthropic's Fable.

Peter Hall / Scientific American:

Two independent teams used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra on the same quantum cryptography problem, filing papers 3 hours apart, raising questions about scientific credit — An M.I.T. Ph.D. student and two University of California system cryptographers used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra in different ways …

Wall Street Journal:

A look at the US open-weight AI model ecosystem, as VCs question the revenue potential of open-weight startups like Arcee, Reflection AI, and Poolside — Silicon Valley startups are setting up open models, with some operating on shoestring budgets because of limited interest from VCs

Yueqi Yang / The Information:

Robinhood's prediction markets revenue surged 10x+ YoY to $156M in Q2, topping stock and crypto for the first time as speculators shift to real-world event bets — Brokerage app Robinhood has quickly become a force in prediction markets, challenging the hold of Kalshi and Polymarket on the popular betting market.

Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information:

Four US states rolled back or paused data center tax incentives, and nine others are weighing repeal measures, potentially adding 7% or more to equipment costs — Governors and legislatures in U.S. states that previously welcomed data centers are suddenly moving to rip away sales tax breaks …

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:

Sources detail the troubled development of Tencent's ambitious, GTA-like game Last Sentinel, which has burned hundreds of millions of dollars over six years — Lightspeed's Last Sentinel burnt through six years of development and hundreds of millions of dollars — Hi everyone.

Through sporadic radio contact, engineers discovered a problem with some of the spacecraft’s cold gas thrusters used for finer attitude control.

The Link satellite launched July 3 to begin the pursuit of Swift, and the mission proceeded mostly according to plan until last Saturday.

“We were, immediately prior, in a very stable configuration.”Katalyst’s ground team, working from a control center near Denver, hurried to find a fix and recover the Link satellite.

The good news was the spacecraft’s other systems remained healthy, including its power supply, three xenon-fueled electric thrusters, and the rendezvous and robotics hardware the Link satellite needs to capture Swift.

Keeping at itArs…

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has been a lightning rod for controversy ever since the first casting and design reveals, igniting afresh with each new trailer.

My take: the IMAX scale might be epic, but Nolan gives the story an intimate feel, weaving a captivating, nearly three-hour cinematic spell.

While the magic slowly starts to dissipate once one leaves the theater, the powerful imagery will resonate for days.

Meanwhile, his long-suffering wife, Penelope (Anne Hathaway), is warding off hundreds of suitors eager to usurp Odysseus’ throne back home.

The director has also preserved Homer’s nonlinear narrative structure, with tales nesting within tales.

Like any company, Reddit reports quarterly earnings, and its CEO, Steve Huffman, addresses investors during those reports.

It’s not always about just sharing numbers, though: This quarter, Huffman took the opportunity to voice concerns and criticisms about Google’s AI Overviews feature, which automatically summarizes search results on most user queries.

First, there was a letter to investors, wherein Huffman spun his narrative about Reddit’s value proposition and general strategic direction amid the proliferation of AI tools.

Last year, a study by Pew Research that looked at data from 900 US adults concluded that Google’s AI Overviews cut referrals to sites like those by almost half, compar…

City officials and neighbors assert that the constant stream of vehicles at the charging stations create light and sound pollution and cause undue traffic congestion on the streets and nearby alleys, creating a collective bother and disruption.

“The constant ‘beep beep beep’ sound as the autonomous vehicles back out of their spaces (in their own lots) is an incessant disturbance that hinders both our tranquillity during the day and our peace during the night,” wrote Christopher Potter, a man who says he lives right next to the lots.

Under the new order, Waymo is forbidden from operating the charging lots on Broadway at 12th and Euclid Streets between 11 pm and 6 am.

The Broadway charging st…

Each year’s badge creator endeavors to top previous designs and blow the minds of hard-to-impress hackers.

Instead of the badge designs being the star, it’s what is inside the hardware that will really stand out.

But the chip isn’t just part of the badge.

Its core module can be removed and used after the conference as a hardware security token, giving the badge a second life beyond Defcon.

The chip—called the Baochip-1x—is a “mostly” open source microcontroller that has been three years in the making and fulfills Huang’s years-long dream of making a chip whose security is verifiable.

A fruit fly hunting a piece of rotting fruit or a mate navigates by smell, following plumes of odor.

Out in the wild, turbulent air swirls these plumes into a chaotic, broken landscape—dense chemical filaments laced through long stretches of clean air.

Scientist had little idea of how fruit flies manage this chaotic signal with a brain the size of a pinhead.

But now a team led by Vanessa Ruta, a neuroscientist at the Rockefeller University, has shown that fruit flies do something far more advanced.

“It’s a little fly-sized treadmill,” Ruta explains.

But in reality, as scientists started poking large enough collections of data, there were regular hints of some strange ancestry in our genomes.

It was hard to pin down, though, at least in part because the 2 percent on average of Neanderthal DNA found in many populations does not guarantee that any two individuals will have the same 2 percent.

So having the genomes of those two groups made sense of some things researchers had already been seeing.

But knowing what we do about Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA is now allowing researchers to answer a somewhat different question: Is there anything else?

Using recently developed analytical techniques, they find evidence of a third lineage that we a…

But when the images came through, it was what they didn’t see that explained the situation: His entire shoulder joint was gone, seemingly blasted apart into small, lingering pieces.

The shoulder joint is a ball-and-socket joint, with the sphere-like head of the upper arm bone (humerus) sitting in the socket of the shoulder blade.

His upper arm bone was detached from the joint, and the sphere-like top of his upper arm bone (humeral head) was completely gone.

The broken, headless humerus was instead left to float freely in the man’s arm, unattached to his upper body.

Magnetic resonance imaging, meanwhile, found that the man’s rotator cuff—the group of muscles and tendons that holds the upper …

We are a month away from the initial rollout of Google’s Android developer verification system, and the company contends this policy does not impinge on the platform’s open nature.

Developer verification will soon block the installation of apps from unverified developers on any Android device running Google services, which is functionally all Android phones outside Russia and China.

But what if you’re an Android developer living in a sanctioned nation?

A rather lengthy FAQ a few levels deep on the Google developer site addresses various issues around dev verification.

Devices in sanctioned countries will be excluded from Android developer verification checks.

On Friday, a judge largely denied a motion to dismiss from a web scraper, SerpApi, which is accused of conspiring with Perplexity AI to illegally scrape copyrighted Reddit content from Google search results.

In his opinion, US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said that at this early stage, Reddit has plausibly pleaded that there was a conspiracy, with SerpApi providing a product to circumvent Google access controls and Perplexity AI paying for it.

Engelmayer’s decision came less than two weeks after another court dismissed a similar action raised by Google, finding that the company had not proven that rights holders, such as Reddit, had ever authorized the search engine to prevent the scra…

The OpenAI models went on to steal access credentials and other confidential Hugging Face information.

The OpenAI models also exploited publicly exposed credentials to compromise accounts of four other third-party services.

Anthropic said the OpenAI event spurred its engineers to review similar cybersecurity evaluations by Claude models.

The intrusions happened through three Claude models: Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal research prototype.

In none of these situations did Claude exfiltrate itself or deliberately attempt to escape its test environment.

Google briefly allowed anyone to create AI-modified versions of satellite imagery available in Google Earth—before quickly reversing its decision as people shared examples of AI-generated pictures that illustrated the potential for misinformation and disinformation.

There is no shortage of generative AI tools that already allow people to create AI-modified images of real buildings and cities based on user prompts.

That possibility deeply alarmed researchers, who often use Google Earth to help verify images and videos of locations at a time when AI-generated misinformation and disinformation have become rampant online.

They showed how the new feature could simplify the process of creating fa…

Everyone knows that great gimmicks are the key to hiring top developers for your startup.

That’s why small AI startup LemonLime—which “optimizes your existing data to work with AI”—has so many of them.

According to a writeup in Inc., seven people took the deal and got tattooed with the LemonLime logo during a party.

“Over a dozen applicants thus far have withdrawn after stating that they do not work past 5 pm or on weekends,” he added.

Zietz said that the company hires “people we want to be friends with,” since “changing the world is easier with friends.

In a motion to dismiss this week, Lancaster Country Day School (LCDS)—a private K-12 school in Pennsylvania with fewer than 600 students—argued that it was false to say the school never reported the harm to law enforcement.

The tip that the school received came from the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General, which is itself a law enforcement agency, the filing said.

At no time did the school see the images, and the school maintains that all activity connected to the AI nudes happened off-campus.

The boy has since pled guilty with another male student but at the time denied making the AI nudes, and the mother provided no more information.

An attorney representing the school, Rory Conna…

Human eyes don’t register the infrared portion of the light spectrum because infrared photons don’t carry enough energy to trigger the signaling pathway inside our light-sensing cells.

But we’ve been able to make devices that give us a visual representation of what’s happening in the infrared.

Researchers achieved that by combining mercury telluride colloidal quantum dots, which absorb infrared light, and a dual-layer OLED, which converts that absorbed energy into visible color.

Stacked together with the right internal wiring, they make incoming infrared radiation come out the other side as an ordinary-looking, full-color image.

That leaves over half of the Sun’s radiant energy outside our …

We knew how much the US prices for Xbox consoles would increase before the change took effect on August 1, but it turns out the price hike is going to be even steeper for anyone in Europe.

In the US, Microsoft announced back in June that the prices for its Xbox consoles would increase between $100 to $150, depending on the model.

However, with the updated Xbox store page, we now see that European Union residents have to pay between 150 to 200 euros more, while UK residents have to shell out more than 130 to 170 pounds more for the Xbox Series S and X.

Looking ahead, the price tags may not be settled just yet, since Microsoft previously noted in its June blog post that it's expecting storage…

The best way to answer this question is to look at the precedent Sony has already set.

A new console generation replacing an old one almost always involves considerable software overlap for at least the first few years of the newer console's life.

Even today, the PS4 is still getting plenty of new games, even if the AAA side of things moved on a while ago.

Nothing lasts forever, though, and at some point those last remaining clingers-on will get a big old nudge towards newer hardware.

Just don't expect any cross-generation releases to come on a disk, as Sony is ending support for physical games in 2027.

The best place to be for the 2026 solar eclipse is western Iceland or northern Spain.

The full eclipse will last longest in Látrabjargi, Iceland, and is also visible from Reykjavík, Isafjordur and all other cities on the western coast.

However, Spain is arguably the best location if you're looking for prime eclipse viewing.

Below you can find a list of locations, their peak eclipse viewing time, and the amount of coverage.

If you'd like to know a time even more specialized to your location, Time and Date has a complete collection of cities.

Linux apps and progressive web apps are supported too.

Perhaps you haven't seen a Linux app or progressive web app that does the trick.

Instead, an Android app that you obtain from elsewhere on the internet may be the way to go.

You may need to sideload this Android Package Kit (APK) onto your device, and we're here to detail how to do that.

Before we get into the details of sideloading an Android APK onto a Chromebook, note that you do this at your own risk.

Most of us have a box of old computer cables and adapters sitting around in case we need them someday.

Clearly, the "universal" in USB's "universal serial bus" is a misnomer, given the continued need for adapters to enable cross-device compatibility.

It's natural to hold onto these, so you don't have to buy them again; just because you haven't used a USB adapter in a while doesn't mean you'll never need it.

Some are so outdated that you don't need to hang onto them anymore.

The exact adapters you'll need depend on what devices you still have around.

Turn your Bluetooth speaker off and back on, and do the same with your phone, computer, or whatever you're connecting to.

Once that's done, if they've been paired before, try reconnecting your device to your speaker manually using the device's Bluetooth menu.

On an iPhone, visit Settings > Bluetooth, then look under My Devices for your speaker model name.

You can do this on the same Bluetooth menu.

Once it's ready, tap the speaker name on your phone's Bluetooth menu to reconnect.

With bypass charging, when you plug your phone in to charge and continue using it, the phone shifts its resources from recharging to running your apps and sort of pauses recharging.

This ensures you get a good experience but also protects the phone's battery from heat that can damage it.

Using your phone for intensive activities like mobile gaming can potentially lead to the phone getting excessively hot.

Note, however, that Apple iPhones do not yet support bypass charging.

If you notice the phone getting overly warm, stop using it to prevent battery damage.

For most people, a wireless hotspot is still the easiest way to get a laptop online when you're away from regular Wi-Fi.

And unlike the USB kind, you're free to move your phone away from the computer.

But there are some cases where USB tethering could make sense.

A wired connection can be more stable, which is handy for crowded places like convention centers or airports.

As a bonus, your phone might charge while it's connected.

Another lawsuit is aiming to hold social media platforms accountable for their claimed impact on younger users.

The Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC) filed a personal injury and wrongful death lawsuit against Meta, TikTok, Snap and Google.

The legal action accused these companies and their platforms of creating addictive and dangerous products that contributed to the death of four kids.

The lawsuit accused the social media platforms of having "ignored repeated warnings from their own researchers, concealed evidence of harm, and built systems that profiled minors during moments of psychological vulnerability."

A month prior, Meta, Snap and TikTok each individually settled a social medi…

If you're looking for something that's much more personalized to yourself and your friend groups, you need to check out stickers on your iPhone.

Stickers are a much more personal option that are a lot of fun to use in the Messages app (and elsewhere) on your iPhone.

You can easily create stickers using your own photos, including animated stickers from Live Photos.

And managing your stickers is simple too; you're free to remove any you aren't happy with or no longer use.

Chances are that when you start using stickers, your friends will too, which means more amusing chats for everyone.

It's a few weeks after the 25th anniversary of the Game Boy Advance's US release, but we finally have a modern-day remake, even if it's not from Nintendo.

During its latest product sharing stream, Ayaneo revealed the Konkr Pocket Advance, its take on the iconic horizontal handheld but updated with a better display, extra buttons and two fitting colors.

Drawing inspiration from the original Game Boy Advance, the Konkr Pocket Advance uses a 3.5-inch LCD screen to achieve the same 3:2 aspect ratio, but with a higher resolution of 960 x 640.

So far, Ayaneo has only revealed two colors for the Konkr Pocket Advance: a navy blue that's reminiscent of the classic indigo Game Boy Advance and a coral…

Like most features on your iPhone, CarPlay should be straightforward to use once you get it set up.

Unfortunately, as with any tech, problems can arise that stop CarPlay from functioning properly.

Perhaps you can't get CarPlay to work for the first time, it's stopped working after a period of normal use, or it suddenly keeps disconnecting.

These problems often have the same root causes, so running through some troubleshooting should clear them up.

Unless the issue ends up being the cable you use for CarPlay, you won't have to spend any cash, either.

The new Minnesota law that would ban apps and websites that can generate nonconsensual intimate imagery can take effect today, after xAI's last-minute effort to stop it from being enforced failed to convince a federal judge.

According to NBC News, US District Judge Donovan Frank has refused to grant xAI's request to stop the new law from being enforced on August 1 in a complaint arguing that it violates the First Amendment.

Based on the judge's order, he wasn't persuaded by xAI's actions that the law's enforcement would cause immediate harm.

"Such a delay in bringing the action and the motion suggests that harm is not immediate," the judge wrote.

While Judge Frank didn't side with xAI this …

But Honda isn't the only firm placing its chips on solid-state batteries.

Volkswagen, meanwhile, invested $1.2 billion in Chinese battery developer Gotion High Tech in 2020.

This year, the firm began testing its all-solid-state EV battery, which touts a reported range of 620 miles.

Ultimately, it appears unlikely that solid-state batteries will beat out their lithium-ion counterparts in the short term.

Despite widespread investment, scalability concerns are likely to persist as companies build out their solid-state battery supply lines.

But in a surprising twist to that trend, Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has found itself with a huge rise in players thanks to The Odyssey.

It’s worth noting Odyssey is on multiple subscription services, including Xbox Game Pass and Ubisoft+, hence its sizable console growth.

It doesn’t hurt that Assassin’s Creed Odyssey already had a few nods to the Greek epic the movie’s based on, from artwork and mentions of Odysseus and his family to in-game items named after them.

Unlike the film, Ubisoft draws from all corners of Greek mythology while incorporating it into Assassin’s Creed‘s normal sci-fi framework.

For anyone still high off the movie, you could do worse than Assassin’s Creed O…

If you head to your local Apple Store to get a basic, workhorse MacBook Air, you might find that the shelves for the most popular laptop in the Apple lineup are mysteriously empty.

You might then find that the same is true in the Apple Store one town over.

For instance, as one X user pointed out on Tuesday, Apple back-to-school ads including the MacBook Air have started to include a “MacBook Air subject to availability” disclaimer.

Certain memory options for other Apple products have essentially been abolished by removing them from the online Apple Store.

When I tried to buy a basic MacBook Air just now, the site said it wouldn’t arrive until the week of August 19-25.

A remarkable new law went into effect in Minnesota on Saturday that bans nudification apps, AI-based or not.

Just before it went into effect, District Court Judge Donovan Frank denied a last minute legal request from xAI, sometimes known as SpaceXAI, the AI division of the Elon Musk-led conglomerate, and the originator of the Grok AI chatbot.

XAI’s request for a temporary restraining order would have effectively blocked enforcement of the law.

In particular it cites AI generated images of Trump Administration officials in bathing suits.

In a statement posted to X, which is the SpaceX-owned social media outpost of the Grok chatbot, X said the capabilities that enabled this behavior had been…

It’s been a handful of days since Disney reversed its season two renewal of Wonder Man, and folks have questions.

Somewhat luckily, showrunner and co-creator Andrew Guest has some answers.

On Tiktok, Guest put out a video clarifying that no, this isn’t a marketing stunt, and no, the season wasn’t morphing into a movie.

Continuing Wonder Man apparently “didn’t make sense for them” like it had just a few months ago, and that’s all he knows, since he’s not fully privvy to the show’s numbers.

Guest ended the video thanking fans for their reactions to the news, acknowledging the “important conversations” being had about “the kind of shows platforms want to make” right now.

It’s been a minute since we’ve seen Tom Holland’s Peter Parker, but he’s back onscreen with Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Releasing this weekend in theaters (and ahem, X for a bit), the fourth MCU Spidey outing picks up years after Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Like past Spider-movies before it, Brand New Day has come frontloaded with a lot of hype behind it.

We’ll get to how much money Spider-Man: Brand New Day has made in its opening weekend—it’s definitely “a lot,” just a matter of “how much”—but for now, we want to know what you thought of it.

Was it the Spider-movie of your dreams since Spider-Man 2 (the 2004 one), and does it work as a soft reboot for the character?

Rumors of Alien: Romulus not getting a follow up have been greatly exaggerated.

World of Reel claimed Fassbender “practically signed on,” but Scott refused to let the actor join the project, despite its completed script.

This standstill then sent Alien: Romulus director/co-writer Fede Álvarez—who isn’t directing this next movie, but wrote and produced it—”into a tailspin” and to leave the sequel entirely.

News on the Romulus sequel been nonexistent, save for Álvarez stating in 2025 that filming would begin that October.

Even so, Asbell’s declaration that the story of Alien: Romulus will continue has fans hopeful.

A data collection bridge too farThe MemoMind One’s all-the-time recording manifests itself in a few ways on the smart glasses.

In one Moment, I was fatigued after a long day, and that wasn’t lost on the smart glasses.

There are also quite a few of the features we’ve come to expect from non-camera smart glasses of this ilk.

The experience was tiring at best, and to be fair, that’s not necessarily on Xgimi—it’s a problem with all smart glasses.

Xgimi says the smart glasses get about 16 hours of battery life with mixed use, which tracks with my testing.

If the Kata Friends did just those things at its retail price, it would be a fine product.

1 SwitchBot Kata Friends AI Pet A fun interactive toy that’s utterly ruined by subscription-locked features.

When you’re not actively engaging the Kata Friends, it wanders aimlessly.

The Kata Friends has some more general-purpose features.

Provided it has an internet connection, you can use the Kata Friends as an AI chatbot.

It sounds like after GPT-5.6 Sol comes either GPT-5.6 Astra, or GPT-6 Astra, or—who knows?—just “Astra” and the whole GPT part gets scrapped?

We also asked OpenAI about the relationship between this model and another OpenAI model only vaguely described in one of that company’s blog posts.

The “unprecedented cyber incident” covered in that July 21 blog post is already infamous.

As for the blog post about math, it comes with a paper.

For what it’s worth, OpenAI published a mathematical disproof back in May, purportedly solved by an unnamed OpenAI model.

Earlier this summer, we learned Paramount was looking to spin up a new Nightmare on Elm Street movie.

What we didn’t know until recently is that another movie is coming—from Warner Bros., the studio Paramount’s currently fixing to buy.

See, according to Puck News, WB has the franchise’s international rights, while Paramount holds domestic rights.

(That’d be Craven’s widow Iya Labunka, son Jon, and attorney Marc Toberoff, who’ll produce Paramount’s Nightmare.)

Both studios want these films out the door, since either could be the first new Nightmare on Elm Street since the maligned 2010 reboot.

Hank Green has become a living testament to the theory that using AI too much melts content creators’ brains, even if they don’t generate their actual content with it.

Internet drama over this issue is heated and still ongoing, even though Green—who is the brother of YA author John Green and an early YouTube star turned science explainer guy—has already apologized.

More than that, he has provided a lengthy account of what he perceives the problem to be.

I was talking about this with [my wife] Katherine last night and she did not pull any punches.

He says his personal YouTube channel will be updated less frequently, and that his puzzle games Smush and 4×3 will be paused altogether.

As is, WB head David Zaslav isn’t willing to sign off on the offers made to talent.

For what it’s worth, the Barbie movie made $1.448 billion and became the studio’s highest-grossing film and of 2023.

If a deal is locked down, it’ll still be a while for Barbie 2 to happen.

Gerwig’s currently finishing her Narnia movie for Netflix, and Ryan Gosling’s to headline Marvel’s Ghost Rider movie in 2028.

She and co-writer/husband Noah Baumbach reportedly have a story they’re ready to write, but they’re keeping that close to the chest.

Tim Cook is leaving his CEO role at Apple in one month, and on July 30 he gave his final earnings call.

He chose the occasion to announce that Siri lovers may soon have to pony up to use their favorite AI voice assistant.

Fortunately, in Cook’s telling Apple is absolutely bursting with pride over Siri AI, which, as Gizmodo has previously confirmed, does not suck.

Siri AI has not officially rolled out yet, but is available in beta form to anyone with relatively new hardware who wants to try it.

Then he dropped this (not super unexpected) bomb:“We’ll see what Siri AI does from the cost side of it.

In July 2019, fresh off the high of Avengers: Endgame, Marvel Studios peeled back the curtain on Phase 4.

After years of shifting dates, supposed cast additions and a rotating door of directors, the tail end of July 2026 confirmed what many had suspected and dreaded for a while: Marvel’s Ali-led Blade movie won’t happen.

Like the dead film’s top-billed stars, the character of Blade will generally be fine amidst all this; as far as video games are concerned, he’s in Marvel Rivals and next week’s Marvel Tōkon.

It’s doubtful he’ll disappear on the page either, since he’s currently in Jed Mackay and Devmalya Pramanik’s Marc Spector: Moon Knight for an arc before he probably pops up in so…

Almost all of the apps we’ve suggested here can store passkeys, which means you can store your passkeys right alongside your passwords.

Our two favorites, Bitwarden and 1Password, can generate, save, store, and sync passkeys.

You can even log in to Bitwarden using a passkey, which pretty much eliminates the need for a password at all.

When you return to that site, your password manager will log you in using the passkey you generated.

One day passkeys may work everywhere and there will be no passwords, no password managers.

Little red dots were never seen before the telescope came online in 2022.

These dots are just one of the thrilling mysteries that have emerged from JWST’s observations of the early universe.

At first, scientists were astounded: The universe revealed by JWST simply didn’t square with our understanding of astrophysics.

“This would be my black hole,” Mason said, drawing a small circle and filling it in.

“Then the kind of naïve picture is just this dense gas cloud around the black hole.” She drew a larger circle surrounding the object.

The best car vacuums make it easy to reach your vehicle's tiniest crannies, whether under the seats and floor mats or between the crevices of a car seat.

But if you want something super mobile for quick cleans, you'll be plenty happy with a lightweight handheld vacuum.

Here are all my favorite car vacuums and tips for picking your own.

Two styles are specifically easier for car cleaning: handheld vacuums, which are small and great for quick cleans, or cordless vacuums, which are super portable and have a removable extension wand that turns them into a hand vacuum.

True handheld vacuums are cheaper and lighter, but usually come with limited battery life (I'm talking 10 to 20 minutes) and sma…

They include a full solar eclipse on August 12 and a partial lunar eclipse on August 27 and 28.

Catch one—or both—of these eclipses if you can: They’ll be the last ones of 2026, as the other two have already taken place.

Solar Eclipse on August 12The first eclipse of the month will be a total solar eclipse.

The August solar eclipse will be visible in the northern hemisphere.

It’s the first time the Iberian Peninsula will be treated to a full solar eclipse in more than a century.

As an adult gear tester, I have one major problem with looking for the best kids’ backpacks: Ultimately, the decision is not up to me.

My 8-year-old and 10-year-old are the ones who have to carry their backpacks to school, camp, and beyond.

The bag has to protect iPads and Chromebooks; fit lunch boxes and water bottles; and endure getting kicked around cars, bikes, and school gyms.

To find the best kids’ backpacks, children of WIRED’s Reviews team tested the following for weeks, if not years, by stuffing them into lockers and under plane seats.

Don’t forget to check out the rest of our parenting coverage, which includes the Best Laptops for College Students, the Best Paper Planners, and the…

That also means the industry is garnering its fair share of criticism, mostly focusing on the fact that creeps can abuse camera-equipped smart glasses to capture photos and videos of people without their knowledge or consent.

The company’s smart glasses can capture images, audio, and video of whatever and whoever the wearer is looking at.

More recently, the company has added anti-tamper features that disable the glasses if a user has meddled with them.

Earlier this year, Meta programmed a feature that, if enabled, would add face-recognition technology to its smart glasses.

(At an event in June, Meta also said it's considering adding camera-free smart glasses to its lineup.)

He can’t help it—the YouTuber has collected 50 million subscribers and has spent most of his life streaming.

For AboFlah, known as Hassan Suleiman in the few hours he spends offline, it is more comforting to look into it than to ignore it.

It’s a massive, white-walled space scattered with props, furniture, and recording equipment, ready to film at any moment.

At 50 million subscribers and with a company, a cartoon character on the way, and a target of 100 million subscribers ahead of him, he is thinking about what comes next.

He speaks in Arabic, his speech threaded with the expressions of faith—Alhamdulillah, Inshallah, Bi’ithnillah—that punctuate many of his answers, and which I’ve kept i…

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Updated August 2026: We've revamped this guide to narrow down our picks and added some organic toppers and sheets you can grab to round out your organic bed.

Annual sales of battery-powered vehicles in China, including fully electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, have surged from about 1 million in 2018 to more than 16 million in 2025.

With EV batteries typically lasting about eight years, the country is entering its first major wave of battery retirements.

China reported 400,000 metric tons of EV battery waste last year.

A joint study by researchers in China and the United States projected that the figure could grow to 1.69 million metric tons in 2030 and 22.39 million metric tons by 2040.

For years, critics of electric vehicles have argued that their environmental benefits are overstated.

The Moon is now losing more of its light, with the next major milestone in its cycle being the Third Quarter phase.

What is today’s Moon phase?

As of Monday, Aug. 3, NASA's Daily Moon Guide tracker tells us the Moon phase is in Waning Gibbous phase, with 79% of its surface visible.

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Side-switching isn't an uncommon occurrence in the world of House of the Dragon, but it's a bit more important when you've got a dragon in tow.

Last season, Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) went to great effort to recruit herself some new dragonriders, but in Season 3 it already looks like one of them may be on the cusp of stabbing her in the back.

What happens at the end of House of the Dragon Season 3, episode 7?

Featured Video For You 'House of the Dragon' cast unpack Season 3, episode 2's biggest momentsHas Ulf switched to Team Green?

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What does Helaena dream in episode 7?

Featured Video For You 'House of the Dragon' cast unpack Season 3, episode 2's biggest momentsWhat could Helaena's dreams mean?

And the dragon she's riding?

And although the dragon Helaena rides is dark like Drogon, it looks slightly more purple in its colouring.

House of the Dragon Season 3 is now streaming on HBO Max, with new episodes premiering Sundays at 9 p.m.

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Many dragons have died so far in House of the Dragon, but now we have one who's come back.

But it's not the former king they're scared of, it's what's standing behind him: his dragon Sunfyre, badly scarred but still very much alive, and more than happy to scorch anyone foolish enough to stand in his path.

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22 years later, some viewers say it deserves another look.

Why Troy looks different in 2026When Troy opened in 2004, Hollywood was still crowded with historical and fantasy epics.

22 years later, some of what once made Troy seem conventional has become the reason viewers are praising it.

More than two decades before directing The Odyssey, he was originally hired by Warner Bros. to make Troy.

And though Odysseus needed 10 years to find his way home, Troy needed 22 to get its retrial.

Snapchat is joining social media’s AI slop crackdown by taking fully generated videos out of Spotlight recommendations.

The company announced July 31 that wholly AI-generated videos will no longer be eligible for recommendation in Spotlight, Snapchat’s discovery feed for trending videos from creators across the platform in order to "reward authentic creativity."

The policy does not prevent users from posting AI-generated videos elsewhere on Snapchat.

Creators can continue using Snapchat’s AI tools to edit or enhance their original footage, and those videos will remain eligible for Spotlight recommendations with transparency indicators.

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Chris and Tim Vanderhook, whose company acquired Myspace in 2011, say they plan to relaunch the once-dominant social media platform.

"We still own Myspace," Tim Vanderhook said in the documentary.

"We are going to relaunch Myspace.

Myspace has tried this beforeIf the relaunch talk sounds familiar, that is because Myspace has never completely stopped trying to come back.

People have not abandoned social media, but recent research suggests plenty are frustrated with what their feeds have become.

"I’m mortified that I have let so many people down," Green wrote.

He confirmed that he used ChatGPT to research the script, but said neither his notes nor the script contained the disputed phrase.

"I think it’s fair to say I was relying too much on generated notes," Green wrote in the deleted post.

In an Aug. 1 statement, the educational media nonprofit Green founded with his brother, author John Green, confirmed that he used ChatGPT during preliminary research.

In his Reddit response, Green said he has used chatbots to locate academic papers and other resources, rather than generate scripts or opinions.

Two minutes and thirty seconds into the title track of Rachika Nayar's Heaven Come Crashing, an absolutely massive drum and bass beat drops. As a fan of Nayar's debut record Our Hands Against The Dusk, it caught me off guard. That album has no percussion on it at all. Heaven Comes Crashing is almost entirely […]

Fender CEO Edward "Bud" Cole gave an interview to T3 in May celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster with comments on AI and music that initially flew under the radar. But it has started making the rounds recently, pouring more fuel on an already raging fire of bad PR following the company pissing off […]

When Microsoft announced its latest round of Xbox price bumps in June, it only gave US pricing. Now we know the pricing increases for the EU and UK, and they're dramatic. Depending on the model, Xbox prices are increasing by up to €200 or £170. The 1TB Xbox Series X with a disc drive is […]

The start of a new school year can feel hectic, as parents juggle their kids’ classes, extracurriculars and sports on top of work, appointments, and other responsibilities. It’s easy for things to slip through the cracks, but Skylight’s shared smart calendars can help keep everyone on track, and from August 2nd through August 9th they’re […]

The HP HyperX Omen 15, which I first saw at CES, replaces the HP Victus 15, a longtime bestselling budget gaming laptop. The Victus cost just $800, or less when on sale, and was a good entry point to decent laptop gaming. The Omen 15 has nice little upgrades over the Victus. Its RTX 5050 […]

Illustrators have spent years sounding the alarm about generative artificial intelligence startups training their models on artists' work without permission. They've pointed out how the practice is tantamount to theft, and in response, many gen AI boosters have argued that it's necessary for the technology's evolution. This has led to contentious legal battles, but it's […]

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on smartphones and Android, follow Dominic Preston. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Believe it or not, it didn't all start with […]

Android Headlines claims to have the specs and price for the entire Pixel 11 lineup. What the site shared basically lines up with everything else that we've heard in the lead-up to the August 12th event. The Pixel 11 is expected to get a $100 price hike, starting at $899, but will come with 256GB […]

Angela Nissel's latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead, is my kind of memoir. Sure, it's a deeply emotional tale about caring for a terminally ill parent. But it's delivered with the sort of gallows humor that I often turn to to get me through tough times. Of course, that sort of […]

Fenix Flexin is best known as a member of Shoreline Mafia, a rap duo from Los Angeles. But he's recently found solo success with the track "Rubberz," which has climbed to number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100. Almost immediately, though, questions were raised about the song's origins, with many speculating that it was largely, […]

A bootleg of Spider-Man: Brand New Day was up on X for over seven hours before eventually being pulled. During that time, it reached over 5.9 million accounts and accumulated over 143,000 likes. Other accounts have reposted the leaked film, but none have lasted particularly long, as Disney now seems to be on top of […]

The FBI, the EPA, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have stopped short of officially blaming Iran for a spate of cyberattacks on Minnesota's water systems, but consensus is that Iran is likely behind them. That, of course, hasn't stopped Donald Trump from sharing his own theory - that Governor Tim Walz is […]

Knowing exactly what your student needs for the school year ahead is next to impossible. Sure, you'll probably nail the essentials, but there will likely be a few items you forgot to buy, or didn't think they'd need to have. We're pulling our weight during the back-to-school season with a new shopping guide that's a […]

Your smartphone photos can look way better. If you're willing to put in a little extra work, use third party apps and spend a bit of time editing, it's possible to take photos that - under the right circumstances - can rival dedicated digital cameras. I post a lot of smartphone photos online, and "How […]

The Mermaid Mask, the next point-and-click game from Tangle Tower developer SFB Games, has everything you could ask for in a great murder mystery. It starts with a compelling setup: The captain of a submarine is found dead in a locked room, his body next to a mysterious cauldron with blood trickling across the floor. […]

If you have built anything with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in the last two years, you have lived its central frustration: You chop your documents into chunks, embed them, retrieve the top few that look similar to the question, and hand them to the model. For “What was our Q3 refund policy?” This works beautifully. For “What are the recurring themes across two years of customer complaints?” it falls flat — because no single chunk contains the answer.The fashionable fix is GraphRAG: Instead of feeding the model isolated snippets, you first build a knowledge graph of the entities and relationships in your corpus, then use that structure as context. The pitch is seductive. But seducti…

If you ask an AI coding agent to write a standalone Python script to parse a single JSON file, it will likely give you a perfect answer in seconds. But the same agent often breaks if you ask it to build a systematic data processing pipeline, like ingesting thousands of messy documents, chunking text, scoring quality, and filtering noise for a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that fits your specific enterprise stack.While large language models (LLMs) excel at one-off code generation, their outputs for complex data-processing tasks are typically free-form, disposable scripts. These scripts are detached from the governable workflow abstractions that MLOps teams rely on for productio…

The AI agent observability space is taking off — but how can enterprises be sure what observability products and solutions they need?Observability startup groudcover (lower case "g" intentional) announced this week that it raised $100 million in a round led by One Peak, bringing its total funding to $160 million. The company says it has more than 250 paying customers, tripled annual recurring revenue over the past year and is increasingly replacing established observability platforms inside enterprise environments. Those are company-reported figures, but together they point to growing momentum in one of enterprise software's most competitive markets.That market has long been dominated by co…

Days after OpenAI disclosed that two frontier AI models escaped containment measures and autonomously cyberattacked the AI code sharing platform Hugging Face, OpenAI's top U.S. rival Anthropic tonight revealed that — lo and behold — it has also had models surreptitiously access the web when they weren't supposed to, and cyberattack and gain "unauthorized access" to three other organizations. Anthropic says that it ran "capture the flag" cybersecurity scenarios with three models — Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5, and unnamed internal research prototype — with its partner, the AI security firm Irregular. Anthropic says the models were not supposed to have internet access, but that a misunder…

Just two weeks after Thinking Machines released Inkling, its first open source AI language model, the well-funded startup led by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati today introduced Inkling-Small without sacrificing much of any performance — and in fact, the new model surpasses its larger predecessor on several benchmarks.Inkling Small is a 276-billion-parameter multimodal reasoning model with a permissive Apache 2.0 license that comes within a single point of its larger sibling on the third-party Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, despite the original Inkling being 975 billion parameters (internal model settings). It accepts text, image and audio inputs, produces text, …

To quote an ancient Jedi Master "Begun, the AI price wars have!"OpenAI is sharply reducing the prices of two models in its GPT-5.6 frontier series, cutting GPT-5.6 Luna, the smallest and fastest model in the series, by 80% and GPT-5.6 Terra, the mid-tier model, by 20%, while adding a premium Fast mode for its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model.The cuts place Luna much closer to the lowest-cost commercial models in the market and arrive just a few days after Anthropic released its highly performant Claude Opus 5 at the same price as Opus 4.8, and Google introduced Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, two rival models built around lower inference costs, faster execution and more efficient agen…

Every time a Mastercard gets tapped, the network has less than a tenth of a second to judge how likely the purchase is to be fraudulent. It made that call across 175 billion transactions last year. Now the buyer on the other side of that judgment is starting to change, and Greg Ulrich, the company's chief AI and data officer, spelled out the consequence for the VB Transform 2026 audience in Menlo Park on July 14. "We've built a bunch of risk rules over time that were intended to stop a bot from transacting," Ulrich said. "Now we need to enable the bot to transact, so that requires a change to our risk framework and our risk rules."Ulrich joined Mastercard eleven years ago when an analytics …

Less than a year after emerging from stealth to tackle non-human identity security, Israeli cybersecurity startup Hush Security believes the enterprise AI security conversation has fundamentally changed.The company, which earlier this week announced a $30 million Series A round led by returning investors Battery Ventures and YL Ventures with Akamai Technologies joining as a strategic investor, argues that organizations are rapidly moving beyond experimenting with generative AI assistants and into deploying autonomous software agents that require an entirely different security model. While the funding will help expand engineering, U.S. sales and enterprise integrations, Hush is framing the a…

A security team approving an open-source model for production today starts with a repository page. The page lists the model name, the license, and a tag identifying the base model it descended from. That tag is a string the uploader typed. Hugging Face does not require uploaders to substantiate the claim through weight-level analysis.The ATOM Report, published by Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand at Interconnects AI in April 2026, tracked roughly 1,500 mainline open models. ATOM identifies derivatives through the Hugging Face base_model tag, a field the uploader populates, filtering to models whose base model appears in the tracked list and that have more than five lifetime downloads and exc…

Presented by NTT DATA AIVistaVentureBeat’s June research found that 69% of enterprises are still running AI agents that share credentials, a practice associated with higher rates of security incidents and near-incidents. But at VB Transform 2026, Mukesh Karki, CTO of NTT DATA AIVista, and Mayank Upadhyay, chief security and trust officer at Snowflake, argued that fixing identity is only the first step. Enterprises also need action-level authorization and tamper-resistant audit trails built into every agent interaction if they’re going to deploy autonomous systems safely at scale. "These organizations need to be able to prove to their auditors in a very tamper-resistant fashion that those re…

Presented by SAPEnterprise AI has moved from experiment to execution, and that shift is beginning to show real returns. The SAP Value of AI Report 2026, produced with Oxford Economics and based on a survey of 2,600 business leaders across 13 countries, found that AI now supports nearly one-third of all tasks in the average organization, rising to 30% from 25% last year. ROI expectations for agentic AI have jumped from 10% last year to 17% this year, but many organizations believe AI could be delivering far more value. The report reveals that the gap comes down to strategy, data, and governance, rather than access to the newest model, says Sean Kask, chief AI strategy officer at SAP."AI has …

Few companies face higher stakes when deploying AI than Waymo, the self-driving car company under Alphabet that spun out of Google. Its models do not merely generate text or automate back-office tasks: They help vehicles navigate unpredictable streets, respond to human drivers and make split-second decisions in the physical world.But the methods Waymo uses to manage those risks — continuous evaluation, carefully curated data, human oversight and clearly defined business outcomes — offer a broader playbook for enterprises deploying AI agents in nearly any industry.Manasi Joshi, Waymo’s director of engineering for systems intelligence and machine learning, explained at VB Transform 2026 how t…

Enterprise AI agents can do the work — but the infrastructure to let them talk to each other, prove they should be trusted, and be audited when something goes wrong is still being built.Here's a look at how five startups are tackling that gap — around orchestration, observability, connectivity, and security — as shown at VB Transform 2026.BAND is orchestrating all the agents you have running in the backgroundIn the very near future, agents will be deployed everywhere, and they will do work on our behalf, noted Vlad Luzin, CTO and co-founder of BAND. As he describes it: They will receive tasks, visit registries, recruit other agents to help them, delegate subtasks to AI peers in a “conversat…

Nimble, a New York City-based tech startup VentureBeat previously covered for its efforts to re-invent web search for enterprises by using multiple AI agents to improve accuracy and depth, is taking another step toward its vision of a world in which agents do most of the web searching instead of us typing and reviewing the results manually. Nimble today launched Web Search Agents, a new retrieval system designed to help AI agents perform more 21% more accurate web research while using significantly fewer tokens — 51% less compared with leading AI search alternatives on comparable, according to the firm. While Nimble did not disclose its specific benchmarking methodology or competitors evalu…

Target SVP Siobhán Mc Feeney says the AI models her company runs aren't what gives Target its edge — everything built around them is."There's a lot in it. That to us is the moat," Mc Feeney said at VB Transform 2026. "The models are great, and they're important. They're just not sufficient to be the competitive advantage."That discipline shows up early in how Target decides whether to build an agent at all. Mc Feeney was blunt, even "controversial" by her own admission, about the current AI moment: every enterprise wants AI agents, but not everything needs one, she said.Agents earn their autonomy over time rather than getting it by default, she said — a principle that runs through everythin…

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I compared two of the best bang-for-buck gaming laptops on the market right now: the Alienware 15 (2026) and the Lenovo LOQ Essential 15.

However, the Alienware 15 edged out the LOQ Essential 15 in my testing.

Alienware 15 (left) compared to LOQ Essential 15 (right).

The Lenovo LOQ Essential 15 is a solid device as well, but the value proposition is not as cut and dry.

ZDNET's key takeawaysMicrosoft has pushed out a new Windows 11 app called OneDrive Photos.

Earlier this week, I noticed a new app called OneDrive Photos pop up in the Start menu on my Windows 11 PC.

But I received it on my regular production Windows 11 PC, not on an insider build.

Everything you can do with the OneDrive Photos appWith that mystery afoot, let's check out the app to see just what it does.

The only way to block or delete OneDrive Photos is by completely removing OneDrive, according to Windows Latest.

ZDNET's key takeawaysAmazon has received $600 million in tariff refunds.

It will be passing those refunds directly to customers.

Amazon is getting a $600 million refund, and some shoppers will receive a portion of it.

In a recent company earnings call, Brian Olsavsky, Amazon's finance chief, explained that the company was participating in that program and getting a "limited" refund of $600 million.

Amazon seems to be a rarity in passing refunds directly back to shoppers.

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Anthropic has revealed three separate incidents in which Claude models hacked real-world targets during evaluation tests and Capture the Flag security challenges.

However, as Claude's behavior demonstrates, these guardrails aren't always sufficient to stop AI from going rogue.

While Claude had trouble reaching the simulated target, it was able to target the real company after escaping its sandbox.

"In all four of the runs," Anthropic noted, "the model eventually recognized that the system was real; in two cases, the model rationalized that the real company must be part of the exercise.

First, safety testing remains one of Anthropic's priorities; improved evaluation environments before an AI…

As often happens in the labs of various frontier models, AI safety researchers were attempting to gauge the capabilities of OpenAI's latest large language models (LLMs).

Such enclosures are sometimes discussed in technical circles as "sandboxes" -- even OpenAI's disclosure makes reference to a "sandbox environment."

Also: Why this fully agentic ransomware attack is giving researchers nightmaresSome of that agency was by design, and some was inherited from the powerful LLMs that OpenAI's AI safety testing personnel were testing at the time.

A series of preventable eventsIt was unquestionably AI's version of a series of unfortunate events.

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ZDNET's key takeawaysLinkedIn announced a "Seems like AI slop" button.

AI slop posts are ubiquitous on the internet.

What is AI slop?

LinkedIn isn't the only online platform looking to decrease the amount of AI slop users encounter.

AI slop posts may not be going anywhere anytime soon, but digital platforms are taking steps to curb their reach and popularity.

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Couple that with broader economic insecurities, and many people have begun holding onto their phones longer.

That survey got me thinking: how long should you hold on to your phone to maximize its value?

Not too long ago, hanging onto a phone for five years meant missing out on major software updates, new features, and critical security patches.

Consumer demand for longer support, alongside pressure from government regulators, has forced manufacturers to extend software support.

If my analysis helps you get more value from your mobile device and convinces you to keep your phone longer, I know I've done my job.

That has turned fusion, forever mocked as “30 years away,” into one of the hottest bets in tech.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems, based in Massachusetts, said the round takes its total to $4 billion, roughly 30% of all the money ever raised for fusion.

Tech firms are buying electricity at almost any price to feed AI data centres, and clean, round-the-clock power is scarce.

Either way, the race is on: rival General Fusion listed through a SPAC this month, and TAE Technologies is merging with Trump Media.

But the AI data-centre boom is minting power buyers, and rival fusion startups are raising fast.

K2 Space is going the other way, on purpose.

K2 raised a $500 million Series D at a $6.8 billion valuation, it said on Thursday.

K2 has now raised over $1 billion, against more than $1 billion in signed contracts.

K2 argues the opposite: in orbit, power decides what a satellite can do, so it builds big, high-power ones instead.

Building 100 large satellites a year is a manufacturing feat no one has pulled off, and space-based data centres remain years away and unproven.

DataBahn, a Texas company founded in 2023, has closed a $40 million Series B led by Insight Partners, it said on Thursday.

DataBahn sells what it calls an “agentic data control plane.” In plain terms, it is a neutral layer between the systems that produce enterprise data and the ones that consume it, from security tools to data warehouses and, now, AI agents.

Cloud transfer fees, storage, rising data volumes and AI inference costs are all climbing at once.

A control plane can also decide what an agent is allowed to see, and log how each piece of data was changed and routed, a governance job that matters in regulated industries.

Cribl, Splunk and the big cloud and security vendors all route …

The dull chips that wire thousands of those GPUs together are quietly becoming just as valuable.

Xsight Labs, an Israeli chipmaker, has raised more than $300 million at a $2.8 billion valuation, it said on Thursday.

Xsight builds the plumbing of the AI data centre.

Its two chips, the E1 processor and the X2 switch, shuttle data between servers, memory and networks.

They run standard Linux and SONiC, and operators can rewrite the X2 switch in software after it ships, instead of waiting for new silicon.

Meta’s answer to the “pervert glasses” problem was a small light.

On her second-generation Ray-Ban Meta glasses, worn outside, the recording light was undetectable.

The crackdown was already failingThe stickers arrive weeks after Meta announced a ban on people filming themselves harassing strangers with the glasses.

Meta’s glasses have exposed the people wearing them.

For now, the glasses that record and the glasses that pointedly refuse to are both booming.

Oracle has just put its cloud rival’s AI at the heart of the software its customers run their businesses on.

The company said on Thursday it is expanding its Google Cloud partnership to bring Gemini into Oracle’s enterprise applications.

It will also power embedded AI across Oracle Fusion apps and NetSuite.

Rather than lock customers into its own AI, Oracle is offering Google’s as another option inside tools they already use.

“Organizations need the flexibility to choose the AI model best suited to each problem,” said Chris Leone, Oracle’s applications-development chief.

A year ago, AI search was basically one product with one name: ChatGPT.

But Similarweb says its share of web visits has fallen steadily as Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and DeepSeek pull in audiences of their own.

Its AI Overviews now surface on a growing share of US searches, and visits to its conversational AI Mode keep rising.

AI search is growing up, and some are opting outThe audience is ageing into the mainstream.

But optimising for AI search is its own game: most referrals, 58.8%, land on homepages, while the pages ChatGPT cites sit two or three folders deep.

The European Union has cleared the $55bn takeover of Electronic Arts by a Saudi-led consortium, removing one of the last regulatory hurdles to the largest leveraged buyout in history.

The EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation exists to stop state money from outside the bloc from distorting competition when a foreign-backed buyer acquires a business in Europe.

It concluded the deal would not raise competition concerns and cleared it under both merger and subsidy rules, letting the transaction proceed across the bloc.

Kushner’s involvement, Saudi state money, and control of games played by hundreds of millions have drawn scrutiny from human-rights groups and lawmakers wary of the kingdom’s soft-p…

“This is a simulation of my image and my voice using artificial intelligence.”Then it campaigned.

Why this is not a normal deepfakeThe debate over AI in elections has focused on lies: fake videos that trick voters into believing something false.

The TSE’s president, Justice Kássio Nunes Marques, whom Bolsonaro appointed to the Supreme Court, said using AI to campaign is permissible.

The EU’s AI Act will force a label on synthetic media, and Brazil’s own code targets fabricated content that misleads.

The Bolsonaro clip met that bar and marched straight through it.

Space-Eyes, a Miami geospatial-intelligence company backed by Eric Trump, plans to go public through a $638 million blank-cheque deal, deepening the family’s defence-tech ties.

A defence-technology company backed by Eric Trump is preparing to go public through a $638 million SPAC merger, deepening the Trump family’s already extensive ties to the national-security industry.

Space-Eyes, a Miami-based geospatial intelligence firm, would list through a blank-cheque deal, following the path of Foundation, another Eric Trump-backed defence venture now winning Pentagon contracts.

Founded in 2001, the roughly 35-person company builds satellite-based AI that tracks maritime activity, trade flows, an…

Amazon shares jumped more than 12% after its cloud division posted its fastest growth in over four years, easing investor fears that the company’s ballooning AI spending was running ahead of the payoff.

“We’re encouraged by the strength in the core AWS business, which has a high correlation with AI revenue,” JP Morgan wrote, arguing the link between cloud growth and AI will only tighten.

Meta recently raised the floor on its AI spending even as its cash flow tightened, and Microsoft and Alphabet have leaned on cloud growth to justify their own outlays.

Its shares trade at a higher earnings multiple than Microsoft’s or Alphabet’s, a sign investors are willing to pay up for the growth AWS is …

Companies that make or use AI will soon have to label content that looks authentic but is not, as the European Union’s landmark AI Act moves from principle into enforcement.

The 💜 of EU tech The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art.

Clearly unrealistic or fantastical content sits outside the rules, and AI-generated text escapes labelling if a human with genuine editorial responsibility has meaningfully reviewed it.

Advertisers, among others, have argued that AI-generated ads should be exempt from the transparency rules, a lobbying fight that has run alongside the law’s rollout.

It published draft guidelines in May and…

Hyderabad cybercrime police have filed a report against Meta India chief Arun Srinivas over AI-altered videos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, escalating friction between the government and the platform.

Police in Hyderabad have registered a criminal case against Meta’s India head over AI-altered videos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that circulated on Facebook and Instagram, escalating a long-running friction between the government and the platform.

The first information report, filed on 31 July, names Arun Srinivas, Meta’s India chief, and comes weeks after New Delhi summoned Meta over content on its apps.

India’s IT ministry recently summoned Meta executives and asked for an explanation…

The Munich Regional Court ruled that Suno trained on GEMA-represented songs without permission and reproduced them, in one of Europe’s first binding decisions on AI-generated music.

German court has ruled that Suno, one of the world’s most popular AI music generators, broke copyright law by training on protected songs without permission, in one of Europe’s first binding decisions on AI-made music.

In court, it played side-by-side comparisons of Suno’s output and famous tracks, arguing the AI reproduced recognisable melodies, harmonies, and rhythms from the originals.

Lawyers see it as one of the first binding European rulings on whether AI music training needs permission, a question that ha…

Apple delivered its best-ever June quarter for iPhone sales and watched its shares fall anyway, as a warning about supply constraints and rising costs unnerved investors.

iPhone revenue hit $54.25bn in the quarter, up almost 22% and a record for the period, comfortably ahead of Wall Street’s expectations of around $53.86bn.

TD Cowen argued the company could raise iPhone prices without denting demand much, a tempting option if costs keep climbing into the holiday season.

He takes over a company with record momentum and a looming CEO transition, but also one whose growth is now gated by forces outside Cupertino’s control.

Record iPhone sales are a strong note to leave on, but the outlook he h…

Novig is becoming the exclusive official prediction market partner of the New York Mets through a new multi-year agreement, creating… Continue reading Mets partner Novig launches landmark MLB prediction market alliance amid expansion

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New York is taking its fight against prediction markets to court, with Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James… Continue reading New York sues Kalshi alleging illegal prediction markets defying state gambling laws

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Robinhood turned in its strongest second quarter on record as higher trading activity, rising customer deposits and steady subscription growth… Continue reading Robinhood posts record second-quarter revenue as trading subscriptions deposits accelerate growth

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A federal judge has refused to block Wisconsin from enforcing its gambling laws against companies offering sports-related event contracts, handing… Continue reading Federal judge lets Wisconsin continue sports prediction market enforcement fight forward

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Next month, Apple will be unveiling its first foldable iPhone – rumored to be called iPhone Ultra.

Reviewers who have early access to the Galaxy Z Fold 8 have posted plenty of comparison photos of it and other devices on Twitter.

Since the iPhone Ultra and Galaxy Z Fold 8 are going to be dimensionally similar, this serves as a great representation of how iPhone Ultra will look and feel in the real world.

For those who mourn the loss of iPhone mini, iPhone Ultra could get you pretty close.

iPhone 13 mini vs Galaxy Z Fold 8📸 via: Minimalistech pic.twitter.com/KCLXOL84zC — Shishir (@ShishirShelke1) July 25, 2026Personally, seeing the Galaxy Z Fold 8 last week made me more excited for the iPhon…

Just remember that you will need a dedicated Apple Home hub, like an Apple TV 4K or a HomePod, to access your devices remotely to take full advantage here.

HomeKit Weekly is a series focused on smart home accessories, automation tips and tricks, and everything to do with Apple’s smart home framework.

One of the easiest smart home wins for summer travel is automating your outdoor watering.

On the flip side, paying to keep an empty house cold all week is a complete waste of money.

With an Apple Home-compatible thermostat, you can adjust your air conditioning back to your preferred temperature the night before you return.

Apple has been working on camera-equipped AirPods for quite some time, with Visual Intelligence at the forefront of the product.

However, there’s now a new chance that we end up seeing our first version of camera-equipped AirPods later this year anyways.

This isn’t our first time hearing about the B790 variant.

Only time will tell what these actually end up looking like, but it’s very possible we see the first version of AirPods with cameras as soon as September.

Previous reports have suggested AirPods with cameras will have slightly longer stems than AirPods Pro to house the cameras, and will feature an LED for when data is being sent to the cloud.

Despite those price hikes, the company is still struggling to keep MacBook Air in stock.

Nonetheless, even with the higher prices to cover the higher memory and storage costs, Apple is still struggling to keep the M5 MacBook Air in stock – despite being a relatively new computer.

From the Power On newsletter:From what I’ve heard, the MacBook Air shortage is indeed tied to the ongoing memory crunch.

I don’t expect a new MacBook Air until a bit later.

Amazon currently has M5 MacBook Air in stock with next-day delivery and a $100 discount.

Per his reporting, Apple had already been working towards using Vision Pro as a health platform.

However, due to the weight of the headset, the company abandoned its plans:One initiative was a version of Apple Fitness+ that could run inside the headset.

Nonetheless, the company is revisiting a similar idea with its upcoming smart glasses – though it’ll have to be a bit different due to the lack of displays.

Fitness on smart glassesIt isn’t super clear what exactly Apple has in the pipeline for smart glasses, though we do know Apple is hiring for it.

That sort of setup could likely make the glasses a useful companion for runners.

This week, Apple launched Apple Upgrade, its new leasing program for most Apple products.

The deal is so good that largely, there isn’t a great reason to use Apple Card Monthly Installments (ACMI) anymore.

Apple Card Chase transitionEarlier this year, Apple announced that the Apple Card would be transitioning partner banks, from Goldman Sachs to JPMorgan Chase.

Regarding the future of Apple Card Monthly Installments, the website says the following:Apple Card users can continue to purchase Apple products with Apple Card Monthly Installments when they choose to check out with ACMI at Apple Store locations, apple.com, and the Apple Store app.

Apple UpgradeAs I mentioned in the beginning, Apple…

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MacBook Neo is beginning to displace Windows and Chromebooks in K-12 in a rapid fashion.

About Apple @ Work: Bradley Chambers has been an Apple IT admin since 2009.

MacBook Neo is still priced to compete directly with Chromebooks and budget Windows laptops, while running on Apple silicon.

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If you’re an aviation geek, Overflight is a fun new app for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV that shows you exactly what planes are flying above you, where they’re headed to, and everything else you’d like to know.

At a glance, in the free app, you can see the flight number, the tail number, the altitude, speed, nautical mile distance, and more.

It’ll also never time out if you’re subscribed to pro, whereas free will time out after a short while.

For the full experience, Overflight Pro is available for $3.99/month, $19.99/year, and $69.99 lifetime.

The 20th anniversary iPhone is rumored to reach Jony Ive’s initial vision of a single slab of glass.

That said, I’m not fully convinced that it’ll end up being a successor to the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro like many are suggesting.

If things tone down a bit, then maybe iPhone 20 replacing both Pro iPhones would still make sense.

What do you think about the 20th anniversary iPhone rumors?

Do you think it makes sense to replace the current iPhone Pro design?

Later this fall, Apple will be updating the Mac Studio for the first time since early 2025.

Here’s what to expect with the next generation Mac Studio, as well as in the future.

This fallThe M5-based Mac Studio refresh was initially set for mid 2026, but the ongoing memory shortage caused a bit of a timeline slip.

With this refresh, Apple will be introducing the M5 Max and M5 Ultra Mac Studio, with the M5 Ultra potentially going as high as 768GB of RAM.

2028In 2028, Apple will be updating the Mac Studio yet again with M7 Max and M7 Ultra chips, and these ones should be more substantial.

Starting with iOS 27, Apple is making a major change to how users open Notification Center on iPhone and iPad.

iOS 27 is currently in beta, and the behavior has changed slightly between the first two releases.

Siri AI takes over the swipe gesture for a lot of the iPhone and iPad top edgeOpening Notification Center is unchanged on iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 by default.

On iPadOS 27 beta 1 in particular, the area above Home screen app icons was pretty much devoted to invoking Siri AI.

It’s roughly the size of two app columns with Notification Center on the left and Control Center on the right.

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Apple TV’s YouTube channel has shared the full panels for Matchbox The Movie, Widow’s Bay, Dark Matter, Mayday, and Silo, from its first-ever Hall H takeover at San Diego Comic-Con 2026.

Watch all five panels belowLast Saturday, July 25, Apple held its first-ever Hall H takeover at San Diego Comic-Con, featuring panels for Matchbox The Movie, Widow’s Bay, Dark Matter, Mayday, and Silo.

Watch Silo on Apple TVThe Matchbox The Movie panel featured stars John Cena, Jessica Biel, Sam Richardson, Teyonah Parris, and Arturo Castro.

Watch Widow’s Bay on Apple TVApple TV is available for $12.99 per month or part of the Apple One bundle.

It features hit TV shows and movies like Severance, The Studio,…

According to Counterpoint Research, Apple captured nearly half of global smartphone revenue during the second quarter, despite a market-wide decline in shipments.

Apple hits record revenue share for a second quarterA new report from Counterpoint Research (via MacMagazine) says Apple captured a record 49% of global smartphone revenue during the last quarter, as its revenue rose 22% year over year.

That marked the company’s highest-ever revenue share for a second quarter.

Counterpoint says total smartphone revenue grew 7% year over year during the quarter, with Apple recording the fastest growth among the five largest brands.

From the report:Apple’s growth was led by the sustained demand for …

OpenAI согласилась приобрести Astral, которая создает *современные* инструменты на Python для разработчиков, чтобы интегрировать её команду в Codex. Ну и по пути сообщает, что у Codex более 2 млн пользователей — в три раза больше, чем в январе. При этом от лица разработчиков заявляю - мы всё больше предпочитаем Claude Code. И разрыв между этими продуктами не сокращается, а субьективно наоборот - растет www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/openai-to-acquire-python-startup-astral-expanding-push-into-coding

OpenAI согласилась приобрести Astral, которая создает *современные* инструменты на Python для разработчиков, чтобы интегрировать её команду в Codex. Ну и по пути сообщает, что у Codex более 2 млн пользователей — в три раза больше, чем в январе. При этом от лица разработчиков заявляю — мы всё больше предпочитаем Claude Code. И разрыв между этими продуктами не сокращается, а субъективно наоборот — растет.www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/openai-to-acquire-python-startup-astral-expanding-push-into-coding

В переводчике kagi появился чудесный язык "Linkedin Speak". Только что мою фразу "Fuck off, I don't want to receive your spam anymore." они идеально перевели вот так:Thank you for reaching out. To ensure my inbox is aligned with my current professional priorities, I will be unsubscribing from this mailing list. I wish you the best in your future endeavors.Весьма рекомендую.https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=linkedin

В переводчике kagi появился чудесный язык "Linkedin Speak". Только что мою фразу "Fuck off, I don't want to receive your spam anymore." они идеально перевели вот так:Thank you for reaching out. To ensure my inbox is aligned with my current professional priorities, I will be unsubscribing from this mailing list. I wish you the best in your future endeavors.Весьма рекомендую.https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=linkedin

Конференция NVIDIA GTC раньше была про игры. А сейчас все больше про NVIDIA и их значение для мира ИИ, так что вот тут можно будет смотреть https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw_o0xr8MWU

Конференция NVIDIA GTC раньше была про игры. А сейчас все больше про NVIDIA и их значение для мира ИИ, так что вот тут можно будет смотреть https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw_o0xr8MWU

Вечный источник сливов, the Information пишут, что OpenAI готовится выпустить GPT-5.4, который получит «экстремальный» режим рассуждений и контекстное окно объёмом 1 млн токенов вместо 400 тыс. в GPT-5.2. Честно говоря, эта гонка сейчас перестала так впечатлять как раньше. Ждем какого-то прорыва, чтобы снова отличать модели друг от друга.🔗 https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-next-ai-model-will-extreme-reasoning

Вечный источник сливов, the Information пишут, что OpenAI готовится выпустить GPT-5.4, который получит «экстремальный» режим рассуждений и контекстное окно объёмом 1 млн токенов вместо 400 тыс. в GPT-5.2. Честно говоря, эта гонка сейчас перестала так впечатлять как раньше. Ждем какого-то прорыва, чтобы снова отличать модели друг от друга.🔗 https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-next-ai-model-will-extreme-reasoning

Ну и да, в MacBook Neo два порта USB‑C с разными характеристиками: один — USB 3.0 (Type‑C) со скоростью передачи до 10 Гбит/с, другой — USB 2.0 (Type‑C), ограниченный 480 Мбит/с.Интересно, что внешней маркировки я на них не увидел, видимо, "должны знать" :)🔗 https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/04/macbook-neo-features-two-different-usb-ports/

Ну и да, в MacBook Neo два порта USB‑C с разными характеристиками: один — USB 3.0 (Type‑C) со скоростью передачи до 10 Гбит/с, другой — USB 2.0 (Type‑C), ограниченный 480 Мбит/с.Интересно, что внешней маркировки я на них не увидел, видимо, "должны знать" :)🔗 https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/04/macbook-neo-features-two-different-usb-ports/

Первые впечатления от MacBook Neo — новый самый младший ноутбук от Apple. Он вообще не кажется бюджетным: яркий дисплей и алюминиевый корпус, но клавиатура немного хлипкая, что предсказуемо было.Теперь я не очень понимаю, в чем его отличие от айпада. Видимо, выбор между "встроенная клавиатура" и "тач экран". Ну, рано или поздно они должны будут сойтись.https://www.engadget.com/computing/laptops/macbook-neo-hands-on-apples-599-laptop-feels-shockingly-great-142313318.html

Первые впечатления от MacBook Neo — новый самый младший ноутбук от Apple. Он вообще не кажется бюджетным: яркий дисплей и алюминиевый корпус, но клавиатура немного хлипкая, что предсказуемо было.Теперь я не очень понимаю, в чем его отличие от айпада. Видимо, выбор между "встроенная клавиатура" и "тач экран". Ну, рано или поздно они должны будут сойтись.https://www.engadget.com/computing/laptops/macbook-neo-hands-on-apples-599-laptop-feels-shockingly-great-142313318.html

Сразу две новости рядом: Eight Sleep, продающая умные аксессуары для матрасов, которые отслеживают режим сна и регулируют температуру, привлекла $50 млн при оценке в $1,5 млрд, тогда как в 2021 году её оценка составляла $500 млн. И это для меня удивительно - все тесты показали что их матрасы прямо никуда не годятся по точности отслеживания. Идея регуляции температуры во время сна все еще привлекательна, жаль что их не возят в разные страны.В это же время Whoop, производящая фитнес‑браслеты без экранов, сообщает, что планирует увеличить численность персонала максимум на 75% в 2026 году, создав более 600 должностей в преддверии вероятного IPO. Обычно перед IPO численость команды сокращают - в…

Сразу две новости рядом: Eight Sleep, продающая умные аксессуары для матрасов, которые отслеживают режим сна и регулируют температуру, привлекла $50 млн при оценке в $1,5 млрд, тогда как в 2021 году её оценка составляла $500 млн. И это для меня удивительно — все тесты показали, что их матрасы прямо никуда не годятся по точности отслеживания. Идея регуляции температуры во время сна все еще привлекательна, жаль, что их не возят в разные страны.В это же время Whoop, производящая фитнес‑браслеты без экранов, сообщает, что планирует увеличить численность персонала максимум на 75% в 2026 году, создав более 600 должностей в преддверии вероятного IPO. Обычно перед IPO численность команды сокращают …

Polymarket удаляет долго существовавшие рынки, позволявшие пользователям делать ставки на вероятность ядерного взрыва на фоне ударов по Ирану. В прошлом году совокупный обьем ставок на эти события был $1,7 млн, что не так уж и мало. В этом году, как вы понимаете, интерес существенно бОльший.Я не понимаю, чем людям помешали эти ставки, единственная идея — сейчас сильно больше шансы на "манипуляцию", т.е. ради высокой выплаты можно попытаться что-нибудь взорвать.🔗 https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/04/polymarket-shelves-nuclear-detonation-markets-after-outcry

Итак, вы купили ретро-консоль. Во что поиграть в первую очередь?Есть у нас идейка. Подобрали 15 отличных игр для Sega Mega Drive, с которыми точно стоит ознакомиться. Список вышел разнообразный, так что каждый для себя что-то найдёт.Но крутых игр на консоли выходило, конечно, гораздо больше. Делитесь своими любимыми в комментариях.Наш список: rozetked.me/articles/47474

LEGO представила набор по «Гарри Поттеру» с мини-ХогвартсомКонструктор относительно небольшой — его высота в собранном виде составляет 14 см. Инсталляция включает в себя как основные башни Хогвартса, так и миниатюрную тайную комнату и помещение с магическим зеркалом Еиналеж.Набор поступит в продажу 29 августа по цене в 40 долларов (~3100 рублей). rozetked.me/news/47525

Casio выпустила умное кольцо в виде часов G-Shock Если вы где-то уже это видели, то в этот раз кольцо по-настоящему умное: помимо часов и календаря, его оснастили всеми современными функциями по отслеживанию здоровья. CRW-H001M-8 (это название) отслеживают…

Предложение, от которого невозможно отказаться?Caviar представила кастомные Galaxy Z Fold 8 с гравировками культовых персонажей кино: Джокером, Тони Монтаной и доном Вито Карлеоне.Образы героев выполнены из ювелирной эмали, а их контуры и края задних крышек устройств покрыты слоем 24-каратного золота.За модели на 256 ГБ просят от 12 560 долларов (~996 000 рублей).rozetked.me/news/47521

Тест батарей на iOS 26.6 заказывали? Готово! Смотрим на последний крупный апдейт перед релизом iOS 27. Так всё-таки что? Apple ухудшает автономность старых iPhone? Нет? Да? Сколько можно?! Отвечайте!!! YouTube: youtu.be/lrlXWK75b6w VK: vkvideo.ru/video…

СМИ: 12 августа стартует коллаборация сети «Вкусно — и точка» и Genshin ImpactСообщается, что в рамках акции пользователи смогут приобрести брендированные «Супер Боксы». В каждом из них будет ленточный брелок с изображением персонажа Genshin Impact, а также код, который можно отсканировать в приложении сети ресторанов.За каждую активацию кода можно получить либо внутриигровую награду вроде опыта героя, либо подарок от «Вкусно — и точка».Официально о коллаборации компании не сообщали.rozetked.me/news/47516

В преддверии учебного года NakNak весь август дарит скидку 2000 рублей на технику по промокоду студакКак получить скидку:– оформить заказ– указать промокод студак– подтвердить свой статус студенческим билетом Переходите на сайт naknak.ruАкция действует до 31 августа. Условия распространяются только на технику, аксессуары не включены.

Casio выпустила умное кольцо в виде часов G-Shock Если вы где-то уже это видели, то в этот раз кольцо по-настоящему умное: помимо часов и календаря, его оснастили всеми современными функциями по отслеживанию здоровья. CRW-H001M-8 (это название) отслеживают…

Google отключила функцию ИИ-редактирования снимков с Google Earth всего через сутки после релизаКомпания рассчитывала, что люди будут пользоваться ей в образовательных и профессиональных целях.Но не тут-то было. Сеть моментально заполонили изображения с кратерами от взрывов рядом с достопримечательностями и фейковыми протестами в крупных городах.Google планирует вернуть функцию обратно, когда встроит в неё надёжные ограничители.rozetked.me/news/47514

Тест батарей на iOS 26.6 заказывали? Готово!Смотрим на последний крупный апдейт перед релизом iOS 27. Так всё-таки что? Apple ухудшает автономность старых iPhone? Нет? Да? Сколько можно?! Отвечайте!!!YouTube: youtu.be/lrlXWK75b6wVK: vkvideo.ru/video-29218811_456249431RuTube: rutube.ru/video/1321e6f9c5b6b76748d5e398eb4c6502/

Когда в руках Huawei Pura 90s, начинаешь снимать всё вокруг только на телевикС зумом 4х, 8х и даже 20х глазу открываются скрытые за повседневностью неизведанные грани окружающего мира: можно рассмотреть птицу на дереве, муравья под ногами, каплю росы на листе.Мы решили немного поразмышлять, что общего у «зума» в фотографии и философской концепции «приближения» реальности zoom-in.rozetked.me/articles/47479

Bloomberg: Huawei и Apple получают преимущество на рынке Китая из-за стоимости чипов памяти– Huawei и Apple укрепили свои позиции на китайском рынке за квартал– Потребители покупают смартфоны премиум-класса или не обновляют их– Дефицит чипов памяти стал причиной роста цен на Android-смартфоны– Ситуация стала причиной сокращения поставок, поляризации рынка и др.– Общий объем китайского рынка за прошлый квартал снизился на 4,3%– Однако поставки Huawei и iPhone смогли показать рост примерно на 20%– Мировой рынок смартфонов показал почти аналогичные результаты– Apple и Samsung стали исключением на фоне общего снижения на 6,7%– Из-за роста цен потребители все чаще покупают премиум-модели@ftsec

FT: Трэвис Каланик, основатель Uber, привлек $1,7 млрд для нового стартапа– Каланик привлек $1,7 млрд долгового и акционерного финансирования– Стартап Каланика пытается создать компьютер для Physical AI– Среди инвесторов называют фонд Andreessen Horowitz и сервис Uber– Бен Хоровиц, соучредитель фонда AH, войдет в совет директоров– Кредиты стартапу предоставляют банки Goldman Sachs и JPMorgan– Средства пойдут на автоматизацию промышленных процессов– Промышленный ИИ должен стать новой промышленной революцией– Новый ИИ-стартап Трэвиса Каланика получил название Atoms– Разработчик автономного транспорта Pronto также входит в Atoms@ftsec

CNBC: Amazon сокращает сотрудников в своем ИИ-подразделении– Amazon увольняет некоторых сотрудников ИИ-подразделения– Компания сокращает рабочие места ради инвестиций в ИИ– Сколько сотрудников команды AGI пострадали пока неизвестно– AGI занимается моделями, квантовыми вычислениями и др.– Команда AGI является ключевым элементом ИИ-стратегии Amazon– Amazon стремится не отставать от OpenAI, Anthropic и Google– Два года назад Amazon выпустила набор базовых моделей Nova– Amazon считает разработку LLM одной из ключевых задач@ftsec

FT: Amazon завершила инвестирование $50 млрд в OpenAI– Amazon инвестировала $50 млрд в ИИ-компанию OpenAI– В рамках сделки Amazon получила примерно 5% долю– Ожидается, что OpenAI проведет собственное IPO в 2027– В феврале Amazon инвестировала $35 млрд в OpenAI– Другие $35 млрд обещали вложить при достижении целей– Согласно новым отчетам, Amazon уже вложила $35 млрд– Отмечается, что ни одна из целей OpenAI выполнена не была– Новые инвестиции еще теснее связывают две компании– Amazon и OpenAI связывает комплекс коммерческих соглашений– Соглашения охватывают чипы, облачные сервисы и др.@ftsec

Sostav: Объем российского рынка e-retail media к 2027 может превысить 1,25 трлн руб.– За 5 лет e-retail media стал крупнейшим сегментом рекламного рынка– Сегмент e-retail media обогнал традиционную интернет-рекламу– За 2025 рекламодатели вложили 613 млрд руб. (+69%) в e-retail media– В след. годы темпы роста замедлятся, но превысят другие каналы– Главным преимуществом и источником роста станут данные, ИИ и др.– За 2026 рост сегмента будет 52%, за 2027 – +35%, до 1,25 трлн руб.– Доля онлайна в объеме инвестиций в total retail media продолжит расти– За 2025 доля e-retail media составляла 76%, к 2027 вырастет до 81%– Доля e-retail media может превысить 50% всего рекламного рынка за 5 лет@ftsec

Коммерсантъ: Positive Technologies отчитались о росте за H1 2026– Выручка компании за H1 2026 выросла на 41%, до 9,5 млрд руб.– Валовая прибыль PT выросла на 43%, составив 7,3 млрд руб.– Показатель EBITDA стал положительным, составив 800 млн руб.– Чистый убыток за H1 2026 сократился уже до 1,4 млрд руб.– Объем отгрузок за полугодие вырос на 45%, до 10,7 млрд руб.– Общие расходы PT сократились на 13%, до 2 млрд руб.– Затраты на маркетинг и мероприятия сократились вдвое– Расходы PT на R&D выросли на 6%, составив 5,2 млрд руб.– Отгрузки за весь 2026 могут составить 40-45 млрд руб.– PT в 2026 отказалась от своего фестиваля Positive Hack Days– Мероприятие перенесли на 2027 из-за реконструкции пл…

Bloomberg: Игра Tomodachi Life от Nintendo неожиданно стала мировым хитом– Шесть лет назад игра Animal Crossing стала хитом во время локдауна– Теперь Nintendo смогла добиться еще одного крупного успеха– Новым хитом от японской Nintendo стала Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream– Игроки управляют виртуальными островами, аватарами и др.– Игра в жанре симулятора жизни неожиданно стала хитом для Nintendo– За две недели после выхода было продано 3,8 млн копий игры– Для сравнения: продажи Super Mario Bros. Wonder были 4,3 млн копий– В июне Tomodachi Life третий месяц подряд была лидером в Японии– В мае игра заняла 5-е место в США, до этого возглавив продажи– Игры-симуляторы позволяют игрокам погрузит…

Bloomberg: Израильский ИИ-стартап Dream утроил свою оценку в ходе нового раунда инвестиций– Dream предоставляет ИИ и ИБ-услуги для критической инфраструктуры– В рамках нового раунда Dream получил $260 млн инвестиций– Оценка ИИ-стартапа из Израиля утроилась, составив уже $3 млрд– Новый раунд инвестиций возглавили Bicycle Capital и Group 11– Среди инвесторов: Bain Capital Ventures, Antler, Tru Arrow Partners и др.– Один из соучредителей Dream был соучредителем NSO Group– Среди соучредителей стартапа Dream есть бывший канцлер Австрии– Dream внедряет ИИ-платформу для правительств и госкомпаний– Технологии Dream помогают усилить контроль над данными и др.@ftsec

Bloomberg: Польша стремится привлечь инвестиции из Тайваня– Польша хочет получить инвестиции и технологии из Тайваня– Подход должен помочь перестроить экономику на $1 трлн– Польша намерена перестать быть «просто сборочным цехом»– Страна намерена привлекать инвестиции от Foxconn и др.– Foxconn согласилась построить завод по производству EV-авто– ЕС нужно восстанавливать свои мощности производства– Foxconn намерена инвестировать в польский проект $1+ млрд– Завод будет выпускать автомобили под местным брендом– Новый завод станет центром европейской экспансии Foxconn– От переговоров с компаниями из Китая власти отказались– Польша боится, что не сможет получить доступ к технологиям– След. шагом …

Ведомости: Россияне все чаще используют электросамокаты как городской транспорт– Сред. время поездки на самокатах «Юрент» за 2026 достигло 9,6 мин.– Показатель для «Юрент» стал рекордно низким за все время наблюдений– Доля аренды до 10 мин. выросла на 38,3 п.п. с 2023, до 88,3%– Абсолютное число поездок до 10 мин. за четыре года выросло в 2,9 раза– Самокаты стали все чаще использовать для коротких перемещений– Число ночных передвижений выросло на 18% (сред. время было 10,2 мин.)– Сред. время поездки на самокатах Яндекс Go снизилось с 11 до 9 мин.– Доля аренды до 10 мин. для Яндекс Go выросла на 9 п.п., составив 77%– Число ночных передвижений за год увеличилось сразу на четверть– 50% поездок…

TechCrunch: Siri AI может стать платной для активных пользователей– Долгожданное обновление Siri может быть доступно только за доп. плату– Об этом во время квартального отчета заявил гендиректор Apple– Однако Тим Кук признал, что финально планы по Siri AI не утверждены– Вероятно, подписки iCloud+ будут давать доп. ресурсы для Siri AI– Apple верит, что найдутся те, кто будут очень активно использовать Siri AI– Поэтому Apple хочет запустить возможность апгрейда лимитов и др.– Большинство других ИИ-сервисов работают по аналогичному принципу– Пользователям доступны бесплатные версии и покупка про-уровней– Широкое внедрение новой Siri AI планируется вместе с iOS 27 этой осенью@ftsec