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Topgolf Dumped VMware for VergeOS, Saved $11 Million
Facing a 400 percent VMware price hike under Broadcom, Topgolf moved 12,000 VMs to VergeOS and saved more than $11 million.
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Apple Pushes Fourth macOS Golden Gate 27.2 Beta
The fourth beta adds more Siri languages and new brightness and volume sliders as Apple nears a late October release.
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Apple's Fourth watchOS 27.2 Beta Tests New Health Readiness Score
The fourth beta cycle brings a redesigned Health app with Insights and Longevity tabs, hinting at a release that leans more on wearable data than new hardware.
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Google Opens the Play Store to Anyone, No Fee Required
Anyone over 18 with a Google account can now publish free Android apps built in AI Studio, skipping the usual developer fee.
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Facebook Lets You Manually Steer Its Feed Algorithm
Meta's new Your Algorithm tool lets Facebook users flag topics as interested or not interested to reshape feed and Reels recommendations on the spot.
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Google Built-in Cars Get a Redesigned Play Store
Google says the Play Store in Google built-in cars will resize to fit any dashboard screen and add one-tap installs for featured apps.
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Microsoft Quietly Closes One-Click Windows 11 Account Bypass
Microsoft silently patched a simple trick that let Windows 11 Home users skip signing in with a Microsoft account, tightening its grip on setup.
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PixelBoard Mod Brings Pixel 11 Dictation to Any Android
A sideloaded Gboard mod ports Google's Rambler dictation and other Pixel 11 AI writing tools to non-Pixel Android phones.
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Yandex Cloud Reports Third Data Center Incident
Yandex Cloud's status page logged a third incident hitting one of its data centers, with details still thin even as the report drew heavy discussion online.
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xAI Gives Omarchy Linux Project $1.5 Million in Grok Credits
xAI is funding development of Omarchy, David Heinemeier Hansson's controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in Grok compute credits.
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X Expands Gametime Sports Hub Beyond the NFL to MLB
X is turning its NFL-only Gametime feature into a year-round sports hub, starting with Major League Baseball.
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Microsoft Turns Windows Search Into a Copilot Chatbot
Microsoft is redesigning Windows search around its Copilot chatbot, rolling out this fall.
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New Linux Memory Compression Tech Claims 445x Read Speedup
Meta engineers built CRAM, a Linux memory scheme that skips the swap layer and reads up to 445 times faster than ZRAM, though writes see a smaller gain.
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This Sign Generator Has No Backend, Just a URL
Bigwords.page turns any screen into a giant sign by encoding your text directly in the URL, so there is no server, database, or app to install.
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Apple's Second iOS 27.2 Public Beta Adds Redesigned Health App
The second public beta refines the revamped Health app, adds Siri support in five more languages, and tweaks Apple TV profiles ahead of general release.
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LibreOffice Makes Not Having AI a Selling Point
LibreOffice's maker says it will keep AI out of the suite's default setup, framing that absence as a privacy feature rather than a gap.
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A Smart Plug and an iPhone Become a Darkroom Timer
A photographer swapped a commercial darkroom timer costing hundreds of dollars for a $20 smart plug and some AI-assisted iPhone code.
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Facebook Tests a Reels First Home Screen in India
Meta is piloting a Facebook layout in India that opens straight into full screen Reels video for some users, instead of the usual feed.
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Apple Raises iCloud+ Email Alias and Domain Limits
Apple quietly tripled iCloud Mail alias limits and more than tripled custom domain caps for iCloud+ subscribers, with no announcement at all.
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iOS 27.2 Beta Adds Toggles to Silence Messages Suggestions
Apple's returning Suggested Actions feature will let users individually switch off calendar, reminders, maps, and flight prompts in Messages.
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Apple Releases Third macOS Golden Gate 27.2 Beta
The new test build adds more Siri languages and simpler brightness and volume sliders, two weeks after the prior beta.
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Apple Ships Third iOS 27.2 Beta With Siri Language Expansion
The third iOS 27.2 beta arrived two weeks after the second, broadening Siri's AI language support while keeping iPhone Duo's full feature set under wraps.
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Windows 11's Next Update Trims Memory Use, Speeds Up Apps
Microsoft's 26H2 update claims faster app launches and roughly 2GB less baseline memory use, though the gains haven't been independently verified at scale.
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Open source tool strips Apple Intelligence off your Mac
A free command line tool called RemoveMacAI deletes the roughly 12GB of on-disk AI models Apple quietly stopped letting you toggle off in one click.
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Windows 11 preview update breaks games with audio bug
Microsoft confirms KB5124010 crashes games and apps that decode Dolby Digital audio, with some users reporting boot failures and no fix yet.
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iOS 27.2 Adds a Health Age Test to Apple Health
A new Health app feature in iOS 27.2 scores your fitness against your actual age using core strength, flexibility and VO2 Max tests.
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Six Months Into Fixing Windows 11, the Bugs Remain
Microsoft has sped up search, trimmed right-click menus, and eased 8GB RAM strain, but quality control and promotional overreach remain unresolved.
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YouTube Shorts Will Bury Channels That Just Reupload Clips
YouTube says it will reduce Shorts distribution for channels that mostly re-upload other people's videos without adding anything new.
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Windows 11 26H2 Finally Turns On Features Microsoft Already Shipped
Microsoft's staggered rollout means features like a movable taskbar and Bing-free search are only now reaching PCs that have had the code for months.
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Reddit Will Block Old Reddit and RSS Feeds Nov 13
The company is cutting off old Reddit and RSS access next month, the latest move in its push to keep AI bots from scraping data for free.
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iOS 27.2 Brings Six New Features to iPhone
Apple's next iPhone update bundles six features, including a messaging assist that finally matches what Android phones already offer.
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Reddit Pulls RSS Feeds and API Access to Block AI Bots
Reddit is ending RSS feeds and public API access, citing AI bots, extending a lockdown that began with its 2023 developer API crackdown.
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Microsoft Lets Excel Cells Hold Multiple Values
Microsoft says Excel cells can now store more than one value, chipping away at a spreadsheet rule that has held since the 1980s.
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Apple Posts tvOS 27 Release Notes Nearly Two Weeks Late
Apple published tvOS 27's changelog nearly two weeks after release, confirming Hi-Res Lossless audio, AutoMix, and video podcasts.
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PipePipe forks NewPipe to add SponsorBlock support
PipePipe forks the ad-blocking YouTube app NewPipe and bakes in SponsorBlock, skipping sponsored segments without extra plugins.
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Golden Gate Drops Intel Support, Rosetta 2 on Borrowed Time
macOS Golden Gate ends Intel Mac support and axes AFP, Time Capsule, and Boot Camp, while fall 2027's macOS 28 will finish off Rosetta 2 for most apps.
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MapQuest Finally Adds Public Transit Directions
MapQuest has added transit directions, a basic feature its rivals built in years ago.
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Google Photos adds a one-tap tool to blur sensitive info
A new AI feature called Redact lets users quickly blur sensitive details in photos, part of a broader set of AI tools rolling out to Google Photos.
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Apple Intelligence Is Quietly Eating Way More Storage Than Promised
iOS 27 and macOS 27 install AI models that blow past Apple's 14GB storage estimate on some devices, though not evenly across the lineup.
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Microsoft Adds $2B to Its Gulf Cloud Bet Through 2030
Only a fifth of Microsoft's headline $10 billion Gulf pledge is new money, with $8 billion already committed to the UAE last year.
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YouTube Lets Viewers Steer Their Own Recommendations
YouTube is rolling out custom feeds that let viewers reshape their home page instead of just accepting whatever the recommendation engine serves up.
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Discord Restarts Age Checks for All Users
Discord begins rolling age verification checks out to all users today, sorting every account as either teen or adult.
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Web Emulator Brings IBM's 1620 Mainframe Back Online
A hobbyist project called retro-1620 rebuilds IBM's 1963 1620 mainframe and IPL-V software so it runs entirely in a web browser.
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Apple Opens iOS 27.2 Public Beta With Health Age Feature
The public beta brings Apple's redesigned Health app, including a Health Age score and new Insights and Longevity tabs, to anyone willing to install it.
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X Lets Strangers Message You With a Private Code
X's new X Numbers feature lets non-followers message or call you via a shareable code, part of Musk's push to make X an everything app.
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Discord Tweaks How It Confirms User Age Groups
Discord says a refreshed age check will protect teens more without changing anything for adults, at least on paper.
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Adobe Premiere Arrives on Android, Free to Use
Adobe's Premiere video editor is now free on Android, with layouts built for both candy bar phones and foldables.
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Task Manager's Windows creator vibe codes a Mac and Linux version
Dave Plummer, who wrote the original Windows Task Manager three decades ago, used AI-assisted coding to bring a new version to macOS and Linux.
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Meta Tests Community Notes in Latin America
Meta is piloting its crowdsourced Community Notes system in Latin America, and professional fact checkers fear it signals the end of their partnership.
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Automattic Board Puts CEO Mullenweg on Paid Leave
Automattic's board voted to place Matt Mullenweg on paid leave, and the WordPress cofounder says he fought the move.
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Linux 7.3 aims to fix the out-of-VRAM slowdown
A kernel update targets what happens when a GPU runs low on video memory, according to a blog post making the rounds on Hacker News.
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AWS Billing Glitch Shows $1.7 Billion Charges for Normal Accounts
A bug in AWS estimated billing data sent some users into a panic over nine-figure invoices that had no basis in their actual usage.
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Mozilla Finds Stardust Period Tracker Shares Health Data
Mozilla's review of period-tracking apps found sharp privacy gaps, with Stardust sharing user health data with an analytics firm.
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WHOIS Record Shows t.me as Suspended, Unverified
A WHOIS lookup for Telegram's t.me circulated on Hacker News on Monday, but no registrar or Telegram statement has confirmed the suspension.
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Apple Pushes Beta 3 for watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS 26.6
Apple dropped the third developer betas for watchOS 26.6, tvOS 26.6, and visionOS 26.6, arriving two weeks after the previous round.
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WhatsApp Lets Users Reserve Usernames to Hide Phone Numbers
WhatsApp is opening username reservations today, letting its three billion users connect without exposing their phone number for the first time.
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Samsung to Charge Developers and Power Users for SmartThings API
Starting October, Samsung's SmartThings API goes paid — hitting indie developers and Home Assistant users with new monthly fees.
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Windows 10 Gets a Quiet One-Year Support Extension
Microsoft has extended Windows 10 support through October 2026, buying another year for the hundreds of millions of PCs not yet on Windows 11.
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Elastic Cuts 7% of Its Workforce
CEO Ash Kulkarni announced the cuts in a blog post, as Elastic becomes the latest enterprise software company to trim headcount in 2026.
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Figma Adds Code Layers, Motion Support, and AI Plugin Tools
Figma's latest update bundles a new code layer, motion and shader support, and AI-powered custom plugin creation into one release.
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Oracle Cut 21,000 Jobs in a Year and Blamed AI
Oracle's workforce shrank from 162,000 to 141,000 employees over the past year, with the company citing AI among the reasons for the cuts.
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iOS 27 Beta 2 Adds Wallet Insights, Fixes HomeKit
Apple's second iOS 27 developer beta surfaces a privacy toggle for Visual Intelligence and quietly sunsets AirPort Utility.
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iOS 27 Brings Threaded Replies to iPhone-Android RCS Chats
Apple's second iOS 27 beta adds inline reply threading and proper reaction emoji to cross-platform RCS conversations with Android users.
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Apple Pushes tvOS 27 Beta 2 With a Modest Feature List
The second tvOS 27 developer beta arrives two weeks after WWDC, offering a refreshed Podcasts app and larger text options but little else.
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Office 2021 Loses Microsoft Support in October
Microsoft ends support for Office 2021 on October 13, 2026, pushing users toward a Microsoft 365 subscription or a one-time Office 2024 purchase.
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Android 17 Extends Floating Windows to All Apps and Tightens Privacy
Eight features land on Pixel phones now, including floating windows for any app, selective contact sharing, and a gaming mode still weeks from working.
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Apple Photos Clean Up Gets Cloud AI, and It Shows
iOS 27 routes complex photo edits to Apple's cloud servers, and early beta tests show a real quality gap over iOS 26's on-device tools.
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WhatsApp Web Tests Group Voice and Video Calls
Meta is expanding a WhatsApp Web call test to group chats, narrowing a long-standing gap with the mobile app.
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Fox's $22B Roku Deal Targets the Ad Business Behind the Screen
Fox is acquiring Roku for $22 billion, betting that Roku's operating system and ad platform inside 100 million homes is worth the price.
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Apple Issues Second Beta for Its Entire 26.6 Software Lineup
Apple is simultaneously beta-testing point-release maintenance updates and the next-generation operating systems previewed at WWDC.
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Chrome 150 Ends the Last Workarounds for uBlock Origin
Google will remove the final flag keeping Manifest V2 extensions alive on June 30, cutting off uBlock Origin and narrowing what ad blockers can do in Chrome.
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Verso Is a $14.99 Mac Word Processor, No Subscription Required
A new Mac writing app is betting on the one-time purchase model in a market that has largely surrendered to subscriptions.
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Dev Ships ASCII Video Engine Built to Dodge Content Filters
A new ASCII rendering engine converts live video to plain text at 360p/30 FPS, betting that text streams slip past the filters built for real video.
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Safari Gets AI Tab Sorting and Custom Extensions in iOS 27
Apple's iOS 27 Safari update adds AI-powered tab grouping and on-demand extensions, but the headline features require iPhone 15 Pro or newer.
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Firefox Gave Users an AI Kill Switch. Almost No One Used It.
Mozilla built a full AI opt-out after user pressure — and now has data showing 96% of Firefox users left every AI feature on.
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Facebook and Instagram Log Users Out in Apparent Outage
A Meta executive confirmed access problems after users on both platforms reported being suddenly signed out without warning.
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Meta's Two Biggest Platforms Go Dark With No Fix in Sight
A Friday morning outage took down both Facebook and Instagram at once, and Meta offered no explanation or timeline for a fix.
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Meta Hits Another Outage, Taking Down All Four Major Apps
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger went down simultaneously just before 10 AM ET on Friday, adding to Meta's pattern of platform-wide failures.
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macOS 27 Is Already Breaking RAID Enclosure Software
Days into macOS 27's release, vendor software for several RAID enclosures has stopped working, leaving pro storage users in an uncomfortable wait.
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iOS 27 Bets on Speed, and Early Betas Back It Up
Apple announced more than 250 changes across its fall software lineup, but performance benchmarks targeting older iPhones are the more interesting story.
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Google Now Saves Your Lens Photos and Translate Audio for AI
Two new Google settings collect your Lens photos and Translate audio by default to train AI models, and opting out isn't obvious.
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Apple Overhauls Screen Time After Years of Parental Complaints
iOS 27 rebuilds Screen Time from the ground up, adding website limits and communication controls parents have been asking Apple to fix for years.
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macOS 27 Adds a Liquid Glass Dial and a Rebuilt Siri
Apple's first Golden Gate developer beta shows five features that matter, from ultrawide monitor fixes to a Siri built partly on Google's AI models.
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macOS 28 Will Drop Intel App Support Entirely
Apple's Rosetta 2 translation layer survives through macOS 27 Golden Gate and disappears with macOS 28, leaving Intel-only software without a lifeline.
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iOS 27 Bets on Speed, Not New Features
Apple's iOS 27 focuses on under-the-hood performance gains over new features, promising 30 percent faster app launches on iPhones as old as the iPhone 11.
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Chrome Closes the Last uBlock Origin Workarounds
Google is patching every bypass that kept full ad-blocking alive in Chrome; Edge and Opera say they will follow.
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iOS 27 Siri May Tell You to Take a Break
Code strings in iOS 27 suggest Apple is building break reminders into Siri for conversations that run unusually long.
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Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Arrives With Its Usual Quiet Discipline
The container-world's favorite minimal distro ships a new stable release, keeping its reputation for trimmed-down builds intact.
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iOS 27 Keeps Its Best Features Off Stage
Apple's iPhone update skips a signature headline feature this year; the worthwhile changes are the quiet ones that didn't make the keynote.
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Apple lets App Store developers bundle subscriptions together
Apple is expanding App Bundles so independent developers can partner on discounted multi-app subscription packages.
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Apple Opens iOS 27 Developer Betas With Siri AI and Spatial Reframing
Days after WWDC 2026, Apple's developer betas for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate are available to download now.
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Apple's iOS and macOS 27 Developer Betas Are Now Live
First builds of Apple's 2026 OS lineup land for registered developers, starting the long march toward a fall release.
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Apple Seeds visionOS 27 Developer Beta After WWDC26
The first visionOS 27 developer beta is live, kicking off the usual months-long testing window before a public release.
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Apple Intelligence Reaches HomeKit Security Cameras
iOS 27 adds AI clip descriptions and natural language search to HomeKit Secure Video, catching up to features Google Nest has offered for years.
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Apple Packs iOS 27 with AI Photo Editing Tools
Apple is bringing multiple AI photo editing features to iOS 27, continuing a long catch-up game with Google and Samsung on AI camera software.
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GnuCash's Database Design Traces to Spanish Trading Practices
A blog post argues GnuCash's schema is a direct descendant of accounting conventions developed by Spanish merchants centuries ago.
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Firefox Merges Vulkan Video Decode
The browser's codebase now includes GPU-accelerated video decoding via Vulkan, a long-awaited improvement for Linux users in particular.
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Windows 11 May Finally Let You Turn Off Bing Search Results
A Windows 11 testing build adds a toggle to disable Bing web results in Search, a change users have wanted since Microsoft bundled them in.
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One Developer Built a Playable Archive of 600 Operating Systems
Andrew Warkentin spent 23 years cataloging over 1,700 OS installations spanning eight decades of computing history, all runnable via emulation today.
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A Notepad Clone That Fits in 2,749 Bytes
The developer behind Windows Task Manager rewrote XP Notepad in x86 assembly and squeezed the whole thing into 2,749 bytes.
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Georgia Tech App Lets Anyone Steer a Robot Remotely
COBALT turns a smartphone into a universal robot remote using motion controls and Wi-Fi, aiming to drop the skill floor for robot operation to zero.
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Nordstjernen 1.0 Is a New Browser, in a World Full of Them
An open-source browser called Nordstjernen shipped its first stable release, entering a market where even well-funded projects rarely stick.
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Google Meet Lets You Customize What Its AI Note-Taker Captures
Google's meeting AI now lets users toggle note sections and tag decisions with outcome labels, a step toward summaries that need less cleanup.
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Gemini in Drive Can Now Pull Answers From Your Gmail
Google's Ask Gemini feature in Drive now lets users source answers from Gmail threads, making your inbox a queryable layer inside your documents.
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AMC Made Everyone Queue for The Odyssey, Even to Cancel a Movie
Presale demand for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey overwhelmed AMC's systems on June 10, forcing every user into queues up to an hour long.
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Uruky Adds Image Search and Mulls a Source-Available License
The EU-hosted paid search engine hits 100 active accounts, adds image search, and weighs a license that lets users read its code but not copy it.
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Apple's WWDC Software Lineup Will Leave Some Devices Behind
Rumors ahead of next week's developer conference suggest iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 will drop support for older Apple hardware.
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Microsoft Locks Down Office 2019 for Mac on July 13
After dropping support in 2023, Microsoft will block editing, saving, and file creation in Office 2019 for Mac starting July 13.
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Apple Intelligence Photo Scanning Is Slowing Down Macs
Background photo scanning for Apple Intelligence is causing beachballs and battery drain on macOS 26.5 for some users.
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Microsoft Locks Editing in Office for Older Macs and iPhones
Starting in July, users on outdated macOS and iOS can still open Office files but will lose the ability to create or edit them.
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Microsoft Builds an OS for Devices That Only Run AI Agents
Project Solara is a chip-to-cloud platform built on Android's open-source base, designed for hardware where AI agents replace apps as the primary computing unit.
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Google Adds Fake-Call Detection in June Android Update
June's Android feature drop adds call-fraud detection alongside expanded AirDrop compatibility, kid safety tools, and a fashion finder.
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KDE Plasma Names Its Last X11 Release
A KDE developer outlines what users and app maintainers should do before Plasma drops the aging display protocol for good.
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A 2017 Linux Kernel Patch Quietly Broke Cloudflare's QUIC Stack
A test failing 60 percent of the time led engineers to a Linux optimization from 2017 that had silently broken CUBIC's recovery path in QUIC.
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A site called Do_not_track wants to restore browser privacy
A new project called Do_not_track aims to give users control over their digital footprint.
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AI Dictation Apps Finally Work
Better speech recognition and AI smarts now make voice-to-text viable for emails, notes, and even coding.
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Bandcamp drops its fees again in monthly artist-support event
The music platform's recurring fee-free day returns, letting artists keep more from sales.
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Instagram Will Penalize Low-Effort Content in Your Feed
Meta's Instagram is cracking down on repetitive, unoriginal posts — but automatically detecting what counts as 'original' is harder than it sounds.
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Reddit search usage jumps 30% as platform evolves
Weekly search users are up 30% year-on-year, Reddit's CEO said Thursday, marking a shift in how people use the platform.
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Google Photos Will Catalog Your Clothes From Old Pictures
Google Photos will scan your existing pictures to build a digital wardrobe, giving the company a new window into what you own and wear.
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YouTube TV Opens Multiview to All Channels
The split-screen feature, previously limited to curated sports packages, now lets subscribers arrange any live channel they choose.
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OpenAI Explains How It Scaled PostgreSQL to 800 Million Users
OpenAI published its playbook for scaling PostgreSQL to millions of queries per second without migrating to a distributed database.
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Quick Share Gets Two-Way AirDrop on Pixel 10
Google's Quick Share now transfers files to and from iPhones, built in Rust and audited by a third party, but limited to AirDrop's least restrictive mode.