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TIME names Richardson and Brantley Executives of the Year

CrowdStrike's new AI chief and the NFL's tech leader recognized for advancing autonomous systems in cybersecurity and sports.

TIME names Richardson and Brantley Executives of the Year
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“We want to bring fans really close to the game, and technology is an enabler to do that.”— Gary Brantley · full quotes →
Bartley Richardson Chief AI and Autonomous Systems Officer, CrowdStrikeGary Brantley Chief Information Officer, NFL
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Meta's Muse AI agent integrates Shop Pay checkout, lifting Shopify 7%

Meta's personal AI agent will browse Shopify stores and complete purchases via Shop Pay, boosting Shopify stock while Meta faces commerce…

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“Teaming up with Shopify to make shopping and checkout easier in Muse. Shoppers find more. Shops sell more. More partnerships like this coming soon.”Mark Zuckerberg— Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO · Press · full quotes →
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The Hill explains what Flock cameras and other ALPRs are scanning for

A explainer on automated license plate readers (ALPRs), including Flock Safety cameras, details what the growing network of roadside…

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Drop: rootless Linux sandbox for safer third-party code execution

Developer releases Drop, a lightweight sandbox tool addressing security risks of running untrusted dependencies locally.

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“What does Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google and Amazon do in house to deal with the isolated agent environment problem?”— programd · full quotes →
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Hobbyists revive Commodore's forgotten Amiga Unix with AI help

A Finnish group updates the 1992 operating system to run on newer Amiga hardware, sparking debate about AI's role in retro projects.

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“very heavy use of AI in reverse engineering”— Jussi, Amigaux.org co-developer · full quotes →
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Lobsters debates whether plain-text files face extinction

A technical community argues over whether LLMs and mobile platforms will erode the universal plain-text interface that has existed for…

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“This is a ridiculous thing to be concerned about. First, you have to imagine that AI will become so incredibly effective and powerful that no one but a few…”— mcherm · full quotes →
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Trump pushes 'super intelligence' to replace AI, sparks social media mockery

At the UN, Trump argued the term 'artificial intelligence' sounds fake and proposed 'SI' instead—prompting jokes about Sports Illustrated…

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“The use of the word artificial makes intelligence sound fake. It is not fake. It's actually amazing.”Donald Trump— Donald Trump, President of the United States · full quotes →
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Google opens Android Auto game support to all developers, exits beta

Around 30 games now available; developers no longer need Google approval to publish.

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“Bringing your game to cars lets you reach users in their vehicles during natural downtime, such as while waiting at a charging station or for a curbside order…”— Google · full quotes →
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Wired survey: 59% of women in tech experienced gender bias, worsened by AI

New survey of 634 women tech workers finds persistent discrimination and unequal standards for AI-assisted work.

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“47% said tech is unchanged or worse for women”— WIRED survey respondent · full quotes →
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Apple expands Tap to Pay on iPhone to 8 Latin American countries

The contactless payment feature launches in Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, and Peru.

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“Tap to Pay on iPhone allows businesses to accept contactless payments on an iPhone, with no point-of-sale hardware required.”— Apple · MacRumors · full quotes →
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Walmart GeForce Week sale offers RTX 50-series gaming PC and laptop deals

Walmart is running an exclusive sale through September 28 with discounted prebuilt systems featuring Nvidia's latest GPUs, but inventory is…

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“This is the best price I've seen for the RTX 5080 prebuilt over the past few months and I'd be very surprised if it didn't sell out quickly.”— Eric Song, IGN commerce manager · IGN · full quotes →
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Motorola debuts Signature 27 flagship with Bang & Olufsen audio

Motorola's new high-end phone features Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme, 200MP camera, and tuned audio from the Danish audio brand.

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“The Signature 27 will be Motorola's first phone with Bang & Olufsen-tuned audio.”— Motorola · full quotes →
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SoFi launches stablecoin settlement on Mastercard network with $25B card program

SoFi and Mastercard bring stablecoin settlement live across SoFi Bank's debit and credit card program using SoFiUSD.

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“SoFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFI) and Mastercard (NYSE: MA) today announced that stablecoin settlement is now live across SoFi Bank, N.A.'s debit and…”— SoFi and Mastercard · Reddit · full quotes →
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JetBrains launches Air, an open platform system for agentic software development

JetBrains expands beyond the individual IDE to coordinate AI agents, teams, and governance across the software development lifecycle.

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“The era in which the whole software development system can be contained in one window is ending.”— JetBrains · full quotes →
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AMD's RDRAND16 instruction can't generate zero on some Zen CPUs

Users discover AMD processors skip 0 when generating 16-bit random numbers, a flaw that evaded hardware validation.

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“But it looks like the rdrand16 instruction can produce zeros just fine, it just sets CF=0 erroneously (indicating an error and that the user program should…”— 0x000xca0xfe · full quotes →
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Chamelio raises $26M Series A for AI-native legal workflows

The legal tech startup aims to automate routine contract work for in-house legal departments.

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“Rather than treating the contract repository as the final destination, the company describes its platform as a system of action that turns previous contracts…”— Chamelio · Press · full quotes →
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Apple adds persistent promotional prompts to iOS Settings, users revolt

iPhone users discovered Apple is displaying ads for iCloud+, Apple Music, and other services in Settings with no easy dismiss option.

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“I'm feeling like this is nearly on-par with the ens***ification that Microsoft introduced with Start menu ads.”— User (unnamed) · full quotes →
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Apple opens London Music Hall for live Spatial Audio and broadcast production

New 600-capacity venue at Battersea Power Station captures performances as Spatial Audio recordings, multicamera video, and broadcast mixes…

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“Apple says two dedicated recording and mix studios sit behind the stage, allowing every performance to be captured as a multitrack recording and mixed in…”— Apple · Press · full quotes →
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Andreessen Horowitz launches academy to replace college for teenagers

The venture capital firm promotes its new program as an alternative to traditional higher education.

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“Andreessen Horowitz Wants Teens to Skip College for Its New Academy Instead”— Gizmodo · Press · full quotes →
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Samsung P9 512GB microSD Express card drops to $99.99 for Switch 2

Amazon cuts the price of the high-performance card by 33%, matching its original MSRP before a flash shortage drove prices up.

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“Delivering sequential read speeds up to 800MB/s, this card helps reduce load times and gets you into games faster.”— CNET · full quotes →
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Blog post on programming language design principles gains traction

A 2024 essay on multiline strings, file paths, and keywords sparks debate over language design best practices.

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“Indented multiline strings are just a thing that you can put a few extra hours of effort into fixing early, before it becomes a problem for your users and then…”— Blog author, Essay author · blog.veritates.love · full quotes →
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Apple restores Watch App Switcher in watchOS 27.2 beta 2 with new gesture

A press-and-hold shortcut brings back the App Switcher screen removed in watchOS 27, though the old Digital Crown double-click stays gone.

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“Apple has brought back the App Switcher! On watchOS 26 and earlier, you could access the App Switcher by double-clicking the Digital Crown, then turning the…”— Bones, X user who spotted the change · full quotes →
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Fearless SIMD v1.0 launches with safe, performant Rust abstractions

Eight years after its prototype, Fearless SIMD reaches stable release, eliminating unsafe code while maintaining hardware performance.

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“A common criticism leveled at portable SIMD abstractions is that they aren't performant enough, so we've put a lot of effort into making sure that Fearless…”— Fearless SIMD developers · full quotes →
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Alibaba, CXMT showcase chip advances despite US export controls

Chinese firms unveil homegrown semiconductor progress as researchers find workarounds to technology restrictions.

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“Alibaba shares rose after it unveiled what it called China's most powerful chip ever”— Semafor · full quotes →
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Google unveils Googlebook OS to replace ChromeOS, targets Android users

Google is positioning Googlebook as a bridge between Android's openness and Apple's ecosystem integration, with Gemini AI at its core.

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“Hey premium Android users, we see you. Here's a product that can bring you Apple users' ecosystem benefits while retaining the openness and diversity of…”— Google, Product positioning · Mastodon · full quotes →
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EssilorLuxottica launches Nuance Audio Plus hearing aid glasses

Updated smart glasses add voice clarity, on-device controls, and 10-hour battery life at $829.

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“The new Nuance Audio Plus still manages to squeeze their FDA cleared hearing aid tech into temple arms that don't look much thicker than what you'll find on a…”— The Verge, Technology publication · full quotes →
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OnePlus launches N6 Lite budget phone in India at ₹16,999

The 4G device targets mid-segment buyers with a 7,000mAh battery, 120Hz display, and Unisoc chipset.

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“There's a humongous 7,000mAh battery under the hood, which has been tagged as a major highlight. As advertised, the phone has up to three days of usage.”— true-tech.net · Mastodon · full quotes →
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Blogger says macOS 27 quietly re-enabled Apple Intelligence he had switched off

A developer's account of Apple restoring AI/Siri features after an explicit opt-out draws sharp reader pushback on Hacker News and Lobsters.

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“I said "no" and turned it off.”— dbushell, Blogger · Hacker News · full quotes →
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Andreessen Horowitz launches tuition-free academy for high school founders

A16z is opening The Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a school hybrid between Y Combinator and the Thiel Fellowship for post-secondary founders.

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“similar in cost to an elite private university”— Gagan Biyani · full quotes →
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Apple releases firmware update for Beats 360 headphones

Version 4A262 arrives for newly announced over-ear headphones priced at $349.99.

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“Apple today released a firmware update for the Beats 360 over-ear headphones, so customers ordering the headphones will have new software available when they…”— MacRumors · full quotes →
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Researcher demonstrates gzip as functional language model using compression

A programmer shows that the standard compression tool gzip can generate text by treating compression as prediction, without neural networks…

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“every prediction model is inherently a compressor, and all compression algorithms are prediction models.”— Language Modeling is Compression paper · Blog article · full quotes →
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iPhone 18 Pro shrinks Dynamic Island, improves Live Activity display

Apple's redesigned notch now shows more information in fewer pixels, with support for up to three concurrent activities.

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“if you're only running two Live Activities, there's more space available than before, and Apple uses that space to give the second Live Activity additional…”— Ryan Christoffel · full quotes →
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Zach Leatherman: AI-generated websites fail performance and accessibility tests

Web developer finds 12 of 13 AI-built sites flunk Core Web Vitals and accessibility standards, questioning whether automation improves user…

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“AI: *replaces four lines of semantic HTML with 80 megabytes of div soup, three hallucinated npm packages, and a loader that spins forever*”— Lobsters commenter · full quotes →
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Open Source's Value Questioned as AI Agents Generate Code in Minutes

Developer debate whether open source packages remain relevant when AI can rebuild them from scratch faster than installing.

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“If we stop creating new projects, may be AI won't have enough base to do the same and the open-source would necessary.”— alsanan · full quotes →
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London venues ban smart glasses as privacy concerns mount over covert recording

Bars and restaurants restrict Meta eyewear amid videos of apparent non-consensual filming; tech firms clash with venues over disclosure…

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“With regard to Meta glasses, our instinct was to say, 'turn the cameras off.'”— Wetherspoons spokesperson · full quotes →
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