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Thanks to the launch of iOS 27, Daydream's app now includes features that can turn saved outfit photos into shoppable results and search for products through Siri without opening the app.

The two most noticeable things about macOS 27 Golden Gate are the newly updated Siri AI and the design changes that make windows and icons more consistent.

Apple’s long-delayed Siri overhaul is finally here with iOS 27, and it changes how useful the assistant feels day to day.

Volkswagen's new efficiency-minded halo car is almost twice as efficient as the most efficient production car, the Lucid Air.

If you clicked on a fake HBO Max ad on Reddit in the past week, you might have fallen victim to a rising "ClickFix" security threat.

Prime Video is adding on-demand local and national news clips as Amazon joins other streamers experimenting with short-form video to capture younger viewers.

Picking a background removal API is an engineering decision right up until it stops being one. The masks hold on hair and glasses, the latency fits, the integration is a two day job, and then a security reviewer at your own company or at your largest customer sends over a questionnaire asking where the frames go and who keeps them afterwards. The API reference does not cover any of that. TL;DR Remove.bg puts no duration on how long the images sent to it are kept, and it caps se...

Introduction I recently came across the concept of Position Hierarchies in Oracle HCM and, at first, I wasn't entirely sure why they were needed. After all, Oracle HCM already has managers and reporting relationships. If employees can report to managers, why do we need another hierarchy? As I dug deeper, I realized that Position Hierarchies solve a different business problem. They focus on the organizational structure itself rather than the individuals occupying roles. In this artic...

Every major LLM lab is in a conundrum today, deliberating between scale vs cost. Making a dense model bigger makes it smarter, yes, but also makes every token more expensive to generate. In a dense model, every parameter activates on every token, and the compute cost of a forward pass scales ~linearly with parameter count. Mixture of Experts (MoE) challenges the status quo with its architecture. Instead of one giant feed-forward network per layer, an MoE layer holds many smaller so-called "ex...

Three weeks ago, in the comments under a post about a different SSRF bug (CVE-2026-19304, a parser-confusion issue), someone asked a sharp question about our own URL-fetching endpoints. I answered honestly that we'd only tested that our hostname-validation and the actual fetch agreed on parsing the same string — and that whether a validated hostname could resolve to something different by the time we actually connected was a real gap we hadn't checked. I said I'd go find out whether Cloudflare W...

The source and target environments look identical. So why does the deployment fail? This was one of the most interesting problems I encountered while working on a Salesforce Data Cloud deployment. The architecture looked correct. The components existed in both environments. The configuration seemed to match. And yet, the deployment was failing. At that point, the natural reaction is to look at the deployment error and try again. I decided to take a different approach. ...

Every unit of this project carries a record of its last verification, and each record pins the configuration it was checked against by hashing it. If the configuration changes, the pin no longer reproduces and the record goes stale, which is exactly what you want: a verification result that quietly outlives its inputs is worse than no result. One afternoon I added a six-line block to that configuration file. It described a new component and touched nothing else. Fifteen units went stale. E...

67 records in the metrics snapshot. The service wrote 6 of them. 👋 I'm Anton - a software engineer working mostly in PHP/Symfony and Go, currently carving a live PHP monolith into Go services. Part 1 of this series was about the manifest as the single declaration a service makes about itself; Part 2 was about the environment-variable catalog that falls out of it. This part is the same question pointed at observability: what does a service have to emit before anyone writes a line of i...

One path to production for every service. The pipelines don't know which service they're shipping - they read that off the manifest. What's left to a person is three decisions, and one check that a version string is really in the binary. 👋 I'm Anton - a software engineer working mostly in PHP/Symfony and Go, currently carving a live PHP monolith into Go services. Earlier parts of this series were about the manifest that declares a service and about what you get the moment you declare it. ...

Add a service and you get code, observability and deploy. If the second half is done by hand after the first, the description of the system and the system itself drift apart — and you always find out later than it happened. 👋 I'm Anton — a software engineer working mostly in PHP/Symfony and Go, currently carving a live PHP monolith into Go services. This is the last part of a block about what a service gets for free the moment it exists. Notes and code: github.com/brilliant-almazov . ...

My Soundcore Space 2 pairs with my MacBook and sounds exactly as it should. But the moment I want to turn noise cancelling off, or pull the bass back, I have to pick up my phone and open the Soundcore app — because Anker only ships that app for Android and iOS. The headphones are right there. The Mac is right there. The controls are on a third device. So over a single weekend, I decided to pair-program and co-engineer a solution with Claude to see if we could reverse-engineer the prot...

I'm building Small Room Solver, a free browser tool for trying furniture layouts before moving everything around. You draw your room, enter furniture measurements, move things around in 2D and open a 3D preview. No signup needed; edits stay in your browser unless you choose to share a snapshot. I used OpenAI Codex for implementation and debugging. The stack is Astro, React and TypeScript, with SVG for the 2D editor and Three.js through React Three Fiber for 3D. Drafts save locally in IndexedD...

Building a visual website builder looks simple from the outside. Users drag a section, change some text, upload an image, click save, and expect a website to appear. The reality is much harder. A website builder is not just a frontend editor. It is a system that needs to store layouts, manage components, handle responsive behavior, support different business types, and render thousands of possible combinations reliably. While building Webruno, one of our biggest engineering challenge...

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Microsoft is publishing a 37-page "humanist AI code of conduct" today, amid growing safety concerns over AI model progress. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a coordinated slow down of AI development over the weekend, after researchers warned recently that AI model progress could outpace our ability to safely deploy increasingly complex systems and verify […]

It makes sense that Musk is a long film. The latest from Alex Gibney, who has previously directed documentaries about Theranos and Steve Jobs, is an impressively thorough retelling of the story of Elon Musk, from his early days as a dot-com millionaire to "taking a wood chipper" to vital US government departments. In order […]

Today, I’m joined by comedian, podcast host, and YouTuber Adam Conover. Adam is a familiar face to anyone who’s spent time on the internet. He got his start, like so many successful comedy writers, at CollegeHumor back in the day. That was before transitioning into cable TV with Adam Ruins Everything, then onto Netflix, and […]

Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro will release this Friday, September 18th, and it’s tough to see it as just a coincidence that Google’s latest Pixel phones are discounted. The Pixel 11 Pro carries the biggest discount, with its fog, olive, and obsidian color schemes selling for around $1,007 at Amazon, almost negating this year’s $100 price […]

No, that's not a Tesla Cybercab. That's Volkswagen's Mission Efficiency, the world's slipperiest electric vehicle. The near-production 2+2 seat electric coupe prototype was built on VW's MEB+ platform, incorporating front-wheel drive components from the upcoming ID. Polo and ID. Cross models. True to its name, the mission of Mission Efficiency is to break records. With […]

Former Spotify exec's company releases experimental "singles" that involves users in music making.

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