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Starting on September 1, Ternus will lead one of the world's most valuable companies, but if you're not a dedicated Apple enthusiast, you've probably never heard of this man, who has largely remained out of the spotlight until now.

New York's prestigious-yet-secretive venture firm Thrive Capital finally speaks out about its involvement in the messy drama upending international soccer.

Fable 5.1 includes changes meant to reduce token cost and false-positive restrictions from the model's safeguards.

Apple is hosting its iPhone release event next week, which is rumored to feature the first ever foldable iPhone.

From Zero to Staging: A Real-World Laravel + Node.js Docker Deployment (With Every Bug We Hit) A step-by-step walkthrough of setting up a clean staging server from scratch — SSH hardening, Docker orchestration, Let's Encrypt SSL, database seeding, and debugging a login that refused to work for six different reasons. The Setup We had a production server ( api.dineshstack.ae ) running a Laravel 12 + Node.js microservices stack inside Docker. We needed a staging environment that was an exact...

Let’s face it: most e-commerce tutorials assume you are building a platform to sell minimalist t-shirts, digital SaaS subscriptions, or dropshipped phone cases. But what happens when your client asks you to build an enterprise-grade platform for agricultural fertilizer sales ? Suddenly, your standard Shopify setup or vanilla WooCommerce template falls apart. You are no longer dealing with simple 200-gram packages shipped via standard postal APIs. You are dealing with 50-kilogram bags, m...

If you've published an Android app after November 2023, you've hit the wall: Google requires a closed test with 12 testers, active for 14 continuous days, before your app can go to production. Sounds simple until you actually try it. Here's what nobody tells you upfront, and what I learned the hard way: The part that actually breaks people It's not finding 12 people. It's keeping 12 people overlapping in the same 14-day window. If tester #7 installs on day 3 and uninstalls on day 9, they ...

A new AI model can render an entire website in real time without running a single line of code behind it — and that wasn't even the most surprising AI news of the day. The headline development came from a research preview of an "Interface World Model" that treats every webpage or app as a video the AI is generating on the fly. Instead of code deciding what appears on screen, a video model draws every single frame in real time as a person clicks and drags, while a language model interprets eac...

Three dollars an hour to not drink. That's the going rate for owning your entire evening. You can't have a beer. You can't drive two towns over. You can't take a nap so deep you'd miss the phone. The thing nobody wants to price Being on call is not work, but it's not vacation either. It's the perfect balance. You are not under the influence of alcohol. You are close to your house. You can get to your worksite within thirty minutes. I often come across the same argument s...

I have been enjoying software development ever since my university days. Building things, thinking about edge-case scenarios, implementing guard rails against them, and automating tedious grunt work just scratches an itch in my brain that I can never really explain. For the longest time, this is how I thought software development worked. Before AI Here's the breakdown of how I was building software before AI: Discover what needs to happen. Whiteboard the high-level p...

September marks the official start of Preptember , a month dedicated to organizers planning local gatherings and getting ready for Hacktoberfest . This year, Hacktoberfest is entering a new chapter. We’re shifting away from open-source contributions and focusing on community-building and educating folks around open artificial intelligence. As the AI landscape rapidly evolves, we think it's more important than ever for people to learn about and have experience with open-source AI tools and ...

A logistics team stores 40 million delivery stops in an Apache Iceberg table. Every row has a latitude and a longitude. The analyst wants every stop inside a polygon that outlines one metro area. The query engine scans every data file in the table, because nothing in the table metadata tells it which files contain points inside that polygon. Forty million rows get read to return two hundred thousand. That was the normal state of spatial data on the lakehouse for most of a decade. Coordinates ...

The headline is a extract of a skeet from a gamedev/designer/dev person of Bluesky: Osaka Skilled workers are de-skilling themselves Institutional knowledge and skills are actually being lost The models require user output as input to generate output The collapsing knowledge becomes the new input Outputs get worse Users get worse Here are some links from the skeets you probably want to read Beyond Semantic Entropy: Boosting LLM Uncertainty Quantification with ...

I’ve been working on a small experiment around a semantic shell. The basic idea is that the user types something like: copy report.pdf to backup and a small local model maps that to a known tool: filesystem.copy The shell then takes over. It validates arguments, asks for missing ones, shows confirmation UI when needed, and finally executes the operation. The model is not supposed to generate shell commands. It only needs to understand intent. That sou...

Let me tell you our starting point, precisely. Our beginning was not "people make the judgment." Our beginning was "do everything with AI." Deciding to become an AI company — that was the starting line. Run all of EarthLink Network's work on AI. That is what we put down first. "People make the judgment" is something that was derived afterward. It is not the starting point. Get the order wrong, and the whole picture blurs. So first, I will fix the order. First, run all the work on AI. As a ...

Codex with ChatGPT , a public GitHub project, routes planning and code review to the ChatGPT web app while retaining Codex as the agent that edits files, runs shell commands and executes tests. For developers, the practical aim is to use an existing ChatGPT web subscription for reasoning without replacing the Codex-based execution harness. A read-only handoff between the two agents The project describes a local C2C Bridge between ChatGPT and a workspace. Codex and ChatGPT exchang...

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The US Army’s laser system is part of a new generation of directed-energy weapons capable of detecting, tracking, and destroying drones with a concentrated beam of light.

Sonos is cramming AI into its software because it’s “very hot these days.” The new features, which include agentic automation, are opt-in.

Mozilla is officially launching ad blocking for Firefox on iOS today, after testing the feature over the past few weeks. The new built-in option will block most third-party ads and trackers before they load on an iPhone, reducing bandwidth use and decluttering mobile websites. Mozilla is using Apple's WebKit Content Blocker technology and the EasyList […]

Just a few weeks ago the only midrange OLED options available were from LG and Samsung. But after Sony officially announced the Bravia 6 last week, Roku has now launched its first-ever OLED TV - the Roku Pro Series - which will be followed by the step-up Pro Series LX next month. The Roku Pro […]

Nvidia knows that DLSS 5 left a bad first impression. In March, many gamers took one look at Resident Evil Requiem protagonist Grace Ashcroft's DLSS 5-ified face and declared it AI slop. So this week, the company's re-introducing its controversial "neural rendering" with firm messaging about how it "preserves artistic intent," "respects the rendered frame," […]

Nvidia is officially launching DLSS 5 this week, following a divisive announcement in March where we likened the AI upscaling tech to a "real-time generative AI filter for video games" and "motion smoothing for video games, but worse." DLSS 5 will officially be available on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now […]

We're not even half a day into September, and two new smartphones have already launched: the Poco F9 Pro and F9 Ultra. We're expecting more this week, as the IFA trade show kicks off in Berlin, before we get new iPhones a week after that. And that's only the beginning of what promises to be […]

Florida is banning Flock cameras and other automated license plate readers across state highways, as reported earlier by NBC News and local news outlet WUSF. In a memo on Monday, Florida's Department of Transportation says it's revoking permits for all license plate readers, adding that they must be removed from state highways within 30 days. […]

The multitrillion-dollar home of the iPhone, Mac, and so many other tech gadgets has a new leaader, as Tim Cook has been replaced as CEO as of September 1st by former hardware boss John Ternus. How will we look back on Cook’s legacy, and what will Apple look like under the leadership of Ternus and […]

As much as any Apple product released during his time as CEO, Tim Cook's tenure will be remembered for its ruthlessly efficient tight-rope walk between an autocrat in China and a would-be autocrat in the US. During his 15 years as CEO, Cook steered Apple through relations with both Chinese President Xi Jinping and US […]