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Apple's first foldable, the iPhone Duo, bets on dual displays and on-device AI
Apple has introduced the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone, built around a 7.6-inch inner display and a 5.4-inch outer screen that share an aspect ratio so c
Armin Ronacher on GPT-6 'Astra': Impressive Model, Unusable Coding Partner
Armin Ronacher argues that today's AI engineering resembles 'involution' (Neijuan) — escalating effort and compute that raises output per unit but not per perso
Cherenkov Radiation: Why Reactor Cores Glow Blue — No Physics Broken
Cherenkov radiation is the faint blue glow seen in the water surrounding submerged reactor cores and spent nuclear fuel. It appears when a charged particle — us
EPA Moves to Kill Public Comment on Data Center and Power Plant Air Permits
The EPA is proposing to eliminate a federal rule that requires states to notify residents and open a public comment period before issuing air-pollution permits
Forgejo 16.0.4 Patches Critical RCE Affecting All Versions Through 16.0.3
Forgejo, the community-run fork of the self-hosted Git forge Gitea, has shipped 16.0.4 to fix a vulnerability its maintainers classify as a critical remote code
Hitachi's new EcoCute heat pumps let owners sync hot water with solar tariffs
Hitachi Global Life Solutions is rolling out a new Y-series of residential EcoCute water heaters in Japan starting November 2026, running on natural CO2 refrige
In Defense of the Big Box of Cables
A blogger riffs on a viral social post from Tyler Gaw, who declared that after a decade of untouched cables finally proving useful, no one should ever be allowe
Mexican Teen Builds DIY Sound-Wave Fire Extinguisher That Snuffs Flames in Seconds
A 16-year-old student in Altamira, Tamaulipas, has built a working fire extinguisher that uses sound instead of chemicals or water. Ángela Karime Venegas Hernán
Nine streaming subscriptions now cost $702/year more than in 2021, up 61%
A price-tracking site, HonestlyRanked, has quantified streaming inflation by pricing a fixed basket of nine flagship on-demand services — Netflix, Disney+, Hulu
NTSB Reads Out Both Black Boxes From Miami 767 Cargo Runway Excursion
The NTSB has successfully recovered and read out the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from 21 Air Flight 7598, a Boeing 767-33A freighter that ra
Off-topic submission: open-access music theory textbook, no summarizable content
The supplied source is not a cybersecurity or technology article. It is the landing page of "Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom," an open-access music
One WebGPU Shader Can Freeze Any Mac — and Apple Won't Call It a Bug
A researcher known as Auberon López has documented a browser-based denial-of-service technique dubbed the "Deathray" that hangs Apple Silicon Macs with nothing