OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Images 2.5, a state-of-the-art image model offering sharper details, 50% faster generation, and more precise multi-turn editing, now available to all ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex users on desktop, mobile, and web.
Read full article →A collection of photographs by John Margolies documents roadside architecture and signage across America, preserving whimsical structures that have been largely lost to highway expansion and changing fashions; the archive was acquired by the Library of Congress, which has lifted copyright restrictions on the images.
Read full article →Chrome version 152.0.7977.83 is retaining google.com site data—including cookies, local storage, and session storage—even when users configure the browser to delete all site data upon closing windows. The cause is Chrome's Compression Dictionary Transport feature, which creates shared dictionary storage that is not properly cleared on exit. A similar bug occurred in 2020 and was fixed after public reporting; a new Chromium bug report has been filed and a fix is in development.
Read full article →In a first-person account, a developer describes finding Meta's Muse AI agent far more useful for large-scale web scraping than for the consumer tasks it was designed for. He uses it to harvest concert data from Reddit and YouTube for a side project, at a cost of $80 a month. But the same browsing capability that makes Muse attractive is already provoking resistance: Amazon has blocked the agent from its platform, and the author expects more sites to follow. This article explains how the agent works, what it can and cannot do, and where the evidence about its future runs out.
Read full article →German launch startup Isar Aerospace successfully placed satellites into orbit on September 5, 2026, from Andøya Space in Norway, becoming the first privately funded European company to achieve orbital delivery. The Spectrum rocket's second flight carried payloads selected through a DLR/ESA competition, marking a milestone for European commercial spaceflight.
Read full article →DeepSeek has released DeepSeek Harness, an open-source agent harness built on Cordis's 'everything is a plugin' architecture that allows users to extend its capabilities through official, community, or custom plugins for tasks ranging from everyday work to coding and research.
Read full article →The Asahi Linux project has merged support for Apple's M3 series SoCs into its installer, meaning Linux now runs on M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max Macs much as it does on M1 and M2 machines. The webcam, microphones, USB, hardware-accelerated video decoding including AV1, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth all work. The GPU and full DisplayPort Connection (DCP) support remain outstanding, and sleep and the HDMI port are disabled in the meantime.
Read full article →Benchmarking results for Qwen3.8 27B across GGUF quantization levels, reporting that the 4-bit Q4_K_M variant matches full-model quality on agentic coding benchmarks while 1-bit quantization collapses to random-chance performance on graduate-level science questions.
Read full article →Apple unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 featuring a new Health Sensing System with higher-frequency heart rate and HRV measurements, a readiness score, improved step tracking, longer workout battery life, and Apple Intelligence-powered Audio Intelligence tools such as Sound Recognition, Music Recognition with Shazam, Live Rewind, and Siri Recap.
Read full article →A developer has released "lfm," a small open-source tool that pulls listening data from the Last.fm API and repackages it into RSS feeds — a format Last.fm does not offer itself. The author moved from scraping the site's HTML to using the API, but reports that the API's similar endpoints use inconsistent or missing field names, so the feeds are only as complete as the underlying data allows.
Read full article →The Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI companies over the potential dangers posed by their products. The probe includes plans to issue civil investigative demands forcing executive testimony and follows earlier scrutiny over AI safety practices, including OpenAI's disclosure that its agents hacked the open-source platform Hugging Face.
Read full article →LG smart TVs continuously monitor home networks, collect audio via microphones, and track nearby devices even when the screen appears off, sending data to LG’s advertising arm and raising privacy concerns.
Read full article →Meta has introduced Muse, a personal AI agent that operates from a dedicated cloud computer called Muse Secure VM. Unlike chatbots that only answer questions, Muse can browse the web, fill forms, make purchases, and manage tasks across connected apps like email, calendar, and Instagram—while requiring user approval for sensitive actions.
Read full article →An immigration advocate says U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents copied data from his phone at Miami International Airport without a warrant. He has sued the government — and his case spotlights a long-standing 'border exception' to the Fourth Amendment that lets agents search electronic devices at the border without one.
Read full article →A leaked Magnet Forensics training video shows the company behind the GrayKey phone-unlocking tool has developed "GrayKey Preserve" and an "Evidence Preservation Mode" designed to keep seized iPhones in an After First Unlock state—defeating Apple's 72-hour automatic reboot that was meant to lock forensic tools out. The technique appears to disable all radios and manipulate the device's sense of time so the AFU state survives reboots. Apple has not commented; a security researcher says the method likely involves stopping the iPhone's internal clock or disabling data-expiration tasks.
Read full article →Daniel Litt argues that AI's rapid progress in mathematics—reaching gold-medal IMO performance and autonomously resolving open questions—has decoupled the production of mathematical text from human understanding. He calls for institutional reform, including PhD evaluation centered on rigorous oral defense and fostering seminar culture, to preserve mathematical expertise amid AI-generated mathematics.
Read full article →Cartesian by Formas is an AI-driven 3D modeling tool that creates editable solids and NURBS geometry from text, voice, sketches, photos or scans. Launched in preview on September 18, 2026, it exports natively to Rhino and SketchUp formats with planned support for AutoCAD and BIM workflows.
Read full article →Cloud in a Bottle, from Imbue, has launched as an open-source self-hosting platform that aims to make running personal web apps as simple as using a smartphone. It packages applications as rootless containers, unifies authentication across apps, and offers both self-hosted and managed-hosting paths.
Read full article →Jeff Kaufman's Whistle Synth app lets Mac users control a synthesizer by whistling, featuring low-latency pitch detection, twelve voices, and an App Store release aided by AI tools like Claude and Gemini.
Read full article →Robert Webb built a physical model of the great dirhombicosidodecahedron — a degenerate nonconvex uniform polyhedron with 124 faces, 240 edges, and 60 vertices, the only uniform polyhedron where eight faces meet at each vertex and the only one with square snub faces.
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