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Google has expanded access to its Lyria 3.5 music generation model beyond Flow Music, launching it in the Gemini app and Gemini API. The rollout adds new features like short and long track options, genre templates, and vocal versus instrumental selection, with developers also gaining access via Google AI Studio and Google Vids.
Amazon has discounted the 70mai A810 Lite 4K Dash Cam Front and Rear by 40%, bringing its price down from $149.99 to $89.97. The device offers 4K front and 1080p rear recording, built-in GPS, Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, and ADAS driver alerts, plus optional parking surveillance features when paired with a hardwire kit.
An opinion piece from the leader of Celleste, maker of the first chocolate bar using cell-cultured cocoa butter, argues that innovation strategy is shifting away from pure speed-to-market toward long-term adaptability. The author draws on experience navigating cocoa supply chains, manufacturing and consumer trust to argue that lasting innovations solve existing industry problems rather than forcing wholesale reinvention.
Betaworks, the venture firm led by John Borthwick, was the first investor to fund AI startup Hugging Face and now holds an equity stake estimated at roughly $650 million. Other early backers of the company also saw substantial gains from their initial investments.
IEEE Computer Society published an interview with database expert Vinodkrishna Gopalan on how relational databases must evolve to handle AI and machine learning demands. The discussion centers on how AI workloads—marked by large scans, unpredictable queries, vector search, and low-latency inference—differ from traditional transactional database use cases, requiring new approaches to schema design, indexing, and scaling.
VMware's parent Broadcom acknowledged that its sales team overemphasized VCF, its costly private cloud bundle, even when smaller customers wanted the cheaper vSphere Standard product. VCF chief product officer Paul Turner admitted the company has corrected this practice, and executives say an updated vSphere Standard release is coming soon, likely detailed at VMware Explore in Frankfurt in October.
At IFA Berlin, iRobot demonstrated a prototype called the Roomba Duo, a wet-cleaning robot mothership that carries a smaller Roomba vacuum and lowers it onto the floor using a mechanical arm. In the demo, the main unit cleaned a spaghetti spill with steam and suction, then deployed the smaller robot to reach narrow spaces and corners it couldn't access. iRobot's chief engineer Adam Pope said the device is currently just a concept exploring ways to combine heavy-duty wet cleaning with nimble vacuuming.
Muse Group has released Audacity 4, a major update to the long-running free audio editor that introduces non-destructive editing, overlapping and splittable clips, refreshed effects, and a redesigned home screen for project organization. The release also brings a new visual theme system aligning Audacity with Muse's other apps like MuseScore and Audio.com.
Microsoft says spammers have repurposed ASCII smuggling, a technique once used mainly to sneak hidden prompt-injection instructions into AI systems, to disguise spam keywords and slip past Office 365 filters. The company detected daily signature hits jump from about 21,000 to over 1.3 million in early February, reaching 2.5 million within days before tapering off by mid-May.
A developer released an open-source bike computer that uses an eInk display and can record rides and navigate preloaded routes entirely on its own, without needing a paired phone. The companion app is used only to prepare routes or transfer data before a ride, not for ongoing operation.
Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek revealed that a 2009 trailer for Left 4 Dead 2, widely reported at the time as leaked footage, was actually deliberately released by Valve itself. The company took this route after the ESRB refused to approve the trailer for official release, citing its graphic violence, gore, and crude language.
Microsoft and hardware partners will sell high-end PCs later this year running Windows 11 Pro pre-configured under a program called Project Zenith, which tweaks default settings to reduce clutter and bundles tools like Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, PowerToys and Windows Dev Skills. These machines require at least 64GB of unified memory and 250 GB/s of bandwidth to run local 30-billion-parameter AI models, with AMD Ryzen AI Halo devices launching first.