A severe, prolonged drought and heat wave across Central and Eastern Europe have dried up rivers, lakes and fish ponds, killing hundreds of tons of fish in Hungary and threatening more in Serbia, Bosnia, Romania and the Czech Republic. Hungary's meteorological service reports that roughly 99% of the country is under severe or extreme drought, with nearly 1,600 hectares of fish ponds drying out and about 280 metric tons of fish dead at 20 farms.
A new installment in an ongoing Domain-Driven Design series examines how separately owned and deployed bounded contexts, such as Ordering and Fulfillment, communicate business facts to each other. It introduces the concept of an integration event as a stable public contract distinct from internal domain events, delivered via asynchronous messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Azure Service Bus.
Amazon's 2026 Labor Day sale is bundling numerous Apple discounts, including $50 off AirPods Pro 3, AirTag 2 at an all-time low of $20, and the first-ever price cuts on Apple's new M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini models. Renewed Premium iPhone 17 Pro units are also seeing record lows of up to $290 off, alongside deals on Apple Pencil Pro, MagSafe battery packs, and certified refurbished Studio Display and Apple TV 4K units.
WIRED's testing roundup for 2026 mesh Wi-Fi systems highlights different products for different needs: the Asus ZenWifi BD5 Outdoor as a weatherproof, PoE-powered node for existing Asus AiMesh setups, TP-Link's tri-band Deco BE67 as a strong all-around Wi-Fi 7 performer despite some setup glitches, and the budget Netgear Orbi 370 as a dual-band system that struggled badly with satellite-node speeds in real-world testing. The TP-Link Deco BE25 is also named a top pick for outdoor coverage on non-Asus networks.
WIRED's latest label maker guide highlights Brother's PT-n25bt as a top pick, praising its simple QWERTY-keyboard operation, built-in cutter, and LCD preview screen that let users create custom tags in under a minute. The device also pairs via Bluetooth with Brother's Design&Print 2 app for expanded template and design options, and works with 17 colors of durable, laminated BTag tape rated water-, temperature-, and fade-resistant.
A developer has resumed work on DNet, a self-built network stack originally created while studying computer networking, after leaving it dormant for four years. The project handles TAP device creation, Ethernet frame parsing, ARP, ICMPv4, and UDP, and now includes a basic DNS server used as the authoritative resolver for the author's DN42 domain 42420167.xyz.
Google has dropped the infrared temperature sensor first introduced on the Pixel 8 Pro, leaving it out of the newly launched Pixel 11 series. In its place, the company added a new notification light feature called HiLight, shifting the phone's differentiating hardware trick from a thermometer to a lighting cue.
Companies are introducing extra verification steps during job interviews to confirm candidates are genuine humans, not AI-assisted impersonators or fraudulent remote workers. The shift follows a rise in AI-generated deepfakes and schemes involving North Korean operatives posing as legitimate remote employees to infiltrate companies.
A CDT-commissioned poll of 2,000 British adults, conducted by Public First, found 93% believe they have a right to private online conversations and 89% think no one should read their messages without a court order. Two-thirds said they wouldn't trust the current or any future UK government with the power to access encrypted chats, a view shared across supporters of all major parties.
XCENA partnered with Samsung to build the MX1, a CXL 3.2 device that can expand host memory by up to 2TB of DDR5 while also connecting SSDs and performing on-board computation. The chip, made on Samsung's 4nm process, packs 3072 small RISC-V cores organized into 24 independently schedulable subsystems, alongside two Arm Cortex A53 cores for control, and draws about 40W on the chip and 90W for the full board with DIMMs.
Debian held a project-wide vote on whether to restrict AI-assisted contributions and settled on a policy of neutrality: the project neither endorses nor bans generative AI tools for code, packaging, or documentation. Contributors remain fully responsible for the quality, legality, and maintainability of anything they submit, whether or not AI tools were used to help produce it.
A software engineer describes a decade-long pattern of noticing hundreds to thousands of software bugs weekly that most colleagues and users simply don't perceive. He explains that companies sometimes hire him specifically to test products because he reliably surfaces defects others miss, ranging from minor glitches to cases where products are effectively broken despite internal claims that everything works fine.
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