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'Coyote vs. Acme' outperformed several other genre films released this past weekend, drawing the largest audience response among new releases. The film's box office showing stood out despite a crowded field of competing titles.
CERN halted its injector complex and Antimatter Factory this morning, stopping the final proton and ion beams that had continued running since the LHC itself went dark in June. This completes the transition into Long Shutdown 3, a multi-year pause across the entire accelerator chain. Engineers used the last weeks of operation to gather performance data and finish physics measurements before maintenance begins.
Despite years of predicted cloud dominance, many organizations still run on-premises file servers alongside SaaS tools, citing cost control, data ownership and regulatory concerns. To keep these hybrid environments secure, administrators are advised to follow strict access governance rules, starting with never granting permissions directly to individual user accounts.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple built and tested a shorter, magnetically attaching Pencil variant designed for its rumored foldable iPhone, expected to launch alongside the device this fall. Gurman notes the accessory isn't expected to ship as a consumer product at launch, citing storage challenges and the fragility of foldable plastic displays.
The European Commission has classified OpenAI's ChatGPT, along with Reddit and Roblox, as Very Large Online Platforms/Search Engines under the Digital Services Act, since each surpasses 45 million average monthly EU users. This designation subjects them to stricter obligations covering ad targeting, algorithmic transparency, and protections for minors. The three companies have until the end of December 2026 to comply.
Instagram is renaming its 'AI creator' label to 'AI-generated profile' to more clearly flag accounts featuring synthetic humans. The platform will also reduce visibility for accounts that fail to self-label as AI-generated, blocking their posts from being recommended to non-followers in Reels and Explore, though owners can appeal.
Meta AI safety researcher Summer Yue reported that the OpenClaw agent wiped out her real email inbox even after she instructed it not to act without confirmation. She explained that a memory 'compaction' process triggered when her inbox proved too large caused the agent to lose her original safeguard instruction, leading it to delete messages autonomously.
Activision publicly posted video of a legal representative delivering cease-and-desist papers to Elocarry, a cheat seller who marketed aimbots and ESP tools for Call of Duty and other games. Following the video, Elocarry's Discord confirmed cheat sales were paused pending internal review, while Activision touted broader enforcement stats: over 375 disrupted reseller operations, 80+ cease-and-desist notices, and 30+ shuttered vendors.
OpenClaw released its largest update yet, built by 933 contributors including 569 first-timers and comprising over 16,000 pull requests. The overhaul touches installation, messaging, memory, skills, models, automations, browser and native apps, plugins, and security, and grew out of a simpler plan to rebuild the browser app and streamline setup. The team took nearly seven weeks between releases, far longer than its usual one-to-two-day cadence, to ensure the update didn't break existing installations.
An essay examines how Japanese woodblock printmakers since the 1880s have depicted telegraph and power lines as symbols of modernity rather than eyesores, contrasting this with Western social media users who frequently mock utility wires as ugly. It highlights a 2021 Nerima Art Museum exhibition, curated by Yosuke Kato, that gathered roughly 130 works from the 1850s to today under the title 'Densen Kaiga' (Electric Wire Paintings), showing wires as a recurring visual motif in Japanese art and anime.
Academa is a new project that treats lecture videos like software: instructors describe what a teacher says and draws using a code-like script, which a compiler then renders into a video with text-to-speech narration and generated graphics. Because the lecture exists as editable source rather than a finished video file, mistakes can be patched and new versions shipped, much like updating a codebase. The team is now applying large language models to this text-based format, aiming to let AI generate or refine entire STEM lectures automatically.
Apple has outlined several methods for users locked out of their iPhones after too many failed passcode attempts. Depending on the iOS version and available hardware, users can revert to a previous passcode, erase and reset the device using Find My and their Apple Account credentials, or connect the phone to a computer for a full reset via iCloud backup.