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Pioneer, known for its CarPlay head units, has entered the iPhone accessories market with a new product line designed for in-car use. The collection includes a MagSafe wireless charger, a phone mount, and USB-C charging options, now available for purchase on Amazon.
A Bloomberg report finds recruiters increasingly relying on networking, referrals and live skills tests to sift through job applicants because AI tools have made resumes and cover letters look uniformly polished. London Business School's Zoe McLoughlin says knowing someone at a company before applying has become essential rather than optional. Meanwhile, nearly 84% of entry-level finance candidates surveyed by AmplifyME admit to using AI to prepare applications or interview answers.
Researchers have devised a method to operate two separate genetic codes at once without needing to re-engineer an organism's entire genome to accommodate the change. The approach was tested outside living cells, so it avoids the laborious process of altering every gene, as previous efforts required when adding new amino acids to bacterial proteins.
Researchers demonstrated a new Rowhammer variant called GPUThor that defeats NVIDIA's ECC memory protections on Ampere-class workstation GPUs, including the RTX A4000, A4500, A5000, and A6000. By using a non-uniform hammering pattern tuned to avoid triggering GDDR6's Target Row Refresh defenses, the attack generates far more bit flips than earlier concepts like GPUHammer, enabling denial-of-service conditions and root-level privilege escalation.
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is inviting educational institutions to request free, guided in-person tours for groups of 10 to 25 people. The roughly 90-minute tours run Tuesdays and Wednesdays between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., depending on site availability, with only one group hosted per date. Interested groups must submit a registration form at least one to two months ahead, since transportation is not provided and demand is high.
Twitter Viewer is a website that allows people to view Twitter/X content without logging in, combining profile browsing, tweet searching, and video downloading into a single platform. The service positions itself as an alternative to juggling multiple separate sites for these tasks.
Researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow followed over 129,000 people in Scotland for five years, examining the effects of the Woods In and Around Towns program, which has restored roughly 30,000 acres of urban forest since 2005. They found that people who moved within a 10-minute walk of one of these woodlands saw a 10 percent drop in antidepressant prescriptions and a 6 percent drop in anti-anxiety medication use.
Andrew Ng, founder of Coursera and a Stanford lecturer, analyzed over 10,000 job postings and interviewed AI experts, hiring managers and recruiters to compile a list of four core skills needed for AI development careers, including building AI applications with LLMs and agentic workflows, plus solid software engineering fundamentals. Some industry observers argue his list leans too heavily on technical building skills and overlooks other necessary competencies.
Amazon's Ring is rolling out a new encryption scheme called Throw Away the Key Encryption (TAKE) starting this September. Under the system, video is protected by rotating encryption keys, and Ring can only briefly access its stored copy of the key to power AI features like face detection or video summaries before permanently deleting that copy, cutting off further access to the footage.
DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company founded by DuckDB creators Mark Raasveldt and Hannes Mühleisen, announced it will join Amazon Web Services effective early September. The team plans to stay together in Amsterdam and continue developing DuckDB, DuckLake, Quack and related community projects. DuckLabs said the core DuckDB stack will remain free and open source under the MIT license, with the nonprofit DuckDB Foundation continuing to oversee governance.
A website posing as the 'Hanover Institute for Public Policy' published over half a million words in nine days, presenting pro-Israel talking points on Gaza and Palestinian prisoners as neutral research. The New York firm Piro Inc registered the site with the US government as material distributed on behalf of Israel, though the institute itself has no verifiable legal existence, address, or staff. It forms part of a larger, multimillion-dollar Israeli government campaign, involving Havas Media and other firms, to shape how AI chatbots frame conversations about Israel.
A ZDNET writer describes setting up Tailscale, a free service that links home computers—two physical machines and four virtual ones—into a secure private network called a tailnet. The setup allowed remote desktop access to all machines from abroad without configuring router settings or firewall rules, using tools already familiar to the user like Remote Desktop clients.