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At Apple's Surprise and Shine event, new CEO John Ternus argued that the iPhone already fulfills the role of an ideal AI device, citing its processing power, connectivity, cameras, display and battery life. Rather than announcing new AI-specific hardware, Ternus positioned the existing iPhone as Apple's answer to competitors building standalone AI gadgets.
Reports indicate Samsung is already developing a successor to its still-unreleased smart glasses, suggesting the company is planning a multi-year product roadmap before the debut device even reaches consumers. Details on the follow-up model's features remain unclear at this stage.
Apple introduced AirPods 5 alongside its iPhone 18 Pro event, bringing Active Noise Cancellation to both versions of the earbuds for the first time. The base model starts at $129 with up to 20 hours of battery life with the case, while a $149 higher-end version adds on-stem volume controls and a wireless charging case. Apple says the new earbuds deliver 50% more noise reduction than AirPods 4, along with redesigned internals and improved Adaptive EQ and Spatial Audio.
Apple unveiled the A20 Pro, its first 2-nanometer chip built for iPhones, alongside a new in-house C2 modem, at an event led by CEO John Ternus. The chip will power the new foldable iPhone Duo as well as the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, featuring a 6-core CPU, 7-core GPU, dual neural engines, and a redesigned cooling system with a larger vapor chamber.
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro introduces a mechanical variable aperture that adjusts how much light hits the sensor, reaching as wide as f/1.48. The system works automatically but can also be controlled manually in the Camera app, letting users influence depth of field and low-light performance directly.
Apple has unveiled a Reference Image feature on the iPhone 18 Pro that creates a cryptographic signature for photos at the moment of capture, allowing later verification of whether an image has been altered by AI. Using Apple Private Cloud Compute, the system lets users compare an edited photo against its original 'digital negative' and can share these signed authentication records with others. The feature will not roll out in the European Union or China, while Apple's own AI-generated images will instead carry SynthID watermarks.
A new project called BPF Capsule compiles large C programs, including a complete DOOM implementation, into standard eBPF bytecode that passes the unmodified Linux verifier and JIT. The system runs game initialization, logic, and rendering entirely inside the kernel, with userspace only supplying the WAD file and keyboard input and receiving back a finished framebuffer each tick. It works without kernel patches or a separate virtual machine, targeting kernels as old as Linux 5.15 on both x86-64 and arm64.
AdaptHealth has confirmed that a cyberattack discovered in July, linked to the ShinyHunters group, exposed personal and health data belonging to about 4.1 million patients. The company says attackers gained access on June 5 through a social engineering attack that compromised a third-party contractor's privileged account, reaching cloud-based patient management and record systems. Exposed data includes names, contact and demographic details, health insurance information, and health records.
A new ranking of college towns identifies five markets where median asking home prices remain below $120,000, far under the roughly $400,000 national median. Most of these affordable areas are located in regions with harsh winters or extreme summer heat, which appears to keep demand—and prices—lower.
A video posted on X shows a Tesla Cybercab's central touchscreen switching into an undisclosed control mode featuring a virtual joystick, letting a person drag a finger to steer the vehicle. The rider said the display appeared in this unusual configuration unprompted, and the screen also showed door controls, a support button, and a camera feed that seemed to include non-live imagery from a previous location. Tesla has not acknowledged or explained this manual-driving interface publicly.
Apple unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max at its fall event, keeping last year's design but adding a 48-megapixel variable-aperture camera, manual pro camera controls, and new photographic styles with texture and grain options. The phones run on Apple's A20 Pro chip with a redesigned vapor chamber, offer longer battery life, and introduce a contextual Siri AI launching in English with more languages arriving in October.
Apple revealed that the iPhone 18 Pro achieves three times the cooling performance of its predecessor, driven by a redesigned chip placement positioned nearer to a new vapor chamber. Additional internal changes are said to further boost heat dissipation, aiding sustained performance during intensive tasks.