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Apple is expected to unveil its first foldable iPhone alongside its iPhone 18 Pro models, arriving seven years after Samsung's original Galaxy Fold. Reports suggest the device will use a short, wide, passport-like design, a shape that Samsung, Huawei, and Xiaomi have all released in recent months despite Apple not having launched or even officially teased its version yet.
Microsoft has acknowledged that a memory-management change in Windows Server 2025 is causing crashes, memory corruption, and access violations in applications using Address Windowing Extensions (AWE), including SQL Server instances with Lock Pages in Memory enabled. Affected systems may show error code 0xC0000005, failed database maintenance tasks, crash dumps, and unexpected service restarts.
Andrew Lakeman, a former Old School RuneScape developer at Jagex, was sentenced after a years-long investigation found he abused his internal access to steal players' virtual gold and items starting around 2018. He converted roughly £300,000 of stolen in-game currency, along with other funds, into about £364,829 in cryptocurrency before Cambridgeshire police caught him following an internal trap set by Jagex.
Renault's budget brand Dacia is relocating manufacturing of its Spring EV from China to a plant in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, allowing the car to qualify for French EV incentives. The base model costs €17,900 but drops to about €12,200 after credits, making it one of Europe's cheapest electric vehicles. The redesigned Spring is larger, more muscular-looking, and offers modest specs including 155 miles of WLTP range and 80 horsepower.
An investigation by Gamers Nexus, working with Level1Techs and independent security researchers, found that LG OLED TVs continually scan local Wi-Fi networks for nearby devices, log location and network details, and send this data to LG Ad Solutions. The TVs were also found capable of capturing microphone audio during standby, storing it locally when disconnected from the internet and uploading it once reconnected, alongside using Automatic Content Recognition to identify what owners watch through apps and HDMI inputs.
French AI startup Mistral has closed a €3 billion funding round led by Samsung, alongside the EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund and existing investor PSG Equity, pushing its post-money valuation above €21 billion. That marks nearly a doubling from the €11.7 billion valuation it held a year ago following a round led by ASML. CEO Arthur Mensch said the money will fund company-owned data centers and expanded computing capacity, with self-owned compute expected to double roughly every year for five years.
Insilico Medicine's AI-designed drug rentosertib, originally developed to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, produced unexpected reductions in biological age markers during a phase 2a trial. Researchers reanalyzed blood samples from 42 of 71 Chinese trial participants using six computational aging clocks, finding treated patients showed younger predicted ages after 12 weeks compared to placebo recipients.
Logitech has launched the MX Keypad, a $99.99 accessory featuring nine customizable full-color LCD keys for triggering commands, macros, and AI prompts. It essentially strips down the company's pricier MX Creative Console, dropping the separate dialpad while keeping the keypad and halving the cost. The device was built in partnership with GitHub and ships with GitHub Copilot integration built in.
Xiaomi unveiled the Pad 9 Pro Max, a flagship Android tablet powered by its own XRing O3 processor, offering up to 16GB RAM and 1TB storage. The 13.3-inch, 144Hz display supports six-app split-screen multitasking via HyperOS 4, and the device can also function as an external monitor through video input. Priced from roughly $715, it's currently available only in China.
Instagram creators report losing significant income after scammers filed fraudulent copyright claims against their accounts, then demanded payment to retract them. One creator with 1.5 million followers paid $50 to a scammer to avoid weeks of lost income while waiting for Meta's official appeal process. Meta says it has restored affected content and added new protections after reviewing the reports.
A Fine-Tuned Vision Transformer model built by Ras Al Khaimah-based Falcons AI to detect NSFW images has been downloaded over 50.8 million times in 28 days on Hugging Face, placing it sixth among more than 1,400 hosted models. That download count dwarfs the 3.7 million recorded by Deepseek over the same period. Falcons AI also runs a broader open-source program and offers AI tools for business and government automation.
A developer describes discovering git worktrees—a decade-old git feature they'd never used—after noticing tools like Claude Code create a separate worktree for each task so multiple AI agents can work on the same repository in parallel. The piece explains that worktrees let you check out multiple branches into separate working directories simultaneously, all sharing the same underlying repository data, unlike traditional branch switching which requires stashing and checking out.