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Tesla began operating its first Cybercabs, which have no steering wheel or pedals, on Austin streets, but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration launched an investigation just hours later. Only 45 Cybercabs are currently registered in Texas, and CEO Elon Musk was notably absent from the vehicle's public debut event, which drew a muted response from investors.
A software engineering essay, part of a series called 'Conquering Entropy,' examines how AI-generated code changes the trust relationships within engineering organizations—from trusting the ticket author and reviewing engineer to trusting test suites, CI/CD pipelines, and even AI-driven site reliability tools. The author argues that as AI agents make code generation faster and cheaper, teams need explicit accountability: whoever ships a PR should be responsible for fixing it if it breaks in production.
A new comparison lays out how modern iPads, especially M-series Pro and Air models, rival MacBooks in raw processing power and offer added flexibility through the Magic Keyboard, Apple Pencil, and optional cellular connectivity. The tablets excel at media consumption, portability, and creative apps like Procreate and Lightroom, though they still lag behind traditional laptops in certain workflow areas.
ESP32 Bit Pirate is a free, open-source firmware project that converts common ESP32-S3 development boards into a versatile bench tool for probing dozens of hardware protocols including I2C, SPI, UART, JTAG, SWD, CAN, LoRa, Wi-Fi and BLE. Users can control it via USB serial, a browser-based Web CLI over Wi-Fi, or Web Serial, and the accompanying web tools support flashing, logic capture and chip programming without installing desktop software.
AMC CEO Adam Aron says Robinhood issued tokenized versions of AMC shares without the company's authorization, and he is considering legal action in response. The dispute centers on whether a brokerage can create blockchain-based tokens tracking a public company's stock without that company's consent.
German startup Isar Aerospace successfully sent its two-stage Spectrum rocket into low Earth orbit from a spaceport in Norway, marking the first entirely commercial orbital launch from continental Europe. The achievement follows a failed attempt last March, when the rocket crashed into the sea just 30 seconds after liftoff. CEO Daniel Metzler called it a new chapter for European spaceflight and sovereign access to space.
A software developer published a personal essay cataloguing mixed emotions about AI: awe at how neural networks produce reasoning without explicit algorithms, fear over unresolved existential-risk arguments, disgust at crawlers overwhelming open web communities, sadness for artists undercut by AI-generated content, and anger at political systems failing to check corporate AI power and resource consumption. The author concludes AI feels promising as technology but troubling for society.
Sony's DualSense controller for the PlayStation 5 typically lasts only 6 to 12 hours on a single charge, with the exact duration depending on how heavily a game uses features like the light bar, speaker, adaptive triggers and haptic feedback. The premium DualSense Edge fares even worse, lasting just 5 to 10 hours because its 1,050mAh battery is smaller than the standard pad's 1,560mAh cell to make room for extra hardware like rear paddles and swappable stick modules.
A hobbyist in China modified an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 to eliminate its external power connectors entirely, forcing the card to run solely on the 75W supplied by the PCIe slot via a shunt resistor mod. The resulting single-slot, low-profile card uses a bare-bones blower cooler with no proper heatsink or thermal pads on the memory chips, relying on a thin metal shroud touching the core directly for cooling.
A tech newsletter digest compiles several unrelated stories, including scammers using sextortion tactics within family group chats, an assessment of which wearable devices give the most reliable sleep data, and a reported change in leadership within Apple's executive ranks.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple is exploring ways to boost App Store revenue and margins, an initiative reportedly led by new CEO John Ternus and services chief Eddy Cue. Gurman also links the effort to Phil Schiller's recent departure, noting Schiller opposed the push out of concern it would anger developers and regulators.
A developer released Kadō, a free and open-source (MIT license) habit tracker for iPhone and iPad built entirely with native Apple technologies like SwiftUI and SwiftData. Instead of a binary streak counter, it calculates a non-binary habit score using an exponential moving average, an approach borrowed from Android's Loop Habit Tracker, so a single missed day doesn't erase progress. The app requires no account, has no subscription or telemetry, stores data locally, and offers optional iCloud sync plus lossless JSON/CSV export.