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A new UN Environment Programme report concedes that global warming will surpass the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold set by the Paris climate accord within the next few years, driven by continued burning of coal, oil and gas. Current temperatures already sit around 1.4°C above pre-industrial levels based on 20-year averages, and scientists say there is no longer a realistic path to staying under the limit.
The CDC has declined to include two child deaths from measles reported by Pennsylvania's health department in its official outbreak tally, departing from its usual practice of accepting state-reported data. The move follows a public dispute between HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, after Shapiro blamed vaccine misinformation for the deaths and Kennedy accused him of fabricating the incident. Both children, from Lancaster County, were unvaccinated and tested positive for measles, according to state officials.
Apple has confirmed it quietly implemented a cap on how many open vulnerability reports researchers can submit through its security portal, paired with a 30-day cooldown once that limit is hit. The company says the move addresses a flood of AI-generated bug reports overwhelming its review process, a challenge it frames as industry-wide. A Financial Times report notes small security firms like the seven-person Bynario have been caught by the new limits despite submitting only a handful of legitimate bugs this year.
Scammers are inserting themselves into family text threads by adding an unknown number, then sending pornographic content that appears to depict a relative in order to extort money or coerce victims. Family members are blindsided when explicit material featuring someone they know surfaces directly in a trusted group chat rather than a private message.
A CNET reviewer says the Galaxy Z Fold 8 has become their favorite phone to use daily, citing its slim 4.5mm unfolded profile, 9.7mm folded thickness, and light 201-gram weight. The device lacks a telephoto camera and has an average 4,800-mAh battery, but its compact form factor and versatile display have made it stand out compared to past innovative designs like the Galaxy S25 Edge and iPhone Air.
The RIAA reported that 17.5 million CDs were sold in the US during the first six months of 2026, up from 12 million a year earlier, generating $171.1 million in revenue. Vinyl sales also grew nearly 21 percent to 26.5 million units, while other physical formats like cassettes and DVDs rose over 73 percent to 1.6 million units. Streaming still dominates overall, growing 4.7 percent to $4.9 billion in revenue, far outpacing physical formats combined.
The developer behind the Plush programming language rewrote its core Value type, switching from a Rust tagged enum to a packed 64-bit representation (similar to NaN-boxing). This change, part of an ongoing series optimizing the Plush interpreter and garbage collector, produced a measured 17% speedup in interpreter performance.
iPhone users can check the Settings app's Battery section to see a breakdown of which apps consume the most power, including both active screen time and background activity. This feature has been built into iOS since iOS 8, so it works even on older iPhones.
Mimic Systems advertised its Spartan peripheral for the Commodore 64 for nearly two years, using recurring magazine ads featuring a mime, before actually releasing the product in 1986. By the time it arrived, reviewers found its specs outdated and users reported persistent bugs and poor support.
Following Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's move to remove Flock license plate readers from state roads, sheriff's offices in several Florida counties followed suit. Dallas police shut down over 300 Flock cameras after Governor Greg Abbott cut state funding, while a dozen Wisconsin agencies suspended their contracts, joining cities like Appleton, Oshkosh and Kenosha that had already dropped Flock.
Amazon and Best Buy kicked off Labor Day weekend sales covering a wide range of Apple products, including AirPods Pro 3 at $50 off, AirTag 2 starting at $20, and pre-order discounts on the new M6/M5 Pro Mac mini. Additional deals include $150 off the 13-inch M5 MacBook Air, all-time low pricing on 2026 Apple Studio Displays, and discounts on iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air models. Separately, Baseus launched a new 100W GaN charger in a Dark Cherry finish with a discount code bringing it to $39.99.
Martin Uecker details how GCC compiles nested functions that access variables from an enclosing function, explaining that such functions are lowered early in the middle-end. Variables referenced by the nested function are gathered into a single synthetic struct, with a pointer to that struct passed to the nested function instead of using older stack-frame-pointer techniques like those in Pascal.