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Apple has rolled out several updates to Apple Card ahead of its seventh anniversary, including a new 'Recurring' transactions view coming with iOS 27's Wallet app. The company also partnered with Booking.com to grant Apple Card holders automatic Genius Level 2 status plus 3% Daily Cash, building on an earlier Hertz partnership offering discounts, free roadside assistance and extra drivers for car rentals.
A $1 auto insurance fee approved by Texas lawmakers in 2023 to fight catalytic converter theft has instead financed a massive expansion of Flock license-plate cameras across the state. The Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority, chaired by Laredo Police Chief Miguel Rodriguez, has issued 95 grants and partnered with the Department of Public Safety to fund roughly 3,200 cameras, with hundreds more planned along tollways. Following inquiries from The Texas Tribune, Gov. Greg Abbott's office announced it is pausing state funding for local Flock camera grants.
The Lion Man, a mammoth-ivory figurine combining human and feline features found in fragments at Germany's Hohlenstein-Stadel cave in 1939, has been reassembled and dated as the oldest confirmed statue ever discovered. Excavation and reconstruction spanned decades, interrupted by World War II, with major restorations in 1987 and 2012 using newly recovered fragments and virtual simulations to piece together the roughly 40,000-year-old figure.
Sony Music, Warner Music and other major publishers filed suit against Anthropic, accusing the AI company of illegally torrenting and scraping tens of thousands of copyrighted compositions to train its Claude models. The 48-page complaint claims Anthropic co-founder Benjamin Mann personally downloaded millions of pirated books via BitTorrent and that the company also lifted lyrics from licensed sites like MusixMatch and LyricFind.
Court documents and industry estimates show major games like The Last of Us Part II and Horizon Forbidden West cost over $200 million each, while Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War topped $700 million across its life cycle. GTA VI, in development for nearly a decade, is expected to surpass all of these figures even before factoring in its eventual online mode.
Apple's long-rumored Health app revamp, internally known as Project Mulberry, missed its expected debut in iOS 26.4 and again at WWDC27. Speculation now points to a possible unveiling alongside the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 next month, given Apple's history of introducing health features outside its June keynote.
An updated study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that a one-time CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing infusion kept LDL cholesterol and triglycerides roughly 50% lower a full year after treatment in patients who received the highest dose. The follow-up builds on a small November 2025 pilot trial of 15 patients with medication-resistant high cholesterol, testing five dosage levels for safety, with researchers now confirming the effect appears durable rather than temporary.
A Washington Post analysis found that conventional gasoline and diesel vehicles, not electric cars, account for most of the 3.4 million vehicles under active 'park outside' recalls due to fire risk while parked and off. NHTSA has issued 93 such recalls since 2021, with incidents including Kia Tellurides with overheating seat switches and Ford Expeditions with faulty circuit boards linked to at least 16 fires.
The 2026 US Open Tennis Championships will run from Sunday, August 30 through Sunday, September 13 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York. The tournament, the year's final Grand Slam, will be broadcast across ESPN, ABC and The Tennis Channel, with the ESPN app offering the most convenient streaming access for fans.
Tencent has released Hy4 preview, a large language model with 770 billion total parameters, 49 billion active parameters, and a context window over 1 million tokens, aimed at coding, office and research tasks. The model is open-source and also accessible via Tencent's WorkBuddy, CodeBuddy, Yuanbao and ima apps, plus API access through Tencent Cloud TokenHub and OpenRouter, with free trials offered for two weeks.
An Entrepreneur contributor recounts how a brain tumor diagnosis at 25, discovered while studying architecture under mentor Thom Mayne at UCLA, forced him to leave his program and face mounting medical debt. He taught himself day trading from scratch, eventually building it into a career now verified as generating seven-figure returns.
A software engineer describes how LLM coding assistants perform well on new, small projects but degrade sharply on older codebases burdened with technical debt and inconsistent naming conventions. The core problem, he argues, isn't the AI model itself but that legacy systems lack a clear, shared vocabulary for concepts, forcing the model to guess and often introduce duplicate or wrong abstractions. He proposes incrementally building clarity into codebases—using domain-driven design principles—so AI agents have unambiguous context to work from.