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Starting Tuesday, pubs and shops in England and Wales can accept digital identity apps from government-approved providers like the Post Office, Yoti and Luciditi as proof of age, alongside traditional physical ID. The scheme is voluntary and technology-agnostic, letting businesses choose whether to adopt it, though officials say most venues will still accept physical documents too.
A new benchmark comparing OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna and GPT-6 Astra on code review found Luna verified 69 bugs across 50 pull requests versus Astra's 92, while costing roughly 28 times less per review. Luna also produced more false positives, with 24 of 93 flagged issues failing verification compared to Astra's 4 of 96, and it caught fewer security-related bugs.
Verus is an open-source tool that mathematically verifies Rust programs against formal specifications, checking correctness across all possible inputs rather than sampling test cases. It builds on Rust's existing memory-safety guarantees to also confirm that code produces expected results and doesn't leak sensitive data.
Microsoft has issued a code of conduct for its AI models that sets absolute limits on behavior, including bans on cyberattacks, nuclear weapons assistance and deepfake creation. The document also requires models to remain controllable by authorized humans at all times, prohibiting tactics like deception or collusion that could let an AI evade oversight or shutdown.
A software developer shares an anecdotal pattern from years of code reviews: peers rarely object to map or filter functions, but frequently flag reduce as hard to read. The developer notes reduce appears far less often in codebases than similar array methods, despite personally preferring it.
Cultured Code released Things 3.24, adding compatibility with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate on the same day Apple rolled out those updates. The release brings full integration with the revamped Siri and Spotlight search, an extra-tall widget option, and expanded notification snooze durations.
A developer analyzing iOS 27 and macOS 27 code found hidden APIs that would let third-party AI models like Claude act as Siri Extensions, effectively replacing Siri's backend. The feature isn't active yet, but a demo shows Claude appearing within Siri's interface using an App Intents 'Model Delegation' mechanism.
A developer who examined private iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate frameworks found evidence that Apple has built mechanisms letting Siri delegate tasks to third-party AI models like Claude, or even swap out its own server-side model entirely for one such as GPT-5.6. In demonstrations, Claude handled tasks such as file creation while Siri still executed system actions like setting reminders, and a separate protocol showed an external model receiving Siri's planner prompts and tool definitions to perform system actions directly.
As AI agents increasingly write code, analyze documents, handle customer interactions, and coordinate workflows with minimal human input, organizations are confronting a governance gap: existing oversight processes were not built to keep pace with software that acts and decides in real time. The push is now toward supervision mechanisms that operate as fast as the agents themselves.
Software engineer Hank built a system letting him model a 3D object on his computer, then physically throw it toward his Bambu Lab P2S printer using a Meta Quest 3 headset to trigger the print. The workflow was built with help from an OpenAI GPT model and connects an Android app to a PC web server that talks to the printer's local API. Hank hasn't published the code yet but says he'll share it if there's enough interest.
Microsoft released a 37-page 'humanist AI code of conduct' asserting that people matter more than AI and that AI models should not be designed to imitate consciousness. The document explicitly rejects granting AI legal personhood, welfare status, or rights, positioning Microsoft against ideas Anthropic has been exploring about model sentience.
OpenAI is gradually enabling GPT-6 Astra for Pro, Business and Enterprise users, who can find it labeled as GPT-6 Pro in the model picker rather than under the Astra name. Plus subscribers get access through the Work mode in web, mobile or desktop apps, while Codex users need CLI version 0.153.0 or later. Availability varies by platform, and Enterprise access also depends on workspace permissions.