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President Trump said he sees no need for additional oversight of artificial intelligence, pushing back against safety warnings from industry insiders. He also claimed that opposition to AI development and new data centers is being driven by a coordinated campaign rather than genuine public concern.
MSI (Message Signaled Interrupts) lets a device like a GPU notify the CPU of an interrupt by writing to a memory address rather than fighting for space on a shared physical hardware line. Windows 10 and 11 default to MSI-X, an expanded version introduced with PCI 3.0 in 2010, whenever a device supports it. This approach labels each interrupt with its source, avoiding the collisions that can occur on crowded shared IRQ lines.
Apple's Background App Refresh feature, found in Settings > General, lets iPhone users control which apps can update content while running in the background. Users can toggle it for Wi-Fi only, Wi-Fi and cellular, or turn it off entirely, and can also customize it on a per-app basis. Importantly, disabling this setting does not stop an app from sending notifications.
Apple is publicly releasing iOS 27, the newest iPhone operating system, after months of beta testing since June. The update's headline feature is an overhauled Siri chatbot built around new AI capabilities, and testers have reported gains in overall speed and stability.
An analysis by Dmitrii Zatona examines two MMLU evaluation records for the same model family—one build scoring 0.781, another 0.79—that share identical provider, metric and benchmark labels but differ in dataset split, prompt format, grader and runner network access. Under the APL AI-Eval profile, which treats each evaluation as a content-addressed frame with its own hash, a query comparing the two scores returns 'incomparable' rather than a simple +0.009 delta.
A24 announced a new installment in its found-footage horror franchise titled 'V/H/S: SCP,' seemingly referencing the SCP Foundation, a popular collaborative online fiction project centered on containing anomalous entities. However, the film reportedly has no official connection or licensing agreement with the SCP Foundation's creators or community.
A franchising expert writes that many service businesses stall once they outgrow the founder's personal oversight, because critical decisions and client know-how remain undocumented and dependent on the owner's presence. The piece argues that scaling requires converting that informal judgment into explicit decision rights and repeatable processes that employees can follow without the founder's direct involvement.
The IO500 Committee removed SCNet's ISC26 submissions built on Sugon's ParaStor F9000 all-flash storage systems from its Production list after determining they failed reproducibility rules requiring public architecture details and general availability. Those entries, which had posted record-setting bandwidth and IOPS figures, were shifted to the Research list, and Argonne National Laboratory's Aurora system running DAOS storage was restored to the #1 Production and Production 10-Client rankings.
The brother of a Muslim police officer who died in the September 11 attacks has spoken out against demands that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani skip the city's memorial ceremony. He said he was disappointed by the push to exclude Mamdani, defending the officer's memory as one that should not be used to justify exclusion.
Gill Haus, CIO of Chase's consumer banking division, said the bank no longer hires engineers primarily to write code, since AI agents increasingly handle that task. Instead, he looks for engineers who understand what code should be written and how to evaluate and direct AI-generated output, while product leaders are also taking on coding responsibilities.
The Toronto International Film Festival kicked off its annual lineup, featuring new work from Takashi Miike, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Werner Herzog, and a four-hour Elon Musk documentary. Among the festival's early standouts is 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,' starring John Turturro as an aging, technophobic thief navigating a city that has moved on to smartphones. The film hits theaters October 30th.
Physicist Níckolas de Aguiar Alves of the Federal University of ABC revisited the 'Picard Maneuver' from Star Trek: The Next Generation's episode 'The Battle,' in which Captain Picard jumps to warp speed and stops abruptly to create a visual double image that confuses an enemy ship. Working through the relativistic math, he found the tactic holds up better than the show's writers likely realized, tying it to real physics involving objects moving faster than a medium's speed of light.