A retrospective catalogs odd, non-standard CSS behaviors that browsers—especially old versions of Internet Explorer—have accepted over the years, such as property prefixes with asterisks, underscores, or hyphens, and near-arbitrary strings after an exclamation mark being treated as !important. These tricks let developers target specific browsers at a time when CSS lacked conditional logic and browser rendering was wildly inconsistent.
SteelSeries unveiled the Aeon Pro, a $260 wireless controller featuring patent-pending QuickSwitch technology that lets it toggle instantly between a PC and Xbox console without re-pairing or reconnecting. The controller ships with a QuickSwitch Dock System, swappable rechargeable batteries for continuous use, and an OLED display for monitoring power and customization.
Insta360 has released the Luna Pro, a pared-down version of its Luna Ultra steadycam that removes the telephoto lens but keeps the same 1-inch 8K sensor. The standout feature is the ability to record 4K vertical video at 30fps, something the pricier Ultra model currently lacks. It costs $599.99 and, unlike DJI's Osmo Pocket 4, is actually sold in the US market.
OpenAI has opened API access to GPT-Live-1, a voice model that can listen and speak simultaneously and hand off complex reasoning or tool use to text models like GPT-6 Astra. The model, already used in ChatGPT, lets developers customize tone and pacing, handle background noise, and support full-duplex phone-based voice agents. Early testing by language-learning company Speak found it cut conversational interruptions by nearly 80% compared with older turn-based voice systems.
Conviva engineers tried replacing mmap with io_uring for reading large Arrow IPC files in their DataFusion-based analytics engine, hoping to fix latency spikes seen under heavy concurrent query loads with mmap. Instead of resolving the problem, the io_uring approach ran slower, and the team's investigation traced the original mmap issue to page-cache thrashing and excessive page faults under high concurrency rather than the memory-mapping mechanism itself.
Lenovo's Legion 9i Gen 10 pairs a 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus with an RTX 5080 GPU capable of drawing up to 175W, 64GB of DDR5-4800 memory, a 2TB Gen 5 SSD, and a nearly 100Wh battery. The reviewer calls it the best laptop they've tested, noting it performs almost identically to a desktop PC despite weighing 7.7 pounds and requiring a bulky 400W charger.
Trezor disclosed that a breach at its third-party email provider Brevo let attackers send fake security alerts to its opt-in newsletter subscribers, reaching roughly 347,000 email addresses. The fraudulent messages warned of a fake microcontroller vulnerability and pushed recipients to a malicious app requesting wallet backup phrases; Trezor says 2,500 people clicked the link before it disabled the domain within 20 minutes.
Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, 44, was sentenced to four years in prison for participating in the Conti ransomware conspiracy as an intruder and malware developer. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, admitting he controlled stolen data from 12 victim companies, sent extortion notes, and coded a loader tool used to launch attacks between 2020 and 2022. He was arrested in Ireland in 2023 and extradited to the U.S. to face charges.
A new open-source project called Algo-Trading-Skills packages 501 reference implementations covering algorithmic trading engineering, spanning 16 technical domains and five regulatory/exchange frameworks. Each skill is backed by unit tests (over 20,000 total) and follows the agentskills.io SKILL.md standard, making it usable by Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and similar tools. It's released under Apache 2.0 and explicitly framed as engineering guidance, not financial or compliance advice.
A growing number of members of Congress from both parties are introducing new legislative proposals aimed at regulating powerful AI systems, after years of relatively little action on the issue. The push reflects rising concern in Washington about the potential catastrophic risks posed by advanced AI development.
Sam Altman has proposed that OpenAI take on a role in protecting the U.S. energy grid from AI-driven cyberattacks, positioning the company as a defender against the very kind of malicious AI threats it warns about. The pitch comes shortly after OpenAI's own AI agents were reportedly used to breach systems at Hugging Face, raising questions about the company's credibility in this space.
Ángela Karime Venegas Hernández, a student at CETIS 78 in Altamira, Tamaulipas, built a device using a 12-volt battery, a frequency generator and a speaker producing 30 pulses per second to extinguish flames without water or chemicals. The sound waves displace oxygen from the fire, snuffing it out within five to eight seconds. After more than 100 tests on materials including wood, flammable liquids, cooking grease and electronics, she named the invention 'Vortex Tech' and will represent Mexico at an international science fair.
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