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Apple's iOS settings allow drivers to customize or silence Siri's behavior during CarPlay use, including disabling announced messages, skipping reply confirmations, and preventing Siri from stopping mid-sentence due to background noise. Options are found under Notifications, Accessibility, and Apple Intelligence & Siri menus in the iPhone's Settings app.
The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber roughly $966 million for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without adequate human review or warning, marking one of the largest penalties issued under GDPR. The investigation stemmed from complaints, including one from former French Uber driver Brahim Ben Ali, who gathered testimony from 170 other drivers alleging similar treatment. Uber disputes the regulator's findings and plans to appeal the fine.
A senior engineer describes how he identifies which problems are worth working on as a staff engineer, in response to a mentee preparing for promotion. Rather than scheduling dedicated 'strategic thinking' time, he says he absorbs complaints and pain points from everyday conversations, meetings and chats, letting patterns emerge over time until a clear opportunity surfaces.
Apple is said to be overhauling the lesser-known display areas inside its retail stores, internally called 'Avenues,' to prepare shoppers for an upcoming home product. The change reportedly signals that Apple wants dedicated in-store space to educate customers on a new category of device before it launches.
Publisher plans to re-release classic Vampire Hunter D novels and pair them with a newly created comic book adaptation. The revival aims to bring the long-running dark fantasy property back to wider audiences through both print reissues and sequential art.
At Beijing's second World Humanoid Robot Games, the Tiangong Ultra robot ran a preliminary 100-meter heat in 9.39 seconds, faster than Usain Bolt's 9.58-second human record, and beat Honor's Lightning robot, which finished in 9.47 seconds. Many competitors, including the winners, crashed into padding or needed human help afterward, though the times mark a big jump from last year's 21.5-second winning run.
Randall Munroe's 2012 diagram Up Goer Five, which described the Saturn V rocket using only the thousand most common English words, spawned a wave of imitators among science communicators trying to simplify their own fields the same way. Critics, including Carl Zimmer, pushed back, arguing the trend was condescending and a distraction rather than a genuine tool for public understanding of science.
Analogue's FPGA-based N64 remake, the Analogue 3D, outputs video at up to 3,840 x 2,160 pixels, but the original games it plays were rendered natively at far lower resolutions, typically around 320 x 240 and occasionally up to 640 x 480. The console upscales and cleans up that old output—removing blur, distance fog, and choppy frame rates—rather than generating new high-resolution textures or geometry.
A developer recounts a year of experimenting with LLM coding assistants, from unusable output in mid-2025 to functional but messy 'spaghetti code' by early 2026. After growing tired of repeatedly correcting the same style issues in agentic tools like Antigravity and Claude Code, they created a persistent instruction file called agent.md that encodes coding style preferences so the AI applies them automatically in every session.
Slovak investigators reportedly discovered a hidden backdoor of Russian origin embedded in the country's traffic speed camera systems. The finding raises concerns that the compromised devices could have been used for surveillance or remote manipulation without operator knowledge.
A new analysis revisits the 2022 'doom loop' theory that predicted falling office values would trigger a self-reinforcing cycle of shrinking tax revenue and service cuts in major cities. Researchers now argue that New York and San Francisco, initially seen as most vulnerable, have shown surprising resilience—New York's office market has rebounded and San Francisco has benefited from AI-driven growth—while other cities face greater hidden fiscal risk.
A hands-on comparison finds that liquid coolers, such as NZXT's Kraken 360mm AIO, deliver superior thermal performance for high-end CPUs like AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D, enabling demanding 4K/120FPS gaming without overheating. However, the piece notes these coolers cost upwards of $200, are harder to install, and require more long-term maintenance than air coolers, which remain the practical choice for mid-range builds.