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Apple's iOS 27 update, rolling out this week, ships with expanded Apple Intelligence features including Siri AI, Image Playground and notification summaries, but these can consume up to 7GB of device storage. Users can disable the AI tools individually or entirely through a few Settings menus on iPhone, iPad and Mac without losing any core device functionality.
A 13-year-old fan named Abby received a one-of-one gold trading card of Jimothy, a viral Seattle raccoon, during a Mariners promotional giveaway of 20,000 cards. After fans and even a team staffer tried to buy it on the spot, her family instead listed it on eBay, where it drew over 100 bids and sold for $20,100.
A Data Love Letter to the Subway, an animated short displayed across 52 screens at NYC's Fulton Transit Center, transforms MTA ridership and transit data into abstract moving shapes and dot clusters. Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design, the two-minute piece played hourly and was seen by roughly 300,000 commuters daily between October and December 2025. It has now won a 2026 Innovation by Design award in the data design category.
Micron offered Taiwan employees a one-time cash bonus of up to NT$1 million, plus guaranteed minimum compensation for direct labor staff equivalent to 35-68 months of basic salary, following a record-profit year driven by AI demand. The union at its Taoyuan plant rejected the deal within hours, saying it ignores their core demand: a permanent bonus formula tying 15% of operating profit to quarterly worker payouts instead of one-off checks.
A Galaxy S25 FE owner reported overheating and rapid battery drain and initially assumed Samsung's One UI software was to blame. Investigation revealed the actual cause was a third-party app running on the device, not the operating system itself.
A Digital Work Trends Report from Slingshot finds that while 86% of C-suite executives say AI use is mandatory at their companies, only 49% of middle managers are actually reinforcing that expectation with their teams. An Infragistics executive argues the disconnect stems from leadership style, not technology, since employees need coaching and modeling rather than top-down mandates to adopt new tools.
Roku streaming devices include an auto power saving setting that puts the device into low power mode and attempts to turn off the connected TV after 20 minutes of inactivity. Users experiencing unexpected shutdowns can wake the device via the TV, remote, mobile app, or casting tools, or disable the setting entirely to prevent it from happening again.
A Coinbase engineer created 'Stonkfly,' an open-source simulation of a male fruit fly's brain and eyes containing 166,700 neurons and 25.6 million synaptic connections, and set it loose reading candlestick charts to buy, sell or hold cryptocurrencies. The virtual fly perceives price charts as raw pixel data through simulated photoreceptors, acts roughly every 500 milliseconds, and receives a dopamine-like reward signal for profitable trades and an aversive signal for losses, with trading fees also counted as losses.
IEEE's Tellers Committee announced it will reward the Section with the highest voter turnout in each Region during this year's annual election, once results are approved by the IEEE Board of Directors. Prizes range from $400 to $1,000 depending on section size, with winners determined by proportion of eligible voters who cast ballots.
Kage is a new tool that lets users submit a website URL, which it then captures and analyzes for design elements. After review, the site's design patterns are added to a searchable library that can be converted into prompts for AI design agents.
Huntress' Security Operations Center reports that over the past nine months, attackers have been abusing legitimate sharing features on AI platforms—like Claude Artifacts, claude.ai/share links, and indexable ChatGPT and Grok conversations—to distribute malware. These campaigns exploit the trust users place in familiar AI branding, often surviving only hours or days before the platforms take the content down.
A Nature Briefing Chat episode examines the widely taught story about the Bunsen burner's origins and finds the popular version doesn't hold up to scrutiny. The discussion revisits the historical record to clarify who actually contributed to the device's development and how the myth took hold.