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President Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario as 'Lake America,' prompting the Seneca Nation's president to argue the move breaches a treaty dating back 232 years. The dispute has spilled onto social media, where users are also criticizing mapping services like Google Maps for potentially adopting the new name.
Cloudflare built a prototype called Cache Transcoding, developed during an intern project, that compresses eligible cached assets with Zstandard before writing them to disk inside its Pingora proxy. Assets stay compressed while stored and while moving between data centers via Tiered Cache, then get decoded only when served to the client. Early tests show this shrinks eligible assets to about a third of their original size with only a small CPU overhead.
Google switched the Pixel 11 series from Samsung's Exynos modem to a MediaTek chip to fix years of connectivity complaints, but a subset of owners are now reporting 5G icons with no data, Wi-Fi dropouts, slow speeds, and network switching issues shortly after purchase. Reports have surfaced on Reddit from multiple Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro XL owners, though many other buyers say their devices work fine.
A throwaway pull request to add readahead to Turso's io_uring backend became a case study in I/O performance. Without readahead, Turso issues one io_uring read at a time and waits for each to complete before requesting the next page; with a 32-page prefetch window enabled via PRAGMA, it submits many reads concurrently. On a TPC-H full-table scan, this dropped actual device requests from about 196,000 to roughly 16,300, while average request size grew more than tenfold and request-merging jumped from near zero to over 90%.
A C++ programming tutorial explains that developers should rarely write std::move explicitly, because the language already applies return value optimization (RVO) and implicit moves in many common cases. The post walks through examples like pure RVO, named RVO, and functions returning parameters by value to show when the compiler elides copies or moves automatically.
JBL introduced three new Cove wireless speakers—the M1 ($229), P1 ($399), and X1 ($449)—that support both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, with the P1 being the only portable, battery-powered option. The speakers are controlled through the JBL One app, support multi-room grouping, Alexa voice control, and can be paired as stereo or surround channels with JBL's Bar Series soundbars. Preorders are open now, with shipping set for September 13.
Roku offers a free companion app for iOS and Android that lets users control their Roku devices directly from a smartphone, connecting over the same home Wi-Fi network. It replicates the core functions of the physical remote, including navigation, playback and volume controls, without requiring any purchase or subscription.
Roku is entering OLED television territory with two new models: the Roku Pro Series OLED, available in 55- and 65-inch sizes with a 4K 120Hz panel, Dolby Vision, and a slim metal-bezel design, and the higher-end Roku Pro Series LX OLED, which promises a brighter picture, 144Hz refresh rate, and glare-reducing polarizer but has undisclosed sizing details. Both TVs retain Roku's signature software features like Smart Picture Max and Automatic Game Mode, with the LX model including a premium rechargeable remote.
NVIDIA is launching DLSS 5, its latest AI upscaling technology, alongside NBA 2K27 on September 3. Early demos from Resident Evil: Requiem and Starfield drew heavy criticism for producing unnatural, over-processed character models, though NBA 2K27's implementation reportedly applies the effect more subtly with improved shadows and texture depth. The feature is exclusive to NVIDIA's RTX 50-series graphics cards.
Best Buy is offering the 256GB Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra for $1,799.99, a $300 discount that marks the lowest price since the phone debuted last month. The foldable brings brighter screens, sharper cameras, faster charging, and a larger 5,000mAh battery compared to its predecessor, though its hinge durability and IP48 rating trail some rival foldables.
Xiaomi's Poco brand has introduced the F9 Ultra, a midrange phone packing a 6.9-inch AMOLED screen with a 185Hz refresh rate, an 8,050mAh battery, and last year's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor. The device also includes a 200MP main camera, 5x periscope telephoto, 100W wired charging, Bose-tuned sound, and a company spokesperson says pricing will land under $800 when it launches globally, though it won't be sold in the US.
A TechSpot trivia feature identifies NCSA Mosaic, released in 1993 by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, as the first web browser to reach mainstream popularity. Though not the first browser overall, Mosaic combined an easy point-and-click interface with inline images and ran on Unix, Windows and Macintosh, making it accessible to non-technical users by late 1993.