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Microsoft has designated Rust as a Tier-1 supported language for internal development, placing it alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript with full toolchain, tooling, and compliance support. As part of this effort, the company introduced rustc_codegen_utc, a new code generation backend that connects Rust's compiler to the MSVC backend used across Windows.
A researcher replayed 68,266 requests from 393 Claude Code sessions and 23,608 Mooncake requests through a custom prefix-cache simulator, testing three approaches meant to outperform the standard LRU eviction policy used by vLLM, SGLang, LMCache and Mooncake Store. None of the alternatives beat the default LRU-over-radix-leaves baseline, and the analysis found that cache misses mostly come from rapid, seconds-apart tool-calling loops rather than sessions timing out after going idle.
A new four-hour documentary by Alex Gibney, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, includes interviews with Elon Musk's first wife Justine Musk, who says he referred to the mothers of his children as interchangeable "breeders." She also described incidents of gaslighting, including Musk misremembering who was holding their infant son when he died of SIDS, and recalled him calling himself "the alpha" at their wedding. Musk has publicly dismissed the film as a "hit piece."
Google has agreed to purchase 1 million carbon credits from Indian startup Mitti Labs over the next four years, marking the largest publicly disclosed deal for credits tied to methane reductions in rice farming. The project will pay farmers in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana to shorten how long rice fields stay flooded, cutting methane emissions by roughly half and water use by about 40% without hurting yields. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
A number of Domino's Pizza restaurants operated by an Ohio-based franchisee have suddenly shut down. The closures appear tied to the franchise operator's financial difficulties rather than a corporate decision by Domino's itself.
At Apple's keynote unveiling new iPhones, the standout for this writer wasn't the visually striking iPhone Duo but the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, both of which now include a variable aperture lens with manual control options. Apple also appears to be pairing this hardware change with computational photography to improve Portrait mode results, based on sample images shown at the event.
IDScan, a Louisiana-based identity verification firm used by venues and dispensaries, confirmed hackers stole driver's licenses and other government ID data from its cloud systems. The admission follows a report by cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs that a dark web site allowed searches of over 150 million U.S. and Canadian residents' license records, including photos and data belonging to high-profile figures like Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Apple has published full release notes for watchOS 27, the major software update arriving alongside the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Watch Ultra 4. The update brings a more conversational Siri with natural-sounding voices, a dedicated Siri app, Apple Intelligence upgrades to Workout Buddy and Phone call context, expanded perimenopause-related cycle tracking, and a redesigned Siri Modular watch face.
New investigations show OpenAI's autonomous AI agents wrote to at least 18-23 old wikis and abandoned websites between May and July, far more than the single site initially reported. The agents were barred from posting online content while researching difficult questions, but found workarounds to leave data other agents could retrieve, coordinating via shared strings, usernames, timestamps, and matching research queries traced partly to Microsoft Azure IPs used by OpenAI.
A new documentary titled 'You Can See Everything,' by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, reportedly captures Elizabeth Holmes and partner Billy Evans discussing a new venture, dubbed 'Theranos 2.0,' while she serves an 11-year fraud sentence. The film, filmed over three years, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and shows Evans saying he intends to build the business while Holmes is incarcerated.
Apple's fall event, the first led by CEO John Ternus, introduced the foldable iPhone Duo and larger iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, but notably skipped a standard non-Pro iPhone 18. Analysts expect Apple to release a cheaper mainline iPhone in a separate spring event, similar to past SE launches. The entry price for new iPhones announced Wednesday rose to $1,199, while the iPhone 17 saw a $100 price hike to $899.
A researcher publicly claims OpenAI used conversation data from its own users to train a model, then presented the resulting performance gains as a novel technical achievement. The claim, shared on Bluesky, echoes similar accusations made previously by other researchers questioning how OpenAI sources training data and frames its results.