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Arm has introduced its next-generation Neoverse CSS N4 semi-custom compute subsystem, codenamed Ranger, built on TSMC's N3P process node. The platform allows cloud and chip partners to configure between 8 and 128 Arm Neoverse N4 cores per die, clocked up to 3.8 GHz, with support for DDR5 or LPDDR6 memory, up to 256 MB of L3 cache, and 128 lanes of PCIe 7/6 or CXL 4.0.
Arm has introduced its CSS for Mobile 2 platform for chipmakers, featuring a redesigned GPU called the Mali G2-Ultra NX that it describes as its first AI-native graphics processor. The chip uses three AI techniques—neural super sampling, frame rate upscaling, and denoising—to boost resolution and frame rates directly within the graphics pipeline, while updated CPU clusters target AI agent workloads. The technology is expected to appear in premium Android phones starting in 2027.
Weird Gloop migrated the Overwatch and Fortnite wikis off Fandom, but instead of giving them their own root domains as it did with other wikis like RuneScape and Minecraft, it launched them as subdomains of weirdgloop.org. The move is a workaround for a Google Search behavior since March 2024 where brand-new domains only get their homepage indexed, effectively hiding every other page from search results for months.
The open-source media server project Jellyfin has shipped version 12.0, a stable release that completes the database conversion started in 10.11 and translates it into concrete performance gains. The update also adds long-requested support for books and comics, alongside changes to how usernames and alternate video versions are stored.
A software developer recounts that their business partner used an AI coding assistant to build an entire payments backend module in a single day, then submitted a 5,236-line pull request without testing it. The developer found the endpoints didn't actually work and that documentation was riddled with obvious AI-generated filler, while missing critical details like where to obtain API keys.
trinamiX, a sensor technology spin-off of BASF, has filed a lawsuit accusing Apple of infringing seven patents covering skin-detection methods used to defeat spoofing attempts against Face ID. The suit targets recent iPhone models from the 15 through 17 lineup, the iPhone Air, and several iPad Pro generations, arguing Apple copied technology that distinguishes real human skin from masks or photos using reflected light patterns.
A security researcher extracted decades-old root certificates bundled with early Netscape and Internet Explorer browser installers from archive.org, using an LLM to catalog them. Among the finds was a 512-bit RSA certificate authority key shipped in Netscape 4.51 in 1999, trusted for both SSL and S/MIME, which the researcher then successfully factored using modern computing power.
There is no single button in iOS that resets the Camera app back to its original settings, according to a new how-to guide. Instead, users who want to undo accumulated tweaks or clean up a second-hand iPhone must manually revert each camera option one by one.
Two children died in separate gene-editing clinical trials in China, prompting scrutiny from researchers, ethicists and legal scholars over how such studies are approved and monitored. Investigators say the trials involved ethical breaches that could carry lasting consequences for China's biomedical research sector.
OpenAI announced on 8 September that its latest AI model produced a proof showing that the Navier-Stokes equations, which model fluid motion, can break down and predict a fluid reaching infinite speed in finite time. This addresses one of the seven unsolved Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Problems, which carries a $1 million prize for a full solution. OpenAI researchers say they focused their AI on this problem after hearing that two academic mathematicians were close to solving related aspects.
Stefano Cataldi, a neuroscientist at Columbia University studying serotonin's role in cognition, is weighing whether to leave bench research entirely to focus on science policy work. He is a delegate for the United Auto Workers union representing postdocs and research scientists, and last year he founded SCOPE, a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory-backed program that teaches scientists about policy, communication and career resources.
Google DeepMind has launched the AlphaGenome Atlas, a free, non-commercial database that uses its AlphaGenome AI model to predict the biological impact of every possible single-letter change across the human genome—about 9 billion mutations in total. The tool also incorporates predictions for over 100 million short insertions and deletions found in human DNA, and is designed to be accessible without requiring users to write code, unlike the original API-based release.