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Broadcom has removed public access to VMware's Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK), a library relied on by major migration tools including Microsoft Azure Migrate, Red Hat's Migration Toolkit, Nutanix Move, and various VMware-to-KVM utilities. Customers report that Broadcom support confirmed the kit is no longer available for general download, though no official announcement or explanation has been issued.
Apple's WebKit team has opened a call for proposals for Interop 2027, the next round of the annual cross-browser project run with Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Bocoup, and Igalia. Developers can submit ideas through September 23, with entries required to focus on mature, testable web standards measured via Web Platform Tests.
A technical write-up explains how libzmq now supports AF_VSOCK, the Linux socket address family used for VM-to-hypervisor communication, originally developed by VMware as VMCI. The piece notes that while several languages already offer low-level AF_VSOCK bindings, no higher-level abstraction existed until this libzmq integration, which lets developers use familiar ZeroMQ patterns instead of manually handling raw socket calls.
A Tesla Model 3 ran a stop sign in Buena Vista Township, New Jersey on July 6, 2025, striking a Honda Civic and killing its 82-year-old driver, Stephen Field. Local police described it as an ordinary failure-to-stop crash, but Tesla's own federal safety filing shows its driver-assist system was 'Verified Engaged' at the time, a detail Tesla redacted key details about, including the crash narrative and software version.
The minimal Emacs starter-kit Bedrock has reached version 2.0, dropping support for the older Emacs 29 branch and requiring Emacs 31, released in August 2026. The update auto-installs any use-package declarations, swaps which-key for embark-auto-prefix-help-mode when embark is present, removes wgrep in favor of a built-in alternative, and adds lexical-binding declarations across its files.
Ethernet cables with four twisted pairs can be divided by passive splitters into two two-pair connections, but this only works for older 10/100Mbps standards that don't use all four pairs for data. A functioning setup requires two splitters, one at each end, since a router's single RJ45 port cannot talk to two separate devices at once. Switches, unlike splitters, actively manage multiple full-speed connections through dedicated hardware.
GrapheneOS announced it is issuing a new OS build to fix a volume bar UI bug introduced by an upstream Android security patch, along with a Private Space interface issue. As a result, the long-in-development overhaul of its Messaging app, which the team has worked on for months, will now arrive after this maintenance release rather than alongside it.
Capcom says it will keep reactivating older IPs after Onimusha: Way of the Sword sold over a million copies on launch day, marking the first mainline Onimusha title since 2006. The publisher noted in a press release that alongside new major releases, it intends to revisit franchises that haven't seen new entries in years, pointing to efforts already underway with Okami and Mega Man.
Huawei has unveiled the Mate XT 2, an updated version of its trifold smartphone that refines the original design and borrows some interface and hardware ideas from Samsung's foldable devices. The device carries a price tag exceeding $3,000, positioning it firmly in the ultra-premium tier of the smartphone market.
TechCrunch has published a living glossary of AI terminology aimed at demystifying jargon used across the industry, from AGI to AI agents. The piece highlights 'opaque recurrence,' a reasoning technique reportedly used in OpenAI's new Astra model that has unsettled AI safety researchers, alongside more familiar terms like LLMs, RAG, and RLHF.
Hypershell showed off its Halo exoskeleton at IFA in Berlin, a carbon-fiber wearable that extends support down through the knee and calf in addition to the hip and thigh, unlike earlier models from the company. It uses a four-motor system and a flexible 'fish-spine' joint design intended to preserve natural movement while cutting knee-muscle fatigue by as much as 40% across various terrains.
Tesla halted supply of its Solar Roof tiles in August, telling certified installers it would only ship standard solar panels going forward. Contractors say they spent weeks in specialized training and completed supervised installations to become certified, only to be left with sunk costs once Tesla pulled the product after roughly 3,000 total US installations over seven years.