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Apple TV confirmed that Silo season 4, which will be the show's final season, will premiere on July 9, 2027. The announcement came alongside the debut of the season 3 finale and included the release of a first trailer containing spoilers for season 3.
VMware's parent Broadcom acknowledged that its sales team overemphasized VCF, its costly private cloud bundle, even when smaller customers wanted the cheaper vSphere Standard product. VCF chief product officer Paul Turner admitted the company has corrected this practice, and executives say an updated vSphere Standard release is coming soon, likely detailed at VMware Explore in Frankfurt in October.
Tesla shares dropped 6% Friday after a subdued, invite-only Cybercab event in Austin left Wall Street unimpressed. The two-seat, driverless Cybercab began limited rides through Tesla's Robotaxi app within a geofenced Austin zone, but the company offered little new detail on pricing, production timelines or regulatory clearance, and Elon Musk did not attend.
At IFA Berlin, iRobot demonstrated a prototype called the Roomba Duo, a wet-cleaning robot mothership that carries a smaller Roomba vacuum and lowers it onto the floor using a mechanical arm. In the demo, the main unit cleaned a spaghetti spill with steam and suction, then deployed the smaller robot to reach narrow spaces and corners it couldn't access. iRobot's chief engineer Adam Pope said the device is currently just a concept exploring ways to combine heavy-duty wet cleaning with nimble vacuuming.
Google is broadening its cross-platform file-sharing feature that lets Quick Share work with Apple's AirDrop, with reports now surfacing from Pixel 7 and Pixel 8 owners seeing enabling notifications. This follows an earlier sighting of the feature reaching the Pixel Tablet, suggesting Google is rolling the capability out beyond the Pixel 8a-and-newer devices that first got it last fall.
Muse Group has released Audacity 4, a major update to the long-running free audio editor that introduces non-destructive editing, overlapping and splittable clips, refreshed effects, and a redesigned home screen for project organization. The release also brings a new visual theme system aligning Audacity with Muse's other apps like MuseScore and Audio.com.
A judge in East Baton Rouge Parish issued a preliminary injunction against the NCAA, siding with former professional football players seeking a fifth year of college eligibility at LSU. The decision comes just before LSU's roster deadline and clears a path for coach Lane Kiffin to include some ex-NFL athletes, though how many games they can actually play is still unresolved as litigation continues.
Microsoft says spammers have repurposed ASCII smuggling, a technique once used mainly to sneak hidden prompt-injection instructions into AI systems, to disguise spam keywords and slip past Office 365 filters. The company detected daily signature hits jump from about 21,000 to over 1.3 million in early February, reaching 2.5 million within days before tapering off by mid-May.
A developer released an open-source bike computer that uses an eInk display and can record rides and navigate preloaded routes entirely on its own, without needing a paired phone. The companion app is used only to prepare routes or transfer data before a ride, not for ongoing operation.
Tim Cook has stepped down as Apple's CEO this week, with former hardware chief John Ternus taking over. Ternus's first internal memo referenced a major product launch happening within days, meaning he inherits a high-stakes iPhone event almost immediately. Cook remains at the company as Executive Chairman, shifting his focus toward external policy relationships.
Apple is preparing for its 'Surprise and shine' event on September 9, where new leadership under recently installed CEO John Ternus is expected to introduce a foldable iPhone that could carry a price roughly double that of standard models. The event will also likely feature updates to the Apple Watch and AirPods lineup, according to CNET, which plans to cover the announcement live from Apple Park.
Georgi Gerganov, creator of llama.cpp, addressed Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face, noting Nvidia engineers have contributed code and hardware to the project for over a year. He said llama.cpp and its ggml backend will remain hardware-agnostic and community-driven despite the new corporate ties.