The htmx team released version 4.0.0 after eight months of development, rewriting the library's internals to use the fetch() API instead of XMLHttpRequest. Key user-facing changes include making attribute inheritance explicit by default, standardizing event names, and dropping localStorage as the default for history support. The team is not marking 4.0 as 'latest' on NPM, keeping 2.x as the default for CDN users until early 2027 while 4.0 becomes the 'next' line.
Researchers measured billions to trillions of tiny airborne particles released when scented cleaning products are used indoors. The particle levels detected were comparable to the kind of pollution seen in urban smog conditions.
Andreessen Horowitz has closed a new $1.1 billion fund called 'Machine Age' dedicated to physical AI infrastructure rather than software. The fund targets investments across chips, memory, data centers, cooling systems, power and robotics, marking a shift from the firm's usual software-centric approach.
The Austin suburb's city council voted unanimously on August 25 to terminate its agreement with Flock Safety, cutting off access to its automated license plate reader system. City staff had already begun covering the 28 cameras installed around town earlier that day, ending a relationship with the vendor that dated back to 2020.
Leaker Kacper Skrzypek shared screenshots and video showing Xiaomi's upcoming Smart Privacy Display, a feature that lets users block onlookers from viewing their screen at certain apps or notifications. Unlike Samsung's hardware-based Privacy Display on the Galaxy S26 Ultra, Xiaomi's version appears to be software-driven and is expected to arrive with the HyperOS 4 update later this year. Some related options, like Page Privacy Display and XiaoAI app groups, currently only appear on the China ROM.
The EPA issued guidance stating that the Clean Air Act's Acid Rain Program does not apply to 'islanded' power generation facilities—those not connected to the public electricity grid. The move is aimed at making it easier for companies to build dedicated power plants for data centers without triggering certain federal pollution compliance requirements tied to grid-connected generation.
A startup developer recounts spending three weeks trying to implement AWS Cognito for authentication, encountering broken password reset flows despite following official documentation exactly. He attributes the trouble to inconsistent, fragmented documentation that mixes outdated code examples from different SDK versions and targets multiple audiences without a clear path for any of them.
Apple confirmed it is increasing the monthly price of Apple TV from $12.99 to $14.99, and raising the cost of the Apple One Individual bundle as well. The new pricing applies immediately to new subscribers, while existing customers will get about a month's notice before being charged the higher rate. Other Apple One tiers, already adjusted when Apple Music prices rose last month, remain unchanged.
Cloud Imperium Games has again delayed Squadron 42, the single-player Star Citizen spinoff, this time to the second quarter of 2027. Director Chris Roberts said the studio wants to avoid launching alongside GTA 6, which arrives on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S this November and is expected to dominate media coverage. A limited group of original backers and veteran content creators will get early access on October 9-10, with a firmer release date to follow.
Cloudflare redesigned how DNS cache entries are stored in memory for its 1.1.1.1 resolver platform, Big Pineapple, cutting each entry's size from 953 bytes to 420 bytes. The changes, detailed by systems engineer Sebastiaan Neuteboom, involved five Rust-level optimizations including fixed-size data structures, merged record lists, and raw wire-format storage instead of padded fields.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Nvidia had frozen some transactions under its two-month-old 'take or pay' AI Compute Partnership after partners objected to Nvidia dictating which customers could lease its GPUs. Nvidia pushed back, saying the program remains active and is simply evolving amid strong demand, without confirming or denying specific paused deals.
A federal judge sided with Anthropic in its lawsuit against the Pentagon, finding that officials wrongly labeled the AI firm a supply chain risk after it criticized the Department of Defense's stance on military AI use. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin said the designation was punitive rather than based on legitimate security concerns, following a dispute that began in February when Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused Anthropic of threatening national security.
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