OnePlus unveiled the OnePlus 16 in China, its first flagship since exiting the US and European markets earlier this year. The phone features a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset, up to 1TB storage and 16GB RAM, a 9,000mAh silicon-carbon battery, 100W wired and 50W wireless charging, and a 185Hz OLED display. It also gets a camera upgrade with a 200-megapixel main sensor and a glowing LED accent on its back panel, starting at ¥5,699 (about $850).
GitLab issued an advisory urging immediate patching of a maximum-severity vulnerability in its CI/CD Regular Expression Compiler, tracked as CVE-2026-97229. The flaw, an integer overflow found by researcher 'joaxcar' through HackerOne, could let an unauthenticated attacker execute arbitrary code via a crafted regular expression in a CI/CD configuration file. GitLab fixed the issue in versions 19.2.8, 19.3.4, and 19.4.2, noting GitLab.com and Dedicated customers are already protected.
A. Boogert's 1692 manuscript Klaer Lightende Spiegel der Verfkonst, a 900-page guide to mixing watercolor paints, survives as a single handwritten copy containing over 700 pages of hand-painted color swatches. Medieval historian Erik Kwakkel located the volume in a French database, and a high-resolution scan of the entire book is now available online.
Amazon's 12th-generation Kindle Aluminum introduces an aluminum body in Seaglass Green and Alpine Sky, alongside the existing plastic Kindle in black and Ube purple. The device is slightly shorter than the 2024 Kindle and has a flush screen design, but keeps the same 6-inch display and core reading system.
A meta-analysis published in Psychological Medicine by King's College London researchers found that cannabis users showed a statistically higher likelihood of committing violent acts. The same analysis found cannabis use, especially among women and mixed-gender groups, was significantly associated with a greater risk of being a victim of violence.
Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès has spent nearly a month publicly posting claims that he found hidden 'spy implants' inside Ledger crypto hardware wallets. He has not yet provided full technical documentation of the alleged findings in the reporting available.
Microsoft announced its third-generation Maia 300 AI chip, which it plans to make the primary inference system for its products and services starting in 2027. Executive Scott Guthrie said the chip delivers 40 percent more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems and up to 7x the rack-scale throughput of its predecessor, Maia 200, which launched in January and already powers Copilot, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Foundry.
Google officially launched the Fitbit Edge, a fitness tracker positioned between the Fitbit Air and the Pixel Watch 5, effectively replacing the Charge 6. It features a 46 percent larger OLED display, a physical side button, a replaceable week-long battery, EKG and SpO2 sensors, and IP68/5ATM water resistance, but drops NFC payment support and lacks a mic or speaker.
Nothing's budget sub-brand CMF has released two portable Bluetooth speakers, the Speaker S and Speaker M, in four color options including orange and turquoise. The Speaker S costs $59 and uses a single 45mm driver with passive radiators, while the $109 Speaker M adds a 10W tweeter and 25W woofer. Both offer up to 18 hours of battery life, IP68 water and dust resistance, and customizable sound via the Nothing X app.
A new survey finds that about 20% of workers say their job responsibilities have changed substantially since they were hired, often without explanation from employers. The trend is being linked partly to workplace shifts driven by artificial intelligence, which is reshaping roles faster than companies communicate those changes to staff.
More than a dozen graphic designers describe clients and employers increasingly using tools like ChatGPT to generate design briefs, concepts, or finished visuals before handing them over for execution. Creative director Emily Foran says she has not been asked to originate an idea from scratch in a year, with her role shifting toward implementing AI-generated concepts rather than creating them.
Apple has integrated Siri AI into its Shortcuts app in iOS 27, allowing users to generate automations by describing what they want rather than manually assembling steps. One user reports using the feature to build a custom tool that functions similarly to the song-identification app Shazam.
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