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Apple has pushed out macOS 27 Golden Gate developer beta 7, arriving just one week after beta 6, carrying build number 26A5421a. The update follows beta 6's redesign of the traffic light window controls with Liquid Glass-style effects, and no major new user-facing features have surfaced yet in beta 7.
Billie Piper, known for playing companion Rose Tyler, was asked again about her connection to Doctor Who but gave no clear answers about her role going forward. The franchise itself remains in an uncertain state, with its future direction not yet settled by the BBC or its producers.
Christopher Luxon announced draft legislation that would prohibit children under 16 from using social media platforms in New Zealand. He said the move responds to harm affecting young people, following Australia's similar restriction that took effect in December 2025.
OpenAI now offers a cheaper ChatGPT Go tier worldwide for users who no longer need premium features, while also retiring GPT-4o from ChatGPT on February 13, 2026 despite earlier restoring it due to user demand. Separately, a Defense Department deal to deploy OpenAI's models on a classified network triggered a 295 percent single-day spike in US app uninstalls, prompting OpenAI to amend the agreement to bar domestic surveillance uses.
An independent game developer built Wyvern using a self-organized workforce of 50-60 AI agents, led by 18 long-running Claude Fable instances acting as department heads, supported by headless Claude Sol and Opus fleets for implementation and review. The setup burns roughly $122,000 a month in equivalent API usage, though the developer pays only about $5,000 out of pocket by exploiting Claude Max's flat-rate individual pricing across 21 accounts, running everything on a $25,000 secondhand 512GB Mac Studio.
Apple has pushed out the seventh developer beta of iOS 27, available now via Settings for those enrolled in the Apple Developer Program. This build is expected to correspond to public beta 5, with the finished software rolling out to all users next month. The update centers on Siri AI, a rebuilt assistant using new Apple Foundation Models and expanded Apple Intelligence features across the system.
Microsoft has shipped the first official release of the Agent Lightning Skill, a tool that helps coding agents systematically improve other AI agents. Users supply an editable agent and a benchmark, and the skill guides iterative changes to prompts, tools, workflows, models, and reasoning settings. It installs directly into Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot via a simple CLI command.
LG has begun taking preorders for the UltraGear 25G590B, a 24.5-inch IPS gaming monitor it calls the first to hit a native 1,000Hz refresh rate at 1080p resolution. The monitor costs $999.99 directly from LG, though it's currently discounted to $932 on Amazon, and supports both AMD FreeSync Premium and Nvidia G-Sync.
A developer built a tool that scrapes Costco's undisclosed gas-price data from an internal API called AjaxGetGasPricesService, pulling prices from roughly 600 warehouses nationwide. The project began as a personal effort to compare two nearby Costco locations in Tampa during a spring fuel price spike tied to Strait of Hormuz tensions, then expanded into a broader dataset showing how Costco's gas pricing moved relative to competitors.
Dutch manufacturer Fairphone is now directly shipping its 6+ smartphone to US consumers, unlocked and compatible with AT&T and T-Mobile networks. Priced at $649, the device emphasizes repairability and ethically sourced materials while delivering performance the reviewer describes as above midrange, though short of true flagship levels.
Meta has rolled out its Pocket app to all users, letting anyone create simple games, interactive gizmos, and other small digital experiences by typing a description instead of writing code. A ZDNET writer tested it by requesting a cookie-baking game for increasingly impatient customers, and the app generated a working, if quite difficult, version in under a minute.
Researcher Brian Khan Quintana found that Calix's GS5239XG (GigaSpire 7u10txg) fiber gateway exposes its UPnP control service on the public WAN interface without authentication, tracked as CVE-2026-75501. Anyone online can send a single unauthenticated request to add or remove port-forwarding rules, letting them bypass NAT and firewall protections. Calix did not respond to disclosure attempts, so CERT/CC coordinated a public release of the details.