The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has upgraded its investigation of brake failures in GM's eBoost brake-by-wire system to an engineering analysis, its most serious pre-recall step. The probe covers over 1 million vehicles, including Cadillac Lyriq EVs built with Honda, plus Chevy Colorado, GMC Canyon, Buick Enclave and Envision models, following hundreds of complaints, over 20 crashes or fires, and at least six injuries.
A developer explored the world of stylized QR codes, noting how logos and photos are often crammed into codes at the cost of scannability due to Reed-Solomon error correction limits. Inspired by AI-generated and hand-crafted QR art examples, they built their own design tool called QRFrame, which changes how the black-and-white modules are rendered while keeping codes functional.
After AMD held all ten spots on Amazon's best-selling CPU list, two Intel chips have broken through: the newly released Core Ultra 7 270K Plus at #6 ($290) and the older Core i7-14700K at #9 ($312). The 270K Plus offers strong multi-core and single-core performance, trailing only AMD's $569 Ryzen 9 9950X3D among the top 10, while the 14700K remains popular for its compatibility with both older LGA 1700 boards and DDR4 memory.
Apple has started an early preview of a new AI-powered virtual shopping assistant inside the Apple Store app for iPhone and iPad, replacing the search icon with a chat interface. The assistant can answer questions about products, trade-in values, carrier offers, and monthly payment plans, though only select users currently have access.
Samantha Brunhaver, an associate professor at Arizona State University, is leading an NSF-funded project examining how engineers develop adaptability on the job. Through interviews with managers, early-career employees, and undergraduates, she found that while adaptability is widely cited as essential, employers rarely define or teach it consistently, and its meaning shifts depending on the industry, from tool turnover in software to regulatory changes in aerospace or biomedical fields.
Apple is eliminating more than 200 positions, including about 100 roles within the Vision Pro division and another 100 across Siri and AI software groups, according to Bloomberg. The cuts come as Apple scales back its costly in-house immersive video production for the headset, shifting more of that work to third-party developers.
AI tools are enabling security researchers and attackers alike to uncover software vulnerabilities at a much faster pace than organizations can remediate them. This growing mismatch is emerging just as regulators tighten disclosure and compliance requirements around cybersecurity.
Microsoft shipped Windows NT 4.0 to retail on August 24, 1996, bringing the Windows 95 graphical interface—including the Start Menu, Taskbar, and Explorer shell—to its business-focused NT platform for the first time. Previous NT versions had used the older Windows 3.x-style interface, so this release aligned the look and feel of Microsoft's consumer and workstation operating systems.
The U.S. Department of Justice settled its lawsuit against TikTok, ByteDance and affiliated companies for $400 million over repeated violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. The suit, filed in 2024, alleged TikTok let children under 13 create standard accounts outside its restricted Kids Mode, collected their data without parental consent, and failed to delete accounts when parents requested it. TikTok will pay $300 million immediately, with an additional $100 million due if a court vacates an earlier 2019 consent decree tied to its predecessor app, Musical.ly.
YouTube appears to be rolling out an Android UI update that shows a red indicator on the scrub bar whenever users double-tap to skip forward or backward in a video, revealing exactly how much time was skipped. The manual scrubbing experience remains the same, still displaying elapsed skip time as users drag the bar. The change has been spotted on the stable app version 21.33 on devices like the Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro, and Galaxy Z Fold 7, though it hasn't reached all devices yet.
A Weibo leaker known as Fixed Focus Digital claims Apple is adapting the glass-assembly process used for the iPhone Air to build next year's iPhone Pro models, which are expected to feature an all-glass, quad-curved bezel-free design for the device's 20th anniversary. The leaker says Apple has made progress improving heat dissipation while trying to keep the device slim, though it's unclear how thin the final design will be.
Business Insider reports that Hugging Face has fielded acquisition interest valuing the AI model-sharing platform at $13 billion or more, nearly triple its $4.5 billion valuation from a 2023 Salesforce Ventures-led round. No buyer has been named and no deal is finalized, but the startup is reportedly consulting banks to weigh potential bids.
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