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Apple’s new iPhone 17 devices don’t have an AI-powered Siri yet. It doesn’t matter.

At yet another splashy event, Apple on Tuesday introduced its latest lineup of iPhones: the iPhone 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, and a new slimmer version dubbed the iPhone Air. The “Air” branding is meant to bring to mind other lightweight — and sometimes less expensive — Apple products like the MacBook Air and iPad Air. But it also recalls a time when smartphone makers were chasing an ever-thinner phone. In the AI era, however, it’s not necessarily the device’s size that matters; it’s what the softw

Plex tells users to reset passwords after new data breach

Media streaming platform Plex is warning customers to reset passwords after suffering a data breach in which a hacker was able to steal customer authentication data from one of its databases. In a data breach notification seen by BleepingComputer, Plex says the stolen data includes email addresses, usernames, securely hashed passwords, and authentication data. "An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data from one of our databases," reads the Plex data breach notifica

Australian startup joins race to build local ChatGPT

Two Australian entrepreneurs have joined the race to build a local alternative to the artificial intelligence models created by tech giants like OpenAI and Meta, earmarking $10 million to compensate copyright owners for their work. Sovereign Australia AI was founded by AI strategist Simon Kriss and technology executive Troy Neilson who shared concerns that Australia’s access to the critical technology would be at the mercy of the decisions made in the United States or China. Loading...

'We can do it for under $100M': Startup joins race to build local ChatGPT

Two Australian entrepreneurs have joined the race to build a local alternative to the artificial intelligence models created by tech giants like OpenAI and Meta, earmarking $10 million to compensate copyright owners for their work. Sovereign Australia AI was founded by AI strategist Simon Kriss and technology executive Troy Neilson who shared concerns that Australia’s access to the critical technology would be at the mercy of the decisions made in the United States or China. Loading...

We Rarely Lose Technology (2023)

“Στόλος Ρωμαίων πυρπολῶν τὸν τῶν ἐναντίων στόλον,” i.e. “the fleet of the Romans setting ablaze the fleet of the enemies.” i.e. the Byzantines using their Greek Fire weapon. From the Codex Skylitzes Matritensis (12th century) A common trope in the land of fantasy fiction and games is that of lost technology. The hero stumbles upon some ancient ruins, and then finds an ancient weapon, or an ancient vehicle, or an ancient intelligent robot, that helps him in his quest. Nobody alive could possibly

The Download: introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2025

The world is full of extraordinary young people brimming with ideas for how to crack tough problems. Every year, we recognize 35 such individuals from around the world—all of whom are under the age of 35. These scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs are working to help mitigate climate change, accelerate scientific progress, and alleviate human suffering from disease. Some are launching companies while others are hard at work in academic labs. They were selected from hundreds of nominees by e

Keeping secrets out of logs (2024)

Keeping Secrets Out of Logs tl;dr: There's no silver bullet, but if we put some "lead" bullets in the right places, we have a good shot at keeping sensitive data out of logs. "This is the blog version of a talk I gave at LocoMocoSec 2024. It’s mostly a lightly edited transcript with some screenshots, so if you’d prefer, you can watch the "This is the blog version of a talk I gave at LocoMocoSec 2024. It’s mostly a lightly edited transcript with some screenshots, so if you’d prefer, you can wat

How many dimensions is this?

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been posting about seemingly simple mathematical problems that defy intuition, and where the answers we find on the internet turn out to be shallow or hard to parse. For a taste, you might enjoy the articles on Gödel’s beavers or on infinite decimals. Today, let’s continue by asking a simple question: how many dimensions does a line have? A trained mathematician might blurt out an answer involving vector spaces or open set coverings, but there’s no fun in that.

Blogs used to be different

Blogs used to be very different. 06 Sep, 2025 I saw someone earlier post about how intrusive it felt to read a personal blog post. They made a point that folks like them who have grown up on short form microblogging like Twitter and Tumblr have a big leap to make when reading longer form blogposts. Not sure how many folks have that same issue but from the blogs I've read in the last decade, there has been a huge shift in content. Ten years ago if you were blogging on Tumblr or Wordpress you w

A Software Development Methodology for Disciplined LLM Collaboration

Disciplined AI Software Development - Collaborative A structured approach for working with AI on development projects. This methodology addresses common issues like code bloat, architectural drift, and context dilution through systematic constraints. The Context Problem AI systems work on Question → Answer patterns. When you ask for broad, multi-faceted implementations, you typically get: Functions that work but lack structure Repeated code across components Architectural inconsistency ove

Google fined €2.95bn by EU for abusing advertising dominance

Google fined €2.95bn by EU for abusing advertising dominance 6 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Reuters Google has been fined €2.95bn (£2.5bn) by the EU for allegedly abusing its power in the ad tech sector - the technology which determines which adverts should be placed online and where. The European Commission said on Friday the tech giant had breached competition laws by favouring its own products for displaying online ads, to the detriment of rivals. It co

OnePlus and Hasselblad are ending their five-year partnership

OnePlus and Hasselblad are ending their five-year partnership , according to an official blog post. The smartphone maker has started developing its own camera system, which it has dubbed the DetailMax Engine. There was no reason given for the split, though OnePlus heaped praise on Hasselblad in that blog post. It lauded the camera maker's "obsession with precision and detail" and opined about "nights in the lab chasing the perfect balance of light and shadow." The company also said that "Hassel

The Diffusion Dilemma

On the sun-baked plains of the American Midwest in 1892, a revolution was loudly sputtering to life: the tractor, an engine which signaled the end of the era of animal power and the beginning of the age of machine power. This machine was not just a piece of equipment; the tractor was a manifestation of an exponential shift in energy density, from animal metabolism to coal burning, empowered by discoveries in thermodynamics. But diffusion of the tractor, screeching across the horizon, took much l

AI logistics startup Augment, from Deliverr’s founder, raises massive $85M Series A

Having built and sold e-commerce shipping startup Deliverr to Shopify for $2.1 billion in 2022, co-founder and CEO Harish Abbott knows the logistics industry well. Abbott felt that many manual tasks in logistics could be automated using AI. That’s why last year he launched Augment which offers an AI assistant called ‘Augie’ that can take over tedious and repetitive work performed by freight shippers, carriers and brokers. On Thursday, Augment announced that it raised an $85 million Series A le

A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom

AI has transformed my experience of education. I am a senior at a public high school in New York, and these tools are everywhere. I do not want to use them in the way I see other kids my age using them—I generally choose not to—but they are inescapable. During a lesson on the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, I watched a classmate discreetly shift in their seat, prop their laptop up on a crossed leg, and highlight the entirety of the chapter under discussion. In seconds, they had pul

Transforming CX with embedded real-time analytics

Stripe is not alone. In today’s digital world, data analysis is increasingly delivered directly to business customers and individual users, allowing real-time, continuous insights to shape user experiences. Ride-hailing apps calculate prices and estimate times of arrival (ETAs) in near-real time. Financial platforms deliver real-time cash-flow analysis. Customers expect and reward data-driven services that reflect what is happening now. In fact, having the capability to collect and analyze data

These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts

If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a pre-print study out of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that those same psychological persuasion techniques can frequently "convince" some LLMs to do things that go against their system prompts. The size of the persuasion effects shown in "Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests" suggests

Show HN: Entropy-Guided Loop – How to make small models reason

Logprobs Reasoning Loop with Weights & Biases Weave, an observability tool Uncertainty-Aware Generation with OpenAI's Responses API This project demonstrates a novel approach to improving AI model reasoning by leveraging token-level uncertainty metrics (logprobs) to create self-correcting generation loops. We compare this uncertainty-aware approach against traditional reasoning models to test whether explicit uncertainty handling can match or exceed the performance of dedicated reasoning archi

The Download: sustainable architecture, and DeepSeek’s success

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Google won’t be forced to sell Chrome after all A federal judge has instead ruled it has to share search data with its rivals. (Politico) + He also barred Google from making deals to make Chrome the default search engine on people’s phones. (The Register) + The company’s critics feel the ruling doesn’t go far enough. (The Verge) 2 OpenAI is adding emotional guardrail

Someone ordered 18,000 cups of water at an AI drive-thru - now fast food chains are reconsidering

Matt Cardy/Contributor/Getty Images News via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Fast-food chains are experimenting with AI in drive-thrus. Previous gen AI order-takers failed. AI voice tech is playing a larger role in customer service. Fast-food restaurants like Taco Bell and McDonald's tried to integrate AI into their daily operations, but rethought their decisions when customers complained. According to the Wall Street Journal, custom

What Does 'Awe Dropping' Even Mean? Decoding Apple's iPhone 17 Event Announcement

Apple's big fall event is less than a week away, and we're still puzzling over the tagline and animated logo that accompanied invitations to the Sept. 9 "Awe dropping" gathering. Is the iconic Apple logo on fire? Does it portend a new heat-sensing feature of the Vision Pro that will make you feel like a Predator hunting prey through the jungle? Or maybe a designer at Apple just came up with a cool-looking effect and thought it would be fun to use it? Nah, the company has a history of enigmatic

Is ChatGPT not working for you? Here’s how you can try to fix it

Mahmoud Itani / Android Authority Update: September 3, 2025 (4:19 AM ET): ChatGPT seems to be facing some issues. Reports are starting to spike on DownDetector, and OpenAI’s status page also shows that ChatGPT is currently experiencing problems. It seems the chatbot is not displaying responses for users across the globe. We’ll update this article when we know more or when the issue is resolved. OpenAI is currently investigating the problem. Original article: ChatGPT has quickly turned into one

What Happens During Startup?

With careful observation and a little knowledge of the startup sequence of an Apple silicon Mac, you can learn a lot about what can and can’t happen during that sequence. This article explains how, with examples from the log of a Mac mini M4 Pro. In broad terms, startup of an Apple silicon Mac consists of the following sequence of events: Boot ROM, which ends in DFU mode if there’s a problem, otherwise it hands on to the Low-Level Bootloader (LLB) and iBoot (Stage 2), the firmware, that shoul

This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)

This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 If you glance over this blog, you will see that I am an avid Android fan. After setting up numerous Linux proot desktops on phones, I wanted to see if I use a phone as a server and run my blog from an Android phone. Since you are reading this, I was successful. I was inspired my a few Mastodon posts earlier this week to give it a go. First, I stumbled on a post from @kaimac who is running a site from an ESP32 microcontroller. In the comments of

Next.js is infuriating

Hey, it's finally happened. I've decided to write a blog post. And if you're reading this, I've also finished one. I have wanted to do this for a long time, but could never find the motivation to start. But you know what they say: anger is the best motivator. They do say that, right? Some context that's in the background We're going on a journey, you and I. But first, we need to set the scene. Imagine we're working for $COMPANY and one of our Next.js services did an oopsie. This being Next.js,

Next.js Is Infuriating

Hey, it's finally happened. I've decided to write a blog post. And if you're reading this, I've also finished one. I have wanted to do this for a long time, but could never find the motivation to start. But you know what they say: anger is the best motivator. They do say that, right? Some context that's in the background We're going on a journey, you and I. But first, we need to set the scene. Imagine we're working for $COMPANY and one of our Next.js services did an oopsie. This being Next.js,