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Today's best iPad deals include a record-low price on the latest iPad Air M3

Apple's four iPad models each have their value — the mini is super portable, the standard model with the A16 chip is ideal for casual use while the Pros can handle complex tasks better than some laptops. The iPad Air falls somewhere in between, offering a balance between power and price. But these popular tablets don't come cheap, which is why we keep track of sale prices on iPads and round them up each week. We've reviewed every current model so if you want to check out our thoughts before you

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5 ways you can maximize AI's big impact in software development

asbe/iStock / Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Companies guide developers to make the most of AI. Hammer home the changes that automation brings. Create a flywheel of change to help people learn skills. Industry experts recognize that AI is having a massive impact on software development. Research suggests that almost all developers now rely on AI tools, with many of the roles and responsibilities of these professionals at risk o

Battery startup Moxion went bankrupt. Now its founder is back to ‘finish what we started.’

Just over a year ago, Moxion Power closed its doors, adding its name to a list of high-profile bankruptcies that roiled the climate tech world in 2024. The portable battery startup had raised more than $110 million in a bid to replace diesel generators at festivals and construction sites, but even that wasn’t enough to get it through the valley of death. Moxion laid off more than 400 employees and its assets were liquidated. Now, the startup’s co-founder, Paul Huelskamp, and several former Moxi

Context is the bottleneck for coding agents now

Intelligence is rapidly improving with each model release. Just last week it was announced that OpenAI got a perfect score on the 2025 ICPC programming contest, beating every single human contestant. They achieved this using a version (presumably a very high compute version, but still) of their publicly available GPT-5 model. And yet, coding agents are nowhere near capable of replacing software developers. Why is that? I’m going to argue that the limiting factor is no longer raw intelligence,

AI just passed a brutal finance exam most humans fail - should analysts be worried?

Kevin Cartr / iStock / Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Frontier models passed the CFA Level III exam. Less than half of (human) candidates passed the exam in February. AI is rapidly becoming better at certain tasks. Some tasks that demand Herculean cognitive effort from humans are trivially easy for AI systems, which are designed to detect and replicate complex patterns gleaned from enormous troves of data. The technology has al

Suno’s upgraded AI music generator is technically impressive, but still soulless

When it’s not trying to fend off lawsuits from major record labels, Suno is still working on refining its AI music creation tool. The latest model, Suno v5, is an obvious technical improvement over its previous version, v4.5+. But it still can’t seem to escape the bland emptiness that pervades most AI art. There are some across-the-board upgrades in audio quality that are undeniable, like fewer artifacts and clearer separation between instruments. Some tracks produced using v4.5+ can smush all

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9to5Mac Daily: September 26, 2025 – Apple and Intel, more

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Never lose a file again. Use code “9to5daily” at checkout for 10% off or try for free. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes

James Gunn Teases What He Wants Out of the DCU’s Batman

Peacemaker teases where its big Superman connection will take it. Get a look at Netflix’s dreamy new animated movie, In Your Dreams. Plus, what’s coming on Outlander: Blood of My Blood. Spoilers, away! Edge of Tomorrow 2 The latest issue of Production Weekly suggests Edge of Tomorrow 2 will finally begin filming sometime in “late” 2026, with both Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt set to return. The Brave and the Bold During his recent appearance on the podcast 2 Bears, 1 Cave (via CBR), James Gunn

Battery startup Moxion went bankrupt. Now its founder is back to ‘finish what we started’

Just over a year ago, Moxion Power closed its doors, adding its name to a list of high-profile bankruptcies that roiled the climate tech world in 2024. The portable battery startup had raised more than $110 million in a bid to replace diesel generators at festivals and construction sites, but even that wasn’t enough to get it through the valley of death. Moxion laid off more than 400 employees and its assets were liquidated. Now, the startup’s co-founder, Paul Huelskamp, and several former Moxi

Pairing with Claude Code to rebuild my startup's website

As mentioned in my most recent post, I’ve been experimenting with AI coding agents and MCP servers to rebuild CodeYam’s website. Version one is already live, with another iteration landing imminently (likely by the time you read this). As a non-engineer founder, I wanted to see if I could ship our new designs without hiring extra developers or spending months learning to code from scratch. My current stack: I’ve heard OpenAI’s Codex has improved since I last tried it a few weeks ago, but for t

Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots star in new movie ‘All of You’, streaming now on Apple TV+

Apple adds another movie to its Apple TV+ catalog today, with the streaming premiere of new film ‘All of You’. The movie stars Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots as Simon and Laura, friends since college who have drifted apart but always felt like there was something more. Laura takes a test to find out the identity of her life’s soulmate, but what impact will that have on their enduring relationship? The funny and heartfelt movie currently has a solid 77% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Obviously be

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Genode OS Framework

Introduction We understand the complexity of code and policy as the most fundamental security problem shared by modern general-purpose operating systems. Because of high functional demands and dynamic workloads, however, this complexity cannot be avoided. But it can be organized. Genode is a novel OS architecture that is able to master complexity by applying a strict organizational structure to all software components including device drivers, system services, and applications. The Genode OS fr

Elon Musk’s Grok is cleared for federal government use

Despite Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s very public spats and seemingly still ongoing feud, the White House has remained committed to supporting the former’s AI ambitions. And today, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced that it has reached an agreement with xAI that will allow it to buy Musk’s Grok AI models for $0.42 per organization. As part of the Trump administration’s OneGov procurement initiative, the deal with xAI will allow federal agencies access to the Grok 4 and Grok 4 Fa

Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D

I recently purchased the textbook “Aircraft Control and Simulation” by Brian L. Stevens, Frank L. Lewis, and Eric N. Johnson . This book covers the control and simulation of aircraft. It’s really dense and frankly hard to understand. As far as aerodynamics texts go, it’s pretty typical. One interesting item in the appendices of the book is the source code for the simulation of an F-16. It has a flight model, based on scale model wind tunnel data. The flight model consists of a dozen lookup tabl

A platform-jumping prince – History of Prince of Persia's 1990s Ports

Prince of Packaging So many video games, films, and music albums I "own" now live in the cloud, and I'm nostalgic for the days when they existed as physical objects on a bookshelf. The tactile quality, size and shape, and cover art of every game box was linked to memories of how I'd acquired it—new, second-hand, or as a gift?—and of hours spent playing. For a game developer, a shrink-wrapped box that holds the thing we've been working on for years brings home the reality that our game is truly

The Word Made Lifeless. Are we becoming stochastic parrots?

There are moments when finding the right word takes on special urgency. You might be talking, over beers, with a friend going through a wrenching divorce. Or talking with your own spouse about the antipathies that keep welling up between you and have now risen to a crisis, and whether you can still picture a future you both want. In such moments, you need words called forth by the singular person before you and the singular crisis at hand. To look for guidance in “what one says,” or to fall into

Would you trust AI for financial advice? That may not be as far off as you think

PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Frontier models passed the CFA Level III exam. Less than half of (human) candidates passed the exam in February. AI is rapidly becoming better at certain tasks. Some tasks that demand Herculean cognitive effort from humans are trivially easy for AI systems, which are designed to detect and replicate complex patterns gleaned from enormous troves of data. The technology has al

Cosmic simulations that once needed supercomputers now run on a laptop

If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the Universe: it's just a tiny dot which, together with a huge number of other tiny dots, forms clusters that aggregate into superclusters, which in turn weave into filaments threaded with voids -- an immense 3D skeleton of our Universe. If that gives you vertigo and you're wondering how one can understand or even "see" something so vast, the answer is: it isn't easy. Scientists combine the physics of the Universe with data from astronomic

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 26, #1560

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle could be a tough one. The word isn't super common, and the letters aren't ones I normally guess right away. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. To

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 26, #838

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has a fun mix of subjects. If you need help, you're in the right place. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and t

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 26, #368

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is a fun one. Motown residents, there's a category just for you. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owne

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 26 #572

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a fun one. It's pretty easy once you hit on the topic, but some of the answers are a bit tough to unscramble, so if you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wo

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adds Two Anthropic AI Models, Giving Users a Choice

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it is adding two of Anthropic's AI models, Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1, to its AI assistant, 365 Copilot. The Claude models won't replace OpenAI's ChatGPT for general chatbot inquiries but will be used for specific tasks. Adding Claude will allow Copilot users to gain a different AI perspective than just using ChatGPT. Since models are trained with other datasets, their output can vary dramatically. Claude Opus 4.1 will be added as an option within

Can a model trained on satellite data really find brambles on the ground?

Over the summer Gabriel Mahler has been conducting research on hedgehog habitat mapping using Agent Based Models (ABMs) and remote sensing. Hedgehogs seem to like brambles and so as part of his work he has produced a bramble map. He did this by combining the TESSERA earth representation embeddings (using the geotessera library) with data from iNaturalist. The current model is an ensemble of logistic regression and a knn classifier. Can we really see brambles from space? What better way to test

Implementing UI translation in SumatraPDF, a C++ Windows application

Translating user interface of SumatraPDF SumatraPDF is the best PDF/eBook/Comic Book viewer for Windows. It’s small, fast, full of features, free and open-source. It became popular enough that it made sense to translate the UI for non-English users. Currently we support 72 languages. This article describes how I designed and implemented a translation system in SumatraPDF, a native win32 C++ Windows application. Hard things about translating the UI There are 2 hard things about translating a

Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high

Works in Progress is becoming a print magazine. Our first print issue, Issue 21, will land in November. If you live in the United States or the United Kingdom, you can subscribe here. If you live outside the US or UK and want to be notified as soon as subscriptions are live in your country, leave your details here. CheXNet can detect pneumonia with greater accuracy than a panel of board-certified radiologists. It is an AI model released in 2017, trained on more than 100,000 chest X-rays. It is

Co-op says it lost $107 million after Scattered Spider attack

The Co-operative Group in the U.K. released its interim financial results report for the first half of 2025 with a massive loss in operating profit of £80 million ($107 million) due to the cyberattack it suffered last April. The impact is analyzed into two categories, namely £20 million in one-off incremental costs and £60 million from lost sales while systems were offline. The cybersecurity incident also caused a reduction in revenue of £206 million ($277 million). Co-op states that it expect

Tracing JITs in the Real World CPython Core Dev Sprint

Tracing JITs in the real world @ CPython Core Dev Sprint¶ Last week I got to take part in the CPython Core Developer Sprint in Cambridge, hosted by ARM and brilliantly organized by Diego Russo -- about ~50 core devs and guests were there, and I was excited to join as one of the guests. I had three main areas of focus: C API : this was a follow up of what we discussed at the C API summit at EuroPython. The current C API is problematic, so we are exploring ideas for the development of PyNI (Pyt

New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off

Robots are being put through all kinds of abuse these days. They’re being kicked, punched, shoved, and even dragged by a chain around their neck — all in an apparent effort to teach them how to adapt to the oh-so-cruel physical world around them. In the latest instance of a robot being brutalized, a video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog. “We built a robot brain that nothing can stop,” the company

I’m paying American Express $900/year for a dark mode on its Android app

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR American Express’s mobile app was recently updated with a new “Premium” dark mode theme. The new theme is only accessible if you have Amex’s Platinum card, which just had its annual fee increased to $895/year. Where did everything go wrong. Why am I paying for this. How did I get here. American Express recently overhauled its high-end Platinum credit card, and in the process, it increased the already hefty annual fee from $695 up to an eye-watering $895.