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Canonical has released Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, dubbed Resolute Raccoon, a maintenance update that consolidates fixes found since the original 26.04 LTS launch. The release ships GNOME 50 with full Wayland support, new default apps including Papers, Loupe, Ptyxis and Resources, and a unified App Center showing debs and snaps together. Users on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will soon be prompted to upgrade directly from their desktops.
DoorDash has launched a feature allowing customers to order meals by texting an AI agent inside Apple's Messages app, bypassing the DoorDash app entirely. The service is currently US-only and requires joining a waitlist to access it.
Research cited by The Guardian shows the average night sky brightened by about 9.6% per year between 2011 and 2022, roughly doubling every eight years. A separate study found four in five people now live under light-polluted skies, largely due to LED lighting and satellite-reflected sunlight.
Ahead of Friday's official iPhone Duo preorder launch, a fraudulent website mimicking Apple's design and offering a fake $500 discount is using the leaked DarkSword exploit chain to attack vulnerable, unpatched iPhones. Malwarebytes researchers say simply visiting the page can trigger an attack that harvests device data, notes, keychain credentials and cryptocurrency wallet files from apps like MetaMask, Phantom and Coinbase Wallet, then exfiltrates them to a remote server.
President Trump announced a voluntary agreement signed at the White House by AI executives including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Google's Sundar Pichai, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Nvidia's Jensen Huang and xAI's Elon Musk. The accord commits companies to internal controls, independent external audits, and board-level committees to review those audits, while leaving open the possibility of future codified regulation.
Bloomberg reports that Amazon's new smart glasses for delivery drivers will take several thousand photos during a typical shift, feeding them into Amazon's AI Wellspring platform. Amazon executive Viraj Chatterjee said faces and license plates will be blurred before human review, but confirmed the company hasn't considered letting customers opt out, and images could be obtained with a warrant. Amazon plans to deploy 20,000 more pairs of the glasses by the end of 2027, after a pilot program that has logged over 275,000 deliveries.
A photographer describes discovering, after reviewing years of personal photos, a recurring pattern of images depicting public benches with features like mid-seat armrests, segmented seating, and subtle curves designed to prevent lying down. The writer says this unconscious documentation tracked the gradual spread of so-called hostile architecture, a design trend aimed at discouraging rough sleeping or extended use of public seating that has grown more common over roughly two decades.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed for a temporary injunction against OpenAI and Sam Altman as part of the state's June lawsuit. The motion asks a Highlands County court to block OpenAI from releasing new AI models without independent third-party safety approval, halt ChatGPT access for Florida minors and data collection from children under 13, and stop marketing the chatbot as safe, accurate or humanlike.
Leaders from major AI companies signed an accord with the White House outlining voluntary commitments to develop AI technology safely. Executives described the agreement as an initial step meant to build public and customer confidence that AI systems work as intended, rather than a final or comprehensive solution.
Researchers tested live video streaming from a laptop carried through a 30-meter lab not fully covered by any single Wi-Fi access point. Using each of three access points individually, the stream repeatedly slowed or dropped frames as the laptop moved out of range. When NanoPing combined all three networks simultaneously, every packet arrived within 100 milliseconds and none of the 1,800 video frames were late or lost.
An LLC linked to Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison purchased nine homes in Palm Meadows Estates, a gated community in Boynton Beach, Florida, for nearly $10 million in 2023, according to The Wall Street Journal. The properties, located about 30 minutes from Ellison's $173 million Manalapan estate, house staff including tutors for his young children with wife Jolin. The deal was kept confidential, with even the local real estate agent unaware of the buyer's identity until Ellison toured the homes with bodyguards.
A writer recounts how their great-great-grandfather, a farrier in rural France, switched to becoming a mechanic after witnessing the arrival of the automobile, a shift that shaped the family's occupation for generations. The essay uses this history to reflect on current anxieties among developers about being displaced by AI.