Honor has launched its Magic 9 flagship line in China, led by the Magic 9 Pro Max, which features a redesigned camera island inspired by Arri's three-lens turret design. Arri contributed software features including LogC3 shooting, 14 preset Look LUTs, access to its LUT library, and 10-bit 4:2:2 codec support, while the phone's hardware includes a 200-megapixel main sensor, a 3.5x telephoto lens, and a 50-megapixel ultrawide. The device also packs an 8,800mAh silicon battery and runs on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip.
Cameron John Wagenius, a former U.S. Army soldier known online as 'kiberphant0m,' was sentenced to 70 months in prison after pleading guilty to hacking and extorting at least 10 technology and telecommunications companies, including AT&T and Verizon, between April 2023 and December 2024. He was also ordered to pay $294,978 in restitution for stealing customer records and threatening to leak or sell the data unless victims paid ransoms.
Nissan has outlined technical details of its new ZR15DDTe engine for third-generation e-POWER vehicles, built around a proprietary combustion concept called STARC paired with a large turbocharger. The design uses cold spray technology to shape intake ports and a specially contoured piston crown to control airflow toward the spark plug, aiming to stabilize combustion even at high exhaust gas recirculation rates.
An independent test compared pretrained tabular foundation models TabPFN and TabICL, which make predictions without training on new data, against a hyperparameter-tuned XGBoost model. Across 14 datasets from the Grinsztajn benchmark, using the same data splits and timing for all methods, the non-training models outperformed tuned XGBoost on every single dataset, including at scales up to 32,000 rows.
CISA has directed federal agencies to fix two critical NetScaler vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772, that Citrix confirmed are being actively exploited in zero-day attacks. Both bugs let unauthenticated attackers achieve remote code execution, with the first hitting default configurations and the second requiring DTLS, which is on by default for VPN virtual servers. Citrix has issued patches and shared indicators of compromise, after agencies like the Dutch NCSC had already been privately warning organizations to shut down affected appliances.
A former technical advisor to NVIDIA, who worked with the company in 1993 on biquadratic texture mapping for its first graphics chip, says he recently discovered he was granted 25,000 stock options that appear never to have been exercised or paid out. He describes helping port his rendering technique to NVIDIA's early hardware and demonstrating it publicly before Microsoft's DirectX standard favored triangle-only rendering, which he says hurt NVIDIA's early business.
Chef Tawnya Brant, host of APTN's One Dish One Spoon, discussed the pawpaw, a fruit native to North America that grows in pockets of southern Ontario, B.C. and Quebec. She described its flavour as a mix of banana, mango and pineapple with a custardy texture, noting it was widely cultivated by Indigenous communities before colonization reduced its range.
A developer, prompted by a Twitter debate over JSON versus binary formats, built a custom binary schema language called jBin. The project explains how encoding data in binary rather than plain text or JSON can shrink payload size, reportedly by up to 80% compared to JSON, by using type and length markers instead of verbose text representations.
A passage from Augustine's Confessions describing Bishop Ambrose reading silently, without moving his lips, is cited by scholars including William A. Johnson and Alberto Manguel as evidence that silent reading was uncommon in the ancient world. Johnson analyzed the passage in a 2000 journal article, while Manguel devoted a chapter of his 1996 book 'A History of Reading' to the topic of silent readers.
Bill Gates said on NBC's 'Meet the Press' that he believes he may be positioned to persuade President Trump to support AI regulation. He warned that without intervention, AI could 'drive events' leading to as many as a billion deaths, underscoring what he described as the stakes of leaving the technology unchecked.
Comparing home EV charging options, the EPA estimates that Level 1 chargers—which use a standard household outlet—add roughly 5 miles of range per hour, enough for about 40 miles after an 8-hour overnight charge. Level 2 chargers using a 40A circuit can add more than 30 miles of range per hour, making them better suited to drivers who cover longer distances or face cold-weather battery warm-up needs.
A new bioRxiv preprint analysed DNA methylation patterns in transplanted human hearts and found that, months after surgery, the tissue's biological age markers shifted to resemble the recipient's age rather than the donor's. Researchers observed this effect in both directions: young hearts placed in older bodies appeared to age faster, while older hearts in younger bodies appeared to grow biologically younger.
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