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Apple's upcoming macOS 27, codenamed Golden Gate, will only run on Apple silicon Macs, cutting off every Intel-based MacBook. The cutoff includes 2020 MacBooks except for the M1 chip versions of the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, meaning most MacBooks from 2021 onward remain supported. Users can check their chip type via the Apple menu's 'About This Mac' option.
U.S. stocks posted a volatile week as Treasury yields hit multidecade highs, with the 10-year topping 5.2% and the 30-year touching 5.5%. Despite rising rate-hike expectations after strong manufacturing data and comments from Fed Governor Michael Barr, the Nasdaq gained 2%, the S&P 500 rose 1%, and the Dow added 0.3%, lifted by strength in Meta and Microsoft shares.
Erika, the woman shown carrying her daughter and food back to her seat during a Giants broadcast, says the commentary from announcers Kruk and Kuip was invented narration, not fact. She explains she kept her daughter in the carrier by choice while using the restroom, texted her husband Ramses about food options, and says he had offered to help before she went off on her own.
Canonical says it is switching to a unified two-week release cycle for security updates, citing a surge in CVE reports driven partly by AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and the Linux kernel team's decision to become its own CVE Numbering Authority. The company says it will offer interim workarounds or hardening guidance within 24 to 48 hours of disclosure while full patches are prepared.
Garmin has released the Fenix 9 smartwatch, priced from $999.99 for the 43mm model up to $1,099.99 for the 51mm version, matching the launch price of its predecessor. The Fenix 8 remains available and has been discounted at times, including a $850 sale price on its 43mm model around the Fenix 9's launch.
Drawgent is a new open-source utility that connects existing installations of Claude Code, Codex or opencode agents to a live Excalidraw whiteboard. Users can request diagrams via a chat panel or annotate a drawing with an 'AGENT:' note, and the connected agent reads the canvas, makes edits, verifies the result, and marks the task done. Setup runs a one-time check per agent, installs ACP adapters and, if needed, a headless Chrome renderer, storing configuration locally.
A technical post describes a method for turning an off-the-shelf large language model, GLM-5.3-Flash running on Privatemode, into a decision-making model that outputs a typed choice with confidence scores in a single forward pass, rather than generating a full JSON response. Benchmarked against public datasets, the setup reportedly matches TypeSafe's specialized Jev model in decision accuracy and speed, while also supporting typed decisions on images, which Jev cannot do.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White certified a class of banks and credit unions that issued Apple Pay-enabled cards and paid transaction fees to Apple, allowing them to jointly pursue a 2022 lawsuit. The judge also rejected Apple's bid to strike expert testimony plaintiffs say demonstrates Apple's monopoly over mobile wallets. The suit claims Apple has collected up to $1 billion a year by requiring card issuers to pay 0.15% on credit transactions and half a cent on debit transactions while blocking rival wallets from the iPhone's NFC chip.
A developer created a set of Claude Code skills that convert a single chess game into a readable post-mortem, combining Stockfish engine analysis with the player's own recorded thoughts during the match. In a demonstration, Claude transcribed a French audio recording of the player's in-game reasoning via whisper.cpp, aligned it with move timestamps from the PGN, and produced a narrated video explaining specific decisions, such as bishop placement choices, verified against engine lines. All underlying files—transcript, engine analysis, annotated PGN, and storyboard—are shared in the project's example folder.
Nicholas Piantedosi, known as Decap, is the producer behind the Drums That Knock sample pack series, now on its 11th release since debuting in 2016. His sounds have been used across tracks by Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Rodrigo, Charli XCX, Bad Bunny, BTS and Ludwig Göransson's Oppenheimer score, and producer Kenny Beats credited him with having 'changed a million lives with a single snare.'
NVIDIA's RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, which the company calls its most powerful desktop GPU, now carries a US price of $16,000. That's up sharply from its $8,565 launch price and its earlier $13,250 tag, though NVIDIA has not explained the reason for the increase. The card sits above the consumer-focused RTX 5090 and is aimed at professional users rather than gamers.
Francesco Romano, a PhD researcher at the University of Stuttgart, has designed a plasma engine that ingests thin atmospheric gases at very low Earth orbit altitudes and converts them into thrust, detailed in a paper posted to arXiv. The concept, known as atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion, aims to let satellites stay in orbit without carrying conventional propellant such as xenon. So far the design has only been tested in laboratory conditions and simulations, not on an actual spacecraft.